Following the crazily limited Dinked Edition white label pressing of this incredible album (it sold out in minutes), we now bring you the official worldwide release on Mute. Hailed as one of the US’s most exciting and provocative new bands, Prostitute’s bracing debut Attempted Martyr has been quite the talking point!


Emerging out of Dearborn, Michigan, this five-piece deal in pure chaos and catharsis - fiery live shows, razor-sharp intensity, and a sound that’s as incendiary as it is brutally tight. Their name reflects their fixation on identity, desperation, and survival under late capitalism.

Attempted Martyr was written in the midst of global and personal turmoil, capturing the zeitgeist of a world unraveling. A loose concept record, it chronicles the rise and fall of a doomed zealot whose pursuit of holy vengeance spirals into a psychotic orgy of violence, greed, and lust. It’s dense, turbulent, and charged with blaring Middle Eastern, African and East Asian influences - all scorched into shape by producer Chris Koltay (The Armed, Mdou Moctar).

With mounting online buzz, critical acclaim and a run of sold-out bootleg editions, Prostitute’s debut continues to gain momentum.

“Really heavy, intense, intriguing, thrilling, and thematically unique album, and aesthetically unique, too” - Anthony Fantano

“Calling the Dearborn noise rockers’ debut “intense” is somehow still underselling it.”- Pitchfork

“...a terroristic noise rock opera, complete with groovy riffs, pummeling drums, and a frontman more crazed than anyone in their orbit” - Stereogum

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1 All Hail
A2 Judge
A3 M. Dada
A4 Body Meat

Side B
B1 Senegal
B2 In The Corner Dunce
B3 Joumana Kayrouz
B4 Harem Induction Hour

A unique collaboration between two of the most inquisitive and important artists in modern avant-garde electronic music.

Paper Masks marks a striking new collaboration between visionary Mute labelmates Phew and Danielle de Picciotto. Developed quietly over nearly five years, what began as an experiment between friends gradually evolved into a full-length album. Phew composed and arranged all the music, weaving in de Picciotto’s voice and freely reshaping it to create something entirely new. Performed in both German and English, the result is an exploratory work that balances electronic minimalism with emotional immediacy.

Described by Pitchfork as “a Japanese underground legend”, Phew - former member of Osaka punk pioneers Aunt Sally - has forged a remarkable solo career, collaborating with Ryuichi Sakamoto, members of Can, and many others. In parallel, Danielle de Picciotto, an American-born interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin, co-founded the Berlin Love Parade and has performed internationally, working with Crime & the City Solution, Gudrun Gut, Space Cowboys, and her partner Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten and frequent Phew collaborator) in hackedepicciotto.

Paper Masks stands as a mesmerising exchange between two singular voices in experimental music - an intimate dialogue across distance, language, and sound, and a compelling addition to both artists’ evolving legacies.

TRACK LISTING

1 The Cat
2 Der Verpasste Kaffee
3 Amnesie
4 Sugar Sprinkles
5 Pixelwissen
6 Iceberg
7 Paper Memories
8 Im Nebel

Six years after his Grammy-nominated 'LP5', Sascha Ring - aka Apparat - takes a bold dive into the complexities of life with his sixth studio album.

'A Hum Of Maybe' is detailed, finely crafted, and wonderfully unpredictable. At its core, the record is about love - for himself, his wife, and his daughter - and holding onto it, protecting it, and constantly recalibrating as it is in a constant state of flux. As the title suggests, the songs explore being stuck in between: not a clear yes or no, but 'A Hum Of Maybe'.

Ring elegantly combines the perspectives of an electronic producer and a classical composer, working closely with long-time collaborators Philipp Johann Thimm (cello, piano, guitar) - who also co-wrote and co-produced the record - Christoph “Mäckie” Hamann (violin, keyboard, bass), Jörg Wähner (drums), and Christian Kohlhaas (trombone). The album also features Armenian-American artist KÁRYYN - Apparat’s Mute labelmate - on ‘Tilth’, and Berlin-and Rome-based musician Jan-Philipp Lorenz (aka Bi Disc) on ‘Pieces, Falling’.

'A Hum Of Maybe' is complex, deeply personal, and embraces a state of limbo, marking an exciting new chapter for Apparat.

TRACK LISTING

1. Glimmerine
2. A Slow Collision
3. Gravity Test
4. Tilth (Apparat X KÁRYYN)
5. Hum Of Maybe
6. An Echo Skips A Name
7. Enough For Me
8. Lunes
9. Williamsburg
10. Pieces, Falling (Apparat X Bi Disc)
11. Recalibration

Barry Adamson, original member of Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and a celebrated solo artist and composer, returns with the soundtrack to 'SCALA!!!', the acclaimed documentary chronicling the history of London’s most infamous independent cinema. Known for his film work, including collaborations with David Lynch, Adamson brings his trademark blend of noir, jazz, funk and atmosphere to a score that’s as evocative as the Scala itself.

The album captures the cinema’s spirit: late nights, sticky floors, sleazy underground screenings, and the intoxicating world of subversive art. Across its 22 tracks, Adamson conjures moods that shift from brooding and cinematic to playful and chaotic, echoing the wild programming and cultural rebellion the Scala embodied.

The film, directed by Jane Giles and Ali Catterall, tells the story of the legendary King’s Cross repertory cinema (1978–1993). Featuring interviews with staff, regulars and icons including John Waters, Mark Moore, Mary Harron, Isaac Julien and Ben Wheatley, alongside rare archival footage it celebrates a venue that became a crucible for counterculture, sexploitation, horror, kung-fu, LGBTQ+ cinema, live music, and cult double bills.

Barry Adamson’s original score plunges us into the underworld of late-night London - a vivid soundtrack to underground cinema and cultural rebellion, 

TRACK LISTING

1. SCALA!!! (Opening Title)
2. Timelines
3. Scala Posters (Mondo Bongo)
4. As Steve Woolley Sees It
5. Babs Johnson Is Divine
6. Iggy And Lou And Mick Rock Too
7. Latex Gloves
8. Acid Celluloid
9. Scala Cats
10. Sodom And Tomorrow
11. Barry's Iranian Embassy Blues
12. Spandau Politics
13. Another All Nighter
14. One Of Us / Sticky Floors Atmos
15. Pink Narcissus
16. Black Leather Lovers
17. Back To The Cats
18. Jane's Day Out In Court
19. King's Cross Skyline
20. The Party's Over
21. SCALA!!! (End Title)
22. Scalarama (Outtake)

Available for first time in over 35 years, Clock DVA’s 'White Souls in Black Suits' - originally released in 1980 as a limited-run cassette on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records - now returns in a newly remastered edition on grey vinyl and CD, reissued via The Grey Area of Mute and expanded with four bonus tracks from the same era.

Led by the visionary Adi Newton, Clock DVA remains one of the most enigmatic and shape-shifting acts to emerge from Sheffield. Their catalogue spans mutant funk, noir jazz, and coldwave electronics, with 'White Souls in Black Suits', paired with the additionals tracks, offering an insight into the early morphology of their sound. The album features a lineup including Newton (voice, synth, clarinet, bowed electric guitar, and tape treatment), founding member Steven James Turner (bass treatment), David J. Hammond (guitar treatment), Charlie Collins (saxophone, flute & percussion), Roger Quail (percussion), and Simon M. Elliott-Kemp (synth).

Recorded at Cabaret Voltaire’s Western Works studio, the album is loosely structured, largely improvised, and steeped in the influence of Sheffield’s early industrial and goth scene. It evokes a world of surveillance, obsession, and psychological decay a debut that set the tone for Clock DVA’s ever-evolving vision and an essential record of the original industrial era.

TRACK LISTING

1. Consent
2. Discontentment
3. Discontentment 2
4. Still/Silent
5. Non
6. Relentless
7. Contradict
8. Film Soundtrack (Keyboards Assemble Themselves At Dawn)
9. Anti-Chance (feat. Cabaret Voltaire)
10. Brigade
11. Cage
12. No. 2
13. You’re Without Sound

Swans return with 'Birthing', the latest album, developed over the course of a yearlong 2023–2024 tour.

'Birthing' is released via Mute and Young God Records. The initial pressings of the deluxe vinyl and CD include a bonus DVD featuring Swans Live 2024 '(Rope) The Beggar', a concert film by Marco Porsia documenting the band's most recent US tour. The DVD also includes 'I Wonder If I’m Singing What You’re Thinking Me To Sing', a documentary by Christopher Nicholson following Michael Gira’s 2022 solo tour.

Refined through relentless improvisation and live performance, as well as newly composed studio pieces, 'Birthing' is a testament to Michael Gira’s uncompromising sonic vision. Beginning as skeletal acoustic compositions, the songs were gradually expanded and transformed in the studio with longtime live members and collaborators.

“This album, coupled with the recent live release, 'Live Rope', constitutes my final foray (as producer / impresario) into the all-consuming sound worlds that have been my obsession for years. We’ll do a final tour in this mode towards the end of 2025, then that’s it. After that, Swans will continue, so long as I’m able, but in a significantly pared down form. Hints of that direction can be found in a few moments on the current album. In the meantime, my hope is that the music provides a positive and fertile atmosphere in which to dream.” – Michael Gira / Swans

Produced by Gira, 'Birthing' was recorded at Soundfabrik Berlin, mixed at Candy Bomber Studio by Ingo Krauss, and mastered by Doug Henderson at Micro-Moose.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A perfect continuation of 2023's epic 'The Beggar', 'Birthing' sees Gira and Co drift through a raft of sonically expansive, emotionally weighty pre-post-rock gloomers. A perfect distillation of the modern sound of Swans.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Healers
2. I Am A Tower
3. Birthing
4. Red Yellow
5. Guardian Spirit
6. The Merge
7. Rope
8. Away

First released in 2000, 'Caged' united two giants of experimental electronic music - Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter, a pioneering force in industrial and electronic music for over four decades, and Ian Boddy, composer, sound designer, analogue synth aficionado, and founder of the ambient/electronic label DiN. Having known each other casually for years, Boddy invited Carter to collaborate for his then-new label; Carter immediately agreed, and together they produced a work of startling muscularity and textural depth. Across its shifting soundscapes, Caged plays with chance and paradox, where a whisper swells into a crescendo, a beat dissolves into a tone, and nothing remains still for long.

The album now returns for its 25th anniversary via The Grey Area of Mute in a newly remastered edition, expanded with two brand-new compositions reimagined from the original audio files: ‘Claustrophobia’, reworked by Carter, and ‘Uncaged’, reworked by Boddy. Together, these new versions revisit 'Caged’s DNA from opposite ends of the spectrum, one tightening its grip, the other breaking free. They say expectation is a prison. Here, being 'Caged' is being free.

TRACK LISTING

1. Concussed
2. Coriolis
3. Slab
4. Sub-Aura
5. Disembodied
6. Caged
7. Under-Dub
8. Claustrophobia
9. Uncaged

To mark the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Laibach and Mute present the Laibach 40 vinyl and CD box sets. Originally released in 1985 without the band’s name – banned at the time in Slovenia and Yugoslavia – and with Tito’s speeches censored by a shrill bleep, this legendary debut now appears in a fully remastered facsimile edition, bearing its originally intended name for the first time: Nebo žari / The Sky is Glowing.

The box set also includes historic recordings from Laibach’s early years. Ljubljana – Zagreb – Beograd (2025 Remaster) captures their first concerts across Yugoslavia in 1982, including tracks from early rehearsals held in a practice space wedged between a mortuary, dissection room, and madhouse. M.B. December 21, 1984 (2025 Remaster) documents a legendary semi-legal Ljubljana concert, appearing on vinyl for the first time. We Forge the Future (Live at the Cukrarna Gallery 2025) presents a unique recent performance with historical members, recreating the infamous 1983 Zagreb Biennale concert, exclusive to this box set.

Housed in a specially designed box that enhances the original sleeve, the collection also features a booklet with archival photographs and brand-new, exclusively commissioned essays, and a DVD film, Laibach: Music is the Art of Time, documenting the debut album with an 8-page booklet and subtitles in six languages [DE, EN, ES, FR, JP, SL].

With Laibach 40, Mute celebrates the uncompromising beginnings of one of Europe’s most enigmatic, provocative and influential music adventure through time and space.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary, 'Collabs 3000: Metalism', the original classic pure techno album and first full-length collaboration between techno innovators Chris Liebing and Speedy J, is remastered and reissued via NovaMute.

Originally launched by Speedy J (aka Jochem Paap) as a platform for 12” collaborations with other artists, the Collabs series laid the groundwork for what would become one of techno’s most compelling partnerships. The first release with Chris Liebing, Collabs 300 (featuring 'Trick_' / ‘Treflon_’), landed in 2004 to a rapturous response; its machine-funk intensity and unmistakable breakdowns helped define the sound of early 2000s techno whilst revealing a writing and production chemistry that demanded a larger playground for their work.

That creative spark ultimately manifested in 'Collabs 3000: Metalism', a landmark record for techno. Combining the pair’s mastery of subversive electronics and peak-time techno, the album remains a career highlight for both artists: a smouldering collision of taut techno rhythms, sonic abstraction, and, as the title suggests, robust metallic beats.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lego (2025 Remaster)
2. Modish Ride (2025 Remaster)
3. Triflon (2025 Remaster)
4. Hilt (2025 Remaster)
5. Tunox (2025 Remaster)
6. Acid Trezcore (2025 Remaster)
7. Cream 3 (2025 Remaster)
8. Eventide (2025 Remaster)
9. Lava (2025 Remaster)
10. Assault (2025 Remaster)

HAAi returns with her bold and brilliant second album, 'HUMANiSE', exploring the sweet spot between machine-led dystopia and emotion-filled utopia.

In all of her work, Teneil has always sought to conquer new frontiers in electronic music, and on the new album, she’s drilling deeper into the grid. 'HUMANiSE' reckons with what it is to be human in an increasingly digital world, as AI threatens to eclipse everything and our screens separate us from each other. The result is an ambitious and thrilling epic: embodying a sonic step up, and a distinct evolution from her 2022 debut, 'Baby, We’re Ascending'.

Voices – both real and digitised – play a huge part on 'HUMANiSE', alongside ideas of community and a sense of belonging. She has returned to work with friends including Jon Hopkins, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, singer Obi Franky, rapper KAM-BU, artist Kaiden Ford, and poet James Massiah, as well as two choirs: Trans Voices with choir leader ILĀ and a gospel choir led by Wendi Rose. Having spent years behind the decks, HAAi also brings her own voice to the forefront in a powerful shift toward vulnerability and self-expression. Her vocals, stunningly delicate, give a newfound dimension to her kinetic productions.

The album’s concept became clear while HAAi was in the studio with Hopkins. The pair were playing with a vocal harmonizer plug-in with a function called ‘Humanize’. For HAAi, a light went off: “The idea of something completely synthetic trying to make an actual person sound more human is crazy,” she says. HAAi blurs these extremes throughout the album: digitising voices, layering them to hazy effect, and even using an AI text-to-speech to generate her voice. But, ultimately, she concludes that experience and memory – what makes us truly human – cannot be replaced.

From the euphoric opener ‘Satellite’, to BBC Radio 6 Music A-listed track ‘Can’t Stand To Lose’, and genre-smashing cuts like ‘Shapeshift’, the album is filled with exhilarating sonic twists and deeply personal lyrics. 'HUMANiSE' is a powerful, emotionally charged leap forward: a celebration of community, self-expression and humanity.

TRACK LISTING

1. Satellite (feat. Jon Hopkins, Obi Franky, ILĀ And Trans Voices)
2. All That Falls Apart / Comes Together (feat. James Massiah)
3. Stitches
4. Can't Stand To Lose
5. Shapeshift (feat. KAM-BU)
6. Voices
7. Go (feat. Kaiden Ford)
8. HUMANiSE
9. Hey!
10. Rushing (feat. ILĀ And Trans Voices)
11. New Euphoria (feat. Alexis Taylor, ILĀ And Trans Voices)
12. HQ (feat. Kaiden Ford)

Swell Maps unveils the CD of The John Peel Sessions. This follows the release of the limited edition red vinyl for Record Store Day — remastered and available officially for the first time in over 40 years.

