The epitome of a modern artist, Jana Bahrich does most things herself, no matter how painstaking - writing, producing, directing, often hand painting t-shirts the day of shows when the band have run out of merch. This has helped give her band Francis of Delirium a unique identity, with her rock confessionals breathing a new life in to the genre and her paintings creating a striking design aesthetic.

Released as she was finishing high school, 2020’s single 'Quit Fucking Around’ was a great introduction and it remains one of her most enduring songs. Shortly after it’s release, she signed to artist-first indie Dalliance Recordings (Gia Margaret, HighSchool, lilo) and three EPs - 'All Change' (2020), 'Wading' (2021), 'The Funhouse' (2022) and a striking debut album - 'Lighthouse' (2024) - on and Jana has Francis of Delirium flying.

While the EP’s fizzed with promise, her debut album 'Lighthouse' landed its punches. Seeking a more vulnerable and open sonic palette, she wove in pop elements to create anthems that celebrated heartbreak and love. Lead singles ‘Real Love’ and ‘First Touch’ were the first tracks she made with an outsider - working with GRAMMY winning producer Catherine Marks (boygenius, The Killers, Wolf Alice) - while the rest of the album was produced by Jana herself and day one collaborator Chris Hewett. 

Live, Francis of Delirium are Jana (guitar and vocals), Jeff Hennico (bass) and Denis Schumacher (drums). Together, their brilliant quiet-loud dynamic and tight interplay only elevate her songs and over the last 5 years, they’ve toured across Europe and North America, playing headline shows, festivals and tours with the likes of Blondshell, Briston Maroney, The Districts, Horsegirl and Soccer Mommy. They’ve also supported The 1975, Alanis Morissette, DIIV and Wolf Alice.

Last summer saw a memorable UK tour with Bôa, the 90s band resurrected by a huge TikTok moment for their track ‘Duvet’. There was a real sense of excitement for these shows with young crowds snaking outside every venue hours before doors and bringing the sort of energy Jana thrives on, she road tested new material to an overwhelmingly positive response, giving her the impetus to go and finish album two.

An artist who seeks to connect with her listener on a deeper level, it’s no surprise then that she’s made hope and inner strength central themes on her new album, 'Run, Run Pure Beauty'. Jana says the title track is “an imagining of the world after it has been destroyed by humans and technology. Thrashing against what humans have left behind, ultimately the pure beauty of nature wins out.” Wanting to bring different perspectives into her songwriting with this record - informed by both her travels and the tumultuous times we find ourselves in - she’s also brought about a progression in her sound with these new songs somehow sounding larger, with undeniable harmonies and more orchestration.

Featuring the singles ‘Little Black Dress’ and ‘It’s a Beautiful Life’, 'Run, Run Pure Beauty' serves as an excavation of hope in bleak times. Produced by Jana and Chris, and mixed by Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, Dirty Projectors, Silver Jews, Wild Nothing), its eleven songs of discovery, despair and perseverance ultimately serve as a mirror on its creator and is a brilliant next installment in the Francis of Delirium arc.

TRACK LISTING

1. Aliens
2. Out Tonight
3. Run, Run Pure Beauty
4. Higher
5. Damned
6. Little Black Dress
7. Sucker Punch
8. Open Up Your Mouth To Love
9. Requiem For A Dying Day
10. Modern Madonna
11. It’s A Beautiful Life

'Pure Comedy', Father John Misty’s third album, is a complex, often-sardonic, and, equally often, touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. Father John Misty is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Josh Tillman. While we could say a lot about 'Pure Comedy' – including that it is a bold, important album in the tradition of American songwriting greats like Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, and Leonard Cohen – we think it’s best to let its creator describe it himself. Take it away, Mr. Tillman: 'Pure Comedy' is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. The species’ only hope for survival, finding itself on a cruel, unpredictable rock surrounded by other species who seem far more adept at this whole thing (and to whom they are delicious), is the reliance on other, slightly older, half-formed brains. This reliance takes on a few different names as their story unfolds, like “love,” “culture,” “family,” etc. Over time, and as their brains prove to be remarkably good at inventing meaning where there is none, the species becomes the purveyor of increasingly bizarre and sophisticated ironies. These ironies are designed to help cope with the species’ loathsome vulnerability and to try and reconcile how disproportionate their imagination is to the monotony of their existence.Something like that. 'Pure Comedy' was recorded in 2016 at the legendary United Studios (Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Beck) in Hollywood, CA. It was produced by Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, with engineering by Misty’s longtime sound-person Trevor Spencer and orchestral arrangements by renowned composer/double-bassist Gavin Bryars (known for extensive solo work, and work with Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Derek Bailey).

TRACK LISTING

1. Pure Comedy
2. Total Entertainment Forever
3. Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution
4. Ballad Of The Dying Man
5. Birdie
6. Leaving LA
7. A Bigger Paper Bag
8. When The God Of Love Returns There'll Be Hell To Pay
9. Smoochie
10. Two Wildly Different Perspectives
11. The Memo
12. So I'm Growing Old On Magic Mountain
13. In Twenty Years Or So

This double-A-sided single is an event - One side captures the band performing Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love aurally in reverse, and the other side is that reverse performance REVERSED - It has to be experienced to be understood, but in many ways this is the ultimate expression of They Might Be Giants

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. stelluB

Side 2
1. Sapphire Bullets of Pure Lovejavascript:void(0)

Very Limited 7” EP with printed lyric inner sleeve

Purely Physical Teeny Tapes continue to sink their teeth into the fleshy nethers of the contemporary oz underground, plucking the self-titled ep of vivisected bedroom folk by naarm/melbourne trio Who Cares? from the recesses of net anonymity for the greatest of good.

Upon appearing out of nowhere back in ‘24, the quartet’s debut registered (feverishly) somewhere between immediacy & beguilement, the intervening year & change doing little to dull its aura, the mystique only heightened by their suitably gorgeous appearance in wonderful company on a colourful storm’s recent ‘going back to sleep…’ compilation-extravaganza. The conceit of these four tracks here is disarmingly minimal - repetitious loner guitar strummage, oblique vox poetics as lullaby, intermittent sunken percussion, bass the subtle melodic lugger - all recurring/revolving in delicious pirouette freefall, un-rinseable within the mind, wayward melodies stuck like heat-warped treacle.

As with the firmest of its diy domestica ilk, there’s something ever so slightly off here, the carnivalesque nature of this thing being the ‘what?’ that keeps pulling you in. parched ennui drip, fully zonked bacchanal (anti-)energetics, listlessness rendered bedsit anthem, cooees in the hallway. depending on how your head is screwed, ‘correct’ or otherwise, one might hear a charmed take on a vein of folk song fallen well by the wayside/behind the mantle, others a seance for the spirits in the kettle, others more attuned to the myriad wraiths swirling within the outer reaches of these songs, flights of whimsy foiled by a sticky, gluey something or other. choose, or rather submit to your own adventure. Miaow miaow miaow.

TRACK LISTING

pussycat
discipline
vale of tears
hard yakka

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Analogue is a-ha's eighth studio album, originally released in late 2005. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, a deluxe 2-CD edition will be released featuring 21 bonus tracks—15 of which are previously unreleased—including b-sides, remixes, demos, and alternate versions. Includes the hit singles, Celice, Analogue (All I Want) and Cosy Prisons. It charted internationally, hitting #1 in Norway and top 30 in several other countries. The album was produced by a-ha and Martin Terefe, mixed by Flood, and features backing vocals from Graham Nash. The audio has been remastered by Bill Inglot, and this release marks the album's first appearance on vinyl.

The rare and deeply funky LP "Yoga – Be An Enlightened Soul – Stay Young And Pure With Yoga" by Osunfisan Brothers & Sisters is set to return to vinyl in an official reissue, marking the first authorized repress of one of Nigeria’s most elusive spiritual records.

Originally released in limited circulation, Yoga occupies a unique place in many collectors grail list. According to Mr Femi Osunfisan, the album was conceived by his senior brother and bandleader, "We chose yoga to as a concept to channel our music, but it was not intended to practise yoga with the music". Neither pop record nor conventional boogie LP, the album is highly sought-after for the amazing production by the Sound master Odion Iruoje and for the heavy afro-disco workouts.

At a time when Nigerian music was dominated by Afrobeat, highlife, and disco, Osunfisan Brothers & Sisters charted a more introspective path—using rhythm, voice, and repetition as tools for enlightenment and personal grounding.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Afro-disco meets new age spirituality? It wasn't just those bloody hippies that were inspired by the east; one of the few Nigerian records dedicated to the practice of yoga! It's not all josticks and sun salutations though - there's some fine grooves, amazing muscianship and beautiful vocal work at play here.

TRACK LISTING

A1.Yoga
A2.Adura
A3.Akoba Adaba
A4.Animal Doctor

B1.Dancing Mood
B2.Ose
B3.Homo-Sapiens (III)

As Knocked Loose chipped away at what would become their third album, they felt the pressure from all sides. Internally, there was the need to challenge themselves as songwriters while retaining the merciless intensity and unflinching honesty that have always been their calling cards. Externally, there was a whole new set of eyes on the hard-touring Louisville quintet, following a banner year in which they’d brought their underground-seasoned sound to some of the world’s biggest stages, finding themselves the unlikely viral darlings of both Coachella and Bonnaroo.

