Compiled with guitarist PJ Court, this 2-CD compilation boasts re-mastered music as well as a beautifully annotated booklet boasting rare photos and personal memories from the band.

Back in the mid-80s, The Primitives combined the fuzz guitars of The Jesus & Mary Chain with the pop sensibilities of Blondie and a nod to cult heroes The Velvet Underground. They swiftly rose from being a popular Indie guitar outfit to charting worldwide with “Crash”, kickstarting a craze in bands fronted by blonde female singers (Transvision Vamp, The Darling Buds et al).

Between 1985 and 1987, the band issued five singles/EP’s on independent label Lazy Records (also home to My Bloody Valentine and later Birdland) before signing with RCA.

This 2-CD set also boasts their promo-only live album at the ICA; as such, it offers their entire Lazy output from that period.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1
1. Thru The Flowers
2. Across My Shoulder
3. She Don't Need You
4. Lazy
5. Really Stupid
6. We Found A Way To The Sun
7. Where The Wind Blows
8. Stop Killing Me
9. Buzz Buzz Buzz
10. Laughing Up My Sleeve
11. Ocean Blue
12. Shadow (Guitar Version)
13. Thru The Flowers (New Version)
14. Everything Shining Bright
15. Nothing Left
16. Across My Shoulder
17. Crash
18. Spacehead
19. Nothing Left (Sounds Version)

Disc 2
1.I'll Stick With You
2. Dreamwalk Baby
3. Buzz Buzz Buzz
4. Nothing Left
5. Out Of Reach
6. Carry Me Home
7. Don't Want Anything To Change
8. Think I'll Stick With You
9. Dreamwalk Baby
10. Run Baby Run
11. Thru The Flowers
12. Nothing Left
13. Where The Wind Blows
14. Out Of Reach
15. We Found A Way To The Sun
16. Don't Want Anything To Change
17. Across My Shoulder
18.Everything's Shining Bright
19. Buzz Buzz Buzz
20. Stop Killing Me
21. I Wanna Be Your Dog

• The new solo album by Luke Haines (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Baader Meinhof).

• Focusing on the magic and magicians of British children's TV of the 1960s and 70s.

• Featuring 14 songs that conjure up everyone from Mama Cass to Tommy Cooper, and Graham Bond to Mick Robertson via Magic Shops and The Omen 2.

It all started with Sooty and the dreaded words 'Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Bizzy'. A wave of Sooty's magic wand, cast a few spells and baby there ya go. Generations of children were introduced to magic, and as we all know, magic always leads to MAGICK...

By the 1960s and 70s magick was all over children's television in the UK.

Turn over to ITV - if you are allowed - Izzy Wizzy Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

TRACK LISTING

1. Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Bizzy
2. Mama Cass
3. Death Card For The Kids
4. Tommy Cooper - Chaos Magician
5. Headchanger
6. Mum
7. TV's On All The Time
8. The Omen 2
9. The Standing Stones Of ITV
10. Mick Robertson Says
11. Spiritualist Church at 7.30pm Every Other Wednesday
12. Graham Bond Turns On His Mellotron
13. Magic Shop
14. Izzy Wizzy (reprise)

'Red Rose Speedway' (1973) is Wings’ lush, romantic sophomore album, marking Paul McCartney’s growing confidence as a writer and bandleader. Track highlights include the chart-topping ballad 'My Love', the exuberant opener 'Big Barn Bed', and the tender, multi-sectioned 'Little Lamb Dragonfly', which showcase McCartney’s melodic strengths. Originally envisioned as a double album, it ultimately emerged as a streamlined collection with a polished, soft-rock sound. 'Red Rose Speedway' helped solidify Wings as a commercially viable McCartney project and reinforced his dominance in early 1970s pop music.

TRACK LISTING

1. Big Barn Bed
2. My Love
3. Get On The Right Thing
4. One More Kiss
5. Little Lamb Dragonfly
6. Single Pigeon
7. When The Night
8. Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)
9. Medley:
A) Hold Me Tight
B) Lazy Dynamite
C) Hands Of Love
D) Power Cut

Rough Trade Records / Audika Records present a remastered/redux double vinyl rerelease of the much-beloved compilation 'Love Is Overtaking Me' of Arthur’s folk, pop, and country songs including 'Planted a Thought', 'Close My Eyes' and 'I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face'.

Originally released in 2007 the redux edition includes new masters from a recently found pristine tape reel and was remastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, OR. Revised artwork by Molly Smith with extensive liner notes from Arthur’s partner Tom Lee.

Over twenty years ago, Audika Records began compiling and releasing the exceptionally varied, long sought-after music of Arthur Russell, and in the process has succeeded at helping the beloved, late artist find the broader audience he always believed he would reach. A new generation of listeners and critics has come to appreciate Russell as a visionary and an influence upon a broad range of today’s most compelling musical artists.

While much critical and popular affection for Russell’s music has come about well after his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, many fellow artists believed in his genius and were drawn to collaborate with him during his lifetime. The legendary producer John Hammond (Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen) recorded Russell on several occasions; a number of these recordings now heard on 'Love Is Overtaking Me', along with songs recorded with various incarnations of The Flying Hearts, a group formed by Russell and Ernie Brooks whose shifting lineup included, by turns, Jerry Harrison, Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon and Peter Zummo as well as Larry Saltzman and David Van Tieghem. Several other Russell projects are represented on Love Is Overtaking Me, including The Sailboats, Turbo Sporty and Bright & Early.

Compiled from over eight hours of material, 'Love Is Overtaking Me' reaches back further to Russell’s earliest compositions beginning in 1973 and spans forward to his very last recordings, made at home in 1991. Several of the songs featured prominently in Matt Wolf’s now herald 2008 film Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell.

TRACK LISTING

1. Close My Eyes
2. Goodbye Old Paint
3. Maybe She
4. Oh Fernanda Why
5. Time Away
6. Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart
7. I Couldn’t Sat It to Your Face
8. This Time Dad You’re Wrong
9. What It’s Like
10. Eli
11. Hey! How Does Everybody Know
12. I Forget and I Can’t Tell (Ballad Of The Lights Pt.1)
13. Habit Of You
14. Janine
15. Big Moon
16. Your Motion Says
17. The Letter
18. Don’t Forget About Me
19. Love Is Overtaking Me
20. Planted A Thought
21. Love Comes Back.

At last Nurse With Wound’s classic masterpiece ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Station’ gets it’s timely and well-deserved VIP treatment. A much loved and firm favourite with fans and critics alike, this celebrated seminal work is here represented by 4 tracks, each unique with extended reworking and mixing. This United Dirter release is a forerunner to the imminent ‘The Iron Lung Gives Way To The Surgical Stocking’ 5CD boxset magnum opus to be released later this year. Featuring along side the usual suspects of Colin Potter, Matt Waldron, Andrew Liles, Diarmuid MacDiarmada, French pioneer and trail blazer of the ‘70’s, Jean Jacque Birge. Housed in stunning new full colour artwork by acclaimed and award winning artist and sleeve designer Babs Santini.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
A1.REMIX 1
A2.REMIX 2

Side 2
B1.REMIX 3
B2.REMIX 4

• New studio material and unheard archive recordings.
• Reworked classics and live-in-studio performances.
• Includes the final Huw Lloyd-Langton recording.
• UK live activity supporting release in 2026.

Hawkwind return with a new release that blurs the boundaries between studio album, archive excavation and future transmission. Combining brand new recordings, previously unheard material and reworked classics, this forward-facing collection captures the band in motion rather than looking back.

New tracks including 'Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad', 'There Are Fairies In The Garden', 'The Judge And The Fisherman' and 'Goonhilly Downs' showcase the current line-up’s continued creative strength. Re-imagined versions of 'The Demented Man' and 'Those Days Of The Underground', alongside live-in-the-studio recordings of 'PSI Power' and 'The Traveller Of Space', bring fresh energy to key moments from the band’s catalogue.

Highlights include 'Hurry On Sundown', the final recording with Huw Lloyd-Langton, plus rare material from Dave Brock and Magnus Martin.

TRACK LISTING

1. Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad
2. There Are Fairies In The Garden
3. Hurry On Sundown
4. The Demented Man
5. Tortured Mind
6. Land Of Min
7. Part Of Human Behaviour (No Sex Allowed)
8. Those Days Of The Underground
9. Out Of Luck
10. PSI Power
11. Human Zoo
12. The Judge And The Fisherman
13. Goonhilly Down
14. Ocean’s Spiral
15. Traveller Of Space

• The Pale Fountains were an English band formed in Liverpool in 1980, and composed of Mick Head, Chris McCaffery, Thomas Whelan, Andy Diagram and Ken Moss.

• Inspired by 1960s music such as Love, Burt Bacharach and The Beatles, the group released their debut single ‘(There's Always) Something on My Mind’ in October 1982. Although the Pale Fountains failed to make much commercial headway, the band would earn critical praise for the two albums released on Virgin, ‘Pacific Street’ (1984) and ‘...From Across the Kitchen Table’ (1985).

This 4-CD box set brings together both albums as well as all the B-Sides, mixes, and some previously unreleased material from the Virgin vaults all housed in a sturdy box with extensive sleeve notes by Classic Pop’s John Earls.

Mick Head – Vocals, Guitar (1981–1987)
Chris McCaffery – Bass Guitar (1981–1987)
Thomas Whelan – Drums (1981–1987)
Andy Diagram – Trumpet (1982–1984)
John Head – Guitar (1984–1987)

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Michael Head's first band were so romantic and melodic and young and beautiful. It's all here!

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE: 
Pacific Street
1 Reach
2 Something On My Mind
3 Unless
4 Southbound Excursion
5 Natural
6 Faithful Pillow (Pt 1)
7 (Don't Let Your Love) Start A War
8 Beyond Fridays Field
9 Abergele Next Time
10 Crazier
11 Faithful Pillow (Pt 2)
BONUS TRACKS
12 Thank You - Single
13 Meadow Of Love - Single B Side
14 (There's Always) Something On My Mind - Remix
15 Palm Of My Hand - Single
16 Palm Of My Hand - Instrumental - Single B Side
17 Love's A Beautiful Place - Single B Side
18 Unless - Extended Version 12" Single
19 (Don't Let Your Love) Start A War - Single
20 (Don't Let Your Love) Start A War - Extended Version 12" Single
21 Love Situation - Single B Side

DISC TWO:
Mixes And Unreleased Tracks
1 Partner Picking Man - Rough Mix With Bass And
Drums*
2 Fight Think Love / Love Situation - Rough Mix Take 1*
3 Jock's A String Bean - Rough Mix*
4 Fight Think Love / Love Situation - Rough Mix Take 2*
5 Spanish Tragedy (Beyond Fridays Field) - Rough Instrumental Mix*
6 Take A Little Shelter - Rough Mix Take 2*
7 Partner Picking Man - Acoustic*
8 Sun Drenched Girl (Crazier) - Acoustic
9 Lavinia's Dream - Rough Mix Take 1
10 (There's Always) Something On My Mind - Rough Mix
11 Hey There Fred - Rough Mix
12 One By One - Rough Mix Take 2*
13 Norfolk Broads - Rough Mix Take 1
14 Untitled Jam / 7 And 7 Is*
15 Unless - Rough Mix
16 (There's Always) Something On My Mind - Rough Mix
17 Sundrenched Girl (Crazier) - Rough Mix
18 Southbound Excursion - Rough Mix

DISC THREE:
From Across The Kitchen Table
1 Shelter
2 Stole The Love
3 Jean's Not Happening
4 Bicycle Thieves
5 Limit
6 27 Ways To Get Back Home
7 Bruised Arcade
8 These Are The Things
9 Its Only Hard
10 ...From Across The Kitchen Table
11 Hey
12 September Sting 

DISC FOUR:
Mixes And Unreleased Tracks
1 From Across The Kitchen Table - Extended Version 12" Single
2 Bicycle Thieves - Remix Single B Side
3 Just A Girl - Remix Single B Side
4 Thank You - Remix Single B Side
5 Silver Bendix – Demo*
6 The Outsider – Demo*
7 Detrimentally (Stole The Love) - Demo
8 27 Ways To Get Back Home - Demo
9 Summertime (It's Hard) -Demo
10 Shelter - Demo
11 Yeah Eah Eah – Demo*
12 These Are The Things (Stay) - Demo
13 Bruised Arcade - Demo

*Previously Unreleased.

