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Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright - 20th Anniversary Edition

PIAS

Coloured LP

£23.99

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Cat Number

PIASC1125LP

Release date

Expected 23 May '25

Format Info

Transparent milky clear vinyl.

Release date: Expected 23 May '25

Celebrating 20 years of Martha Wainwright, the stunning debut album that introduced the world to one of the most distinctive voices of her generation.

Featuring standout tracks like ‘Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole’ and ‘Factory’, the album is a fearless statement of raw emotion and poetic songwriting.

Across its deeply personal and beautifully crafted songs, Wainwright’s signature blend of folk, rock and unfiltered lyricism shines.

TRACK LISTING

Far Away
G.P.T
Factory
These Flowers
Ball & Chain
Don't Forget
This Life
When The Day Is Short
Bloody Mother Fucking
Asshole
TV Show
The Maker
Who Was I Kidding?

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Smashing Pumpkins

Aghori Mhori Mei

Martha's Music

Indies Exclusive LP

£21.99

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Cat Number

06537EXC

Release date

22 Nov '24

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Indies exclusive black vinyl with exclusive poster.

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Cat Number

06537LP

Release date

22 Nov '24

Format Info

Standard black vinyl edition.

A bruising and shadowy return to form from original Smashing Pumpkins members Jimmy Chamberlin, James Iha, and Billy Corgan. Recorded in the immediate aftermath of their 33- song concept album, ‘Atum’, 'Aghori Mhori Mei' harkens back to the band’s early 90’s canon; where guitars, bass, drums, and spiking vocals ruled.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Does this sound like early Smashing Pumpkins? No, not really - we still get the finely produced, synthy stomp that now seems typical of Monuments To An Elegy or Cyr BUT we also get segments brimming with the storming fuzzed-out thrust and grungy quiet-loud tenderness of their early years. For me, the best Pumpkins LP in at least a decade.

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1. Edin
2. Pentagrams
3. Sighommi
4. Pentecost
5. War Dreams Of Itself
6. Who Goes There
7. 999
8. Goeth The Fall
9. Sicarus
10. Murnau

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Martha Skye Murphy

Um

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Meaning shifts throughout Martha Skye Murphy's debut album ‘Um’ with songs that meld moments of baroque beauty with crashes of electronic noise, employing textures that are by turns organic and artificial, hi-fi and lo-fi.
Collaborations with the likes of Claire Rousay and Roy Montgomery are finely intertwined with the fruits of rigorous studio sessions with producer Ethan P. Flynn.

Lyrically Murphy conjures images inspired by everything from Ancient Roman hand-binding torture to a Fred and Ginger tap routine. A deep sense of longing and echoes of lost, distant memory haunt the record.
“I wanted the album to feel like this constant tension between being in a very intimate domestic space, and then being propelled into a far stranger environment that is difficult to situate,” she says. “I want people to feel disoriented, erotically charged by the intimacy of a bedroom, then catapulted into a desert.”

TRACK LISTING

First Day
Need
Theme Parks
Pick Yourself Up
Spray Can
Call Me Back
Kind
The Words
Dust Yourself Off
Irl
Forgive

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The Smashing Pumpkins

ATUM

Martha's Music

4xLtd LP

£74.99

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Cat Number

04471LPEXC

Release date

5 May '23

Format Info

Quadruple black vinyl edition. This indie variant includes three exclusive screen-printed inserts, each inspired by the three acts of ATUM.
Limited to just 1000 copies.

ATUM is a rock opera presented in three acts by inimitable American rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. The album tells an epic interplanetary story set in the not-too-distant future, though the songs themselves respectively stand on their own in the Pumpkins pantheon. This is the final installment in a concept album trilogy, which began with 1995’s Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness and then continued with 2000's Machina/The Machines of God. The album features three original members of the band - William Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin - as well as longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder. Corgan had been developing the idea for the rock opera for years, and the pandemic gave him the time off the road to meticulously complete it in the grandiose way he had intended.

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Barry says: As Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness is one of my favourite albums of all time, it's impossible not to be excited by this epic culmination of the trilogy that includes that and 2000's also-excellent Machina (Machines of God). A huge, expansive collection, spanning the Pumpkins' wide tonal palette.