Noisy, chaotic, and defiantly experimental, Swell Maps may not have found commercial success in their time, but their impact on music is undeniable. An inspiration to bands such as R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement and Nirvana, with Kurt Cobain famously being a fan and often seen sporting a Swell Maps T-Shirt. A democracy within the confines of punk’s anything is possible, members Biggles Books, Jowe Head and brothers Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks—helped shape the landscape of post-punk and DIY music. Now, for the first time in over 40 years, The John Peel Sessions brings together all three of their recordings for John Peel, a figure instrumental in championing their sound.

Formed in the early ’70s and fully realised by 1976, Swell Maps embodied the DIY ethos, launching their own label and self-releasing the jagged, frenetic debut single ‘Read About Seymour’ in 1977. Peel was an early supporter, playing their record as soon as it landed on his desk—a moment the band described as one of disbelief and elation. His regular airplay of their music helped solidify their cult status, and these sessions capture the raw energy, off-kilter melodies, and boundary-pushing creativity that defined them.

The John Peel Sessions is a vital document of Swell Maps at their most unfiltered—three sessions of unpredictable, exhilarating noise.

TRACK LISTING

1 International Rescue - 16/10/78
2 Harmony In Your Bathroom - 16/10/78
3 Read About Seymour - 16/10/78
4 Another Song - 16/10/78
5 Full Moon / Blam!! / Full Moon (Reprise) - 16/10/78
6 Armadillo - 15/5/79
7 Vertical Slum / Forest Fire - 15/5/79
8 Midget Submarines - 15/5/79
9 Bandits One Five - 15/5/79
10 Big Empty Field - 18/3/80
11 Bleep And Booster Come Round For Tea / Secret Island - 18/3/80
12 Let's Buy A Bridge - 18/3/80
13 Helicopter Spies / A Raincoat's Room - 18/3/80

A Certain Ratio’s classic and highly sought-after live album gets an official release with new artwork.

ACR continue their ongoing reissue campaign with Live in America - an essential artefact from the band’s career, capturing their summer ’85 US tour supporting labelmates New Order- then fellow Factory artists, now as part of the Mute family - across the East Coast and Canada. Originally released on cassette and sold at gigs, this rare gem is now available on CD and vinyl, complete with new artwork and sleeve notes.

Compiled from the standout performances of the tour, Live in America spans the band’s early years through to ‘Si Firmir O Grido’ - a track that was released a year later on Force - capturing ACR at a thrilling crossroads in their trajectory. The recordings were taken from five of the venues they played, Felt Forum: NYC, Opera House: Boston, Agora Theatre: Akron OH, Bismarck Theatre: Chicago and Warner Theatre: Washington DC. The line-up on the tour and therefore the album consisted of Andrew Connell - Keyboards, Donald Johnson - Drums, Jez Kerr - Bass and Vocals, Martin Moscrop - Guitar and Trumpet and Anthony Quigley - Sax.

From a Motorik-funk take on ‘Touch’ to their iconic cover of ‘Shack Up’ – a scratchy funk bomb that became a cult club anthem – this is ACR at their most direct, raw and road-hardened. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A much requested reissue of the live album from ACR's blistering tour support for New Order in 1985, displaying their uncompromising live prowess, and showing that they really have been one of the greatest live bands around for a long time now. Ace.

TRACK LISTING

VINYL TRACKLIST
A1 Sounds Like Something Dirty
A2 The Fox
A3 Shack Up
A4 Life’s A Scream
A5 Wild Party
B1 Flight
B2 And Then Again
B3 Touch
B4 Knife Slits Water
B5 Si Firmir O Grido

CD TRACKLIST
1 Sounds Like Something Dirty
2 The Fox
3 Shack Up
4 Life’s A Scream
5 Wild Party
6 Flight
7 And Then Again
8 Touch
9 Knife Slits Water
10 Si Firmir O Grido

The groundbreaking, enduringly influential artist Mark Stewart presents his eighth solo album ‘The Fateful Symmetry’, a vital new masterwork completed shortly before his untimely passing in April 2023.

Across an illustrious career of pioneering music with The Pop Group, Mark Stewart & The Maffia and as a solo artist, Stewart has produced a seminal body of work, galvanized by the DIY ideals of punk, radical politics, protest movements, theory, philosophy, technology, art and poetry. With ‘The Fateful Symmetry’, Stewart’s abiding legacy as a ‘revered countercultural musician’ (The Guardian) is sustained, with an album as fearless and visionary as his best work.

Testifying to his prolific, unrelenting ingenuity, and signifying one of his most intimate, empowering statements, ‘The Fateful Symmetry’ is an astonishingly expressive and innovative record; a fierce and beautiful manifesto for a better world. The inimitable, titanic Mark Stewart, never normalized, always extraordinary.

“Mark Stewart is my hero” - Daddy G (Massive Attack)

“A fearsome vocalist and unbelievably exciting frontman to whom I am deeply indebted”- Nick Cave

“Bristol would be a very different place artistically and politically if it not been for Mark’s influence on all of us” - Geoff Barrow (Portishead)

TRACK LISTING

1. Memory Of You
2. Neon Girl
3. This Is The Rain
4. Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime (Bébe Durmiendo Cumbia Bootleg)
5. Stable Song
6. Twilight’s Child
7. Crypto Religion
8. Blank Town
9. A Long Road

This release, previously featured in the TG Berlin box set and available on vinyl for the first time, captures Throbbing Gristle's unforgettable New Year’s Eve performance, part of a specially curated series of live events held at the Volksbühne, Berlin in 2005 and 2006. The setlist included a preview of five tracks from their first album in 27 years, Part Two: The Endless Not—which was released several years later. Fans were also treated to TG’s first encore in 25/26 years, which included iconic songs like ‘Convincing People’, ‘Slug Bait’, and ‘Hamburger Lady—what an encore! Additionally, the performance featured the released track ‘Splitting Sky’ and more.

Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle - Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (1955-2010), fully delivered on punk’s failed promise to explore extreme culture as a way of sabotaging systems of control. Their impact on music, culture and the arts has been immeasurable, and still felt today across music, film, theatre, and fine art.

TRACK LISTING

1. Trumpet Herald (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
2. Convincing People (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
3. Splitting Sky (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
4. Slug Bait (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
5. Rabbit Snare (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
6. Almost A Kiss (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
7. Greasy Poo (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
8. The Endless Not (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
9. Vow Of Silence (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
10. PA Destroyer (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
11. Hamburger Lady (Live At The Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)

'eor', the second album from Breton musician and songwriter QUINQUIS (aka Émilie Quinquis).

The album – which means “anchor” in Breton – takes inspiration from time Émilie spent at sea, leaving her island to go sailing from Brittany to the Faroe Islands, via Ireland and the Scottish Islands. More specifically, it was inspired by the foggy movements she witnessed, far out to sea, that resembled mermaids. While thinking about sailors over the centuries who had also seen what she had seen, she began to imagine how these powerful sirens might appear in contemporary life. Over eight tracks, she weaves stories about mermaids that would like to be sailors, mermaids have fallen in love with mermaids, and mermaids that were cursed for wanting to love like humans, all the time celebrating the enchantment, the power and the mystery of these fantastical creatures, and the role they play, especially in communities with direct links to the sea.

Written, produced and performed by Émilie Quinquis and the celebrated producer Gareth Jones. A card drawn from Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies instructed her to “find a safe area, use it as an anchor” and, after finding her space, she set to work. Ideas emerged acoustically, and were built upon with modular and analogue electronics, creating an immersive and singular world driven by Émilie’s sublime vocals. The album is sung mainly in Breton with two guests singing in their own languages: triple harpist and composer Cerys Hafana sings ‘Blaz an holen’ in Welsh, while labelmate Desire Marea sings ‘Inkanuko’ in Zulu. ‘Inkanuko’ (meaning “desire” in Zulu) opens the album with Émilie’s gossamer voice, before electronics give way to Desire Marea’s tender vocal as the pair deliver surely the first track sung in both Breton and Zulu. Émilie explains that, “…it’s a song about making sure that little flame inside of you is not going to die. Desire was an amazing person to help kick off the idea for the whole album.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Inkanuko (feat. Desire Marea)
2. The Tumbling Point
3. Blaz An Holen
4. Distro
5. Dec'h
6. Morwreg
7. Peñseidi
8. Aet On

Laibach and A/POLITICAL present 'Alamut' - a brand-new album of original symphonic work based on the novel of the same name.

The album was recorded by Laibach and the musicians who performed 'Alamut' live at a former Crusader castle in Ljubljana in 2022. The musicians involved include the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Human-Voice Ensemble vocal group from Tehran, the Gallina Women’s Choir, and AccordiOna, a women’s accordion orchestra backed by additional accordion players, conducted by Iranian conductor Navid Goharib.

'Alamut' is an original symphonic work by Laibach based on a famous story from eleventh-century Persia, as told by the Slovene writer Vladimir Bartol in his novel of the same title published in 1938. The central character is Hassan-i Sabbāh, the charismatic religious and political leader of the Nizari Ismailis and the founder of a mysterious military formation known as the Assassins, whose name is still feared and respected today. Hassan-i Sabbāh is a self-proclaimed prophet who leads a holy war against the Seljuk Empire from his eyrie – the castle of Alamut. Alamut looked at mechanisms of propaganda at the time when Bartol, a Slovenian author, witnessed the rise of Fascism in Trieste, Italy, where he lived.

In Laibach’s 'Alamut', the ideas of radical nihilism interweave with the classical Persian poetry of Omar Khayyam, the sensual verses of Mahsati Ganjavi blend with minimalist orchestral colours derived from Iranian tradition. Hassan-i Sabbāh’s propaganda mechanisms are echoed in the industrial principle of the workings of the orchestra and Laibach’s unique sound. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Overture
2. Secret Gardens
3. Fedayeen
4. Transition
5. Meditation I
6. War
7. Doors Of Perception
8. Metaverse
9. Meditation II & Epilogue

'Tết 41' is the latest record by modular synthesist and Berghain resident JakoJako (Sibel Koçer), marking her album debut for Mute.

Recorded during a trip to Vietnam and bookended by field recordings from Tết Lunar New Year celebrations, the album is illuminated by references to Koçer’s heritage. The melodic palette breaks away from traditional Western scales, drawing instead from the tonal intricacies of the Vietnamese language, inspired by overheard conversations. The album and track titles further honour the vibrant Tết festivities, shrines, and landmarks she encountered during her travels.

This album is, in many ways, a distillation of ideas she has been exploring for years. Tapping into a deep understanding of machine-based music, crafted with a minimalist setup consisting of a Eurorack and Waldorf Iridium Core, 'Tết 41' reflects on notions of rebirth, and the pursuit of a sonic core. From this simplicity emerge some of her most expansive, unworldly compositions to date. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Shimmering, paddling arps and swirling FM synth blips coming together into a beautifully smooth but undeniably textural selection of blissful modular synth soundscapes.

TRACK LISTING

1. Xin Chào
2. Kumquat
3. Lì Xì
4. Hoa đào
5. Ghi-Ta
6. Đà Nẵng
7. Dragon Bridge
8. Chim Sẻ
9. Gió
10. Cảm ơn

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 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 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 14th.

Following the acclaim of her first three records ('I Predict a Graceful Expulsion' [2012], 'Neuroplasticity' [2014], and 'Fool’s Paradise' [2017]), Cold Specks (Al Spx) has solidified her reputation as a singular voice in modern music. From her spellbinding acapella performance on Later… with Jools Holland to collaborations with Moby, Massive Attack, and Michael Gira of Swans, Cold Specks has consistently delivered artistry that resonates.

'With Light for the Midnight', she embarks on her most personal journey yet. At its core, the album is a raw and deeply emotional reflection on endurance, survival, and transformation. A collection of fervent ballads and atmospheric pop songs, it channels Spx’s soulful voice into expansive sonic worlds.

The album was conceived during a challenging period in Spx’s life. Work began in 2019 amidst struggles with mental health, experiences that are deeply embedded in the music. Yet, despite its personal origins, Spx emphasises its universality: "I definitely wanted to reflect on the last couple of years because it impacted me so much, but I also wanted the audience to walk away with this album. You know, the songs belong to them once I release them.”

The record was crafted in Toronto and Bristol, with Spx co-producing alongside Adrian Utley of Portishead and Ali Chant (known for working with Perfume Genius, Dry Cleaning, and Aldous Harding). It features string arrangements by Owen Pallett (Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Sampha) and additional contributions from Graham Walsh of Holy Fuck. Spx also worked with a stellar lineup of collaborators, including Chantal Kreviazuk (Drake, Kendrick Lamar), Malcolm Middleton of Arab Strap, Ben Christophers, Ed Harcourt, and Jonathan Quarmby.

'Light for the Midnight' captures Cold Specks at her most vulnerable and powerful, weaving stories of struggle into stunning compositions that resonate deeply. It is an album of hope and transformation.

TRACK LISTING

1. How It Feels
2. Venus In Pisces
3. Wandering In The Wild
4. Cold Goodbye
5. Endlessly
6. Lingering Ghosts
7. Cheap Dreaming
8. Lovely Little Bones
9. Curse Away
10. Closer

Yann Tiersen unveils his latest two-part album, ‘Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour’, released via Mute.

‘Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour’ is an album divided into two distinct, interconnected parts, each with its own unique sonic characteristics: ‘Rathlin from a Distance’ is eight tracks of introspective instrumental piano, ‘The Liquid Hour’ is an expansive, genre-defying blend of electronic synthesis and dynamic psychedelic rhythms.

‘Rathlin from a Distance’ - named after an island in Northern Ireland - features eight instrumental piano pieces, each named after a location Tiersen visited during his 2023 sailing tour. From the Atlantic’s Fastnet Lighthouse to the Faroe Islands, Shetland and the tranquil waters of the Caledonian Canal in Scotland, these tracks reflect a journey of self-discovery and self. Tiersen’s piano work creates an almost hypnotic atmosphere, each stop on the journey marking a deeper level of consciousness. The music evokes a sense of space, introspection, and quiet contemplation.

While ‘Rathlin from a Distance’ is meditative, ‘The Liquid Hour’ - which Tiersen was working on when he decided things needed to be torn down - is a bold and urgent musical statement, which opens with an epic, sweeping track that channels Tiersen’s desire for social and political change. The inspiration for this section of the album was rooted in Tiersen’s experiences at sea, particularly a moment when he gazed upon the lights of Belfast, alone at the helm of his sailboat in the middle of the night, after nearly two months at sea. This moment of serenity led to deep reflections on the city’s troubled history and its connection to broader political struggles. The expansive sonic palette of ‘The Liquid Hour’ blends atmospheric ambient music, hypnotic grooves and striking electronic instrumentation, with the haunting vocals of Émilie Quinquis adding a powerful dimension to the album’s message.

TRACK LISTING

‘Rathlin From A Distance’
Ninnog
Fastnet
Rathlin From A Distance
Tórshavn
Norðragøta
Papa Stour
Bigton
Caledonian Canal

‘The Liquid Hour’
Stourm
Ninnog At Sea
Arne
The Liquid Hour
Dolores

Slovenian collective Laibach revisit their 1987 masterpiece, 'Opus Dei', with brand-new interpretations by the group, along with remixes from the record’s original producer and mixer, Rico Conning.

'Opus Dei' (translation: God’s Work) was the band’s first album for Mute, garnering acclaim and shining a worldwide spotlight on the unique Slovenian collective. This led to the album being listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (edited by Robert Dimery), where it was called “…a masterpiece of its genre.”

'Opus Dei Revisited' presents two distinct new versions of the work, an approach in keeping with the original album, where they reimagined Opus’s ‘Live Is Life’ (as ‘Opus Dei’) and Queen’s ‘One Vision’ (‘Geburt einer Nation’), two key highlights of the album.

The first disc is a reworking by Laibach themselves, initially crafted and then refined for their current Opus Dei Revisited Tour. Never a band to take an easy route to any destination, the challenge to re-evaluate, reinterpret, and rebuild the tracks was an artistic imperative. The band was so pleased with the results that they entered the studio immediately after Phase 1 of the Opus Dei Revisited Tour was completed to capture these new versions.

For the second disc, they invited Rico Conning (Wire, Pere Ubu, Swans, Front 242, William Orbit) to also revisit the material. Conning was given an open brief to explore new territories with the original master tapes. The results emphasise and eviscerate in equal measure, bringing wide-ranging new perspectives and a strident aural attitude.

