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Graham Reynolds

Mountain

    Acclaimed composer (A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, Hit Man) and musical maverick Graham Reynolds releases his debut solo album for Fire Records.

    Pressed on limited edition purple/white splatter vinyl and housed in a deluxe Die Cut ‘Mountain’ Sleeve with a DL card.

    “The quintessential modern composer” The Independent.

    A socio-geographic trip along the sierra in your mind, standout title track ‘Mountain (Part 1)’ is filled with romantic orchestral sweeps conjuring up an image of a vast landscape disrupted by a singular peak, while ‘…Part 2’ takes a more jagged path, traversing an angular ridge before steadying itself into a piece of Hermann-esque Hitchcock. ‘Mt Monadnock’ in New Hampshire is namechecked, while the ‘Enchanted Rock’ (a thunderous Einstürzende Neubauten-like reawakening of the senses played out on Graham’s signature booming orchestral drum) stands just outside of Austin, Texas, Reynolds’ home-base for over 30 years.

    Composed and performed by Graham Reynolds, with contributions from his rotating cast of musical compadres, the album was produced and mixed by mysterious English duo Peter Talisman. There are surprises throughout the album as Austin neighbour Jad Fair (Half Japanese) pops up with backing vocals along with Italian chanteuse Marta del Grandi whose evocative words on ‘Linger In Silence’ spark a wonderful re-awakening of the exquisite seven-minute stand-out ‘Prophet Harmonic’.

    “This album is personal. It starts with Monadnock, the first mountain I ever climbed, up in New England. The first side ends with Enchanted Rock, the first mountain I climbed in my adopted state of Texas. And, though I’ve been releasing music for my whole adult life, this is the first time I’ve had real label support for something of my own, unattached to a film or other media. So, in a way, oddly, it’s my first real solo album” Graham Reynolds.

    TRACK LISTING

    A1 Monadnock
    A2 The Lost Weekend
    A3 Great Western
    A4 Long Island Sound
    A5 Prophet Harmonic
    A6 Enchanted Rock
    B1 Caretaker Of Kings
    B2 Mountain Part 1
    B3 Mountain Part 2
    B4 Linger In Silence Feat. Marta Del Grandi
    B5 The Lost Weekend (Revisited)
    B6 Splendor Falls

    Monde UFO

    Flamingo Tower

      Monde UFO follow the celebrated ‘7171’ album with a trip to the mysterious ‘Flamingo Tower’. In the shadows of the Los Angeles bustling music scene, the enigmatic collective led by visionary Ray Monde create a trance-like fusion of psychedelia and avant jazz, mantra-like evocations, brash moody ambience and passages reminiscent of long-lost library music.

      Magnifying Monde UFO’s idea of musical chaos, their early sonic escapades into off-kilter exotica is now elevated with sweeping atmospheric waves of sound inspired by an eclectic brew of Arto Lindsey, Khan Jamal’s ‘Drum Dance To The Motherland’, Keith Hudson, Milford Graves, Marion Brown, Don Cherry and Lennie Tristano.

      Cast deep into number theory with occasional quasi-religious touchstones, ‘Flamingo Tower’ bustles with background sounds overlaid with intimate melodies conjuring plenty of suitably strange illusions; a synthetic orchestra plays baroque pop, a guitar is set to auto destruct and Ray Monde’s hushed vocals carry a bracing narrative. It’s an evocative album, one for the heavy music nerds, sprinkled with ear candy and proliferated by mysterious numbers which litter the song titles.


      TRACK LISTING

      1. Gambled House We're Wiping Fire (psalm -1)
      2. Sunset Entertainment 3
      3. Samba 9
      4. Old Town Pollution
      5. Ave Tascam (psalm 0)
      6. 119
      7. Il Mortificanto
      8. No Sight Screening
      9. Devil Food Cake
      10. Solitaire
      11. Psalm 3

      The Chills

      The Early Unrecorded Songs

        ‘Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs’ is a Martin Phillipps passion project. A dedicated reimagining of his earlier unreleased songs that became his artistic farewell, a lasting legacy, and a reminder of his huge, underappreciated talent. The album has been finalised for release with the love and support of his band, family and friends.  

        As the subject of an undulating life and times movie – The Chills: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps – Chills’ singer, songwriter and main motivator, Martin Phillipps spent the last decade releasing studio and live albums while careering into his sixtieth year with typical gusto.

        Amid such momentum, Martin was stilling digging through old tapes, searching for the foundations that resulted in global rapture in 1987, an overnight success that took a mere seven years to ignite. These early songs and musings were revisited, revised and finally put to record. As such, ‘Spring Board’ is the final chapter of The Chills, immeasurably significant output.  

        ‘Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs’ is alarming, personal, brittle and at times hopelessly upbeat. This is a man casting his mind back on an esoteric career that led to nothing short of cult status; someone rediscovering his roots, his innermost thoughts, hopes and fears. 

        The Chills are Martin Phillipps, Oli Wilson, Erica Scally, Callum Hampton and Todd Knudson. ‘Spring Board’ features contributions from Fur Patrol’s Julia Deans, Elroy Finn and Split Enz, Crowded House alumni Neil Finn, Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook, Manics producer Greg Haver, Troy Kingi, Shona Laing, Tami Neilson, Dianne Swann (Everything That Flies) and Purple Pilgrims’ Clementine Valentine.



        TRACK LISTING

        1. Dolphins
        2. Learn To Try Again
        3. If This World Was Made For Me
        4. Juicy Creaming Soda
        5. I'll Protect You
        6. And When You're There
        7. Declaration
        8. Stay Longer
        9. Slime
        10. Steel Skies
        11. Jellyhead
        12. Such Self Pity
        13. Meet My Eyes
        14. Bad Eggs
        15. Lion Tamer
        16. The Other
        17. Since You Left Me
        18. Watching Old Home Movies
        19. I Saw Your Silhouette
        20. I Don't Want To Live Forever

        Rats On Rafts

        Deep Below

          Rats on Rafts descend further into the brooding wasteland on their new album ‘Deep Below’, a darker, slower, eroded sound from the Rotterdam band. Highlighting different shades within the monochrome landscape compared to their previous, more colourful albums: they dive deeper into their psyche, questioning our relationships with nature, religion and each other. Echoes of The Cure, Cocteau Twins and Slowdive seem present yet so many different influences make up an album that only they could create. It sees Rats on Rafts coming of age whilst raising their heads from the underground.

          Forever drifting into new territory, ‘Deep Below’ is certainly their darkest and most cohesive work to date. True to their analogue recording process, the tape machines, reverbs, echoes and vital new ingredients: the Soundcraft 1s mixing desk (Used by Lee Perry) and the eerie sounding Eminent String Ensemble synth all amplify the authentic sounds of the 1980’s without sounding like a relic.

          ‘Japanese Medicine’ is a haunting minor chord piece driven by debris of icy chiming guitars, galloping drums and waves of lush synths. lyrically it gathers memories of teenage friendship, littered with cigarettes, life-changing records, punctuated with the dark thoughts and the demons they summon up. Though the band have kept the songs relatively slow-paced and sparse, deeper ruminations of mortality and alienation creep through the cracks. ‘Nature Breaks’, the most propulsive song on the record, thematically locks into this notion, as Fagan meditates on human impulse in the face of abject survival, and how those situations often unlock one's true self.

          You may conclude Rotterdam’s Rats on Rafts relationship with the past is complicated. ‘The Moon Is Big’ (2011) ‘Tape Hiss’ (2015) and ‘Excerpts From Chapter 3’ (2021) are truly gripping analog timestamps of a band refusing to give in to the supposed ‘progress of the world’ instead forging their own way each time. ‘Deep Below’ is Rats on Rafts’ most minimalist work since their 2011 debut. Where the latter album was fuelled by a brash bravado, these recordings meditate on sentiments of doubt, loss, and ageing.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Afterworld
          2. Japanese Medicine
          3. All These Things
          4. Hibernation
          5. Voiceprint
          6. The Day Before
          7. Deep Below
          8. Nature Breaks
          9. Sleepwalking 

          The Lemonheads

          Car Button Cloth (Deluxe Expanded "Clothbound" Edition)

            ‘Car Button Cloth' is an extraordinary affair of musical and emotional extremes, a soundscape spanning “the most beautiful piano-led mourning in the history of the broken heart” that switches into perky jangle-pop for fleeting moments and contains the ultimate self-deprecating classic ‘The Outdoor Type’, penned by Smudge cohort Tom Morgan, as well as a cover of the bluegrass standard ‘Knoxville Girl’ and ‘If I Could Talk I’d Tell You’ co-written with The Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly. All bases are covered.

            To further unravel where Evan’s head was at during the period of its creation, this deluxe double album comes with a record of exquisite and typically eclectic scene setting covers that occupied B-sides and alternative format versions, plus other super rare offcuts, live takes and remixes. A diet of Volcano Suns, Glen Campbell, The Jacobites, The Sir Douglas Quintet and Whitney Houston influenced Evan’s thinking and added further colour to an album that remains something of a Dorian Gray-style masterpiece. The first side of extras is rounded off with the never before released ‘Arise’, originally set for the remake of Great Expectations and later realised as Rancho Santa Fe on solo album ‘Baby I’m Bored’.

            TRACK LISTING

            SIDE A
            A1 It's All True
            A2 If I Could Talk I'd Tell You
            A3 Break Me
            A4 Hospital
            A5 The Outdoor Type
            A6 Losing Your Mind

            SIDE B
            B1 Something's Missing
            B2 Knoxville Girl
            B3 6ix
            B4 C'Mon Daddy
            B5 One More Time
            B6 Tenderfoot
            B7 Secular Rockulidge

            SIDE C
            C1 If I Could Talk I’d Tell You (Single Version)
            C2 The Outdoor Type (Remix)
            C3 Pin Yr Heart
            C4 Balancing Act
            C5 Galveston
            C6 Arise

            SIDE D
            D1 Keep On Loving You
            D2 It’s All True (No Drums)
            D3 Losing Your Mind (Live Acoustic Version)
            D4 How Will I Know (Acoustic)
            D5 I Don’t Want To Go Home
            D6 Fade To Black
            D7 Live Forever

            Television Personalities

            Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: The Television Personalities Radio Sessions (1980-1993)

              The Television Personalities’ splendid DIY skills and loveable ramshackle persona led them on many a subversive trip both on record and playing live. But it was the radio that first introduced them to the world in a whirlwind of repeated spins. John Peel let outsiders everywhere tune in to their altered world. And, at the height of punk they parodied the new revolution, their single ‘Part Time Punks’ becoming a Peel staple, and the clamour to hear more eventually resulting in a session in 1980.

              Through the 80s, Daniel Treacy had matured into a gifted storyteller turned pop culture narrator who placed the modern world in his own hazy shade of focus. His songs were loveable, immediately identifiable and pin prick sharp; they were tidily observational, and often magically acute. This was a gifted raconteur, an inspiration and an essential alternative to the hiss and flutter of “normal” radio, a medium that by the late 80s had just about abandoned them.

              ‘Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out’ captures this pilgrim’s progress to pop nirvana, a psychedelic wonderland shaded by dark and brooding memories, all played out through a crackling transistor radio secreted under the pillow so that these sketches of society remain perfectly personal, a direct line into Dan’s psyche.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Look Back In Anger (John Peel Session 20.08.80)
              2. Picture Of Dorian Gray (John Peel Session 20.08.80)
              3. Le Grande Illusion (John Peel Session 20.08.80)
              4. Silly Girl (John Peel Session 20.08.80)
              5. Paradise Is For The Blessed (Andy Kershaw BBC Session 27.02.86)
              6. My Conscience Tells Me No (Andy Kershaw BBC Session 27.02.86)
              7. Salvador Dali’s Garden Party (Andy Kershaw BBC Session 27.02.86)
              8. I Still Believe In Magic (Andy Kershaw BBC Session 27.02.86)
              9. Goodnight Mister Spaceman (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
              10. How Does It Feel To Be Loved (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
              11. I Get Frightened Too (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
              12. Time Goes Slowly When You're Drowning (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
              13. Gypsy Woman (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
              14. She's A Virgin And A Whore (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
              15. Why Can't I Touch It (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
              16. All My Dreams Are Dead (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
              17. Wandering Minds (WMBR Session 02.04.92)
              18. Three Wishes (WMBR Session 02.04.92)

              Jane Weaver

              Love In Constant Spectacle

                Recalibrating her singular journey in the British musical landscape with her most open-hearted, direct and intimate collection of material yet. Love In Constant Spectacle evokes spectacular imagery and distills the artists’ vision in its purest form, elevating her inimitable sound and poetic vision to new heights.

                Recapturing the melancholy of her early work whilst propelling it forward, she sketches scenes as we watch new colours, shapes and languages emerge and fill the frame. Love In Constant Spectacle sees her take measured steps towards a vivid, dreamlike record, that offers resolve in the face of life’s inevitability.

                The foundations of Weaver’s sound are still evident – lush motorik drums, pulsating bass, custom modded synths and exotic fuzz pedals - but the stream is awash with scrabble piece poetry and Letraset lullabies leading to lush escapism, the free abandon that you’d associate with free jazz and the avant-garde. But, as determined and visionary as Weaver might be, Love In Constant Spectacle wasn’t executed without assistance. Here we find a long mooted unison with Jane’s first ever producer, John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding), who has shared Weaver’s process in the surrounds of Rockfield Studios and Geoff Barrow’s Invada studio.

                Love In Constant Spectacle is otherworldly, it is both intimate yet distant, a surrealist interpretation of the foundations that make us human – the stories and landscapes it paints are habitats of their own. A voyage into undisclosed pastures, it’s a heartfelt manifesto from an artist that continues to boundlessly evolve with each chapter in her career.

                STAFF COMMENTS

                Barry says: We're big fans of Jane & co. here at Piccadilly, and 'Love In Constant Spectacle' takes everything we've known and loved from previous releases; her rich melodic thread and progressive instrumental leanings, and injects the pieces with perfectly extracted DNA from jazz, 60's psychedelic pop and art-rock.

                TRACK LISTING

                Side A
                A1 Perfect Storm
                A2 Emotional Components
                A3 Love In Constant Spectacle -
                A4 Motif
                A5 The Axis And The Seed
                Side B
                B1 Is Metal
                B2 Happiness In Proximity
                B3 Romantic Worlds
                B4 Univers
                B5 Family Of The Sun

                Royal Trux

                Untitled (Remastered) - 2024 Reissue

                  1992’s ‘Untitled’ brought the band’s third album that re-cemented the duo once again as the progenitors of the “lo-fi” genre. This breakthrough set transitioned "The Trux" into a never ending all-inclusive rotating cast of musicians. Continuing Fire Records’ series of classic remastered albums from Royal Trux, ‘Untitled’ is released on white vinyl and features updated monochrome and silver artwork.

                  As unpredictable as ever, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema shook off the next level layering and noise of ’Twin Infinitives’ to embrace the history of rock ‘n’ roll in all its deformed grandeur. Utilizing their ever present mind set of macro-inclusivity, they allowed the subconscious "radio stations" of their lives to infiltrate, lead, and dictate. Culling from their collective minds and memories twisted tunes that touched them. After the blood rush of their much-hailed avant-garde masterpiece ‘Twin Infinitives’ (1988), this eight-song opus added to the lo-fi genre that originated on ‘Twin Infinitives’.

                  On ‘Untitled’ Hagerty uses his 5-string blues roots and hails rock’s twisted potential, while Herrema slurs and snarls in ecstasy. They sound like they’re locked in a fourth-floor boudoir at the Chelsea Hotel; bottles clink, an album clicks on its run-out groove, the band plays on. In the mix are the characters and casualties of the 90s, a roll call of swaggering misfits. These aren’t superficial sketches, the Trux cut much deeper than that…

                  “‘Junkie Nurse' isn't just about addiction; it's about the twisted hope that even the most broken people can somehow mend others, even when they're falling apart themselves." Jennifer Herrema, Royal Trux.

                  With ‘Untitled’ Royal Trux justifiably increased their coterie of convicted followers, becoming the cult heroes for a transgressive generation, and the Rosetta Stone for male/female duos (ie:The White Stripes, The Kills etc... ) over the years inspiring everyone from The Silver Jews (David Berman) & Sonic Youth through to melodic blue-eyed soulsters like Hot Chip - “I urge and encourage you to enter the harmolodic multiverse of their music.” Alexis Taylor, Hot Chip

                  “Royal Trux were nothing if not fearless.” Pitchfork

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Side A
                  A1. Air
                  A2. Move
                  A3. Hallucination
                  A4. Junkie Nurse

                  Side B
                  B1. Sometimes
                  B2. Lightning Boxer
                  B3. Blood Flowers
                  B4. Sun On The Run

                  Royal Trux

                  Hand Of Glory (Remastered) - 2024 Reissue

                    From a long-forgotten trunk; two extended jams, twin slabs, circa 1989. Continuing Fire Records’ series of classic remastered albums from Royal Trux, ‘Hand Of Glory’ is released on silver vinyl.

                    This bad-ass black, white and blue magic is a kind of Burial Dub… or so preached the sleeve of ‘Hand Of Glory’ on its original release in 2002. Legend has it, the two sides of this 40-minute gem were recorded between 1985 and 1989. The resultant mountain of creativity from where they hail were inevitably left under a scuzzy sofa as life and a career that ebbed and flowed over nine albums. Royal Trux became an inspirational tipping point for everyone from Pavement & Sonic Youth to the Black Keys, Kurt Cobain, The Avalanches & Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor. “I urge and encourage you to enter the harmolodic multiverse of their music.” Alexis Taylor, Hot Chip

                    ‘Hand Of Glory’ is not like their other albums but then again none of their albums are alike, it’s a two-faced masterpiece. Side one’s ‘Domo Des Burros’/‘Two Sticks’ is on par with Beefheart’s sprawling ‘Troutmask Replica’. It plays out in 19 minutes, sounding like it was laid down on Warhol’s sofa in The Factory; like Dylan’s sprawling ‘Desolation Row’ with, background squalls, interruptions and both Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema’s overlayed stream of consciousness peeping through a multi-layered backdrop. It’s just staggering.

                    “Royal Trux were nothing if not fearless.” Pitchfork

                    Side two’s ‘The Boxing Story’, a loose homage to William Burroughs, moulds and morphs from tape to tape, a multi-speed soundtrack, while the dynamic duo press pause, guitars ring, occasional melodic lines arrive and evaporate. Lou Reed’s pastoral ‘Metal Machine Music’ could perhaps be recognized as an older and perhaps less challenging sibling.

                    A two-sided masterpiece featuring two wayward pieces of creative genius.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    Side A
                    A1. Domo Des Borros (Two Sticks)

                    Side B
                    B1. The Boxing Story - Electric Boxing Show
                    B2. The Boxing Story - Four Kings
                    B3. The Boxing Story - Golden Lament
                    B4. The Boxing Story - Pots And Pansy
                    B5. The Boxing Story - K-9 To The Core

                    The Bevis Frond

                    Live At The Great American Music Hall

                      First time on CD for this incendiary live set of greatest hits of The Bevis Frond circa 1998.

                      Featuring over an hour’s worth of prime Frond, it mixes the bittersweet melodies of Nick Saloman’s much-covered ‘Lights Are Changing’ and ‘He’d Be A Diamond’ with fuzz fuelled riffs and masterful solo-ing. Played as a power trio with Saloman enlists his long-time associate and former Hawkwind bass player Adrian Shaw, and Andy Ward, former drummer with 70s prog giants Camel. With a staggering ten-minute rethinking of Love’s come down anthem ‘Signed DC’ closing the show. This set also includes culled cuts from their debut ‘Miasma’ through to the groundbreaking ‘New River Head’ and beyond into the 90s.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      Hole Song #2
                      Maybe
                      Love Is
                      New River Head
                      Stoned Train Driver
                      Lights Are Changing
                      Red Hair
                      He'd Be A Diamond
                      Well Out Of It
                      Stain On The Sun
                      The Wind Blew All Around Me
                      Signed DC.

                      Vanishing Twin

                      Afternoon X - Picture Disc Edition

                        Vanishing Twin furthers their exploration of decidedly experimental territories with Afternoon X. Crafted with a playful balance of humour and rigour, with each member embracing the role of the multi-instrumentalist and process, over outcome.

                        Following a series of line-up changes, Vanishing Twin is now the tightly honed collective of singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti (Holy Tongue, Tomaga, Moin) and bassist Susumu Mukai (Zongamin). Harnessing the diverse touchstones of its members; Lucas’ left-field song-craft, Magaletti’s singular approaches to experimental percussion, and Mukai’s long history in the production of electronic music, the band has refined a hypnotic sound at the juncture of minimalism, kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop.

                        These eight fluttering abstractions, culled, collaged, and built upon from a vast constellation of instruments, samples, and unclaimed sources. Lucas employs her voice as an instrument and a generator of raw sound, weaving surreal imagery and uncanny juxtapositions amongst the dance and propellant drive. From infectious grooves of the album’s title track and the constrained minimalism of “Subito”, to the ambitious heights of pieces like ‘The Down Below’ and Lazy Garden, which unfurl a psychedelic avant-gardism on the scope and scale of David Axelrod and Scott Walker.

