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J-WALK
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- Coloured LP
- £25.99
- Cat Number
- JNR450LPC1
- Release date
- Expected 28 Jun '24
- Format Info
White coloured vinyl.
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- JNR450CD
- Release date
- Expected 28 Jun '24
Release date: Expected 28 Jun '24
Separated from their homes in Massachusetts and North Carolina, Barlow and Davis collaborated remotely, flashing back to their early friendship as penpals. A sweaty bass and drums session went down in Barlow’s attic, before they booked studio time with producer Scott Salter (St. Vincent, Spoon, The Mountain Goats).
Contrasts and comparisons are the keys to unlocking Walk Thru Me, and the Folk Implosion as a whole. Beyond the audible differences between Barlow’s soft voice and Davis’s urgent, reedy proclamations,
their approaches to songwriting are strikingly distinct. While Barlow approached his lyrics from a protective paternal perspective (“My Little Lamb”), Davis paid tribute to his late father, shining a light on their complicated relationship (“The Day You Died”). Finally, Davis’s Persian music studies in weekly Zoom lessons inspired him to integrate traditional Middle Eastern instruments such as the setar, oud, saz, and tombak.
“Because we’re so separate, part of this album is me desperately trying to telepathically communicate to John and Scott, who are 700 miles away from me,” Barlow concludes. “A big part of what I consider to be the Folk Implosion is taking disparate things and turning them into pop.”
TRACK LISTING
1. Crepuscular
2. The Day You Died
3. Walk Thru Me
4. My Little Lamb
5. Bobblehead Doll
6. The Fable And The Fact
7. Right Hand Over The Heart
8. Water Torture
9. O.K. To Disconnect
10. Moonlit Kind
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- Coloured LP
- £34.99
- Cat Number
- 5054197809422 (#RSD24)
- Release date
- 20 Apr '24
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IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.
The 40th anniversary of The Sisters Of Mercy's first two EPs from 1984, packaged together as one LP.
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- LP
- £23.99
- Cat Number
- 19658-79540-1
- Release date
- 17 Nov '23
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- CD
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- 19658-79540-2
- Release date
- 17 Nov '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Walk Around The Moon
2. Madman’s Eyes
3. Looking For A Vein
4. The Ocean And The Butterfly
5. It Could Happen
6. Something To Tell My Baby
7. After Everything
8. All You Wanted Was Tomorrow
9. The Only Thing
10. Break Free
11. Monsters
12. Singing From The Windows
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- Ltd LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- OOJAMI001
- Release date
- 10 Nov '23
Oojami has previously released six albums, with "Bellydancing Breakbeats" establishing the artist in the international bellydancing scene,
TRACK LISTING
A1. Rosalina
A2. Open Up
A3. Walk Alone
A4. Hold Me
A5. Voodoo
B1. For Today
B2. Release Me
B3. Rising Sun
B4. Love Is Gone
B5. You And I
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- 7"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- SSS702
- Release date
- 6 Oct '23
Previously only ever available on Maxi’s self-titled 1977 LP, released on Blue Note. With originals of the album selling for over £160+, South Street give these glorious grooves space to breathe with a 7 inch reissue of two choice cuts. Soaring vocals, top drawer production, sumptuous instrumentation, with a string section to melt any heart out there – all arranged to perfection. The sort of track that will sweep you off your feet before you even know what’s hit you. Famously sampled by Tom & Jerry aka 4 Hero for their ridiculously rare Jungle anthem ‘Maximum Style’.
To complete the package, another hand-picked hit from Maxi’s one and only LP with a cover of the Van McCoy penned soulful serenity ‘Walk Softly’.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Lover To Lover
B1. Walk Softly
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- Ltd LP
- £28.99
- Cat Number
- 19658800991
- Release date
- 8 Sep '23
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- Coloured LP
- £17.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 950741
- Release date
- 10 Feb '23
- Format Info
Orange vinyl edition.
Orange vinyl edition.