TRACK LISTING

1. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei Revisited 2024)
2. Geburt Einer Nation (Opus Dei Revisited 2024)
3. Leben-Tod (Opus Dei Revisited 2024)
4. F.I.A.T. (Opus Dei Revisited 2024)
5. Transnational (Opus Dei Revisited 2024)
6. How The West Was Won (Opus Dei Revisited 2024)
7. The Great Seal (Opus Dei Revisited 2024)
8. Opus Dei (Opus Dei Revisited 2024)
9. Leben Heißt Leben (Rico Conning's Inner Ear RMX 2024)
10. Geburt Einer Nation (Rico Conning's Inner Ear RMX 2024)
11. Leben-Tod (Rico Conning's Inner Ear RMX 2024)
12. F.I.A.T. (Rico Conning's Inner Ear RMX 2024)
13. Opus Dei (Rico Conning's Inner Ear RMX 2024)
14. Transnational (Rico Conning's Inner Ear RMX 2024)
15. How The West Was Won (Rico Conning's Inner Ear RMX 2024)
16. The Great Seal (Rico Conning's Inner Ear RMX 2024)

Sunroof, aka Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones, release their brand new album, Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3, via Mute’s Parallel Series.

Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3 is a collection of nine improvised tracks, recorded using the duo’s Eurorack modular systems, and builds upon the self-imposed parameters laid out on their 2021 debut.

Daniel Miller, the Founder and Chairman of Mute, and Gareth Jones, producer and engineer, notable for working with Depeche Mode, Einstürzende Neubauten, Erasure and Yann Tiersen, have been collaborating for four decades. Although neither dwell on their past work, preferring to constantly explore new ways to create, Miller and Mute’s legacy is given a nod on the track ‘Splendid’ which opens with the distinct hiss of cassette over a rhythmic heartbeat before oscillators burst and collide. This track was recorded using the original 4-track TEAC that Miller picked up second hand in the late 70s and recorded The Normal’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ 7” on.

This record follows their debut Electronic Music Improvisations Vo1.1 (2021) and second album Electronic Music Improvisations Vol.2 (2023), along with their Bandcamp exclusive release Electronic Music Improvisations Live in London and Frankfurt, which captured their live shows at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Electronic Music and London’s IKLECTIK.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Drifting electronic beauty from Sunroof here, with shifting platters of noise and drone sitting beneath paddling modular synth freakouts and swirling, psychedelic echoes.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Splendid
A2 Brotherly
A3 Ensnare
A4 Stratum
B1 Freezer
B2 Earthen
B3 Second Thoughts
B4 Link
B5 Conspiracies

THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2024 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29TH 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 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30TH).

Never previously released on vinyl, now remastered and pressed on stone coloured vinyl, especially for Record Store Day Black Friday 2024.

TRACK LISTING

Krvava Gruda - Plodna Zemlja
Krst
Life Is Life
Leben-Tod
Transnational
Krvoprelitje (Ti, Ki Izzivaš)

The long-awaited release of a fan favourite, 'Live In Keele 1977', is the latest in Can’s series of live albums, released on Mute and Future Days.

'Live In Keele 1977' is the newest release in a series of live albums that have been unearthed from the Spoon Records vaults and from fan recordings, then painstakingly assembled by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer and engineer René Tinner.

This album is a dynamic document of late-period Can. Recorded in March 1977, the core line up of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, and Holger Czukay is augmented by the addition of Rosko Gee (Traffic) on bass. Gee’s recent addition to the line-up meant that Holger Czukay was freed up from bass duties to perform “waveform radio and spec. sounds”, manifesting here as otherworldly sounds, samples and what one reviewer of a later show described as “moontalk to a white continental telephone.”

1977 was a difficult period for Can; their recently released eighth studio album, 'Saw Delight', had been badly received and although posterity has been kinder to the album, the reviews on release were savage. Journalist, broadcaster and author Jennifer Lucy Allan’s meticulous research of the time, place and context of the performance on the accompanying sleeve notes led her to declare of the album: “On paper, unremarkable. In practice, a precious hunk of sonic material.” Before going on to remind us that “The heads know – forums and published books alike agree – that ‘76-’77 is the best of the Can live years (Keele included). A couple of the tracks from this show have been included on fan-made “best of” live bootlegs over the years. And wow, are they right”.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Yet another entry in the Can live series, once again showcasing one of the greatest live psychedelic bands of all time. This time sees late-era Can in arguably their best live period, and sounds perfect too. What more could you want.

TRACK LISTING

1. Keele 77 Eins
2. Keele 77 Zwei
3. Keele 77 Drei
4. Keele 77 Vier
5. Keele 77 Fünf

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, renowned Iceland-based Australian composer Ben Frost releases a limited edition red vinyl of his studio album, 'Aurora', on Mute.

Limited to just 300 copies in the UK, this vinyl edition includes alternative artwork and an exclusive download of his blistering 2014 live performance at Berlin’s Berghain.

'Aurora', which has lost none of its visceral potency in the intervening years, received universal acclaim and featured in Albums of the Year lists at NPR, Rolling Stone, Clash, Crack, FACT, Stereogum, and more.

Performed by Frost along with Greg Fox (ex-Liturgy), Shahzad Ismaily, and Thor Harris (ex-Swans) and largely written in Eastern DR Congo, the album is wholly absent of guitar, piano, string instruments and natural wooden intimacy, offering a defiantly synthetic world of fiercely shaped sounds and galactic interference, pummelling skins and pure metals.

TRACK LISTING

1. Flex
2. Nolan
3. The Teeth Behind The Kisses
4. Secant
5. Diphenyl Oxalate
6. Venter
7. No Sorrowing
8. Sola Fide
9. A Single Point Of Blinding Light

Following up on 2021’s 'Scuro Chiaro', 'NATI INFINITI' is a 40-minute piece split into five movements, based on an immersive audio installation that Cortini originally created for the Sónar Lisboa festival in 2022 where it was presented across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Moagem. Cortini later debuted the live performance at Berlin’s Atonal festival in 2023, reimagining the work as a unique, evolving dialogue. The record is mixed by Grammy nominated recording engineer, producer, and mixer Marta Salogni (Björk, Depeche Mode, Sampha), and features Cortini’s Strega synth, which he co-designed with music technology company Make Noise.

Cortini is one of the foremost figures of contemporary electronic music, best known for his haunting, atmospheric work. A longstanding member of Nine Inch Nails, he is a highly prolific solo artist, releasing a steady stream of his own heady music on luminary labels, including Mute, Hospital, and Important Records for the past decade. Throughout his shadowy rise to fame, he has collaborated with the likes of Lawrence English, Daniel Avery and Merzbow, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (the only Italian musician ever honoured).

TRACK LISTING

1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V

Nonpareils, aka Aaron Hemphill, presents his second studio album, 'Rhetoric & Terror', released via Mute.

The album follows 2018’s 'Scented Pictures', and finds the Berlin-based artist - previously known as co-founder and co-songwriter of Liars - compelled to write more structured music, with specific parts and intentions that allude to visual imagery and emotional states. No stranger to reinventing his approach towards composition, 'Rhetoric & Terror' feels like we are, perhaps for the first time, opening a doorway into Hemphill’s personal life, as well as his disparate sonic influences, wide-ranging journeys through philosophy, and through that, find him reflecting on his own role as an artist.

The album features his wife Angelika Kaswalder on vocals throughout, plus multi-instrumentalist Morgan Henderson (a longtime friend since Henderson’s time in the post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers) adding woodwinds and additional arrangement on 'Unscripting With The Snake And The Swan'.

'Rhetoric & Terror', despite its intimidating name, is welcoming and playful, even during its most intense moments.

TRACK LISTING

1. Opening Chord
2. Unscripting With The Snake And The Swan
3. Figures Of Speech
4. Flowers Like The Rain
5. Six Six Seven (Monsieur Faux Pas)
6. Bring It On
7. The Broken Mirror Shaped Like A Day
8. Predictable Pan (Theme From A Book Of Perfectly Drawn Lines)
9. Strawberry Hill

Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle, aka Chris Carter, Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (1955-2010), Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020), fully delivered on punk’s failed promise to explore extreme culture as a way of sabotaging systems of control. Their impact on music, culture, and the arts has been immeasurable and still felt today.

Having reformed in 2004, Throbbing Gristle’s 'The Third Mind Movements' initially emerged as an exclusive release only available on the band’s last ever American tour in 2009, before they split again in 2010. As the title implies, the album delves into the established connections between Throbbing Gristle and William S. Burroughs, particularly through the beloved cut-up technique, famously pioneered by Burroughs and Brion Gysin in ‘The Third Mind’. The album travels through manipulated, time-stretched, and distorted samples, with rhythmical breakbeats and hypnotic oscillations of electronics.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Man From Nowhere
2. PreMature
3. Secluded
4. Perception Is The Only Reality
5. Not That I Am
6. The Third Mind: First Movement
7. The Third Mind: Second Movement
8. The Third Mind: Third Movement

Throbbing Gristle revisits 'TGCD1', long out of print, now available on CD for the first time in 25 years and on vinyl for the first time ever via Mute. This release includes the original sleeve notes by all the members of the band, uncovering the story and ethos behind TG’s independent record label, Industrial Records.

Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle, aka Chris Carter, Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (1955-2010), Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020), fully delivered on punk’s failed promise to explore extreme culture as a way of sabotaging systems of control. Their impact on music, culture, and the arts has been immeasurable and still felt today.

Originally released on Mute’s imprint, The Grey Area, in 1986, 'TGCD1' comprises forty-two minutes of studio recordings captured at their own Industrial Records Studio on a TEAC 8-Track in 1979. Initially serving as an exclusive piece of unreleased material for TG’s first-ever CD release, the record's dark and harsh droning sound stands as a significant chapter in their discography, showcasing the band during, arguably, their most formative era.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklist:
A1. TGCD1 (Part 1)
B1. TGCD1 (Part 2)

CD Tracklist:
1. TGCD1

Renowned composer Simon Fisher Turner presents his brand new album Instability of the Signal, released via Mute.

Recorded by Simon Fisher Turner and Music Producers Guild Awards winner Francine Perry, this 13-track album is an intricate exploration of sound, inspired by the creative minds of Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatic, and poet Harold Pinter, whose verses, 'Democracy' and 'The Special Relationship’, feature on the record. It pulls together four strands of Fisher Turner's sonic experimentation, which he identifies as Slivers, Sounds, Strings, and Singing. The 'slivers' are tiny snippets of audio he used as source material for the tracks, all originally created by Salford Electronics (aka David Padbury), and reworked by Fisher Turner into foundations for entire tracks. The record also includes beautiful string arrangements by the Elysian Collective, who have toured with Pulp and feature on the latest releases from The Last Dinner Party and Pet Shop Boys.

Like Fisher Turner's long and varied career, Instability of The Signal is an accumulation of experience, effervescent memories, sounds and textures. It contains hidden learnings. It is about how restorative singing of ourselves and to ourselves can be but is also a document of times and places delivered in beautifully impressionistic palettes of sounds and voices. It is also another document of Fisher Turner's remarkable life and unshakeable curiosity about sound.

TRACK LISTING

Barefeet
Turning Slowly
She Lowers Her Arms
I Can’t Hear Anything
Thrashing It Out
Fishscales
Boymanduet
Toast
Democracy
Tape Ends
The “Special Relationship”

This limited edition 12” serves as an accompanying piece to Fixmer’s brand-new album. The vinyl features 6 dark electronic tracks from the record, all infused with his signature energy and thoughtful sound design. This comes with an audio download code of the full-length record, including 6 additional tracks spanning across the landscape of techno music.

Terence Fixmer is celebrated for his innovative and genre-defying approach to music production. With a career spanning over two decades, he has released numerous albums and EPs on some of the most prestigious techno labels. His remixing talents have extended to tracks from industry giants such as Depeche Mode, Yann Tiersen, Sven Väth, Dave Clarke, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Indochine, and more.

This release underscores Fixmer's versatility and dedication to expanding his musical horizons, embodying the modest yet noteworthy influence he has had in the realm of electronic and techno music. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Ephemere
2. In Synthesis
3. Evolve
4. Shore Break
5. Glacier
6. Dark Enough?

Will Gregory Moog Ensemble present their debut album, Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project, made in collaboration with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

This neo-classical electronic album is filled with spirals of melody, circular structures, sequences, and patterns inspired by the works of the Greek mathematician Archimedes. The ensemble, as the name suggests, is led by Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory and has been active on the live circuit since 2005. The members include Portishead’s Adrian Utley, a long-time collaborator of Will’s, who plays on the album and produced it. Also playing on the record are John Baggott, Graham Fitkin, Simon Haram, Vyvyan Hope-Scott, Ross Hughes, Hazel Mills, Daniel Moore, Hinako Omari, Eddie Parker, Harriet Riley and Ruth Wall. Their instruments include Minimoog, Moog Voyager, Korg 700s, Prophet 6, and Roland JX-3P, with their individual lines and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales coming together in intricate arrangements creating a stunning superstructure of sounds.

Heat Ray is an album that brings ancient history into the modern world, pushing us towards an endlessly curious and fascinating future.

Available on vinyl and CD, sleeve notes by Matt Parker, comedian, best-selling author and recreational mathematician, who’s YouTube’s channel Stand-up Maths has over 137 million views.

TRACK LISTING

1. Young Archimedes
2. Buoyancy Theory
3. Circles, Spirals And Pi
4. Law Of The Lever
5. The Claw
6. Archimedes’ Screw
7. Heat Ray
8. The Sand Reckoner
9. Archimedes’ Legacy

Following their 'The Dangling Man' EP and 'Just South of Heaven' mini-LP, 'Room Of Lights' was originally released in 1986 and featured the "London lineup" of Simon Bonney, former Birthday Party stalwarts Mick Harvey and Rowland S. Howard, Rowland’s bassist brother Harry Howard, and drummer Epic Soundtracks (formerly of Swell Maps and Jacobites). The album includes the remarkable ‘Six Bells Chime,’ which caught the attention of acclaimed German filmmaker Wim Wenders who invited the band to perform the song live in his 1988 masterpiece Wings of Desire. The album showcases great creativity filled with tension and marks the last release featuring Crime’s “London line-up”.

TRACK LISTING

1. Right Man, Wrong Man
2. No Money, No Honey
3. Hey Sinkiller
4. Six Bells Chime
5. Adventure
6. Untouchable
7. The Brother Song
8. Her Room Of Lights (For Lisa)

Originally released in 1985, this mini-LP featured the "London lineup" of Simon Bonney, former Birthday Party stalwarts Mick Harvey and Rowland S. Howard, Rowland’s bassist brother Harry Howard, and drummer Epic Soundtracks (formerly of Swell Maps and Jacobites). The record presented a more refined sound compared to their self-produced EP and was recorded between Hansa Tonstudios, Berlin and The Strongroom, London, with sound engineer Flood (a-ha, Depeche Mode, Erasure). In an interview with Uncut, Harry explained, “The first EP, 'The Dangling Man,' was a bit raw. For 'Just South Of Heaven,' we tried to create a more elegant record, and it worked quite well.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Rose Blue
2. The Coal Train
3. Stolen & Stealing
4. Five Stone Walls
5. Trouble Come This Morning
6. The Wailing Wall

The acclaimed Can live series continues with the release of Live In Aston 1977, available via Mute and Future Days (the new EU label created by Spoon Records).

The series was overseen by founding member Irmin Schmidt and producer/engineer René Tinner, who delicately worked on restoring the archival recordings to the best quality for current modern technology. This record captures the band’s 1977 performance in Aston and features Schmidt (keyboard & synths), Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Michael Karoli (guitars), Holger Czukay (wave receiver & spec.sounds), plus Rosko Gee (bass), who appears for the first time in the series.

This release features sleeve notes by former Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock, sharing his first-hand experience of witnessing CAN's live show.

Live In Aston follows the release of Live In Paris 1973, the first in the series to feature Damo Suzuki’s vocals [“…among the greatest documents of their untouchable alchemy…” – Record Collector 5*]; Live In Brighton 1975 [“Pure dynamite… keep them coming” – MOJO]; Live in Stuttgart 1975, [Uncut’s Reissue of the Year, #2 in MOJO’s Reissues of the Year, #7 in The Wire’s Archive Reissues of the Year plus more]; and Live In Cuxhaven 1976, which again featured heavily in the Reissues of the Year.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: The latest in the lineup of beautifully presented live outings from Can's extensive history. this time sees the cosmic psychedelic overlords take on Aston in Birmingham with great, very psychedelic results.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklist
A1 Aston 77 Eins
A2 Aston 77 Zwei
B1 Aston 77 Drei
B2 Aston 77 Vier

CD Tracklist
1 Aston 77 Eins
2 Aston 77 Zwei
3 Aston 77 Drei
4 Aston 77 Vier

Laibach’s classic album from 1987, 'Opus Dei', has been remastered and redesigned.

