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Mind & Matter

1514 Oliver Avenue (Basement) - 2023 Reissue

Numero Group

Coloured LP

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Purple & gold vinyl.

Cat Number

NUM050-5LP-C1

Release date

1 Sep '23

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Purple & gold vinyl.

LP

£22.99
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Standard black vinyl.

Cat Number

NUM050-5LP

Release date

1 Sep '23

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Standard black vinyl.

Boasting a perfectly calibrated vocal quartet, an aggressive rhythm section, and stacks of Rhodes, Rolands, and Hammond keyboards, Mind & Matter were instrumental in creating the Minneapolis Sound. Tracked in 1977, this bundle of never-before-released basement demos throw Jimmy Jan Harris’ beloved Philadelphia Sound into an unfinished root cellar, pelting it with Clavinet attacks, disco skats, and infectious hooks. Named for the street address of its underground uptown genesis, 1514 Oliver Avenue (Basement) is an organic alternative to a late-’70s Prince songbook gone increasingly synthetic.

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1. No One Else Can Do It To Me Baby
2. The Wonder Of It All
3. My Love Is Like A Fire
4. I Don’t Know Why (I Love You Like I Do)
6. Disco Child
7. When You’re Touching Me
8. Would Be Mine
9. Virgin Lady

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Oliver Coates

Aftersun - OST

Invada Records UK

The score, lighter and more delicate than Oliver Coates’ previously released music, functions as shadows or half-glimpses, a glowing form of ambient music which adds emotional colour to the cinematography. Aftersun features ‘One Without’, the much talked about piece of music used in the final scene and credits – the one that audiences have been known to sit in silence through the credits for. ‘One Without’ was made away from the film after the composer’s first meeting with Charlotte Wells, the director. On it, the strings are reversed and sped up a little, Each harmony has the next chord bleeding into it because of the reversed tails. The string vibrato is slightly unreal because the playback is faster and Coates explains that the “whole score is derived from the music within this final piece.” The film is a poetic meditation and gradual emotional arc towards the presence of absence, of another story not revealed. It is the light of the camera work, the physical gait of the actors and the music which come together in a climatic resolution.

Coates’ score stands for memory within the film, a growing awareness that the film might be a memory trawl to try and make sense of trauma. The score makes the film feel like it is starting to become self-aware, like a film within a film. Over time the score develops and helps the viewer move beyond the naturalistic and the diegetic. It is made of simple elements, old synths, reversed and slowed down strings. These, the composer explains “gradually reveal the sluggishness in Calum’s (Paul Mescal) demeanour, suggesting something hanging over him.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Memory Opening
2. One Without
3. Bus
4. DVCAM
5. Swimming Pool - Sky
6. Boat
7. Ocean>Rave
8. Gliders Peace Of Mind
9. Tai Chi
10. Sophie Pool With The Guys
11. Night
12. Limit
13. Happy Birthday Sophie
14. Last Dance (score)
15. Afterglow
16. I Love You

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Oliver Coates

Significant Other (Music From The Motion Picture)

Invada Records UK

Coloured LP

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Blue vinyl.

Cat Number

INV296LP

Release date

3 Mar '23

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Blue vinyl.
Includes MP3 Download Code.

"Significant Other" is now available on vinyl. The score comes pressed on blue vinyl, housed in a spined sleeve with download card and double-sided printed insert. Significant Other follows the sinister events plague a young couple when they take a backpacking trip through the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Oliver Coates is a cellist, composer and music producer known for his work with Radiohead, Mica Levi and more.

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Forest Replicant
Deer Jumpscare
Theme's In Ruth's Mind
First Montage
Isn't That Enough
The Cave & Second Montage
Proposal At The Cliff Face
Harry's Return
Goodbye Ruth (Do I Love You?)
Beach
Shark
Endcave
Ruth Smash
Dread Credits

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Oliver Sim

Hideous Bastard

Young

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YO283LPE

Release date

9 Sep '22

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Red vinyl edition. Also includes film strip while stock lasts.

