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The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus

Rumours Of Angels

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2xLP

£32.99

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NXN034DLP

Release date

Expected 2 May '25

Release date: Expected 2 May '25

2025 is the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus. 'Rumours of Angels' is a collection of recorded and live material that spans a period of significant transition for the project.

'Rumour of Angels' was recorded in between the full studio albums 'Mirror' (1990) and 'Beauty Will Save the World' (2015). It includes material from the EP collections, 'Liturgie Pour La Fin Du Temps' (1992) and 'Paradis' (1995), as well as live recordings from Leipzig: reflecting here something of the sense of the immersive multi-media practice, elements of ritual, enigmatic samples and field recordings that were constructed for the live RAIJ live experience. This collection also includes studio material recorded specifically for the release of a 3 CD back catalogue compilation 'After the End' by French label Infrastition in 2013.

It tracks a diverse range of recording and performance styles for RAIJ and documents the end of the first active phase of the project and, with the recording of ‘After the End’ and ‘Suspended on a Cross’, the beginning of the new. The collective is much changed and much the same. There are clear connections between the early project and today, and some of these connections are traced here on 'Rumours of Angels'. RAIJ continues to enjoy a certain reclusive status and to confound musical classification with a commitment to a unique form of musical and artistic experimentation.

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1. Cantata Sacra
2. Le Monde Du Silence
3. Dies Irae
4. Psalm (Live)
5. Paradis
6. She Moved Through The Fair
7. The Parable (Of The Singing Ringing Tree)
8. Suspended Upon A Cross
9. Mouvement
10. After The End

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The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus

Devotion To A Noble Ideal

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Coloured 12" EP

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Solid white vinyl

Cat Number

NXN032EP

Release date

25 Apr '25

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Solid white vinyl

‘Devotion to a Noble Ideal’ is the first EP release on vinyl from The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus. Part retrospective and part reimagining of their work – the EP contains 4 tracks, each produced in collaboration with a different creative partner, offering a sometimes radical reinterpretation of three previous works as well as one new piece. It is a startling body of material from the Liverpool based art house collective that, nearly 40 years since its inception, continues to evolve.

Formed in Liverpool in 1985, the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus is a unique experimental ensemble whose work goes beyond music. Their mesmerising recorded material is influenced by diverse cultural perspectives and stimulates a deeply personal and subjective awakening. Ethereal vocals, ambient compositions, chants, acoustic instrumentation and field recordings generate beautiful and emotionally intense soundscapes.

Includes a double sided 12” insert of illustrations by Mr John Varley, Mr Prince and Miss Macfarlane from the publication THOUGHT-FORMS by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater

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1. Equinox (Jon Lawton Remix)
2. After The Silence (Dorothy Bird Remix)
3. Avatars (The Orchestra Of The Northern Territories Remix)
4. Voices (Blood Of Achilles Remix)

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Zombina And The Skeletones

Taste The Blood Of Zombina (RSD25 EDITION)

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THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

On vinyl for the first time 'Taste The Blood Of Zombina and the Skeletones' is the long out of print 2002 debut from The band under your bed.

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The Room

The Telling

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LP

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NXN030LP

Release date

11 Oct '24

Liverpool post-punk pioneers The Room are back with a new album. Theirs is a melodic blend of progressive, alternative pop and sultry post-punk, which is just as fresh and relevant now as it was when they first broke up in 1985. Firm favourites of the late, great John Peel; they have been compared to Joy Division, The Fall and fellow Liverpool band Echo & the Bunnymen.

Following 2023’s warmly recieved ‘Restless Fate’ is new album ‘The Telling’. Consisting of 11 songs that tell a continuous folk-horror story set in a mythical 17th-century European forest. A traveling storyteller mesmerizes an isolated village with macabre tales of wonder, mystery, and the supernatural. The idea was conceived as an aural movie told in self-contained songs that represent chapters in a complete narrative and has no lyrical choruses that repeat its themes. The album comes with a full lyric sheet influenced by the layout of the Guttenberg Bible. Frontman and lyricist Dave Jackson’s interest in folklore and myths is absolutely apparent, the story is effortlessly conveyed through his spirited yet acerbic vocals. The album features: the welcome return of original The Room drummer Clive Thomas and his fluid open-handed drumming; the haunting backing vocals of Helena Jacks; founder-member Becky Stringer (bass guitar); Ethan Kyme (keyboards); Darren Brown (guitar). A magical sonic adventure for fans of 80s post-punk and folk-horror aesthetics.

