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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

    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)

        The Bevis Frond

        Live at the Great American Music Hall (RSD24 EDITION)

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          The Chills

          The Lost EP (RSD24 EDITION)

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            Come

            Eleven:Eleven - Deluxe Edition (RSD24 EDITION)

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              Josephine Foster and the Victor Herrero Band

              Perlas (RSD24 EDITION)

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                Josephine Foster and the Victor Herrero Band

                Anda Jaleo (RSD24 EDITION)

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                  The Groundhogs

                  Black Diamond (RSD24 EDITION)

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                    Half Japanese

                    Our Solar System (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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                          Royal Trux

                          Royal Trux (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)

                                  Jane Weaver

                                  Love In Constant Spectacle

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                                    In Store Signing Session!

                                    To celebrate the release of her new LP, we are delighted to welcome Piccadilly favourite Jane Weaver to the shop on Tuesday 9th April at 5pm to sign copies of Love Is A Constant Spectacle.

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                                    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.

                                    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

                                    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

                                                          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

                                                            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

                                                              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

                                                                        RVG

                                                                        Brain Worms

                                                                          A pivotal record for contemporary times; bright, free, adamant, optimistic. Brain Worms is RVG’s fullest, most pristine album yet.

                                                                          All throughout Brain Worms, it’s apparent that this is a band in very fine form. Album opener ‘Common Ground’ sets the tone for what’s to come; a shiny, thrilling, punch of an album, with all the beloved RVG hallmarks. Vager’s voice is unfiltered and commanding as ever when delivering her clever, not-quite-ironic lyrics. Here, though, those lyrics feel so much less resigned to yearning, and so much more defiant and joyous.

                                                                          ‘Tambourine’ is the only Covid song Vager wrote when “trying not to write Covid songs”, and it’s a painfully honest portrait of grieving mid-isolation. ‘Brain Worms’ tells the all-too-familiar story of a person falling down the internet rabbit hole and finding comfort in conspiracies. ‘Nothing Really Changes’ is a keys-heavy new wave-ish thing, while closer ‘Tropic of Cancer’ sparkles with Vager’s self-assured new manifesto: I know what I’m like, and I know how I get. If you think I’m strange, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

                                                                          Bloxham, Nolte, and Wallace are flawlessly adept in bringing Vager’s songwriting to life. Recorded in London at Snap Studios with James Trevascus (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, PJ Harvey), all ten tracks surge with lush sounds and clear intentions and the magic of an acoustic guitar once owned by Kate Bush, given to her by Tears for Fears (who, legend has it, wrote ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ on it).

                                                                          Between the four bandmates lead singer and guitarist Vager, guitarist Reuben Bloxham, drummer Marc Nolte and bassist Isabele Wallace this is the most confident they’ve ever felt in RVG. They’ve moved past their influences, pushed themselves, and tried new things. And they have made a record they can, by all accounts, call their best.

                                                                          “Brain Worms feels like the antithesis to what a post-pandemic record could easily be. For a band who were already writing music about being reclusive “we were depressed and not going outside on our first two albums” the enforced isolation and time to think gave Vager space to write about anything she wanted. And, it turned out, she was ready to write about acceptance.

                                                                          “If we could only make one more album, it would be this one,” says Vager.

                                                                          "Easily one of the most vital bands on the Aussie scene today" Rolling Stone.

                                                                          “A calling card for outsiders... dynamic and vital post-punk" The Guardian.

                                                                          STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                          Barry says: Hypnotic goth-influenced vocals and soaring melodic guitar lines weave around each-other in a sonic maelstrom reminiscent of Echo & The Bunnymen sharing a stage with Interpol. It's bold and brash, brilliantly played and undeniably huge.

                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                          Side A
                                                                          A1 Common Ground
                                                                          A2 Midnight Sun
                                                                          A3 It's Not Easy
                                                                          A4 Tambourine
                                                                          A5 Brain Worms
                                                                          Side B
                                                                          B1 You're The Reason
                                                                          B2 Squid
                                                                          B3 Giant Snake
                                                                          B4 Nothing Really Changes
                                                                          B5 Tropic Of Cancer

                                                                          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)

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                                                                                  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.

                                                                                  The Bevis Frond

                                                                                  Hit Squad (RSD23 EDITION)

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                                                                                    Available for the first time on vinyl, with updated artwork from band leader Nick Saloman. From the fuzziest West Coast psyche to lilting acoustic work by way of Beatlesy power pop and some gorgeous organ flurries, ëHit Squadí contains some of the Frondís most realised songs. From the faux-60s spy-film styles of the title track, the all-out rock of ëDragonsí and ëDoing Nothingí, the classic psych-rock of ëThrough The Hedgeí, to the epic psychedelic melancholy of ëFast Falls The Eventideí. ëHit Squadí has Saloman playing to his strengths, but not resting on his laurels.î AllMusic. A magnificent uplifting collection of tales about every manís trials and tribulations mixed with escapist visions and beautiful pop songs; the evocative ëHigh Pointí is worth the entry fee alone.

                                                                                    Come

                                                                                    Gently Down The Stream (RSD23 EDITION)

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                                                                                      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.

                                                                                      Giant Sand

                                                                                      Center Of The Universe (RSD23 EDITION)

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                                                                                        Expanded double LP edition of the early ë90s Giant Sand gem, including a second previously unreleased disc featuring live recordings from Sub Pop's Vermonstrous Festival, 1992. With new liner notes and commentary from Howe Gelb. An everyday tale of answering machines, petroglyphs and a Takamine guitar; true stories from Joshua Tree: ìAnother fascinating set of desert-fried rock ëní roll, serving up one winner after another.î (AllMusic). A masterpiece of psychedelic desert-rock, a spiritual cousin to the Meat Puppets' ëUp On The Suní and Kyuss's ëSky Valleyí.