In the early 1970s, Roy Ayers formed his own band: Roy Ayers Ubiquity. Its lineup included artists well known to funk and soul fans such as Bernard Purdie, James Mason, and Edwin Birdsong.

This 1973 album presents Roy Ayers in the midst of a creative evolution toward a sound increasingly influenced by soul and funk, moving beyond the early phase of his musical career, which was more rooted in orthodox jazz.

On “Red Black & Green”, he teams up with highly accomplished collaborators such as keyboardist Harry Whitaker, arranger and producer William S. Fischer, and Strata-East musicians Charles Tolliver and Sonny Fortune. Here, however, the latter two do not venture into the spiritual jazz sounds so characteristic of their own recordings; instead, together they embrace a sophisticated funk groove where Ayers showcases his extraordinary vibraphone talent.

The album includes outstanding versions of ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ and ‘Day Dreaming,’ as well as original compositions such as ‘Cocoa Butter,’ ‘Rhythms of Your Mind,’ and the superb title track, ‘Red Black & Green.’

After years out of print, we are pleased to present this much-needed vinyl reissue of an essential album in Roy Ayers’ career. Pressed on 180g vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ain't No Sunshine
2. Henceforth
3. Day Dreaming
4. Red Black & Green
5. Cocoa Butter
6. Rhythms Of Your Mind
7. Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Primitive Ring consists of Bert Hoover (bass/vocals), Charles Moothart (guitar/vocals), and Jon Modaff (drums). The Los Angeles power trio formed in September 2024 when Hoover and Moothart came together seeking a new creative outlet. In 2025, the band released four 7"s on four different labels (Greenway, In the Red, Reverberation Appreciation Society, and Fuzz Club UK). They hauled amps and drums into bars to hone the sound of the newfound brotherhood that is Primitive Ring. Rock and roll is in its essence a primal experience, and the name reflects that. Three individuals collide and egos rattle, shedding layers and growing new limbs. Archetypes flash to the rhythm of a freight train and the crown is passed hand to hand like a good luck charm, symbolic and communal. Rock and roll is for the people and Primitive Ring is for the taking. At least it will be when the band's debut LP is hurled into the future via In the Red Recordings.

'Primitive Ring' is 11 tracks coming in just under 42 minutes. It was recorded by Mark Rains in December of 2025 at The Station House in Echo Park. The album is the genesis story of a lightning bolt flashing in the eternal drama of creation and destruction. The album showcases the distinct writing styles of each member, but the overall aesthetic is a woven tapestry demarcating the timeless meridian. The record is the spawning of a collective vision. This is something we all share, and we must remind one another how electric humanity can be.

TRACK LISTING

1. Fire And Brimstone
2. The Last Goldmine
3. Lies From The Other Side
4. Paid
5. Sold A Lie
6. Heads Will Roll
7. Call Me What You Please
8. Griefsong
9. The Callous Man
10. Our Oblivion
11. Golden

Melbourne's fave three-guitar rock'n'roll power poppers The Prize have at long last announced the imminent release of their debut album In The Red

The Prize made their debut for Anti Fade in 2022 with the EP Wrong Side of Town which prompted global interest in the band. They began recording the album in 2023 but the international tours caused delays, as did the departure of original bass player Jack Kong in early 2024. New bass player Ethan Stahl (formerly of UK band Chubby and the Gang) came on board a year ago after Jack helped the band finish the tracking process. Initial album sessions took place with Paul Maybury of Rocket Science at his A Secret Location studio, with subsequent tracks recorded with Matt Blach of the Murlocs at Gizz Studios (following The Prize's European run with King Gizzard late in 2023) and, in January of this year, with Robin Mukerjee of TV Colours.

The band, which features drummer Nadine Muller sharing lead vocals with guitarist Carey Paterson together with guitarists Joseph Imfeld and Austin Haire as well as new bass player Ethan, is known for its powerful three-guitar frontline and melodic twin lead guitar. It combines punk and classic hard rock with power pop and new wave and cites its influences as Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, Pretenders, Blondie, Rolling Stones, Faces, Flamin' Groovies, Tom Petty, Dwight Twilley, Phil Seymour, The Toms, The Nerves and The Motors.

As a premium live act with the tunes to back it up, The Prize have regularly found themselves playing with legendary groups like the Sunnyboys, Pavement, The Stems and Guitar Wolf in addition to their pals in King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Murlocs and The Chats. Band members have recently started spreading themselves out into other bands as well, with Nadine and Ethan joining Josh Hardy of The Chats and The Unknowns in Loose Lips, Joe in The States and Austin in The Judges and his own solo venture, Ozzie Hair.

TRACK LISTING

1. Connie
2. Static Love Affair
3. Don't Need Em
4. From The Night
5. Had It Made
6. First Sight
7. Down The Street
8. Looking For A Reason
9. Say You're Mine
10. Reaction
11. Silver Bullet

Fuzz is Ty Segall (drums / vocals), Charlie Moothart (guitar / vocals) and Roland Cosio (bass). They’re heavy rock lifers—three California-bred dudes who have been refining their riffs and getting weird together since high school (which wasn’t that long ago, actually).

If you are not already aware of Segall, well, what’s up? He’s one of garage rock’s most prolific sons. He said he was going to take it easy this year, but by the time you finish reading this, the onesheet for his next record will have already arrived in your inbox. Moothart plays guitar in The Ty Segall Band and was also a member of The Moonhearts, which included Cosio on guitar. Way back in the early ’00s, all three played in the Epsilons.

Fuzz was formed as a collaboration between Segall and Moothart, but only recently did the pair have sufficient time to guide the band out of side-project limbo and into a recording studio. Since then, they have released two singles, 'This Time I Got a Reason' (Trouble In Mind) and 'Sleigh Ride' (In The Red). Around the time of the latter, Cosio joined on bass.

They are not dabblers or dilettantes. Fuzz flipped through used bins, hard drives and record collections of the world, seeking out the finest weirdo cuts. The band’s self-titled debut LP, which was recorded by Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, The Intelligence), dives deep, drawing inspiration from the more esoteric reaches of heavy metal pre-history. There are Sabbath and Hendrix nods, obviously, but on 'Sleigh Bells' you might also catch a whiff of UK progressive blues business like The Groundhogs, particularly when the song quits its 10/4-time intro and reboots into full-bore choogle. Maybe you’ll even glimpse the ghost of Australian guitar legend / sharpie guru Lobby Lloyde sniffing around 'Raise'.

The mood is not light. The songs project a state of perpetual paranoia and eroding mental health. And as it should be, you know? It’s a record for the burners.

TRACK LISTING

1. Earthen Gate
2. Sleigh Ride
3. What's In My Head?
4. HazeMaze
5. Loose Sutures
6. Preacher
7. Raise
8. One

The fringes of the desert have a way of changing a man, but the high-altitude chill of the Sierras will strip him down to his soul.

Following the gritty, neon-soaked introduction of his debut, Red Leather returns with his sophomore studio album, 'TAHOE'. If his first record was a desperate sprint through the dark alleys of the soul, 'TAHOE' is the cold morning after—a cinematic, sweeping exploration of isolation, clarity, and the jagged edges of recovery.

Named after the alpine lake that serves as both a sanctuary and a graveyard for secrets, the album navigates the duality of the landscape.

The songwriting dives deep into the "blue" period of his life—tackling themes of sobriety, the weight of sudden fame, and the ghosts of past versions of himself. It is an album about the silence that follows the storm, and the realization that the higher you climb, the thinner the air becomes.

TRACK LISTING

1. THE HARDEST CLIMB
2. THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY
3. BONNIE AND CLYDE
4. LAST CALL
5. SOS
6. GHOST TOWN
7. WISH YOU WERE HERE (FAR AWAY)
8. ANGEL'S SONG
9. MS. WHISKEY
10. LAKE OF THE SKY
11. LOSING MY RELIGION
12. GET OUT OF MY HEAD
13. RAISED BY WOLVES|
14. DIVINE INTERVENTION
15. THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK
16. BURY ME IN VEGAS

LA Punks Memo PST return with another modern punk classic 'Eternal Actors', their new album on In The Red. These 12 tracks capture the fury of late '70s rough and raw punk rock, with Orville Neeley crafting hit after hit of god-tier punk bangers. Vocalist Chris Shaw is also at his most versatile to date, with his lyrical capabilities and patented punk sneers dripping across every song.

Simply put, 'Eternal Actors' finds two lords of the punk genre at their very best. There are classic punk bashers like 'Dog Groomer Stylist', and 'Doomed to Repeat' but also primitive, bare-bones rock rippers like 'Chrome Bubble' and 'Worship Me'. The band also delivers some of their most hardcore songs to date with 'Concrete Club' and 'Blown Away'.

With the San Clemente wrecking crew of Jackson Todd (drums) and Emmanuel Koulouris (bass) back again to round out the four piece band, this is truly a powerhouse presentation of punk music in 2026. If the band proved they were a punk force with their long sold out, self titled album, 'Eternal Actors' may solidify their place at the top of the punk pile.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Smoke It, It Smokes Me
2. Dog Groomer Stylist
3. I Was A Fiend
4. Blown Away
5. Marked For Death
6. Fume With The Shaper
7. Concrete Club
8. Chrome Bubble
9. Nite Patrol
10. Doomed To Repeat
11. Worship Me
12. Invisible Eye

Genre Is Death is an uncompromising noise duo made up of Ty V (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox). Their sound is abrasive yet melodic, using heavy distortion, dissonant riffs, and reverberating vocals to create a wave of boldly hypnotic noise. The duo have been compared to the likes of Sonic Youth and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, yet have managed to create a sound that is distinctly their own, avoiding mimicking the zeitgeist of decades before. Beyond the integrity of their music, Tayler’s intimidating glare, or Ty’s staggering gait, the duo share something truly inimitable— the overwhelming feeling that their music is a byproduct of the high esteem they hold of each other.

The duo moved to NYC in August of 2023 looking for something more than their mundane suburban lifestyle of day drinking and playing doom metal in friends' basements…their move to NYC coupled with their desire to express something, anything, led to the inception of Genre is Death. The pair hit the ground running, playing anywhere and everywhere they could… however, it was only after a chance encounter with 80s noise forerunners Live Skull that the pair was introduced to the strange underbelly of NYC noise and began playing regular gigs with The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and Lydia Lunch. In 2025 the pair played New Colossus Festival, toured with Gogol Bordello, embarked on their first East Coast tour, and played gigs with Cherubs, Bush Tetras, and Jon Spencer. Their upcoming record was recorded with legendary sound engineer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans).

TRACK LISTING

1. Heaven Hits The Wall
2. Safe Songs
3. Attractive People
4. Lust For Now
5. Audience
6. Ashes
7. Repulse
8. I See Red
9. Up, Up
10. Prized Tune
11. Swine / Beyond Good People
12. Talk (Bisi’s version)

Chris Brain is a Yorkshire-based folk singer-songwriter releasing his fourth album, 'Red Sun Rising'. Rooted in intimate storytelling and the pastoral tradition of British folk.

TRACK LISTING

1. Red Sun Rising
2. Big Hill
3. When All Is Said And Done
4. Bright March Dawning Day
5. Kinds Of Kindness
6. Mornings Relief
7. Still Waiting
8. All That Goes Around
9. Bloom And Die
10. Open Up Your Eyes
11. Out Till Evening’s End

'Acknowledge Kindness' expands The Reds, Pinks And Purples’ distinctive brand of emotional pop, music built for the quiet hours and the restless mind. Evolving naturally from the heavier, melancholic indie rock of previous releases, the mood here feels more exposed and reflective, blossoming into lush dreamscapes that recall the bittersweet sorrow of The Cure or the tenderly gloomy transcendence of California by American Music Club.

Created from a new headspace, the album finds Glenn Donaldson observing both the present and the weight of what came before it. Songs lean into a deeper sense of nostalgia, allowing him to look back with intent and revisit moments that once carried a sting.

Donaldson comments: “This album is probably about learning to live with your ghosts and trying to be alive in the present. There’s a certain kind of big sounding record I aspire to make, like California by American Music Club or 16-Lover's Lane by The Go-Betweens, works that steer into the pain but become a transportational device for the listener.”

Donaldson’s vocals are captured in high fidelity, raw and immediate, with lyrical abstraction underpinned by chiming acoustic guitars and achingly beautiful piano.