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Zombina And The Skeletones

The Call Of Zombina

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Coloured LP

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NXN029LP

Release date

11 Oct '24

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Limited blood-splatter vinyl w/ lyric booklet & cut out mask.

Just in time for Halloween. Zombina and the Skeletones are returning from the dead to bring you their first full-length album in ten years ‘The Call of Zombina’.

The Band Under Your BedTM returned to the studio (or in this case a creepy old church in Liverpool) to make their first album in ten years, with Stephen Cole from the avant garde “post-music” act a.P.At.T producing. ‘The Call Of Zombina’ is Hammer Horror melodrama as art-therapy, the pank roots of goth-rock meets the strings and harpsichords of baroque.

‘The Call Of Zombina’ seeks to mirror the clamic portmantean horror of ‘The House That Dripped Blood’ or ‘Asylum’, with each track telling its own self-contained story. Musically it’s death rock/ baroque, Joe Meek and James Bernard meets The Damned uptown. Lyrically, the schlocky Americanistas of old have been eschewed in favour of the no less pulpy vernacu lar of Pan Classics paperbacks... and of course the whole thing was recorded in an old spooky church, to capture some of that creaky atmosphere and gigantic reverb.

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1) Blood Rite For The Resurrection Of A Sleeping Countess
2) Cemetry World
3) The Black House
4) Vampire’s Kiss
5) Don’t Kick My Coffin
6) I’m Horrified
7) Valley Of The Shadow
8) Dead Birds
9) Ghost Train II: Oblivion
10) No Wonder I’m Always Anxious

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The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus

The Dream We Carry

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Formed in Liverpool in 1985, the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus is a unique experimental ensemble whose work goes beyond music. For over thirty-five years the band’s cult following has grown. Their mesmerising recorded material is influenced by diverse cultural perspectives and stimulates a deeply personal and subjective awakening. Ethereal vocals, ambient compositions, chants, acoustic instrumentation and field recordings generate beautiful and emotionally intense soundscapes.

‘The Dream We Carry’ is the band’s fifth album and perhaps their most coherent body of work to date. It captures echoes and fragile remnants of the lived experience. The emotional traces that affect us. The joys and sorrows we hold. The dreams that we carry.

Founder member Leslie Hampson said:

“The RAIJ is a project in pursuit of beauty; we have tried to jettison anything that doesn’t address that. We’ve been active for a long time and this album represents another phase in our work. We’re not trying to reinvent ourselves or be something we’re not. We’ve never done that. We only ever try to be more of ourselves.”

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1) A Song For Lost Souls
2) Les Fils Des Etoiles
3) Among The Lost
4) Goodbye To Berlin
5) Remnants
6) Object Of Desire
7) The Road Home
8) Tales From Nowhere
9) Portrait Of A Child
10) Solace
11) Equinox
12) Disparu
13) Voices
14) The Song Of Wandering Aengus

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San Lorenz

A Death At Sea

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Ltd LP

£22.99

Cat Number

NXN014LP

Release date

3 Mar '23

Liverpool art-rockers San Lorenz release their highly anticipated debut album ‘A Death At Sea’ following the success of previous EP releases; ‘The House That Doubt Built’ and ‘No Brain, No Pain’. A sonic rollercoaster that explores themes of grief, hopelessness and separation from oneself, ‘A Death At Sea’ is certainly the band’s most ambitious offering to date. Within this body of work, the band proves the thing that has kept them moving for so long; the desire to push themselves and their songwriting to the highest reaches of what they can be.

San Lorenz put their heart and soul into these 11 songs and their efforts should become more apparent on each subsequent listen. A true labour of love and a triumphant debut record that showcases the band’s deftness in crafting deep, multi-layered soundscapes beneath earnest and nuanced lyrics. Known for their explosive live performances and on their way to great things, the Covid pandemic dealt a catastrophic blow to the band’s momentum. But never ones to rest on their laurels, they began remote writing sessions and were eventually able to commence recording, albeit under less-than-ideal circumstances.