The album that first brought Laibach to a mass consumption audience, with their unique interpretations of Opus' ‘Live is Life’ and Queen’s ‘One Vision’, and heavy rotation on MTV’s alternative shows and ITV’s The Chart Show. Produced by Rico Conning, it stands as a defining statement of intent and prophecy that the band continues to uphold nearly 40 years later.

The album, remastered from the original tapes, includes an extensive 16-page booklet with new text by Alexi Munroe and photos from the time. The album cover artwork has also had a distinctive redesign that draws on the original and pushes it forward.

The CD box set includes an additional CD of 16 live tracks from the Opus Dei touring that happened between 1987 and 1989.

The original vinyl edition has been unavailable for over 20 years.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklist:
1. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei)
2. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision)
3. Leben-Tod
4. F.I.A.T. (Let It Be)
5. Opus Dei (Life Is Life)
6. Trans-national
7. How The West Was Won
8. The Great Seal

CD Tracklist:

CD1:
1. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei)
2. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision)
3. Leben-Tod
4. F.I.A.T. (Let It Be)
5. Trans-national
6. How The West Was Won
7. Opus Dei (Life Is Life)
8. The Great Seal
9. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision) [Eine Richtung Und Ein Volk Version]
10. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei) [Marche Funèbre Version]
11. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision) [3. Oktober – Kraftbach – Version]

CD2:
1. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei) [Live From London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1987]
2. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision) [Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989]
3. Leben-Tod (Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
4. F.I.A.T. (Let It Be) [Live From Paris, Espace Ornano, 1992]
5. Trans-national (Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
6. How The West Was Won (Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989)
7. Opus Dei (Life Is Life) [Live From Somewhere In Europe/US, 1987-1989]
8. Leben Heißt Leben (Opus Dei) [Live From Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987]
9. Geburt Einer Nation (One Vision) [Live From Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987]
10. Leben-Tod (Live From Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
11. How The West Was Won (Live From Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
12. Geburt Einer Nation (Vienna, Messepalast, Kaiser Franz Josef Reitschule, 1988)
13. Leben-Tod (Live From San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
14. Trans-national (Live From San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
15. How The West Was Won (Live From San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
16. Opus Dei (Life Is Life) [Live From San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989]

The 111 Series comprises 15 tracks, each created by Louis Carnell alongside a diverse selection of artists from across the globe. Each track is released digitally, and titled in numerical order, with the aim of creating an environment for the listener to explore the series without hierarchy.

The tracks vary between lyric-led and instrumental compositions, travelling through experimental electronic and immersive soundscapes.

The list of collaborators includes prolific new-age artist Laraaji, Mute founder Daniel Miller, Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, leading punk-rapper Wu-Lu, Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist KMRU, noise-inspired cellist and composer Okkyung Lee, post-genre multi-instrumentalist Coby Sey, Iranian-born electronica songwriter, producer and DJ Leila, mystical folk and ambient-inspired composer Naliah Hunter, artist and actor Keeley Forsyth, rising experimental sound and visual artist Damsel Elysium, LA-based ambient duo Green-House, experimental saxophonist and composer Ben Vince, Beirut-based multi-instrumentalist Yara Asmar, and Italian musician and sound designer Marta De Pascalis.

TRACK LISTING

1. Four - Louis Carnell & Yara Asmar
2. Seven - Louis Carnell & Okkyung Lee
3. Ten - Louis Carnell & Daniel Miller
4. Thirteen - Louis Carnell & Leila
5. Two - Louis Carnell & Lee Ranaldo
6. Five - Louis Carnell & Coby Sey
7. Eleven - Louis Carnell & Laraaji
8. Fourteen - Louis Carnell & Nailah Hunter
9. Three - Louis Carnell & Ben Vince
10. Six - Louis Carnell & KMRU
11. Nine - Louis Carnell & Green-House
12. Twelve - Louis Carnell & Marta De Pascalis
13. One - Louis Carnell & Keeley Forsyth
14. Eight - Louis Carnell & Wu-Lu
15. Fifteen - Louis Carnell & Damsel Elysium

It All Comes Down to This is the brand new album from Manchester legends A Certain Ratio, produced by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey.

This album takes A Certain Ratio back to their roots, featuring 10 straight-to-the-point tracks, with a sprinkling of electronics for good measure. It is the first time the band has recorded as the core 3-piece lineup of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop, and Donald Johnson, with no additional collaborators or members of the live setup. Following on from ACR's acclaimed 1982 album and the electrifying 2023 EP, It All Comes Down to This continues the lineage of constant progression demonstrated by the band.

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: Speedy Wunderground's Dan Carey, has managed a near perfect distillation of ACR's sound here, as the trio of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson draw on the post-punk-funk grooves of their early days while ruminating on the current state of the world. For me it's the best thing they've done in ages.

Barry says: A brilliant new album from Manchester's Certain Ratio and a stunning example of ACR's unique fusion of vibrant, groove-led indie music and post-punk adjacent stomp. 'It All Comes Down To This' could be their most definitive statement yet both wilfully celebratory, and brilliantly hefty. A perfect distillation of their hugely varied sound.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklist
A1 All Comes Down To This
A2 Keep It Real
A3 We All Need
A4 Surfer Ticket
A5 Bitten By A Lizard
B1 God Knows
B2 Out From Under
B3 Estate Kings
B4 Where You Coming From
B5 Dorothy Says

CD Tracklist
1 All Comes Down To This
2 Keep It Real
3 We All Need
4 Surfer Ticket
5 Bitten By A Lizard
6 God Knows
7 Out From Under
8 Estate Kings
9 Where You Coming From
10 Dorothy Says

Mute presents EXTRA a brand new album of unearthed live recordings and remastered tracks by Australian London-based post-punk band These Immortal Souls, on vinyl and CD.

This record includes extensive sleeve notes by original member Harry Howard and is released alongside the 2024 remaster editions of their debut album, Get Lost (Don’t Lie!), and their second album I’m Never Gonna Die Again. The tracklist for this record features their visceral, propulsive reimagining of Alice Cooper’s 1972 track ‘Luney Tune’, as well as covers of ‘Open Up and Bleed’ by Iggy Pop & James Williamson, ‘Some Velvet Morning’ written by Lee Hazlewood, which lead singer Rowland S. Howard notably covered with Lydia Lynch, and ‘Hey! Little Child’ written by Alex Chilton.

The band consisted of Australian-born Rowland S. Howard, who rose to prominence as Nick Cave's collaborator in the Birthday Party, his bass-playing brother Harry Howard, drummer Epic Soundtracks (formerly of Swell Maps and Jacobites), and keyboardist Genevieve McGuckin. They came together 1987, after Soundtracks and the Howard brothers split from Crime & the City Solution and were joined by McGuckin to form These Immortal Souls in London.

Available on vinyl and CD.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bad (Remastered)
2. My One-Eyed Daughter (Remastered)
3. Luney Tune (Remastered)
4. Open Up And Bleed (Remastered)
5. Up On The Roof (Remastered)
6. Some Velvet Morning (Live)
7. "Blood And Sand" She Said (Live)
8. Hey! Little Child (Live)
9. These Immortal Souls (Live)
10. Get Lost (Don't Lie!) (Live)

Originally released in 2014, 'MESS' was the sound of Liars not only facing their fears but also chewing them up and spitting them back out in all their technicolor glory. Written and recorded by Angus Andrew and Aaron Hemphill, produced by Angus and mixed by Timothy "Q" Wiles, this record was less concerned with place compared to previous albums, and saw the band back in their own studio in LA.

Angus explained at the time of release, "We go from one extreme to the other. Working on the last record was really doubtful and paranoid, and that's fine, but it just meant that when work started on this one, it was the exact opposite. It was way more instinctual, fun, and confident.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Mask Maker
2. Vox Tuned D.E.D.
3. I'm No Gold
4. Pro Anti Anti
5. Can't Hear Well
6. Mess On A Mission
7. Darkslide
8. Boyzone
9. Dress Walker
10. Perpetual Village
11. Left Speaker Blown

Mute celebrates the 25th Anniversary Edition of Looper’s 1999 album, Up A Tree, featuring never-before-released songs.

Initially released on Sub Pop, Up A Tree is the debut record by the Scottish lo-fi band led by Stuart David (co-founder and bass player of Belle & Sebastian) and his wife Karn David. Upon release, the album reached #24 on the UK independent album charts and received acclaim for its gentle sound and honest lyrics, being described by singer-songwriter Ben Folds as “…a gift of a record.”

The anniversary edition also features alternative artwork designed by Karn and includes new sleeve notes by Sub Pop’s Jenny Hayo, who recounts working with Looper on their first records and first US tour, alongside words from Stuart’s sister Karla Black, who takes us back to Glasgow School of Art in 1998, reminiscing about the first Looper show.

The vinyl edition of Up A Tree comes with a Flexi Disc of ‘Brilliant Paper’, an unreleased track by Looper and Sue Tompkins (Life Without Buildings) and the double CD includes a remix by Pulp (credited as The Chocolate layers).

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklist
1. The Treehouse
2. Impossible Things #2
3. Burning Flies
4. Festival '95
5. Ballad Of Ray Suzuki
6. Dave The Moon Man
7. Quiet And Small
8. Columbo's Car
9. Up A Tree Again
10. Back To The Treehouse

FLEXI DISC
1. Brilliant Paper

CD Tracklist
CD1
1. The Treehouse
2. Impossible Things #2
3. Burning Flies
4. Festival '95
5. Ballad Of Ray Suzuki
6. Dave The Moon Man
7. Quiet And Small
8. Columbo's Car
9. Up A Tree Again
10. Back To The Treehouse

CD2
1. Back To The Treehouse (Ambient Mix)
2. Ray's Golden Fist (Bananahand Remix)
3. Burning Flies (Acoustic)
4. Columbo's Car (Peugeot 403 Mix)
5. Blurred Stars
6. Up A Tree Again (The Chocolate Layers St. John's Ambulance Mix)
7. Quiet And Small (Acoustic)
8. Dave The Moon Man (Scott Twynholm Remix)
9. Impossible Things
10. Up A Tree Again (Acoustic)

Renowned Iceland-based Australian composer Ben Frost presents a pre-release limited edition version of his upcoming album, Scope Neglect, exclusive to independent retailers.

Scope Neglect is an experimental and genre-shifting album forged from Frost’s admiration for metal with the mindful removal of its conventional attributes. Where the record touches aspects of the genre, it’s met with glitching electronics, immersive ambient industrial churns and deeply contemplative explorations that result in something impossible to pigeonhole. Created with guitarist Greg Kubacki (from New York’s progressive metal band Car Bomb) and bassist Liam Andrews (from Melbourne band MY DISCO), the album was recorded at Candy Bomber studios in Berlin with engineer Ingo Krauss (Swans, Nick Cave, and Mick Harvey)..

Ben Frost is known for his groundbreaking contributions to composition, production, sound art, and direction over the past 15 years, including soundtracks for film and TV including Netflix shows Dark and 1899. This album marks his first studio release in six years and adds to the list of his acclaimed releases on the label, 2014’s A U R O R A was album of the year in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and Clash, with 2017’s The Centre Cannot Hold as one of Pitchfork’s Top 20 Experimental Albums of the year.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I love a bit of Ben Frost, Theory Of Machines and By The Throat are two of my favourite drone albums ever, and there was *always* that metallic heft simmering in the background (or the foreground). What sets 'Scope Neglect' apart is that it's not a simmer, it's a slap around the face of metallic heft. It's Frost's perfect production and off-piste rhythmic uncertainty with the heft. It's heft-forward and it's absolutely brilliant.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lamb Shift
2. Chimera
3. The River Of Light And Radiation
4. _1993
5. Turning The Prism
6. Load Up On Guns, Bring Your Friends
7. Tritium Bath
8. Unreal In The Eyes Of The Dead 

Pole, aka innovative German electronic artist Stefan Betke, presents a limited edition 12” single with new exciting remixes of tracks from his latest album, Tempus.

This 12” sees the track ‘Stechmück’ reworked by UK’s electro-punk duo Sleaford Mods, remixed by Californian interdisciplinary artist Rrose, and edited by Pole. The original song embraces the sound of Betke’s dying Minimoog, which you can hear manipulated in different ways across the different versions. Completing the record is the remix of the title track 'Tempus' by long-time Nine Inch Nails contributor, label mate and “synth connoisseur” Alessandro Cortini.

Düsseldorf-native musician, producer and mastering engineer Pole is known for his unique musical language oscillating between melody and avant-garde in electronic music, with audible influences from Dub and Jazz music. Tempus contributed to his ongoing musical evolution, while retaining a relationship to previous work, with Pitchfork stating “It’s the sound of an artist drawing from his repertoire while demonstrating that he is still looking to the future.” 

TRACK LISTING

A1 Stechmück (Sleaford Mods Rework)
A2 Stechmück (Version)
AA1 Stechmück (Rrose Remix)
AA2 Tempus (Alessandro Cortini Remix)

A Certain Ratio present their recording of the ‘Loco Live at Hope Mill Studios’ session, originally a live stream of the band’s sensational 2020 album ‘ACR Loco’.

After a 12-year hiatus releasing albums, ‘ACR Loco’ was created by a confident and revitalised ACR. The band had jumped back into the studio after their most successful tour in over 20 years to record ‘ACR Loco’, and in the lead up to the release, they filmed and recorded this live session at the heart of the Manchester music scene - Hope Mill Studios. The session featured Maria Uzor of Sink Ya Teeth on vocals and the recorded vocals of the much-missed Denise Johnson.

“‘ACR Loco’ feels more than anything like a celebration - the long awaited re-arrival of one of the best bands to ever bring post-punk to the dancefloor.” - Treble

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to ‘ACR:Loco’, a forward-looking genre-defying slice of musical majesty.” - Narc

“On their first new album in over a decade, Manchester’s funkiest post-punk band offer an imperfect distillation of their 40-year legacy, updating their classic sound with nods to contemporary beat-driven music and political strife.” - Pop Matters

TRACK LISTING

Friends Around Us (Live At Hope Mill Studios)
Bouncy Bouncy (Live At Hope Mill Studios)
Yo Yo Gi (Live At Hope Mill Studios)
Supafreak (Live At Hope Mill Studios)
Always In Love (Live At Hope Mill Studios)
Family (Live At Hope Mill Studios)
Get A Grip (Live At Hope Mill Studios)
Berlin (Live At Hope Mill Studios)
What’s Wrong (Live At Hope Mill Studios)
Taxi Guy (Live At Hope Mill Studios)

As the album title suggests, Songs of Silence is a lyric-less, instrumental album, and is hugely evocative for that. Unlike anything you’ve previously heard from Vince Clarke, as an artisan of dynamic electropop, (Erasure, Depeche Mode, Yazoo), Songs of Silence has about it a more sober ambient electronic beauty, its unique characteristics put it in a category of its own.

For the creation of the record Vince set himself two rules – first that the sounds he himself generated for the album would come solely from Eurorack (a modular synthesizer format introduced in the mid-90s) and secondly that each track would be based around one note, maintaining a single key throughout. The resultant pieces, with the Eurorack sound clay then manipulated on Logic Pro, amount to wordless narratives, in which a sense of synth-generated, cosmic remoteness is often jolted by stark interventions, reminders of the human hand at work amid this machinery.

This album sees Vince Clarke not content to rest on his considerable pop legacy, and instead open up for himself, and for the rest of us, exciting new electronic vistas in which the permutations and possibilities are limitless.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cathedral
2. White Rabbit
3. Passage
4. Imminent
5. Red Planet
6. The Lamentations Of Jeremiah
7. Mitosis
8. Blackleg
9. Scarper
10. Last Transmission

Swans’ second live album Feel Good Now is available on vinyl for the first time since its original limited edition release in 1988, via Mute / Young God Records.

Feel Good Now is a collection of live recordings from their 1987 European tour, recorded by the band's sound engineer on a Sony Professional Walkman, with many of the tracks being from their album Children of God, which was released the same year.

This follows the re-release of their first live album Public Castration Is a Good Idea and their brand new album The Beggar, released in June 2023. Led by Michael Gira, Swans formed in 1982 and have produced a series of diverse albums both before their disbandment in 1997 and after their reformation in 2010. During this time Swans have made their mark as masters of their craft and are an influential band for countless experimental and post-rock acts.