                                                                                        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)

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                                                                                              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

                                                                                                        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

                                                                                                          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

                                                                                                              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

                                                                                                                                      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)

                                                                                                                                        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

                                                                                                                                          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) 

                                                                                                                                            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)

                                                                                                                                              Pere Ubu

                                                                                                                                              The Modern Dance - 2022 Reissue

                                                                                                                                              “It's a devastating debut...this album has struck me with a vengeance. Because it delivers such a powerful, complex and open-ended punch, it's almost impossible at such an early stage to explain why or how in full detail.” Melody Maker. / “I would be willing to sit down and argue that modern-day rock ‘n’ roll reached its peak in 1978 with Pere Ubu’s The Modern Dance and has declined ever since." Rolling Stone / “Peru Ubu’s full length debut fancies itself a fusion of musique concrete and The Stooges. Shrill and ugly it crystallises their original version of industrial rock” Uncut / ‘The Modern Dance’ is the first studio release from Pere Ubu set for reissue on Fire Records in August, 2015. Following their self-released first singles on Hearpen Records, the uncompromising complex debut has continuously stirred critics.

                                                                                                                                              Today the record is still as direct and powerful as it was first heard. Exploding onto the scene with a handful of releases behind them, Pere Ubu’s ‘The Modern Dance’ stunned the music world and quickly began appearing on ‘Most Influential’ album lists. Pere Ubu originally formed as a studio project drawing on a body of musicians who were involved in the Cleveland underground music scene that had, by August 1975, seemingly run its course. The main objective of the band at that time was to document their work and then disappear. Luckily for us they were on the cusp of changing the face of rock forever. For this reworking, Paul Hamann at Suma has transferred from the original 2-track analogue mix tapes to digital at the highest resolution available which, is at least four times the resolution of the original. The tracks have carefully been re-mastered by sonic architect Brian Pyle so as to capture the unique qualities within

                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                              Side 1
                                                                                                                                              1. Non-Alignment Pact
                                                                                                                                              2. The Modern Dance
                                                                                                                                              3. Laughing
                                                                                                                                              4. Street Waves
                                                                                                                                              5. Chinese Radiation

                                                                                                                                              Side 2
                                                                                                                                              1. Life Stinks
                                                                                                                                              2. Real World
                                                                                                                                              3. Over My Head
                                                                                                                                              4. Sentimental Journey
                                                                                                                                              5. Humor Me

                                                                                                                                              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

                                                                                                                                                          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

                                                                                                                                                            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 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

                                                                                                                                                                  Modern Studies

                                                                                                                                                                  We Are There

                                                                                                                                                                    Through the hazy daze of a smoky folk opus, Modern Studies craft rich soundtracks, stuttering Super-8 sketches from a washed-out world of melancholy, hand-tinted and tantalising. Lullaby couplets blossom into gorgeous chamber pop melodies, the drama unfolding behind Emily Scott’s plaintive vocal; part Julie London, part Sandy Denny, a little bit Kate Bush, with a hushed sigh of Joni.

                                                                                                                                                                    Sweeping strings carry them into unchartered terrain on their new album ‘We Are Here’, flying high above their psych-folk roots, it’s an epic journey that’s exquisitely delivered, transcending categories, nodding to Brubeck, Low, Talk Talk, Jim O’Rourke and Pentangle, making music that is ready to cross over in these modern times with songs of substance.

                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                    Side A
                                                                                                                                                                    A1 Sink Into
                                                                                                                                                                    A2 Light A Fire
                                                                                                                                                                    A3 Comfort Me
                                                                                                                                                                    A4 Two Swimmers
                                                                                                                                                                    A5 Wild Ocean
                                                                                                                                                                    Side B
                                                                                                                                                                    B1 Open Face
                                                                                                                                                                    B2 Won't Be Long
                                                                                                                                                                    B3 Mothlight
                                                                                                                                                                    B4 Do You Wanna
                                                                                                                                                                    B5 Winter Springs

                                                                                                                                                                    Josephine Foster

                                                                                                                                                                    Godmother

                                                                                                                                                                      A beautifully observed baroque masterpiece, part dream pop, part futuristic psych-folk with ambient synths and Josephine Foster’s plaintive guitar. Godmother is a slowly unfolding song cycle that marries a myriad of previous musical escapades with electronic experiments.

                                                                                                                                                                      Exploring new horizons on this record, it sees Foster at her most expressive and hypnotic. Now back home in the mountains of Colorado, Josephine’s 20-year journey to this new nirvana becomes enthralled further with a symphony of synths that sound like they are played in some neighbouring netherworld, through cotton gauze. It’s music that’s devotional, spiritual, a fitting soundtrack for any journey within or without, a means to experience places and vibrations beyond the boundary of time and space.

                                                                                                                                                                      Discussing the record, Josephine explains “You may notice me travelling a bit further sonically from our precious earth, aspiring to rise into broader astral perspective, to contemplate the light and origins of it all, as I do believe there is a grand source that is the sum of it all, us all. Performing all the parts on this recording, you may sense me focussing gestures of my singing into the instrumentation, which is a very great relief indeed, as the voice has such grand dreams to be set free.”

                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                      1. Hum Menina
                                                                                                                                                                      2. Sparks Fly
                                                                                                                                                                      3. Guardian Angel
                                                                                                                                                                      4. Old Teardrop
                                                                                                                                                                      5. Flask Of Wine
                                                                                                                                                                      6. Gold Entwine
                                                                                                                                                                      7. Dali Rama
                                                                                                                                                                      8. Nun Of The Above
                                                                                                                                                                      9. The Sum Of Us All

                                                                                                                                                                      Lucy Gooch

                                                                                                                                                                      Rushing EP (Expanded Edition)

                                                                                                                                                                        Following Lucy Gooch’s acclaimed ‘Rain’s Break’, her first release on Fire Records earlier this year, the artist’s acclaimed debut EP ‘Rushing’ is revisited with new artwork and a brand new track, ‘Orthione’.