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Cat Number

YO283LPXE

Release date

9 Sep '22

Format Info

Deluxe edition crystal clear vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with poster. Also includes film strip while stock lasts.

LP

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Black vinyl edition.

Cat Number

YO283LP

Release date

9 Sep '22

Format Info

Black vinyl edition.

The debut solo album from Oliver Sim - vocalist and bassist of The xx, Hideous Bastard is a deeply self-confessional journey of fear and shame inspired by the queer horror films he loves. Oliver is joined by Jamie xx, who produces Hideous Bastard with an elegant touch, and Jimmy Somerville (Bronski Beat/Communards), an angel, who takes us to the heavens. Full of surreal pop sounds that escape into the ether and break free, Hideous Bastard is a bold and ambitious debut that sees Oliver explore his voice and his capacity to evoke emotion, melding masculinity and tenderness, beauty with a baritone.

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Liam says: Debut solo album from bassist and vocalist of The xx, "Hideous Bastard" is a deeply important project for Oliver Sim. With fellow bandmate Jamie xx on production duties, and the assistance from Jimmy Somerville on the opening track, "Hideous Bastard" tackles themes of shame, fear, masculinity and Sims' HIV status. A truly vulnerable, beautiful and ultimately powerful record.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hideous
2. Romance With A Memory
3. Sensitive Child
4. Never Here
5. Unreliable Narrator
6. Saccharine
7. Confident Man
8. GMT
9. Fruit
10. Run The Credits

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Oliver Ray

Out Passed Nowhere

Royal Oakie

LP

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Cat Number

DE0018LP

Release date

15 Jul '22

Black LP w/insert. Out Passed Nowhere is the debut solo album from Oliver Ray. Unfurling like a long stretch of road leading out past the edge of town, the album takes the listener to uncharted destinations beyond the edges of the map. Centered around Ray’s songwriting, the album finds him backed by a kaleidoscopic array of guest performers from the Bay Area, Tucson, and the NYC music communities. Ray’s transcendent tunes are brought to life in stunning wide screen detail by members of Patti Smith, Howe Gelb, and members of Sugar Candy Mountain, Giant Sand, and The Myrrors. Working in collaboration with producer David Glasebrook, the two created a unique sonic landscape for each song; throwing genre conventions out the window, they focused on capturing distinctive, emotionally resonant sounds.

Each song has a distinctive flavor, but like the pieces to a puzzle they add up to more than the sum of their parts. The guitar explorations of Ol’ Coyote sit side by side with the dusty folk of Setting Sun, the psychedelic swirl of Best Game in Town, the darkly orchestral Tower and the Star, and the ambient tone poem Edge City. The resulting album is a songwriting tour de force set amidst a swirling sonic landscape that recalls Bob Dylan or Cass McCombs as much as Brian Eno and Mark Hollis.

Out Passed Nowhere is a captivating statement from an artist in his prime. Although it may be his solo debut, Ray has been playing music and writing songs for decades, and this album stands as a testament to all those miles of road traveled; all those hours spent with pen to paper; all those songs sung and yet to be sung. Highly anticipated solo debut from Oliver Ray. Press coverage on recent releases includes reviews and features in Paste, Brooklyn Vegan, Essentially Pop , Various Small Flames + more.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ol’ Coyote
2. Ready
3. Best Game In Town
4. Setting Sun
5. Bye Beautiful
6. Tower And The Star
7. Queen Of Never
8. Wise Blood
9. Edge City

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Oliver Brouwer

LP3

1631 Recordings

Composer and pianist Oliver Brouwer releases his third album with Swedish record label 1631 Recordings. This forms the final part in a trilogy of albums shared over the last three years. ‘LP 3’ was recorded on the night of the 22nd of June, at Lancaster Priory Church.

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Oliver Spalding

Novemberism

Monotreme

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Cat Number

MONO140VNL

Release date

15 Nov '19

Format Info

limited to 500 copies on 180 g white vinyl with a free album CD inside plus a colour printed inner jacket and a lyrics sheet insert.
Vinyl comes with CD version of the album enclosed.