                        Vanishing Twin embark upon a new multifaceted journey that collectively culminates as the bands most forward-thinking and groundbreaking release to date.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        1. Melty
                        2. Afternoon X
                        3. Brain Weather
                        4. Lotus Eater
                        5. Marbles
                        6. The Down Below
                        7. Lazy Garden
                        8. Subito

                        Ella Raphael

                        Mad Sometimes

                          Ella Raphael is blessed with an amazing voice, filled with warmth and emotion; it’s engaging, like an old friend telling tales and spinning stories. Mad Sometimes is her debut album, release via Fire Records.

                          Brought up in London, surrounded by sound, listening to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Etta James, while encountering Queen, The Beatles and the Stones from her Dad’s collection, Ella’s musical journey continued in Australia where she met many other musicians, and ended up sailing with would-be pirates, singing in the bow of their boat and deciding that music was the path for her. Charmed by the music she has discovered on further travels across the US and Europe, she refined that eclectic mix, adding Love, Serge Gainsbourg, Karen Dalton, Vashti Bunyan, Catherine Riberio And Alpes, the original masters of Tropicalia, exotic 50s guitars and the more esoteric sounds of The Beatles.

                          Writing outdoors, freedom has always been a virtue to Ella, penning songs that are at once aching and brittle, then elated and celebratory; she has perfected a sound that’s as wide-ranging as her influences and experiences, music that’s as beautiful as its surroundings, using the intricacies and subtle nuances of sound to channel both light and dark into her music.

                          On her first LP, the sound comes from a stylish mix of lap steel, mandolin, guiro, congas, synthesisers, a shruti box and stringed instruments played by Ella, Eyal Samson, Uzi Ramirez, Ron Ephrati, Guy Mintus and Amir Sadot.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          A1. See You Through
                          A2. Mad Sometimes
                          A3. Let The Light In
                          A4. Good Eyes
                          B1. Tangled Love
                          B2. All In
                          B3. Late
                          B4. Somber
                          B5. Outro

                          MEMORIALS

                          Memorial Waterslides

                            ‘Memorial Waterslides’ is the debut album from MEMORIALS, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire). This is an otherworldly, surrealist pop record that is both timeless and timely, displaying a rare mix of classic songwriting and avant-garde attitudes.

                            MEMORIALS create panoramic pop that draws on both the familiar and the strange, while also treading new ground. With their playful and experimental style, combined with a love of good tunes, they sit comfortably alongside Broadcast, Portishead, Arthur Russell, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo and Tortoise.

                            The album is awash with imagery evoking a lost future, a veiled present and a daydreamed past, each song playing a role in creating a swirling, widescreen atmosphere, the listener taken along for the ride. Produced entirely by the two of them, the sound of the record was inspired by the reel-to-reel tape experiments they first played around with onstage as they began to develop their multi-layered recordings for live performances as a duo.

                            Following their acclaimed 2023 soundtracks ‘Women Against The Bomb’ and ‘Tramps!’, a European tour with Stereolab (they’ve been called “Stereolab’s evil twin”) and a new music commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Verity and Matthew arrived at MEMORIALS in reverse, escaping their soundtracking day jobs to create cosmic journeys through the garden shed into psychedelic rock, far-out folk and wild analogue electronics.

                            “Exciting and unpredictable” The Guardian.

                            “Everything you’d expect from a duo adept in the strange and esoteric, while also in thrall to pop music’s melodic bent.” The Quietus.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            Side A
                            A1 Acceptable Experience
                            A2 Lamplighter
                            A3 Cut It Like A Diamond
                            A4 Name Me
                            A5 Memorial Waterslide II

                            Side B
                            B1 Book Stall
                            B2 False Landing
                            B3 Horse Head Pencil
                            B4 I Have Been Alive
                            B5 The Politics Of Whatever

                            Television Personalities

                            They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles - Restored Art Edition

                              Originally released in 1982, ‘They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles’ was the influential band’s third album. A collection of singles, demos, outtakes and rarities that was intended to mark the band's breakup in 1982, had they not got back together again so soon. This 2024 reissue comes with faithfully restored artwork, from one the album’s original hand painted sleeves.

                              The record features ‘David Hockney's Diaries’, ‘The Boy In The Paisley Shirt’ and ‘Psychedelic Holiday’. With the formidable Daniel Treacy at its core, Television Personalities remain one of new wave’s longest serving and seminal artists, with a career spanning over three decades. The indie pop visionaries have influenced many people across the industry including Pavement, The Lemonheads, Fat White Family, MGMT and Creation Records’ Alan McGee.

                              “Its scope is incredible, its ambition outstanding and its heart damn near broken.” Melody Maker.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              Side A
                              A1. Three Wishes
                              A2. David Hockney's Diary
                              A3. In A Perfumed Garden
                              A4. Flowers For Abigail
                              A5. King And Country
                              A6. The Boy In The Paisley Shirt
                              A7. Games For Boys

                              Side B
                              B1. Painter Men
                              B2. Psychedelic Holiday
                              B3. 14th Floor
                              B4. Sooty's Disco Party
                              B5. Makin' Time
                              B6. When Emily Cries
                              B7. The Glittering Prizes
                              B8. Anxiety Block
                              B9. Mysterious Ways 

                              Steve Wynn

                              Make It Right

                                The brand-new solo album from The Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn, released in tandem with his memoir. Make It Right is a commentary between literal and metaphorical ruminating – a dialogue between memoirist and musician - a vulnerable, more reflective Wynn than previously heard.

                                ‘Make It Right’ features notable contributions from Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Vicki Peterson (The Bangles), Chris Schlarb (Psychic Temple), Emil Nikolaisen (Serena Maneesh), Linda Pitmon (The Baseball project) and a cast of dozens.

                                “I wrote and recorded these songs in tandem with working on “I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True,” my memoir which comes out on Jawbone Press the same week as “Make It Right,” my first solo album since 2010. With each chapter, I would get ideas for songs inspired by the deep dive into my past and vice versa. The reflections became intertwined after a while, a mutual commentary between literal and metaphorical ruminating. It was a dialogue between the memoirist and the musician, a one-man Q&A, a gentle volley in the tennis court of my mind. 40-love, game, set and match.”

                                Although ‘Make It Right’ isn’t autobiographical, it begins with Santa Monica - the city and boulevard where he was born and concludes with “Roosevelt Avenue”, the main thoroughfare of the Queen’s neighbourhood in New York City that he calls home today.


                                TRACK LISTING

                                Santa Monica
                                Make It Right
                                What Were You Expecting
                                You're Halfway There
                                Making Good On My Promises
                                Cherry Avenue
                                Then Again
                                Madly
                                Simpler Than The Rain
                                Roosevelt Avenue

                                Vanishing Twin

                                The Age Of Immunology - Giallo 'Yellow' 2024 Reissue

                                  Vanishing Twin’s seminal LP, The Age Of Immunology, receives a Ltd edition pressing on Yellow vinyl, paired with matching sleeve art. As essential take on psych-pop futurism and a must for fans of Broadcast, Sun Ra and Ennio Morricone.

                                  Establishing the band as innovators in their field, the record was declared “a masterpiece” by The Line Of Best Fit, while The Quietus asserted Vanishing Twin as “one of the most original and exciting acts of the moment”.

                                  This was the group’s first LP for Fire Records, at the time of recording the band’s evolving lineup consisted of songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti, bassist Susumu Mukai, synth/guitar player Phil MFU and visual artist/film maker Elliott Arndt on flute and percussion.

                                  The album was produced by Lucas in a number of non-standard, non-studio settings. ‘KRK (At Home In Strange Places)’ summons up the spirit of Sun Ra’s Lanquidity and Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio and was simply recorded on an iPhone during a live set which crackled with psychic connectivity on the Croatian island of Krk. The magical Morricone-esque lounge of ‘You Are Not an Island’, the blissed-out Jean-Claude Vannier style arrangement of ‘Invisible World’ and burbling sci fi funk ode to a 1972 cult French animation, ‘Planète Sauvage’, were all recorded in nighttime sessions in an abandoned mill in Sudbury.

                                  TRACK LISTING

                                  1. KRK (At Home In Strange Places)
                                  2. Wise Children
                                  3. Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life
                                  4. You Are Not An Island
                                  5. The Age Of Immunology
                                  6. Magician’s Success
                                  7. Planète Sauvage
                                  8. Backstroke
                                  9. Invisible World
                                  10. Language Is A City (Let Me Out!)

                                  Bonus Tracks: Download ONLY
                                  1. The Age Of Immunology (Version)
                                  2. Magician’s Success (Live)
                                  3. Backstroke (Live)
                                  4. Language Is A City (Let Me Out!) (Live)
                                  5. You Are Not An Island (Version)
                                  6. Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life (Extended Life Version)

                                  Bark Psychosis

                                  Hex - 2024 Repress

                                    “The Best Post-Rock Album Of All Time” Fact Mag // “Their influence is pervasive” The Quietus // “Mysterious, haunting, and breathtakingly visionary” Allmusic // The recent release of Jeanette Leech’s book ‘Fearless: The Making Of Post-Rock’ (Jawbone Press) celebrates post-rock and its origins. Finding new inspiration, bands were beginning to experiment with techniques as the digital age took over. A case study in her new book, Bark Psychosis were one of the most innovative bands of their time and as legend has it, saw the first use of the term ‘post-rock’ by music critic Simon Reynolds. Following several singles and EPs, the avant-garde soundscapes built around drones and samples of 21-minute stand-out track ‘Scum’ arrived just two years before their seminal debut ‘Hex’ (1994).

                                    Frustrated by the mainstream, ‘Scum’ was a huge statement that set them apart from the beginning. Bark Psychosis’ sound was born out of their improvisations at makeshift studio within St John’s Church in Stratford. Taking a year to complete ‘Hex’ left the band on the brink of collapse and by the time of its release they had dissolved. Hailed as a masterpiece, it’s “mysterious, haunting, and breathtakingly visionary” (Allmusic). Breaking down their songs and rebuilding them in the studio brought distinguishing ambient soundscapes and an atmospheric experimental sound. Last year Fact Magazine deservedly gave the album further recognition with it claiming top spot in their ’30 Best Post-Rock Albums Of All Time’.

                                    Following ‘Hex’ and the disintegration of the band, Graham Sutton went on to create seminal Drum ‘n’ Bass as Boymerang and hugely acclaimed production work for the likes of These New Puritans, British Sea Power, Silver Apples, Jarvis Cocker and East India Youth. He revived Bark Psychosis at the turn of the millennium, eventually releasing another album, the equally extraordinary ‘///Codename: Dustsucker’ Newly remastered in 2017 from the original analog tapes at Metropolis Studios by Graham Sutton and Stuart Hawkes, and reissued officially for the first time

                                    TRACK LISTING

                                    1. The Loom
                                    2. A Street
                                    3. Abscent Friend
                                    4. Big Shot
                                    5. Fingerspit
                                    6. Eyes & Smiles
                                    7. Pendulum Man

                                    Royal Trux

                                    Twin Infinitives - 2024 Reissue

                                      Originally released in 1990, Royal Trux’s ‘Twin Infinitives’ is being re-issued in all its (yet to be translated) alien glory, by Fire Records. A dismantled overture that sprawls out over two records, an avant-garde masterpiece that was the spark for Drag City Records and generations of new sound seeking musicians.

                                      Hailed in the same immortal breath as Beefheart’s ‘Trout Mask Replica’, the Velvets’ at their frenzied peak and Ornette Coleman at his most avant-garde, the duo of Pussy Galore’s Neil "Michael" Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema recorded ‘Twin Infinitives’ while imbibing all kinds of mind-altering substances to create an inadvertent blueprint for what the duo was building with moog’s, guitars and melodicas to name a few ingredients.

                                      It is the legendary second album from the masters of the genre mashup - long before “genre mashups” even existed. Arguably, the term “mashup” was coined to describe what Trux, as they subconsciously scrolled through the radio stations of their lives.

                                      The album’s chaotic sound and offbeat construction laid the foundations for a string of Royal Trux albums that spiralled between genres, tunings, and noise. Through the 90s they would re-invent the rock ‘n’ roll ethic, straddle alien surf music, re-align boogie rock, not to mention 80s hair metal, and confound critics by their wildly meandering and courageous rites of passage.

                                      Remastered as part of a career spanning catalogue deal with Fire Records. The infamous and influential duo of Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty will be delving into the archive with a comprehensive reissue series, unearthing the vaults and revisiting what made them such a compelling benchmark for their contemporaries and imitators. Reawakening their prolific output within a new monochrome vinyl series covering 1988-1993, they begin with their seminal deconstructed rock masterpiece Twin Infinitives.

                                      “Sounding like a subway ride inside a television inside an earthquake inside the end of the world and a pounding death rhythm of apocalyptic now.” Pitchfork

                                      TRACK LISTING

                                      Disc One
                                      A1 Solid Gold Tooth
                                      A2 Ice Cream
                                      A3 Jet Pet
                                      A4 RTX-USA
                                      A5 Kool Down Wheels
                                      B1 Chances Are The Comets In Our Future
                                      B2 Yin Jim Versus The Vomit Creature
                                      B3 Osiris

                                      Disc Two
                                      C1 (Edge Of The) Ape Oven
                                      D1 Florida Avenue Theme
                                      D2 Lick My Boots
                                      D3 Glitterbust
                                      D4 Funky Son
                                      D5 Ratcreeps
                                      D6 New York Avenue Bridge

                                      Spacemen 3

                                      A Perfect Prescription - 2024 Reissue

                                        Restored ‘Original Gold Sleeve Edition’ on classic black vinyl. An intense neo-psychedelic gem that journeys through serenity before collapsing into its own itchy comedown. A glorious amalgamation of discordant psyche, Lou Reed hustle and Gospel surrealism. A kaleidoscopic blueprint for everything that followed, with lovingly restored artwork. Spacemen 3's second album is a remarkable departure from the band's 1986 debut, Sound Of Confusion. Reduced to a trio (guitarists / keyboardists Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember, Jason "Spaceman" Pierce, and bassist Pete Bassman), Spacemen 3 makes an asset out of the newfound lack of percussion, giving The Perfect Prescription a considerably less rock-oriented sound with much more open space in its varied, subtle arrangements.

                                        “Like taking an acid bath in the dungeon of the mind.” Pitchfork.

                                        TRACK LISTING

                                        1. Take Me To The Other Side
                                        2. Walkin' With Jesus
                                        3. Ode To Street Hassle
                                        4. Ecstasy Symphony
                                        5. Feel So Good
                                        6. Things'll Never Be The Same
                                        7. Come Down Easy
                                        8. Call The Doctor
                                        9. Soul 4
                                        10. That’s Just Fine 

                                        Marina Allen

                                        Eight Pointed Star

                                          The third album of powerfully vivid songwriting from Marina Allen. Beautifully orchestrated, highly melodic and delivered with unrivalled lyrical perspective. Across two acclaimed records, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has ripened a rare harvest, but her third studio album is an arrival home.

                                          Taking fragments and stories from Marina’s past, Eight-Pointed Star deftly weaves together a new future, in what feels for all the world like a glittering, clear-eyed modern classic of alternative folk and Americana. For fans of Aldous Harding, Fiona Apple and Waxahatchee.

                                          Ineffable and timeless, this collection of songs holds a curiosity that’s as open to you as you are to them. Compared to the soaring and swelling compositions of Allen’s second album Centrifics or the innocent tranquillity of Candlepower, the world of Eight Pointed Star is more deeply addressing and open-armed. It favours a type of soul-searching that doesn’t dwell in complications, and is open to answers. Rolling guitars rise and fall with the canyons and dust is kicked-up from the red scarred earth. Allen’s vocals pure and crystalline whilst the instrumentation is rich and bursting with brightness. You can hear contentment radiating from the music, with Chris Cohen’s production offering a full-band affair.

                                          Allen’s affection runs deepest for singers who in her words can really sing, from The Roches to Karen Dalton, Joanna Newsom to Meredith Monk. But these influences vanish like ghosts in the attic when she starts to sing herself. Allen has a voice that stands up to the canon – inimitable – and it’s never sounded more resolute than it does here.

                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          A1 I'm The Same
                                          A2 Deep Fake
                                          A3 Red Cloud
                                          A4 Swinging Doors
                                          A5 Bad Eye Opal
                                          B1 Easy
                                          B2 Love Comes Back
                                          B3 Landlocked
                                          B4 Between Seasons

                                          Vanishing Twin

                                          The Age Of Immunology - 2024 Reissue

                                            Vanishing Twin’s seminal LP, The Age Of Immunology, receives a LTD edition pressing on None ‘Pink’ and Sine ‘Teal’ vinyl, limited to 500 units each and paired with matching sleeve art. As essential take on psych-pop futurism and a must for fans of Broadcast, Sun Ra and Ennio Morricone.

                                            Establishing the band as innovators in their field, the record was declared “a masterpiece” by The Line Of Best Fit, while The Quietus asserted Vanishing Twin as “one of the most original and exciting acts of the moment”.

                                            This was the group’s first LP for Fire Records, at the time of recording the band’s evolving lineup consisted of songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti, bassist Susumu Mukai, synth/guitar player Phil MFU and visual artist/film maker Elliott Arndt on flute and percussion.

                                            The album was produced by Lucas in a number of non-standard, non-studio settings. ‘KRK (At Home In Strange Places)’ summons up the spirit of Sun Ra’s Lanquidity and Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio and was simply recorded on an iPhone during a live set which crackled with psychic connectivity on the Croatian island of Krk. The magical Morricone-esque lounge of ‘You Are Not an Island’, the blissed-out Jean-Claude Vannier style arrangement of ‘Invisible World’ and burbling sci fi funk ode to a 1972 cult French animation, ‘Planète Sauvage’, were all recorded in nighttime sessions in an abandoned mill in Sudbury.

                                            TRACK LISTING

                                            1. KRK (At Home In Strange Places)
                                            2. Wise Children
                                            3. Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life
                                            4. You Are Not An Island
                                            5. The Age Of Immunology
                                            6. Magician’s Success
                                            7. Planète Sauvage
                                            8. Backstroke
                                            9. Invisible World
                                            10. Language Is A City (Let Me Out!)

                                            BONUS TRACKS: Download ONLY
                                            1. The Age Of Immunology (Version)
                                            2. Magician’s Success (Live)
                                            3. Backstroke (Live)
                                            4. Language Is A City (Let Me Out!) (Live)
                                            5. You Are Not An Island (Version)
                                            6. Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life (Extended Life Version)

                                            Yosa Peit

                                            Gut Buster

                                              On Gut Buster, Yosa Peit spawns fleshy sonic escapades, a swarm of vigorously processed vocals and soulful bass, set to a backdrop of visceral percussive structures. Full of roguish curiosity, the record is cast with an air of lo-fi experimentation, but with a platinum glint of pop sensibility. Peit’s second album grapples with the destructive force of modern consumption, Gut Buster is an anti-capitalist battle cry that syntheses intimacy and hostility; a surrealist-punk affirmation and a testament to Peit’s singular vision and unique approach.

                                              The free-ranging sound of Yosa Peit recalls the intense arrangements of a cyber-era Prince with the surrealist tones of Arthur Russell and early Björk. At the album’s core, “World Eaters” unleashes scorching guitars in search of humankind’s end, “I was born on a planet, I got hungry and I ate it.”

                                              Even in the face of planetary doom and personal obstacles, Yosa evokes our propensity for mischief, humor and pleasure. “bb moon” processes sound solely from her bass into wicked oblivion. “CALL ME,” a song about friendship, chews up it’s anthemic melody into a gnarled strut worthy of an A$AP Rocky production, while “HAD3S” urges us to find balance, nodding to the mystical fuzz of Prince. Yosa’s work has been called “personal, punk, poignant, deep” yet her genre-defying production, as textured as it is catchy, escapes definition.

                                              Gut Buster takes that collective playground for creation to planetary reaches, congregating friends from Berlin, Cologne, and New York’s fuzzy musical underbelly: Employee, Funkycan, Gerry Franke, Glenn Astro, Nauker, Paingel, Tbz, and UCC Harlo. The record was mixed by Brainfeeder affiliate Benjamin Vukelic in Portland and Jan Brauer in Berlin.

                                              “Glitchy yet supple, the broken beats and warped abstractions are wholly unpredictable yet deliciously odd, like an esoteric mashup of Bjork, Aphex and Laurie Anderson” Electronic Sound.

                                              TRACK LISTING

                                              Side A
                                              A1 Twixx
                                              A2 Had3s
                                              A3 Tower Flower
                                              A4 Dnuora Kool
                                              A5 Shelly
                                              A6 Call Me
                                              Side B
                                              B1 World Eaters
                                              B2 Aol Slyt
                                              B3 Bb Moon
                                              B4 Nbp
                                              B5 Alma
                                              B6 Portimao
                                              B7 Look Around
                                              B8 Pepper Plane
                                              B9 Gut Is God (Gate Of Discord)

                                              Josephine Foster And The Victor Herrero Band

                                              Anda Jaleo (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                Royal Trux

                                                Royal Trux (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                  The Chills

                                                  The Lost EP (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                    Josephine Foster And The Victor Herrero Band

                                                    Perlas (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                      Half Japanese

                                                      Our Solar System (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                        The Bevis Frond

                                                        Live At The Great American Music Hall (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                          Come

                                                          Eleven:Eleven - Deluxe Edition (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                            The Groundhogs

                                                            Black Diamond (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                              Kristin Hersh

                                                              The Clear Pond Road Sessions (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                The Lemonheads

                                                                The Hotel Sessions (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                  Jane Weaver

                                                                  Quantify / Deep Perelle (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                    Giant Sand

                                                                    Blurry Blue Mountain - 2024 Reissue

                                                                      Recorded 25 years into their career, Giant Sand’s 25th album is a gorgeous and much-celebrated collection of perfectly-crafted, personal songwriting from Howe Gelb. With the exception of one or two wonderfully abrupt and perfectly placed outbursts, it’s a gentle rollercoaster traversing the inner thinking of the why’s and wherefores of whatever, a meditation on time and the ageing process.