‘New Leaf’ teases with a perpetual guitar line plucking at the heartstrings while a sub-melody cushions Donaldson’s musings. ‘Heaven of Love’ tackles cynicism with positive energy as it tumbles into a glorious chorus, while the guitars on ‘Worthy of Love’ chime dutifully as it dispels heavy memories and heads for a better place. Two plush instrumentals, the winsome ‘Blue Heron Lake’ and the symphonic title track, sound like Eno post Roxy pre ambient or Felt without words.

Having written more than 200 songs and released nine albums in just six years, Glenn Donaldson has shaped a distinctive songwriting world rooted in emotional clarity and romanticised wonder.

Across its 11 tracks, 'Acknowledge Kindness' expands The Reds, Pinks And Purples’ emotional and sonic panorama, with Donaldson’s ongoing world-building remaining both warmly nostalgic and strikingly original.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There has always been a pronounced melancholic tinge to The Reds, Pinks And Purples' canon, but it comes to the fore here with Donaldson's voice and the well crafted shoegaze-adjacent instrumentals leaning heavily towards The Cure's particular brand of wavy, minor-key gloom. A solidly produced and wonderfully evocative journey, as ever.

TRACK LISTING

1. Is It You, Or Is It Them?
2. Heaven Of Love
3. Emo Band
4. New Leaf
5. Houses
6. Blue Heron Lake
7. Worthy Of Love
8. Doubt In Vain
9. Where Did I Go Last Night?
10. Build Love
11. Acknowledge Kindness

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

All hail the exclusive RSD re-issue of one of the most sought-after albums by English post-punk heroes The Fall. Originally released in 2001 on Cog Sinister this is the first 1LP reissue of a Mark E Smith triumph which is repressed on pink and black swirl vinyl to celebrate it's 25th anniversary for Record Store Day.

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM (BST) ON MONDAY APRIL 20th).

First-ever live performance from the Creation Records era to be released by one of *the* break-out UK indie bands of 1988. This celebratory London show coincided with end-of-year music press praise being heaped on their eponymous debut album (issued in May) and subsequent single ‘Destroy The Heart’ (which would top John Peel’s festive 50 at the end of the year).

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

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The first ever 12" reissue of Human League's seminal debut single, a landmark record in British synth pop/electronica. Originally issued on Fast Product in 1978 then a hit when reissued on Virgin, this orange RSD 12" has been expanded to feature a selection of exclusive and super-rare bonus tracks from John Peel Sessions in 1978.

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Green Mind was the fourth studio album by grunge rock royalty Dinosaur Jr., originally released in 1991. It was the band's first release after bassist Lou Barlow's departure, and their first released by a major label.

2026 sees the 35th anniversary of this landmark record, that quickly established the sound of US grunge that would follow throughout the 1990s. This exclusive live set captures the band performing tracks from Green Mind live in Hollywood around the release of this well-loved and critically acclaimed record. This raw live set has never been released on vinyl before and is made available on transparent vinyl exclusively for RSD.

Introducing Pareidolls, the formidable all-girl alt-rock five piece band from Merseyside. Big riffs, even bigger attitude, and a healthy slice of showbiz. Their debut 7" - Jessie - is four blistering minutes of youthful misadventure with a BEAT. These teenage wildcats been shaking up the scene in and around Liverpool for a year or so now and it's time for the rest of the world to catch up.

Blending sharp-edged rock with melodic New Wave influences the band have quickly built a reputation for songs that balance aggression with a pop sensibility. ''Jessie' captures the band's driving energy and hook-laden songwriting, while 'Give and Take' showcases a darker aspect to their sound.

Pareidolls are Georgia Attwood (vocals), Freya Wilcox (drums) Bethan Sheldrick (bass) Tabitha Law (guitar) and Biba Russell (guitar). Already well-established on the Merseyside music scene their sound and style recalls the golden age of female fronted rock bands , drawing comparisons with The Bangles, L7, The Go- Gos, Girlschool, Hole and The Donnas while remaining firmly rooted in the present.

TRACK LISTING

Jessie
Give And Take

'Courtroom Wedding', the feral new album by singer-songwriter-punk rock legend Chris D.’s new unit Poison Fang Society, succeeds In the Red Records’ release of two expansive albums by the bandleader’s Divine Horsemen, 'Hot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix' (2021) and 'Bitter End to a Sweet Night' (2022).

The taut, economical eight-song set grew out of several songs penned in the immediate wake of the COVID pandemic lockdown and originally envisioned as material for a third Divine Horsemen record. But logistical problems involving the band’s co-lead singer Julie Christensen’s ability to record in Los Angeles led to the formulation of a new solo configuration rooted in the past.

Poison Fang Society guitarist Larry Schemel, most recently of Death Valley Girls, and Tucson-bred drummer Johnny Ray are both veterans of the eight-piece lineup heard on the Flesh Eaters’ 1999 album 'Ashes of Time'. They are joined by bassist-keyboardist-guitarist Sharif Dumani, who also engineered the collection and co-produced with Chris D.

The songs Chris brought to the studio reflect a shift in style: “I was really trying to write some more traditional kinds of songs, but not make them sound really anonymous. On the last couple of albums, the Divine Horsemen albums, there was a lot more cut-up stuff. I still did some cut-up in the lyrics with this record, but not as much. The lyrics to ‘Cellars to Weep’ were very influenced by songs like Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ or ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ even though song doesn’t sound like that. I wanted to keep that kind of surrealist humor that Bob Dylan has — those nonsense phrases that add meaning when they’re all put together.”

With tracks inspired by subjects as diverse at the gun-toting MAGA couple who pointed their weapons at Black Lives Matter protesters ('Goddamn Thieving Shame') to the sleazy come-on cover lines of ‘50s pulp paperbacks ('Sex Kitten'), 'Courtroom Wedding' flexes a lean, potent sound that recalls the knife-edge attack of the Don Kirk-era Flesh Eaters and the heavyweight vibe of Chris’ second solo album (as Stone by Stone), 1989’s 'I Pass for Human'. Like this punk grand master’s finest work, it displays an electric, tormented immediacy.

“'Courtroom Wedding' sounds more live than the Divine Horsemen records,” Chris says, “and I think that’s a good thing.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Mesquite Bed
2. Court Room Wedding
3. End Weeping
4. Backwards Heart
5. Goddamn Thieving Shame
6. Passport To Shame
7. Cellars To Weep
8. Sex Kitten

Recorded at Lisa Stansfield's Gracieland studios in Rochdale as well as New York.

Seen as one of the bands best albums, it contains fan favourite 'Blindness' which was used in a car advert in 2007.

This box released in conjunction with Narnack features the original album as well as sessions, Bsides, a live show from the time and a complete disc of Demos from Chapel Studios.

This Set as with the other Fall reissues has been compiled in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton and has notes by Fall guru Daryl Easlea and have been mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce with art by Becky Stewart

TRACK LISTING

2LP / 4CD - DISC ONE
Fall Heads Roll
1 Ride Away
2 Pacifying Joint
3 What About Us?
4 Midnight In Aspen
5 Assume
6 Aspen Reprise
7 Blindness
8 I Can Hear The Grass Grow
9 Bo Demmick
10 Youwanner
11 Clasp Hands
12 Early Days Of Channel Führer
13 Breaking The Rules
14 Trust In Me

DISC TWO
Sessions And Singles
1 Blindness - John Peel - 04/08/2004
2 Clasp Hands - John Peel - 04/08/2004
3 What About Us - John Peel - 04/08/2004
4 Wrong Place Wrong Time / I Can Hear The
Grass Grow - John Peel - 04/08/2004
5 Job Search - John Peel - 04/08/2004
6 Blindness - Heads Roll - US Alt Version
7 I Can Hear The Grass Grow - Slow Version
8 Bo Doodak - Single
9 Blindness - Interim Version
10 What About Us - Interim Version
11 Clasp Hands - Interim Version
12 Blind Man - Original Demo
13 Blindness - Alt Version

DISC THREE
Chapel Studio Demos
1 The Boss
2 Systamatic Abuse
3 Party Song
4 Twang
5 Get Out
6 The V One
7 Spencers Cut
8 Steve Country
9 Wed Z
10 Boil A Chicken
11 White Line
12 Benneets Rocker
13 Brimstone
14 Fuzz

DISC FOUR
Leeds 27/08/2006
1 Bo Demmick
2 Pacifying Joint
3 Theme From Sparta FC
4 What About Us?
5 Reformation!
6 Mountain Energei
7 Mr Pharmacist
8 Blindness
9 My Door Is Never

Ushering in a new era, Berlin based, New Zealand heavy psych duo Earth Tongue lower the castle gates on their third album 'Dungeon Vision', a trove of fuzz-drenched anthems produced by garage rock luminary Ty Segall in Los Angeles.

Guitarist Gussie Larkin and drummer Ezra Simons spent the Berlin winter of 2025 refining the album’s twelve tracks in their self-described “windowless cave” rehearsal space, crafting a record that channels both isolation and the duo’s live intensity. With the songs finally taking shape and a studio deadline looming, they flew to Los Angeles to turn their hard-won ideas into the real thing. Once there, the band and Ty captured lightning in a bottle, recording and mixing 'Dungeon Vision' in just ten days at Altamira Sound.

Tracked live to tape, 'Dungeon Vision' pulses with human energy, fuzz guitars, bone-battering drums, and hauntingly tuneful vocals. Ty Segall’s influence is all over the record with Ty choosing the best takes based on feel rather than technical perfection. The “king of fuzzy guitar tones” pushed the duo to find new sonic textures while championing their raw chemistry.

“Ty’s been a big driving force,” says Ezra. “We supported him in New Zealand back in 2023, and he’s backed us ever since even bringing us on tour through Europe and the UK in 2024.”

Since their emergence in 2016, Earth Tongue’s world-building, visuals, and relentless touring have earned them global attention and a cult-like following. Their 2024 album 'Great Haunting', also released on In The Red Records, received a Taite Music Prize nomination and saw them win Best Group at the 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards. They’ve toured extensively, sharing stages with the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, IDLES, Acid King, Brant Bjork and Kikagaku Moyo.

With 'Dungeon Vision', Earth Tongue deliver their most immersive work yet, a richly human, fuzz-soaked journey that bottles the magic of their live show and cements their reputation as one of the most exciting psych rock acts on the planet.

TRACK LISTING

1. Dungeon Vision
2. Demon Cam
3. Flashlight
4. Body Of Water
5. Watchtower
6. Orbit Of A Witch
7. Symmetry Dripper
8. 1000 Curses
9. Silver Eye
10. Living Hell
11. Harvester
12. Ritual

The unholy triumvirate of Big Sexy Noise featuring Lydia Lunch, James Johnston (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Faust) & Ian White (Barry Adamson) of the notorious Gallon Drunk are dead set on proving once more that ROCK is alive and kicking, down and dirty and raunchier than ever!

Lunch helped pioneer no wave in 1977 with the slashing din of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and has remained a caustic presence in the alt-rock firmament ever since. Big Sexy Noise unites her with guitarist James Johnston and drummer Ian White of guttural London greasers Gallon Drunk for the most joyfully bawdy music of her career, stripping bare the bluesy brawn of 70’s heavy-rock and inverting its every cock-rock cliche to Lunch’s delight.

White’s limber shuffle injects sinful grace into what could have been Neanderthal sludge, while Johnston stirs up the din of an entire band with his single guitar, hurtling between bone-simple, steamy riffs and blasts of near psychedelic noise.

Big Sexy Noise, 'Live in Italy', a fierce, fearless, tub thumbing, balls to the wall rock monsterpiece.

TRACK LISTING

1. Mahakali Calling
2. Cross The Line
3. Ballin’ The Jack
4. Your Love Don’t Pay My Rent
5. Doughboy
6. Self Defense
7. Trust The Witch
8. Collision Course
9. Gospel Singer
10. Baby Faced Killer
11. Forever On The Run

What’s the first thing you think of when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, melody-maiming John Dwyer careening across your cranium, rounded out by a wild-eyed wrecking crew that drives every last hook home like it’s a nail in the coffin of what you thought it meant to make 21st-century rock ’n’ roll? Yeah, that sounds about right. But it misses a more important point—how impossible Thee Oh Sees have been to pin down since Dwyer launched the project in the late ’90s as a solo break from such sorely missed underground bands as Pink and Brown and Coachwhips. (While Dwyer still records songs on his own, Thee Oh Sees is now a five-piece featuring keyboardist / singer Brigid Dawson, guitarist Petey Dammit, drummer Mike Shoun and multi-instrumentalist / singer Lars Finberg.) That restlessness extends to everything from the towering, thirteen-minute title track of 2010’s 'Warm Slime' LP to the mercurial moods of 2008’s 'The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In'.