                                                                                                                                                                        “Lucy’s sound marries the etheral qualities of ambient music with buoyant, effortless pop” Crack

                                                                                                                                                                        ‘Rushing’ in its original shorter five-track incarnation was heralded as a touchstone beneath the cascading torrent of modern times and an oasis for turbulent times. An intimate collection of songs built around Lucy’s emotive vocals and unique ambient dream pop, the newly added stand-out track ‘Orthione’ trips into the esoteric world of Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass; here her voice is the grounding force that travels to a space that heals and grows.

                                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                        Side A
                                                                                                                                                                        1. My Lights Kiss Your Thoughts Every Moment
                                                                                                                                                                        2. Rushing
                                                                                                                                                                        3. Stalagmites & Helicitites

                                                                                                                                                                        Side B
                                                                                                                                                                        4. Sun
                                                                                                                                                                        5. There Is A Space In Between
                                                                                                                                                                        6. Orthione

                                                                                                                                                                        The Dream Syndicate

                                                                                                                                                                        What Can I Say? No Regrets... Out Of The Grey + Live, Demos & Outtakes

                                                                                                                                                                          The Dream Syndicate’s 1986 album is back on CD for the first time in 24 years. Hidden inside of ‘Out of the Grey’ are some of Steve Wynn’s strongest songs - “Slide Away” is delightful pop, “Now I Ride Alone” is moody and intense “like the hardboiled typewriting of novelists Jim Thompson, Ross MacDonald, and James Cain” that Wynn dug back in July ‘85. The epic “Boston” imagines the era in which Van Morrison was holed-up in that city circa 1967-68 writing the songs that comprised Astral Weeks while “50 in a 25 Zone” is a vehicle for a band-driven, slow burn groove.

                                                                                                                                                                          Deliciously remastered with new liner notes from the band’s historian Pat Thomas, the package compiles 51 songs spread across 3 CDs, including a previously unreleased live album (from July 1985) and many unreleased demos and out-takes. The deluxe reissue also features interviews with Steve Wynn, Mark Walton, Paul Cutler, and Dennis Duck - plus plenty of rare photos.

                                                                                                                                                                          Discs 2 and 3 reveal a wealth of unreleased material – including a never-before-heard July 1985 live album which has the ‘balls to the wall’ energy hard not captured in the studio. The songs were so fresh on that July night - they had not been recorded in the studio yet. On Disc 3, you’ll hear alternate versions of several Out of the Grey songs recorded as ‘demos’ before the album versions. These studio versions also have the raw energy of the live show, plus the band plays rare cover versions by Pink Floyd, Cream, Santana, Green on Red, Alice Cooper, Temptations, and Dolly Parton.

                                                                                                                                                                          51 songs including 34 never-before heard Dream Syndicate recordings – released under the title of: What Can I Say? no regrets... Out of the Grey + live, demos & outtakes… in other words, you need this!

                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                          Disc 1 – Out Of The Grey
                                                                                                                                                                          1 Out Of The Grey
                                                                                                                                                                          2 Forest For The Trees
                                                                                                                                                                          3 50 In A 25 Zone
                                                                                                                                                                          4 Boston
                                                                                                                                                                          5 Blood Money
                                                                                                                                                                          6 Slide Away
                                                                                                                                                                          7 Dying Embers
                                                                                                                                                                          8 Now I Ride Alone
                                                                                                                                                                          9 Drinking Problem
                                                                                                                                                                          10 Dancing Blind
                                                                                                                                                                          11 You Can't Forget
                                                                                                                                                                          12 Let It Rain
                                                                                                                                                                          13 Cinnamon Girl
                                                                                                                                                                          14 Ballad Of Dwight Frye
                                                                                                                                                                          15 Shake Your Hips
                                                                                                                                                                          16 I Won't Forget
                                                                                                                                                                          17 The Lonely Bull

                                                                                                                                                                          Disc 2 - Live At Scorgies NY, 1985
                                                                                                                                                                          1 Out Of The Grey (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          2 50 In A 25 Zone (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          3 That's What You Always Say (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          4 Slide Away (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          5 Dancing Blind (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          6 Blood Money (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          7 Dying Embers (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          8 It Hits You Again (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          9 Now I Ride Alone (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          10 John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          11 Still Holding Onto You (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          12 When You Smile (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          13 Days Of Wine And Roses (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)

                                                                                                                                                                          Disc 3 - Odds & Sods
                                                                                                                                                                          1 Here On Earth As Well (Demo, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          2 Dancing Blind (Demo, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          3 Blood Money (Demo, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          4 Dying Embers (Demo, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          5 Slide Away (Demo, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          6 It Hits You Again (Demo, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          7 Now I Ride Alone (Demo, 1985)
                                                                                                                                                                          8 Eighteen
                                                                                                                                                                          9 Another Brick In The Wall
                                                                                                                                                                          10 Brain Damage
                                                                                                                                                                          11 Out Of The Grey Waltz
                                                                                                                                                                          12 The Munster's Theme Song
                                                                                                                                                                          13 Sixteen Ways
                                                                                                                                                                          14 Papa Was A Rolling Stone
                                                                                                                                                                          15 Low Rider
                                                                                                                                                                          16 Papa Jam
                                                                                                                                                                          17 I Ain't Got Nobody
                                                                                                                                                                          18 Jeannie's Afraid Of The Dark
                                                                                                                                                                          19 Badge
                                                                                                                                                                          20 Dancing Blind (Live At The Stone SF, 1984)
                                                                                                                                                                          21 Blood Money (Live At The Stone SF, 1984)