The creative process was arduous, with the band writing close to 40 songs across a span of four years before locking in the 10 tracks that make up new LP You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To. But in the end, vocalist Bryan Garris, guitarists Isaac Hale and Nicko Calderon, bassist Kevin Otten and drummer Kevin “Pac Sun” Kaine honed a diverse, cohesive and savagely intense album that both sums up the massive strides they’ve taken during their decade as a band, and asserts their boundless potential going forward.

TRACK LISTING

1. Thirst
2. Piece By Piece
3. Suffocate (ft. Poppy)
4. Don't Reach For Me
5. Moss Covers All
6. Take Me Home
7. Slaughterhouse 2 (ft. Chris Motionless)
8. The Calm That Keeps You Awake
9. Blinding Faith
10. Sit & Mourn

We've got an agreement now, Pure Life (the person) comes into the shop and brings me some records and says 'You'll like this' and then I take ages to upload it and when I finally listen to it I *really* do like it and tell everyone to buy it and by the time I do, it's sold out. 

I know that's not the best way to hear about something when you probably can't buy it, but believe me if you see this and like synth music or ambient music or even Pure Life (the label), you'll be entirely up for this, but let me warn you now, you should definitely buy anything you like when you can.  

So then to the latest from Dennis Huddleston aka 36. Waves of digital synth and blipping arps, shimmering reverb and FM-stabs, woozy crescendos and echoing, Jan Hammer-y melodies, slowly growing walls of sound that fade and bloom, swell and retract. It's a gorgeous thing, and It deserves all of your attention, not that you'll have a choice after a couple minutes. 

A stunning, characteristically immersive behemoth from 36 and Pure Life.  

TRACK LISTING

1. Pre-Dream Condition 07:02
2. Manual Dream Transmission 06:17
3. A Bright And Tranquil Light 06:51
4. Night Language 05:43
5. Nite Range 07:07
6. An Endless Purple Sea 05:48 

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As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of 'No Jacket Required', we will be releasing '12”ers' on vinyl. This will be the first time the tracklisting of the CD edition will be on vinyl, which saw the addition of 'Who Said I Would (Special Extended Remix)' and 'Only You Know And I Know (Special Extended Remix)'. The remix compilation was originally released on 12” singles from Phil’s massive 1985 album No Jacket Required.

TRACK LISTING

1. Take Me Home (Special Extended Remix)
2. Sussudio (Special Extended Remix)
3. Who Said I Would (Special Extended Remix)
4. Only You Know And I Know (Special Extended Remix)
5. Don’t Lose My Number (Special Extended Remix)
6. One More Night (Extended Mix)

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'Shinola' is a compilation album by Ween originally released in 2005. It includes 12 b-side tracks recorded between 1990 and 2003. The album was released on the band’s own label, Chocodog Records, and highlights Ween’s long history of genre-hopping experimentation.

TRACK LISTING

1. Tastes Good On Th' Bun
2. Boys Club
3. I Fell In Love Today
4. Big Fat Fuck
5. Gabrielle
6. Did You See Me?
7. How High Can You Fly
8. Transitions
9. Israel
10. The Rift
11. Monique The Freak
12. Someday"

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The first-ever collection of The Beat's BBC Radio appearances from 1979-1982. This 2LP release, pressed on clear vinyl, features recordings from the legendary John Peel and Mike Read shows and captures the band's energetic spirit with performances of their hits, including 'Mirror In The Bathroom' and 'Save It For Later'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Tears Of A Clown (BBC Peel Session)
2. Ranking Full Stop (BBC Peel Session)
3. Click Click (BBC Peel Session)
4. Mirror In The Bathroom (BBC Peel Session)
5. Big Shot (BBC Peel Session)
6. Hands Off… She's Mine (BBC Mike Read Show)
7. Mirror In The Bathroom (BBC Mike Read Show)
8. Rough Rider (BBC Mike Read Show)
9. Twist & Crawl (BBC Mike Read Show)
10. Too Nice To Talk To (BBC Peel Session)
11. Psychedelic Rockers (BBC Peel Session)
12. Monkey Murders (BBC Peel Session)
13. Walk Away (BBC Peel Session)
14. Night And Day (BBC David Jenson Show)
15. Spar Wid Me (BBC Peel Session)
16. End Of The Party (BBC Peel Session)
17. She's Going (BBC Peel Session)
18. Save It For Later (BBC Peel Session)
19. Sole Salvation (BBC Peel Session)
20. Pato And Roger A Go Talk (BBC Peel Session)

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The Doors’ 'Live in Copenhagen' presents a previously unreleased concert in its entirety from the legendary band, recorded at Falokner Centret in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 17, 1968. The 2-LP release on crystal-clear vinyl includes both the early and late show sets, featuring electrifying performances of 'Break On Through (To The Other Side)', 'Light My Fire', and 'Hello, I Love You', among others.

TRACK LISTING

1. APPLAUSE AND INTRODUCTION
2. WHEN THE MUSIC’S OVER
3. BACK DOOR MAN
4. FIVE TO ONE
5. BREAK ON THROUGH (TO THE OTHER SIDE)
6. ALABAMA SONG (WHISKY BAR)
7. THE WASP (TEXAS RADIO & THE BIG BEAT)
8. HELLO, I LOVE YOU
9. WAKE UP!
10. LIGHT MY FIRE
11. A LITTLE GAME
12. THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

Bruised and bloodied, Knocked Loose opens up the pit with a brutal sound that falls between hardcore, punk and metal. Back in 2014 frontman Bryan Garris, Guitarists Isaac Hale and Cole Crutchfield alongside bassist Kevin Otten and drummer Pac Sun were most likely jamming in a garage or basement somewhere like every other wannabe World touring band. After the release of this, their debut EP, the band have gone from strength to strength with fans among their peers. This EP is where is all began. If you’re looking for a release that delivers heavy, driven riffage, together with vocals that cover subjects ranging from atheism to suppressing personal insecurities then you found it.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Gospel
2. Separate
3. Manipulator II
4. Small Victories
5. All My Firends

Seefeel are a pioneering, experimental electronic band. Formed in London in the early 1990s, they emerged as one of the most innovative bands bridging shoegaze and electronic music, known for their textured soundscapes, minimalist rhythms and ambient sensibilities.

This new, expanded version of 'Pure, Impure' brings together Seefeel’s three classic EPs; 'More Like Space', 'Plainsong', and 'Time to Find Me', and includes Aphex Twin mixes and a previously unreleased demo of 'Moodswing'. Remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road Studios, this 11-track collection also features newly reimagined artwork.

Their 1993 EP 'Pure, Impure', released on Too Pure, marked a pivotal moment in their evolution, offering a more stripped-down, hypnotic approach than their debut Quique. The EP’s tracks explore loop-based structures, subtle melodic shifts and the fusion of organic guitar tones with machine-like precision. 'Pure, Impure' reflects the band's growing interest in dub, ambient techno, and post-rock aesthetics. The EP served as a blueprint for their future work, signaling a deeper dive into electronic experimentation. With its understated beauty and genre-defying sound, the EP remains a key release in Seefeel’s catalogue.

TRACK LISTING

1. More Like Space
2. Time To Find Me (Come Inside)
3. Come Alive
4. Blue Easy Sleep
5. Plainsong
6. Moodswing
7. Minky Starshine
8. Time To Find Me - AFX Fast Mix
9. Time To Find Me - AFX Slow Mix
10. Plainsong - Sine Bubble Embossed Dub
11. Moodswing - Demo

'Buckingham Nicks', the only studio album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks as a duo is reissued for the first time. Originally released in 1973 and unavailable for decades, the album has been sourced from the original analog master tapes for its long-awaited return to vinyl, as well as hi-res digital files for its CD and digital release.

Released on September 5, 1973, recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and produced by Keith Olsen, the album introduced Nicks and Buckingham’s tightly wound harmonies and sharply contrasting songwriting voices across 10 tracks—ranging from the folk-rock shimmer of 'Crystal' to the sunbaked strut of 'Don’t Let Me Down Again'.

In late 1974, Mick Fleetwood visited Sound City while scouting studios to record Fleetwood Mac’s next album. To showcase both his production work and the studio’s sound, Olsen blasted 'Frozen Love' for Fleetwood in Studio A. The song reflected the full scope of the album’s ambition and chemistry—and immediately caught the drummer’s attention.

Soon after, when Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch left the band, Fleetwood reached out to offer Buckingham the spot. Instead of agreeing, Buckingham insisted that he and Nicks were a package deal. Fleetwood agreed, and on New Year’s Eve 1974, the two officially joined Fleetwood Mac—launching one of the most celebrated chapters in the band’s history.

TRACK LISTING

1. Crying In The Night
2. Stephanie
3. Without A Leg To Stand On
4. Crystal
5. Long Distance Winner
6. Don’t Let Me Down Again
7. Django
8. Races Are Run
9. Lola My Love
10. Frozen Love

Lard’s Pure Chewing Satisfaction is the second landmark album of the industrial-hardcore collision between vocals of Jello Biafra with the patented wall of noise assault and studio wizardry of Ministry founders Paul Barker and Al Jourgensen!

Originally released in 1997, Pure Chewing Satisfaction is a dark, frightening look at everything wrong in America, and it rings as true now as it ever has. Lyrically its pessimistic and apocalyptic, tackling topics like looking for work, the legacy of the Me Generation and their failures, to environmental disasters. Sonically, the album is an avalanche of both real and electronic drums, menacing effects galore, and layers of machine gun guitars. Not quite punk rock, nor completely industrial—this is Lardcore for the people!