Now, Thee Oh Sees chase the home-brewed symphonies of Castlemania with the scrappy, high-wire hooks of 'Carrion Crawler / The Dream'. Originally envisioned as two EPs, it was cut live to tape in less than a week at Chris Woodhouse’s Sacramento studio in June, reflecting the battering-ram bent of the band’s live show better than any bootleg ever could. “As I’m sure most would agree,” explains Dwyer, “Castlemania was more of a vocal tirade. This one’s meant to pummel and throb.” That it does, whether one blasts the slow, speaker-bruising build of 'The Dream', the sunburnt organs and dovetailing guitars of 'Crack in Your Eye' or the interstellar instrumental 'Chem-Farmer', a perfect example of what happens when one takes a well-oiled machine—a gang of rabid road warriors, really—and adds a second, groove-locked drum set to the mix. To listen is to realize that Dwyer’s music is as manic as the underground comic inclinations of his artwork; colorful and confusing in a way that’s more than welcome. It’s downright refreshing, like a slap in the face at 5:00 in the morning. Or, as Dwyer puts it, “You have to leave a mark somehow.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Carrion Crawler
2. Contraption/Soul Desert
3. Robber Barons
4. Chem-Farmer
5. Opposition
6. The Dream
7. Wrong Idea
8. Crushed Grass
9. Crack In Your Eye
10. Heavy Doctor

REDD KROSS & THE HARD-ONS. From LA and Sydney respectively. Separated by an ocean, but with ties that go back to when they were label mates on the US Big Time label in 1987 and maybe even further. Beyond that the connections are plentiful; both started playing out on their respective punk scenes when they were very young - Redd Kross as pre-teens and mid-teens in '79-80, The Hard-Ons as mid-to-late teenagers in '82-83 - and both ruffled plenty of feathers when they did. Both bands transgressed the accepted boundaries of punk, and both pushed audience excitement buttons with high energy, great tunes, an outrageous visual element and a willingness to not only include '60s pop influences into their punk sounds, but also flashy and trashy '70s hard rock.

Indeed, two bands were arguably the first two to understand the musical thread that joined Kiss and the Ramones, and in doing so they together helped make the world a brighter place.

Current Hard-Ons singer Tim Rogers goes back decades with Redd Kross too - a young You Am I were on the bill when Redd Kross toured Australia with the Hoodoo Gurus back in 1994.

TRACK LISTING

1. I'll Take Your Word For It (Acoustic) (Redd Kross)
2. Stuff (Acoustic) (Redd Kross)
3. The Lady In The Front Row (Acoustic) (Redd Kross)
4. Always Think With My Temper (Hard-Ons)
5. You'll Always Be Safe With Us (Hard-Ons)
6. Getting Older (Radio Edit) (Hard-Ons)

Red Motorbike hits the road in '26 with an original production from Berlin's master of boogie-funk: LJ Simon!

"Givin' Up" is a soulful modern funk 7" steeped in warm '80s analogue production and classic groovesmithery. The OG version blends vintage synth textures with a deep, understated rhythm section. Known for his love of fat-sounding vintage gear, LJ Simon begins every song with no blueprint, working purely from sound, instinct, and feel, tuning in to receive what the moment brings. The influences are unmistakable, yet the result feels fresh, intuitive and alive.

Vocals are delivered by Denice Brooks, a formidable singer from Austin, Texas, now based in Berlin. Denice built her solo career while performing with an exceptional list of artists including Tina Turner, Roy Ayers, David Bowie, Nancy Wilson, Natalie Cole, and many others. She is notably the only singer to receive Prince's blessing to record an official cover of "Purple Rain" - a distinction that speaks volumes about her artistry. Her career has taken her across Germany, Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa, where she even once performed for Nelson Mandela. Her continued experience across stage, studio, television, and musical theatre shines through in a vocal performance rich in depth and soul.

Label head Eddie C offers up his Disko Mix and reframes the track through a '90s street soul lens; stripped-back, dusty, and perfectly tuned for late-night selectors and heads-down dancefloors.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Just as the light nights begin to raise their head above the winter parapet, we get this street soul swaying, day time dreamer, tailor made for soundsystems and soul food.

TRACK LISTING

A. Givin' Up (eddie C Disko Mix)
B. Givin' Up

THE HOUSE OF LOVE were one of the most successful and critically acclaimed bands to grace Creation Records back in the late 1980s.

Their eponymous debut album, which was cited as one of the best albums of 1988 by music magazines and indie fans alike, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year!

For the first time, the album is remastered from the original quarter-inch tapes, especially for this limited double vinyl edition in a gatefold sleeve.

Disc one replicates the original LP while Disc Two mops up all of the non-album tracks from various singles, from the original version of ‘Shine On’, ‘Real Animal’ and ‘Christine’ to their final single for the label, ‘Destroy The Heart’.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE: THE ALBUM
SIDE ONE
1. CHRISTINE
2. HOPE
3. ROAD
4. SULPHUR
5. MAN TO CHILD
SIDE TWO
1. SALOME
2. LOVE IN A CAR
3. HAPPY
4. FISHERMAN'S TALE
5. TOUCH ME

DISC TWO: THE SINGLES
SIDE ONE
1. SHINE ON
2. LOVE
3. FLOW
4. REAL ANIMAL
5. PLASTIC
6. NOTHING TO ME
7. THE HILL
SIDE TWO
1. LONELINESS IS A GUN
2. THE HEDONIST
3. WELT
4. DESTROY THE HEART
5. BLIND
6. MR. JO

Irlam's dastardly duo are back with another bonza bucket of bass, breaks and badness as they fire up Studio Krust for another high octane session.
Sure to top the Fairground charts and further enrage the Hell's Angels, 'Synthetic Stupidity' sees the pair unleash their full force unabashed, as they hit a purple patch full of new found and frankly quite surprising productivity (rumours of a European-wide sputnik shortage are the likely catalyst).

Fractionally distilling their many collective years of dance music experience into 12 refined pieces of advanced club kinetics that skirt between the syncopated intricacies of breakbeat science and maxed-out 4/4 propulsion.
More hyped-up vox & frantic sampling, more tension, tons of one-finger keyboard melodies, and - as usual - moments of sonic tomfoolery to flummox the assumers.
With their drug debts paid off and a forced clarity of mind, 'Synthetic Stupidity' is a more expansive, deeper and unhurried project; allowing Bosco and Metrodome the space and time to truly deliver the zenith of their sound.

This, is DJ ABSOLUTELY SHIT!!!

TRACK LISTING

A1. 50 Inch Subwoofer
A2. Magic
B1. Warning
B2. Automatic
C1. Datz Disgusting
C2. Cat Strangler
D1. Ale'd Up N Tha (featuring Sl8r)
D2. 8 Bit Bash
E1. Bulletproof
E2. Pharaoh De Janeiro
F1. All I Need
F2. Ghetto

THE ART GRAY NOIZZ QUINTET is spearheaded by twisted Australian guitar legend STU-ART GRAY, most notoriously known as STU SPASM of LUBRICATED GOAT, CRUNT, SALAMANDER JIM, and THE BEASTS OF BOURBON. Adding another crazed chapter to an already solidly sordid musical history, THE ART GRAY NOIZZ QUINTET stars some of the finest scoundrels of the New York City underground scene - SKELETON BOY of WOMAN on two-string bass, NIKKI D'AGOSTINO on sax, and veteran drummer RICH HUTCHINS of LIVE SKULL providing the savage, swinging beat. A rotating roulette of characters swagger into the second guitar slot as needed, each showcasing their particular specialty - twang, treble, or atmosphere. Stuart Gray's wayward path through the flashpoints of noise, grunge, and swamp-rock history is well-represented in the Quintet's sound - chaos with a cinematic edge. Sharing stages with kindred spirits such as THE SCIENTISTS and MUDHONEY got the attention of audiences early on. Their recordings and incendiary gigs throughout the New York scene and beyond soon caught the eye of the infamous LYDIA LUNCH, and it was only a matter of time before a new collaboration was born...

Now, THE ART GRAY NOIZZ QUINTET collide with the queen of no wave LYDIA LUNCH on a new two-fisted ten-inch single . . . Melting the MAGAZINE classic "PERMAFROST", and grinding out an apocalyptic version of IGGY POP's "MASS PRODUCTION".

TRACK LISTING

1. Permafrost
2. Mass Production

'RENO', the debut album from Red Leather, is a scorched-earth confession wrapped in the swagger of classic rock and the soul of Americana. Written in the aftermath of addiction, heartbreak, and self-reckoning, it’s an unflinching look at what it means to burn your life down and start over. Across its 14 tracks, Red Leather howls through desert nights and neon cityscapes, blending grit and grace in equal measure. Songs like 'Deathwish', 'Burn in Hell', and 'The Only Time It Rains in Hollywood' are raw, cinematic, and deeply human—each one a snapshot of pain, defiance, and redemption. Equal parts road trip and resurrection, 'RENO' cements Red Leather as one of the most compelling new voices in modern rock.

TRACK LISTING

1. TRAIN'S LEAVIN'
2. BURN IN HELL
3. DEATHWISH
4. SINS
5. PUSHERMAN
6. THE BIGGEST LITTLE CITY IN THE WORLD
7. EL DORADO
8. DOWN BAD
9. DESERT STORM
10. WATCH MY DADDY DIE
11. WALK AWAY
12. HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
13. DAKOTA
14. DEVIL'S GRIP
15. THE ONLY TIME IT RAINS IN HOLLYWOOD

This is a super limited double vinyl only press.

Twelve Il Bosco edits of new wave bangers tried and tested down in the Manctalo Disko at The White Hotel and beyond...

'No digital will be sold. Again as we said plenty of times before the reason we don't sell the digital tracks is out of respect for the original artists. We make no money on pressing vinyl.

It's expensive. time consuming and nobody fukin buys it anymore.
We do it because we love this shit and the chance to share our discoveries with ya'll.
We hope our compilations serve as an advert for the original artists.
You fall in love with a track, find out who it is and then go and discover more about them.

Shouts here to Hysteric (Mothball Records) for track 3 and Kelvin Andrews & Balearic Mike (Down To The Sea And Back) for putting me onto Car Crash Set leading me to discover track 1.'

- Il Bosco

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Red Laser head honcho Il Bosco delves into the new wave section of his enviable record collection. Treating us to 8 hardly-heard-before hits from a halcyon period of the genre. One of the best RL comps to date; just don't mention the artwork!

TRACK LISTING

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H

Ireland's rock legacy runs deep, from Thin Lizzy to The Undertones. Today it's 'Euro-country' queen CMAT, rap rebels Kneecap, and post-punk runners Fontaines D.C. -- and now Dublin born-London based Music City, adding another bold chapter to the story with their hook-driven, punk-fired debut .Welcome to Music City'.

The album blends wry storytelling with chiming guitars, stacked harmonies, and muscular rhythm sections. "I didn't set out with a theme or story arc, but looking back the album feels like a constant fight between hope and disappointment," shares songwriter Conor Lumsden (also drummer, singer and songwriter in Dublin favourites The Number Ones). "It's the peaks and troughs of just trying to get by, in love, against the outside forces, or the ones inside your own head". Single 'Common Sense' is a swaggering, hook-laden anthem featuring Tina Halladay of Sheer Mag, delivered with the passion of a 12-year-old playing guitar in the mirror.

Music City have toured with Sheer Mag and Parquet Courts, and recently returned from Spain and Italy supporting The Lemon Twigs. Put those names together and you'll start to hear where Music City are coming from...

TRACK LISTING

1. It's Alright
2. When That Day Comes By
3. Do I?
4. A Little Favour
5. Pretty Feelings
6. A Matter Of Time
7. Common Sense
8. The Conversation
9. You Remember
10. Photograph
11. Autumn Song 
12. Something's On Your Mind

Ailbhe Reddy is a Dublin-born songwriter whose music captures the quiet intensity of life’s in-between moments. Her third album 'KISS BIG' is a breakup record — but not in the traditional sense. It explores what happens after the fallout: the numbness, the confusion, the brief flashes of clarity. How identity slips, rearranges, and occasionally reforms. Written between London, New York, Dublin and Donegal, 'KISS BIG' draws on literary influences like Fleishman Is in Trouble and Sarah Kane’s 'Crave', combining diaristic lyrics with soft-spoken intensity. The result is a record that sits somewhere between indie rock and confessional folk, echoing the emotional weight of artists like Julia Jacklin, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus.