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- 12"
- £14.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- WR001V
- Release date
- 10 Jun '22
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Not to be confused with "Mango Walk" by The Chosen Few, or indeed "Mango Drive" by Rhythm & Sound (what's with the mangos?!). The In Crowd supersede all with this intrinsic slice of roots from 1975 (!!). Decorated with two fresh remixes, this is a must-have release for reggae fans.TRACK LISTING
1. Mango Walk (Remastered)
2. Mango Walk (Equiknoxx Remix) Feat. Shanique Marie
3. Mango Walk (Urbandawn Remix)
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- Ltd 7"
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- WDW7007
- Release date
- 4 Mar '22
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Most Mancs with an ear to the streams will be aware of this highly adorable record dropping this week. Already championed by James Holroyd, Ron Basejam and Neil Diablo - one of the most poignant, heart-fluttering, down-right-beautiful songs this shining gemstone of a band have ever created.TRACK LISTING
A: If Life Could Be This Way
B: How Could I Know?
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- Cassette
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- JW001
- Release date
- 8 Oct '21
- Format Info
Edition of 70 stickered 'antique silver' cassettes, housed within hand-numbered printed 200gsm J-card and clear cassette case- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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Kicking things off, 'City Slicker' matches a swung percussive groove against phased chord stabs and rolling synthetic bass, providing a perfect starting point for the wonderfully vivid landscape that is to come. 'Hypercruiser' brings in the most understated saw-wave bass (with *just* enough short reverb on to come popping out of the mix) before launching into a soaring, euphoric lift into one of my favourite pices on the whole collection, the wonderfully evocative portamentoed swing of 'Underwater Galaxy'.
Both 'A World Someplace' and 'Winter Moon Rendezvous' hold their place perfectly, tactfully seguing between slowly pulled synth chords and twinkling dreamlike bliss. The former swims with a machine-funk groove, reminiscent of an 8-bit cityscape while the latter takes this established groove and slows it down, reducing to a few perfectly pitched elements. It's this restraint that really sets J-Walk apart from the rest, with his keen production ear coming across perfectly in the finished product.
Laters, both 'Chill Bien' and 'Equinox Desire' usher in hints of tropical groove, with the syncopated stabs of bass fading into a sea of reverb and bit-crushed guitars before pulling all the elements seamlessly into a perfect culmination of melodic drive and lysergic relaxation.
We finish with the massive duo of 'Fait Accompli' and 'The Night Machine', the former bringing the latent Italo elements into the mix before the latter slams them home with an uncompromisingly crunchy, filter-manipulated freak-out.
It's a stunning collection of tracks, and further evidence that J-Walk is indeed here to stay, thank f*ck.
TRACK LISTING
1. City Slicker 04:00
2. Hypercruiser 03:57
3. Underwater Galaxy 03:44
4. A World Someplace 04:55
5. Winter Moon Rendezvous 03:53
6. Hologram Jam 03:43
7. Chill Bien 04:26
8. Equinox Desire 05:01
9. Fait Accompli 03:24
10. The Night Machine 03:19
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- 2xLtd LP
- £30.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- SJRLP484 (#RSD21DROP2)
- Release date
- 17 Jul '21
IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 6PM ON THE SAME DAY (SATURDAY JULY 17TH).
This album is released as a special one-off exclusive blue double vinyl edition for Record Store Day 2021. Out of print for nearly 15 years, this album was recorded at the start of the long-relationship between Kieran Hebden and drummer extraordinaire Steve Reid. Soul Jazz Records had begun to release Reidís music in 2000, reissuing much of his early catalogue of radical, deep and spiritual jazz music from the 1970s when an encounter between electronic music pioneer Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid effectively launched a new career for jazz drummer Reid - a man steeped in history having played with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Motown and much more.
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid released a set of ground-breaking albums together in London, New York and Africa (including four on Domino Records) and continued to work together up until Steve Reid died in 2010. This album launched the start of this new connection between the two very different and yet connected artists a mixture of electronic and jazz sensibilities like no other. The album Spirit Walk contains an updated version of Reidís seminal Lions of Judah (originally released on Reidís classic Nova in 1976), For Coltrane, and the stunning and epic 15-min Drum Song. The album comes with complete original artwork, including innersleeves (featuring an interview with Steve Reid by Gilles Peterson).