                                                                      Musing on the record, Howe Gelb explains “On this LP I show off an acquired appreciation for the simple lyric. Kinda haiku at times, like flamenco verse, or the blues. I can focus more as it’s obvious there’s only so much time left – that has a production value all its own.”

                                                                      Highlighting their eclectic and esoteric career, this reissue celebrates the band’s magnificent, long and winding career. This deluxe reissue features restored artwork and newly penned liner notes from MOJO’s Dave Henderson.

                                                                      Giant Sand have been the primary outlet for the stylistic curveballs and sun-damaged songcraft of singer-songwriter Howe Gelb. In four plus decades he’s managed to reinvent rock, country, blues, punk, garage, lo-fi, jazz, gospel, avant-garde noise and flamenco gypsy music with his impressionistic imagery and expansive observations of the world.

                                                                      “An album full of heart, soul, and wit, this music confirms that no one does quite what Howe Gelb can do with such remarkably innate grace and feel” AllMusic.

                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                      A1 Fields Of Green
                                                                      A2 Chunk Of Coal
                                                                      A3 The Last One
                                                                      A4 Monk's Mountain
                                                                      A5 Spellbound
                                                                      A6 Ride The Rail
                                                                      A7 Lucky Star Love
                                                                      B1 Thin Line Man
                                                                      B2 No Tellin'
                                                                      B3 Brand New Swamp Thing
                                                                      B4 Erosion
                                                                      B5 Time Flies
                                                                      B6 Better Man Than Me
                                                                      B7 Love A Loser

                                                                      Giant Sand

                                                                      Chore Of Enchantment - 2024 Reissue

                                                                        Celebrating 25 years since the release of Giant Sand’s legendary ‘Chore Of Enchantment’, the panoramic masterpiece that was the turning point for the classic line-up featuring seasoned songwriter Howe Gelb and latter-day Calexico members Joey Burns and John Convertino from 1999.

                                                                        Filled with mind-bending one-liners, customary offbeat instrumentation, echo fields and hazy horizons; ‘The Chore Of Enchantment’ is a songbook of Howe Gelb’s greatest songs. The high level production by the legendary Jim Dickinson, PJ Harvey foil John Parish and acclaimed singer/songwriter/producer Kevin Salem, a tour-de-force of Gelb’s unique oeuvre.

                                                                        Highlighting their eclectic and esoteric career, this reissue celebrates the band’s magnificent, long and winding career. This 2xLP deluxe reissue features restored artwork and newly penned liner notes from MOJO’s Dave Henderson.

                                                                        “A beautiful, emotionally complex album.” The Quietus.

                                                                        Giant Sand have been the primary outlet for the stylistic curveballs and sun-damaged songcraft of singer-songwriter Howe Gelb. In four plus decades he’s managed to reinvent rock, country, blues, punk, garage, lo-fi, jazz, gospel, avant-garde noise and flamenco gypsy music with his impressionistic imagery and expansive observations of the world.

                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                        A1 Overture
                                                                        A2 (Well) Dusted (For The Millenium)
                                                                        A3 Punishing Sun
                                                                        A4 X-Tra Wide
                                                                        A5 1972
                                                                        A6 Temptation Of Egg
                                                                        A7 Raw
                                                                        B1 Wolfy
                                                                        B2 Shiver
                                                                        B3 Dirty From The Rain
                                                                        B4 Astonished (In Memphis)
                                                                        B5 No Reply
                                                                        C1 Satellite
                                                                        C2 Bottom Line Man
                                                                        C3 Way To End The Day
                                                                        C4 Shrine
                                                                        D1 Astonished (In Tucson) (Bonus)
                                                                        D2 Dusted (In Tucson) (Bonus)
                                                                        D3 Shiver (In Tucson) (Bonus)
                                                                        D4 Punishing Sun (In Tucson) (Bonus)
                                                                        D5 Bad (Not Good) (Bonus)

                                                                        The Lemonheads

                                                                        Fear Of Living / Seven Out

                                                                          The Lemonheads’ long-awaited return, a slice of perfect pop, with a grittier Evan Dando at the helm.

                                                                          Playing all the instruments on the lead track, the new single was recorded and produced by Apollo Nove in São Paulo, Brazil.

                                                                          Evan is currently working on the first Lemonheads songs since 2006.

                                                                          This limited seven-inch is backed with another piece of carefully selected outsider pop, a cover of Eugene Kelly’s (Vaselines and Eugenius) bittersweet ‘Seven Out’, on which Evan is joined by Jeff Berg on bass and Erin Rae on backing vocals.

                                                                          The Bevis Frond

                                                                          Focus On Nature

                                                                            Focus On Nature is the new studio album from celebrated post-psyche singer songwriter Nick Saloman and his band The Bevis Frond. Seventy-five minutes of glorious melodies that span 60s psych, English folk, Seattle art-punks The Wipers, the buzzsaw pop of Dinosaur Jr and Hendrix-esque explorations. There’s always an element of playful Englishness to their music.

                                                                            Heavily influencing the likes of The Lemonheads, Teenage Fanclub, Elliot Smith, Pavement and Dinosaur Jr, the cult icons have produced another off-kilter mix of melodic piano-led melancholy, acoustic ruminations, scratchy garage rock with a punky edge and full-on guitar histrionics.

                                                                            Like its much-praised predecessor, ‘Little Eden’, the new record studies the world’s weariness but fills out a bigger canvas; fast food and global warming, broken hearts and long gone nights out, everyday immortality and being God’s gift all share space. It’s like Townshend at his most thematic; Big Star in all their acoustic glory, perfectly balancing the punky garage rock combo who end up running on ‘Empty’ with Gilmour breaks that elevate it all to grandeur.

                                                                            “Still mixing pop, punk and psych to giddy effect.” The Guardian

                                                                            “Self-reflection is twinned with a rueful survey of the current state of the nation.” Uncut

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            1. Heat
                                                                            2. Focus On Nature
                                                                            3. God's Gift
                                                                            4. Vitruvian Man
                                                                            5. A Mirror
                                                                            6. Leb Off
                                                                            7. Here For The Other One
                                                                            8. Happy Wings
                                                                            9. Empty
                                                                            10. Wrong Way Round
                                                                            11. Mr Freds Disco
                                                                            12. Jack Immortal
                                                                            13. Hairstreaks
                                                                            14. Maybe We Got It Wrong
                                                                            15. Brocadine
                                                                            16. Big Black Sky
                                                                            17. The Hug
                                                                            18. I Can't Breathe
                                                                            19. Hung On A Wire

                                                                            Monde UFO

                                                                            7171 (Expanded Edition)

                                                                              Monde UFO, LA-based duo of Ray Monde and Kris Chau, are a monochromatic sunset for the senses. A sonic journey through psychedelia, space rock and jazz. A cosmic space where Spacemen 3 meets Vanishing Twin, by way of Sun Ra. 7171 perfectly embodies the framework of lo and hi-fi sounds which have helped define the band. Included in this expanded package is Four Songs, Monde UFO’s radical interpretation of Fugazi’s music, housed for the first time on LTD 7” with new artwork.

                                                                              In a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, on 7th Street, Ray Monde began writing songs on an old Yamaha church organ for a project that eventually became Monde UFO. Utilizing the organ as a bass, alongside keyboards and a drum machine, he began making demos on a four-track cassette recorder. Heavily influenced by the musician Sandy Bull, sonically landing in a similar no-man's land of Worldly Jazz and Psych Folk. Monde experimented with the themes mostly of meditation and UFO lore.

                                                                              In time Ray moved in with the artist Kris Chau. With little crossover in musical tastes, they exclusively started listening to jazz, ambient and new age music in the house. Increased interest in sound baths and experimental music led to seeing music in a different light. Envisioning something that would sound like Don Cherry making a record with Yo La Tengo. ‘7171’ is an amalgam of influences, interpretations and otherworldly sounds channeled through genre bending experimentation.

                                                                              This expanded edition of ‘7171’ includes the sought after ‘Four Songs’ EP, a reimagining Fugazi’s early classics, songs that take on a life of their own, lost amongst the haze and sugar sweet psych. Ray Monde explains, "Long Division was one of my favorite tracks off 'Steady Diet of Nothing' the first Fugazi record I ever owned; more than ever, it also feels truly poignant in the times we live in.Version 2 is our interpretation of Version from ‘Red Medicine’, my favorite Fugazi Record.”

                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              Side A:
                                                                              A1. Cosmic Trigger
                                                                              A2. Lowered Shelf
                                                                              A3. A Pale Horse In Roswell 1947
                                                                              A4. Weathered Underground
                                                                              A5. Vallee
                                                                              A6. SAXXAS
                                                                              Side B:
                                                                              B1. Amalgamated
                                                                              B2. Black Triangles
                                                                              B3. Lying On The Ground
                                                                              B4. Solar Consiousness

                                                                              4 Songs EP 7"
                                                                              Side A:
                                                                              A1. I'm So Tired
                                                                              A2. Long Division
                                                                              Side B:
                                                                              B1. Version
                                                                              B2. Cashout

                                                                              Bas Jan

                                                                              Back To The Swamp

                                                                                Bas Jan return with a polished and poignant collection of perfectly-crafted pop songs that retains their authentic indie edginess. ‘Back To The Swamp’ is a heady tussle between their incorrigible DIY ethics and new responsibilities.

                                                                                Serafina Steer, Charlotte Stock, Emma Smith and Rachel Horwood cast an examining eye over modern times, lost love, Tarot intuition and long days in an everyday swamp. Awash with lush chorale effects, orchestral hewn loops, pin sharp electronic beats and sublime harmonies. Back To The Swamp is filled with thought-provoking stories, it’s a reflective worldview. It’s a polished and poignant collection of perfectly-crafted pop songs that retains their authentic indie edginess.

                                                                                These new studio recordings feature more accomplished pop production; filled with cerebral one-liners that pluck at the senses. And, there’s a nod to an eclectic mix of influences; The Pet Shop Boys, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Kate Bush, Heaven 17 and Jon Hassell by way of Brian Eno.

                                                                                Witches, Tarot readings, road signs, Salt-N-Pepa namechecks and a river all cried out, welcome to the swamp…

                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                SIDE A
                                                                                A1 At The Counter
                                                                                A2 No More Swamp
                                                                                A3 Credit Card
                                                                                A4 Ding Dong
                                                                                A5 Margaret Calvert Drives Out
                                                                                SIDE B
                                                                                B1 Back To The Swamp
                                                                                B2 Singing Bar
                                                                                B3 Cried A River
                                                                                B4 Tarot Card

                                                                                THALA

                                                                                Twotwentytwo

                                                                                  On new EP twotwentytwo, indie riser THALA continues to embrace vulnerability, summoning long-buried emotions to colour her ardent love for lyricism amid psych-tinged ‘90s indie soundscapes. Filled with potent songwriting and coming-of-age anthems straight from the heart, these everyday love stories surrender to life’s insecurities. Evoking the soundscapes of Slowdive and Deerhunter, whilst recalling the widescreen pop of boygenius and Snail Mail.

                                                                                  Recorded in London and Berlin earlier this year, twotwentytwo follows the release of ‘In Theory Depression’, THALA’s first EP on Fire Records. Spanning six tracks, it builds on its predecessor’s fearless lyricism, excavating deep-set feelings of loss, pain, desire and conflict against luminous production and addictive melodies. Following rammed appearances at SXSW and The Great Escape, and having picked up the attention BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, THALA shows no signs of slowing down…

                                                                                  Blissful guitars and evocative crescendos permeate THALA’s unique vision of dreampop, reveling in soaring choruses and intimate storylines. On its surface, twotwentytwo boasts a kind of glorious emotive draw - you’d be forgiven for mistaking any one of these tracks as a backdrop to any teen-angst drama. However, while THALA wants her songs to feel nostalgic, it’s the complexity of her songwriting that sees her modern compositions really resonate and she is keen to stress her lyrics can be interpreted in numerous ways.

                                                                                  And therein lies the heart of this release - a cathartic, wildly empowering, self-explorative from a future indie heartbreaker at her gutsy best.

                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                  Side A:
                                                                                  A1 It Was You
                                                                                  A2 I Know When You Care
                                                                                  A3 Windowsill
                                                                                  Side B:
                                                                                  B1 Honey
                                                                                  B2 Twotwentytwo
                                                                                  B3 Ferris Wheel

                                                                                  Pere Ubu

                                                                                  Architecture Of Language: 1979-1982

                                                                                    ‘Architecture Of Language 1979-1982’ is a four disc CD bookback set with excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. It features the ground-breaking ‘New Picnic Time’ described by one critic as the “scariest album ever recorded”. Plus ‘The Art Of Walking’ featuring Mayo Thomson of Red Crayola, ‘Song Of The Bailing Man’ and a further CD of glorious out-takes and oddities, ‘Architectural Salvage’. This release features Ubu approved notes and memorabilia.

                                                                                    Reinventing rock music from the ground up, Pere Ubu are equally at ease with Sun Ra and The Monkees, Glen Campbell and The MC5, Can and The Raspberries, they are the white Funkadelic.



                                                                                    “Inspired, invigorating, confounding, disturbing…” Rolling Stone.

                                                                                    As vital as ever, no band before or since has ever sounded like Pere Ubu - period.

                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                    Disc One - New Picnic Time
                                                                                    1 The Fabulous Sequel (Have Shoes Will Walk)
                                                                                    2 49 Guitars And One Girl
                                                                                    3 A Small Dark Cloud
                                                                                    4 Small Was Fast
                                                                                    5 All The Dogs Are Barking
                                                                                    6 One Less Worry
                                                                                    7 Make Hay
                                                                                    8 Goodbye
                                                                                    9 Voice Of The Sand
                                                                                    10 Kingdom Come
                                                                                    Disc Two - The Art Of Walking
                                                                                    1 Go
                                                                                    2 Rhapsody In Pink
                                                                                    3 Arabia
                                                                                    4 Misery Goats
                                                                                    5 Young Miles In The Basement
                                                                                    6 Loop
                                                                                    7 Rounder
                                                                                    8 Birdies
                                                                                    9 Lost In Art
                                                                                    10 Horses
                                                                                    11 Crush This Horn
                                                                                    Disc Three - Song Of The Bailing Man
                                                                                    1 The Long Walk Home
                                                                                    2 Use Of A Dog
                                                                                    3 Petrified
                                                                                    4 Stormy Weather
                                                                                    5 West Side Story
                                                                                    6 Thoughts That Go By Steam
                                                                                    7 Big Ed's Used Farms
                                                                                    8 A Day Such As This
                                                                                    9 The Vulgar Boatman Bird
                                                                                    10 My Hat
                                                                                    11 Horns Are A Dilemma
                                                                                    Disc Four - Architectural Salvage
                                                                                    1 Humor Me - Live
                                                                                    2 The Book Is On The Table
                                                                                    3 All The Dogs Are Barking (alt Mix 4)
                                                                                    4 Arabian Nights
                                                                                    5 Tribute To Miles
                                                                                    6 Horses (alt Mix 3)
                                                                                    7 Rounder (alt Mix 1)
                                                                                    8 Not Happy
                                                                                    9 Lonesome Cowboy Dave

                                                                                    Bardo Pond

                                                                                    Peace On Venus - 10th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                      10th anniversary clear, black and white splatter vinyl reissue of 'Peace on Venus' by Bardo Pond, Philadelphia's foremost purveyors of psychedelic rock. Includes ‘Kali Yuga Blues’, a true behemoth of a song and a shining example of the band’s ecstatic intensity.

                                                                                      Delving deep in to their subconscious to bring it to the conscious, the band’s 2013 effort dazzles, with their gift for heavy riffs laced with soaring vocals and swathes of sound. Bardo Pond has the outward specifications of a rock band but the rivers that converge into the band's oneiric flow have their headwaters in the outlands of ecstatic jazz, free noise and the avant-garde.

                                                                                      The recording process of ‘Peace On Venus’ used the principle of the Quintessence, which is a principle cited by the 16th Century physician Paracelsus, who noted: "Nothing of true value is located in the body of a substance, but in the virtue thereof, and this is the principle of the Quintessence, which reduces, say 20 lbs. of a given substance into a single Ounce, and that ounce far exceeds the 20 lbs. in potency. Hence the less there is of body, the more in proportion is the virtue thereof."

                                                                                      “Obviously, Bardo Pond are the greatest band in the world” Vice.

                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                      A1 Kali Yuga Blues
                                                                                      A2 Taste
                                                                                      A3 Fir
                                                                                      B1 Chance
                                                                                      B2 Before The Moon

                                                                                      Marta Del Grandi

                                                                                      Selva

                                                                                        Italian singer songwriter Marta Del Grandi returns with ‘Selva’, her most intricate and shimmering effort yet, a refined devotional suite of astute pop that flows effortlessly, uniting emotional complexity, divine organic arrangements with a sci-fi finish.

                                                                                        If her debut ‘Until We Fossilize’ showed all the qualities of Marta’s unique approach, tip-toeing between Laurel Canyon dust, Lynchian etherealism and dramatic Morricone scores, ‘Selva’ delves deeper into the undergrowth, showcasing an ambition to deliver a whole new universe, her own ecosystem, where the strength of her voice alone is the pillar to build on.

                                                                                        Beams of choral light radiate and permeate each track, with layered vocal drones creating a cathartic collision of sharp and soft textures, as almost to guide us hand in hand across Marta Del Grandi’s enchanted universe. The ambition is blinding and the outcome is here to prove it: 12 songs of sprawling ethereal pop that is vivid, immense and fully illuminated.

                                                                                        “Ultimately compels with its detached, lynchian ambience.” ALLMUSIC

                                                                                        “Bucolic yet often emotionally complex, her songwriting – patching electronic synths against ambient elements, with a touch of modern classical – taps into areas that go beyond words.” CLASH.

                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                        A1 Mata Hari
                                                                                        A2 Eye Of The Day
                                                                                        A3 Chameleon Eyes
                                                                                        A4 Snapdragon
                                                                                        A5 Marble Season
                                                                                        A6 End Of The World Pt.1
                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                        B1 Two Halves
                                                                                        B2 Polar Bear Village
                                                                                        B3 Good Story
                                                                                        B4 Selva
                                                                                        B5 Stay
                                                                                        B6 End Of The World Pt.2

                                                                                        The Chills

                                                                                        Brave Words - 2023 Reissue (Expanded And Remastered)

                                                                                          “The songwriter that helped kick off indie rock as we know it" NPR…

                                                                                          Remixed and remastered under the supervision of Martin Phillipps, this expanded edition of The Chills’ debut album is reissued for the first time in over 35 years. The newly mixed edition features additional rarities and unreleased tracks from The Chills vaults, along with brand new reimagined artwork by Martin Phillipps and a host of additional liner notes.

                                                                                          Originally produced by Mayo Thompson (Pere Ubu/Red Krayola) and featuring standout tracks ‘Wet Blanket’, ‘Night Of Chills Blue’, this extended 18-track edition includes much-lauded tracks from the era, such as ‘House With A Hundred Rooms’ and the awesome ‘Party In My Heart’.

                                                                                          Part of the 80s extraordinarily vibrant and innovative independent music scene in New Zealand, The Chills became flag bearers, taking the Dunedin sound, as championed by the Flying Nun label, to the world. Long recognised as one of New Zealand's most influential bands, Brave Words is a shining example of their unique sound and has been praised as a masterpiece by critics and fans alike.

                                                                                          “‘Brave Words’ may well be The Chills' finest album.” AllMusic.

                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                          Side A
                                                                                          A1 Push (Remastered)
                                                                                          A2 Rain (Remastered)
                                                                                          A3 Speak For Yourself (Remastered)
                                                                                          A4 Look For The Good In Others And They'll See The Good In You (Remastered)
                                                                                          A5 Wet Blanket (Remastered)
                                                                                          A6 Ghosts (Remastered)
                                                                                          Side B
                                                                                          B1 Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn (Remastered)
                                                                                          B2 Night Of Chill Blue (Remastered)
                                                                                          B3 16 Heart-Throbs (Remastered)
                                                                                          B4 Brave Words (Remastered)
                                                                                          B5 Dark Carnival (Remastered)
                                                                                          B6 Creep (Remastered)
                                                                                          Side C
                                                                                          C1 The Oncoming Day (Remastered)
                                                                                          C2 I Think I’d Thought I'd Nothing Else To Think About (Remastered)
                                                                                          C3 House With A Hundred Rooms (Remastered)
                                                                                          Side D
                                                                                          D1 Party In My Heart (Remastered)
                                                                                          D2 Living In A Jungle (Remastered)
                                                                                          D3 Rain (Alternate Instrumental Version - Remastered)

                                                                                          The Chills

                                                                                          Kaleidoscope World - 2023 Reissue (Expanded Edition)

                                                                                            This is what a living legend looks and sounds like” Rolling Stone.