A must have for fans of Jello Biafra’s work and of Ministry, the result remains another classic release from this legendary collaboration. This long awaited repress now features in addition to the wide release on black vinyl, a limited solid-pink vinyl edition!

Praise The Lard!

TRACK LISTING

1. War Pimp Renissance
2. I Wanna Be A Drug Sniffing Dog
3. Moths
4. Generation Execute
5. Faith Hope And Treachery
6. Peeling Back The Foreskin Of Liberty
7. Mangoat
8. Sidewinder

Soaring, rippling ambient drifts and crisp sidechained synth throbs come together into a perfect, cohesive dance of rhythm and melody, with local favourites Pure Life's latest release from Cryosauna, 'Restless'. 

'Urban' beautifully sets the precedent for pace, with slowly growing organic echoes and warm pads joined by momentous percussion and twinkling melody. If that was the starter, it's easy to see the brief lysergic wooze turned euphoric brain-massage of follower 'Steel' as the main course, with the echoing abstracted vocal samples providing an ever-changing audio cushion for the crisp and intricate percussive slices. 

I'm instantly reminded of the uplifting drift and FM'd digital chords of Japanese city pop or Burial's more ear-friendly percussive streaks (honestly, the percussion programming and sonic depth is mindblowing), and while the more thoghtful moments veer faultlessly into Vangelis-like walls of CS-80 saturation and echoing paddles, the more propulsive moments could easily be slammed out on a dripping dancefloor at 3AM ('Ishii' is probably my abosute zenith of banger / chill ratio). 

They just keep coming too, 'Dremcipher' starts like it's going to launch into some Neptunian acid, but soon turns into an alien wash of dubby basses and compressor-laiden chords before the title track shows that braindance can *always* be around the corner (lest you forget it). It's all brilliant, anway and needs you to listen to it. I already know this one will sell like the Cult Member banger from last year, and it desrves to as well. Ace. 
 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Rippling synthwave, crisp IDM percussion and roaring, D&B adjacent bass drops, a beautifully produced and perfectly paced electronic odyssey.

TRACK LISTING

1. Urban 02:12
2. Steel 04:15
3. Jade Glass 02:03
4. Cobalt 03:30
5. Ishii 04:09
6. Disused Sector 02:45
7. Dreamcipher 04:31
8. Restless 04:51
9. City Mist 04:06
10. Midnight 03:53

Seefeel's 'Quique' emerged in 1993 on the Too Pure label, blending elements of shoegaze, ambient, and electronic music into an innovative and genre-defying sound. The record’s complex textures, pulsating rhythms, and ethereal melodies create an immersive listening experience, with tracks like “Climactic Phase #3” and “Industrious” showcasing the band's pioneering approach. Mark Clifford's intricate production, combined with Sarah Peacock’s delicate vocals, crafts a dreamlike atmosphere. 'Quique' was a trailblazer for the fusion of organic and digital soundscapes.

TRACK LISTING

CD1:
1. Climactic Phase #3
2. Polyfusion
3. Industrious
4. Imperial
5. Plainsong
6. Charlotte's Mouth
7. Through You
8. Filter Dub
9. Signals

CD2:
1. Clique
2. Is It Now?
3. Filter Dub (i-01 Mix)
4. Come Alive (Climactic Phase #1)
5. Time To Find Me (Alternate Desk Mix)
6. Charlotte's Mouth (Avant Garde Mix)
7. My Super 20
8. Climactic Phase #3 (Overnight Mix)
9. Silent Pool

Seefeel's 'Quique' emerged in 1993 on the Too Pure label, blending elements of shoegaze, ambient, and electronic music into an innovative and genre-defying sound. The record’s complex textures, pulsating rhythms, and ethereal melodies create an immersive listening experience, with tracks like “Climactic Phase #3” and “Industrious” showcasing the band's pioneering approach. Mark Clifford's intricate production, combined with Sarah Peacock’s delicate vocals, crafts a dreamlike atmosphere. 'Quique' was a trailblazer for the fusion of organic and digital soundscapes.

TRACK LISTING

1. Climactic Phase #3
2. Polyfusion
3. Industrious
4. Imperial
5. Plainsong
6. Charlotte's Mouth
7. Through You
8. Filter Dub
9. Signals

Samuel Locke Ward and Jad Fair are two of the most prolific musicians working today. Fair is a founding member of the band Half Japanese, and has released over 200 albums, including albums with Yo La Tengo, Daniel Johnston, Moe Tucker, Kramer, Teenage Fanclub, The Pastels, R. Stevie Moore, DQE, Tenniscoats, The Tinklers, Naomi Ishimaru, Jason Willett, Mosquito, and Strobe Talbot. Samuel Locke Ward has released over sixty solo albums as well as a myriad of collaborations with Bob Bucko Jr, Miracles Of God, SLW cc Watt (with Mike Watt) and the cult new age noise group Boundless Relaxation (with Joe Jack Talcum and The Bassturd). He is a cartoonist for Little Village magazine and like Jad Fair, his style musically and visually is wholly his own Pure Candy is the pair’s third album together following 2023’s Happy Hearts and Destroy All Monsters, both issued by Kill Rock Stars.

Pure Candy is an album of love songs and is the feel good album of the Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall. The music was composed and performed by Ward who’s love of pop music and avant stylings offer seventeen unexpected turns over the course of a three minute song. The vocals and lyrics are by Fair, lyrics overflowing with words of love, joy, happiness, tenderness, hope and inspiration. Uplifting words for a time dearly in need of some upliftings. As with the previous two albums by Fair and Ward, this album was mixed and mastered by Jonathan Hansen and is being co-released on LP by Shrimper Records (who last worked with Fair on his collaborative three cassette box set Wonderful World) and Chicago’s Stationary (Hearts) Recordings.

TRACK LISTING

1. This Love Of Ours
2. Back On Top
3. I Have A Feeling
4. Geniuses Of Love
5. A Powerful Heart
6. A Better Day
7. That Is That
8. A Time For Love
9. Lucky Ones
10. The Love Bee
11. Right All Wrong
12. The Good Stuff
13. Oh Gee
14. Wonderful
15. Angel You
16. Let's Talk
17. My Poem
18. The Prettiest

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart exploded out of the late 00s Brooklyn indie scene with a bright, distinctive sound that paid tribute to everything from C86 to early Slumberland, Sarah and Creation label pop, but with a distinct American flavor drawn from groups like Smashing Pumpkins and The Exploding Hearts. Their 2009 self-titled debut is rightly considered a classic, and with Perfect Right Now we're thrilled to round out the story of The Pains' early years.

The ten tracks here compile the much-loved (and LONG out of print!) b-sides from the 7"s that accompanied that first album, the follow-up Higher Than The Stars EP, a couple of scarce tunes from split singles, and finally "Say No To Love," a spectacular tune that points the way forward to the band's next chapter. There are some proper lost classics here, songs like "Kurt Cobain's Cardigan" and "The Pains of Being Pure at Heart" that still pack the dancefloors at indie discos from Göteborg to Glasgow and we couldn't be more excited to make them available again.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A quintessential part of 00's indie, POBPAH epitomise the glistening post-grunge production and crystalline, playful melodies that were the antithesis to grunge's super serious, thoughtful textures.

TRACK LISTING

Kurt Cobain's Cardigan
Come Saturday ('searching For The Now' Version)
Ramona
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Side Ponytail
Higher Than The Stars
103
Falling Over
Twins
Say No To Love

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Special Beat Service is a dynamic fusion of ska, pop, and punk influences and includes the standout hits I Confess and Save If For Later. This 2-LP deluxe edition also features live and non-LP tracks.

Pure Life are a label unique in their visual and musical identity, with every single one of their releases having a strong connection between the music and the carrier of the music (Cassette, Video, vinyl - whatever that may be). It's this meticulous management of the output of the label that means that there are no wrong moves when it comes to giving something you've not heard of a bash. If you've followed Pure Life's output then you'll know that Kuroi Ame is a collaborative endeavour between Panta Rhei and CMD094, both brilliant artists in their own right and co-owners of Pure Life Records, if you don't know that then that's ok too. 

Anyway, what's on the cards? Well, we've got all sorts of throbbing dystopian soundscapery and shimmering neon-tinged grooves that are both machinated and strangely organic, sounds slowly seep out of the propulsive backdrop and become major players in the wall of dreamlike bliss that envelops you. There are flickering, glitched arpeggios and vocal shards, synergising perfectly and organically drifting in and out of sync with the insistent, dancefloor percussion. Endlessly hypnotic, dreamlike bliss that's both perfectly produced and seamlessly integrated with the label's faultless aesthetic. A superb listen, and a perfect fusion of dreamy futurism and chiseled, danceable electronica.  

TRACK LISTING

1. Kaneda 04:30
2. Paprika 04:32
3. Colourless 03:47
4. Lil Slugger 04:59
5. Katsuragi 04:00
6. Perfect Blue 04:17
7. Yuffie 04:07
8. Innocence 03:13
9. Dreaming Machines 02:58
10. Black Rain 05:22

Pure Life is proud to present "Red Gates" a new collaborative work from musician Hyetal, visual artist R3N, and author Tim Maughan (Infinite Detail).

Inspired by contemporary sci-fi-like chaos, wellness tech, and megalomaniac CEOs, "Red Gates" is an abstract, multi-format, first-person narrative experience. It details the visions experienced when a near-future VR meditation device is alpha-tested by its creator in an immersive journey told through three intertwining mediums—sound, visuals, and writing.