TRACK LISTING

1. New Mind (Live)
2. Blood And Honey (Live)
3. Trust Me (Live)
4. Sex God Sex (Live)
5. Like A Drug (Sha La La La) (Live)
6. Beautiful Child (Live)
7. Blackmail (Live)
8. Children Of God (Live)
9. Beautiful Child Reprise (Live)
10. Blind Love (Live)
11. Thank You, Goodbye (Live)
12. Good Luck (Live)

WIXIW is the next album to be released in the Liars’ recycled coloured vinyl reissue series.

Initially released in 2012, WIXIW was Liars’ sixth full-length album as a band (Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross). Includes the hit ‘No.1 Against the Rush’, with the emotional video by Todd Cole. WIXIW somehow provided a summation of Liars’ work preceding the record, whilst also providing a complete break from anything that had been heard from the band. Recorded in L.A., the album was self-produced by the band, with additional production from Mute’s Daniel Miller and mixing by Tom Biller. It illustrated an ambiguous, fragile in-between state for Liars, being considered as both their most accessible and most challenging album.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Exact Colour Of Doubt
2. Octagon
3. No.1 Against The Rush
4. A Ring On Every Finger
5. Ill Valley Prodigies
6. WIXIW
7. His And Mine Sensations
8. Flood To Flood
9. Who Is The Hunter
10. Brats
11. Annual Moon Words

Crime & the City Solution return with their seventh studio album, and first in 10 years, the killer. Played out over 7 tracks and recorded in Berlin, the record is arguably Crime’s finest work and is set to be their masterpiece.

The album sees central figurehead Simon Bonney’s trademark storytelling surrounded by the deep, layered and mesmerising instrumentation created by this new incarnation of the band, including long term member Bronwyn Adams and new members Frederic Lyenn, Donald Baldie, Georgio Valentino, Chris Hughes and Joshua Murphy. This is paired with Martin J. Fiedler’s (Josh T. Pearson, Alex White) production, creating a magical atmosphere of foreboding and opportunity.

TRACK LISTING

1. Rivers Of Blood
2. Hurt You, Hurt Me
3. River Of God
4. Brave Hearted Woman
5. Killer
6. Witness
7. Peace In My Time

Manchester legends, A Certain Ratio, are back with their brand new 2023 EP on limited edition 12” vinyl.

This follows the release of their album 1982, and includes 3 remixes of tracks from the record and a brand new track ‘Day by Day’. The remixers on the EP are fellow mancunians Werkha and Jade Parker, as well as close friend Andy Meecham aka Emperor Machine, who originally contributed keyboards and electronic percussion to the very track he’s reworked, ‘Constant Curve.’ The EP also includes a remix of the popular single ‘SAMO’, which spent 4 weeks on the BBC 6Music playlist, accompanied by an animated lyric video paying homage to the graffiti tag it was named after by Al Diaz and American artist and wunderkind, Jean-Michel Basquiat. The final track on the EP is a remix of ‘Waiting on a Train’, presenting a new and special version of the original song, with the presence of the featuring artists, Ellen Beth Abdi and Chunky, remaining strong.

Formed in 1978 with a core line-up of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson, A Certain Ratio emerged from the hallowed grounds of the late 70s punk scene, and from that day on they’ve moved forwards with gleeful disregard for the boundaries of style and genre, their eye fixed firmly on constant progression.

To celebrate their 45th anniversary and support the release on 2023 EP, ACR will be taking to the road to play a select number of shows in the UK and Europe, which will see them play all of their 45s in chronological order across 2 sets in one evening in venues hand picked by the band all with limited capacity.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Day By Day
A2 SAMO (Werkha Remix)
B1 Constant Curve - Feat. Ellen Beth Abdi (Emperor Machine Extended Rework)
B1 Waiting On A Train - Feat. Ellen Beth Abdi & Chunky (Jade Parker Remix) 

Remastered and newly mixed by band members Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, Telex release ‘Looking For Saint-Tropez’.

‘Looking For Saint Tropez’ was Telex’s debut album, originally released in 1979. It contains covers of Plastic Bertrand’s pop-punk ‘Ça Plane Pour Moi’ and Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around The Clock’, in which, so to speak, all of the rock is removed leaving nothing but the clock; a ticking, vocoderised, supremely deadpan robot parody of the original.

Had Telex merely confined themselves to such covers they might have been regarded as a rather clever comedy band. But they also cut ‘Moskow Diskow’, a rollocking, swerving, steaming dancefloor classic, a track which lays down the railroad for as yet unimagined electronic musics such as House and Techno. Years ahead of its time, its reputation has only been enhanced over time, as other, more date stamped electropop has fallen by the wayside.  This is released on vinyl alongside ‘Neurovision’ and ‘Sex’ following the now sold-out coloured vinyl box set release. ‘Wonderful World’, ‘Looney Tunes’ and ‘How Do You Dance?’ are set for release later in the year.

The Belgian synthpop trio - Marc Moulin (1942- 2008), Lacksman and Michel Moers - launched in Brussels in 1978 and, as one of only a handful of synthpop pioneers at the time, helped bring electronic pop to the mainstream. Telex announced their retirement in 2008, following Moulin’s death, and in 2021 began a new partnership with Mute beginning with the release of ‘This Is Telex’.

Individual vinyl edition, using the original artwork with inner sleeve.

“If you can find a copy of ‘Looking For Saint Tropez’ - or either of their best ofs - you’re in for an electro treat.” - The Guardian

“Telex were largely misunderstood during their time together in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, yet this boxset containing the arch Belgian synthpop trio’s six newly remastered albums suggests they deserve a closer listen.” - Uncut (8/10)

“This release is a must for all synth music fans.” - Blitzed Magazine

“A vital bridge between Kraftwerk and arguably all subsequent EDM… New Beat’s ground zero.” - Classic Rock

TRACK LISTING

Moskow Diskow
Pakmoväst
Café De La Jungle
Ça Plane Pour Moi
Some Day / Un Jour
Something To Say
Rock Around The Clock
Victime De La Societe
Twist À Saint-Tropez

Remastered and newly mixed by band members Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, Telex release ‘Neurovision’.

Released in 1980, the album was the follow up to their debut, ‘Looking For Saint-Tropez’, and includes the track ‘Euro-Vision’, which was famously entered into the Eurovision Song Contest, representing Belgium. Moers says he regarded their entry as “very Situationist International, the worm in the apple” and they resolved either to come first or last. They didn’t achieve that goal, but became part of the Eurovision saga.

This is released on vinyl alongside ‘Looking For Saint- Tropez’ and ‘Sex’, following the now sold-out coloured vinyl box set release. ‘Wonderful World’, ‘Looney Tunes’ and ‘How Do You Dance?’ are set for release later in the year.

The Belgian synthpop trio - Marc Moulin (1942- 2008), Lacksman and Michel Moers - launched in Brussels in 1978 and, as one of only a handful of synthpop pioneers at the time, helped bring electronic pop to the mainstream. Telex announced their retirement in 2008, following Moulin’s death, and in 2021 began a new partnership with Mute beginning with the release of ‘This Is Telex’.

Individual vinyl edition, using the original artwork.

“Telex were largely misunderstood during their time together in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, yet this boxset containing the arch Belgian synthpop trio’s six newly remastered albums suggests they deserve a closer listen.” - Uncut (8/10)

“This release is a must for all synth music fans.” - Blitzed Magazine

“A vital bridge between Kraftwerk and arguably all subsequent EDM… New Beat’s ground zero.” - Classic Rock

TRACK LISTING

A/B
Réalité
Cliché
En Route Vers De Nouvelles aventures
Tour De France
We Are All Getting Old 
My Time
Plus De Distance (More Than Distance)
Euro-Vision
Dance To The Music
Lakelele
Soul Waves

Remastered and newly mixed by band members Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, Telex release ‘Sex’.

For 1981’s ‘Sex’, the trio teamed up with Sparks, a match made in heaven given both band’s determination to make electronic pop music suffused with conceptual wit. They got along tremendously, Ron and Russell Mael staying on in Brussels far longer than they’d originally intended, and Sparks contributed to the entire album.

This is released alongside ‘Looking For Saint-Tropez’ and ‘Neurovision’ on vinyl following the now sold-out coloured vinyl box set release. ‘Wonderful World’, ‘Looney Tunes’ and ‘How Do You Dance?’ are set for release later in the year.

The Belgian synthpop trio - Marc Moulin (1942- 2008), Lacksman and Michel Moers - launched in Brussels in 1978 and, as one of only a handful of synthpop pioneers at the time, helped bring electronic pop to the mainstream. Telex announced their retirement in 2008, following Moulin’s death, and in 2021 began a new partnership with Mute beginning with the release of ‘This Is Telex’.

Individual vinyl edition, using the original artwork

“Telex were largely misunderstood during their time together in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, yet this boxset containing the arch Belgian synthpop trio’s six newly remastered albums suggests they deserve a closer listen.” - Uncut (8/10)

“This release is a must for all synth music fans.” - Blitzed Magazine

“A vital bridge between Kraftwerk and arguably all subsequent EDM… New Beat’s ground zero.” - Classic Rock

TRACK LISTING

Brainwash
Drama, Drama
Haven’t We Met Somewhere Before
Long Holiday
The Man With The Answer
Carbon Copy
Exercise Is Good For You
Dream-O-Mat
Dummy
Sigmund Freud’s Party

Yann Tiersen presents the final piece of the Kerber project, Kerber Complete; a CD box set including a brand new Solo Piano version of Kerber, the original album, Kerber Remixes with bonus material, and Tiersen’s live translation of Kerber, 11 5 18 2 5 18.

Kerber was initially released in 2021 and was very much a new chapter in the Breton artist’s work. Although there is piano at the core, the album was the most overtly electronic material he had presented to date. It was recorded in The Eskal, the studio he built on Ushant where he lives, and was named after a Chapel in a small village on the island. This was followed up by Kerber Remixes (a 12” of remixes from Terence Fixmer, Beatrice Dillon, Laurel Halo, Iku Sakan and remix competition winners) and 11 5 18 2 5 18 (a record of reprogrammed, resampled and reimagined tracks from Kerber and additional tracks from his catalogue that serves as the perfect insight into Tiersen’s live interpretation of the original album).

This CD box set exhibits the full evolution of the Kerber story, moving from its origins of stripped back piano into its electronic resolution, 11 5 18 2 5 18. It also see Kerber Remixes available for the first time on CD, featuring a new Terence Fixmer remix of ‘Ker al Loch’, a variety of Yann Tiersen’s remixes of tracks by NEU!, Keeley Forsyth, Michael Price, and Simon Fisher Turner and Edmund de Waal, as well as a brand new song titled ‘Nivlenn’. 

TRACK LISTING

CD1 Kerber (Solo Piano)
1 Kerlann (Solo Piano)
2 Ar Maner Kozh (Solo Piano)
3 Kerdrall (Solo Piano)
4 Ker Yegu (Solo Piano)
5 Ker Al Loch (Solo Piano)
6 Kerber (Solo Piano)
7 Poull Bojer (Solo Piano)

CD2 Kerber
1 Kerlann
2 Ar Maner Kozh
3 Kerdrall
4 Ker Yegu
5 Ker Al Loch
6 Kerber
7 Poull Bojer

CD3 Kerber Remixes
1 Nivlenn
2 Ker Al Loch (Terence Fixmer Remix 2, Edit)
3 Lieber Honig (Yann Tiersen Remix)
4 Ker Al Loch (Beatrice Dillon Remix)
5 Ker Al Loch (Sote Remix)
6 Wash (Yann Tiersen Remix)
7 Kerlann (Laurel Halo Remix)
8 Ker Yegu (Iku Sakan Remix)
9 The Anatomy Of Clouds (Yann Tiersen Remix)
10 A Quiet Corner In Time (Yann Tiersen Remix)

CD4 11 5 18 2 5 18
1 11 5 18 2 5 18
2 11 5 18. 1 12. 12 15 3 8
3 1 18. 13 1 14 5 18. 11 15 26 8
4 16 1 12 5 19 20 9 14 5
5 3 8 1 16 20 5 18. 14 9 14 5 20 5 5 14
6 11 5 18 12 1 14 14
7 11 5 18. 25 5 7 21
8 16 15 21 12 12. 2 15 10 5 18
9 13 1 18 25 (6 5 1 20. 17 21 9 14 17 21 9 19)

Recoil is the musical project of former Depeche Mode member, Alan Wilder, and Mute are reissuing the project’s last three albums - ‘Liquid’, ‘subHuman’ and ‘Unsound Methods’.

Originally a solo venture for Alan’s more experimental work outside of Depeche, Recoil became his primary music project after he announced his departure from the band in 1995.

The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Rosa Torras, Diamanda Galás, Nicole Blackman, Samantha Coerbell and others power Alan Wilder’s passionate yet unsettling Recoil album, ‘Liquid’.

Released in 2000, ‘Liquid’ possesses a hypnotic and deeply charged allure drawn from its intense tapestry of desire, fury and violence. An exceptional piece of work for self-reflection in the company of darker side yourself, the record is intended drill holes into your psyche in a genuinely unhinged way.

“‘Liquid’ is a concept album that serves as a look into the mind of a warped and jaded man whose life is flashing in front of his eyes.” - AllMusic

“Meticulous musical sculpting and a filmic sense of creepiness combine to form an intensely dramatic album” - Sputnik Music

TRACK LISTING

Black Box (Part One)
Want
Jezebel
Breath Control
Last Call For Liquid
Courage
Strange Hours
Vertigen
Supreme
Chrome
Black Box (Part Two)

Recoil is the musical project of former Depeche Mode member, Alan Wilder, and Mute are reissuing the project’s last three albums - ‘Liquid’, ‘subHuman’ and ‘Unsound Methods’.

Originally a solo venture for Alan’s more experimental work outside of Depeche, Recoil became his primary music project after he announced his departure from the band in 1995.

After a 6-year break from recording, Alan Wilder returned with Recoil’s fifth studio album, ‘subHuman’. This dark electronic album, which sets the listener a challenge to analyse what makes us human and subhuman, is a collaboration with bluesman Joe Richardson, who Wilder came across via a Google search.

Richardson provided guitar, harmonica and eerie vocals, dealing with themes of murder, death and religion. Singer Carla Trevaskis llent her ethereal vocals on ‘Allelujah’.

“A perfect way to reintroduce Recoil back into the consciousness of underground music fans everywhere.” - Treble

“‘subHuman’ is equally hackneyed and entry-level postmodern, but like the collage, it’s skilfully polished and best suited for lovers of dark, incongruous genre blending.” - AllMusic

“‘subHuman’ traffics in the thick, surging, hip-hopinspired beats, sweeping strings, and grandiose arrangements…” - PopMatters

TRACK LISTING

Prey
Allelujah
5000 Years
The Killing Ground
Intruders
99 To Life
Backslider

Recoil is the musical project of former Depeche Mode member, Alan Wilder, and Mute are reissuing the project’s last three albums - ‘Liquid’, ‘subHuman’ and ‘Unsound Methods’.

Originally a solo venture for Alan’s more experimental work outside of Depeche, Recoil became his primary music project after he announced his departure from the band in 1995.

Recorded at Alan Wilder’s home studio, ‘Unsound Methods’ is Recoil’s fourth studio album. The record included a number of collaborators, with four separate solo vocalists: Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb, Siobhan Lynch, New York spoken word artist and poet Maggie Estep, and Hildia Cambell, who Wilder worked with on his final Depeche Mode album.

Although all collaborators were allowed free range, ‘Unsound Methods’ still reverberates as the epitome of Recoil’s dark and atmospheric sound.

TRACK LISTING

Incubus
Drifting
Luscious Apparatus
Stalker
Red River Cargo
Control Freak
Missing Piece
Last Breath
Shunt

The album contains 14 tracks sourced from existing duets, songs that previously were not duets, translations from Spanish and a sprinkling of original compositions. Thematically it explores the perennial themes of mortality, love and mankind’s search for meaning as well as an enthused engagement with the enigmatic and mythical. Harvey and Acevedo met several years ago in Mexico City, but it was during 2020/21 that the project burst into life, as ideas were exchanged across the oceans and through the ether. The resulting collection of songs is lush and sweeping in its emotional content and is full of nourishment for the imagination and the senses.