Reddy’s previous albums 'Personal History' and 'Endless Affair' earned critical acclaim and a Choice Music Prize nomination, with praise from outlets like The Guardian, Pitchfork, and The Times. She’s performed at Glastonbury, SXSW, The Great Escape and beyond, steadily building a loyal audience drawn to her honesty and emotional precision. With 'KISS BIG', Reddy leans further into her ability to make the personal feel universal. These are songs for endings, almosts, and the quiet beginnings that come after.

TRACK LISTING

1. Align
2. That Girl
3. So Quickly, Baby
4. Untangling
5. Graceful Swimmer
6. Dead Arm
7. Gorgeous Thing
8. Kiss Big
9. Crave

Brand new album from punk pioneers Buzzcocks.

It’s punk rock with a Motown vibe! A new album should always have elements of surprise and create its own world, and this does!

It avoids the cliché and expands the Buzzcocks’ magical journey!

Legendary Manchester punk outfit Buzzcocks need little introduction. Back in 1977, they gave birth to a generation of independent labels with their debut EP ‘Spiral Scratch’. Thereafter, their melodic punk-pop proved irresistible, leading to hit singles and three landmark albums. They broke up in 1981 but reunited in 1989 and have been going steady ever since. Sadly, singer Pete Shelley passed away in 2018 but founder member and the band’s other singer/ songwriter Steve Diggle has kept the flag flying.

2026 sees them release their 12th studio album 'Attitude Adjustment' which is bursting with 14 brand new tracks that will delight fans of the iconic and much loved Manchester music institution.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Queen Of The Scene
2. Games
3.Seeing Daylight
4. Poetic Machine Gun
5. Tear Of A Golden Girl
6. Heavy Streets
7. One Of The Universe (Part One)
8. All Gone To War
9. One Of The Universe (Part Two)
SIDE B
1. Jesus At The Wheel
2. Just A Dream I Followed
3. Feeling Uptight
4. Break That Ball And Chain
5. The Greatest Of Them All

“CBGB was a place for the dirty people.” - Jimmy Destri of Blondie

“Afterwards, I took off and went crosstown to CBGB’s, the stronghold of the unknown, to be with my own people.” - Patti Smith

In December 1973 Hilly Kristal changed the name of his roots music bar from Hilly’s on the Bowery to CBGB and altered his musical policy to hire mostly rock bands. He was indifferent to many of them (“No one is going to like you guys, but I’ll have you back,” he told Joey Ramone), blissfully unaware of how important his scruffy little club would soon become.

In the span of only 15 months, the five groups that comprise the CBGB’s pantheon all debuted: Television in March 1974, followed by Ramones in August and Blondie in October, then Patti Smith in February 1975 and Talking Heads four months later.

Those five groups all quickly got record deals and became popular enough to outgrow CBGB’s. By the fall of 1977, Smith was the only one who was still playing there. What succeeded the Big Five was an array of new and retro styles, all of which feature here: No Wave (Sonic Youth, Mars, DNA, Bush Tetras), post-punk (Ritual Tension, Unknown Gender, Khmer Rouge), mutant funk and R&B (James Chance & The Contortions, Mink DeVille), art-rock bands (R.L. Crutchfield’s Dark Day, The Revelons, Erasers, Jeff and Jane Hudson) hardcore punk (Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Vatican Commandos, Beastie Boys), and lots of power pop (Sorrows, The dBs, The Rudies, The Miamis, The Paley Brothers) .

The club’s best-known bands are present on this compilation but we’ve also revived interest in dozens of unfairly forgotten acts that, for a moment in time, made an album, EP, 45, or even a demo that crackled with innovation, wit, and joy.

CBGB no longer exists, at least not in the physical plane, but what happened between those soot-filled, beer-stinking walls continues to reverberate around the world.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 The Dictators - (I Live For) Cars And Girls
2 The Harlots Of 42nd Street - S&M (I Can’t Live Without You)
3 The Magic Tramps - S&M – Leather Queen
4 Patti Smith - Free Money
5 The Brats - Be A Man
6 City Lights - Travelin’ Man
7 The Hounds - Call Me (Previously Unreleased On CD)
8 Erasers - It Was So Funny (That Song That They Sung)
9 Ramones - Beat On The Brat
10 Stuart’s Hammer - Everybody’s Depraved (Live At CBGB)
11 The Planets - Come On Up (Previously Unreleased)
12 Milk ‘N’ Cookies - Not Enough Girls (In The World)
13 Just Water - They Live By Night
14 Television - See No Evil
15 Mumps - Crocodile Tears
16 The Heartbreakers - Born To Lose
17 Testors - You Don’t Break My Heart
18 The Dead Boys - Ain’t Nothing To Do
19 The Senders - You Really Piss Me Off
20 The Electric Chairs - Fuck Off
21 Marbles - Forgive And Forget
22 Cherry Vanilla - Hard As A Rock
23 Tuff Darts - Fun City
24 Talking Heads - A Clean Break (Let's Work) (Live)

DISC TWO
1 Suicide - Ghost Rider
2 Pure Hell - I Feel Bad
3 Helen Wheels - Room To Rage
4 Blondie - Picture This
5 Mars - Helen Forsdale
6 Come On - Don’t Walk On The Kitchen Floor
7 Mink Deville - “A” Train Lady
8 The Heat - Instant Love (Previously Unreleased On CD)
9 Genya Ravan - Aye Co'lorado
10 Theoretical Girls - Lovin’ In The Red
11 Richard Hell & The Voidoids - The Kid With The Replaceable Head
12 The Stillettos - Pink Stillettos
13 The Paley Brothers - Baby, Let’s Stick Together
14 Neon Leon - Rock 'n’ Roll Is Alive (Previously Unreleased On CD)
15 Revelons - The Way (You Touch My Hand)
16 New York Ni**ers - Just Like Dresden '45
17 L.O.K. - Fun House (Previously Unreleased On CD)
18 Material - O.A.O.
19 The Laughing Dogs - I Need A Million
20 Shrapnel - Combat Love
21 Peroxide - Heart Disease
22 Student Teachers - Christmas Weather
23 Tom Verlaine - Breakin’ In My Heart
24 Richard Lloyd - Number Nine
25 James Chance & The Contortions Jailhouse Rock (Live At CBGB 1978)

DISC THREE
1 The Cramps - Garbage Man
2 The Dots - I Don’t Wanna Dance (With You) (Previously Unreleased On CD)
3 The Miamis - We Deliver
4 Model Citizens - Shift The Blame
5 The DB’s - Black And White
6 The Rattlers - On The Beach
7 Love Of Life Orchestra - The Revolution Is Personal
8 Urban Verbs - Next Question (Previously Unreleased)
9 Sylvain Sylvain - Teenage News
10 Stimulators - Loud Fast Rules
11 Tot Rocket And The Twins - Reduced
12 The Bongos - Telephoto Lens
13 Outsets - I’m Searchin' For You
14 Sorrows - Teenage Heartbreak
15 The Lounge Lizards - Do The Wrong Thing
16 Nervus Rex - There She Goes
17 The Cosmopolitans - Wild Moose Party
18 Polyrock - Your Dragging Feet
19 Lenny Kaye With The Lone Wolves - Child Bride (Previously Unreleased On CD)
20 R.L. Crutchfield’s Dark Day - Arp’s Carpet
21 The Colors - Jealousy
22 TV Toy - (Don’t Blame It On The) Weekend
23 DNA - Blonde Red Head
24 The Rudies- Sherri Goodbye
25 The Raybeats - Tight Turn
26 Phosphenes - Asexual (Previously Unreleased On CD)
27 Minor Threat - Straight Edge

DISC FOUR
1 Bush Tetras - Things That Go BOOM In The Night
2 Human Switchboard - (Say No To) Saturday's Girl
3 Disturbed Furniture - Information *
4 The Necessaries - Back To You *
5 Chemicals Made From Dirt - Oriental Television *
6 China Shop - If It's New
7 James Blood Ulmer - Open House
8 Nihilistics - You’re To Blame
9 Beastie Boys - Egg Raid On Mojo
10 The Individuals - My Three Sons (Revolve Around The Earth)
11 Rhys Chatham - Drastic Classicism (edit)
12 Unknown Gender - Boys-Girls (Radio) *
13 Khmer Rouge - Hinterland
14 Bad Brains - Banned In D.C.
15 Heart Attack - English Cunts
16 Outpatients - Fight
17 Vatican Commandos - Housewives On Valium
18 Sonic Youth - The World Looks Red
19 Jeff & Jane Hudson - Operating Instruction
20 Glorious Strangers - Deception *
21 Nona Hendryx - Transformation
22 Reagan Youth - No Class
23 Rat At Rat R - Assassin
24 Ritual Tension - Social Climber
25 The Ordinaires - Grace
* Previously Unreleased On CD

Fuzz, the California based trio of Ty Segall (vocals, drums), Charles Moothart (vocals, guitar), and Chad Ubovich (vocals, bass), present their latest release Fuzz’s Fourth Dream on In The Red Records. This is the band’s first release in four years and is a collection of singles, unreleased demos, and rarities.

“I lived in a four-bedroom house in San Francisco that housed anywhere from six to ten people at a time,” Moothart explains. “Friends were always crashing when they were between spots, on tour, or just couldn’t make it home. It was a chaotic space, but a space that was cherished by many. Chad frequently crashed on our couch when on tour—surrounded by ashtrays full of cigarettes and joint roaches; beer cans and spray paint cans.

“I remember jamming on guitar and drums with Ty at like 2 AM in the garage (still feel bad for putting the neighbors through that.) One day, under Ty’s guidance, I dragged a 388 in to the garage. I decided I wanted to write a Sabbath-style riff just to see what happens. I laid down some drums, then came up with what would become “Fuzz’s Fourth Dream.”.I showed Ty the ‘demo’ which was more of a sloppy idea. He basically said ‘Let’s make this band”... and Fuzz was off. “This collection really does give a proper road map to what this band is and was, as well as how the two connect,” Moothart explains. “Fuzz means a lot to me, and I have learned so much through these processes. Thank you to any one who has been listening to these songs since the beginning, and thank you to any one who is here for the first time.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Ooof, there's so much gold here that hasn't been heard and it's really no surprise that Fuzz have a wealth of superb unheard cuts, and you really need to hear these to believe how good. Obviously the singles are all top-notch. Big tip for the Fuzz KC cover too. Ace.

TRACK LISTING

1. This Time I’ve Got A Reason
2. Fuzz’s Fourth Dream
3. Sleigh Ride
4. You Won’t See Me
5. Rich Man, Poor Man
6. What’s In My Head (demo)
7. Sunderberry Dream
8. 21st Century Schizoid Man
10. ’Til The End Of The Day
11. I Just Want Your Everything
12. Spit (demo)
13. Red Flag (demo)
14. Rat Race (demo)
15. Loose Sutures (demo)
16. Pipe (demo)
17. Time Collapse (demo)
18. The 7th Terror (demo)
19. Jack The Maggot (demo)
20. The Preacher (demo)
21. Let It Live (demo)
22. Bringer Of Light (demo)
23. Say Hello (demo)

Cat Power is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her milestone 2006 album, 'The Greatest', with 'Redux'.

Recorded by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer and longtime collaborator Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn, The White Stripes) at Austin, TX’s Church House Studios with backing by Dirty Delta Blues – the all-star supergroup assembled for the world tour that followed The Greatest comprising guitarist Judah Bauer (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion), keyboardist Gregg Foreman (The Delta 72, Jesse Malin), bassist Erik Paparozzi (Lizard Music), and drummer Jim White (Dirty Three, Hard Quartet) – 'Redux' includes a brand new re-recording of James Brown’s chart-topping classic, 'Try Me', premiering everywhere today. The track was among those first recorded by the singer-songwriter otherwise known as Chan Marshall during the original sessions that produced 'The Greatest' but never completed.

TRACK LISTING

1. Try Me
2. Could We
3. Nothing Compares 2 U

We present the fourth volume in this critically acclaimed series - this time a prequel, exploring the transitional year 1979, a period which saw electronic pop move from curio, fad and novelty status into the credible post-punk pop landscape. A story of experimental and eccentric artists, outsider aesthetics and the fusion of the spirit of punk with a pop sensibility.