                                                                                            The Chills reissue their celebrated early singles compilation, this 24-track expanded version of Kaleidoscope World gathers together tracks from the ‘Dunedin Double’ compilation, live recordings, ‘Doledrums’ single and the band’s seminal ‘Pink Frost’.

                                                                                            The collection also contains ‘The Lost EP’, with early takes on their groundbreaking ‘Submarine Bells’ album, alongside the aching ‘I Love My Leather Jacket’, perfectly illustrating the rollercoaster ride of Martin Phillipps and The Chills as portrayed in the award film The Triumph And The Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps.

                                                                                            “Singer/guitarist Martin Phillipps’ group was at the forefront of the extraordinary little guitar-pop scene in New Zealand in the early ’80s.. Kaleidoscope World is the major document of their early era.” Pitchfork

                                                                                            Part of the 80’s extraordinarily vibrant and innovative independent music scene in New Zealand, The Chills became flag bearers, taking the Dunedin sound, as championed by the Flying Nun label, to the world. Long recognised as one of New Zealand's most influential bands, Kaleidoscope World is a definitive artifact from Martin Phillipps’ groundbreaking project.

                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                            Side A
                                                                                            A1 Kaleidoscope World
                                                                                            A2 Satin Doll
                                                                                            A3 Frantic Drift
                                                                                            A4 Rolling Moon
                                                                                            A5 Bite
                                                                                            Side B
                                                                                            B1 Flame Thrower
                                                                                            B2 Pink Frost
                                                                                            B3 Purple Girl
                                                                                            B4 This Is The Way
                                                                                            B5 Never Never Go
                                                                                            B6 Don't Even Know Her Name
                                                                                            B7 Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe
                                                                                            Side C
                                                                                            C1 Whole Weird World
                                                                                            C2 Dream By Dream
                                                                                            C3 Doledrums
                                                                                            C4 Hidden Bay
                                                                                            C5 I Love My Leather Jacket
                                                                                            C6 The Great Escape
                                                                                            Side D
                                                                                            D1 Oncoming Day (Early Version)
                                                                                            D2 Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn (Unplugged)
                                                                                            D3 Martyn’s Doctor Told Me
                                                                                            D4 I'll Only See You Alone Again
                                                                                            D5 Green-Eyed Owl (Live)
                                                                                            D6 Smile From A Dead Dead Face (Live)

                                                                                            Vanishing Twin

                                                                                            Afternoon X

                                                                                              Vanishing Twin furthers their exploration of decidedly experimental territories with Afternoon X. Crafted with a playful balance of humour and rigour, with each member embracing the role of the multi-instrumentalist and process, over outcome.

                                                                                              Following a series of line-up changes, Vanishing Twin is now the tightly honed collective of singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti (Holy Tongue, Tomaga, Moin) and bassist Susumu Mukai (Zongamin). Harnessing the diverse touchstones of its members; Lucas’ left-field song-craft, Magaletti’s singular approaches to experimental percussion, and Mukai’s long history in the production of electronic music, the band has refined a hypnotic sound at the juncture of minimalism, kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop.

                                                                                              These eight fluttering abstractions, culled, collaged, and built upon from a vast constellation of instruments, samples, and unclaimed sources. Lucas employs her voice as an instrument and a generator of raw sound, weaving surreal imagery and uncanny juxtapositions amongst the dance and propellant drive. From infectious grooves of the album’s title track and the constrained minimalism of “Subito”, to the ambitious heights of pieces like ‘The Down Below’ and Lazy Garden, which unfurl a psychedelic avant-gardism on the scope and scale of David Axelrod and Scott Walker.

                                                                                              Vanishing Twin embark upon a new multifaceted journey that collectively culminates as the bands most forward-thinking and groundbreaking release to date.

                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                              Barry says: Vanishing Twin take all the best elements of easy listening and psych-pop and wraps them in a veil of mystery and woozy unease. It's got gothic charm, but it's also got a litany of perfectly written hooks and masterfully crafted atmospheres. Yet another giant leap forwards for a brilliant band.

                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                              Side A
                                                                                              A1 Melty
                                                                                              A2 Afternoon X
                                                                                              A3 Brain Weather
                                                                                              A4 Lotus Eater
                                                                                              A5 Marbles
                                                                                              Side B
                                                                                              B1 The Down Below
                                                                                              B2 Lazy Garden
                                                                                              B3 Subito

                                                                                              Islet

                                                                                              Soft Fascination

                                                                                                The genre-defying Welsh group define their vision with a breath-taking new album, Islet’s ‘Soft Fascination’ is an ecstatic experience in music, an explosion of emotion subsumed in sound. The album is filled with high energy cadence and meditations on collective joy, a balancing act underpinned with glorious melodies and Emma Daman Thomas’ evocative vocals that swirl in the symphonic surf. Self-produced, and with instruments recorded live with few overdubs, the effect is direct, it veers from the upfront and immediate to the spacious and challenging.

                                                                                                The first half is intentionally fast, intense, almost relentless. The second half is more spacious, as the album unravels and becomes more hazy. There is excitement and fascination and a willingness to show a lack of restraint in realising it, traversing hailstorms, hedgerows, broken promises and poisoned prayers; constantly breathing real life all in. Featuring standout singles: the pulsating ‘Euphoria’, the liberating flow of energy on ‘River Body’ and the recurring conundrum of choice of ‘Hat Person’, ‘Soft Fascination’ is an album of rare beauty.

                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                A1 Euphoria
                                                                                                A2 River Body
                                                                                                A3 Sherry
                                                                                                A4 Flailing
                                                                                                A5 Hat Person
                                                                                                B1 An Open Door
                                                                                                B2 Woolgathering
                                                                                                B3 Lemons
                                                                                                B4 Sleepwalker In A Fog
                                                                                                B5 Discipline
                                                                                                B6 Kits

                                                                                                Pere Ubu

                                                                                                Elitism For The People: 1975-1978

                                                                                                  ‘Elistism For The People 1975-1978’ is a four-disc ‘bookback’ set featuring excerpts from the Pere Ubu scrapbook 75-82, written by David Thomas, including historical photos. It features the seismic debut album ‘Modern Dance’, it’s follow up ‘Dub Housing’ and ‘The Hearpen Singles’ and the incendiary ‘Live At Max’s Kansas City’. The set collects the bracing and brilliant Pere Ubu in their earliest incarnation, with the devasting one-two knockout blow of 1978 studio bookends.

                                                                                                  “The Modern Dance is one of the first and greatest art-rock records.” The Guardian

                                                                                                  Reinventing rock music from the ground up, Pere Ubu are equally at ease with Sun Ra and The Monkees, Glen Campbell and The MC5, Can and The Raspberries, they are the white Funkadelic.

                                                                                                  “Harsh and willfully ugly, yet always mindful of certain rock & roll imperatives: a solid beat, snappy lyrics and engaging themes” Rolling Stone

                                                                                                  As vital as ever, no band before or since has ever sounded like Pere Ubu - period.

                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                  Disc One - The Modern Dance
                                                                                                  1 Non-Alignment Pact
                                                                                                  2 Modern Dance
                                                                                                  3 Laughing
                                                                                                  4 Street Waves
                                                                                                  5 Chinese Radiation
                                                                                                  6 Life Stinks
                                                                                                  7 Real World
                                                                                                  8 Over My Head
                                                                                                  9 Sentimental Journey
                                                                                                  10 Humor Me
                                                                                                  Disc Two - Dub Housing
                                                                                                  1 Navvy
                                                                                                  2 On The Surface
                                                                                                  3 Dub Housing
                                                                                                  4 Caligari's Mirror
                                                                                                  5 Thriller!
                                                                                                  6 I, Will Wait
                                                                                                  7 Drinking Wine Spodyody
                                                                                                  8 (Pa) Ubu Dance Party
                                                                                                  9 Blow Daddy-o
                                                                                                  10 Codex
                                                                                                  Disc Three - The Hearpen Singles
                                                                                                  1 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
                                                                                                  2 Heart Of Darkness
                                                                                                  3 Final Solution
                                                                                                  4 Cloud 149
                                                                                                  5 Untitled
                                                                                                  6 Street Waves
                                                                                                  7 My Dark Ages
                                                                                                  8 Modern Dance
                                                                                                  9 Heaven
                                                                                                  Disc Four - Manhattan: Live At Max's Kansas City 1977
                                                                                                  1 My Dark Ages
                                                                                                  2 Heaven
                                                                                                  3 Sentimental Journey
                                                                                                  4 Over My Head
                                                                                                  5 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
                                                                                                  6 Life Stinks

                                                                                                  Kristin Hersh

                                                                                                  Clear Pond Road

                                                                                                    Kristin Hersh’s new album is a cinematic road trip; a series of personal vignettes from a fiercely independent auteur, sitting plush with layers of all-consuming strings and mellotron. It’s a watershed moment in a career overflowing with creative firsts and inspirational thinking; an elegant piece of personal reportage, a home movie caught in time.

                                                                                                    Previously, the juxtaposition of light and dark has been essential to the drama of Throwing Muses and 50FOOTWAVE, but this solo set is something of a departure; more inward looking, quieter but outspoken, underpinned by background noise for ambience and awkwardness.

                                                                                                    “Passion sounds less angry, more grateful, I think,” Kristin muses, “sweeter, sadder. And somehow, no less alive… over car engines and rain in New England and whistling ducks and wind chimes in New Orleans, it all sounds wistful to me.”

                                                                                                    ‘Clear Pond Road’ is a life-affirming statement, a further part of the jigsaw, a very personal memoir, from street signs to snapshots; a late blossoming and coming-of-age from a true icon of independence. The record is both intimate yet expansive, written largely within the confines of Hersh’s home, making the proceedings ever more personal.

                                                                                                    “Few artists understand the intensity of living one’s art like Hersh” The Guardian

                                                                                                    “A fearless rock innovator” New York Times.

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    Side A
                                                                                                    A1 Bewitched Reruns
                                                                                                    A2 Ms Haha
                                                                                                    A3 Dandelion
                                                                                                    A4 Constance Street
                                                                                                    A5 Thank You, Corner Blight
                                                                                                    Side B
                                                                                                    B1 St. Valentines Day Massacre
                                                                                                    B2 Reflections On The Motive Power Of Fire
                                                                                                    B3 Eyeshine
                                                                                                    B4 Palmetto
                                                                                                    B5 Tunnels

                                                                                                    Half Japanese

                                                                                                    Jump Into Love

                                                                                                      ‘Jump Into Love’ is the new album from Half Japanese, true DIY noise-rock royalty, led by the ever-effervescent Jad Fair. It’s a meeting of minds, a coming together from the world’s favourite indie-alt-rock outsiders. Atypically out there and off-kilter, the album wears its heart on its sleeve through a cascade of new, dark and brooding songs from the band who would be king. Loved by Kurt Cobain, Daniel Johnston, Penn Jillette and outsiders everywhere, Half Japanese continue their quest for answers; creating a soundscape for a post-zombie land where bells chime and it’s OK to say “Yes”.

                                                                                                      It’s another adventure; series 20 from an introspective parallel world where the super prolific Jad Fair cogitates on life, love, giants, the possessed and even bigger issues that simply swell the brain. Musing on the writing process, Jad explains “I feel a need to do music and do song writing. It's something I really miss when I'm not doing it. There's a certain amount of tranquillity that's obtained from the fact that you can be working on songs each day. I think you use that certain portion of your brain that is otherwise not used.

                                                                                                      I kind of kind of prefer using it than not using it.” Half Japanese currently includes Jad with John Sluggett, Gilles-Vincent Rieder, Mick Hobbs and Jason Willett, a veritable who’s who of DIY indie culture. ‘Jump Into Love’ was recorded at Tempo House, Baltimore, Russian Recording, Bloomington Indiana, Studio de la Trappe, Donneville France and la Casamurada, Tarragona Spain. The album was mixed by long time Half Japanese sparring partner Jason Willett at his home in Baltimore, Maryland.

                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                      A1 It's OK
                                                                                                      A2 We Are Giants
                                                                                                      A3 True Love Will Save The Day
                                                                                                      A4 Listen To The Bells Chime
                                                                                                      A5 Jump Into Love
                                                                                                      A6 The Answer Is Yes
                                                                                                      B1 Shining Sun
                                                                                                      B2 This Isn't Funny
                                                                                                      B3 Step Inside
                                                                                                      B4 Here She Comes
                                                                                                      B5 Shining Stars
                                                                                                      B6 Zombie World

                                                                                                      THALA

                                                                                                      In Theory Depression (EP)

                                                                                                        Rising artist THALA finds strength in her vulnerability on new EP In Theory Depression. After forging a path in hazy, lo-fi indie, this forthcoming release is home to her sharpest, boldest songwriting yet, rendering these deeply personal explorations of self in vivid, ‘90s influenced indie-rock, and looming, psych-inspired walls-of-sound.

                                                                                                        Recalling the tangled indie-rock of Holly Humberstone, Soccer Mommy, and Phoebe Bridgers, and underpinned by spiky, surging guitars, the songs unearth tenderness, even as they rage.

                                                                                                        In Theory Depression marks the artist’s most introspective writing yet, but as much as the lyrics excavate from hidden depths, they’re often paired with widescreen, cinematic-sounding melodies. It brings to mind both the dazzling soundscapes of Mazzy Star, the witty bite of Liz Phair, and the subtle punk influences of Juliana Hatfield, who also spins the genre’s more relentless strains into snarling and bittersweet alternative pop.

                                                                                                        THALA has just wrapped up a joint UK tour, alongside showcases at Austin’s SXSW and with Brighton’s Great Escape festival also on the horizon. Having already won the backing of BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders, Wonderland Magazine and Clash, THALA’s ascent is only set to continue.

                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                        A1 You Had 2
                                                                                                        A2 Curtain Call
                                                                                                        A3 Easy Out
                                                                                                        B1 Are You Thinking Of Me
                                                                                                        B2 Sink
                                                                                                        B3 In Theory Depression

                                                                                                        Brigid Mae Power

                                                                                                        Dream From The Deep Well

                                                                                                          ‘Dream From The Deep Well’ is the new album from celebrated Irish singer songwriter Brigid Mae Power. Recognised as a purveyor of dreamier pop with folky leanings, this new album is a departure; a unique marriage of traditional stylings and very modern melodies; a breath-taking soundtrack which underpins her gorgeous vocal.

                                                                                                          Filled with personal tales of offspring and grandparents, the lovelorn and the lost, it’s the essence of re-imagined folk music, from the traditional intro and outro that act as bookends. It’s folk music, but not as we know it. In these ever-confusing and often annoying times, Brigid brings us modern folk for modern folk, with her evocative vocal, doubling back on itself with strings, steel guitar, horns and mellotron adding to its baroque loveliness. It’s waving back at her rootsy past, daubing new colours on a much-loved canvas. ‘Dream From The Deep Well’ is a new visionary beginning from a gifted songwriter.

                                                                                                          Elsewhere, there’s the lovelorn longing of her version of Tim Buckley’s ‘I Must Have Been Blind’, alongside a moving tribute to the late Ashling Murphy, a 23-year-old Irish primary school teacher and traditional Irish musician who was attacked and killed while jogging along the Grand Canal just outside Tullamore, County Offaly. It's a harrowing story, delivered with overwhelming compassion. In the best tradition of old school folk music, it opens up a pressing issue to a wider audience.

                                                                                                          It's an album that’s politically primed and socially aware; a broadside for us all, this is Brigid Mae Power’s most complete album yet.

                                                                                                          “Her haunting voice, an instrument that raises the everyday to a near-mystical realm.” The Guardian.

                                                                                                          “The Irish singer-songwriter flits between past and present; between traditional and modern forms; between the heaven in her voice and the earthbound epiphanies of her words.” Pitchfork.


                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                          Side A:
                                                                                                          A1 I Know Who Is Sick
                                                                                                          A2 Counting Down
                                                                                                          A3 Maybe It's Just Lightning
                                                                                                          A4 I Must Have Been Blind
                                                                                                          A5 The Waterford Song
                                                                                                          A6 Ashling
                                                                                                          Side B:
                                                                                                          B1 I'll Wait Outside For You
                                                                                                          B2 Dream From The Deep Well
                                                                                                          B3 I Don't Know Your Story
                                                                                                          B4 Some Life You've Known
                                                                                                          B5 Down By The Glenside

                                                                                                          Decisive Pink (Kate NV + Angel Deradoorian)

                                                                                                          Ticket To Fame

                                                                                                            Angel Deradoorian and Kate NV are Decisive Pink - Ticket To Fame is their highly anticipated debut. After teasing the single ‘Haffmilch Holiday’ the duo amassed a rapturous response, with The Guardian calling it “a space-age-dancefloor swoon that brings to mind Kate Bush’s Waking the Witch” and the New York Times highlighting the single as “substantive and thoroughly hypnotic”. On their first LP they do not disappoint, calling on Kate NV’s experimental pop leanings and Angel Deradoorian’s taste for atmosphere and otherworldliness, Decisive Pink have created a playful and abstract album designed for escape and enchantment.

                                                                                                            Electronic pop at it’s finest, the debut points to the fact that life is a puzzle, but you can still get a lot from living it. ‘Destiny’ is a smart take on the nature of belief, built on a question-and-answer format, where Angel plays a role as the seer, and Kate the enquirer. The poppy beat is reminiscent of Talking Heads’ ‘The Great Curve’, from Remain in Light. There again, it could be a sinister take on Will Powers’ ‘Kissing with Confidence’. The synth squeaks, squelches and toots sound like the timid affirmation of the initiate.

                                                                                                            Ticket to Fame is also unashamedly romantic in atmosphere and tone. Romance is to be found in the simple pleasures, such as listening to a blackbird on the instrumental ‘Rodeo’, where warm synths, a melancholic guitar pattern and hissing rhythm combine with some vocal snippets to form a soothing contemplation. Then there is ‘Ode to Boy’; a perfect pop track. The walking into the room of “more than just an ordinary boy” (doubtless “drunk with fire”) allows a set of initially different, and shortened synth patterns to build to a glorious affirmation of the power of love.

                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                            Side A
                                                                                                            A1 Haffmilch Holiday
                                                                                                            A2 What Where
                                                                                                            A3 Ode To Boy
                                                                                                            A4 Destiny
                                                                                                            A5 Potato Tomato
                                                                                                            Side B
                                                                                                            B1 Cosmic Dancer
                                                                                                            B2 Rodeo
                                                                                                            B3 Interludé
                                                                                                            B4 Dopamine
                                                                                                            B5 Voice Message

                                                                                                            Come

                                                                                                            Near Life Experience - 2023 Reissue

                                                                                                              Originally released in 1996, Come’s third album ‘Near Life Experience’ was the sound of a band heading into new territory, refining their dense mix of hypnotic noise-rock, blues and rock’n’roll song-writing. Lovingly remastered, this new version features three incredible bonus tracks ‘Prize’, ‘Strike’, ‘Hurricane II’ stemming from the same era, additional liner notes and photographs.

                                                                                                              After Come's seminal 1994 release ‘Don't Ask Don't Tell’, bassist Sean O'Brien and drummer Arthur Johnson left the band to pursue other careers. Remaining members Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek recorded Near Life Experience with two different rhythm sections: one half of the album was recorded with drummer Mac McNeilly of the Jesus Lizard and Bundy K. Brown of Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol, the other half recorded with Kevin Coultas and Tara Jane O'Neil of Rodan and The Sonora Pine. Other contributors to the album included Edward Yazijian from Kustomized and Jeff Goddard from Karate, both rock bands hailing from Boston, MA.

                                                                                                              The title of the album resulted from "a slip of the tongue, as Zedek states, she "was telling someone [she had] had a 'near life experience,' but meant to say near death experience. Chris [Brokaw] was cracking up at the imagery of that. Thus, the phrase was chosen as the album's title.
                                                                                                              "Near-Life Experience is heavier, and at the same time prettier, than Come has ever sounded." CMJ New Music Monthly.

                                                                                                              “Come is a re-energized, even more powerful band than they used to be, and Near Life Experience is their most concise and affecting release yet.” All Music.

                                                                                                              Zedek and Brokaw might have compensated the loss of band members by recruiting new blood but the reward was huge, ‘Near Life Experience’ is Come’s most cinematic, diverse and accessible album.

                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                              Side One
                                                                                                              A1 Hurricane
                                                                                                              A2 Weak As The Moon
                                                                                                              A3 Secret Number
                                                                                                              A4 Bitten
                                                                                                              A5 Shoot Me First
                                                                                                              Side Two
                                                                                                              B1 Walk On's
                                                                                                              B2 Half Life
                                                                                                              B3 Sloe-Eyed
                                                                                                              B4 Prize
                                                                                                              B5 Strike
                                                                                                              B6 Hurricane II

                                                                                                              The Lemonheads

                                                                                                              Come On Feel - 30th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                Expanded 30th anniversary re-issue of The Lemonheads’ classic 1993 album. The breakthrough record that took American alt rock global and catapulted Evan Dando into the hearts of a generation. With a wealth of unreleased demos, alternative versions and rarities - including covers of Victoria Williams, Buddy Holly and The Flying Burrito Brothers plus The Lemonhead’s take on the Cole Porter standard ‘Miss Otis Regrets’.