Self-producing and working out of their own Yellowbird Studio, they enlisted the help of Grammy award winning producer Mark Rankin (QOTSA, Adele, Bloc Party) to mix the record. Throughout their career, the band have consistently demonstrated their ability to wilfully dismantle themselves in the pursuit of pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved both sonically and emotionally with their music.

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1. Intro
2. Tightrope
3. Accessory
4. Adjust The Angle
5. Dijiste Adios
6. Where's The Shock?
Side Two
1. Wickerman
2. The Disappearing
3. (Don't Be A) Martyr
4. A Death At Sea
5. First To Know

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Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies

What’s On The Inside Has To Come Out

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Coloured LP

£22.99

Cat Number

NXN011LP

Release date

9 Dec '22

The Liverpool ‘Kitchencore’ band follow up their critically received album England’s Up For Sale in 2020 with their most commercial and musically ambitious album to date. Full of razor-sharp lyrics and musical twist and turns, What’s On The Inside Has To Come Out is briming with energy and ideas.

Whereas the previous album was an observational, sparse, post-punk style snap-shot of a Brexit Britain, the new record has a more personal style with witty tales of northern, working class life in songs like I’m Shy, Mum & Dad, Money & Art and the title track What’s On The Inside Has To Come Out, that you can easily relate to.

Through the bands constant gigging and riotous theatrical live shows, they have gained a big reputation as a great live act with festivalflyer.com including them in their list of the top festival bands in the UK. However, behind the fun and theatrics, the band have always had something serious to say.

The album has their usual garage punk and artrock sound fused with post-punk, folk and even gospel elements for a more eclectic record that should please their hardcore fans and those new to their lo-fi but accessible sound. This is a joyous, life-affirming record for the post-Covid era, by the ultimate people’s band... This is Kitchencore!

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1. What's On The Inside Has To Come Out
2. Mum & Dad
3. I'm Shy
4. Money & Art
5. In Toxteth
6. Elvis In My Dreams
7. Life Is Beautiful
8. Kind
9. Happy Birthday Syd
10. Jarg Bizzie
11. Badges
12. Everybody Has A Song

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Whelligan

In The Mean Meantime

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Songwriter and singer Jamie Whelligan is a pop troubadour in the classic late 1960s mode. A busker on the London Underground, an actor in arthouse film. One of those ever present characters who seems weirdly displaced in the modern world.

Whelligan’s songs mine that vein of melodic, psychedelic guitar pop that a certain type of English band are famous for. With songs spinning effortlessly from one genre to another, fans of XTC, Syd Barrett, and even The Rutles won’t be disappointed.

Recent years have seen Whelligan focus on a project called ‘Annexe The Moon’. A modern-psyche collaboration with award winning BBC Sound Designer/Producer Phil Channell (#1 podcast Death In Ice Valley). Their single ‘Full Stop’ was a firm favourite on BBC6 Music, with notable plays from Guy Garvey, Radcliffe and Maconie, Vic Galloway, Marc Riley and Steve Lamaqc.

2021 saw the first of a new crop of Whelligan tunes, and his forthcoming album ‘In The Mean Meantime’ is lined up for release in April ‘22. Co-produced by long term collaborator Nick Frater (Big Stir Records/Great Sheiks) whose trademark sonic fairy-dust brings the magic of Whelligan’s tunes to your ears.

Sweet vocals harmonise over warm and wiry guitars, while inventive lyrics are matched with floating melodies. The album promises an enjoyable trip down a psyche-pop rabbit hole

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The High Rip

Rule Of Four

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Named after the most notorious street gang of Victorian Liverpool, 'The High Rip' formed in 2017. Early gigs and rehearsal rooms were located in that gang's old stomping ground and the synchronicity was unavoidable. United by their shared love of post-punk and new wave artists, their songs combine the high drama of Joy Division and the pop sensibility of XTC.

“This is Rock & Roll revitalised. It's easy to see this is no throw away pop crusade. Things that are made into song are cared for, not just sang about. Their music is bigger than the band.” Scene and Heard.

"This is a record that sits perfectly between The Damned and Echo & The Bunnymen, The Adverts and Gang of Four. This is a record everyone needs to listen to, so please go and check out Rule of Four." The Last Stop Sounds.

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