                                                                                                                                                                          The Groundhogs

                                                                                                                                                                          Roadhogs: Live From Richmond To Pocono

                                                                                                                                                                            An essential rock artefact tracing The Groundhogs from their pre - ‘Thank Christ For The Bomb’ blues roots to the final live show for the classic line up of Tony McPhee (guitar and vocals), Pete Cruikshank (bass) and Ken Pustelnik (drums). Never before heard recordings from the Warner Brothers’ vaults including a vintage 1969 set from their show at the Richmond Athletic Ground (AKA The Crawdaddy Club) and their final explosive set at the Pocono Raceway track. Includes the live debut of what would become the anthemic ‘Cherry Red’ and McPhee’s seismic destruction of ‘Amazing Grace’. A career-spanning gem from the ultimate heavy rock power trio book-ending 976 days and 250-plus live shows. “In their stage act they concentrate on being as heavy and as hard-hitting as possible.” The Scene magazine. “Performing on stage we feel that the emphasis is on excitement so we play the numbers that involve the greatest amount of movement and dynamics,” Tony McPhee told Star Pop.

                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                            A1 Cherry Red (Richmond Athletic Ground, London - 1969)
                                                                                                                                                                            A2 Mistreated (Richmond Athletic Ground, London - 1969)
                                                                                                                                                                            A3 Natchez Burning (Richmond Athletic Ground, London - 1969)
                                                                                                                                                                            B1 BDD (Richmond Athletic Ground, London - 1969)
                                                                                                                                                                            B2 Times (Richmond Athletic Ground, London - 1969) 
                                                                                                                                                                            C1 Still A Fool (Richmond Athletic Ground, London - 1969) Side 
                                                                                                                                                                            D1 Group Intro (Richmond Athletic Ground, London - 1969)
                                                                                                                                                                            D2 No More Doggin' (Richmond Athletic Ground, London - 1969) 
                                                                                                                                                                            E1 Eccentric Man (Pocono Raceway, Pennsylvania - 8th July 1972)
                                                                                                                                                                            E2 Music Is The Food Of Thought (Pocono Raceway, Pennsylvania - 1972)
                                                                                                                                                                            E3 Cherry Red, Split Part 2 (Pocono Raceway, Pennsylvania - 1972) 
                                                                                                                                                                            F1 Still A Fool, Amazing Grace (Pocono Raceway, Pennsylvania - 1972)

                                                                                                                                                                            Marta Del Grandi

                                                                                                                                                                            Until We Fossilize

                                                                                                                                                                              ‘Until We Fossilize’ is the debut album from Marta Del Grandi, an eclectic singer songwriter from Italy. This is an award-winning jazz vocalist set in new territory, crossing borders of genre and style from West Coast ‘60s to ambient exotica, from plaintive Lynchian etherealism to dramatic Morricone scores. Marta gathers influences from near and far to create a unique genre-splicing style who’s now travelling her own unique and unchartered path.

                                                                                                                                                                              Newly signed to Fire Records, this debut is an unravelling of time and distance; a breath taking journey from mainland Europe to the Far East and back again, delivered as an eerie, soundtrack by a captivating vocalist. A self-produced gem; filled with lush strings and electronic ambience and an eclectic vocal that transcends boundaries.

                                                                                                                                                                              Lead single ‘Amethyst’ takes inspiration by the myth of Amethyst, filled with Greek mythology, touching the wildest manifestation of imagination, it’s the story of a woman who frees herself from the expectations imposed on her by patriarchy. Composed with Indian drummer Tarun Balani, Marta sounds like Sandy Denny backed by Eno on Gamelan with a nod to Sun Ra.

                                                                                                                                                                              ‘Until We Fossilize’ is a lyrically aware set of dramas littered with life-affirming couplets over gorgeous, dramatic turns.

                                                                                                                                                                              “It’s modern and ancestral at the same time.”

                                                                                                                                                                              STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                              Patrick says: Del Grandi flirts with exotica, ambient, Mediterranean and West Coast moods on this LP, providing an accidental Balearic hit.

                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                              Side A
                                                                                                                                                                              A1 Taller Than His Shadow
                                                                                                                                                                              A2 Shy Heart
                                                                                                                                                                              A3 Amethyst
                                                                                                                                                                              A4 Swim To Me

                                                                                                                                                                              Side B
                                                                                                                                                                              B1 Somebody New
                                                                                                                                                                              B2 Lullaby Firefly
                                                                                                                                                                              B3 Birdsong
                                                                                                                                                                              B4 Totally Fine

                                                                                                                                                                              Arizona Amp & Alternator

                                                                                                                                                                              Arizona Amp And Alternator

                                                                                                                                                                                1000 copies pressed. Fist time on vinyl. Double debut from Howe Gelb’s one-off project that features members or Arcade Fire, Grandaddy, Scout Niblett and M Ward among others. Featuring extensive notes and interviews with the collaborators, exploring how the whole thing was put together.

                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                Side A.

                                                                                                                                                                                1 Velvet And Pearl
                                                                                                                                                                                2 Where The Wind Turns The Skin To Leather
                                                                                                                                                                                3 AAAA (1)
                                                                                                                                                                                4 Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys.

                                                                                                                                                                                Side B.

                                                                                                                                                                                5 Man On A String
                                                                                                                                                                                6 Bottom Of The Barrel
                                                                                                                                                                                7 AAAA (2)
                                                                                                                                                                                8 Can Do Girl.

                                                                                                                                                                                Side C.

                                                                                                                                                                                9 Blue Blue Marble Girl
                                                                                                                                                                                10 Baby It's Cold Outside
                                                                                                                                                                                11 Re-Entry
                                                                                                                                                                                12 Loretta And The Insect World
                                                                                                                                                                                13 AAAA (3)
                                                                                                                                                                                14 Talula And The Last Straw.