                                                                                                                In the 90’s Evan’s Lemonheads produced hit after a hit, a string of super cool singles: ‘Big Gay Heart’, ‘Into Your Arms’, ‘It’s About Time’, and ‘The Great Big NO’. Pure genius filling the radio waves and taking the stage... Some 30 years on; Evan is still knocking that song writing thing out of the park and ‘Come On Feel The Lemonheads’ sounds as fresh and perky as it ever did. Amid the hits on the original record are stencils and outlines for yet more magical music and now this deluxe edition adds a second disc of demos and acoustic versions, plus a host of one-offs from sessions and compilations that add further colour to the myth and how it was created.

                                                                                                                There’s the in-demand combo lovingly covering Victoria Williams’ ‘Frying Pan’ from her ‘Sweet Relief’ album, which is joined by an eclectic set of flipsides and out-takes, like their version of original garage punk nugget ‘Little Black Egg’ by The Nightcrawlers, Evan’s homage to Gram Parsons on the winsome ‘Streets Of Baltimore’ and Buddy Holly’s melancholy ‘Learning The Game’. Evan knows a good song when he hears it, as ‘Come On Feel The Lemonheads’ certainly proved.

                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                Disc One
                                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                                A1 The Great Big No
                                                                                                                A2 Into Your Arms
                                                                                                                A3 It's About Time
                                                                                                                A4 Down About It
                                                                                                                A5 Paid To Smile
                                                                                                                A6 Big Gay Heart
                                                                                                                A7 Style
                                                                                                                A8 Rest Assured
                                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                                B1 Dawn Can't Decide
                                                                                                                B2 I'll Do It Anyway
                                                                                                                B3 Rick James Style
                                                                                                                B4 Being Around
                                                                                                                B5 Favorite T
                                                                                                                B6 You Can Take It With You
                                                                                                                B7 The Jello Fund ( + Lenny - Hidden Track)
                                                                                                                Disc Two
                                                                                                                Side C – Alternative & Acoustic
                                                                                                                C1 Big Gay Heart (Demo)
                                                                                                                C2 Being Around (Alternative)
                                                                                                                C3 Into Your Arms (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                C4 Down About It (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                C5 Deep Bottom Cove
                                                                                                                C6 Acoustic Rick James Style
                                                                                                                C7 It's About Time (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                Side D – Covers & Curiosities
                                                                                                                D1 Miss Otis Regrets
                                                                                                                D2 Learning The Game
                                                                                                                D3 Little Black Egg
                                                                                                                D4 Streets Of Baltimore (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                D5 Frying Pan
                                                                                                                D6 He's On The Beach
                                                                                                                D7 Favorite T (Live In Session)

                                                                                                                Immaterial Possession

                                                                                                                Mercy Of The Crane Folk

                                                                                                                  ‘Mercy Of The Crane Folk’ is the beautifully accomplished second album from Athens GA’s Immaterial Possession. A theatrical soundscape littered with subconscious flashbacks, retro keyboard flurries, wandering Morricone-esque guitar and dreamy Sumac-like harmonies.

                                                                                                                  Featuring the ethereal eerie dream pop of former artist commune residents Cooper Holmes and Madeline Polites, with drummer John Spiegel and Elephant 6 descendant Kiran Fernandes (keyboards, clarinets, flutes). Additional contributions come from drummer Jon Vogt who can be heard on ‘Mercy Of The Crane Folk’ and ‘Birth Of Queen Croaker’.

                                                                                                                  It’s a haunting and immersive trip into the inner psyche of these nomadic soothsayers; a psychedelic dance party from a half-lit underground world; breathlessly eerie and all consuming; a salubrious sojourn that sounds like nothing else. Filled with a kind of peculiar optimistic uncertainty that any quest to make sense of a drowsy recollection of simpler and far better times would have; ‘Mercy Of The Crane Folk’ is soft and serene summoning up a fanciful folkloric place where, undoubtedly, the mysterious crane flock prosper.

                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                  Side One
                                                                                                                  A1 Chain Breaker
                                                                                                                  A2 Mercy Of The Crane Folk
                                                                                                                  A3 To The Fête
                                                                                                                  A4 Medieval Jig
                                                                                                                  A5 Siren's Tunnel
                                                                                                                  Side Two
                                                                                                                  B1 Current In The Room
                                                                                                                  B2 Ancient Mouth
                                                                                                                  B3 Cypress Receiver
                                                                                                                  B4 Birth Of Queen Croaker
                                                                                                                  B5 Red Curtain

                                                                                                                  Born Heller

                                                                                                                  Born Heller (RSD23 EDITION)

                                                                                                                    THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

                                                                                                                    Josephine Foster's stunning collaboration with Jason Ajemian. Back on vinyl for the first time in over 16 years, this special edition features liner notes from former Chicago reader journalist Peter Margasak and new artwork. A 'remarkable... terrifyingly beautiful nightmare' of new folk, circa 2004. A minimal serenade for austere times; an off-kilter romance of voice and instrument compared to the brevity of early Bjork, featuring Fosterís fragile, hushed vocal, straight from old weird America, brought to life by way of Ajemian's bowed bass and effects, with a nod to the traditional English folk of yore in its construction.

                                                                                                                    Come

                                                                                                                    Gently Down The Stream (RSD23 EDITION)

                                                                                                                      THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

                                                                                                                      Lovingly re issued on double vinyl for the first time since 1998. Come's final chapter sees Thalia Zedek and Chris Brokaw at their peak, refining their incredible blend of dissonant blues and cathartic noise-rock heightened by the intricate guitar dual-play and the added melody that permeates the songwriting. Includes full album download and new liner notes.

                                                                                                                      The Groundhogs

                                                                                                                      Crosscut Saw (RSD23 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                        Available for the first time on vinyl since 1976, pressed on silver wax and featuring a limited edition foil embossed sleeve with extensive liner notes. Crosscut Saw sees the reformed Groundhogs with second guitarist Dave Wellbelove, sparring with the legendary Tony McPhee."Musically I'd gone back to the basics," McPhee told Sounds, the addition of a doodle of synth and a second guitarist notwithstanding. As a result; "Riffs galore permeate." (AllMusic). A suitably explosive prog-pleasing follow up to 1992's 'Who Will Save The World' and 'Hogwash' rekindling the fire of the blues in a new, heavy progressive setting, all set for a new guitar-powered age.

                                                                                                                        Half Japanese

                                                                                                                        The Band That Would Be King (RSD23 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                          The seminal album from Half Japanese back on Limited edition Orange vinyl and featuring updated artwork and liner notes from Jad Fair and producer Kramer. This is the Zen of Half Japanese, of prolific songwriter Jad Fair; wide-eyed crooner, humorous raconteur and spontaneous storyteller. A genre-bending romp through the mind of the man, originally released in 1989 in a purple patch for the group, preceded by "Music To Strip By" and "Charmed Life". "Half Japanese were a song machine," attested Pitchfork, while AllMusic saw this album as a collection of "humorous lo-fi rock'n'roll hit singles."

                                                                                                                          Jazz Butcher

                                                                                                                          Dr Chomondley Repents: A Sides, B-Sides And Seasides (RSD23 EDITION)

                                                                                                                            THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

                                                                                                                            Double vinyl release of Jazz Butcher favourites, oddities, unheard alternate versions + a live radio session from LA's KCRW - many of which have never been on vinyl. Features extensive liner notes and exclusive artwork. The compilation gathers a raft of indie chart hits, plus a host of truly eclectic Butcher tunes from his early Glass recordings through his time at Creation. ìThe Jazz Butcher is one of the most brilliant incisive pop writers that Britain has produced since the glory days of Ray Davies and Pete Townshendî Alan McGee, Creation. This collection compiles an essential alternative world view, tracing pop culture through the kaleidoscope of the ë80s and beyond, filled with a unique brand of wit and wisdom.

                                                                                                                            Death And Vanilla

                                                                                                                            Flicker

                                                                                                                              Death and Vanilla return with ‘Flicker’, presenting their unique pop music that defies categorisation. Housed in a beautifully austere post-ironic de-constructed sleeve; ‘Flicker’ is a modern reflection on these difficult times. World crises notwithstanding, they return reborn, re-arranged and revitalised after assimilating dub reggae, the motorik spirals of Can, the modal meander of Philip Glass and The Cure’s dreamier pop sounds; plus the twice removed symphonic ambience of Spiritualized and Talking Heads under heavy manners from Brian Eno. By osmosis their period of transition since 2019’s much darker ‘Are You A Dreamer?’ has hatched new eclectic electronica anthems riddled with melody lines, and layered for lush love.

                                                                                                                              Forming in Malmö, Sweden, Death And Vanilla gravitated towards vintage musical equipment; from vibraphone, organ and mellotron, to tremolo guitar and Moog synthesisers. Soaking up soundtracks from the 60s and 70s, listening to library music, kosmiche, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych, Marleen Nilsson, Anders Hansson and Magnus Bodin were fashioned by the city’s austere industrial past and flat pack present, and all in the shadow of the Orsesund Bridge that links their dreamworld to mainland Europe and a darker reality.

                                                                                                                              Death And Vanilla at once sound like everything is possible; but nothing else at all. There is a flicker of hope for everyone.

                                                                                                                              “Deploying vintage instruments in their quest for melancholic utopia.” - Electronic Sound

                                                                                                                              “Baroque pop through a dreampop filter.” - The Guardian.

                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                              Barry says: It's hard to define exactly what Death and Vanilla do. It's deeply psychedelic but rooted in classic songwriting, taking familiar progressions and twisting them into perfectly produced fever dreams. 'Flicker' has a ton of melody, is warm and brooding but remains resolutely listenable, and endlessly fascinating.

                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                              Side A
                                                                                                                              A1. Out For Magic
                                                                                                                              A2. Baby Snakes
                                                                                                                              A3. Find Another Illusion
                                                                                                                              A4. Perpetuum Mobile
                                                                                                                              Side B
                                                                                                                              B1. Looking Glass
                                                                                                                              B2. Mercury's Rising
                                                                                                                              B3. Fearless
                                                                                                                              B4. Transparent Things
                                                                                                                              B5. Perpetuum Reprise

                                                                                                                              Bas Jan

                                                                                                                              Baby U Know - 2023 Reissue

                                                                                                                                Limited edition red vinyl reissue with DL card of the agit pop four-piece’s second album, Baby U Know. A heady collision of Raincoats-esque indie and ESG-paced rhythms fed through a kaleidoscopic pagan folk filter. The follow up to their critically acclaimed 2018 debut Yes I Jan, this release is a wordy slice of state-of-the-art social commentary wrapped in a perfectly-balanced soundscape that veers from funky minimalism to baroque dream pop.

                                                                                                                                With a hint of Ari Up styled vocals backed by a harmonious chorus of concern touching on everything from incantations, essential causes and systematic shopping, all underpinned by a raking violin and bewitching electronic hum.

                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                                                A1 Progressive Causes
                                                                                                                                A2 Sex Cult
                                                                                                                                A3 All Forgotten
                                                                                                                                A4 My Incantations, Herbs & Art Have Abandoned Me
                                                                                                                                A5 Vision Of Change
                                                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                                                B1 Shopping In A New City
                                                                                                                                B2 You Have Bewitched Me
                                                                                                                                B3 Baby You Know
                                                                                                                                B4 Too Good To Be True
                                                                                                                                B5 Profile Picture – OTO Version

                                                                                                                                Bardo Pond

                                                                                                                                Volume 3

                                                                                                                                  “Obviously, Bardo Pond are the greatest band in the world” VICE

                                                                                                                                  Super rare recordings from 2002 and pressed on vinyl for the very first time. The third in the band’s series of limited-edition releases showcasing jam sessions and other miscellany. Like Fugazi on acid, a rage for the Velvets, a mantra with real purity of tone.

                                                                                                                                  Somewhere between the ‘Dilate’ album in 2001 (“a combination of Kyuss and Spacemen 3” NME) and ‘On the Ellipse’ in 2003 ("Nowhere is feedback more melancholic, more emotive, than that fashioned by Bardo Pond” Brainwashed), Bardo Pond transcended into a mantra-like, multi-layered, cross-dimensional, wah wah powered nirvana.

                                                                                                                                  In some circles, they say, spaceships wafted them away and they only returned some-time later, mind-altered and bedraggled, ears ringing. But that is the stuff of supposition.

                                                                                                                                  As we already know, there is no ‘off’ switch on Bardo Pond, they are never knowingly unplugged. Indeed, the modal evolution of their sound continues unabated.



                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                  Side A
                                                                                                                                  A1 Sifaka
                                                                                                                                  A2 Ecstasy Dub
                                                                                                                                  Side B
                                                                                                                                  B1 Lomand
                                                                                                                                  Side C
                                                                                                                                  C1 Tanked
                                                                                                                                  C2 Trimurti
                                                                                                                                  Side D
                                                                                                                                  D1 Blue Turban 

                                                                                                                                  Faten Kanaan's fifth LP Afterpoem is a mysterious, smudgy, bittersweet, and uniquely playful album. Deeply melodic, it continues her poignant exploration of counterpoint as a narrative tool.

                                                                                                                                  From the repetitive structures of modern minimalism and early music/baroque influences - to more languid textural ebbs & tides, there's a warmth in her use of electronic instruments that gives the album a curiously timeless feel. Composing intuitively, her music has often been described as 'strange', mostly because it creates its own world - one that isn't easily categorised.

                                                                                                                                  The album's title refers to the haze of a poem's intended meaning being abstractly fleeting and barely graspable. Glistening threads of understanding still touch us - the poetry becoming intimately personal, and no further literal explanation is needed.

                                                                                                                                  "I find pleasure in music as a language that nudges and hints. There's a potential that lives in things left unsaid... meanings drifting in and out of focus... hovering like spirits. It's a romantic and earnest album... of yearning for lost places and people, while still looking out at the world with tenderness and humour".

                                                                                                                                  STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                  Matt says: Instantly transporting you to a ancient, medievalesque world - Kanaan's palette of manipulated strings, harpsicord, organ and such like conjures up vivid images of places and times you've never experienced. Its intensely absorbing music for solitary listening. Shut the curtains, light a candle and get totally engrossed. Just no animal sacrifice please - leave that to the ancients.

                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                  Side A
                                                                                                                                  A1 Fin Août, Début Septembre
                                                                                                                                  A2 Trenchcoat
                                                                                                                                  A3 Ard Diar
                                                                                                                                  A4 Ebla
                                                                                                                                  A5 Florin Court
                                                                                                                                  A6 Snowing
                                                                                                                                  A7 Domari's Lamp
                                                                                                                                  Side B
                                                                                                                                  B1 Votive
                                                                                                                                  B2 La Smorfia
                                                                                                                                  B3 Castling
                                                                                                                                  B4 Falconers
                                                                                                                                  B5 Cascando
                                                                                                                                  B6 Storm Signal

                                                                                                                                  Neutral Milk Hotel

                                                                                                                                  On Avery Island (Deluxe Edition)

                                                                                                                                    Neutral Milk Hotel‘s explosive 1996 debut, On Avery Island, receives the deluxe reissue treatment with a yellow and red vinyl 2xLP press, complete with revised artwork and cut at 45RPM.

                                                                                                                                    Jeff Mangum’s songs are cryptic and crazed, his ideas fast and furious, and together they force the home-recording concept out of the basement and into a brave new world, a fuzzy masterpiece of experimental lo-fi recording.

                                                                                                                                    Full of rapid-fire wordplay with true and heartfelt experimentation, both ambitious and eclectic, it’s not hard to see why this has been such an influential album.

                                                                                                                                    Part of the fabled Elephant 6 collective, Neutral Milk Hotel won over many a music critic with this cult classic. The band are recognized as one of the most influential alternative acts to come out of the mid-90s and sowed the seeds for everything from anti-folk to the likes of Arcade Fire, Caribou and even Franz Ferdinand

                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                    Side A (45RPM)
                                                                                                                                    A1 Song Against Sex
                                                                                                                                    A2 You've Passed
                                                                                                                                    A3 Someone Is Waiting
                                                                                                                                    Side B (45RPM)
                                                                                                                                    B1 A Baby For Pree
                                                                                                                                    B2 Marching Theme
                                                                                                                                    B3 Where You'll Find Me Now
                                                                                                                                    Side C (45RPM)
                                                                                                                                    C1 Avery Island/April 1st
                                                                                                                                    C2 Gardenhead/ Leave Me Alone
                                                                                                                                    C3 Three Peaches
                                                                                                                                    Side D (33RPM)
                                                                                                                                    D1 Naomi
                                                                                                                                    D2 April 8th
                                                                                                                                    D3 Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye

                                                                                                                                    Amber Arcades

                                                                                                                                    Barefoot On Diamond Road

                                                                                                                                      ‘Barefoot On Diamond Road’ is the third album from Dutch singer/songwriter Amber Arcades. A record of engaging maturity, filled with slow motion builds and epic lifts that elevate it to dizzying heights.

                                                                                                                                      Immersed in an all-consuming wall of sound, ‘Barefoot On Diamond Road’ is like My Bloody Valentine gone acoustic, it shouldn’t work but it does; it’s a juxtaposition of textures, from skittery, uneasy dancefloor beats to symphonic kosmische, a baroque pop tapestry side-stitched with cellos and harps with a plaintive steel guitar echoing in the distance.

                                                                                                                                      Conceived remotely with original sparring partner Ben Greenberg (Danny Elfman, Depeche, Ryley Walker) in New York and Annelotte in Amsterdam. It’s a coming of age set in a new town with a new positivity underpinning her, as ever, beautifully crafted and highly personal observations on life, love and how it all should or could work.

                                                                                                                                      “This record really reveals parts of me and my relationship with being a musician and making music. It’s like a reckoning, more in the moment, realizing how important it is to do things for the right reasons and how that can change your process into one that embraces what exists, including yourself.”

                                                                                                                                      Amber Arcades’ new album ‘Barefoot On Diamond Road’ marks a new phase for a highly respected musician.

                                                                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                      Barry says: Amber Arcades' third album sees Annelotte de Graaf eschewing to some degree the woozy acoustic balladry of the brilliant 'European Heartbreak' for a much more electronic influenced sound, with fractured pads and grand percussion working their way underneath De Graaf's hypnotic vocals. It's a new direction, but couldn't be any more appropriate a development for a musician of her calibre.

                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                      Side A
                                                                                                                                      A1 Diamond Road
                                                                                                                                      A2 Odd To Even
                                                                                                                                      A3 Contain
                                                                                                                                      A4 Water Stains
                                                                                                                                      A5 Life Is Coming Home
                                                                                                                                      Side B
                                                                                                                                      B1 Through
                                                                                                                                      B2 True Love
                                                                                                                                      B3 Just Like Me
                                                                                                                                      B4 I'm Not There
                                                                                                                                      B5 You Could Never Let Me Down

                                                                                                                                      Black Lips

                                                                                                                                      Underneath The Rainbow - 2023 Reissue

                                                                                                                                        The seventh studio album from the mighty Black Lips is finally back on vinyl, part of a series of Fire re-issues celebrating 20 years of the legendary garage rock gurus from Atlanta, Georgia. Featuring fan favourites such as ‘Boys in the Wood’ and ‘Funny’, this is an essential slice of Black Lips history. The band convened at Dunham Studios in New York to record initial tracks with Dap Kings music director Tommy Brenneck (Cee Lo, Charles Bradley), then decamped to Nashville to record several songs with Patrick Carney of The Black Keys producing, finally rounding out the album with a couple of songs co-produced with lifetime Lips recording collaborator, Ed Rawls. 

                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                                                                        A1 Drive-By-Buddy
                                                                                                                                        A2 Smiling
                                                                                                                                        A3 Make You Mine
                                                                                                                                        A4 Funny
                                                                                                                                        A5 Dorner Party
                                                                                                                                        A6 Justice After All
                                                                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                                                                        B1 Boys In The Wood
                                                                                                                                        B2 Waiting
                                                                                                                                        B3 Do The Vibrate
                                                                                                                                        B4 I Don't Wanna Go Home
                                                                                                                                        B5 Dandelion Dust
                                                                                                                                        B6 Dog Years

                                                                                                                                        Black Lips

                                                                                                                                        Satan's Graffitti Or God's Art - 2023 Reissue

                                                                                                                                          Part of a series of Fire re-issues celebrating 20 years of the legendary garage rock gurus from Atlanta, Georgia. This 2017 record features a musically evolved Black Lips, who still stay true to their original blistering take on fuzzy, dirty rock n' roll. God’s Art or Satan’s Graffiti features guest contributions from Yoko Ono was produced by Sean Lennon throughout 2016. During the recording, the band isolated themselves from the outside world, infusing the album with a focused liveliness similar to the spirit that brought them together in the first place. On Satan's graffiti or God's art? founding members Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley teamed with former guitarist Jack Hines (who played in the group from 2002-2004) and additions Oakley Munson on drums and Zumi Rosow on saxophone. A sonically captivating document that is as creatively unhinged as it is precisely executed, one of the rawest and most expansive albums in the band's storied history.

