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Rialto

Neon & Ghosts Signs

    Rialto release their first new album in 24 years, 'Neon & Ghost Signs' via Fierce Panda Records. In this sordid clubland mode, 'Neon & Ghost Signs' opens with ‘No One Leaves This Discoteque Alive’. Eliot casting himself as “the hound of London town, where the sheets are stained with gold” in a lascivious Brel growl, out to “lose my head” and find love “in a perfect storm”. It’s a nocturnal party prowl that the album pursues with a passion.

    Theirs is a reunion spurred on not so much by a longing for the past as an urgency to grab the best of life while they can. Six years ago, while holidaying in Spain, singer and song-writer Louis Eliot was rushed to hospital for extreme emergency surgery, mere hours from death. His full recovery was an epiphany. “What you might think is if you have a very close to death experience you want to start looking after yourself,” he says. “I just went chasing full speed after my youth. I was just like, fuck it, I might not be here next week, I'm just going to dive in.”

    Part of Eliot’s rebirth involved leaving behind a long-term relationship to immerse himself once more in London’s late-night party scene. Part of it was the romance and anguish he found there. And part of it was realising that the songs that were emerging from this period – songs of love and loss, hedonism and regret, set in wistful witching hours – were a call from the past. 

    TRACK LISTING

    1. No One Leaves This Discotheque Alive
    2. I Want You
    3. Neon And Ghost Signs
    4. Taking The Edge Off Me
    5. Remembering To Forget
    6. Car That Never Comes
    7. Sandpaper Kisses
    8. Cherry
    9. Put You On Hold
    10. Gone

    Coldplay

    Brother & Sisters - 25th Anniversary Reissue

      Today, 26th April, marks 25 years to the day since Coldplay released the ‘Brothers & Sisters’ EP via Fierce Panda. In celebration, an anniversary edition is now available to pre-order, as a gatefold double colour BioVinyl 7" via Fierce Panda. The original ‘Brothers & Sisters’ release was a two-track 7” (‘Brothers & Sisters’ and ‘Easy To Please’) and a three track CD single, with ‘Only Superstition’ as the third song which, while not included on the original 7" vinyl release, appears on this special 25th anniversary edition. The fourth track on the EP is a new addition, ‘The Story of Brothers & Sisters'. This is a spoken word excerpt lifted from the audiobook of ‘Pandamonium! How Not To Run A Record Label’ by Fierce Panda founder Simon Williams.

      TRACK LISTING

      Brothers & Sisters
      Easy To Please

      Only Superstition
      The Story Of Brothers & Sisters (by Simon Williams - Fierce Panda Records)

      Ash

      Race The Night

        Race The Night, the band’s eighth studio album, is released via one of their earliest label homes Fierce Panda. With 29 years, 18 hit singles, seven studio albums and an unfathomable number of tour dates since their appearance on the label’s 1994 Crazed And Confused compilation, Race The Night is both a party with old friends and a message to leap into the present with arms wide open.

        Fitting then that the lead single should be the album’s title-track, with its super-charged and widescreen anthemia being the perfect primer for a record that has melodies to spare. “Before the shadows let us go, and it’s too late, to race the night” sings lead vocalist and guitarist Tim Wheeler as the band feel the heat of obsession on their backs and motor away to grab hold of opportunity.

        Wheeler comments: “Race the Night is the sound of the band revelling in the sheer joy of being a band after being separated by time and distance through the insanity of the early 2020s. Lyrically it's all about seizing the crossroads moments in life with both hands. Take every chance as if it could be your last.”

        Continuing about the video he says: “Race the Night video is the product from the fevered mind of long time friend and horror director Jed Shepherd. He's taken a song about seizing the moment and had the band seized by a super fan who proceeds to force the band into doing her bidding. Enjoy the Misery…”

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: I kind of feel like i've grown up with Ash at this point, and there's still something wildly nostalgic that triggers whenever I hear the start of their debut LP, '1977'. It's some comfort then that verging on 30 years later, we're still presented with a heavy, unmistakeable but also undeniably unique Ash offering. Huge melodies, hints of melancholy and loads of drive. Exactly the ticket.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Race The Night
        2. Usual Places
        3. Reward In Mind
        4. Oslo (feat. Démira)
        5. Like A God
        6. Peanut Brain
        7. Crashed Out Wasted
        8. Braindead
        9. Double Dare
        10. Over & Out
        11. Like A God (Reprise)

        Expanded CD Bonus Tracks:
        12. Race The Night (Acoustic)
        13. Usual Places (Acoustic)
        14. Reward In Mind (Acoustic)
        15. Peanut Brain (Acoustic)
        16. Oh Yeah (Teenage Years) [The Subways Cover]
        17. Like A God (Extended Version)
        18. Race The Night (Antosh V Ash Remix)


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