                                                                                                                                                                                Side D.

                                                                                                                                                                                15 Vows
                                                                                                                                                                                16 AAAA (4)
                                                                                                                                                                                17 Recital
                                                                                                                                                                                18 The Leaving You. 

                                                                                                                                                                                Pictish Trail

                                                                                                                                                                                Natural Successor - Inc Django Django Mix

                                                                                                                                                                                  A purgative surrender to nature’s whim driven by a clattering machine drumbeat and rolled in a puddle of filthy dirty fuzz, ‘Natural Successor’ is the riotous new single from isle of Eigg based Scottish psychedelic electronic-pop ogre Johnny Lynch AKA Pictish Trail.

                                                                                                                                                                                  Set for release on limited-edition 12” vinyl by Fire Records, with support from Johnny’s own label Lost Map Records, it’s the first taste of a set of brand-new Pictish recordings produced by longterm collaborater Rob Jones (The Voluntary Butler Scheme, The Gene Dudley Group).

                                                                                                                                                                                  The 12” single features exclusive remixes by Django Django and Makeness

                                                                                                                                                                                  STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                  Matt says: Always nice to hear from the driving force that is Johnny Lynch. "Natural Successor" is soaring psychedlic rock with stadium potential. Django Django jump on board with a baggy, ALFOS-friendly tweak too. Then Makeness twist things up with a frenzied jungle refix.

                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                  A1. Natural Successor
                                                                                                                                                                                  A2. Natural Successor (Instrumental)
                                                                                                                                                                                  B1. Natural Successor (Django Django’s Fazed And Confused Mix)
                                                                                                                                                                                  B2. Natural Successor (Makeness Remix)

                                                                                                                                                                                  Come

                                                                                                                                                                                  Don't Ask Don't Tell - Expanded Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                    In 1994 Come responded to the difficult-second-album stereotype with the hypnotic, intense and emotional masterpiece ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’. Featuring the original line-up of Thalia Zedek, Chris Brokaw, Sean O’ Brien and Arthur Johnson, the Boston band broadened their sound by slowing down the tempos and creating a dense urban stream of consciousness that mixes noise, city blues and… catharsis. The album hits you immediately as one of the greatest dissident records ever made.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Lovingly remastered, this expanded edition includes 'Wrong Sides', an additional albums worth of b-sides and unreleased tracks, including the band's very first single 'Car' and their last recorded song, 'Cimarron', featuring this core line-up. These gems showcase the rawness and incredible growth of a band completely in command of their songwriting and at the same time paying homage to some of their punk roots with beautiful renditions of Swell Maps 'Loin Of The Surf' and X's 'Adult Books'. Also Includes new artwork with unearthed photos and fresh liner notes by the band.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Dissident from traditional rock this is a band playing music that thematically and structurally seems to pull from old Europa, from Eastern folk and modernist classical music as much as US and UK rock. Dissident from traditional ideas about singing and songwriting Thalia’s (ex of Live Skull) presence on songs like ‘Yr Reign’ and the astonishing closer ‘Arrive’ isn’t the pushy self-aggrandizement of a lead singer but the internal voice of the eternal migrant, someone who knows about survival, hiding, how living between multiple worlds can become its own refuge of distance, its own sanctuary of unbelonging Don’t Ask Don’t Tell emerged from a period of cohesion, a break from the tight and hectic touring schedule Come had been plunged into after the acclaim accorded 11:11, and you can hear that increased focus in every moment the layers of guitars and feedback are even more precise, the structuring of songs takes on a new openness and ambition, and the whole narrative arc of the record from ‘Finish Line’ to ‘Arrive’ is more exquisitely realised and sequenced.

                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                    Don't Ask Don't Tell - Disc 1
                                                                                                                                                                                    A1 Finish Line
                                                                                                                                                                                    A2 Mercury Falls
                                                                                                                                                                                    A3 Yr Reign
                                                                                                                                                                                    A4 Poison
                                                                                                                                                                                    A5 Let's Get Lost
                                                                                                                                                                                    B1 String
                                                                                                                                                                                    B2 German Song
                                                                                                                                                                                    B3 In/Out
                                                                                                                                                                                    B4 Wrong Side
                                                                                                                                                                                    B5 Arrive

                                                                                                                                                                                    Wrong Sides - Disc 2
                                                                                                                                                                                    A1 Car
                                                                                                                                                                                    A2 Last Mistake
                                                                                                                                                                                    A3 Submerge
                                                                                                                                                                                    A4 Loin Of The Surf
                                                                                                                                                                                    A5 SVK
                                                                                                                                                                                    B1 German Song (Demo)
                                                                                                                                                                                    B2 Adult Books
                                                                                                                                                                                    B3 Who Jumped In My Grave
                                                                                                                                                                                    B4 Angelhead
                                                                                                                                                                                    B5 Cimarron

                                                                                                                                                                                    Brigid Mae Power

                                                                                                                                                                                    Burning Your Light EP

                                                                                                                                                                                      ‘Burning Your Light’ is a new six-track EP of covers from the remarkable Brigid Mae Power, it follows ‘Head Above the Water’ (2020) which saw her unique vocal style and music heralded in all corners. Power’s ability to interpret songs is unquestionable, as is her love of the art of songwriting. She skilfully brings joy from pain which is perfectly illustrated on this new EP.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Ranging from the brittle collapse of ‘Didn’t It Rain’ (Songs: Ohia) through to the slings and blows of Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Patsy Cline, she brings hope and reverence to these classic songs.