                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                          Side A
                                                                                                                                          A1 Overture: Sunday Morning
                                                                                                                                          A2 Occidental Front
                                                                                                                                          A3 Can't Hold On
                                                                                                                                          A4 The Last Cul De Sac
                                                                                                                                          Side B
                                                                                                                                          B1 Interlude: Got Me All Alone
                                                                                                                                          B2 Crystal Night
                                                                                                                                          B3 Squatting In Heaven
                                                                                                                                          B4 Interlude: Bongo's Baby
                                                                                                                                          B5 Rebel Intuition
                                                                                                                                          Side C
                                                                                                                                          C1 Wayne
                                                                                                                                          C2 Interlude: E’lektric Spider Webz
                                                                                                                                          C3 We Know
                                                                                                                                          C4 In My Mind There's A Dream
                                                                                                                                          Side D
                                                                                                                                          D1 Lucid Nightmare
                                                                                                                                          D2 Come Ride With Me
                                                                                                                                          D3 It Won't Be Long
                                                                                                                                          D4 Loser's Lament
                                                                                                                                          D5 Finale: Sunday Morning

                                                                                                                                          Black Lips

                                                                                                                                          Arabia Mountain - 2023 Reissue

                                                                                                                                            Sixth full-length album from the gurus of Atlanta’s “flower punk” movement, from the heady daze of 2011 – finally back on vinyl and part of a series of Fire re-issues celebrating 20 years of the legendary garage rock gurus from Atlanta, Georgia. Arabia Mountain was recorded between Brooklyn and Atlanta in 2010, and with the collaborative assistance of celebrated producer Mark Ronson, Lockett Pundt of Deerhunter, and a human skull with a microphone jammed into it. “I was already a fan of the Black Lips coming into it and I definitely didn’t want to f**k up anything,” Ronson told Rolling Stone…and f**k up he did not. The production tests the limits of modern amplification, harkening to the full, meaty sound of The Stooges’ Fun House or Lola Versus Powerman by the Kinks. Unapologetic southern-fried twang, crunching through the gears with flowers blossoming everywhere. 

                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                            Side A
                                                                                                                                            A1 Family Tree
                                                                                                                                            A2 Modern Art
                                                                                                                                            A3 Spidey's Curse
                                                                                                                                            A4 Mad Dog
                                                                                                                                            A5 Mr. Driver
                                                                                                                                            A6 Bicentennial Man
                                                                                                                                            A7 Go Out And Get It
                                                                                                                                            A8 Raw Meat
                                                                                                                                            Side B
                                                                                                                                            B1 Bone Marrow
                                                                                                                                            B2 The Lie
                                                                                                                                            B3 Time
                                                                                                                                            B4 Dumpster Dive
                                                                                                                                            B5 New Direction
                                                                                                                                            B6 Noc-A-Homa
                                                                                                                                            B7 Don't Mess Up My Baby
                                                                                                                                            B8 You Keep On Running 

                                                                                                                                            Black Lips

                                                                                                                                            200 Million Thousand - 2023 Reissue

                                                                                                                                              The follow up to the widely successful ‘Good Bad Not Evil’, the 2009 album is a perfect amalgam of their high-end live shows and subculture songwriting, meshed tightly to the Lips’ distinctive howl. Finally back on vinyl and part of a series of Fire re-issues celebrating 20 years of the legendary garage rock gurus from Atlanta, Georgia. Rolling Stone, Spin, Filter, Magnet, Stop Smiling, The Fader, Anthem, Paste, and The NY Times-approved garage rock veterans’ trashy psyche pop gem. Unapologetic southern-fried twang, crunching through the gears in a haze of psychedelia. 

                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                              Side A
                                                                                                                                              A1 Take My Heart
                                                                                                                                              A2 Drugs
                                                                                                                                              A3 Starting Over
                                                                                                                                              A4 Let It Grow
                                                                                                                                              A5 Trapped In A Basement
                                                                                                                                              A6 Short Fuse
                                                                                                                                              A7 I'll Be With You
                                                                                                                                              Side B
                                                                                                                                              B1 Big Black Baby Jesus Of Today
                                                                                                                                              B2 Again & Again
                                                                                                                                              B3 Old Man
                                                                                                                                              B4 The Drop I Hold
                                                                                                                                              B5 Body Combat
                                                                                                                                              B6 Elijah
                                                                                                                                              B7 I Saw God 

                                                                                                                                              Black Lips

                                                                                                                                              Let It Bloom - 2023 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                The classic third album from the Black Lips, originally released in 2005 and now back on vinyl and part of a series of Fire re-issues celebrating 20 years of the legendary garage rock gurus from Atlanta, Georgia. 16 tracks of grimy and chaotic punk, scuzzy and raw, and catchy as hell.

                                                                                                                                                “Their strongest effort to date.” All Music
                                                                                                                                                "The band at their trashy best; more melodic but every bit as psychotic. If The Royal Trux had listened to the Troggs instead of the Rolling Stones, they might have recorded this album. This baby is a masterpiece. Unapologetic southern-fried twang, crunching through the gears in a blitz of grimy bravado. Their music twitches with an engaging, wired vigour." ★★★★ Uncut. 

                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                                                                A1 Sea Of Blasphemy
                                                                                                                                                A2 Can't Dance
                                                                                                                                                A3 Boomerang
                                                                                                                                                A4 Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah
                                                                                                                                                A5 Not A Problem
                                                                                                                                                A6 Gung Ho
                                                                                                                                                A7 Everybody's Doin' It
                                                                                                                                                A8 Feeling Gay
                                                                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                                                                B1 Take Me Home (Back To Boone)
                                                                                                                                                B2 Gentle Violence
                                                                                                                                                B3 She's Gone
                                                                                                                                                B4 Fairy Stories
                                                                                                                                                B5 Dirty Hands
                                                                                                                                                B6 Workin'
                                                                                                                                                B7 Punk Slime
                                                                                                                                                B8 Empassant

                                                                                                                                                Immaterial Possession

                                                                                                                                                Immaterial Possession

                                                                                                                                                  The debut album from post-folk travellers Immaterial Possession, a quartet, half of whom came from an artist commune and half who were card-carrying Elephant6 alumni. ‘Immaterial Possession’ is a rich tapestry of a record, a gorgeous, melodious return to a time when influences co-habited freely and whatever was close at hand made the music of the day.

                                                                                                                                                  All set to Syd Barrett-era Floyd and Nico with haunting lines, it’s perfectly tinged with gamelan harmonies, evocative Spanish guitars and xylophone. Exuding mystical symbolism; they wear luscious threads, they’re part of something/anything; perhaps a neo-modern-folk commune of artists in search of a canvas to stretch out over their juxtaposed influences.

                                                                                                                                                  Immaterial Possession was conceived by Atlanta natives, Cooper Holmes and Madeline Polites, who met while living together at an Atlanta artist commune that was integrated into the DIY music, theatre, and arts scene. Some years later the duo moved to the neighbouring musical town of Athens, GA. They were soon joined by seasoned drummer, John Spiegel, and eventually fulfilled with multi-instrumentalist Kiran Fernandes (keyboards, clarinets, flutes) - descendant of the Elephant 6 Collective scene.

                                                                                                                                                  It’s eastern, it’s eerie dream pop, it’s spacious and ethereal… A perfectly wild trip, and where it ends is immaterial.

                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                  A1 Midnight Wander
                                                                                                                                                  A2 See Through Stars
                                                                                                                                                  A3 Tropical Still Life
                                                                                                                                                  A4 In The Loom
                                                                                                                                                  A5 Phase One
                                                                                                                                                  B1 Bosphorus Brine
                                                                                                                                                  B2 Circle Of Bells
                                                                                                                                                  B3 Rising Moons
                                                                                                                                                  B4 Accidental Summoning
                                                                                                                                                  B5 Phase Two
                                                                                                                                                  B6 Nightcap

                                                                                                                                                  Black Lips

                                                                                                                                                  Good Bad Not Evil - 2022 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                    Bending scuzzy boundaries, ‘Good Bad Not Evil’ is a coming-of-age garage rock classic record. Full of hedonistic delinquent anthems, the fourth studio album from Atlanta punks Black Lips reaches it’s 15 year anniversary. This deluxe edition includes unearthed photos and new liner notes from Jared Swilley and King Khan. The second disc features B-sides and rarities including ‘Cruising’, ‘I Wanna Dance With You’ and ‘Leroy Faster’. ‘Good Bad Not Evil’ perfectly encapsulates the disillusionment of the mid-00s America, slammed between warehouse parties, DIY generator shows and scattered party pics, which was recorded in a little house in Atlanta that had been converted into a studio called the Living Room. Referencing Shangri-Las in the title, this is where their knack for garage gems met Motown; with bass heavy grooves (later remixed by Diplo), a certified country twang and unabashed bravado. Instant hits like ‘Veni Vidi Vici’, ‘Cold Hands’, ‘Bad Kids’ and ‘O Katrina!’ immediately became Black Lips staples. This was a band caught in the eye of the storm, the touring continued, the parties didn’t stop, this was a band bending the scuzzy boundaries of their chosen genre. The record was hailed by the likes of Pitchfork, who proclaimed, “Black Lips are a go-to band for vintage lo-fi freaks, and their raucous live shows have helped them cross over outside of crusty dive bars. ‘Good Bad Not Evil’, however, is the record where naysayers, disinterested friends and acquaintances, people on the street, and anyone else within earshot has to sit up, shut up, and listen.” …and, shut up and listen they did.

                                                                                                                                                    Yosa Peit

                                                                                                                                                    Phyton

                                                                                                                                                      Debut from genre-defying producer, Yosa Peit. Laurie Anderson meets Bjork; Prince overlapped with Arthur Russell and the hum of Blue Velvet, with jarred and splintered ambient production reminiscent of Aphex Twin. ‘Phyton’ gets a special expanded edition via Fire Records, featuring unreleased tracks; ‘Tyrann’, a live version of the haunting album track ‘Serpentine’ and end of the night lament, ‘Rise’.

                                                                                                                                                      ‘Phyton’ is a conundrum with its own humour and beauty amid the electronica soundtracking; it’s a record that’s defied genre categories when first released on Tax Free Records two years ago. Yosa’s ascension from singer to producer is now complete.

                                                                                                                                                      “In my head I was making a movie,” Yosa told No Wave magazine, “I dreamed up a Coen Brothers’ movie scene for a few tracks.” The result is a haunting, provocative sound; a soundscape where songs merge and splinter, a trip that’s never predictable.

                                                                                                                                                      "The production is super fresh" Holly Herndon.

                                                                                                                                                      “Warped lo-fi meets glitchy electronica and pop” The Vinyl Factory.

                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      A1 Precious Lies
                                                                                                                                                      A2 Serpentine
                                                                                                                                                      A3 Anthy
                                                                                                                                                      A4 Curls
                                                                                                                                                      A5 Leaf I
                                                                                                                                                      B1 Serious People Chuckle
                                                                                                                                                      B2 Elephant
                                                                                                                                                      B3 Leaf II
                                                                                                                                                      B4 Lin
                                                                                                                                                      B5 New Stars
                                                                                                                                                      B6 Palm Tree Antenna
                                                                                                                                                      B7 Tyrann

                                                                                                                                                      Download Extras:
                                                                                                                                                      1. Serpentine (Live Bonus)
                                                                                                                                                      2. Rise (Bonus)

                                                                                                                                                      Fenella

                                                                                                                                                      The Metallic Index

                                                                                                                                                        Jane Weavers experimental ensemble in collaboration with Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah, Fenella returns with a hallucinogenic excursion into ambient textures and hypnagogic drones on new album ‘The Metallic Index’. Taking further steps into their combined compositional universe with this follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed Fehérlófia album.

                                                                                                                                                        Loosely based on a genuine story accounting the short-lived abilities of a young psychic nurse in 1920’s London, Fenella’s niche muse justifies this celebratory return to vinyl but not once does it fall into the supposed tropes of staid hauntological-plunderphonics which repeatedly come to muddy our thirsty streams. Fenella make spirited melodic progressive pop music that pulsates with the same magnetism that fans of Jane Weaver's own The Silver Globe and Modern Kosmology have come to expect and hold closely.

                                                                                                                                                        Handcrafted using a generous archive of some of the best vintage equipment in the country (partly recorded at Soundgas studios in Darkest Derbyshire) the sound structures you hear at the heart of this album form the basis for Fenella's best work yet, while the individual spectral vocalisations and ethereal electronics that circle the room capture this trio's return, as peripheral visions, in full-phantasmic bloom.

                                                                                                                                                        "A sonic exaltation and refinement of craft, going further into the realms of atmospheric abstract cosmology blissfully morphed with the mythopoetic" The Quietus.

                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                                                                                        A1 Pulsion (Nurse On Train)
                                                                                                                                                        A2 Instituts Métapsychique
                                                                                                                                                        A3 "A Young Girl Of Medium Height"
                                                                                                                                                        A4 Hexagonal Table
                                                                                                                                                        A5 Telekinetoscopes
                                                                                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                                                                                        B1 Shadow Apparatus
                                                                                                                                                        B2 The Metallic Index
                                                                                                                                                        B3 Lilacs Illuminate In Indigo
                                                                                                                                                        B4 After The Visions
                                                                                                                                                        B5 Stellar In Spectra
                                                                                                                                                        B6 Are They With You? (The Final Chord)

                                                                                                                                                        Josephine Foster

                                                                                                                                                        There Are Eyes Above - 2022 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                          Josephine Foster's peculiar 2000 home recorded debut There Are Eyes Above is an essential introduction to her music that’s unfolded now for over two decades. Released for the first time on vinyl, this limited edition 10-inch pressing comes packaged with brand new artwork and is adorned by one of Josephine’s illustrations.

                                                                                                                                                          Lo-fi and unaffected by tradition or commercialism these initial recordings are sepia-tinted, folk-art music with powered by uke minimalism; it’s outsider music that still doesn't fit in.

                                                                                                                                                          Just 30-minutes caught in time before her 2001 follow up Little Life - this humble first incarnation includes here for posterity super personal lullabies and a glimpse into her songwriting evolution. It’s music from an era that only exists in your mind, with a bow to Tin Pan Alley for good measure.

                                                                                                                                                          This super rare collection, originally only released on CDR and sold at shows, remains an essential part of the curious oeuvre of this unique songwriter and singer.

                                                                                                                                                          “A dissonant soprano and lyrics about benevolence and old-time faith, Foster expertly weaves ancient and modern” The Guardian.

                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                          Side A
                                                                                                                                                          One Hundred Songs I Sing
                                                                                                                                                          Emily Told Me
                                                                                                                                                          Teeter Totter
                                                                                                                                                          Little Life
                                                                                                                                                          I Am A Guest In Here
                                                                                                                                                          Side B
                                                                                                                                                          Robber Song
                                                                                                                                                          Hey Matthew
                                                                                                                                                          There Are Eyes Above
                                                                                                                                                          Godcake
                                                                                                                                                          Yippee I'm Leaving
                                                                                                                                                          Two Not One

                                                                                                                                                          Giant Sand

                                                                                                                                                          Heartbreak Pass - 2022 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                            “Gelb's semi-surreal observations lace things together perfectly.” UNCUT

                                                                                                                                                            Filled with loud and lucky abandon; heady steady and direct singalongs for the heart in constant turmoil. Giant Sand’s esoteric journey to ‘Heartbreak Pass’ is an exotic journey through hails of Youngian guitars, off-the-cuff jazz piano rounds and beautiful alt-country yearning. While containing only new songs for this album, this feels like a greatest hits and as such is a perfect entry point for Giant Sand neophytes. Fire Records give ‘Heartbreak Pass’ a long overdue repress on white vinyl, with new liner notes and updated artwork.

                                                                                                                                                            There’s a roll of the tongue, a couplet and some convolution underpinning Giant Sand’s 2015 opus ‘Heartbreak Pass’. So the story goes, so legend has it, a mere 30 years into their career, almost ten years ago, Giant Sand were regrouped and, for a fleeting second, someone made sense of it all (the words, the genre swapping sound, the roll call of friends and accomplices, the majesty of polar opposites attracting).

                                                                                                                                                            On ‘Heartbreak Pass’ the result from this lengthy travelogue is a memoir filled with trinkets exchanged along the way. Sure, the Arizona desert is there, gritty and unforgiving but Howe's one-man-band is joined by a throng of well-wishers, this time around including Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Grant-Lee Phillips and Ilse DeLange (Common Linnets), The Voices Of Praise Choir, oft-time collaborator John Parish, Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, Maggie Bjorklund on pedal steel, Italian singer/songwriter Vinicio Capossela and many more. It’s an album that travels far and shows its road weariness in places but it’s a celebration in all its ragged glory.

                                                                                                                                                            In his original sleevenotes Howe pondered the fact that “The album is roughly broken into three volumes - loud and lucky abandon; heady steady and direct (Gelb's vision of Americana); and the heart in constant turmoil and something about a transponder.” He summarised: “I can't recommend it, nor do I regret it. It's been one life split into two.”

                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                            A1 Heaventually
                                                                                                                                                            A2 Texting Feist
                                                                                                                                                            A3 Hurtin' Habit
                                                                                                                                                            A4 Transponder
                                                                                                                                                            A5 Song So Wrong
                                                                                                                                                            A6 Every Now And Then
                                                                                                                                                            A7 Man On A String
                                                                                                                                                            B1 Home Sweat Home
                                                                                                                                                            B2 Eye Opening
                                                                                                                                                            B3 Pen To Paper
                                                                                                                                                            B4 House In Order
                                                                                                                                                            B5 Gypsy Candle
                                                                                                                                                            B6 Done

                                                                                                                                                            Howe Gelb

                                                                                                                                                            The Coincidentalist And Dust Bowl - 2022 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                              Released on gold vinyl, ‘The Coincidentalist’ and ‘Dust Bowl’ are two discs of Howe Gelb filled with randomness and happenstance, a typical treasure trove spanning all genres from alt country to Cohen-esque grandeur. They traverse, unflinchingly, his chameleon-like repertoire. This deluxe re-issue includes ‘Dust Bowl’ on vinyl for the very first time, with the records housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring updated artwork and liner notes.

                                                                                                                                                              ‘The Coincidentalist’, originally released in 2013, features a raft of friends and collaborators including Bonnie Prince Billy, Andrew Bird, M. Ward, Steve Shelley, and Jason Lytle of Grandaddy with John Parrish on mixing duties. Ever the focal point of Giant Sand and Gelb releases, the Arizona Desert serves as a key inspiration for the record, animating the baron landscape with stories of those that have navigated them. Praise for the release was not short, with AllMusic proclaiming that it’s “one of Gelb's most realized efforts; despite its relaxed, airy presentation, it's musically and lyrically provocative, as poetic, strange, and mysterious as the desert itself."

                                                                                                                                                              The accompanying collection ‘Dust Bowl’ is a personal sketchbook of songs, a more stripped back set than it’s counterpart. Featuring everything from the country blues of ‘Porch Banjo’ and ‘John Deere’, to off-kilter piano ballads like ‘The Old Overrated’ and ‘Reality Or Not’ and the deconstructed desert pop on ‘Forever And A Day’ and the fragile ‘Man On A String’. ‘Dust Bowl’ is an insider’s view of Howe’s songwriting craft, a unique insight into the man himself.

                                                                                                                                                              “‘Dust Bowl’ was primarily for fans that have followed me for a while. ‘The Coincidentalist’ is for the friends of the fans.” Howe told Under The Radar. While Nightlife magazine reported that; “Without warning, the Giant Sand frontman and polymorphous countryman dropped this compilation of house recordings via Bandcamp… At a time when so much harmless, soulless folk resonates, Howe Gelb is a mandatory point of reference for any fan of the genre.”