“Novemberism” is the debut album of 23-year-old UK artist Oliver Spalding. As with his debut EP “Unfurl” (2017), the album was written and recorded with producer Ed Tullett (Novo Amor). Built around Spalding’s staggeringly beautiful voice, the record is full of melodic, immediate songwriting and arresting electronic production. Asked about his choice of title, Spalding explains, “To be melancholy all year round is to suffer from Novemberism.” And indeed, these 11 tracks are woven together with a common thread of heavyheartedness. Even the more upbeat songs, like title track “Novemberism” and “Bow Creek”, which drive and glisten with intoxicating pop hooks and 80s era synths, recall the darker undercurrents of classic New Order.

Says Spalding, “The album focuses on a certain period of time in my life and the things that happened around me. My honesty in songwriting is key. The aim of this album was to be raw and emotional. Emotions are scary and no one wants to face them, and that’s what I wanted the album to feel like - something that is uncomfortable but also beautifully revealing. Synthesizers feature heavily across the record, including single “Bow Creek”, where iridescent synth stabs and lush strings wash over a hazy, late-night London. “I’m a huge Roxy Music fan”, says Spalding, “I love Brian Ferry’s work and take inspiration from the Prophet synth sounds on the 80s Bruce Springsteen records. Opener “Athamé” explodes the record into life with a barrage of saxophone and cymbals, before settling down to “Xanax”’s addictive delayed guitar lines and Spalding’s world-weary vocals. The slow, dark R&B simmer of “Her Crescent” reflects in the dark, ethereal pool of Björk-influenced soundscape “Emissive”, and the quietude of the delicate, piano-led heartbreaker “Golden” gives room to breathe after the gloomy electronic cacophony of “AIBM”. Elsewhere in the album, “Unreal” sees Spalding’s gossamer, spine-tingling falsetto soar to the heavens, and epic power ballad “Everglades” lifts Spalding’s voice to its towering, affecting peak, bringing the album to a close with a shudder of thundering drums.

TRACK LISTING

1. Athamé
2. Xanax
3. Her Crescent
4. Novemberism
5. Unreal
6. A Stop
7. Emissive
8. AIBM
9. Golden
10. Bow Creek
11. Everglades

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Chic

Le Freak (Oliver Helden Remix)

Rhino

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2019 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

Le Freak was Chic’s third single and their first single to hit #1 on the Billboard Top 100 in the US. It went on to become Atlantic Records' biggest selling single. It also garnered international success charting at #1 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand & South Africa. And in the top #10 in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. To celebrate the 40th anniversary year we will release a 12” featuring the 2018 Oliver Helden Remix (on vinyl for the first time) and the 1978 original 12” vocal mix. On standard 12” black vinyl, in an Atlantic sleeve.

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Oliver Coates

Shelley's On Zenn-La

Rvng Intl

For Shelley’s on Zenn-La, Oliver Coates designs a complex of bending truths and reverse walkways to vernal states. Open ears can peer down hidden aux channel corridors, while melodic patterns present two-way mirrors to rooms of other retinal colors. An endless euphoria is just beneath the dance floorboards of Shelley’s, and an inquisitiveness unencumbered by the institution of knowledge surrounding its frame and inhabitants. Shelley’s on Zenn-La was made between the Elephant and Castle neighborhood of London and a future dreamscape. In this realm out of time and space, Shelley’s (Laserdome) – a once-legendary late 80s / early 90s nightclub in the industrial town of Stoke-on-Trent in the north of England – can simultaneously exist on the fictional planet of Zenn-La, and can house a devotional, alien ritual of early UK rave culture, pioneering IDM, and deep minimalism. Much of the album’s construction extends from specific, self-imposed ambitions; particular palettes applied to individual creative ideas. These limitations become limitless manifestations of theme: two bass lines running in parallel (one cello, one synth), synthesized waveforms phasing with bowed acoustic drones and chords, synth sequences in nonstandard tuning sitting against folk melody in standard tuning. Coates made a lot of the music for Shelley’s in Renoise, composing drum sequences in hexadecimal numbers and pencil drawn waveforms and cementing specificity in the intricate, intelligent dance machinations. Cellist, composer, and producer Oliver Coates has studied at the Royal Academy of Music, been an artist in residency at London’s Southbank Centre, and received the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award. Coates has contributed to the recordings of Radiohead, and collaborated with Laurie Spiegel and John Luther Adams.