                                                                                                                                                                                      The EP features ‘I’ll Be Here In The Morning’ from the late great pioneer of alt-country Townes Van Zandt’s essential album ‘For The Sake Of The Song’ (1968), ‘One More Cup Of Coffee’ hails from Bob Dylan’s ‘Desire’, Aretha Franklin’s ‘It Ain’t Fair’ from her 1970 album ‘This Girl’s In Love With You’, Songs: Ohia’s ‘Didn’t It Rain’ to ‘Leavin’ On Your Mind’, a country standard by Patsy Cline from 1963, that’s now taken to new depths of despair.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Also reworked is ‘May Morning Dew’ an Irish ballad that allows Brigid’s voice to ululate in the best tradition of the genre; the traditional sound is brought into a new decade with its chilling ambience.

                                                                                                                                                                                      "A remarkable Irish singer emerges from filigree and shadow" Mojo.

                                                                                                                                                                                      “The magic is in the folk singer’s extraordinary voice” Sunday Times.

                                                                                                                                                                                      "A remarkable Irish singer emerges from filigree and shadow" Mojo.

                                                                                                                                                                                      STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                      Barry says: Well, it's certainly a week for the cover versions isn't it? First Angel Olsen and now the folk stylings of Brigid Mae Power with her wonderful collection of folky covers of classics. It's Powers' voice that really tie together the songs here, filled with unrivalled emotion and brittle folky charm.

                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                      A1. I’ll Be Here In The Morning
                                                                                                                                                                                      A2. One More Cup Of Coffee
                                                                                                                                                                                      A3. It Ain't Fair
                                                                                                                                                                                      B1. Didn't It Rain
                                                                                                                                                                                      B2. May Morning Dew
                                                                                                                                                                                      B3. Leavin' On Your Mind

                                                                                                                                                                                      Modern Studies

                                                                                                                                                                                      Life Flows In Endless Song / The Body Is A Tide (Double EP) - Love Record Stores 2021 Edition

                                                                                                                                                                                        Love Record Stores Edition available instore from 10am on Saturday September 4th, any remaining copies will be available on online from 9pm on the same day.
                                                                                                                                                                                        Limited to one per person.

                                                                                                                                                                                        ‘Life Flows In Endless Song / The Body Is A Tide’ EP is released on vinyl for this year’s Love Record Stores on 4th September 2021.
                                                                                                                                                                                        Following the release of ‘The Weight Of The Sun’ LP, Modern Studies shift from light to dark over two new EPs brought together as six track 12-inch ‘Life Flows In Endless Song / The Body Is A Tide’, a record that further cements their reputation for innovative craftsmanship. ‘Life Flows In Endless Song’ showcases the band’s increasingly expansive sound, swelling with orchestrated drama behind the rich vocal pairing of Emily Scott and Rob St John, before their otherworldly dreaminess is pin-pricked at its height by Emily’s beautiful alto on ‘The Failing Light’. ‘The Body Is A Tide’ hails from ominous darker terrains, scratching further into their own psyche; it’s heady and baroque, ornate and super-detailed, an opus that climaxes with ‘High Hymn Summers’ and its slowly-rolling drone, created by processing all the songs from ‘The Weight of the Sun’ played at once. "The EP nods at the idea of our collective bodies weathering rough times, played out with massed strings, prepared guitars, slow bass grooves, hypnotic drums, wobbling saw, xaphoon and mellotron. We shook off our usual song structures in favour of something repetitive, slow and heavy; life flows in endless song." 

                                                                                                                                                                                        Pere Ubu

                                                                                                                                                                                        Pennsylvania - Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                          From the turn of the millennium, ‘Pennsylvania’ was the eleventh studio album from this uncompromising and influential group, presenting their dark take on pop music. This edition is newly remixed by David Thomas in 2021 and reissued on Fire Records. “Everyone talked about our artiness and our unlikeableness, people completely ignored for decades me saying, ‘We’re a pop band’.” David Thomas. With ‘Pennsylvania,’ Pere Ubu welcome you to a barely recognisable secret country drawn out of its own spectral geography... This is much more than just music.

                                                                                                                                                                                          “[Pere Ubu] were still creating great works of abstract art, pushing the limits of rock ‘n’ roll to twist into avant-garde explorations of the darkest recesses of the human mind” Classic Rock // “From the beginning they obviously understood the nuts and bolts of popular music, and then loosened them.” Mojo

                                                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                          Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                          A1 Woolie Bullie
                                                                                                                                                                                          A2 Highwaterville
                                                                                                                                                                                          A3 SAD.TXT
                                                                                                                                                                                          A4 Urban Lifestyle
                                                                                                                                                                                          A5 Silent Spring
                                                                                                                                                                                          A6 Mr Wheeler
                                                                                                                                                                                          A7 Muddy Waters

                                                                                                                                                                                          Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                          B1 Drive
                                                                                                                                                                                          B2 Indiangiver
                                                                                                                                                                                          B3 Monday Morning
                                                                                                                                                                                          B4 Perfume
                                                                                                                                                                                          B5 Fly's Eye
                                                                                                                                                                                          B6 Wheelhouse

                                                                                                                                                                                          Pere Ubu

                                                                                                                                                                                          St. Arkansas - Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                                            Pere Ubu's darkest and most dramatic statement, ‘St Arkansas’ remains a work of offhand brilliance by a band who often seem capable of miracles. This edition is newly remixed by David Thomas in 2021 and reissued on Fire Records. Following ‘Pennsylvania’, ‘St Arkansas’ (2002) was Pere Ubu’s next studio album featuring a travelogue of characters encountered on the Mighty Road from Conway Arkansas to Tupelo Mississippi, I-40 to US 49 to State 6. “I drove the route and wrote down what the Road was telling me.” David Thomas. Pere Ubu are the mainstream.

                                                                                                                                                                                            “Immediate, energised and claustrophobic.. It's difficult to think of a more important band.” Mojo.

                                                                                                                                                                                            “Straddling the extremes of pure, uncompromising modern art and pure, uncompromising loud rock.” The Sunday Times.