TRACK LISTING
A 1. Lugano (7.02) 2. Bridget (5.49) 3. For Coltrane (8.03)
B 1. Blind Tom (1.23) 2. Which One? (6:43) 3. Lions Of Juda (8.26)
C 1. It Cannot Be True (6.04) 2. Unity (9:10)
D 1. Drum Story (14.29)
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- LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- EZRDR101LP
- Release date
- 16 Aug '19
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- EZRDR101CD
- Release date
- 16 Aug '19
Since that time, Here Lies Man has expanded and expounded upon their sound and ideas of heavy riff rock and psych within the ancient rhythmic formula of the clave. The L.A. based band comprised of Antibalas members have toured relentlessly over the past 2 years, while also releasing a second album, You Will Know Nothing and an EP, Animal Noises, both in 2018.
No Ground to Walk Upon is their third album, and continues with an ongoing concept of HLM playing the soundtrack to an imaginary movie, with each song being a scene. The lead single “Clad in Silver” is the soundtrack snippet of a journey to the imaginary place called home, which can never be arrived at. With every step, the character imagines getting closer, but it is a hallucination that fades in and out of perception.
Their debut album Here Lies Man was very well reviewed and featured in loads of end of year polls. BBC 6 & Classic Rock Magazine deemed it among the year’s best, as well as countless other press outlets singing its praises. 2018’s You Will Know Nothing furthered the band’s reputation for genre-smashing rhythmic experimentation, topping many year-end lists as well as earning features from countless metal and indie rock outlets, plus cover stories in weekly papers. No Ground to Walk Upon is the next step in the band’s rapid ascent to what is bound to be influential upon riff based rock.
“We’re very conscious of how the rhythms service the riffs,” explains founder and vocalist/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Marcos Garcia (who also plays guitar in Antibalas) of the band’s sound. “Tony Iommi’s (Black Sabbath) innovation was to make the riff the organizing principle of a song. We are taking that same approach but employing a different organizing principle: For Iommi it was the blues, for us it comes directly from Africa.”
No Ground To Walk Upon also includes an interesting conceptual mathematics to the entire proceedings, a theme begun on the prior album. “There are interludes between each song that are 2/3 to 3/4 of the tempo of the previous song,” Garcia says. “The reason it breaks down to 2 over 3 or 3 over 4 is that everything in the music rhythmically corresponds to a set of mathematical algorithms known as the clave. The clave is an ancient organizing rhythmic principle developed in Africa.”
Garcia and cofounder/drummer Geoff Mann (former Antibalas drummer and son of jazz musician Herbie Mann) recorded the album much like they did their previous releases, at their own L.A. studio on a Tascam 388 8-track tape machine. Additional layers were recorded with former Antibalas keyboardist Victor Axelrod and other contributors in various other locations, all while the band continued its rigorous touring schedule.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: it's pretty impossible not to nod your head along to Here Lies Man, as alluring as the best funk and the most playful rock groove all mixed into one package. Fiery distorted guitar, rhythmic syncopation and hazy, chunky riffage. The Perfect combination.TRACK LISTING
1. Clad In Silver
2. Swinging From Trees
3. Long Legs (Look Away)
4. Washing Bones
5. Get Ahold Of Yourself
6. Iron Rattles
7. Man Falls Down
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- SBR204CD
- Release date
- 17 Aug '18
From the opening whirr of the title track, it’s clear that the band is onto something special. Recorded in Strange Weather studios in the first part of 2018, The Long Walk is eight new tracks by the duo of Greenberg and Berdan, incorporating Fox’s skills behind the drum kit to add an entirely new dimension to the signature Uniform sound. Ditching sequenced tracks, Greenberg opted for single takes to highlight the Frankenstein-like guitar-bass-synth hybrid that oozes throughout the recording. Meanwhile, crushing guitar thunder is punched up by Fox’s masterful drumming while Berdan’s cries from the nether feel more desperate and morose than ever. This is Uniform at its most bleak, emotional, and powerful.