Marking his first LP release since 2017’s "Youth & Power", London-based producer Hyetal uses unique production techniques to soundtrack the virtual world. Speech samples are twisted into rhythmic mantras and pulsing atmospheric synths provide rhythm, melody and dynamic cinematic sound design. "Red Gates" plays on the memories of its main character, referencing early rave, analog synth scores, digital experimentation, and post-rock.

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STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: An endlessly deep, filmic experience that drifts from shimmering, barely shifting ambience to paddling digital stabs and incidental glitch fragments. A deep, immersive ride from some undoubtedly talented producers and one of the best labels in the game.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Bridge 03:28 
2. Runner 04:20 
3. Crystal Range 02:28 
4. Ceremony 04:27 
5. Face My Ghost 05:12 
6. Light Flash 03:58 
7. Hyper Prayer 02:43 
8. Furnace 04:08 
9. Red Gates 04:32 
10. Safe And Well 03:40 

It's always a good day when a Pure Life record lands on my desk. This time, it's been a little while since it landed on my desk (sorry Andrew xx) but if anything, that's made the wait all the sweeter. As ever, the visual aesthetic of any PL record is absolutely on point, and anyone who heard the piccadilly chart-bothering Cult Member release from earlier this year will know, the quality of the music is always first rate. 

This time sees the shadowy Phazma smash out a bristling neon-city filled suite that is both incredibly futuristic and forward-facing while effortlessly absorbing and reconstituting elements of all of my favourite electronic music from the 90's and 00's. There are hints of flickering braindance and alien textures, slamming acid breaks and snappy hi-passed breakbeats, woozy aquatic drift and the solid core of meditative ambience and crsyalline digital percussion. In short, if you're a fan of any sort of electronic music with a bit of drive, you'd do well to pick up this beauty. Big recommend. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Impeccably manicured avant dance music that's both wildly inventive and perfectly produced, encompassing elements of breakbeat, braindance, IDM and a whole host of others seamlessly. A triumph in design and execution, and another release that's perfect for legendary MCR synth institution, Pure Life.

TRACK LISTING

1. 2049 03:12
2. RONIN 04:33
3. Dead Aim 05:05
4. Ninsei 05:57
5. Futurizms 03:56
6. Flash Clone 05:36
7. Brain Dive 06:17
8. Ishimura 05:24
9. Cyber City 04:32

Twenty years ago, mclusky released their third album, 'The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire' via Too Pure. In the years since, their legend has only grown, proved by their recent sold-out tour dates and announcement of a new album. Alternative Press described them as “a smash up between the scabrous rock noise of the Jesus Lizard and the jagged rhythms and open spaces of Gang Of Four”. Originally produced by the late, great Steve Albini, this reissue has been mastered by his close friend and Shellac bandmate, Bob Weston.

TRACK LISTING

1. Withoug MSG I Am Nothing
2. That Man Will Not Hang
3. She Will Only Bring You Happiness
4. Kkkitchens, What Were You Thinking?
5. Your Children Are Waiting For You To Die
6. Icarus Smicarus
7. Slay!
8. You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus
9. Lucky Jim
10. Forget About Him, I’m Mint
11. 1956 And All That
12. Falco Vs. The Young Canoeist
13. Support Systems

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35th anniversary x4 trk EP on Yellow Vinyl.

Duo Lucas Brell and Marvin Uhde deliver fire-powered percussion to Osàre! Editions. Longtime friends and collaborators, they channel a liquid medley of drum menace that flips sideways, swiftly pivoting between wildly different tempos. As disorientating as it is formidable, "Purest State Confusion" offers up a fractal prism of ever-shifting beat patterns - an endlessly warping vortex of guttural, narcotic sounds. The titular number, a wormhole techno ordeal, builds steadily, layer upon layer. A crystalline dancefloor pleaser, it subverts classic four-to-the-floor with a delayed kick drum that punctuates every 8th beat. Like black oil diffusing in water, the bass creeps in menacingly to "The Disappearer", in hard and fast contrast with the sharp fluctuations of the amen break. Slamming in mercilessly, "Channeling Bryn Jones" opens up the B-side, its fluttering rhythms joining together with an infectious klaxon melody before the IDM stylings of "Brain Massage" closes out. "Purest State Confusion" was recorded at various locations in Leipzig and Berlin. Final touches and mixing assistance were performed by Mike Bierbach at the WSNWG studios. The pioneering techno producer inflects the record with his staunch taste for aerobic club rhythmics, teasing out the whirling tempos and
pointillistic harmonics.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Future-proof breaks, bass and tek here from Kinzua who adopts an aggressive aesthetic to separate the wheat from the chaff.

TRACK LISTING

Purest State Confusion
Rio Doro
Disappearer
Channeling Bryn Jones
Andreas Grotesk
Brain Massage Happy End

Cloud Nothings are back! Cleveland's loudest export with their new album, Final Summer via Pure Noise Records. Over the past 15 years Cloud Nothings have become part of the fabric of modern indie rock with a steady run of reliably fantastic records, and this streak continues unabated with Final Summer – an album that’s so assured, so instantly satisfying, that it forces you to pause and realize you’re listening to one of the great American rock bands in their prime.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Equal parts rolling scuzz-garage and psychedelic grunge music, cloud nothings effortlessly lurch between sound worlds into places that are both terrifying and exciting. Even on record you can hear the tremendous energy emanating from the Ohioan trio, I bet they're a lot of fun to watch live. Brilliantly raucous.

TRACK LISTING

1. Final Summer
2. Daggers Of Light
3. I'd Get Along
4. Mouse Policy
5. Silence
6. Running Through The Campus
7. The Golden Halo
8. Thank Me For Playing
9. On The Chain
10. Common Mistake

Freestyle comes correct again with a killer slice of 1987 UK Street Soul from Purely Fizzycal, originally issued on the duo's own Pure Impact Productions label.

North Londoner Trish Langley met South Londoner Ash Kamat initially in the the mid 1980s on Tin Pan Alley, while Ash was working at Rod Argent's keyboard shop and running UK soul-focussed zine Soul Trade, and the quickly began working together. Handling the programming and production, Ash says his inspiration came from a mixture of London pirate radio sounds and the US-based sounds of Kashief, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis etc. While Trisha's vocals and melodies were influenced by growing up listening to her parents reggae records, plus her brother's taste for the likes of Brothers Johnson, Maze, Isley Brothers, and a little lovers rock such as Janet Kay - which, together with Ash's raw drum machine sounds, bears all the hallmarks for this uniquely UK take on soul.credits

TRACK LISTING

1. Make A Move
2. Make A Move (Instrumental)
3. Bedroom Eyes
4. Sunday Affair

Moonshake was formed in 1991 by David Callahan (vocals, guitars, samplers), formerly of The Wolfhounds, and New York musician Margaret Fiedler (vocals, guitars, samplers). Callahan and Fiedler recorded a demo for Creation Records, and were joined by John Frenett (bass) and Miguel Morland (“Mig”, drums) to record and release the First EP for Creation in 1991 . They took their name from a 1973 single by Can. Both Fiedler and Callahan wrote songs, and they would (generally) sing on the songs that they wrote. Their output of shared inspiration produced wildly different results - Can, PIL, Kraftwerk, MBV, Erik B & Rakim were a melting pot that made Moonshake somewhat uncategorizable, and as Margaret noted in an interview, “Moonshake was a collision - it was supposed to be a collision.”

Their debut album Eva Luna took its name from a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende and the tracks on it are split evenly between the two songwriters. Callahan’s songs are somewhat

angry, dissonant, post-punk affairs, while Fiedler’s are just as angular, but her quieter sometimes near whispered vocals compliment her writing partner’s equally. Producer/engineer Guy Fixsen, fresh from his work on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless, was instrumental in making the album cohesive.

This album has been critically revisited often since its original release, with Tiny Mix Tapes describing their sound as “an updated take on Can and Public Image Limited’s rhythmic propulsion with noisier guitar work and a predilection for sampling influenced by The Young Gods.” Last year, in a wonderfully long piece to celebrate the album’s 30th anniversary, Louder Than War wrote that they were blown away by the album’s “utterly spellbinding, dizzyingly genre-defying approach at articulating explicitly the sound of a city in the throes of urban psychosis and derangement...Eva Luna really is one hell of a ground-breaking record, and it stands resolutely alone among all of the albums released in 1992 as no other band has managed to create anything remotely similar before or since. It really is a unique album with few equals.”

In 1993, the original incarnation of the band split up, and Margaret Fiedler and John Frenett went on to form Laika with Guy Fixsen. Callahan and Morland continued on with guest musicians, with Callahan ultimately remaining the band’s sole original member. Moonshake ended in 1997 but their legacy is indisputable.

TRACK LISTING

1. City Poison
2. Sweetheart
3. Spaceship Earth
4. Beautiful Pigeon
5. Mugshot Heroine
6. Wanderlust
7. Tar Baby
8. Seen & Not Heard
9. Bleach & Salt Water
10. Little Thing
11. Secondhand Clothes
12. Blister
13. Beeside
14. Home Survival Kit
15. Drop In The Ocean
16. Coming (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
17. Beautiful Pigeon (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
18. Sweetheart (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
19. Mugshot Heroine (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)

Larger-than-life personality Lou Roy has shared ‘Valkryie’ - a sassy, alt-pop jam that she co-produced alongside Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties. It marks Lou’s first release for Balloon Machine.