TRACK LISTING

1 Creators Of Rain
2 Indian Summer
3 I Lost Something In The Hills
4 Song To The Siren
5 Milk & Honey
6 Love Is A Battlefield
7 Al Alba
8 The Decadence Of Lust
9 Phantasmagoria In 2
10 The Blue Unicorn
11 She Won’t
12 Trapeze
13 The One & Only (Phantasmagory)
14 You’ve Got Me Singing

Berlin-based avant-garde duo hackedepicciotto have returned with Keepsakes, their fifth full length studio album.

Keepsakes is the duo’s second album released on Mute, and was recorded at one of Europe’s oldest recording spaces, the Neapolitan studio Auditorium Novecento. Inspired by the space, which was home to Caruso and Morricone, the new compositions feature tubular bells and a grand piano within their signature sound of symphonic drone. Where past albums speak of universal themes, this mesmerising new creation has a very personal touch, the duo calls it “an ode to friendship, presenting songs of gratitude”.

hackedepicciotto are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both legends of their own making: Danielle the lead singer of the band Space Cowboys and the co-initiator of the Love Parade, and Alexander a founding member of the seminal German group Einstürzende Neubauten, known for working with the likes of Crime & the City Solution (1987 – 1991) and Phew.

TRACK LISTING

1 Troubadour
2 Aichach
3 Anthem
4 La Femme Sauvage
5 Mastodon
6 Schwarze Milch
7 Lovestuff
8 Song Of Gratitude
9 The Blackest Crow

Following the release of the Love Is Still Alive EP, the legendary Slovenian group Laibach presents their brand new album and soundtrack for IRON SKY : THE COMING RACE.

The Coming Race (dir. Timo Vuorensola, 2019), was the follow-up to the film Iron Sky (2012) in which Nazis plot to take over the world after lying dormant in a secret military base on the dark side of the moon. Laibach were commissioned to compose the music for the Finnish dark comedy, which achieved cult-status and raised more than $1 million via crowdfunding, with their original soundtrack being widely acclaimed.

The Coming Race see’s humanity trying to survive on the former Nazi moon base, but as supplies are running low, a small band of survivor’s journey to the hollow Earth's core where a power is buried that could save or destroy mankind. Along the way they must fight an ancient shape-shifting reptilian race to save humanity.

This soundtrack is as epic and cinematic as the first, providing a musical journey of orchestral scores with bonus songs featured on the CD and download, including the track ‘The Coming Race’ that adds Slovenian Grammy winner Amaya’s powerful vocals into the Laibach mix.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Title Sequence
A2 Neomenia Moon Base
A3 Moonquake
A4 The Jobsists
A5 Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
A6 Renate And Obi
A7 Vestal Celestial Amelia
A8 Moon Führer Is Back
A9 Vril-ya
A10 Back To Earth / Crash Landing
A11 Hollow Earth
A12 3310 Blue R7309170
A13 The Promised Land
A14 The City Of Agartha, Pt. 1
A15 The Vril Banquet Hall, Pt. 1

B1 The Vril Banquet Hall, Pt. 2
B2 The City Of Agartha, Pt. 2
B3 First Among Steves
B4 Malcolm Fights Raptors
B5 The Gate To The Holy Grail
B6 Malcolm Fights Vril Jobs And Vril Hitler
B7 The Triceratops Chariot Race
B8 Escape From Earth
B9 Sieg Heil, Mutterfückers!
B10 Zeit Zum Töten
B11 Renate Dies
B12 Escape From The Moon / IExcommunicating Wolfgang

Swans present their sixteenth studio album The Beggar.

The Beggar was written and produced by founding member Michael Gira and features contributions from recent and former Swans members, members of Angels Of Light, as well as guest Swan Ben Frost.

Following 2019’s leaving meaning, the album emerged from the 2020 lockdown with Micheal explaining, “after numerous pandemic-induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album leaving meaning, and an apparent bottomless pit of waiting, waiting, waiting, and the strange disorientation that came with this sudden but interminable forced isolation I decided it was time to write songs for a new Swans album and forget about everything else. They came relatively easily, always informed by the suspicion that these could be my last. When I finally was able to travel, songs in hand, to Berlin to work with my friends recording this record, the feeling was akin to the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the film changes from Black and White to Color. Now I’m feeling quite optimistic. My favourite color is pink. I hope you enjoy the album.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There are few bands more incendiary than Swans, and 'The Beggar' has been a hotly anticipated arrival in the shop for me especially. The atmospheric gloom and soaring heft of Gira & Co's previous LP's is as present as ever, but lightened with a (dare I say it?) more song-based structure to a few of the pieces. It's classic swans, but it's also a perfect sidestep for one of the most visceral bands in the game.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklist:
1. Paradise Is Mine
2. The Beggar
3. Los Angeles: City Of Death
4. The Parasite
5. The Memorious
6. Michael Is Done
7. Why Can't I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want
8. Unforming
9. Ebbing
10. No More Of This

+ 'The Beggar Lover (Three)' Included In The Digital Download.

CD Tracklist
CD1
1. The Parasite
2. Paradise Is Mine
3. Los Angeles: City Of Death
4. Michael Is Done
5. Unforming
6. The Beggar
7. No More Of This
8. Ebbing
9. Why Can't I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want?
CD2
1. The Beggar Lover (Three)
2. The Memorious

Jake Shears turns his lifelong love affair with club culture into his most ambitious pop music to date with his brand new album, Last Man Dancing. The new album sees the rollerblade his way unapologetically through pop culture. The album was brought to vivid life by Jake Shears and a close crew of collaborators, including head-turning features from Kylie Minogue, Jane Fonda, Amber Martin, and a pre-Renaissance turn from the iconic Big Freedia.

The album launches with the massive single ‘Too Much Music’, which – from its glam rock overture, dramatic strings and irresistible Nile Rodgers groove – announces itself immediately as a definitive Jake Shears anthem. Last Man Dancing is a life affirming record for anyone who has felt lost – out of love, on a night out, or in the modern world – but kept moving anyway.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Too Much Music
A2 Do The Television
A3 Voices (feat. Kylie Minogue)
A4 I Used To Be In Love
A5 Really Big Deal
A6 Last Man Dancing
B1 8 Ball (feat. Le Chev)
B2 Devil Came Down The Dance Floor (feat. Amber Martin)
B3 Mess Of Me
B4 Doses (feat. Big Freedia)
B5 Radio Eyes
B6 Diamonds Don’t Burn

GUT, the brand new album from Ivor Novello winning musician and composer Daniel Blumberg.

An unflinchingly raw and personal album. A suite of six songs performed entirely by Blumberg comprising an extraordinary, soaring vocal take and an unconventional palette of bass harmonica, Steinberger ebass, synthesiser and electronic drums. The album makes reference to the intestinal disease Blumberg has suffered over the last few years, its songs tracing a body stripped back and rebuilt: renderings of pain, frustration and fatigue in ballads made sinew and bone.

New York director Brady Corbet (Vox Lux, Childhood of a Leader) has made a film to the album shot on 16mm, which will be released at a later date.

GUT is Blumberg’s third solo record on Mute following the release of Minus (2018) and On&On (2020), as well as his award winning score for the film The World To Come (dir. Mona Fastvold, 2021).

TRACK LISTING

1. BONE
2. CHEERUP
3. HOLDBACK
4. BODY
5. KNOCK
6. GUT

Originally released in 2010, Sisterworld is Liars fifth studio album. It was their first record to be recorded in the US since 2004’s They Were Wrong, So We Drowned and was created by Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross, along with Tom Biller who is known for working with the likes of Fiona Apple, Elliot Smith, Silversun Pickups and many more. The dynamic rock album took inspiration from fringe characters lured to LA and the resulting subcultures and alternate spaces that they generate, exploring the underground support systems created to deal with loss of self to society.

TRACK LISTING

1. Scissor
2. No Barrier Fun
3. Here Comes All The People
4. Drip
5. Scarecrows On A Killer Slant
6. I Still Can See An Outside World
7. Proud Evolution
8. Drop Dead
9. The Overachievers
10. Goodnight Everything
11. Too Much, Too Much

Following 2021’s compilation This is Telex, Telex return with a vinyl and CD boxset of their full catalogue of studio albums: Looking For Saint Tropez, Neurovision, Sex, Wonderful World, Looney Tunes and How Do You Dance?

These studio albums have all been remastered and newly mixed by band members Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, keeping the spirit of the original tracks whilst adding a freshness to produce a definitive version of each album. The boxset is a timeline of the Belgian synthpop trio’s career, from their 1979 debut up to their last studio album How Do You Dance? (2006).

“If you can find a copy of Looking for Saint Tropez – or either of their best ofs – you're in for an electro treat.” - The Guardian

“…Telex’s bubbly energy and club-ready rhythms were just as influential to the first wave of techno and house DJs and producers.” - Pitchfork [This is Telex]

Available on limited edition vinyl and CD box sets. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Unbelievably ahead of their time, the first Telex record (featured here) dates back to 1979 (!!!). Proto-techno, the group would become a feature in DJ sets by everyone from Jeff Mills to DJ Harvey. This catch-all set is extensive and thorough - everything you need to get fully immersed in this pioneering and highly influential group.

TRACK LISTING

VINYL BOX SET TRACKLIST
LP1 Looking For Saint-Tropez (Remastered)
A1 Moskow Diskow
A2 Pakmoväst
A3 Café De La Jungle
A4 Ça Plane Pour Moi
A5 Some Day / Un Jour
B2 Something To Say
B3 Rock Around The Clock
B4 Victime De La Societe
B5 Twist À Saint-Tropez

LP2 Neurovision (Remastered)
A1 A/B
A2 Réalité
A3 Cliché
A4 En Route Vers De Nouvelles Aventures
A5 Tour De France
A6 We Are All Getting Old
B1 My Time
B2 Plus De Distance (More Than Distance)
B3 Euro-Vision
B4 Dance To The Music
B5 Lakelele
B6 Soul Waves

LP3 Sex (Remastered)
A1 Brainwash
A2 Drama, Drama
A3 Haven’t We Met Somewhere Before
A4 Long Holiday
A5 The Man With The Answer
B1 Carbon Copy
B2 Exercise Is Good For You
B3 Dream-O-Mat
B4 Dummy
B5 Sigmund Freud’s Party

LP4 Wonderful World (Remastered)
A1 L’amour Toujours
A2 So Sad
A3 Raised By Snakes
A4 It Could Happen To You
A5 Second Hand
B1 Tell Me It’s A Dream
B2 Vertigo
B3 The Voice
B4 Radio-Radio
B5 Wonderful World

LP5 Looney Tunes (Remastered)
A1 I Don’t Like Music
A2 Temporary Chicken
A3 Spike Jones
A4 Beautiful Li(f)e
A5 Dingo Bells
B1 I Want Your Brain
B2 Baby, When?
B3 Peanuts
B4 Happy End (I Wanna)
B5 Rendez-vous Dans L’espace

LP6 How Do You Dance? (Remastered)
A1 On The Road Again
A2 How Do You Dance?
A3 This Is Your Song
A4 The Number One Song In Heaven
B1 J’aime La Vie
B2 White Noise
B3 Move!
B4 Jailhouse Rock
B5 Do Worry

CD BOX SET TRACKLIST
CD1 Looking For Saint-Tropez (Remastered)
1 Moskow Diskow
2 Pakmoväst
3 Café De La Jungle
4 Ça Plane Pour Moi
5 Some Day / Un Jour
6 Something To Say
7 Rock Around The Clock
8 Victime De La Societe
9 Twist À Saint-Tropez

CD2 Neurovision (Remastered)
1 A/B
2 Réalité
3 Cliché
4 En Route Vers De Nouvelles Aventures
5 Tour De France
6 We Are All Getting Old
7 My Time
8 Plus De Distance (More Than Distance)
9 Euro-Vision
10 Dance To The Music
11 Lakelele
12 Soul Waves

CD3 Sex (Remastered)
1 Brainwash
2 Drama, Drama
3 Haven’t We Met Somewhere Before
4 Long Holiday
5 The Man With The Answer
6 Carbon Copy
7 Exercise Is Good For You
8 Dream-O-Mat
9 Dummy
10 Sigmund Freud’s Party

CD4 Wonderful World (Remastered)
1 L’amour Toujours
2 So Sad
3 Raised By Snakes
4 It Could Happen To You
5 Second Hand
6 Tell Me It’s A Dream
7 Vertigo
8 The Voice
9 Radio-Radio
10 Wonderful World

CD5 Looney Tunes (Remastered)
1 I Don’t Like Music
2 Temporary Chicken
3 Spike Jones
4 Beautiful Li(f)e
5 Dingo Bells
6 I Want Your Brain
7 Baby, When?
8 Peanuts
9 Happy End (I Wanna)
10 Rendez-vous Dans L’espace

CD6 How Do You Dance? (Remastered)
1 On The Road Again
2 How Do You Dance?
3 This Is Your Song
4 The Number One Song In Heaven
5 J’aime La Vie
6 White Noise
7 Move!
8 Jailhouse Rock
9 Do Worry
10 La Bamba-X

A Certain Ratio’s greatest strength has always been their unpredictability. They’ve always moved with gleeful disregard for the boundaries of style and genre, their eye fixed firmly on constant progression. It’s an ethos that’s open-minded over all else, and that’s seen them take everything from experimental electronica to vintage funk, filtered through their own Mancunian lens.

And their latest studio album 1982 is no different in its unpredictable multidimensional nature. It shoots off in every direction, whether via searing Afrobeat, mind- melting jazz breakdowns or moody electronic experiments all with pop hooks and irresistible dance rhythms.

It might be called 1982, but it’s no nostalgia trip, fearlessly facing up to the future and running at it with full speed.

The album follows ACR Loco and EP:ACR in what is turning out to be the band’s most creative period, unmistakably ACR and unmistakably like nothing else.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There are few bands that manage to competently pull together as many influences as ACR do, and have been doing since the late 70's. It's no surprise then that '1982' is a groove-filled odyssey, dipping seamlessly into disco, afrobeat and funk as they are wont to do. Brilliantly inventive, endlessly innovative and most importantly, hugely enjoyable.

TRACK LISTING

1 Samo
2 Waiting On A Train
3 1982
4 A Trip In Hulme
5 Tombo In M3
6 Constant Curve
7 Afro Dizzy
8 Holy Smoke
9 Tier 3
10 Ballad Of ACR

A Certain Ratio’s greatest strength has always been their unpredictability. They’ve always moved with gleeful disregard for the boundaries of style and genre, their eye fixed firmly on constant progression. It’s an ethos that’s open-minded over all else, and that’s seen them take everything from experimental electronica to vintage funk, filtered through their own Mancunian lens.

And their latest studio album 1982 is no different in its unpredictable multidimensional nature. It shoots off in every direction, whether via searing Afrobeat, mind- melting jazz breakdowns or moody electronic experiments all with pop hooks and irresistible dance rhythms.

It might be called 1982, but it’s no nostalgia trip, fearlessly facing up to the future and running at it with full speed.

The album follows ACR Loco and EP:ACR in what is turning out to be the band’s most creative period, unmistakably ACR and unmistakably like nothing else.

TRACK LISTING

1 Samo
2 Waiting On A Train
3 1982
4 A Trip In Hulme
5 Tombo In M3
6 Constant Curve
7 Afro Dizzy
8 Holy Smoke
9 Tier 3
10 Ballad Of ACR

Berlin-based modular synthesist and Berghain resident JakoJako returns with her Mute debut, Verve EP.

Although newly-signed, JakoJako is not a new name within the Mute catalogue with appearances on both Martin Gore’s The Third Chimpanzee Remixed and New Order’s Be a Rebel Remix 12”. This release follows her immersive debut album Metamorphose, and presents four brilliant new songs including the icy techno track ‘Auris’, released exclusively on Beatport in November 2022. 

TRACK LISTING

A1 Impetus
A2 Opak
B1 Auris
B2 Nexus

Follow the Cyborg, the debut album from Korean-American musician and Mute’s newest signing Miss Grit, moves towards deeper electronic sound and is a sonic leap forward for the artist, occupying a world of chaotic electronic experimentation and stirring electric guitars.

Following the release of acclaimed EPs Talk, Talk and Impostor, Follow the Cyborg sees Miss Grit aka Margaret Sohn pursue the path of a non-human machine, as it moves from its helpless origin to awareness and liberation. This album was fully produced by Sohn in their home studio and features guest collaborators Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint, Aron Kobayashi Ritch of Momma, and close friend and fellow songwriter Pearla.