Featuring an array of artists who would become household names and dominate the pop scene during the first half of the 1980s, alongside lesser-known scenesters, independent innovators and one-off scene hoppers, ‘Musik Music Musique 1979’ provides a perfect backdrop to our previous three volumes. Call it a prequel, call it back story - packed with great pop music, a twist of the weird and wonderful and plenty of floor-fillers, this is a snapshot of a vital year in the wake punk rock, when a new path suggested throughout the 1970s was finally cut, paved and explored.

Eclectic, endlessly innovative and, most importantly, enduringly listenable, ‘Music Musik Musique 1979’ is an international adventure, throwing the spotlight on those brave enough to take the first steps into the rainbow of electronic music that would come to define the 1980s.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 The Buggles - Technopop
2 M - Made In Munich
3 The Korgis - Cold Tea
4 Metal Voices - At The Banks Of The River
5 Yello - I. T. Splash
6 Dalek I - The Kiss
7 Karel Fialka - Armband
8 Japan - Life In Tokyo (Pt 1)
9 Black Rod - Going To The Country
10 Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
11 Dollar - Star Control (B- Side Mix)
12 Quantum Jump - The Lone Ranger (1979 Remix)
13 Fashiøn – Technofascist
14 The Cars - Night Spots
15 Devo - Strange Pursuit
16 Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club - Video Killed The Radio Star
17 Moebius- Mirror Of Infinity
18 Tanya Hyde - Herr Wunderbar
19 Final Program - Hanging Around
20 Metrophase - New Age

DISC TWO
1 Gary Numan - Cars
2 Giorgio Moroder - E=MC²
3 Gina X Performance - Nice Mover
4 Blah Blah Blah - In The Army
5 Gerry And The Holograms - Gerry And The Holograms (Alternate Drumbox Version) 6 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Almost
7 The Men - I Don't Depend On You
8 Telex - Rock Around The Clock
9 They Must Be Russians - Nagasaki's Children
10 Silicon Teens - Memphis Tennessee
11 Henry Badowski - Making Love With My Wife
12 After The Fire - One Rule For You
13 Cowboys International - Thrash
14 Jude - Mirror Mirror
15 Minny Pops - Dolphin's Spurt
16 Mi-Sex - Computer Games
17 Passage - 16 Hours
18 Zeus B. Held - Held It
19 The Family Fodder - Sunday Girl #1
20 Secret Service - Oh Susie

DISC THREE
1 The Human League - Blind Youth
2 Fad Gadget - Back To Nature
3 Landscape - Japan (12" Version)
4 Calvin Twilight - Harmony
5 Cuddly Toys - Madman (Original 1979 Japanese Mix) 6 R.L. Crutchfield’s Dark Day - Hands In The Dark
7 Visage - Frequency 7
8 New Musik - Living By Numbers
9 Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
10 John Foxx - Young Love (1979 Version)
11 The Dodgems - Science Fiction (Baby You're So)
12 Genocide - Pre Set Future
13 Hammer - Forever Tonight
14 Toyah - Computer
15 Thomas Leer And Robert Rental - Attack Decay
16 Plain Characters - Man In The Railings
17 Steve Hillage - Don't Dither Do It (7" Version)
18 La Düsseldorf - Rheinita (7" Version)
19 Tim Blake And Jean Phillipe Rykiel - New Jerusalem (Extract)
20 Instant Automatons - All You Need Is Love

In 2022, In the Red Records released 'The Great Confrontation', an album of instrumental electronic music by Chip Kinman. It was Chip’s first solo album; his previous recording, 'This American Blues', by his band Ford Madox Ford, was issued just prior to the 2018 death of his brother Tony. The Kinmans had been partnered musically since they were teens, in a variety of now-legendary projects: the OG California punk band the Dils, the pathfinding cowpunk unit Rank and File, the ear-shattering electro-rock duo Blackbird, and the Western music twosome Cowboy Nation.

In the wake of 'The Great Confrontation', Chip and In the Red plotted another record. The resultant collection, Chip Kinman, is reflective, soulful, and profoundly affecting, a statement of identity and a look back at life that avoids the pitfalls that could derail an autobiographical work.

"I had to figure out something to write about, and I thought, it’s time to make that record," Chip says. "A long time ago, Tony and I were talking about singer-songwriters, and he said, ‘If you’re going to sing about your life, you better have had a fucking interesting life.’ And I thought, I have. I’ve gotta deep-dive into that. I figured, if I was going to write about what it was like, how was I gonna approach that? How was I going to say that without being nostalgic or without being maudlin or without being over-celebratory? It it was, well, just say it like it was."

The album features several moving, personal new songs: the heartfelt 'Me and Tony', about the Kinmans’ lifelong brotherly pursuit of music; 'Goodbye Rock and Roll', an account of a freshman summer fling with an “older woman”; and 'So Young', a look back at the Kinman crew’s nocturnal prowls of L.A. Looming mortality is touched on in 'Brian', a portrait of an L.A. musician coping with his partner’s death, and the staggering, literally cosmic finale 'Forever Shining'.

As its self-declaratory title suggests, Chip Kinman was largely a solo work, with its author producing and also playing most of the instruments (including, for the first time, drums). But some old punk compatriots leant a hand: Alice Bag of the Bags and Juanita and Juan, In the Red’s duo act with Kid Congo, Cliff Roman of the Weirdos, Mike Watt of the Minutemen and Ford Madox Ford’s drummer S. Scott Aguero.

Chip says, “When I was writing I thought, ‘Who am I writing this for? Why am I still making records? Who’s gonna buy this record? Who’s gonna listen to this record?’ And I really wanted to make a record for people like you, people like me. I wanted to make a record for people who went through the same things I did, at the same time I did, who took that same musical journey at the same time I did. That’s really who the record’s for.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Brian
2. Que Voy A Hacer
3. Radio / TV / I’m In Love
4. So Young
5. Gonzo! FC
6. Goodbye Rock And Roll
7. Me And Tony
8. Drive Drive Drive
9. Nobody’s Son
10. Forever Shining

Don't call it a comeback - one of THE most cherished 12's of the Take Away catalogue is making a triumphant return.

For those that missed out before the kitchen ran out of copies last time, there are fresh new copies available. Besides the classics "Got 2 Be Loved" and "A Rose Is A Rose" something new is presented as well. "Tom N Jerry" is Soul Reductions on a disco dub tip and the missing piece of the puzzle that will make your record collection complete.

Take Away is taking orders once again, make yours a large one

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: One of the biggest disco-house records ever made gets revisited with a brand new, additional track.

TRACK LISTING

A. Got 2 B Loved
B. Tom 'n Jerry
B. Rose Is A Rose

First single on Red Liquorice Records - the label started by Lounge Society member Herbie May. It's Herbie who contributes two tracks to the label debut (with Lily Rae Grant quickly following up with the 2nd release...).

"Bleedings" is a woozy and laid back song reminiscent of a young (and drunk?) Bill Callahan. The lyrics belie Herbie's young age, as does his intimate mic technique and effortless strumming. Infact the whole track feels like its been birthed completely organically with little manipulation between the song's conception and it's recording. A subtle masterpiece. 

"Shoelaces" takes the same stylistic cues - gentle strumming, hushed vocals, transparent production - with Herbie's lyrics again the focal point. You'll want to decipher every word! 

Really strong stuff from Red Liquorice - a label to keep an eye on through 2026! 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: More magic from the Calderdale valley! We were introduced to Red Liquorice last week with the incredible Lily Rae Grant 7". This is their first release, by label founder Herbie May (from Lounge Society). An equally heartfelt, sincere and warming record with clever lyrics and charismatic guitar playing. I'm already keen to hear a full album by both of these cats (Herbie & Lily)! Defo a label to keep an eye on.

TRACK LISTING

A. Bleeding
B. Shoelaces

Lily Rae Grant is an 18 year old singer songwriter blending soulful folk and country with dreamy, atmospheric indie. Moving between delicate acoustic moments and cinematic textures, her music is melodic, expressive and immersive. Based between Manchester and Todmorden, genre fluid Lily is shaping a sound that feels honest, spacious and unmistakably hers. Quietly confident and emotionally vivid.

Written and performed by Lily Rae Grant
Produced by John D Grant and Lily Rae Grant
Violin by Daniel Bridgewood-Hill
Backing vocals by Olivia Howie

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Landing confidently between the delicate folk of Mazzy Star and the loose Balearic-friendly swagger of Jonathon Wilson is no easy feet; but rising star of the Todmorden - Manchester axis, Lily Rae Grant, impresses greatly on her debut release. Already championed by MCR tastemaker and master DJ James Holroyd, there's summat special brewing here TRUST US.

TRACK LISTING

1.Poison Ivy 03:11
2.Forget About 06:11

In 2024 Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay from the original line up of The Saints assembled The Saints ’73-’78 featuring Mark Arm (Mudhoney), Mick Harvey (Birthday Party/Bad Seeds) and Peter Oxley (Sunnyboys). The band’s mission was to play songs from the first three Saints albums by the original line up on an Australian tour. The tour was a massive success with all shows sold out and reviews being nothing short of raves. Now the band are bringing their show to Europe and the US so we’ve conspired with the band to do this very limited edition twelve inch four song EP that shows how blistering their performances are. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Nights In Venice
2. No Time
3. (I’m) Misunderstood
4. Know Your Product

Glasshouse Red Spider Mite share their much awaited debut EP ‘What Do You Mean The Monster?… Hahaha’ on its first vinyl pressing.

Recorded by Louis Milburn (Folly Group) - a “one of a kind friend & talented producer” according to bassist Alex - in the back of an audio equipment shop, the EP is a diverse but cohesive collection of slow-burners, delivering an incredibly well-developed exploration of instrumental and lyrical storytelling, and the band’s longstanding musical relationships with each other.

Growing up together in Devon, and initially forced together by the encouragement of a secondary school music teacher, Glasshouse Red Spider Mite began in earnest in 2023 in Brighton. Their first two singles in 2024 created a buzz in the local scene and industry; with this EP they have attempted to create their first signature body of work, and plant their flag in the ground. The band say “The songs were written before we even dreamt of playing our first shows, let alone before seeing the release of our first music as a band. No one knew about these songs & we weren't exactly sure if people would one day hear them. They only existed between us four until we found the courage to give this band a go.”

Drummer Benji explains that the EP is “a testament to our friendship, a strong bond & commitment to the cause. A vessel for therapy - helping each other keep mobilised, in belief & pushing towards a collective objective or something out of our individual control or capacities… an emotional outpouring of vulnerability, absolute honesty & healing.”

The EP immerses the listener, carefully rising from tense beginnings into unflinching heights. Guitarist Ethan says that the songs “all help to tell a story from a time that feels hard to put into words.” Each rhythm is a fault line waiting to crack open. Despite this, the tracks manage to remain sensitive in their delivery, through layers of swelling guitar, atmospheric strings and insistent percussion. Slow-building, deliberate, and massive in its impact. The band say this EP is about “facing all the pieces of yourself that you’ve let run riot. It’s about revealing yourself to yourself. Questioning your judgements & challenging your laurels. Using past pain to build a fear-free future. It’s post-rock. It’s the sound of the hole in your heart & the pit in your stomach.”

On ‘What Do You Mean The Monster…’ the band have tried to “encapsulate the highs & lows which the 'monster' that life seems to be, swallows you whole… there's been a lot of change, turbulence & learning to understand ourselves, which we think is trapped in the music we make.”

‘What Do You Mean The Monster?… Hahaha’ is available for the first time vinyl, containing a 20+ minute physical exclusive track ‘Spider Mite Season’. It is the band’s first release on London indie label, Memorials of Distinction, whose previous releases include Porridge Radio, caroline, Grove, Naima Bock, Kiran Leonard, and JPEGMAFIA.

In the wake of the EP, Glasshouse Red Spider Mite had sold out headline shows in London (Third Man) and Brighton (Alphabet), followed by their festival debut playing 2 sets at End Of The Road Festival, followed by their international debut at 043 in Maastricht, and then supporting Dutch Interior on their UK tour. This followed supporting Porridge Radio’s UK tour in 2024.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Everyone Loves You
Ant Mill
Time For Change
I’m Batman

Side B
Spider Mite Season

PALLBEAERER's landmark sophomore album 'Foundations of Burden' given the complete overhaul, remixed from scratch by Mario Quintero, remastered by Adam Gonsalves with additional audio reconstruction by the band themselves.

This re-issue of Foundations of Burden has been given the elixir to bring a new sense of exaltation to this milestone release. Also featuring new cover art courtesy of Benjamin Vierling.