From Topanga Canyon, a mountainous LA suburb, Lou lives by the mantra ‘joy is king!’ - a saying that comes from her admiration for the chaotic, adult playground of Las Vegas. ‘Chaos reigns. All is permitted’ she sings on Valkyrie, immediately declaring how the limitlessness of her music matches up with the city she so idolises.

‘Valkyrie’ is a vibrant showcase of the humour, invention and peacock swagger that permeates Lou’s music. Lou calls our attempt to give meaning to the chaos of life “sweet” and life’s unpredictability echoes in her urgent genre shifts which take in rock’s most outlandish moments, the playfulness of pop and the straight-up quality of folk.

The new single finds Lou assembling the Valkyrie - “female figures in Norse mythology who ride horses through the sky with big, long swords and are very sick”, Lou’s description - to overcome a particularly brutal trauma.

Of the track, she said: “The song began with me tapping my water bottle while listening to my buddies have a conversation around me. It was called “water bottle birthday beat” for months, until one night in July I got high and decided to just put the beat on loop and improvise lyrics. I had a panic attack a few days before, and had recounted that in the opening line, and from there I just decided to go stream of consciousness based on that. Apparently, I was feeling angry and vengeful - the rest of what came out was all about embracing rage.

“Then in a sudden shift of perspective, I noticed I wanted peace and quiet and asked myself, “hey man, whatcha doin? Come on back, I need you movin!”. It was a gentle request to please not be so upset, I’m scaring me!”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Sitting somewhere between the grooving, shimmering Americana of Lucy Dacus or Fenne Lilly and the punky, angular pop of Claud, 'Pure Chaos' is anything but pure chaos, it's meticulously crafted and eminently enjoyable, an essential addition to any collection.

TRACK LISTING

1. Valkyrie
2. Scroll
3. Uppercut
4. U.D.I.D
5. If We Were Strangers
6. Myth
7. Down Since ’07
8. Bull Ride
9. Big Anvil
10. Dream
11. Talkin’ To Ya 

The script for A Pure Place had a dizzying effect on John Gürtler & Jan Miserre; their minds reeling with the possibilities.

From Persian sheep bells, Chinese sheng, prepared trombone, quarter-tone piano, a beaten-up cembalo, hand percussion, and a room full of synthesizers, embryonic compositions and experiments came to life early on in the project.

An electro-acoustic extravaganza, the soundtrack for A Pure Place takes a deep bow towards the many magnificent composers and scores from the late 60s and 70s where orchestral arrangements met with tape loops, psychedelia, and instruments from across the globe. Listening to that era of film music, anything seems possible. The minimalist tones of ‘Ritual Bells’ set the dial to weird in the opening sequence of the movie, whilst ‘The Island’ makes use of ambient vocals recorded through an oil drum, gently introducing one of the score’s main themes with a distant quarter-tone cembalo.

Acclaimed British artist Shackleton’s eerie original version of ‘Fust’s Song’ (also included) was a tonal keystone for the entire soundtrack. Gürtler and Miserre translated his psychedelic electronic blueprint, layering acoustic instruments and bottom-heavy percussion in their ‘Paradox Paradise’ production style. The vocals, written by Chryssos, and sung by the cast on set, capture the sonics of the actual crypt-like space where cult leader Fust addresses with his following.

‘A Glimpse of the Other Side’ speaks of love and death in a 70s-indebted composition reflecting John and Jan’s shared love for melancholic and suspenseful chord progressions. Meanwhile, the sparkling synths of ‘Athens’ - the children discovering neon-lit civilisation after years confined on the island - transplant us to an entirely different era. Greek artist Maroulita del Kol features heavily throughout - her choir of vocals on ‘Erotica’ were recorded late at night in the studio foyer, capturing its unique tiled reflections and concrete reverb.

On ‘Purification’ Maroulita’s voice guides us alongside a Moog bass drone, building to an ecstatic climax, whilst she also features in the film’s disco-centric ending credits on ‘Gatoula Mou Mikri’.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Ritual Bells
A2 .The Island
A3. Fust’s Song
A4 Erotica
A5. Purification
A6. A Glimpse Of The Other Side
B1. Fust’s Song (Shackleton’s Orignal Version)
B2. Athens
B3. Small Doses
B4. Holy Soap
B5. Irinia Takes Over
B6. Gatoula Mou Mikri (feat. Maroulita Del Kol)

Originally released in 2015, Gateway アセンション was the final of 3 split releases from the members of breakaway vapourwave producers known collectively as ‘2814’, HKE and T e l e p a t h. As 2814, the colour scheme of purple was employed as a compromise between artists wanting Red and Blue respectively, and in this release we see these colour schemes fully explored with each artist.

The HKE side ‘Gateway’ explores the world of ‘Red’: dust, fire, the desert, death and hell, with a futurist take on tribal techno of ‘From Dust’ before exploding into a kind of electronic post-rock cinematic climax of ‘Spiral’ before the aftermath is considered in Vangelis style synth piece ‘Light Patterns’.

The T e l e p a t h side ‘アセンション’ (Ascension) then dives into the concept of ‘Blue’: water, vapour, rebirth and life, building the new world with the soundtrack of ‘つかの間の思い出’ (Fleeting Memories) followed by the achingly beautiful and somber ‘アセンションゲート’ (Ascension Gate) and then the cycle completing with the long form electronic closer ‘超越愛好家’ (Transcending Love).

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Another absolute stunner from the ever-reliable Pure Life here. It's a stunningly effective and perfectly weighted pairing between some of the most talented voices in modern synth music. Superb.

TRACK LISTING

1. HKE - From Dust 06:27
2. HKE - Spiral 13:34
3. HKE - Light Patterns 09:44
4. T E L E P A T H Ã

The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows, the new studio album from Damon Albarn, is released by his new label home Transgressive Records.

The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows was originally intended as an orchestral piece inspired by the landscapes of Iceland. This last year has seen Albarn return to the music in lockdown and develop the work to 11 tracks which further explore themes of fragility, loss, emergence and rebirth. The result is a panoramic collection of songs with Albarn as storyteller. The album title is taken from a John Clare poem Love and Memory.

Albarn says “I have been on my own dark journey while making this record and it led me to believe that a pure source might still exist.”

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TRACK LISTING

The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
The Cormorant
Royal Morning Blue
Combustion
Daft Wader
Darkness To Light
Esja
The Tower Of Montevideo
Giraffe Trumpet Sea
Polaris
Particles

Pure Phase is the second album by Spiritualized, released on 28 March 1995. The album was recorded in the Moles Studio in Bath, England and features contributions from The Balanescu Quartet.

At the time of release, Pierce had renamed the band as "Spiritualized Electric Mainline", the name that appears on the album cover, before reverting to the Spiritualized name shortly afterwards.

TRACK LISTING

1. Medication
2. The Slide Song
3. Electric Phase
4. All Of My Tears
5. These Blues
6. Let It Flow
7. Take Good Care Of It
8. Born, Never Asked
9. Electric Mainline
10. Lay Back In The Sun
11. Good Times
12. Pure Phase
13. Spread Your Wings
14. Feel Like Goin' Home

Dry is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey, originally released on Too Pure Records on 30 March 1992. The album was recorded at The Icehouse, a local studio in Yeovil. Critically lauded both on release and retrospectively, the album contains the singles “Dress’ and ‘Sheela-Na-Gig’

Back in print for the first time in almost 20 years, Beggars Archive on behalf of Too Pure Records is pleased to announce the re-issue of Dry on vinyl. The album was remastered by the original producer “Head” and has been replicated to the original version as much as possible. 

Pitchfork – “On her debut, Polly Jean Harvey matched Patti Smith’s incandescence with Bessie Smith’s lasciviousness, outplayed everyone on the British indie circuit, and became an instant star - 9.2”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Available on vinyl for the first time in 20 years, PJ Harvey’s ‘Dry’ was a kick in the spine for indie music of the time, and remains as uncompromisingly raw and sonically hulking as it did back then.

TRACK LISTING

Oh My Lover
Oh Stella
Dress
Victory
Happy And Bleeding
Sheela-na-gig
Hair
Joe
Plants And Rags
Fountain
Water

Pure X is the last band, has always been the last band. Not that there won’t be future acts, more that Pure X understands that all this pageantry, this civilization is wrapping up.

It burned hot and bright like thermite used to bust a safe open, but now is the age of radiating waves, each one buckles the foundation more than the last. Recorded live in single takes in the Texas hill country by Danny Reisch (Shearwater), this is their clearest, most focused work to date. The rhythm section is locked in--a night train through the desert. There is more singing, the weary wisdom of the lyrics ringing like Tibetan bowls. In 38 minutes, Pure X weave a culmination, all the delays and distortion, the grinding mortar of touring, the low-tide pulling them out from a cult band, to a legacy band, it’s here, understood and forgiven.

The album’s cover (designed by long time collaborator Christopher Royal King) depicts a coffin necklace set against a wide open blue sky. It’s as if we carry our mortality like a pendant on a chain. Learning to own up and accept ourselves through self reflection. It would be understandable to express such forbidden fatalism in a brittle, harsh nihilism, the stark echo of a stone rattling down an endless well. But on this album, their fourth and first in six years, there is a predawn kindness. It may be funereal, but it is a Viking pyre ablaze in the middle of a river, one of those moments when the water seems to pause and reflect the clouds blooming like smoke from an invisible glass pipe.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Searing walls of guitar swooning around the heartfelt vocals and slo-mo percussive stomp, Pure X is a cacophony of noise, but shifting quickly enough to form chords above the tuned dirge and heady vocal soar. Melodic shoegazing for the hypnotised.