                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                              A1 Vortexas (feat Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy)
                                                                                                                                                              A2 Left Of Center
                                                                                                                                                              A3 Running Behind
                                                                                                                                                              A4 The 3 Deaths Of Lucky (feat. KT Tunstall)
                                                                                                                                                              A5 Unforgivable
                                                                                                                                                              A6 Instigated Chimes
                                                                                                                                                              B1 The Coincidentalist (feat. Andrew Bird)
                                                                                                                                                              B2 Triangulate
                                                                                                                                                              B3 Picacho Peak
                                                                                                                                                              B4 An Extended Plane Of Existence
                                                                                                                                                              B5 Looking That Way
                                                                                                                                                              C1 Dust Bowl
                                                                                                                                                              C2 Porch Banjo
                                                                                                                                                              C3 Lost Love
                                                                                                                                                              C4 Man On A String
                                                                                                                                                              C5 Reality Or Not
                                                                                                                                                              C6 John Deere
                                                                                                                                                              C7 Windblown Waltz
                                                                                                                                                              D1 Redelivery Blues
                                                                                                                                                              D2 Forever And A Day
                                                                                                                                                              D3 Plane Of Existence
                                                                                                                                                              D4 A Coffee Song
                                                                                                                                                              D5 The Old Overrated
                                                                                                                                                              D6 Mystery Spot
                                                                                                                                                              D7 Blink Of An Eye

                                                                                                                                                              Black Lips

                                                                                                                                                              Apocalypse Love

                                                                                                                                                                The Black Lips return with their 10th studio effort ‘Apocalypse Love’, scorched with their trademark menace, it cryogenically mutates all recognised musical bases; it spins yarns about vintage Soviet synths, Benzedrine stupors, coup de’ tats, stolen valor and certified destruction, all set against a black setting sun. Since the turn of the decade the band have transformed from austere country pioneers, into a set of Lynchian surrealists, hellbent on recalibrating the history of rock ‘n’ roll. Singer and saxophonist Zumi Rosow muses, “It’s a weird dance record, one that reflects the moment that the world’s in right now…”

                                                                                                                                                                ‘Apocalypse Love’ is an album that emanates from a dive bar jukebox in the back of your mind; with a playlist that bends between tub thumping doom-glam, Plastic Ono singalongs, cocktail-shaken space age pop, Morricone reverberations and lo-fi outsider acoustic-punk, with mariachi horns, theremins, drum machines and harmonies filtering through the infectious melodies. Stand-out number ‘Among The Dunes’ is an amorphous platform-heeled anthem, a signature sax-fuelled stomper filled with trippy swagger. While opener ‘No Rave’ proffers a hypnotic locked groove, with Cole Alexander’s trademark snarl delivered over a sulphurous wall of distorted hedonism, a dystopian anthem for an apocalyptic manifesto. Meanwhile, the twisted exotica of ‘Whips Of Holly’ with its silver screen façade is like the soundtrack to a classic Theda Bara vamp-fest. As the band venture into their third decade, ‘Apocalypse Love’ is proof that The Black Lips show no sign of slowing down…

                                                                                                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                Liam says: 10th album from Atlanta outfit Black Lips, 'Apocalypse Love' is a self-proclaimed "weird dance record" - and I'm inclined to agree. It's scuzzy, twisted and has a strange but also sincere innocence to it - like a school disco in the Red Room from Twin Peaks.

                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                A1. No Rave
                                                                                                                                                                A2. Love Has Won
                                                                                                                                                                A3. Stolen Valor
                                                                                                                                                                A4. Lost Angel
                                                                                                                                                                A5. Whips Of Holly
                                                                                                                                                                A6. Apocalypse Love
                                                                                                                                                                A7. Operation Angela.
                                                                                                                                                                B1. Crying On A Plane
                                                                                                                                                                B2. Sharing My Cream
                                                                                                                                                                B3. Among The Dunes
                                                                                                                                                                B4. Tongue Tied
                                                                                                                                                                B5. Antiaris Toxicaria
                                                                                                                                                                B6. The Concubine 

                                                                                                                                                                Marina Allen

                                                                                                                                                                Centrifics

                                                                                                                                                                  LA-based musician Marina Allen’s spectacular debut proper, and follow up to last years acclaimed 18 minute mini-opus, ‘Candlepower’.

                                                                                                                                                                  ‘Centrifics’ is a joyful collection of observations and questions about the self, the world, and how they interact. Awe-inspiring reflections accompany mesmerizing melodies while Allen’s extraordinary range and depth of singing showcases a wide array of influences from Karen Carpenter to Karen Dalton, from Joanna Newsom to Fiona Apple, from Cate Le Bon to Waxahatchee, via Meredith Monk and the New York avant-garde.

                                                                                                                                                                  Produced, engineered and mixed by Chris Cohen. Co-engineered by Jonny Kosmo.

                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                  Side A
                                                                                                                                                                  A1 Celadon
                                                                                                                                                                  A2 Getting Better
                                                                                                                                                                  A3 Or Else
                                                                                                                                                                  A4 Smoke Bush
                                                                                                                                                                  A5 Superreality
                                                                                                                                                                  Side B
                                                                                                                                                                  B1 New Song Rising
                                                                                                                                                                  B2 Halfway Home
                                                                                                                                                                  B3 My Stranger
                                                                                                                                                                  B4 Foul Weather Jacket Drawing
                                                                                                                                                                  B5 Gardiner's Island

                                                                                                                                                                  Air Waves

                                                                                                                                                                  The Dance

                                                                                                                                                                    Heady with hooks and unforgettable melodies, gliding on deeply danceable grooves, always with Air Waves’ innate compassion, concision and uncanny pop sense shining throughout. A masterpiece that’s beautifully simple, instantly accessible and entirely addictive. Featuring Cass Mccombs, Skyler Skjelset (Fleet Foxes, Beach House), Luke Temple, Brian Betancourt (Hospitality, Sam Evian), Rina Mushonga, Frankie Cosmos, Lispector, David Christian, Ethan Sass, and Ben Florencio.

                                                                                                                                                                    ‘The Dance’ has waited three years to see the light of day and it comes to us now, blinking, smiling in the widening light of 2022 feeling more needed and necessary but also more joyous than ever before. It’s both a snapshot of these songs as they were recorded but crucially, in the intervening time those songs have had additional arrangements crafted by Nicole, created remotely and virtually, with a few like-minded collaborators. The result is simultaneously Air Waves freshest, most spontaneous yet finessed album yet.

                                                                                                                                                                    Nicole Schneit released their first independent album in 2009 under the Air Waves moniker, a name inspired by a Guided By Voices song - subsequent albums like 2010’s ‘Dungeon Dots’ (which featured a guest vocal from fellow Brooklynite Sharon Van Etten), 2015’s ‘Parting Glances’ and 2017’s stunning ‘Warrior’ crystallised Schneit’s vision of loose-but-focused, convivial but startling pop. ‘The Dance’ continues that trajectory but finds Schneit opening up their music to a more fluid sense of space and movement, while keeping their lyrical eye between the personal and the political, from the specific to the universal with a haiku-like directness and suggestion.

                                                                                                                                                                    You won’t find a better soundtrack for the solidarity, strength, romance and movement we all need right now than ‘The Dance’ - Air Waves’ best album yet.

                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                    A1. The Roof (feat. Luke Temple & Rina Mushonga)
                                                                                                                                                                    A2. The Dance
                                                                                                                                                                    A3. Star Earring (feat. Lispector)
                                                                                                                                                                    A4. Alien (feat. Cass McCombs)
                                                                                                                                                                    B1. Black Metal Demon (feat. Frankie Cosmos & Merce Lemon)
                                                                                                                                                                    B2. Treehouse
                                                                                                                                                                    B3. Wait
                                                                                                                                                                    B4. The Light
                                                                                                                                                                    B5. Peer Peer

                                                                                                                                                                    Pulp

                                                                                                                                                                    It - 2022 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                      Pulp’s debut and one of their most honest recordings - capturing a band at the beginning of their startling career. ‘It’ is a gentle, mainly acoustic album that hints at the musical directions Pulp would later pursue. The album touches on the majestic, theatrical ballads of Scott Walker, as well as the stark, folky song poems of Leonard Cohen. Certainly an album by a young band trying to pinpoint their direction, and absorbing many an influence from all around, ‘It’ has aged beautifully into a charming collection.

                                                                                                                                                                      Fire are to reissue Pulp’s 1983 debut album ‘It’ as part of the Fire reissue series with bonus material. Re-mastered and repackaged. New liner notes by Everett True. Featuring 4 Bonus tracks including single version of ‘My Lighthouse’ and alternative mix of ‘Blue Girls’, the previously unreleased ‘Sink Or Swim’ and ‘Please Don’t Worry’ from Pulp’s John Peel session in 1981.

                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                      1. My Lighthouse
                                                                                                                                                                      2. Wishful Thinking
                                                                                                                                                                      3. Joking Aside
                                                                                                                                                                      4. Boats And Trains
                                                                                                                                                                      5. Blue Girls
                                                                                                                                                                      6. Love Love
                                                                                                                                                                      7. In Many Ways
                                                                                                                                                                      8. Looking For Life
                                                                                                                                                                      9. My Lighthouse (Single Version)
                                                                                                                                                                      10. Please Don't Worry
                                                                                                                                                                      11. Blue Girls (Alternative Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                      12. Sink Or Swim

                                                                                                                                                                      Pulp

                                                                                                                                                                      Separations - 2022 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                        Pulp’s 1992 album ‘Separations’ is part of the Fire reissue series with unreleased bonus material. Their third and last album on Fire, Pulp had already transformed from their debut ‘It’ through the dark electronic phase of Freaks and were garnering significant momentum. Now critically acclaimed and with a live reputation matched by only a few, most of the songs on Separations sound fully-realised in that undeniably Pulp manner that was soon to be experienced everywhere. And, for the first time, there was an inescapable disco pulse.

                                                                                                                                                                        This is the transition album where Pulp, caught between a doomed romantic outsider past and an acid-bright future, made an album that brilliantly reflects both. Remastered and repackaged. Liner notes by Everett True. Featuring 4 bonus tracks ‘Death Goes To The Disco’ and ‘Is This House’, as well as an extended version of the single ‘Countdown’ and the previously unreleased ‘Death Comes To Town’. Separations spawned two of Pulps most successful singles to date in ‘Countdown and ‘My Legendary Girlfriend’ with the latter being placed on many top singles of 1991 lists by major music publications. Pulp’s ‘It’ and ‘Freaks’ will be reissued at the same time for the complete Pulp on Fire collection. 

                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                        1. Love Is Blind
                                                                                                                                                                        2. Don't You Want Me Anymore?
                                                                                                                                                                        3. She's Dead
                                                                                                                                                                        4. Separations
                                                                                                                                                                        5. Down By The River
                                                                                                                                                                        6. Countdown
                                                                                                                                                                        7. My Legendary Girlfriend
                                                                                                                                                                        8. Death II
                                                                                                                                                                        9. This House Is Condemned
                                                                                                                                                                        10. Death Goes To The Disco (BONUS)

                                                                                                                                                                        11. Is This House? (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                        12. Countdown (BONUS Extended Version)
                                                                                                                                                                        13. Death Comes To Town (BONUS)

                                                                                                                                                                        Pulp

                                                                                                                                                                        Freaks - 2022 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                          Fire are to reissue Pulp's 1987 album 'Freaks' as part of the Fire reissue series with a special 2 disc release, with the second bonus disc packed with singles and B-sides from the Freaks era. Pulp had changed significantly since their debut 'It'. By this time every member bar Jarvis had moved on but the addition of Russell Senior proved to be a pivotal turning point for the band. No longer did Pulp sound pastoral, easy-natured; now they were darkly romantic, brooding, noisy and a little bit Gothic, in the way young folk who brush their hair a certain way are always a little bit Gothic.

                                                                                                                                                                          Pulp were out-of-tune with the times: but the times didn't satisfy Pulp. The album is quite marvellous. Most of these songs stand the distance of time: it was here, possibly even more than 1992's Separations, that Pulp started coming into their own as a band with a fully-realised aesthetic. The first disc is the original album, unaltered and in its entirety. The second is a bonus disc comprising of tracks from the two big non-album singles from the same era, 'Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)' and 'Dogs are Everywhere'. Two further b-sides 'Tunnel' and 'Manon' complete the second disc for the definitive 'Freaks' period release. Pulp's 'It' and 'Separations' will be reissued at the same time for the complete Pulp on Fire collection.

                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                          DISC 1 :

                                                                                                                                                                          1. Fairground
                                                                                                                                                                          2. I Want You
                                                                                                                                                                          3. Being Followed Home
                                                                                                                                                                          4. Master Of The Universe
                                                                                                                                                                          5. Life Must Be So Wonderful
                                                                                                                                                                          6. There's No Emotion
                                                                                                                                                                          7. Anorexic Beauty
                                                                                                                                                                          8. The Never Ending Story
                                                                                                                                                                          9. Don't You Know
                                                                                                                                                                          10. They Suffocate At Night.

                                                                                                                                                                          Bonus Disc 2 :

                                                                                                                                                                          11. Little Girl (With Blue Eyes) (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          12. Simultaneous (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          13. Blue Glow (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          14. The Will To Power (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          15. Dogs Are Everywhere (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          16. The Mark Of The Devil (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          17. 97 Lovers (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          18. Aborigine (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          19. Goodnight (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          20. Tunnel (BONUS)
                                                                                                                                                                          21. Manon (BONUS)

                                                                                                                                                                          The Groundhogs

                                                                                                                                                                          Who Will Save The World - Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                            The final instalment to the trio of masterpieces from the legendary British rock group, The Groundhogs’ gets a reissue on black vinyl for the first time since 1991. Treading more progressive realms ‘Who Will Save The World’ sees Tony McPhee moving away from the blues territory of their earlier releases and towards a heavier more psychedelic sound. Achieving Top 10 album success back in 1972, ‘Who Will Save The World’ is the last record that features the classic line up of Tony McPhee, Pete Cruickshank and Ken Pustelnik.

                                                                                                                                                                            A definitive collector’s item as part of the ongoing Fire Records catalogue campaign. This special reissue features the iconic artwork with sleeve notes and an interview with the original Marvel artist Neal Adams. Also includes a bonus download of an unreleased live recording from their final live show in Pocono, USA.

                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                            Side A

                                                                                                                                                                            1 Earth Is Not Room Enough
                                                                                                                                                                            2 Wages Of Peace
                                                                                                                                                                            3 Body In Mind
                                                                                                                                                                            4 Music Is The Food Of Thought.

                                                                                                                                                                            Side B

                                                                                                                                                                            1 Bog Roll Blues
                                                                                                                                                                            2 Death Of The Sun
                                                                                                                                                                            3 Amazing Grace
                                                                                                                                                                            4 The Grey Maze.

                                                                                                                                                                            Bonus Track Available As DL Only “Music Is The Food Of Thought” (Live At The Pocono Festival, Pennsylvania, 1972) 

                                                                                                                                                                            Pere Ubu

                                                                                                                                                                            390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo V2.1 - 2022 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                              Originally released on vinyl in 1981. Long lost and simply breath taking live Ubu classic culled from 1981 recordings in Cleveland, London and Brussels featuring the band’s original line up. An essential pressing for all fans of the the celebrated post-punk innovators.

                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                              Side A.
                                                                                                                                                                              A1 Non-Alignment Pact
                                                                                                                                                                              A2 Street Waves
                                                                                                                                                                              A3 Real World
                                                                                                                                                                              A4 My Dark Ages
                                                                                                                                                                              A5 The Modern Dance
                                                                                                                                                                              A6 Humor Me.
                                                                                                                                                                              Side B.
                                                                                                                                                                              B1 Heart Of Darkness
                                                                                                                                                                              B2 Laughing
                                                                                                                                                                              B3 Can't Believe It
                                                                                                                                                                              B4 Over My Head
                                                                                                                                                                              B5 Sentimental Journey
                                                                                                                                                                              B6 30 Seconds Over Tokyo 

                                                                                                                                                                              The Groundhogs

                                                                                                                                                                              Hogwash - Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                Packaged in tri-fold sleeve that replicates the original 1971 release and featuring an extra disc of live BBC recordings from the same era. 50-year anniversary vinyl release of the original power trio’s second incarnation, now expanded with BBC In Concert versions of the album’s key tracks. An epic milestone and key prog rock definer, fusing their blues rock roots and their finely honed electric sound of the early ‘70s. This limited release replicated the original 1971 packaging, with a tri-fold sleeve, an absolute essential for fans of this seminal act

                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                1 I Love Miss Ogyny
                                                                                                                                                                                2 You Had A Lesson
                                                                                                                                                                                3 The Ringmaster
                                                                                                                                                                                4 3744 James Road
                                                                                                                                                                                5 Sad Is The Hunter
                                                                                                                                                                                6 S'one Song
                                                                                                                                                                                7 Earth Shanty
                                                                                                                                                                                8 Mr. Hooker Sir John
                                                                                                                                                                                9 Sad Is The Hunter (BBC In Concert, 7th December 1972)
                                                                                                                                                                                10 I Love Miss Ogyny (BBC In Concert, 7th December 1972)
                                                                                                                                                                                11 You Had A Lesson (BBC In Concert, 7th December 1972)
                                                                                                                                                                                12 Earth Shanty (BBC In Concert, 7th December 1972)
                                                                                                                                                                                13 3744 James Road (BBC In Concert, 7th December 1972)

                                                                                                                                                                                Jane Weaver

                                                                                                                                                                                Sunset Dreams EP

                                                                                                                                                                                  A brand new six-track EP elevating the acclaimed Jane Weaver album, ‘Flock’, to a new esoteric panorama of pop. ‘Sunset Dreams’ features two unreleased tracks from the ‘Flock’ sessions and remixes from W.H. Lung and See Thru Hands.

                                                                                                                                                                                  “Having earned a cult audience for her psychedelia, Weaver makes her version of a pop record, where Kylie-level hooks are set against hallucinatory backings.” - The Guardian.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Featuring the stand-out ‘Sunset Dreams’ in its original breath-taking form. Plus an extended remix of ‘Solarised’, along with northern combo W.H. Lung’s remix of the track.

                                                                                                                                                                                  “Ominous and luminous, expansively spacious and sonically imploding, scientific, ephemeral and eternal.” - The Quietus.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Furthering the eclectic electronic vibe, there’s also a See Thru Hands mix of ‘The Revolution Of Super Visions’ and two new tracks; ‘The Lexical Distance’ and ‘Don’t Tell Me I’m Wrong’, all capturing the pop vision of this ever-morphing electronic pioneer.

                                                                                                                                                                                  “The high priestess of eccentric exploration Jane Weaver goes pop with superlative results.” - The Line Of Best Fit.

                                                                                                                                                                                  The ‘Sunset Dreams’ EP continues the journey.

                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                  Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                  A1. Sunset Dreams
                                                                                                                                                                                  A2. Solarised (Extended Rework)
                                                                                                                                                                                  A3. The Lexical Distance
                                                                                                                                                                                  Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                  B1. The Revolution Of Supervisions (See Thru Hands Remix)
                                                                                                                                                                                  B2. Solarised (W.H Lung Remix)
                                                                                                                                                                                  B3. Don't Tell Me I'm Wrong

                                                                                                                                                                                  The Dream Syndicate

                                                                                                                                                                                  Ultraviolet Battle Hymns And True Confessions

                                                                                                                                                                                    The brand-new album from The Dream Syndicate blends vintage Krautrock, Eno-like ambience, Neu-inspired rhythmic groove and a Californian sun baked sheen into the their classic psychedelic, melodic, hue.

                                                                                                                                                                                    The Dream Syndicate have moved well past their early Velvet Underground influences and taken on British glam, German prog, and more Featuring singer/songwriter/guitarist Steve Wynn, drummer Dennis Duck, bassist Mark Walton, lead guitarist Jason Victor plus their newest member Chris Cacavas on keyboards, plus guest appearances from Stephen McCarthy (of The Long Ryders) and Marcus Tenney's expressive sax and trumpet work.

                                                                                                                                                                                    “Clever, ambitious, and blessedly noisy.” - AllMusic.

                                                                                                                                                                                    “Atmospheric rock music veering between noise and subtlety compelling.” - Pitchfork.

                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                    A1. Where I’ll Stand
                                                                                                                                                                                    A2. Damian
                                                                                                                                                                                    A3. Beyond Control
                                                                                                                                                                                    A4. He Chronicles Of You
                                                                                                                                                                                    A5. Hard To Say Goodbye
                                                                                                                                                                                    B1. Every Time You Come Around
                                                                                                                                                                                    B2. Trying To Get Over
                                                                                                                                                                                    B3. Lesson Number One
                                                                                                                                                                                    B4. My Lazy Mind
                                                                                                                                                                                    B5. Straight Lines

                                                                                                                                                                                    The Garbage & The Flowers

                                                                                                                                                                                    Cinnamon Sea

                                                                                                                                                                                      ‘Cinnamon Sea’ is the perfect introduction to one of the most mysterious, ever-morphing underground bands from New Zealand. The Garbage and the Flowers make their long awaited return with another psychedelic masterpiece from the band that gave us 1997's cult dreampop gem 'Eyes Rind As If Beggars'. A hybrid fusion of the Velvets, Elephant 6 and any God-fearing stoned strummers you can think of, with a nod to Charlie Manson’s bedside balladry to boot.

                                                                                                                                                                                      On their return, the band hone their songcraft with tracks like ‘Eye Know Who You Are’, a tantalising piece of Mazzy Star on steroids, a spiralling sonic rumble, that reaches a miasmic high on every hummed chorus. It opens the Pandora’s box of this release, a sleight of ear collection of five songs from this cosmology-observing Australia-based outfit. Tracks like ‘Red Star’ exist in a land where sound levels are destroyed by savage birds. ‘On The Radio’ trips into an untuned lagoon. There’s a quasi-religious zeal to proceedings, a nod to Sterling Morrison’s Velvet strum elsewhere, everything that would have been key to the Elephant 6 conglomerate not so long ago, maybe, if you can even imagine, My Bloody Valentine unplugged.

                                                                                                                                                                                      ‘Cinnamon Sea’ was recorded in an abandoned courthouse in Freyerstown, a ghostly village in Victoria’s Goldfields in Southeast Australia, where you’re more likely to meet giant grey kangaroos bounding on its dusty main street than tottering prospectors these days. It unravels with claustrophobic glee as we traverse the structured climes of exemplary songwriting seasoned with the salt of improvisation. This from a band who previously released an album famously dubbed ‘Stoned Rehearsal’. It closes with the track ‘Jacob B’, a melancholy tale that’s a hybrid of Manson’s troubled tunes and the psychedelic folk songs of Quicksilver’s Dino Valente.