TRACK LISTING

1. World's Apart (2025 Mix)
2. Foundations (2025 Mix)
3. Watcher In The Dark (2025 Mix)
4. The Ghost I Used To Be (2025 Mix)
5. Ashes (2025 Mix)
6. Vanished (2025 Mix)

To commemorate the 5-year anniversary of Playboi Carti’s album 'Whole Lotta Red', he will be releasing a limited quantity of special edition vinyl pressings with alternate creative.

TRACK LISTING

1. Rockstar Made
2. Go2DaMoon
3. Stop Breathing
4. Beno!
5. JumpOutTheHouse
6. M3tamorphosis
7. Slay3r
8. No Sl33p
9. New Tank
10. Teen X
11. Meh
12. Vamp Anthem
13. New N3on
14. Control
15. Punk Monk
16. On That Time
17. King Vamp
18. Place
19. Sky
20. Over
21. ILoveUIHateU
22. Die4Guy
23. Not Playing
24. F33l Lik3 Dyin

UPDATED VERSION OF BOXSET. Now with an extra CD Glastonbury

18 CDs, 1 DVD and 250 pages of histories, chronology, testimony and commentaries by the band, sundry contemporary documents, and rare photographs - in a sturdy box.

This collection brings together in an inexpensive and definitive edition the full contents of all earlier releases, with the addition of a further 60pp booklet of newly unearthed, or commissioned, band commentaries, pictures and other documents prepared specifically for this box - as well as re-mastered versions of all the studio CDs and the rare bonus CD (Cabinet of Curiosities), which came with the subscription edition of earlier live boxed set.

This collection offers a major retrospective of one of Britain's most resilient and elusive bands - and a redress to the rather over-tidy story told on their 5 officially released LPs.

Like Frank Zappa or Harry Partch, Henry Cow were mavericks, working without compromise at the edge of their field and systematically breaking the rules and conventions that restrained it. In the 40 years since they disbanded, their work has acquired a formidable reputation, leading finally to this definitive collection - which replaces a chaotic mass of degraded bootlegs with properly mastered, carefully selected and thoroughly annotated lost projects, compositions and performances. And Henry Cow was, above all else, a live band.

Released also to coincide with the publication by Duke University Press of Ben Piekut's book Henry Cow: The World is a Problem

Red Axes return with 'LOUD' - their most explosive record to date.

Blending post-punk grit, indie-rock swagger, and their signature electronic pulse, the duo deliver 13 tracks packed with raw energy, twisted hooks, and fearless experimentation.

Following over a decade of ground-breaking releases and genre-defying sets at Coachella, Glastonbury, Sonar, and Berghain, 'LOUD' showcases Red Axes' ever-evolving sound and genre-defying legacy. Drawing inspiration from acts like Amyl and the Sniffers, Viagra Boys, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Red Axes channel their roots in psychedelic rock into something gritty, loud, and deeply addictive.

TRACK LISTING

1. Girl
2. We Do For Love
3. Home "La La La"
4. Up & Down
5. Blind
6. Church Ave
7. In The Club
8. Lava Lava
9. Seek & Destroy 
10. Life Is Young 
11. Cloud 
12. Dreamer Of Dreams 
13. Freak 

Max Graef turns his attention back to his universally adored debut, 'Rivers of the Red Planet', and offers up an exclusive gatefold edition on marbled vinyl.

As such, on revisiting Rivers of the Red Planet for this Anniversary Edition, Graef decided to go beyond the basic repackaging and demo offcuts to deliver something meaningful that marks the passing of time and offers a fascinating answer to the sort of 'what-ifs' so many fans of the album will have pondered.

The new versions of key album tracks are as fascinating for the similarities as the differences, still bursting with the expressive flair of a versatile beat maker while comfortably leaning into a richer variety of moods and grooves. 'Running (Ancient Mix)' is a downtempo dancehall-tinged dream that repositions Wayne Snow's wistful vocal in a street soul reverie replete with 90s RnB MIDI-harp. 'Superswiss (Atmosphere Mix)' leans on plastic slap bass and deliciously dubbed out sax woven through a laconic beat for the ages — the consummate lysergic swirl of chill out with teeth. 'Itzehoe (World House Mix)' gets into a subheavy, spring-loaded new jack swing funk, like Jam & Lewis meeting Smith & Mighty downtown and stopping by the juice bar for a quick hit of freshness. 'Jazz 104 (Acid Mix)' turns the heat up on busy, bustling breaks and bass licks that positively spring forth from the mix with a clarity and purpose that speaks to the progression in Graef's craft over the past decade.

TRACK LISTING

1. Intro
2. Itzehoe
3. Superswiss (Skit)
4. Running
5. Jazz 104
6. Tamboule Fudgemunk
7. Quackeljochen
8. Ohne Erdung
9. Mulholand Drive
10. Drums Of Death
11. Vino Rosetto (Album Mix)
12. Speed Metal Jesus
13. Buchsenöffner
14. Jane (Für Hannah)
15. Medley Of The Drifters (Skit)
16. Outro

Greatest hits’ compilation, the first time a complete overview of The Fall’s career has been available on vinyl.

When the CD was originally released it was seen as the most complete and best overview of the bands recorded work and has yet to be bettered.

As with the other Fall re-issues it has been compiled by Daryl Easlea (who also wrote the notes) in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton and has been mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce with art by Becky

The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. The band existed in some form until 2018, built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith.

Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music went through several stylistic changes over the years, but was often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and was always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics. The band was noted for its prolific output: they released over 25 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles.

The band were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "They are always different; they are always the same."

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE
1 Repetition
2 How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
3 Totally Wired
4 Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul
5 The Classical
SIDE TWO
1 The Man Whose Head Expanded
2 Cruiser's Creek
3 Mr Pharmacist
4 There's A Ghost In My House
5 Hit The North
6 Victoria
SIDE THREE
1 Telephone Thing
2 Free Range
3 Lost In Music
4 Behind The Counter - Single Version
5 Touch Sensitive
SIDE FOUR
1 Theme From Sparta FC - Single Version
2 Blindness
3 Bury
4 New Facts Emerge

The Unutterable was originally released in 2000 and was the band's 21st studio album.

This double vinyl re-issue is released to mark the 25th anniversary of an acclaimed Fall classic and accompanies an extended 4CD box set.

Formed in Manchester in 1976 and built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith the band existed in some form or other (with numerous line-up changes) until Smith’s death in 2018. Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years, but is often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and is always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

The band were long associated with John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favorite band, famously explaining, "They are always different; they are always the same."

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1 Cyber Insekt
2 Two Librans
3 W.B
4 Sons Of Temperance
Side Two
1 Dr. Bucks' Letter
2 Hot Runes
3 Way Round
Side Three
1 Octo Realm / Ketamine Sun
2 Serum
3 Unutterable
4 Pumpkin Soup And Mashed Potatoes
Side Four
1 Hands Up Billy
2 Midwatch 1953
3 Devolute
4 Das Katerer

CD Box Set:
1 Cyber Insekt
2 Two Librans
3 W.B
4 Sons Of Temperance
5 Dr. Bucks' Letter
6 Hot Runes
7 Way Round
8 Octo Realm / Ketamine Sun
9 Serum
10 Unutterable
11 Pumpkin Soup And Mashed Potatoes
12 Hands Up Billy
13 Midwatch 1953
14 Devolute
15 Das Katerer

Testa Rossa Monitor Mixes
1 Serum
2 Two Librans
3 Hands Up Billy
4 Cyber Insekt
5 Dr. Buck's Letter
6 Midwatch 1953
7 Sons Of Temperance
8 W.B
9 Octo Realm / Ketamine Sun
10 Devolute
11 Hot Rune
12 Instrum One
13 Instrum Two Aka Two

16th April 2001 - TJs Newport Wales UK
1 Intro One / Two
2 Sons Of Temperance
3 Two Librans
4 Touch Sensitive
5 Antidotes
6 F-Oldin’ Money
7 Way Round
8 Ketamine Sun
9 Devolute
10 Mr. Pharmacist
11 Dr. Buck's Letter
12 I Am Damo Suzuki
13 Hot Runes
14 Cyber Insekt
15 Ibis-Afro Man
16 Midwatch 1953
17 Touch Sensitive

Live At The Edinburgh Liquid Rooms 2001
1 Touch Sensitive
2 Jims 'The Fall'
3 Bourgeois Town
4 Two Librans
5 I Am Damo Suzuki
6 And Therein
7 The Joke
8 Mr Pharmacist
9 Way Round
10 Crop Dust
11 Kick The Can (Instrumental)
12 F-Oldin' Money/Kick The Can
13 Dr Bucks Letter
14 Ibis Afro Man (instrumental)

The now-classic duet of 'Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy' with David Bowie from Bing Crosby's 1977 television special, M errie Olde Christmas is back on a brand new, collector's edition, picture disc 12” vinyl. The picture disc features the iconic image of David Bowie and Bing Crosby at the piano.

TRACK LISTING

1. Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby, David Bowie
2. White World Of Winter - Bing Crosby

The Shadow of the Guest is a new limited-edition release from Blonde Redhead, following their acclaimed 2023 album Sit Down for Dinner, and out on October 24, 2025. Pressed on black vinyl and hand-numbered, the record features newly expanded versions of “Before,” “Rest of Her Life,” and “Via Savona,” recorded with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. It also includes reimagined versions of the viral favorite “For the Damaged Coda,” including a beautiful mariachi-inspired take, as well as a collection of ambient ASMR tracks crafted by Kazu. Dreamlike, intimate, and a slightly surreal, The Shadow of the Guest offers a fresh lens on the world of Sit Down for Dinner and beyond, inviting listeners to tap into the sense of wonder and childlike emotion that run through the band’s work.

TRACK LISTING

Rest Of Her Life
Before
Via Savona
Coda
Kiss Her Before The Snow Melts
Good Morning Sunshine
Good Night Til Tomorrow
Oda A Coda

Naïm Amor and Kid Congo Powers met shortly before the pandemic in Tucson, Arizona. When the complete lockdowns hit everybody, Amor, like lots of other musicians, reclused himself in his studio and started experimenting with longtime ideas that were on the shelf. The initial idea was to combine rockabilly/garage-electric guitars with electronic drum machines and bass synthesizers, a vague intuition inspired by Link Wray’s guitar tones on one hand and the electronic rawness of the band Suicide on the other. After recording a couple tracks, Amor got the idea of inviting Kid Congo to collaborate in the making of some electric guitar “dialogs”. The tracks of Tucson Safari display the two different personalities and approaches of Amor and Kid Congo, both passionate electric guitar players, in the form of an exploration through composition and tone. The interwoven layers of guitars reveal the particular harmonic and melodic sense of Amor's sound “dancing” with the unmistakable slide and fuzzy tones of Kid Congo Powers.

TRACK LISTING

1. Kid's Stroll
2. Murder We Wrote
3. Stoned By The Mile
4. Ouch
5. Showdown
6. Surf Sirens
7. Remembering The Witches Valley
8. Ping Guitar Pong
9. Hypnotized
10. Tucson Safari

The Virgin Suicides, AIR's second album and the evocative soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut is reissued as The Virgin Suicides Redux for its 25th anniversary.

2CD/Blu-ray
This 2-CD/Blu-ray digipack comprised the new 2025 analog mix produced by ‘Alf’ Briat and Air in April 2025, a spatial audio (Dolby Atmos) Blu-Ray of the album alongside a selection of previously unheard rarities and demos.

1LP Black vinyl
A brand-new analogic mix of the original album produced by ‘Alf’ Briat and Air in April 2025, deepens and updates the haunting and beautiful soundscapes that have only grown in stature over the years, much like the cult classic film it accompanies.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
A1-Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)
A2-Cloud Up
A3-Bathroom Girl
A4-Cemetary Party
A5-Dark Messages
A6-The World Hurricane
A7-Dirty Trip
B1-Highschool Lover
B2-Afternoon Sister
B3-Ghost Song
B4-Empty House
B5-Dead Bodies
B6-Suicide Underground

The Virgin Suicides Redux / CD1 
1-Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)
2-Cloud Up
3-Bathroom Girl
4-Cemetary Party
5-Dark Messages
6-The World Hurricane
7-Dirty Trip
8-Highschool Lover
9-Afternoon Sister
10-Ghost Song
11-Empty House
12-Dead Bodies
13-Suicide Underground

The Virgin Suicides - Demos & Rarities / CD2
1-Playground Love (Demo Strings)
2-Bathroom Girl (Demo 2)
3-Playground Love (Vocoder)
4-Cloud Up (Demo)
5-Suicide Underground (Demo)
6-Nosferatu (Remix By The Flower Pistols)
7-Dead Bodies (Demo)
8-Virgin Suicides (Demo)
9-Highschool Prom Playground Love (Rob Remix)

The Virgin Suicides Redux / Blu-Ray
1-Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)
2-Cloud Up
3-Bathroom Girl
4-Cemetary Party
5-Dark Messages
6-The World Hurricane
7-Dirty Trip
8-Highschool Lover
9-Afternoon Sister
10-Ghost Song
11-Empty House
12-Dead Bodies
13-Suicide Underground

4CD SET EXPLORING GRUNGE AND THE AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE UNDERGROUND 1984-1994.