TRACK LISTING

Middle America
Hollywood
Angels Of Love
Free My Heart
Making History
Fantasy
Man With No Head
How Good Does It Get
Slip Away
Grieving Song
Stayed Too Long
I Can Dream

Crawling Up The Stairs is the sophomore album from Austin underground luminaries Pure X, re-issued on 180 gram vinyl by Fire Talk.

The anticipated follow-up to debut ‘Pleasure,’ the new record places Nate Grace’s ragged vocals upfront in the mix with more clearcut, refined production choices, while still imbued with the jagged sexual tension and undercurrent of catastrophe that has won them fans across the world.

More accolades from the press followed, notably Pitchfork calling the record ‘sophisticated and self aware,’ lending a further upward trajectory to the band’s steadfast cult status. The duality of vocals from Grace and Jenkins for the first time evoke an even more enthralling immediacy to Pure X’s continued evolution of their nightmarish visions, a spellbinding combination that will find appeal in old fans and new listeners alike.

TRACK LISTING

Crawling Up The Stairs
Someone Else
Written In The Slime
I Fear What I Feel
Things In My Head
Shadows And Lies
I Come From Nowhere
Never Alone
How Did You Find Me
Thousand Year Old Child
Rain At Dawn
All Of The Future (All Of The Past)

NZCA LINES, aka producer and multi-instrumentalist, Michael Lovett, releases his new album Pure Luxury via Memphis Industries. His first album since 2016’s Infinite Summer, it’s funk filled and frenetic, fizzing with electricity and teeming with invention.

Written and produced almost entirely by Lovett, yet featuring a wide range of collaborators, Pure Luxury revels in both the insular – the sound of one man processing anxiety-inducing world events - and the communal. It is a record of diverse styles, voices and textures, expanding the musical universe of Lovett’s previous albums whilst cementing his own playful voice with an inescapable sense of joy and excitement.

Tired of the now over-familiar sound of Big Analog Synths and words like glacial, austere, and wistful, he set out with one clear intention: to be Extra. Extra is the governing musical direction on Pure Luxury, accepting that we live in a world of dwindling attention spans whilst acknowledging that traditional notions of accessible musical form are fast becoming irrelevant in a world of online streaming. Simply put, Lovett says, “I didn’t see the point in pulling punches and restraining myself. We are able to access a near-infinite stream of music that we might like based on what we already listen to; it’s an inspirational cul-de-sac. I couldn’t afford to feel like I was making something that sounded boring”.

The notion of being Extra is perhaps best encapsulated by the frenetic title track. Written in New York during a freak February heatwave, Pure Luxury is a response to the notions of luxury, status, and the insanity of pursuing material wealth in the face of environmental catastrophe. Lovett takes us on a technicolour joyride dripping with sarcasm, a hyped-up version of 21st century excess where gold trim hides rotten plywood facades, muscle cars are bought with credit cards and barbed wire fences separate luxury resorts from the slums beyond their walls.

Indeed, perhaps that’s what we need most when the world seems to be falling apart. Tomorrow might be scaring the hell out of us, but, as Lovett reminds us on the album’s closing track, “Tonight is all that really matters, as long as we keep dancing”.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: NZCA Lines is the music from the scene in the movie where everyone takes loads of drugs and goes crazy, throwing up and fighting and jumping off ill-advised floors into barely-there swimming pools. It's green cocktails spilling onto a flashing dancefloor and bass drums paling in comparison to glittering arps and sidechained throbs.

TRACK LISTING

1. Pure Luxury
2. Real Good Time
3. Prisoner Of Love
4. For Your Love
5. Take This Apart
6. Opening Night
7. Larsen
8. Primp & Shine
9. Tonight Is All That Really Matters 

The Sedate / Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. serves as a solo release from Ailie Ormston of ******** / GUINNESS [Domino Recording Co.]. Comprised of two separate projects, the works coalesce to provide highly surged compositions. The tracks were co-written alongside one drum machine and one synth, embracing elements of chance and coincidence. Writing and recording came simultaneously, a production line of spontaneous melodies with realtime decision making ultimately determining how it sounded, as opposed to preconceived ideas.

Ormston intends to confront the traditions of presenting, performing and digesting music in an attempt to articulate a form of a contemporary condition. She aims to construct a coherent visual language that corresponds to music writing, carrying its ethos into different forms and varying modes of communication.

Side A - 001, 002, 003 and 004 were composed specifically for The Sedate, a work by artists Stasis, developed throughout 2018, concluding as a short film and a performance on a building site in Merchant City, Glasgow. Heavy drums, tiny handbags, choral synths, big earrings, a fight scene, a breather and finally, La Macarena. They are listed here in order of appearance.

Side AA - A32, A18, A67, B12 and B34 were composed in short succession post Side A, collectively known as Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo. Providing increasingly convoluted textures and arching narratives, these tracks are challenging in their multiplicity, with contrapuntal instrumentation being heard simultaneously. Multitasking is encouraged. Physical renditions of each track were realised and presented as an exhibition, An oat latte, but with no image in the foam at Market Gallery, Glasgow. An accompanying text written during this residency can be found alongside the release.

TRACK LISTING

[The Sedate]
A1 001
A2 003
A3 002
A4 004

[Tony Soprano Fashion Inspo.]
AA1 A32
AA2 A18
AA3 A67
AA4 B12
AA5 B34

 ‘The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music’ is an 8-track mini album, released in 1993.

Often noted as being one of the most influential and original bands of the 90s, Stereolab were formed by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier in London in 1990 and released 13 studio albums, 15 EPs and numerous singles. Simon Reynolds commented in Rolling Stone that the group’s early records form “an endlessly seductive body of work that sounds always the same, always different.”

Theirs is a rich, overflowing palette, readily able to blur the gulf between Os Mutantes and the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra; merge Krzysztof Komeda with the Velvet Underground, Francoise Hardy with Neu! and Burt Bacharach with Esquivel. A deluxe blend, in other words, with ingredients plucked assiduously from pop’s coolest outposts: 50’s lounge, Rive Gauche chanson, Brazilian tropicalia, North American art rock, East European film music, Krautrock. hi-fi test recordings, mood music and more. Somehow they distil these apparently incongruent components into an ageless exotica that is all their own.

TRACK LISTING

Avant Garde M.O.R.
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Mellow)
The Groop Play Chord X
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Foamy)
Ronco Symphony
We're Not Adult Orientated
U.H.F. - MFP
We're Not Adult Orientated (Neu Wave Live)

British singer / songwriter Lizzy Farrall releases her debut mini album, ‘All I Said Was Never Heard’, which will drop just in time for her scheduled UK tour supporting Seaway.

Lyrically the release is about situations she went through in her teenage years and forms a diary of that time.

For fans of Julien Baker, Now Now, Dashboard Confessional, Neck Deep, This Wild Life.

TRACK LISTING

Broken Toy
Pack Of Wolves
Better With
Better Off
Hollow Friends

Thee MVPs are closing out a very solid 2017 with a brand new 45 of two solid gold rippers. Already this year the band have smashed a 36 day world tour across America, SXSW and the UK, opening for notable acts like Meatbodies, Television, Mystery Lights, Night Beats and Pulled Apart By Horses as well as numerous international and national shows.

In the final months of a year we can all agree has been caked in shredded nerves, it's only fitting that Thee MVPs newest single ‘Sesh’ is a 3 minute stomper of low tuned riffs set against some Weezer-style vocals, which addresses the issue of the ‘session’. It only takes about 10 seconds to realise the lyrics ain’t the happy message that’s being rolled out on the upbeat guitars. A song about dealing with your lot as a millennial and using the drink just a tad too much to see you through the week, it’s the Thursday morning rush of the guilts soundtrack you brought on yourself for already having two benders this week.

Mastered at Abbey Road and recorded by hard hitting producer Wayne Adams, Thee MVPs know their way around a tune and a riff and a beat in that way only a group with 200+ gigs and countless tours will know, with an upcoming UK tour supporting Together Pangea and some special release shows planned across the UK and mainland EU, dig in deep to these very excellent cuts of classic / punk / garage / pop / whatever rock.

Derby-based Pet Crow formed nearly two years ago and in that relatively short space of time they’ve caused a stir within the DIY scene and beyond, being featured in publications such as Louder Than War, Upset Mag, New Noise, The Revue and The National Student.

They’ve been featured on such shows as Radio X (formerly XFM) and Amazing Radio and shared stages with the likes of The Lovely Eggs and Menace Beach.

Having drawn comparisons to a wide range of artists such as The Julie Ruin, MC5 and The Sonics, their sound is an energetic and groove-laden mix of garage-punk / rock with nods to riot-grrl and surf-rock.

Sheffield-based Seize The Chair release ‘Knew You’d Never Been There’ on 7” on the Too Pure Singles Club.

Warm and melodic with a soft grooving bassline, there’s a great 90s nostalgia to ‘Knew You’d Never Been There’.

Backed with brand new track ‘Secret Sister’.

For fans of Ride and The Charlatans.