                                                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                            Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                            A1 The Feverered Dream Of Hernando DeSoto
                                                                                                                                                                                            A2 Slow Walking Daddy
                                                                                                                                                                                            A3 Michele
                                                                                                                                                                                            A4 333
                                                                                                                                                                                            A5 Hell

                                                                                                                                                                                            Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                            B1 Phone Home Jonah
                                                                                                                                                                                            B2 Lisbon
                                                                                                                                                                                            B3 Mr Steve
                                                                                                                                                                                            B4 Where's The Truth
                                                                                                                                                                                            B5 Dark

                                                                                                                                                                                            Josephine Foster

                                                                                                                                                                                            Blood Rushing

                                                                                                                                                                                              Tenth anniversary reissue of Josephine Foster’s lauded ninth album ‘Blood Rushing’. The North American Colorado based singer-songwriter has lent her warbling mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to nearly two decades of self-produced recordings. Foster’s songs are rooted in early American folk-blues as well as classical art song and Tin Pan Alley. A rock-ballet chanté, the music is set to a Pueblo drum's metapulsing Pan-American heartbeat. Recorded in Colorado by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes) with the collaboration of her partner Spanish guitarist Victor Herrero, and musicians Paz Lenchantin (The Entrance Band), Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw) and Ben Trimble (Fly Golden Eagle). A story within a story, ‘Blood Rushing’ is a glimpse into the world of Blushing, a heteronym of the artist Josephine Foster. “North American folk linage from Jean Ritchie and Hedy West through to the present, via the chugging, churning electronic (folk) rock of The Velvet Underground, all the time infused with a joyous communal warmth.”

                                                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                              A1 Waterfall
                                                                                                                                                                                              A2 Panorama Wide
                                                                                                                                                                                              A3 Sacred Is The Star
                                                                                                                                                                                              A4 Child Of God

                                                                                                                                                                                              B1 Blood Rushing
                                                                                                                                                                                              B2 The Wave Of Love
                                                                                                                                                                                              B3 O Stars
                                                                                                                                                                                              B4 Geyser
                                                                                                                                                                                              B5 Underwater Daughter
                                                                                                                                                                                              B6 Words Come Loose

                                                                                                                                                                                              Lucy Gooch

                                                                                                                                                                                              Rain's Break EP

                                                                                                                                                                                                An exploration of repression, longing and ‘otherness’ amidst illusory landscapes, ‘Rain’s Break’ EP is inspired by the early technicolour films of Powell and Pressburger. Lucy Gooch uses synthesisers and vocal layering to concentrate elements of each film’s score and narrative into songs which move through different moods of yearning and renewal:
                                                                                                                                                                                                “I first experienced their strange cinematic worlds in childhood, and they stayed with me, like waking dreams – their vibrancy seemed to capture the hidden emotional lives of everyday people. The films’ fantastical sets were often met with the complexities of the inner female experience, as portrayed by each heroine. People wrestling with post-war isolation, changing attitudes to women and sexual repression alongside their struggle to establish equality and autonomy of their own lives.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                So, it is amidst 1940’s austerity that these films were an escape, an over-rich backdrop of possibilities. A snatched piece of dialogue, the film’s score, the crackle of uncertainty all succumbs to the layered ambience of Lucy’s music as she traces moods of yearning and renewal on ‘Rain’s Break’ EP.

                                                                                                                                                                                                Originally from Norfolk, Lucy studied Fine Art and later moved to Bristol to join the emerging ambient scene there - gradually developing her writing and finally releasing her debut ‘Rushing’ EP in early 2020. Over the past year, she’s dipped into a wealth of long gone celluloid as the basis for a filmic journey, a five song EP that relives formative movies in her unique take on ecclesiastical pop.

                                                                                                                                                                                                ‘Ash and Orange’ emerged after listening to old recordings of women’s choirs from the 1930’s, their stoic sopranos circling churches and halls. In two parts, it touches on an everyday person’s hidden life that leads to an emotional breaking-down. A change from Lucy’s trademarked looping style it takes its inspiration from choral composition.

                                                                                                                                                                                                ‘Chained To A Woman’ by contrast, is more playful, nodding to ‘80s synth pop, a homage to some degree to Blue Nile, pop music tinged with melancholy.

                                                                                                                                                                                                “I sought to stick to that tradition of talk-singing the verses, and it seemed to fit in with the feeling of the song, which is more ambiguous. I wanted the words to be about being devoted to something, like family, a person or religion and all the things that come with that kind of devotion.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                Inspired by the monsoon scene at the end of Black Narcissus (1947), the title track ‘Rain’s Break’ takes its lead from the weather to reflect an emotional journey.

                                                                                                                                                                                                “That amazing tradition in early film of using weather to reflect the character’s emotional journey - it seems cliched now but at the time it was revolutionary. This is my attempt at trying to recreate the feeling of total surrender to drama, of something totally sensual.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                This is music that takes you places, shifts focus, paints large canvases.

                                                                                                                                                                                                STAFF COMMENTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                Barry says: There are all sorts of musical touchstones flying out of the player for this one. It's essentially widescreen ambient music but with a focus on the walls of echo and reverb-effected synths more akin to shoegaze. Slowly building into crescentic waves of layered tones, brilliantly warm but undeniably massive.