TRACK LISTING

1 Perfect Blue
2 Your Eyes Are Mine
3 Nothing's Wrong
4 Lain (phone Clone)
5 Buffering
6 Follow The Cyborg
7 ̂

A band out of time, Crime and the City Solution were perennial outsiders who could not rest in their native Australia, and instead found inspiration in the colder climates of London and Berlin. Their mesmeric, expressive music evolved through many incarnations and a great deal of adversity. The first incarnation of the band appeared in 1977/78, in the midst of Australia’s nascent punk scene and re-grouped in London in 1984 with Simon Bonney being joined by former Birthday Party stalwarts Mick Harvey and Rowland S.Howard, Rowland’s bassist brother Harry and one time Swell Maps drummer Epic Soundtracks.

With the departure of Soundtracks and the Howard brothers for the formation of These Immortal Souls, Bonney, Harvey and Adams settled in Berlin. Here they called upon Thomas Stern, Bronwyn Adams, DAF’s Chrislo Haas and Einstürzende Neubauten’s guitarist Alexander Hacke to create Shine. The album was recorded at Hansa Tonstudio in the second half of 1987 and later released in 1988. Shine was more finely tuned, optimistic and delicately abrasive, with the reconstructed line-up admirably marrying Hacke’s post-punk-into-blues guitar with Adam's feathered violin and Bonney’s gruff vocals. 

TRACK LISTING

A1 All Must Be Love
A2 Fray So Low
A3 Angel
A4 On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)
B1 Hunter
B2 Steal To The Sea
B3 Home Is Far From Here

A band out of time, Crime and the City Solution were perennial outsiders who could not rest in their native Australia, and instead found inspiration in the colder climes of London and Berlin. Their mesmeric, expressive music evolved through many incarnations and a great deal of adversity. The first incarnation of the band appeared in 1977/78, in the midst of Australia’s nascent punk scene and re-grouped in London in 1984. The later line-up of singer Simon Bonney, Einstürzende Neubauten’s guitarist Alexander Hacke, DAF’s synth player Chrislo Haas, jazz bassist Thomas Stern, violinist Bronwyn Adams and Bad Seed’s Mick Harvey on drums recorded 3 studio albums in quick succession.

Crime’s freedom of expression and adventurousness reached an apex on 1990’s Paradise Discotheque and its epic Last Dictator saga, which spanned four songs laid out like chapters at the album’s conclusion. The album and the variety of styles used on it, from the metallic sounds of ‘I Have The Gun’ to the magic realism of ‘The Last Dictator’ quartet, were influenced by Bonney and Adams' move to Vienna. 

TRACK LISTING

A1 I Have The Gun
A2 The Sly Persuaders
A3 The Dolphins And The Sharks
A4 The Sun Before The Darkness
B1 Motherless Child
B2 The Last Dictator 1
B3 The Last Dictator 2
B4 The Last Dictator 3
B5 The Last Dictator 4

A band out of time, Crime and the City Solution were perennial outsiders who could not rest in their native Australia, and instead found inspiration in the colder climes of London and Berlin. Their mesmeric, expressive music evolved through many incarnations and a great deal of adversity. The first incarnation of the band appeared in 1977/78, in the midst of Australia’s nascent punk scene and re-grouped in London in 1984. The later line-up of singer Simon Bonney, Einstürzende Neubauten’s guitarist Alexander Hacke, DAF’s synth player Chrislo Haas, jazz bassist Thomas Stern, violinist Bronwyn Adams and Bad Seed’s Mick Harvey on drums recorded 3 studio albums in quick succession.

Originally released in 1989, The Bride Ship was a creative turn for Crime. Using the sea as the ultimate metaphor for freedom, the album highlighted Bonney’s skill as a lyricist and sense of melody. The crashing guitars and drums propelled a sprawling narrative which concerned itself increasingly with the universal as opposed to the personal.

TRACK LISTING

A1 The Shadow Of No Man
A2 The Greater Head
A3 Stone
A4 The Dangling Man
B1 Keepsake
B2 The Bride Ship
B3 Free World
B4 New World

Mute reissues Our Likeness by the renowned avant-garde artist Phew on limited edition clear vinyl and CD.

Originally released in 1992, Our Likeness was Phew’s second solo album following her self-titled debut.

This long out of print album saw Phew collaborate with the legendary and peerless Alexander Hacke (hackedepicciotto, Einstruzende Neubauten), Jaki Liebezeit (CAN) and Chrislo Haas (Crime & the City Solution, DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses).

After leaving the pioneering Japanese punk band Aunt Sally, she worked with many other innovative artists from around the globe, although this particular line up is hard to beat and sounds as great as you’d imagine it would.
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TRACK LISTING

1. The Last Song
2. Our Likeness
3. Being
4. Like Water And Water
5. Glitter Of Night
6. Spring
7. Smell
8. Depth Of The Forehead
9. Our Element
10. Expression
11. Ocean

Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2 is the second collection of improvised modular pieces recorded by Sunroof, aka Daniel Miller, the Founder and Chairman of Mute and Gareth Jones, a producer and engineer, notable for working with Depeche Mode, Einstürzende Neubauten, Erasure and Yann Tiersen. The album recorded through 2022, is available on CD and white vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. January #2
2. July #2
3. November
4. July #3
5. October
6. September
7. July #1
8. January #1

Mercury-nominated artist Maps, aka James Chapman, presents his fifth studio album, Counter Melodies.

Maps’ music has always embraced melancholia, but with Counter Melodies Chapman has produced an album of upbeat and uplifting dance tracks. The album is a new adventure through the familiar emotional terrain of the Maps sound, while also transporting you to more resolutely optimistic and hopeful places.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A near perfect collection of rave-influenced electronics, with a bright sidechained synth lines and saw wave stabs, underpinned with an intricate and dynamic percussive backdrop. It's a heady and hypnotic mix, and one that results in an album that sits somewhere between chilled home listening and dark dancefloor business. Really lovely.

TRACK LISTING

Witchy Feel
Heya Yaha
Thru Lights
Psyche
Windows Open
Transmission
Lack Of Sleep
Valentine
Fever Dream
My Love Is Like

Liars fourth album is next in the band’s recycled coloured vinyl reissue series. Originally released in 2007 and recorded on the heels of 2006’s ‘Drum's Not Dead’ somewhere between LA and Berlin, the album marked another bold transition for the band.

They took a more practical approach for this album, one based on traditional song structures and instrument usage, with Angus explaining at the time of release that “I’d never felt like a songwriter ‘til this album.”

TRACK LISTING

A1 Plaster Casts Of Everything
A2 Houseclouds
A3 Leather Prowler
A4 Sailing To Byzntium
A5 What Would They Know
A6 Cycle Time
B1 Freak Out
B2 Pure Unevil
B3 Clear Island
B4 The Dumb In The Rain
B5 Protection

Legendary Slovenian group Laibach return with their new EP LOVE IS STILL ALIVE, via Mute.

The EP is a 40 minute country, dance and electronic masterpiece, featuring different versions of the song Love Is Still Alive. The original song is taken from Laibach’s soundtrack for the sci-fi action film Iron Sky: The Coming Race, and centres around Milan Fras’ unmistakable gravely vocal over an old time country western accompaniment, a musical curveball from a career that defies genres. The Coming Race is the sequel to Iron Sky, which Laibach were commissioned to compose the score for in 2012. The Finnish dark comedy achieved cult-status and raised more than $1 million via crowdfunding. This release follows a series of important theatrical performances and releases from Laibach, and supports their Coming Race tour dates (2022/2023).

TRACK LISTING

1. Love Is Still Alive I (Moon, Euphoria)
2. Love Is Still Alive II (Venus, Libidine)
3. Love Is Still Alive III (Mercury, Dopamine)
4. Love Is Still Alive IV (Neptune, Oxytocin)
5. Love Is Still Alive V (Uranus, Prolactin)
6. Love Is Still Alive VI (Saturn, Insomnia)
7. Love Is Still Alive VII (Jupiter, Tristitia)
8. Love Is Still Alive Viii (Mars, Dysphoria)

Originally released on 2nd May 2011, Mick Harvey’s sixth studio solo album Sketches From The Book Of The Dead is being reissued on clear vinyl, alongside 2013’s Four (Acts of Love), with Delirium Tremens and Intoxicated Women set to follow later in 2023.

Sketches From The Book Of The Dead is Mick Harvey's first fully self-penned album; the 11-track album was recorded and mixed with David McCluney at Atlantis Sound, Port Melbourne with additional recording at Harvey's own Grace Lane music room. The record sees Mick Harvey (playing most of the instruments) joined by Rosie Westbrook on double bass and J.P. Shilo on accordion and violin, with Xanthe Waite contributing occasional ethereal backing vocals. Containing an extraordinary investigation into a rarely scrutinised area of the human condition, Sketches From The Book Of The Dead is a truly unique piece of work.

TRACK LISTING

A1. October Boy
A2. The Ballad Of Jay Givens
A3. Two Paintings
A4. Rhymeless
A5. Frankie T. & Frankie C.
B1. A Place Called Passion
B2. To Each His Own
B3. The Bells Never Rang
B4. That's All, Paul
B5. How Would I Leave You?

Originally released on 29th April 2013, Mick Harvey’s sixth studio solo album Four (Acts of Love) is being reissued on clear vinyl, alongside 2011’s Sketches From The Book Of The Dead, with Delirium Tremens and Intoxicated Women set to follow in mid 2023.

Four (Acts of Love) is a contemplation on romantic love - its loss, re-awakening, its tumultuous struggle and its place in our universe. The album is a song cycle, divided into 3 Acts, featuring original compositions by Mick Harvey alongside a song by long time collaborator PJ Harvey (Glorious) and interpretations of The Saints’ The Story of Love, Van Morrison’s The Way Young Lovers Do, Exuma’s Summertime in New York and Roy Orbison’s Wild Hearts (Run Out of Time). Recorded at Grace Lane, North Melbourne and Atlantis Sound, Melbourne, Four (Acts of Love) features regular collaborators Rosie Westbrook on double bass and JP Shilo on guitar and violin.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Praise The Earth (Wheels Of Amber And Gold)
A2. Glorious
A3. Midnight On The Ramparts
A4. Summertime In New York
A5. Where There's Smoke (Before)
A6. God Made The Hammer
A7. I Wish That I Were Stone
B1. The Way Young Lovers Do
B2. A Drop, An Ocean
B3. The Story Of Love
B4. Where There's Smoke (After)
B5. Wild Hearts
B6. Fairy Dust
B7. Praise The Earth (An Ephemeral Play)

Mick Harvey’s acclaimed One Man's Treasure, originally released in 2005, is a collection of original tracks alongside covers of tracks chosen for Mick’s personal connection with each track. These covers include First St. Blues by country-pop singer Lee Hazelwood, Tim Buckley’s The River, and Mother Of Earth by Jeffrey Lee Pierce of The Gun Club. The creation of One Man's Treasure unravelled spontaneously, the majority of the album was recorded at Harvey’s home studio with him explaining, “It was something I was doing to entertain myself.” After receiving words of encouragement from Mute’s Daniel Miller, Harvey subsequently finished One Man’s Treasure at Atlantis Studios in Melbourne, using his time there to add instrumental and mixing refinements.

The second album included is Harvey’s Two Of Diamonds, released in 2007. Following the positive reaction to One Man's Treasure, Harvey was reinvigorated to record a new album. This time his band accompanied Harvey: Rosie Westbrook (double bass) and fellow Bad Seeds James Johnston (organ and guitar) and Thomas Wydler (drums), along with guest musicians Rob Ellis from P.J. Harvey's band (piano/drums) and Julitha Ryan (piano) of Melbourne’s Silver Ray. In true Mick Harvey fashion, Two of Diamonds is an eclectic collection of songs: obscure classics combined with original Harvey compositions, including ‘Out of Time Man’ which featured prominently in various TV Series including Breaking Bad, Orphan Black and The Tourist. Arrangements were kept straightforward, in a deceptively effortless manner, for an emotionally powerful punch, passionately delivered from the heart.

TRACK LISTING

A1 First St.Blues
A2 Come Into My Sleep
A3 Louise
A4 Demon Alcohol
A5 Man Without A Home
B1 Planetarium
B2 The River
B3 Hank Williams Said It Best
B4 Bethelridge
B5 Will You Surrender?
C1 Photograph
C2 I Don't Want You On My Mind
C3 Sad Dark Eyes
C4 Come On Spring
C5 Mother Of Earth
C6 Blue Arrows
D1 Everything Is Fixed
D2 A Walk On The Wild Side
D3 Little Star
D4 Slow-Motion-Movie-Star
D5 Out Of Time Man
D6 Home Is Far From Here

Barry’s 2016 album, Know Where To Run, was produced by Barry himself and recorded in Brighton with Paul Pascoe, whilst WTNSS mixed and provided additional production at the legendary Dean Street Studios. The concept behind the album emerged when Barry started taking photos during a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds North American tour, playing with the idea of traversing different states of the human condition and different states across America. The result was an audio/visual project inspired by these pictures, with the record being presented alongside a curated photobook. 

TRACK LISTING

A1 In Other Worlds
A2 Cine City
A3 Come Away
A4 Death Takes A Holiday
A5 Claw And Wing
B1 Texas Crash
B2 Mr Greed
B3 Up In The Air
B4 Evil Kind

Initially released in 2012, I Will Set You Free amalgamated elements of Barry’s previous work, resulting in an album that is unmistakably Barry Adamson. Like many of Adamson’s records, the album is a genre odyssey that jumps from garage rock rock, to blues, to new-wave pop, with the adventurous brass section injecting an acid jazz touch. His overwhelming desire to examine cultural shifts and embrace them within the quest to improve oneself that often centres in Adamson’s art is clearly present in I Will Set You Free. This subsequently makes it a quintessential Barry Adamson record that fits right in with the back catalogue. 

TRACK LISTING

A1 Get Your Mind Right
A2 Black Holes In My Brain
A3 Turnaround
A4 The Power Of Suggestion
A5 Destination
B1 The Trigger City Blues
B2 Looking To Love Somebody
B3 The Sun And The Sea
B4 If You Love Her
B5 Stand In

Although Terence’s beginnings were in the pre-techno EBM world, he became one of the innovators of techno with his very specific and unique style, and in the following decades his career has evolved to include collaborations with Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy. Shifting Signals is Terence’s debut for Mute, and is an advanced experimental techno record with dark and hypnotic shadings.

TRACK LISTING

VINYL:
A1 Reset
A2 Corne De Brume
A3 Automaton
B1 Step To The Edge
B2 Roar Machines
B3 The Passage
C1 No Latitude For Errors
C2 The Way I See You
C3 Matière Noire
D1 Oracle
D2 Synthetic Mind
D3 Desertic

CD:
1 Matière Noire
2 Synthetic Mind
3 Corne De Brume
4 No Latitude For Errors
5 Automaton
6 Reset
7 Roar Machines
8 Oracle
9 The Passage
10 The Way I See You
11 Step To The Edge
12 Desertic

Mute and Young God Records present the first instalment of the Angels Of Light reissues, starting with remastered editions of The Angels of Light Sing ‘Other People’ and We Are Him.

Michael Gira formed Angels Of Light after the conclusion of Swans in 1997. The Angels Of Light Sing “Other People” was released in 2005, produced by Gira and featured Akron/Family (Dana Janssen, Miles Seaton Cooper, Seth Olinsky and Ryan Vanderhoof).

On the making of the album, Micheal Gira says “This album is different in many ways than what I’ve done in the past. There’s no general band “sound” here. The instrumentation is arranged in each song to fit the subject. Each song is its own world, a place for the people in the songs to live. I intentionally eschewed long instrumental passages, crescendos, that sort of thing – I’ve done enough of that, and I’m tired of it. The songs say what they have to say, then end.”

TRACK LISTING

1 Lena's Song
2 The Kid Is Already Breaking
3 My Friend Thor
4 On The Mountain
5 Destroyer
6 Dawn
7 My Sister Said
8 Michael's White Hands
9 To Live Through Someone
10 Simon Is Stronger Than Us
11 Purple Creek
12 Jackie's Spine

Mute and Young God Records present the first instalment of the Angels Of Light reissues, starting with remastered editions of We Are Him and The Angels of Light Sing ‘Other People’.