Lyrically, The Long Walk deals with paradoxes in spirituality and organized religion. Berdan went to Catholic school for most of his primary education. Fear of Biblical hell and damnation felt tangible. As Berdan grew and matured emotionally, he began to reject Catholicism bit by bit. In the recent past, Berdan found himself slowly reconnecting with his background, observing how the faith that he found so repressive served as a great source of comfort and strength for so many. Yet therein lay the contradiction that drove him from religion in the first place — many of the human traditions of the church also dealt in repression, intolerance, and bigotry. Could one observe the rituals and practice of a faith while acknowledging and rejecting its ugliest elements?
TRACK LISTING
1. The Walk (5:31)
2. Inhuman Condition (4:16)
3. Found (3:51)
4. Transubstantiation (4:36)
5. Alone In The Dark (3:47)
6. Headless Eyes (3:58)
7. Anointing Of The Sick (4:47)
8. Peaceable Kingdom (6:49)
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- 2xColoured LP
- £31.49
- Cat Number
- IPC195LP
- Release date
- 7 Jul '17
- Format Info
2LP set features two separate gatefold vinyl housed in a sturdy box. Death is on Opaque Pink vinyl, Love is on Opaque Violet (there is no black vinyl for this release).
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- 2xCD
- £15.49
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- IPC195CD
- Release date
- 7 Jul '17
- Format Info
2CD set features two separate 6-panel digipaks house in a sturdy box.
2CD set features two... [ + ]
“This was a huge undertaking,” explained band ringleader Buzz Osborne. “All three things: the album, the soundtrack and the film are benchmarks for us.”
Drummer Dale Crover added, “A Walk With Love and Death is one giant, dark, moody, psychotic head trip! Not for the faint of heart. You'll sleep with the lights on after listening.”
The albums, which include guests Joey Santiago (The Pixies), Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes/Crystal Fairy) and Anna Waronker (That Dog), were co-produced with engineer Toshi Kosai.
TRACK LISTING
DISC 1: DEATH
1 Black Heath
2 Sober-delic (acid Only)
3 Euthanasia
4 What's Wrong With You?
5 Edgar The Elephant
6 Flaming Creature
7 Christ Hammer
8 Cactus Party
9 Cardboa Negro
DISC 2: LOVE
1 Aim High
2 Queen Powder Party
3 Street Level St. Paul
4 The Hidden Joice
5 Give It To Me
6 Chicken Butt
7 Eat Yourself Out
8 Scooba
9 Halfway To The Bakersfield Mall
10 Pacoima Normal
11 Park Head
12 T-Burg
13 Track Star
14 The Asshole Bastard
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- CD
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- WEST118CD
- Release date
- 12 May '14
Having met at band camp and on an internet message board, the trio had made music together for nine years without ever living together in the same city. After recording two albums and a handful of singles via email, they decided it was finally time to enter a real studio where they could play and record together in real time. They chose San Francisco's Tiny Telephone studio, where Jay Pellicci manned the controls for a week-and-a-half of the most spontaneous, democratic, and visceral recording of their lives. They emerged with Walk Me Home, an album that finally reflects their live chemistry and their diverging lives and musical tastes.
"The bass is dewey. The harmonies are starlit. The theremin is ripe…The racket they're able to muster together in the process is enough to set them apart from the pack." PITCHFORK.
TRACK LISTING
01. Purgatory; 2:17
02. Bad Trip; 2:24
03. Paradise; 4:24
04. The Rooftop; 2:26
05. Interlude; 1:49
06. Thumbs ; 3:28
07. Playing With Fire; 3:50
08. Walk Me Home; 3:46
09. The Cellar; 4:04
10. Interlude 2; 1:36
11. It ’s Always Summer; 2:45
12. It ’s Always Winter; 3:42
13. Sun Enclosure; 3:30
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- LITA105
- Release date
- 7 Oct '13
* Remastered from original sources
* 2xLP housed in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket with 20-pg book, and download card full full anthology
* Vinyl cut by John Golden and pressed at RTI
* CD housed in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket with 48-pg book
* Scholarly liner notes by Punk In Africa director Keith Jones
* Unseen photos, flyers, and band ephemera
The South Africa of the late 1970s was neither the right place nor time to launch a mixed-race punk band. Yet, following the student-inspired Soweto Uprising of 1976, it was also exactly the right conditions to foster a band like National Wake, one formed in an underground commune, and one whose very name exists in protest at the divisive, racist apartheid regime. Never before collected together, Light In The Attic is set to release National Wake’s full body of work as Walk In Africa 1979-81.