TRACK LISTING

1.Faraday Monument
2.A Church
3.Lime
4.Charlev
5.Norrin Radd Dreaming
6.Cello Renoise
7.Prairie
8.Perfect Apple With Silver Mark

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Oliver Wilde

Red Tide Opal In The Loose End Womb

Howling Owl

Downer pop songsmith Oliver Wilde has unveiled details of his highly anticipated second LP, Red Tide Opal in the Loose End Womb, due for release on May 5th through Bristol’s most forward thinking DIY label Howling Owl Records.

An organic progression from Oliver Wilde’s debut album A Brief Introduction to Unnatural Lightyears, which as well as gaining critical acclaim from The Guardian, Loud & Quiet, Drowned in Sound, and DIY et al, also helped him build a passionate following through smaller yet well respected champions of independent music; Red Tide Opal In the Loose End Womb finds the prodigal artist expanding musically his sonic experimentation and lyrically the surreal yet intimate imagery that has so enraptured listeners.

From ‘Stomach Full of Cats’ infectious synth swirls, ‘Smiler’s foreboding, pulsing electronics through to the record’s soaring crescendo ‘Vessel’ – written during Wilde’s time spent in hospital recovering from heart failure – Red Tide Opal In the Loose End Womb is an album that rewards listeners with subtle gems, buried within.

Describing the process behind the album, Wilde states “Lyrically, A Brief Introduction to Unnatural Lightyears felt like a series of introspective, often personal confessions whereas Red Tide Opal In the Loose End Womb explores relationships occurring between those close to me and abstract concepts through dreamlike prose. Though, at the heart, Red Tide Opal In the Loose End Womb is still a bedroom recording, musically the overall palette overflows into a wider variety of textures. Also, as a natural progression through developing the live show and entrusting a group of musicians that started out as a ‘backing band’, they then became more involved and enabled me to filter their ideas into my world. Therefore, changing the overall textures and features in some of the recordings. As we become more of a family, I hope we will explore our ideas more collectively in the future.”

TRACK LISTING

1. On This Morning
2. Stomach Full Of Cats
3. St Elmo's Fire
4. Say Yes To Ewans
5. Plume
6. Smiler
7. Play & Be Saved
8. Pull
9. Rest Less
10. Balance Out
11. Night In Time Lapse
12. Vessel

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Vincent Oliver

EP 3

Loaf

Much been said about Vincent Oliver in the past eighteen months; his unique approach to songwriting that fuses the quirky lyrical elements of DIY pioneer R. Stevie Moore and Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat while musically leaning on the thin line between the shoegazing electronica of "Pygmalion" era Slowdive and the utter popness of New Order's "Power, Corruption & Lies". His first two EPs on Loaf have been a starting point for a young songwriter with infinite pop potential. "EP3" concludes the series of EPs of Vincent Oliver's bedroom recordings with reinterpretation and remixes from some of his most notable fans. Border community's young star and tour mate, Nathan Fake, lends a hand to re-arrange the blissfully confusing "Cluods In The Haed"; into a psychedelic techno affair that has been getting dancefloor support from James Holden. There's also remixes from Hrdvsion, Andrea's Kit, Isan, Rothko and an extended live version.

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Oliver Knight

Mysterious Day

Topic

Oliver Knight is part of the Robin Hood Bay posse of outstanding musicians. Son of the late lamented Lal Waterson, nephew to Norma and cousin to Eliza Carthy, "Mysterious Ways" is his first album under his own moniker. Contributions from Norma Waterson, Eliza, John Tams, Christine Collister, Barry Coope and Maria Gilhooley add to Knight's skilled arrangements and make for a most enjoyable listen.

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