TRACK LISTING

Knew You’d Never Been There
Secret Sister

“Dick E Mozart” is 1:16 of grunge fuelled hardcore brilliance backed with the equally brilliant “Appendages”

The St Pierre Snake Invasion are a 5-piece rock band based in Bristol, England. They consist of Damien Sayell (Vocals), Sam James (Drums), Szack Notaro (Guitar), Dave Larkin (Bass guitar) and Patrick Daly (Guitar). The band took their name from an historical event from 1902 when the eruption of a volcano on the island of St Pierre, Martinique, sent an army of 6 ft. long snakes to the mulatto quarter of St Pierre in a mad dash to avoid the flowing lava. They killed over 50 people before the town’s street cats fought them off. A tsunami soon followed, killing all in its path, leaving only two survivors.

Too Pure present the third instalment of the 2017 edition of the Singles Club with the awesome Unqualified Nurse band.

Derby’s Unqualified Nurse Band follow up 2016’s debut album ‘Debasement Tapes’ with the two headed beast that is ‘Death Surf A52’ / ‘White Dove’.

‘Death Surf A52’ is a one note juggernaut that opens up into Dream Surf bliss, weaving its way through 50 shades of rock and roll with no intention of slowing down for anybody.

Significant other ‘White Dove’ staggers and struts and then before you know it you’re howling at the Harvest Moon.

Both songs recorded by Rich Collins at SNUG Recording CO, Derby and mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton. 

TRACK LISTING

Death Surf A52
White Dove

The Too Pure Singles Club is proud to announce the first single for 2017 will be by Family Scraps.

Family Scraps is Matthew Johnson (MJ) of Hookworms and Suburban Home Studio and this Too Pure 7" is his first release under the name.

Mistakes and It Follows are two songs about loss and were recorded at Suburban Home before and after the Boxing Day floods of 2015.

A full length album will follow in 2017.

TRACK LISTING

Mistakes
It Follows

Too Pure Singles Club announce ‘Strigoi’, the latest release from Grief Tourist.

Grief Tourist were formed by drummer Lee Vincent and inspired by Ceremony’s ‘Rohnert Park’ album. You can tell, too. “I would send GarageBand recordings to Rich [Wells], who lives in Leeds,” says Vincent. “He would scream over the recordings and record them on a dictaphone in his front room, then send them back. The recordings had that gross quality we wanted, so we definitely wanted to replicate that when we recorded properly. He’s upgraded to screaming in his mate’s carpet shop now.” Morgan Sinclair completed the line-up and off the trio went to a Perspex Flesh show, which also influences their bludgeoning punk.

TRACK LISTING

Strigoi
Hung Again
Skull
Greef
Nails In
Not Here

Compared to 'Much Much More', this is decidedly geared towards the more funk-electronic end of the spectrum. Hazy guitars and drum samples mingle with woozy bass licks  and vocal chops. Sun-drenched ambience and synth snippets, all topped by Spillane's unmistakeable vocal delivery. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Unusual
2. Right Sound
3. Hear
4. Here
5. Instro
6. Made In A Highrise
7. Outro

This two track vinyl, which includes a stunning collaboration with prog rock musician Steven Wilson, is released on Too Pure records to celebrate their 100th release and is limited to only 500 copies.

TRACK LISTING

A. Feeling Your Heart Run Slow
B. No Ideas

Rising from the smoking embers of several leading Merseyside acts, newcomers Pure Joy have now readied their playful, intelligent and refreshingly bold psych-rock to tape in the form of debut LP ‘Bang Flower.’

This band of friends stemming from the Wirral (the beautiful, sleepy, wigged-out bank off the Mersey - Liverpool's Brooklyn if you will) serve up hot, psychedelia-heavy filthy garage-rock candy tinged with patches of late-60s American psych, buzzy Motor City riffage, and decades of British pop, ranging from the pastoral pop of Ray Davies to the vivid expansiveness of Kurt Vile and the Antipodean warmth of Tame Impala.

From the blissed out cloudburst of ‘Bubblegum Husky’ to the anthemic sun-blasted driving pulse of first single, ‘Katie's Gone Home’, the timeless sleaze of ‘Thunderlooper’, the lick-sodden Morrissey-esque weavings of ‘Theme From…Peach Fuzz’ and the complex dream-weavings of ‘Turner Sky’, Pure Joy guide you through a neo-psych wonderland, gripping your sweaty mitt and lurching you into fantastical scenery (‘Terrorize’) or into sheer bewildering, hippy-infested, hallucinogenic territory.

On album closer ‘O’Sullivan On Song’ the band float some creamy synth and trippy guitar interplay before ripping a hole across the chest of the song with a woozy guitar line so big it essentially serves as a chorus.

Sampling the 1995 film Billy Madison, the band close their album with the phrase ‘May God have mercy on your soul.’ Standing at 37 minutes, the brevity of the album only makes one yearn for the much-missed ‘repeat’ button.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bubblegum Husky
2. Girl
3. Katie’s Gone Home
4. Sweet Jesus
5. The Sex Beatles
6. Eight Fifty
7. Theme From…Peach Fuzz
8. Terrorize
9. Don’t Do It
10. Turner Sky
11. Thunderlooper
12. On And On And On…
13. O’sullivan On Song

The world of Pure Bathing Culture is not the real world. It’s a world filled with characters like Scotty and The Bubble King and a place called The Ivory Coast that’s not the real Ivory Coast. It’s also a world created for its protagonists, Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman, to travel to communicate abstract thought and remember all the things they want to remember. It’s a place where the night is magic and it will transform you.

In the humdrum everyday world, the corporal version of Pure Bathing Culture has for the last few years been growing naturally and at a steady pace. However new album ‘Pray For Rain’ sees them make an evolutionary leap, taking their finely honed metaphysical pop to a new level.

You can hear it in the opening notes of their anthemic title track: in Hindman’s clean yet serpentine guitar lines interacting with the live rhythm section and Versprille’s lucid vocals cutting through it all as she asks: “Is it pleasure? Is it pain? Did you pray for rain?” You can hear it in the sweet pop perfection of ‘Clover’ and the trembling beauty of ‘She Shakes’, a story of two fantasy characters from different worlds being brought to an intense, fragile state through the experience of falling in love.

When it came time to write and record the follow-up to last year’s ‘Moon Tides’, the duo knew what they didn’t want. “We didn’t gravitate towards someone making indie dream-pop records,” Dan said. That was when producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Swans, Angel Olsen, The Walkmen) reached out to the band and invited them to come record with him in his Dallas, TX studio.

It was a taxing yet ultimately rewarding experience when the album was completed. “It was shocking to hear what the finished product was,” Sarah said. “It was like being in a vortex and then we came out with this record.” She adds with a laugh something John Congleton told her when all was said and done: “You were very brave.”

‘Pray For Rain’ is the sound of Pure Bathing Culture transforming from who they were to who they will be, of finding their way, ready to take steps both small and momentous on their musical path.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Gently persuasive synth'n'guitar pop chimes, prettily topped with Sarah Versprille's engaging vocals. Gorgeous.

Hippies Vs Ghosts are primarily Owain Ginsberg from Masters In France / We Are Animal and ‘Wazo’ will be the band’s debut 7”.

Since blasting on to the scene some 18 months ago, under this particular guise, Ginsberg has regularly blown listeners away with his kaleidoscopic, instrumental Morricone meets Krautrock sound, during which time he’s served up a number of quality EPs, one off tracks and a stunning debut album, ‘Mother Tongue’ (one of 2014’s finest).

In a parting gesture to a rather productive 2014, Hippies Vs Ghosts sign off with brand new 7″ single ‘Wazo’. ‘Wazo’ captures the very essence of Hippies Vs Ghosts; Krautrock indebted psychedelia of epic proportions. Propelled onward by a chugging bass and persistent percussives, it hurtles along at breakneck speed with menacing intent, bending and contorting through a sea of swirling noise and scorching riffs. Urgent, catchy, and oh so irresistible!

B-side companion ‘Hibou Calling’ is a much more tempered affair. A gentle acoustic strum, soft percussion and hushed repeated vocals fuse with some floaty sonic sounding atmospherics to soothe the soul and whisk one’s mind away to a lofty transcendental plain.

‘Wazo’ is released as part of the Too Pure Singles Club.

TRACK LISTING

Wazo
Hibou Calling

It's a rare and beautiful thing when a band emerges fully formed, but it makes perfect sense in the case of guitarist Daniel Hindman and keyboardist Sarah Versprille’s Pure Bathing Culture. Having backed folk rock revisionist Andy Cabic in Vetiver, the New Yorkers partnered up and moved west in 2011, settling in Portland, Oregon.

In a short time the duo have created a sound that is undeniably their own: soaring synths, chiming keyboards, and shimmering electric guitars move in lockstep with bouncing drum machines, with Sarah’s crystalline voice floating on top of it all with divine purpose. It’s a sound that looks back momentarily for inspiration - Talk Talk, Prefab Sprout, Cocteau Twins - but then fixes its gaze firmly on the present.

Further developing the sound of their acclaimed four song, self-titled 2012 EP, at the start of 2013 they set out to record ‘Moon Tides’, their first full length album. Again, they chose to work with producer Richard Swift at his National Freedom studio in rural Cottage Grove, Oregon. Throughout 2012 Swift had called on the duo to help him with other studio projects (Versprille sings on Foxygen’s latest album and Hindman adds his sprawling guitar work to Damien Jurado’s excellent ‘Marqopa’) which only helped to cement the threesome’s musical partnership.