                                                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                                                                                                                1 Rain's Break
                                                                                                                                                                                                2 It Brings Me Back To You
                                                                                                                                                                                                3 Chained To A Woman

                                                                                                                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                                                                                                                4 6AM
                                                                                                                                                                                                5 Ash And Orange

                                                                                                                                                                                                ESG

                                                                                                                                                                                                Come Away With - Repress

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Come Away With ESG - 35-year anniversary release of the classic genre-busting debut album by the Bronx sisters ESG. The sample-friendly opus that’s the inspiration for hip-hop, house and post punk. Music that falls outside of the no wave, new wave and post punk library, it’s for the dance floor but it’s not funk, there’s no horns, no driving organ; it’s the opposite of Sly And The Family Stone but no less cool and no less groovy. “A lasting document of their unique brand of minimal funk that would influence subsequent post-punk, hip-hop, and dance music acts. Stripped down to the most basic of drumbeats and rudimentary bass lines, ‘Come Away’ confirms the notion that the real rhythm is what happens between the beats.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                  1. Come Away
                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. Dance
                                                                                                                                                                                                  3. You Make No Sense
                                                                                                                                                                                                  4. Parking Lot Blues
                                                                                                                                                                                                  5. Chistelle
                                                                                                                                                                                                  6. About You
                                                                                                                                                                                                  7. It’s Alright
                                                                                                                                                                                                  8. Moody ( Spaced Out )
                                                                                                                                                                                                  9. Tiny Sticks
                                                                                                                                                                                                  10. The Beat
                                                                                                                                                                                                  11. My Love For You

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Television Personalities

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Some Kind Of Happening: Singles 1978-1989

                                                                                                                                                                                                    “Treacy is the outsider's outsider, committed to a raw honesty, constantly bearing witness to his own suffering, his own weakness and fallibility.” The Quietus // A comprehensive remastered collection of all of the Television Personalities’ ground-breaking single releases from the Peel-approved ‘14th Floor’ through to the effervescent ‘Salvador Dali’s Garden Party’ EP. Includes the super rare Creation flexi, the TVPs as The Gifted Children, and the even rarer Caff 45 where the band tackle Stock, Aitken And Waterman.Purists will also find two shelved 45s for the Dreamworld label plus their take on Syd Barrett’s ‘Apples And Oranges’ from the ‘Beyond The Wildwood’ tribute album. Features the seminal ‘Where’s Bill Grundy Now’ and the self-effacing ‘Part Time Punks’ alongside a host of pop culture-bating gems. A celebration of the songwriting of Dan Treacy

                                                                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Side One

                                                                                                                                                                                                    01 - 14th Floor
                                                                                                                                                                                                    02 - Oxford St., W.1
                                                                                                                                                                                                    03 - Part Time Punks
                                                                                                                                                                                                    04 - Where's Bill Grundy Now?
                                                                                                                                                                                                    05 - Happy Families
                                                                                                                                                                                                    06 - Posing At The Roundhouse
                                                                                                                                                                                                    07 - The Prettiest Girl In The World
                                                                                                                                                                                                    08 - If That's What Love Is

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Side Two

                                                                                                                                                                                                    01 - Smashing Time
                                                                                                                                                                                                    02 - King And Country
                                                                                                                                                                                                    03 - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
                                                                                                                                                                                                    04 - Arthur The Gardener
                                                                                                                                                                                                    05 - Three Wishes
                                                                                                                                                                                                    06 - Geoffrey Ingram
                                                                                                                                                                                                    07 - And Don't The Kids Just Love It!

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Side Three

                                                                                                                                                                                                    01 - A Sense Of Belonging
                                                                                                                                                                                                    02 - Paradise Estate
                                                                                                                                                                                                    03 - How I Learned To Love The Bomb
                                                                                                                                                                                                    04 - Then God Snaps His Fingers
                                                                                                                                                                                                    05 - Now You're Just Being Ridiculous

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Side Four

                                                                                                                                                                                                    01 - She's Only The Grocer's Daughter
                                                                                                                                                                                                    02 - A Girl Called Charity
                                                                                                                                                                                                    03 - Salvador Dali's Garden Party
                                                                                                                                                                                                    04 - The Room At The Top Of The Stairs
                                                                                                                                                                                                    05 - This Time There's No Happy Ending
                                                                                                                                                                                                    06 - Part One: Fulfilling The Contractual Obligations

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Howe Gelb

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Hisser (RSD21 EDITION)

                                                                                                                                                                                                      THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2021 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY JUNE 12TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 6PM ON THE SAME DAY (SATURDAY JUNE 12TH).


                                                                                                                                                                                                      1500 pressed on Creamy White vinyl & DL card. First time on vinyl since 1998 for this magnificent patchwork collage of the Giant Sand main manís eclectic muses; a cut and paste gem, meandering, melancholy and beautiful. Classic solo album from Giant Sand's main man Howe Gelb circa 1998, re-issued with new liner notes and remastered on cream vinyl. A catch-all collection from the much-travelled troubadour that brings together a wealth of personal recordings edited into an intriguing ponder wander through the manís thinking.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      A truly intoxicating set of songs buoyed by Howe Gelb's prosaic prose and effortless use of the mind-bending one-liner. ìíHisserí is the vision of a truly unique and engaging talent, and in its pure heart and soul lies a masterpiece.
                                                                                                                                                                                                      College Music Journal // Pure genius and usually chaotic, Howe Gelb is a cottage industry often labelled the Godfather of alternative country. BOMB magazine // There are wonderful glimpses of what Gelb is capable of when heís not rushing off to dabble with the next nugget in a seemingly inexhaustible flow of ideas. The Line Of Best Fit // One of those albums that could have a semi-permanent spot next to the hi-fi for late-night playing. The Independent 

                                                                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Side A. 1 Temptation Of Egg 2 4 Door Maverick 3 This Purple Child 4 Shy Of Bumfuck 5 Propulsion 6 Catapult 7 Creeper.
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Side B. 8 Tanks Rolling Into Town 9 Halifax In A Hurricane 10 Living On A Waterfall 11 Like A Store Front Display 12 Explore You 13 Nico's Lil Opera 14 Thereminender 15 Hisser 16 Intro Speck 17 Soldier Of Fortune 18 Lull 19 Short Way To End The Day


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