                                                                                                                                                                                      File under: outsider music for insiders.

                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                      Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                      Eye Know Who You Are
                                                                                                                                                                                      Cinnamon Sea
                                                                                                                                                                                      Red Star
                                                                                                                                                                                      Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                      On The Radio
                                                                                                                                                                                      Jacob B

                                                                                                                                                                                      Hater

                                                                                                                                                                                      Sincere

                                                                                                                                                                                        A reawakening for the Swedish visionaries, Sincere solidifies their impressive trajectory in a fuzzed out haze of dark and arresting shoegaze pop. An expansive trip through noisier, bittersweet pop realms that recalls My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Deerhunter.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Underpinning everything there’s a continuing sense of drama throughout; richly textured crescendos, chiming guitars and delicate melodies are guided by Caroline Landahl’s tender yet sharpened vocals. Sincere is joyously effervescent, but with a dark underbelly where fury manifests in a swirl of entrancing and propulsive percussion.

                                                                                                                                                                                        A gorgeous and dazzling piece of aching romanticism, destined to feature on a thousand mixtapes.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Recorded last year in Malmö, Hater welcomed two new band members and those early day sparks saw them quickly turning demos into fully-formed new songs that appear on the record. Sincere was produced by long-time collaborator Joakim Lindberg and was mixed and mastered by John Cornfield, whose credits include Ride, The Stone Roses and Robert Plant.

                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                        A1 Something
                                                                                                                                                                                        A2 I'm Yours Baby
                                                                                                                                                                                        A3 Bad Luck
                                                                                                                                                                                        A4 Proven Wrong
                                                                                                                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                        B1 Brave Blood
                                                                                                                                                                                        B2 Far From A Mind
                                                                                                                                                                                        B3 Summer Turns To Heartburn
                                                                                                                                                                                        B4 Renew, Reject
                                                                                                                                                                                        B5 Hopes High

                                                                                                                                                                                        50 Foot Wave

                                                                                                                                                                                        Power + Light (RSD22 EDITION)

                                                                                                                                                                                          THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2022 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

                                                                                                                                                                                          1000 pressed. A much sought-after Kristin Hersh side project. Black Vinyl LP. Back on vinyl for this bracing, ever twitching opus made of seven fluid pieces that fold into one continuous mantra. An essential release from the Throwing Musesí offshoot helmed by Kristin Hersh and Bernard Georges, with Chalk Farmís Rob Ahlers on drums.

                                                                                                                                                                                          "Menacing, stalking, spirals of lean, hungry riffs." Drowned In Sound 9/10. 



                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                          1 Medicine Rush
                                                                                                                                                                                          2 Honeysuckle
                                                                                                                                                                                          3 Power+Light
                                                                                                                                                                                          4 Skeleton Key
                                                                                                                                                                                          5 Broke
                                                                                                                                                                                          6 Wax, 7 Sun Dog Coma

                                                                                                                                                                                          50 Foot Wave

                                                                                                                                                                                          Bath White (RSD22 EDITION)

                                                                                                                                                                                            THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2022 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

                                                                                                                                                                                            1000 pressed. Rare EP from this much sought-after Kristin Hersh side project. Black Vinyl LP. Back on vinyl for this Kristin Hersh fronted project, a super rare 2016 EP of enchanting and exhilarating sounds that shift from dreamy and emotional melancholy to jagged and almost Neu!-like rhythms that evolve behind her pointed prose and astute one-liners. A rush to the head thatís caustic yet comforting. 

                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                            1 Bath White
                                                                                                                                                                                            2 God's Not A Dick
                                                                                                                                                                                            3 Human
                                                                                                                                                                                            4 Ratted Out
                                                                                                                                                                                            5 St.Christopher
                                                                                                                                                                                            6 Sun Salute

                                                                                                                                                                                            50 Foot Wave

                                                                                                                                                                                            Black Pearl

                                                                                                                                                                                              ‘Black Pearl’ is the brand new album from 50 Foot Wave: Kristin Hersh’s ‘other’ band - active since 2003, with fellow Throwing Muses’ member Bernard Georges on bass and drummer Rob Ahlers. A sonic trip from the heavy, echoey riff of ‘Staring Into The Sun’ with all of its grunge melancholy and dronecore menace to the perfectly baroque ‘Hog Child’ with its spidery guitar that dissolves into motorik bass and drums.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Hailed in various quarters as “an outlet for the material deemed too weird or wild for Throwing Muses”, their “menacing, stalking, spirals of lean, hungry riffs, set alight” as “feedback rips into the fragile melody.”

                                                                                                                                                                                              50 Foot Wave continue to traverse the rigid tension of their own sound. They remain detuned and discordant at will.

                                                                                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                              Barry says: It's been quite the week for heavy new music, with Kristin Hersch's band putting out this absolutely stunning mix of grooving post-rock and angular hardcore on the ever reliable Fire records. Roaringly heavy but imbued with myriad moments of paddling, Isis-like downtuned post-metal business. Really, very good indeed.

                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                              Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                              A1 Staring Into The Sun
                                                                                                                                                                                              A2 Hog Child
                                                                                                                                                                                              A3 Fly Down South
                                                                                                                                                                                              A4 Black Pearl
                                                                                                                                                                                              Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                              B1 Broken Sugar
                                                                                                                                                                                              B2 Blush
                                                                                                                                                                                              B3 Double Barrel

                                                                                                                                                                                              Pere Ubu

                                                                                                                                                                                              Nuke The Whales 2006-2014

                                                                                                                                                                                                Rewriting the history of music, Pere Ubu continue to confound convention and shift personnel. The next box set in Fire Records’ reissue series, ‘Nuke The Whales’ houses 4 LPs originally released between 2006 and 2014 –
                                                                                                                                                                                                'Why I LUV Women’, 'Carnival Of Souls’, ‘Lady Of Shanghai’ and Long Live Pere Ubu!’

                                                                                                                                                                                                ‘Nuke The Whales,’ is a nod of respect to a couple in Cleveland who would daub such messages over the big news stations’ advertising boards. “Very few bands display such dedication to constant self-reinvention as Pere Ubu” The Quietus.

                                                                                                                                                                                                All four albums have been remixed and remastered by original Pere Ubu member David Thomas. ‘Why I LUV Women’, originally released on Glitterhouse in 2006, gains its first vinyl release. "Spews 11 tunes of arcane lyrics and dense music” shrieked The Cleveland Gazaette.

                                                                                                                                                                                                It’s joined by ‘Long Live Pere Ubu’ a soundtrack to a musical adaptation of the play. “Skronking, squalling rhythms and melodic snippets undulating round a pulsating soundscape." Record Collector

                                                                                                                                                                                                And ‘Lady From Shanghai’, their Fire debut for Fire in 2013. Originally released on the 35th anniversary of the group's debut, ‘The Modern Dance’, a latter day re-evaluation of the unprompted dance genre.

                                                                                                                                                                                                And its follow up ‘Carnival Of Souls’, a haunting “underscore’ to a tale of alienation, it “combines metallic percussion, spare guitars and David Thomas' muttered vocals into something rustic and rickety, yet threatening at a moment's notice.” AllMusic.

                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                Disc 1 - Why I LUV Women
                                                                                                                                                                                                A1 Two Girls (One Bar)
                                                                                                                                                                                                A2 Babylonian Warehouses
                                                                                                                                                                                                A3 Blue Velvet
                                                                                                                                                                                                A4 Caroleen
                                                                                                                                                                                                A5 Flames Over Nebraska
                                                                                                                                                                                                B1 Love Song
                                                                                                                                                                                                B2 Stolen Cadillac
                                                                                                                                                                                                B3 Mona
                                                                                                                                                                                                B4 Synth Farm
                                                                                                                                                                                                B5 Texas Overture

                                                                                                                                                                                                Disc 2 - Lady From Shanghai
                                                                                                                                                                                                C1 Thanks
                                                                                                                                                                                                C2 Free White
                                                                                                                                                                                                C3 Feuksly Ma'am, The Hearing
                                                                                                                                                                                                C4 Mandy
                                                                                                                                                                                                C5 Musicians Are Scum
                                                                                                                                                                                                C6 Another One
                                                                                                                                                                                                D1 And Then Nothing Happened
                                                                                                                                                                                                D2 Road Trip Of Bipasha Ahmed
                                                                                                                                                                                                D3 Lampshade Man
                                                                                                                                                                                                D4 414 Seconds
                                                                                                                                                                                                D5 The Carpenter Sun

                                                                                                                                                                                                Disc 3 - Carnival Of Souls
                                                                                                                                                                                                E1 Golden Surf II
                                                                                                                                                                                                E2 Drag The River
                                                                                                                                                                                                E3 Irene
                                                                                                                                                                                                E4 Road To Utah
                                                                                                                                                                                                E5 Throb Array
                                                                                                                                                                                                F1 Visions Of The Moon
                                                                                                                                                                                                F2 Dr Faustus
                                                                                                                                                                                                F3 Bus Station
                                                                                                                                                                                                F4 Carnival
                                                                                                                                                                                                F5 Moonstruck

                                                                                                                                                                                                Disc 4 - Long Live Pere Ubu!
                                                                                                                                                                                                G1 Ubu Overture
                                                                                                                                                                                                G2 Song Of The Grocery Police
                                                                                                                                                                                                G3 Banquet Of The Butchers
                                                                                                                                                                                                G4 Tear Your Eyes Out
                                                                                                                                                                                                G5 March Of Greed
                                                                                                                                                                                                G6 Big Sombrero
                                                                                                                                                                                                G7 Bring Me The Head
                                                                                                                                                                                                G8 Alienating The Audience
                                                                                                                                                                                                H1 Road To Reason
                                                                                                                                                                                                H2 Slowly I Turn
                                                                                                                                                                                                H3 Watching The Pigeons
                                                                                                                                                                                                H4 The Story So Far
                                                                                                                                                                                                H5 Snowy Livonia, Pt 1
                                                                                                                                                                                                H6 Elsinore & Beyond

                                                                                                                                                                                                Pictish Trail

                                                                                                                                                                                                Island Family

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Island Family is the fifth album from Isle-of-Eigg dwelling electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder Pictish Trail, AKA Johnny Lynch. A strange, unpredictable, sardonic and yet deeply personal record inspired by all from Fever Ray to The Flaming Lips, Liars, Mercury Rev and Beck, Island Family is Pictish Trail’s contrarian view of arcadia; a search for the euphoric in the bucolic, bound up in sometimes conflicting ideas and feelings around nature and environment, sincerity and artifice, escapism and belonging. It’s an album about how no man can remain an island, however hard he might try.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Released by Fire Records, with support from Johnny’s own label Lost Map, and produced by long-term collaborator Rob Jones (The Voluntary Butler Scheme, The Gene Dudley Group), ‘Island Family’ opens with its title track, a song of death, ghosts and the ties that bind, fusing abrasive electronic beats with a tongue-in-cheek fireside folk refrain and the haunted ice cream van melody of a digitally reincarnated traditional Scottish jig. A purgative surrender to nature’s whim driven by a clattering machine drumbeat rolled in a puddle of filthy dirty fuzz, ‘Natural Successor’ is five-and-a-half-minutes of cathartic churning bass.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  ‘In The Land of The Dead’ is an eight-bit glitch-core reflection on island party excesses spasming into existential dread and regret, suitably accompanied by a funereal mariachi band. It’s followed by the epic ‘It Came Back’, the understated verses and arms-aloft falsetto chorus of which are accompanied by a tense, foreboding bass-driven electro hip hop instrumental with (spoiler) a brain-shattering industrial-metal meltdown. ’Melody Something’ is the album’s purest moment, a cautiously uplifting solar-powered-ballad about losing track of time in the cycle of the seasons, and the gap between memory and reality. Shapeshifting closer ‘Remote Control’ is a channel hopping cabin-fever-dream flipping from warped boyband ballad to deep-fried fuzz pop.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Barry says: The latest outing in the Pictish Trail odyssey takes the blippy, 8-bit sounds of 202's 'Thumb World' and winds them around a core of wicker-folk psychedlia and oddball glitched electronics for stalwart label, Fire Records. It's both wonderfully odd and stunningly melodic in parts, but beautifully balanced with just the right amount of syncopated oddity and swimming lysergic folk.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                  A1 Island Family
                                                                                                                                                                                                  A2 Natural Successor
                                                                                                                                                                                                  A3 The River It Runs Inside Of Me
                                                                                                                                                                                                  A4 In The Land Of The Dead
                                                                                                                                                                                                  A5 It Came Back
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                  B1 Thistle
                                                                                                                                                                                                  B2 Melody Something
                                                                                                                                                                                                  B3 Nuclear Sunflower Swamp
                                                                                                                                                                                                  B4 Green Mountain
                                                                                                                                                                                                  B5 Remote Control

                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Nightingales

                                                                                                                                                                                                  King Rocker (Soundtrack)

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Comedian Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast Of London) investigate a missing piece of punk history. Robert Lloyd, best known for fronting cult Birmingham bands The Prefects and The Nightingales, has survived under the radar for over four decades. But how, if at all, does Robert want to be remembered? The anti-rockumentary ‘King Rocker’ weaves the story of Birmingham’s undervalued underdog autodidact into that of the city’s forgotten public sculpture of King Kong, eschewing the celebrity interview and archive-raid approach for a free-associating bricolage of Indian food, bewildered chefs, vegetable gardening, prescription medicines, pop stardom and pop art. All of the highlights from the film are here, along with rarities which won’t appear on any of the deluxe reissues of the Nightingales’ catalogue, among them 7″ versions of “Use Your Loaf”, the Bob Luman hit “Let’s Think About Living” and “Black Country”, a glam remix of crowd favourite “Thick And Thin” and a version of Christy & Emily’s “Ghost” which rivals the Nightingales’ take on TLC’s “Unpretty” for sheer beauty. The only act with roots in the punk era that have gone on to make records more captivating, cutting and entertaining today than at any point in their past; 2022 will be a busy year for the Nightingales, with months of live dates planned, a limited edition remix 12″, deluxe reissues of both ‘Hysterics’ and ‘In The Good Old Country Way’, and a hardcover book collecting Robert’s lyrics.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Barry says: A selection of brilliant Nightingales rarities and pieces from the film of the same name, written about Robert Lloyd of The Nightingales and The Prefects. A wonderful audio document in it's own right, and a perfect companion to a very funny film.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                    A1 Use Your Loaf (7” Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                    A2 Surplus And Scarcity (Live)
                                                                                                                                                                                                    A3 What A Carry On
                                                                                                                                                                                                    A4 Let's Think About Living (7” Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                    A5 Black Country (7” Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                    A6 Ghost
                                                                                                                                                                                                    B1 Born Again In Birmingham
                                                                                                                                                                                                    B2 Overreactor
                                                                                                                                                                                                    B3 Thick And Thin (Glam Version)
                                                                                                                                                                                                    B4 Chaff
                                                                                                                                                                                                    B5 The Desperate Quartet
                                                                                                                                                                                                    B6 Gales Doc

                                                                                                                                                                                                    The Lemonheads

                                                                                                                                                                                                    It’s A Shame About Ray - 30th Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Lemonheads’ seminal album ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’, lovingly reissued for it’s 30th Anniversary. The long overdue reissue includes a slew of extra material, including an unreleased ‘My Drug Buddy’ KCRW session track from 1992 featuring Juliana Hatfield, B-sides from singles ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’ and ‘Confetti’, a track from the ‘Mrs. Robinson/Being Round’ EP, alongside demos that are released for the first time on vinyl. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Described by music journalist and author Everett True as “A 30-minute insight into what it’s like to live hard and fast and loose and happy with like-minded buddies, fuelled by a shared love for similar bands and drugs and booze and freedom.”. ‘It's A Shame About Ray’ had a considerable impact back in those heady, carefree days of '92, the record perfectly captures Dando’s ability to effortlessly encapsulate teenage longing and lust over the course of a two-minute pop song.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Singles such as 'My Drug Buddy' and the breezy perfect pop of the title track might stand out (plus the add-on of 'Mrs. Robinson' which later copies included), but the album's real strength lies in the tracks in-between; the truly fantastic 'Confetti' (written about Evan's parents' divorce), and the eye-wateringly casual acoustic cover of 'Frank Mills' (from the "hippie" musical Hair), a version that seems to resonate with every ounce of pathos and emotion felt for the lost 1960s generation. To hear Evan Dando sing lines like 'I love him/but it embarrasses me/To walk down the street with him/He lives in Brooklyn somewhere/And he wears his white crash helmet' is to truly appreciate how wonderful and tantalising pop music can be. Then, there's the rush of insurgency and brattishness on the wonderfully truncated 'Bit Part'; the topsy-turvy 'Ceiling Fan In My Spoon'... this was male teenage skinny-tie pop music on a level of brilliance with The Kinks, early Undertones, Wipers.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                      It's A Shame About Ray
                                                                                                                                                                                                      1 Rockin' Stroll
                                                                                                                                                                                                      2 Confetti
                                                                                                                                                                                                      3 It's A Shame About Ray
                                                                                                                                                                                                      4 Rudderless
                                                                                                                                                                                                      5 My Drug Buddy
                                                                                                                                                                                                      6 The Turnpike Down
                                                                                                                                                                                                      7 Bit Part
                                                                                                                                                                                                      8 Alison's Starting To Happen
                                                                                                                                                                                                      9 Hannah & Gabi
                                                                                                                                                                                                      10 Kitchen
                                                                                                                                                                                                      11 Ceiling Fan In My Spoon
                                                                                                                                                                                                      12 Frank Mills

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Essential Extras
                                                                                                                                                                                                      1 Mrs Robinson
                                                                                                                                                                                                      2 Shakey Ground
                                                                                                                                                                                                      3 My Drug Buddy (KCRW Session, 1992)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      4 Knowing Me, Knowing You (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      5 Confetti (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      6 Alison's Starting To Happen (Acoustic)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      7 Divan

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Demo Recordings
                                                                                                                                                                                                      1 It's A Shame About Ray (Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      2 Rockin' Stroll (Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      3 My Drug Buddy (Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      4 Hannah & Gabi (Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      5 Kitchen (Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      6 Bit Part (Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      7 Rudderless (Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      8 Ceiling Fan In My Spoon (Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      9 Confetti (Demo)

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Stealing Sheep And The Radiophonic Workshop

                                                                                                                                                                                                      La Planète Sauvage

                                                                                                                                                                                                        René Laloux’s celebrated 1973 sci-fi animation ‘La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)’, is overhauled with a re-imagined soundtrack by electronic modernists Stealing Sheep and legendary sound innovators The Radiophonic Workshop. This exclusive release is part of Fire Records’ re-imagined score series, and is released on Delia Derbyshire Day 2021.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        It’s a real pre-Avatar conundrum that Stealing Sheep, with the help of Bob Earland, Dick Mills and Roger Limb from the Radiophonic Workshop, unravel. Creating an ethereal excursion that’s narrated by Roger Limb; like a futuristic Martin Denny, or Dr Who gone ambient techno, with a hint of Forbidden Planet 50 years on. It’s an analogue swirl set in an off-world paradise; a field recording from the future. This is a creative, generation-spanning, union brought together to score this unique cult film.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        A must for fans of psyche electronica and Stealing Sheep’s formidable ‘Big Wows’ album.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        ‘La Planète Sauvage’ is a thing of ambient beauty punctuated with electronic earworms that switches from intensely ominous to otherworldly dream like moments.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        “No institution has had a greater impact on the development of electronic music than the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.” The Vinyl Factory

                                                                                                                                                                                                        “Stealing Sheep devour a broad range of styles, incorporating everything from the dark dance-pop of Grace Jones to the experimentations of Radiophonic Workshop pioneer Delia Derbyshire and John Carpenter soundtracks.” The Guardian.


                                                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                        A1 Opening Credits
                                                                                                                                                                                                        A2 The Chase
                                                                                                                                                                                                        A3 Saved/Captured
                                                                                                                                                                                                        A4 The Bracelet
                                                                                                                                                                                                        A5 Council Of Draags Pt.I
                                                                                                                                                                                                        A6 Terr & Tiwa
                                                                                                                                                                                                        A7 The Knowledge Pt.I
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                        B1 The Fight
                                                                                                                                                                                                        B2 The Knowledge Pt. II
                                                                                                                                                                                                        B3 The Initiation
                                                                                                                                                                                                        B4 Escape
                                                                                                                                                                                                        B5 The Big Tree
                                                                                                                                                                                                        B6 The Ritual
                                                                                                                                                                                                        B7 The Duel
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Side C
                                                                                                                                                                                                        C1 Theft/Zarek
                                                                                                                                                                                                        C2 The Bird
                                                                                                                                                                                                        C3 The Free Oms
                                                                                                                                                                                                        C4 The Purge
                                                                                                                                                                                                        C5 The Journey To Ygam
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Side D
                                                                                                                                                                                                        D1 The City Of Free Oms
                                                                                                                                                                                                        D2 Robot Attack
                                                                                                                                                                                                        D3 The Fantastic Planet
                                                                                                                                                                                                        D4 The Final Battle
                                                                                                                                                                                                        D5 Terr C6 Council Of Draags Pt.II
                                                                                                                                                                                                        D6 End Credits


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