Featured heavily in the Punk In Africa documentary, National Wake played punk, reggae and tropical funk, equally at home in the city’s rock underground and the township nightclub circuit. Ivan Kadey started the band with two brothers, Gary and Punka Khoza. The three were from different worlds –while Ivan was an outsider, a Jewish orphan born in the traditional Johannesburg immigrant neighborhood, Gary, Punka and their family were forcibly moved to the troubled township of Soweto under the apartheid regime. Later joined by guitarist Steve Moni, the whole band grew up against a backdrop of township unrest, social upheaval and suburban tedium that characterized apartheid-era South Africa.
National Wake released just one album, in 1981. It sold approximately 700 copies before being withdrawn under government pressure. The band subsequently disintegrated, but their influence could be traced in the racially mixed post-punk underground centered around Rockey Street in Johannesburg throughout the 1980s, their legacy transmitted through fanzines and underground cassette trading.
Sadly, Gary and Punka Khoza both passed away in their 40s. Kadey now works as an architect in Los Angeles, but his attention eventually turned back to the band as their legacy grew in the digital era, with the emergence of specialized music websites and Punk In Africa leading to their rediscovery. Czech State Radio memorably described the band as “perhaps the most dissident music scene of the 20th century: a multi-racial punk band in a fascist police state.”
In 2011, Kadey re-released the band’s self-titled album, but spoke about having more than 20 tracks that had never seen the light of day –until now. “All of these recordings put together they speak of the whole evolution of the band,” he has said. “From a sort of naive, almost belief that we could miraculously change everything to realizing what a struggle it was, and what the country was going through and what it would go through.”
TRACK LISTING
1. International News
2. It's All Right
3. Walk In Africa
4. Time And Place
5. Corner House Stone
6. Mercenaries
7. Wake Of The Nation
8. Supaman
9. Speed It Up
10. Beat Up The Lights
11. Black Punk Rockers
12. Stratocaster
13. Everybody
14. Vatsiketeni
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- 2703335
- Release date
- 13 Jul '09
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- Ltd 7"
- £3.99
- Cat Number
- MMR016
- Release date
- 9 Jul '07
Coldcut Feat. Robert Owens
Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Timo Garcia & The Cheshire Catz / Tom Belton Remixes)
Ninja Tune
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- 12"R
- £4.49
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- ZEN12179R
- Release date
- 21 Aug '06
- Format Info
12" includes remixes by Timo Garcia & The Cheshire Catz and Tom Belton.
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- CD
- £7.99
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- JPRCD10
- Release date
- 9 Feb '04
The overall mood is even softer and more precious (if that can be believed) than their previous efforts. Murdoch and Chris Geddes' "Don't Leave The Light On Baby" is the band's attempt at a '70s soul ballad, a Wurlitzer adding a Music-of-My-Mind vibe to a lovers' dissertation. Isobel Campbell's "Beyond The Sunrise" is biblical Celtic-prog-folk, all flutes and acoustic guitar, while Jackson's own "The Wrong Girl" is an upbeat, country-ish lament with typically soulful Belle & Sebastian strings and trumpet giving the song an understated melodic kick. Of course, Murdoch contributes a classic or two - "I Fought a War" is a gentle away-at-the-battlefield tale imbued with the greatest sense of dread Murdoch's ever given a song. And "Woman's Realm" is the kind of pop stomper "Arab Strap" was packed to the gills with, highlighted here by its increasingly quiet surroundings.
TRACK LISTING
1. I Fought In A War
2. The Model
3. Beyond The Sunrise
4. Waiting For The Moon To Rise
5. Don't Leave The Light On Baby
6. The Wrong Girl
7. The Chalet Lines
8. Nice Day For A Sulk
9. Women's Realm
10. Family Tree
11. There's Too Much Love