Like the earlier sessions for the EP, they worked quickly in the studio and improvised parts around the basic song structures that they’d carefully composed up in Portland. Dan explains, “Pretty much all tracks (vocals and instruments) are all first or very early takes. Richard is kind of a stickler about this and I actually don't go in with a clean, pristine idea of what I'm going to play on guitar or any other instrument for that matter, so there's actually a lot of improvisation as far as performances in the studio go.”

It’s this compassion and warmth in Pure Bathing Culture that set them apart. The music is uplifting. It invites self-reflection. It never feels alienating. ‘Pendulum’ is a perfect mid-tempo album opener that pulses and shines. Other standout tracks from the album - ‘Dream The Dare’, ‘Twins’, ‘Scotty’ and ‘Golden Girl’ - are slices of reverb-drenched, soulful, danceable electropop that musically and lyrically tap into an introspective worship of the natural and psychic mysteries that surround us.

Pure Bathing Culture’s debut album Moon Tides is optimistic modern music for souls who seek to explore the infinite.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Gorgeous dream-pop for fans of Beach House and the like. Perfect for the summer.

TRACK LISTING

Pendulum
Dream The Dare
Evergreener
Twins
Only Lonely Lovers
Scotty
Seven 2 One
Golden Girl
Temples Of The Moon

Crawling Up The Stairs is the second LP from Austin, Texas' Pure X. Made up of principal members Nate Grace, Jesse Jenkins and Austin Youngblood, they stay true to the dense sound they explored on their last album, Pleasure, but add twinkling atmospherics and a new clarity to their carefully cultivated, emotionally heavy songs.

Where Pleasure was built on syrup-slow hooks and a weighty, sexy haze, Crawling Up The Stairs is the sound of Pure X emerging from that humid cocoon to stare all the screwed up parts of life directly in the face and embrace them. When Grace's voice, cracked and worn, breaks through a fog of downtempo drums and misty guitar on "Someone Else," the pain that used to be visible in his face when he was on stage is pushed to the forefront of their sound, his voice growling and moaning with barely contained anger and apocalyptic worry in anguished falsetto. Crawling isn't a record about escape, it's about what you do after you've realized that escaping isn't an option and you just have to face the world you live in head on.

Crawling Up The Stairs is an album born from emotional turmoil. For much of 2012, Grace was laid up with a serious leg injury. During the recording period, he had no insurance, no money, and if he ever was going to walk again, he needed to have surgery. Grace had no idea if he'd get the money together, and was consumed with doubt, unable to sleep. After a cathartic but torturous night of insomnia, heavy with world-worry and intermittent nightmares, Grace emerged feeling exhausted and different. Not better or worse, but different. Ready to heal. Crawling is the result of that. Track by track, Grace, Youngblood and Jenkins—who shares vocal and songwriting duties—drag themselves through a bad year.

As Grace was wrestling with his own demons, Jenkins' was figuring things out as well. On the gorgeous "Thousand Year Old Child," his falsetto hangs over unusually upbeat drum work from Youngblood and perfectly placed synth wines. It's a tricky song—relaxed and happy on the surface, but lyrically, Jenkins is wrestling with getting older and being uncertain about his future, singing, "there is no reason/ to think about time/ sometimes I feel/ I feel like a thousand year old child." A little later, the kicker comes: "up in the morning/ sleep at night/ there is a question/ what am I doing with my life?" It's a universal feeling rendered personal by Jenkins' heartbreakingly spare lyrics.

But Crawling isn't entirely dark. Album closer "All of the Future (All of the Past)" is the record's most optimistic song. As if Grace, Jenkins and Youngblood have finally emerged from an endless parade of bummer moments with newly optimistic perspectives on life. Grace's guitar glistens and glides across Jenkins' thick bass work and Youngblood's expertly controlled drums, but it's Grace's lyrics that end up laying everything out, making clear that there's a redemptive narrative in this record worth coming back to: "I can see the light/just got to stay alive," Grace sings. It might read as desperate, but Grace, for the first time, sounds confident that they'll make it no matter what.

TRACK LISTING

1. Crawling Up The Stairs
2. Someone Else
3. Written In The Slime
4. I Fear What I Feel
5. Things In My Head
6. Shadows And Lies
7. I Come From Nowhere
8. Never Alone
9. How Did You Find Me?
10. Thousand Year Old Child
11. Rain At Dawn
12. All Of The Future (All Of The Past)

"Drop Down To Earth" is the new single by Manchester's most consistently acclaimed guitar band Puressence. It's an enormous pop song, with shades of New Order, and features the stunningly beautiful voice of James Madriczki. The song is taken from the band's exceptional forthcoming album "Don't Forget To Remember".

‘No Shouts No Calls’ is the fourth studio album by Brighton based Electrelane. Originally released on Too Pure back in 2007 it’s widely considered the band’s most accessible work to date and it delivers a set of urgent, romantic epics.

Tracks like ‘The Greater Times’ and ‘To The East’ are direct yet complex, with soaring melodies, and the contrast between intimate, almost too-personal words and the swelling sounds around them is exquisite.

And while the album is dominated by the intense, impatient joy of ‘At Sea’, which rides glorious swells of keyboards and fuzzy guitars, its lightly heartbroken moments are just as lovely: ‘Saturday’ boasts beautiful call-and-response vocals and lyrics that feel like a nursery rhyme about a breakup; ‘Cut And Run’ pairs a lighthearted melody and ukulele with the painful realization that a relationship is likely over.

‘No Shouts No Calls’ instrumentals are just as strong as the vocal tracks, and they revel in the pure emotional power of sound. ‘Tram 21’s mischievous organ and guitar interplay is jaunty and slightly trippy, while ‘Five’ is the album’s searing, insistent powerhouse.

‘No Shouts No Calls’ might be some of Electrelane’s most accessible work, but it’s far from safe; in fact, its sweet vulnerability is exactly what makes it so special.

Finally available again on lavish double vinyl.

Electrelane are a band with a relatively long history – three albums and an EP as well as several singles over six years – yet their consistently uncompromising attitude and ability to release outstandingly fresh and unique records has kept them somewhat of an enigma, with each record feeling like a re-birth and the beginning of something very special. "Singles, B-Sides & Live" is not only a celebration of Electrelane's diverse work but also the first time that rare, non-album tracks have been available on one compilation. It includes limited 7" releases from Fierce Panda and Indenial as well as singles released on Electrelane's own label Let's Rock before signing to present label Too Pure in 2003.

The awesome 1992 debut album from one of the most unique and compelling female artists of the past 20 years. A powerful, groundbreaking set, "Dry" serves as an introduction to Harvey's fierce, blues-tinged guitar and highly visual lyrical angle that picks at the scabs of female iconography. On these raw, angry songs she's joined by musicians Stephen Vaughan (bass) and Robert Ellis (drums, vocals, harmonium). Includes classic songs "Sheela-Na-Gig", "Dress" and "Oh My Lover". Essential.

Mclusky are dead. And yet "Mcluskyism" is here; a lasting testament to one of the most under-rated UK bands of recent years. There are few around that share their musicianship, graft and humour which, aptly according to Pitchfork, 'lightens the harsh crunch of their mom-murdering instrumental beatdown' and 'gives them a way to take the piss out of themselves'.

Lions & Tigers is five imaginative young chaps with dazzling talents. Their music combines different aesthetics of digital production and a purely feel-based, lo-fi approach. They exude energy and passion and revel in the joy of melody. Each member thrives on having artistic lives outside of the group, and it is these unlikely collisions of diverse interests and talents that make the band sonically noteworthy. The songs, some vocal, some instrumental, take in post-rock with a groove, the prettiest electronica and vivid film soundtracks. With all members able producers and musicians of flair, the results are beautiful and arresting. Their studio sprawl of massed bric-a-brac equipment is mirrored in these 5 musical creations, and if you listen hard you'll hear notes of Girls Vs Boys, The Cure, Radiohead, Can, The Beatles, and who knows what else.

It's back to my spotty, spikey youth with The Vibrators' first LP, first released back in hot and heady summer of 1977. Snotty, primitive, vulgar, underproduced and exhilarating, this is old school sleaze at it's finest; and yes, Stiff Little Fingers did take their name from the mp3 track...

New drummer, new album, new single, new tour, Mclusky are back and primed to release the follow-up album to 2002's excellent "Mclusky Do Dallas". Life between these two records has seen a world outside of Cardiff fully embrace them. Amongst other things, they've toured virtually everywhere, broken many a guitar, survived a near fatal tour bus smash and seen their original drummer depart the band on their way. Not known for being slouches, they also released two interim EP's last year, from which, only the track "1956 And All That" has made it on to this album. Like its predecessor, this was recorded by Steve Albini in his studio outside Chicago but this time Bob Weston of Shellac fame has got in on the action (playing trumpet on "Forget About Him I'm Mint").

"Pure Punk Rock", the name says it all. No muss, no fuss, just pure punk rock. 20 track label sampler that includes tracks from the Casualties, the Virus, Defiance, the Varukers, Self Destruct, A Global Threat, the Unseen, the Devotchkas, Lower Class Brats and Clit 45. Cheap too.

Over 20 tracks from some of today's top street punk bands including Guttersnipe, The Boils, Weekend Bowlers, No Ones Victim, The Randumbs, Bombshell Rocks, Squiggy, The Bruisers, Voice of A Generation and many more... Cheap price!!