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1. Atum
2. Butterfly Suite
3. The Good In Goodbye
4. Embracer
5. With Ado I Do
6. Hooligan
7. Steps In Time
8. Where Rain Must Fall
9. Beyond The Vale
10. Hooray!
11. The Gold Mask
12. Avalanche
13. Empires
14. Neophyte
15. Moss
16. Night Waves
17. Space Age
18. Every Morning
19. To The Grays
20. Beguiled
21. The Culling
22. Springtimes
23. Sojurner
24. That Which Animates The Spirit
25. X Ray
26. Pacer
27. In Lieu Of Failure
28. Cenotaph
29. Harmageddon
30. Fireflies
31. Intergalactic
32. Spellbinding
33. Of Wings
34. Audio Story

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Martha

Please Don’t Take Me Back

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Coloured LP

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Cat Number

SPS098V

Release date

28 Oct '22

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Clear with white splatter vinyl.

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SPS098VX

Release date

28 Oct '22

Format Info

Indie exclusive blue vinyl.

Durham indiepop-punks Martha return with their fourth album, and it might just be their best one yet. With their endlessly radiant hooks dialled up to maximum setting, paired with another heart-rending and relatable lyric sheet that reflects on the universal scars of the pandemic years, Please Don’t Take Me Back is the work of a band in the form of their life. It’s also an instant classic - one that’s both smartly prescient and warmly addictive. Recorded at Nottingham’s JT Soar by ‘Bad’ Phil Booth (The Cool Greenhouse, Rattle, Grey Hairs), Please Don’t Take Me Back is a timely collection of deliciously catchy pop songs about ‘resisting the feeling that the good days are behind us’.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: If they were to make another Tony Hawk Pro Skater game, then the developers wouldn't need to look any further for their soundtrack! Capturing that late 90s/early 00s pop-punk essence, Martha's 'Please Don't Take Me Back' treads the line of delivering catchy chewy choruses and nostalgic tinged riffs, whilst also managing to keep themselves sounding fresh. No mum, it was never 'just a phase'...

TRACK LISTING

1. Beat, Perpetual
2. Every Day The Hope Gets Harder
3. Please Don't Take Me Back
4. Irreversible Motion
5. Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?
6. F L A G // B U R N E R
7. Neon Lung
8. Take Me Back To The Old Days (Reprise)
9. Total Cancellation Of The Future
10. I Didn't Come Here To Surrender
11. You Can't Have A Good Time All Of The Time

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Martha

Please Don't Take Me Back

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Coloured 7"

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Mixed grey vinyl.

Cat Number

SPS096

Release date

24 Jun '22

Format Info

Mixed grey vinyl.

New 7” from Durham indie, pop, punks Martha! ‘Please Don't Take Me Back’ is a song about refusing to let rose-tinted glasses distort your visions of the past. The b-side features a rough and ready cover of 'My Heart is a Drummer' by beloved Australian/English indie-pop legends Allo Darlin, who Martha supported at their first ever London gig back in 2012. Recorded at JT Soar, Nottingham. Produced by 'Bad' Phil Booth and mixed by Phil along with Rich Collins and Rob Newman Mastered by Dave Williams.

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Please Don't Take Me Back
My Heart Is A Drummer

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Martha Wainwright

Goodnight City

[PIAS] Cooperative

Martha Wainwright releases a wonderful new studio album, ‘Goodnight City’, on [PIAS]. It’s the follow up to her acclaimed 2012 release ‘Come Home To Mama’.

‘Goodnight City’ features 12 brand new songs produced by Thomas Bartlett (Surfjan Stevens, Glen Hansard) and longtime producer Brad Albetta. It recalls the emotional rawness of her debut album, much of it encapsulated by the captivating lead track ‘Around The Bend’ and her extraordinary voice.

“Making ‘Goodnight City’ was the most fun I’ve had in a long time,” Martha admits. “Thomas (keys), Brad (electric / bass), Phil Melanson (drums) and I would sit in a circle and work out arrangements for these vividly different songs. Recording them live with very few overdubs the focus remains on the integrity of the song and our ability to play together as a band.”

Martha wrote half the songs on the album while the other half were written by friends and relatives: Beth Orton, Glen Hansard, Rufus, Wainwright, Michael Ondaatje and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs.

“Because these writers know me and because I was able to personalise these songs by changing things here and there, I made them feel as if I wrote them myself,” Martha explains. “Somehow they wonderfully reflect my life and I am so thankful to the other artists for writing them.”

‘Goodnight City’ was recorded in Montreal. Last year Martha and Lucy Wainwright Roche released ‘Songs In The Dark’ as the Wainwright Sisters.

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Around The Bend
Franci
Traveller
Look Into My Eyes
Before The Children Came Along
Window
Piano Music
Alexandria
So Down
One Of Us
Take The Reins
Francis

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