Michael Gira formed Angels Of Light after the conclusion of Swans in 1997. We Are Him was initially released in 2007 and features Akron/Family (Dana Janssen, Miles Seaton Cooper, Seth Olinsky and Ryan Vanderhoof), along with Kristof Hahn, Phil Puleo and Bill Rieflin. The record is about getting by and trying to survive with a family and a faith at a time when “the dogs...howl as the street fills with blood.” - Micheal Gira/Young God Records

On the making of the album, Micheal Gira says “We Are Him began with my usual vows to keep things simple this time, finally, and I failed once again to live up to the task. I went into the studio with Akron/Family as backing band (as they had been on Other People). We recorded all the basic tracks in a week. They played drums, bass, guitar, piano, and backing vocals. Despite Akron's valorous efforts and fine performances, things sounded thin and tentative to me, so I started calling my friends to help me flesh things out.”

TRACK LISTING

1 Black River Song
2 Promise Of Water
3 The Man We Left Behind
4 My Brother's Man
5 Not Here/Not Now
6 Joseph's Song
7 We Are Him
8 Sometimes I Dream I'm Hurting You
9 Sunflower's Here To Stay
10 Good Bye Mary Lou
11 The Visitor
12 Star Chaser
13 I Pity The Poor Immigrant
14 The Provider
15 One For Hope
16 Come For My Woman
17 Mother / Father

Following the highly acclaimed record Fading in 2021, Pole continues his release series for Mute in 2022 with a new album, Tempus. Pole is Düsseldorf-native musician, producer and mastering engineer Stefan Betke, and is known for his unique musical language oscillating between melody and avant-garde in electronic music, with audible influences from Dub and Jazz music. While the subject of Fading focussed on coping with dementia and the loss of memory over time, Tempus focuses on the connection between the past, the present and the future. Translating to tense in English, Tempus investigates whether music that was created in the past, can still be audible and influential for the present, and how much can this music shine into the future. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I'm always up for another Pole release, and Betke's latest mines deeply into the furrow of dub that he's artfully crafted out, but this time with a rich melodic overtone lightening the impossibly organic sub-bass throb he's so well known for. A perfect meeting of celestial lightness and indescribable heft. Classic Pole.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Cenote
A2 Grauer Sand
B1 Alp
B2 Stechmück
C1 Firmament
C2 Tempus
D1 Allermannsharnisch

‘Drum’s Not Dead’ is the next instalment of the Liars’ reissue series, where every two months an album from the back catalogue is being released on recycled coloured vinyl.

Originally released in 2006, ‘Drum’s Not Dead’ is Liars’ third album, following up 2004’s ‘They Were Wrong, So We Drowned’. Once again, the album shattered all past reference points and preconceptions of Liars. Partly inspired by a relocation from New York to Berlin, the album finds Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross taking another seismic step forward, switching continents and seizing new musical territory.

The album’s title and several track names refer to two fictional characters: Drum and Mount Heart Attack. For the band they are like Yin and Yang, each a state of being. Drum is assertive and productive, the spirit of creative confidence. With two drum kits integral to many of these percussive, propulsive, highly rhythmic convulsions, Drum came to be acknowledged as a fourth member of the band. Conversely, Mount Heart Attack is the reaction to Drum’s action, the embodiment of stress and self-doubt. Both became key elements in the creative process.

“Liars have had the last laugh: ‘Drum’s Not Dead’ is a majestic victory lap, and on all levels, a total f**king triumph.” - Pitchfork

“Liars have achieved a captivating level of sonic brilliance that deserves to be listened as an entity and not in scant sessions of personal musical ambivalence.” - Treble

“Liars have delivered just what you need... even if you don't realize it yet.” - Tiny Mix Tapes

TRACK LISTING

Be Quiet Mt. Heart Attack!
Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack
A Visit From Drum
Drum Gets A Glimpse
It Fit When I Was A Kid
The Wrong Coat For You Mt. Heart Attack
Hold You, Drum
It’s All Blooming Now Mt. Heart Attack
Drum And The Uncomfortable Can 
You, Drum
To Hold You, Drum
The Other Side Of Mt. Heart Attack

Nicolas Bougaïeff presents his brand new album, ‘Begin Within’, released on Mute.

This is the first vocal-lead record from Nicolas and is inspired by self-transformation. It’s about honesty, instinct and lessons hard learned through intimate Berlin stories. Nicolas addresses these themes in form and content, explored with the use of his voice.

Much like his debut album, ‘The Upward Spiral’, ‘Begin Within’ continues to illustrate Bougaïeff’s approach to electronic music from a compositional lens, pushing boundaries of rhythm and genre.

TRACK LISTING

Every Day
Naked Eye
Outside In
Pain Goes Away
Begin Within
Designer Love
Inside Out
We Rejoice
Inner Pattern
Designer Love

Barry Adamson takes us Back to the Catalogue with a series of reissues on coloured vinyl and CD.

Originally released in the mid-2000s, Stranger On The Sofa is an album tied together by its mysterious cinematic composure. Each track is used to demonstrate the breadth of musicianship and re-presentation of countless timeless genres, moving in between electronica and jazz with shadowy ambience scattered throughout. Nick Plytas and Adrian Owusu provided their expertise on the organ and slide guitar, with Barry playing almost every other instrument. Composing, performing, recording and producing Stranger On The Sofa undoubtedly makes it an album that represents Adamson fully embracing the DIY aesthetic from where he began.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Here In The Hole
A2 The Long Way Back Again
A3 Officer Bentley's Fairly Serious Dilemma
B1 Who Killed Big Bird?
B2 Theresa Green
B3 The Sorrow And The Pity
B4 My Friend The Fly
C1 Inside Of Your Head
C2 You Sold Your Dreams
C3 Déjà Morte
D1 Dissemble
D2 Free Love

Originally released in 2008, Back To The Cat, was in keeping with the artist who developed the concept of the imaginary soundtrack, with every song building a compelling narrative around Barry’s lifelong investigation of identity, sexuality, race, spirituality and society. The record picked up the threads of his previous work and continued to showcase his musical ambidexterity covering noir jazz, sun-drenched pop ballads, fractious funk, heavenly blues and subversive soul.

TRACK LISTING

A1 The Beaten Side Of Town
A2 Straight 'Til Sunrise
A3 Spend A Little Time
A4 Shadow Of Death Hotel
A5 I Could Love You
B1 Walk On Fire
B2 Flight
B3 Civilization
B4 People
B5 Psycho_Sexual

Barry Adamson’s Steal Away EP released for the first time on vinyl via Mute. The EP was written and recorded at the time Adamson was writing his memoir ‘Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars’. The record ended up becoming an intrinsic part of the book writing process with Barry explaining, “The book is the past, the record is the past present. I needed to write it to get through the book, to stay present.” Sitting amongst Barry’s diverse catalogue, Steal Away EP presents a refreshing vibrancy and western-like feel that further demonstrates Adamson’s multifaceted ability in songwriting. 

TRACK LISTING

A1 Let’s Steal Away
A2 Broken Moments
B1 The Climber
B2 Sundown County Ft. Big Walt Daniels

Polly Scattergood’s debut album, released for the first time on vinyl, with two additional tracks, ‘Crystal Breaks’ and ‘Number 24’. Initially released in 2009, the record was produced by Simon Fisher Turner, with additional production from Mute’s Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones. Whilst powerful guitar riffs and glittering pianos create a bewitching base, Polly’s deeply personal lyrics take the forefront.

“A fantastically dark and unsettling debut” - NME.

“Polly Scattergood is worth the fuss.” - Loud & Quiet.

“Just fantastic” - The Guardian.

TRACK LISTING

A1 I Hate The Way
A2 Other Too Endless
A3 Untitled 27
A4 Please Don't Touch
B1 I Am Strong
B2 Unforgiving Arms
B3 Poem Song
B4 Bunny Club
C1 Nitrogen Pink
C2 Breathe In Breathe Out
C3 Crystal Breaks
C4 Number 24

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned is the new instalment from the Liars’ reissue series, where every two months an album from the back catalogue is being released on recycled coloured vinyl.

Originally released in 2004, Liars’ second album scrutinises pagen worship rituals in punkflore fashion with its title alluding to the horrors and injustices of witch-hunts conducted throughout history. Each song is a page from a story that frontman Angus Andrews crafted from his in-depth look into fairy tales and folklore, illustrating a conflict between witches and a scared Christians village. They Were Wrong, So We Drowned was a creative transition and saw the band severing their ties with a scene they inaugurated on their debut album, and had decidedly, outgrown by the second.

“This isn’t yesterday’s post-punk today…this isn’t yesterday’s anything. They Were Wrong is disorienting, challenging, and highly experimental.” — MAGNET

“…a headphone masterpiece.”— FADER

TRACK LISTING

1 Broken Witch
2 Steam Rose From The Lifeless Cloak
3 There's Always Room On The Broom
4 If You're A Wizard Then Why Do You Wear Glasses?
5 We Fenced Other Gardens With The Bones Of Our Own
6 They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids
7 Read The Book That Wrote Itself
8 Hold Hands And It Will Happen Anyway
9 They Took 14 For The Rest Of Our Lives
10 Flow My Tears The Spider Said

A Certain Ratio presents ‘EP:ACR’, the unity of their EP trilogy series on CD. This includes ‘ACR:EPA’, ‘ACR:EPC’ and ‘ACR:EPR’, and will be the first time that these 2021 titles are made available on CD.

The first part is ‘EPA’, dedicated to Denise Johnson. It features the band’s final recordings with Denise and came about when they used up some remaining time booked in the studio for a day jam with no fixed agenda, and the result is something very special.

Next up is ‘EPC’, a collaboration EP with Andy Meecham (Emperor Machine), Maria Uzor from Sink Ya Teeth, Jacknife Lee, and Chris Massey (who remixed their song ‘Dirty Boy’ back in 2019). The whole EP is dedicated to longtime ACR friend Andrew Weatherall, the inspiration for the song ‘Guv’nor’, which the band describe as “a collaboration in spirit.”

The final piece of the trilogy is ‘EPR’, which was recorded with the internal brief that ‘anything goes’. EPR includes Part 2 and Part 1 (in that order!) of the mesmerising ‘$ouls In The City’, followed by the insanely catchy ‘Night People’, ‘Big Boy Pants’ and the final track ‘Downtime Vibes’, a hypnotic piece of repetitive rhythms built up around a set of chimes that Jez found in the back of his car.

TRACK LISTING

Wonderland (Jam 6)
Keep It Together (Jam 5)
Down And Dirty (Jam 2)
Feel No Fear (Jam 1)
Emperor Machine (ACR Vs
The Emperor Machine)
The Guv’nor
YOYOGRIP (Long)
Musik Kontrol (ACR Vs
Massey)
$ouls In The City Part 2 & 1
Night People
Big Boy Pants
Downtime Vibes

Duet Emmo is the legendary collaboration between Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis (both of Wire and Dome) and Daniel Miller (The Normal and founder/owner of Mute). The album was originally released in 1983, and was the act’s only release. The result was the perfect amalgamation of Miller's hard-line electronics and Gilbert and Lewis' abstract and sparse textures, exhibiting why the anagrammatic combination of Dome and Mute was a fitting name for this project. 

TRACK LISTING

1 Hill Of Men
2 Or So It Seems
3 Friano
4 The First Person
5 A.N.C.
6 Long Sledge
7 Gatemmo
8 Last's Card
9 Heart Of Hearts (Or So It Seems)

Erasure present their new album, ‘Day-Glo (Based on a true story)’. An unexpected album, featuring 10 brand new songs, each track created using elements from ‘The Neon’ universe.

Familiar but unexpected, the songs bear little resemblance to the original album, although echoes of ‘The Neon’ can be heard from time to time. The album is an alternative look at Vince and Andy’s world and marks the closure of this chapter of ‘The Neon’.

TRACK LISTING

1. Based On A True Story
2. Bop Beat
3. Pin-Prick
4. The Conman
5. Now
6. Inside Out
7. Harbour Of My Heart
8. 3 Strikes And You're Out
9. The Shape Of Things
10. The End

"They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top" is the first instalment of the new Liars reissue series, where every two months an album from the back catalogue will be released on recycled coloured vinyl.

The campaign kicks off with Liars’ debut album, originally released in 2001 and recorded over two days in Brooklyn, New York with producer Steve Revitte (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion & Beastie Boys). At the time of release Liars were Melbourne born Angus Andrew (vocals & pedals), Aaron Hemphill from LA (guitar & drum machine) and Nebraskians Pat Nature (bass & synthbox) and drummer Ron Albertson.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Grown Men Don't Fall In The River, Just Like That
A2 Mr Your On Fire Mr
A3 Loose Nuts On The Veladrome
A4 The Garden Was Crowded And Outside
B1 Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris
B2 Nothing Is Ever Lost Or Can Be Lost My Science Friend
B3 We Live NE Of Compton
B4 Why Midnight Walked But Didn't Ring Her Bell
B5 This Dust Makes That Mud

Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘The Crackdown’, as originally remastered in 2013, now reissued on Grey vinyl. Initially released in 1983, ‘The Crackdown’ was the band’s fourth album, and first after the exit of founding member Chris Watson. The album fuses their earlier experimental records with the electronic dance-funk sound that would become more prominent within their subsequent releases and includes the magnificent haunting single ‘Just Fascination’.

The significance of ‘The Crackdown’ has grown over the decades, also enlisted in NME’s best albums of 1983.

Cabaret Voltaire were very much ahead of their time, harmonising dance music, techno, dub, house and experimental electronics, making them, without a doubt, one of the most influential acts in electronic music.

“…true, unflinching pioneers of electronic music” – Loud & Quiet
“…The Crackdown alone will serve to change some opinions of the Cabs' tenure in the majors.” - The Quietus
“One of Cabaret Voltaire's strongest albums…” - All Music

TRACK LISTING

A1 24-24
A2 In The Shadows
A3 Talking Time
A4 Animation
B1 Over And Over
B2 Just Fascination
B3 Why Kill Time (When You Can Kill Yourself)
B4 Haiti
B5 Crackdown

Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘Micro-Phonies’, as originally remastered in 2013, now reissued on Turquoise vinyl. ‘Micro-Phonies’ is Cabaret Voltaire’s most sleek dance record, featuring charting singles ‘James Brown’ and ‘Sensoria’. Released in 1984, the record gained its reputation as the Cabs’ most mainstream album. Their partnership with Peter Care on video for ‘Sensoria’ received major airplay from MTV, and was famously one of the first music videos to be in the New York Museum of Art.

Cabaret Voltaire were very much ahead of their time, harmonising dance music, techno, dub, house and experimental electronics, making them, without a doubt, one of the most influential acts in electronic music.

“Having invented the shadowy, murkier side of industrial/noise experimentation, here Cabaret Voltaire make their equally justified claim at fully kickstarting the beat-heavy crunch…” - All Music
“Cab Vol focus on rhythms and bass lines (“James Brown”), work with breakbeats (“Blue Heat”) and approach the mainstream with "Sensoria". - Musikexpress

TRACK LISTING

1 Do Right
2 The Operative
3 Digital Rasta
4 Spies In The Wires
5 Theme From Earthshaker
1 James Brown
2 Slammer
3 Blue Heat
4 Sensoria

Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of The Lord’, as originally remastered in 2013, now reissued on White vinyl. Known for being the harder, more experimental album of their “Pop” period, ‘The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of The Lord’ was originally released in 1985 and includes the classic ‘I Want You’. The album embodys Cabarets Voltaire’s industrial electro-funk sound and their punk ethos, lending its title to American political extremism.

Cabaret Voltaire were very much ahead of their time, harmonising dance music, techno, dub, house and experimental electronics, making them, without a doubt, one of the most influential acts in electronic music.

“…The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord is an exercise in paranoia with anxiety coded into the jittery sample-heavy structures of the music itself.” - Spectrum Culture
“It's a pacier, funkier album than the 1984 effort, but it also it more abrasive and strange and holds together better…” - The Quietus

TRACK LISTING

A1 L21ST
A2 I Want You
A3 Hells Home
A4 Kickback
A5 The Arm Of The Lord
B1 Warm
B2 Golden Halos
B3 Motion Rotation
B4 Whip Blow
B5 The Web

Yann Tiersen presents his brand new album ‘11 5 18 2 5 18’ via Mute. Reprogrammed, resampled and reimagined, ‘11 5 18 2 5 18’ is a collection of 9 tracks that serve as a translation of Tiersen’s live show, taking songs from his 2021 release ‘Kerber’ plus additional tracks from his catalogue, completely restructured to present a brand new album.