• COMPILED WITH MUDHONEY’S MARK ARM.

During the late 1980s, whilst pop, rap and glam metal dominated the American airwaves, underground musicians sought an antidote. During the middle of the decade, from Seattle in the west to New York in the east, bands immersed in a less highly polished, raw and more powerful sound began to emerge, fusing punky garage band attitude with meaningful, often disenchanted lyrics and lashings of distortion to create something new. The “grunge” tag quickly took hold, absorbing bands from all over the States and becoming a social phenomenon, drawing countless other underground and college circuit bands into its orbit in the process. Overnight, macho rock was dead.

Featuring an embarrassment of key bands and classic tracks, alongside lesser-known nuggets and a hand-picked selection of Australasian artists who were inadvertently feeding into the scene, ‘You’re No Big Deal’ explores a vital period in post-punk American musical history, the rebirth of rock music and its new place among the underground elite. With sleevenotes from Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, whose previous band Green River were the first to be given the “grunge” tag, this is an on-the-ground, broad reaching dive into a time and place that saw the unlikeliest of anti-rock stars recalibrate what American guitar-based music could be, reconnecting it with ordinary suburban kids and reigniting punk rock’s spirit.

Packed with over 80 tracks spanning a decade, and presented in roughly chronological order, ‘You’re No Big Deal’ tells a story that spread far beyond the ambitions of its key players.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 Green River - Come On Down
2 Red Kross - Linda Blair 1984
3 10 Minute Warning - Stooge
4 Bam Bam - Villains (Also Wear White)
5 Poison 13 - One Step Closer
6 Meat Puppets - Swimming Ground
7 Feast - Look For The Light
8 The Scientists - If It's The Last Thing I Do
9 Husker Du - Crystal
10 Malfunkshun - My Only Fan
11 Dinosaur Jr - Little Fury Things
12 Soundgarden - Hunted Down
13 U-Men - Solid Action
14 Pixies - Caribou
15 Feedtime - Curtains
16 The Replacements - The Ledge
17 The Flaming Lips - Maximum Dream For Evil Knievel
18 Green River - This Town
19 Cosmic Psychos - Can't Come In
20 The Celibate Rifles - Jesus On TV
21 Happy Flowers - Mom And Dad Like The Baby More Than Me

DISC TWO
1 Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
2 Bundle Of Hiss - Rabies
3 The Fluid - Cold Outside
4 Cat Butt - 64 Funny Cars
5 Blood Circus - Two Way Street
6 Babes In Toyland - Dust Cake Boy
7 Scream - Fucked Without A Kiss
8 Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat
9 Girl Trouble - Riverbed
10 Crunchbird - Subway Circle
11 Soundgarden - Flower
12 Tad - Behemoth
13 Kill Sybil - Olympia (Single Version)
14 Love Battery - Between The Eyes
15 Seaweed - Inside
16 Skin Yard - Start At The Top
17 Gas Huffer - Firebug
18 Mudhoney - In And Out Of Grace
19 Helltrout - Smoking Lounge
20 Mother Love Bone - Thru Fade Away

DISC THREE
1 Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
2 L7 - Shove
3 Toadies - I Hope You Die
4 Pavement - From Now On
5 The Thrown Ups - Stockboy, Superhero
6 Poison Idea - Feel The Darkness
7 The Breeders - Glorious
8 Dinosaur Jr - The Wagon
9 Hole - Teenage Whore
10 Nomeansno - Body Bag
11 7 Year Bitch - Lorna
12 Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia
13 Mercury Rev - Syringe Mouth
14 Calamity Jane - Say It
15 Eric's Trip - Lost
16 Thrillhammer - Bleed
17 Cop Shoot Cop - Discount Rebellion
18 Treepeople - Ballard Bitter
19 Nubbin - Macaroni

DISC FOUR
1 Temple Of The Dog - Pushin' Forward Back
2 The Monkeywrench - I'm Blown
3 Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
4 Honcho Overload - Sugarfoot (Single Version)
5 Luscious Jackson - Keep On Rockin' It
6 Cheater Slicks - Murder (Live At CBGBs)
7 Beasts Of Bourbon – Just Right
8 The Gits - Here's To Your Fuck
9 Superchunk - Precision Auto
10 Dead Moon - It's O.K
11 Melvins - Set Me Straight
12 Patchouli Sewer - Beauty Sleep
13 Wool - Kill The Crow
14 Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - Non Stop Action Groove
15 Veruca Salt - All Hail Me (Remix)
16 Sleep Capsule - Eat It's Tongue
17 Steel Wool - Four Winds
18 Wicker Biscuit - Creepy Doll
19 Gary Young - Plant Man
20 Cellophane - Tripping Fields
21 St. Johnny – I Hate Rock And Roll

The Prize made their debut for Anti Fade in 2022 with the EP 'Wrong Side Of Town' which prompted global interest in the band. They began recording the album in 2023 but the international tours caused delays, as did the departure of original bass player Jack Kong in early 2024. New bass player Ethan Stahl (formerly of UK band Chubby and the Gang) came on board a year ago after Kong helped the band finish the tracking process. Initial album sessions took place with Paul Maybury of Rocket Science at his A Secret Location studio, with subsequent tracks recorded with Matt Blach of the Murlocs at Gizz Studios (following The Prize’s European run with King Gizzard late in 2023) and, in January of this year, with Robin Mukerjee of TV Colours.

The band, which features drummer Nadine Muller sharing lead vocals with guitarist Carey Paterson together with guitarists Joseph Imfeld and Austin Haire as well as new bass player Stahl, is known for its powerful three-guitar frontline and melodic twin lead guitar. It combines punk and classic hard rock with power pop and new wave and cites its influences as Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, Pretenders, Blondie, Rolling Stones, Faces, Flamin’ Groovies, Tom Petty, Dwight Twilley, Phil Seymour, The Toms, The Nerves and The Motors.

As a premium live act with the tunes to back it up, The Prize have regularly found themselves playing with legendary groups like the Sunnyboys, Pavement, The Stems and Guitar Wolf in addition to their pals in King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Murlocs and The Chats. Band members have recently started spreading themselves out into other bands as well, with Muller and Stahl joining Josh Hardy of The Chats and The Unknowns in Loose Lips, Imfeld in The States and Haire in The Judges and his own solo venture, Ozzie Hair.

TRACK LISTING

1. Connie
2. Static Love Affair
3. Don’t Need ‘Em
4. From The Night
5. Had It Made
6. First Sight
7. Down The Street
8. Looking For A Reason
9. Say You’re Mine
10. Reaction
11. Silver Bullet

Red Rum Club return with 'BUCK', their boldest record yet — a defiant, high-energy evolution that smashes expectations. Following the band’s best-selling 'Western Approaches' and a landmark headline show at M&S Bank Arena. , 'BUCK' is built for the big moments.

TRACK LISTING

1. Crush, TX
2. Taste
3. American Nights & English Mornings
4. Buck
5. Call Me On Your Comedown
6. Trouble In The Neighbourhood
7. Wild
8. Vanilla
9. Animal
10. Wish I Was Here
11. Someone’s Baby Isn’t Coming Home

**Self-released by Reducer on their RUSS imprint in a continued spiritual association with Bokeh Versions**

REDUCER'S LAST AUTONOMOUS RELEASE • LTD ED 250 WHITE VINYL • RECORDED 1986 & 1987 • PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, UNHEARD & UNREMASTERED • ORIGINAL 12" 45 REGGAE DISCOMIX • THESE ARE THE LAST ARCHIVE QUALITY RECORDINGS WE HAVE- BOTH WERE RECORDED AS "LIVE" AS POSSIBLE SO TO RETAIN THE POWER, ENERGY & SPONTANEITY WHICH IS THE ESSENCE OF REDUCER.

SLENG TING: This discomix version of Sleng Teng was recorded before Rich joined the band & thus has a Snake only vocal, and features a keyboard bass & vocal over dubs - which is the only time overdubs were ever used on a Reducer track.

SENSAROUND: Was recorded during a "break" in recording of other material & was written spontaneously & played just once, as it features only Rich on vocal, it makes a good balance to the Snake only track. It was never performed live.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Fierce, industrial dub-dancehall here that's more aligned to punk anarchy than ganja-huffing the peace pipe. Proper loving the sirens and sense of urgent claustrophobia on that "Sesaround" track.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Sleng Teng ('86 Discomix Version)
B1. Sensaround
B2. Sensarouns Dub

Willie Nelson's 'Red Headed Stranger' returns for its 50th anniversary in a special Gold/Orange Coloured singel LP Vinyl edition. This release honours the groundbreaking 1975 concept album with luxe gatefold packaging and a die-cut cover, offering a fresh tribute to one of country music's influential works.

Cherry Red Records is double delighted to present not one, but TWO brilliant brand-new albums from Jim Bob this summer!

One album is ‘AUTOMATIC’ and one album is ‘STICK’. This is NOT a double album, double albums allow filler in and there is NO filler on ‘Automatic’ or ‘Stick’.

You won’t find any skippable Instrumentals or reprised versions on these beauties, just wall-to-wall, floor-to- ceiling bangers - 22 of them – 11 songs on each excellent record.

‘Automatic’ features the full band from the last three Jim Bob albums (‘Pop Up Jim Bob’, ‘Who Do We Hate Today’ and ‘Thanks For Reaching Out’ - also available on Cherry Red Records) and includes the opening sing-a-long ‘Victoria Knits The Wars’ which features on the first 7” single.

Cherry Red Records is double delighted to present not one, but TWO brilliant brand-new albums from Jim Bob this summer!

One album is ‘AUTOMATIC’ and one album is ‘STICK’. This is NOT a double album, double albums allow filler in and there is NO filler on ‘Automatic’ or ‘Stick’.

You won’t find any skippable Instrumentals or reprised versions on these beauties, just wall-to-wall, floor-to- ceiling bangers - 22 of them – 11 songs on each excellent record.

‘Stick’ is a punkier, dirty power-trio, guitar record and features the poppin’ punky ‘S’ side of the 7” ‘Every Day’s a Discotheque’.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE 1
1. A Song By Me (2:39)
2. Swordfight Outside McDonalds (3:30)
3. Art (2:58)
4. I Will Still Be Here (3:01)
5. I Go To The Park (4:07)
SIDE 2
6. Every Day’s A Discotheque (2:52)
7. (Oh What A) Shitshow (2:26)
8. Lovers Rock (4:12)
9. Walk The Dog Start A War (1:56)
10. The Last Night Of The Tour (3:25)
11. There’s Not Enough Space In The Hall (2:10)

Chastity Belt's version of "Loaded Painted Red" doesn't just cover 764-Hero's original. It dissolves into it, rebuilding it with a gauzy, wide-open clarity. It's a song that's always carried a certain weight: bruised and echoing with late '90s Pacific Northwest melancholy. In their first-ever recorded cover, Chastity Belt traces that ache into new territory, drawing it out like bated breath.

Lydia Lund threads a new guitar line through the song, tugging it towards their distinct style like a slow orbit around the song's core feeling. "I've been a fan of 764-Hero for a while now, and 'Loaded Painted Red' is one of my faves!" says Julia Shapiro. "It was hard to do the song justice because the original is so perfect, but we also had fun reimagining it and making it our own."

Initially released in 1998 on 764-Hero's Get Here and Stay (Up Records), "Loaded Painted Red" has long been a fan-favorite, a softly jagged and charged meditation. The new split 7" pairs the cover with the original, a full-circle release that marks 764-Hero's catalog joining the Suicide Squeeze family. Together, the two versions collapse decades into a single foggy breath riding out the dusky golden-hour light of the Pacific Northwest.

TRACK LISTING

1. Chastity Belt “Loaded Painted Red” (764-Hero Cover)
2. 764-Hero “Loaded Painted Red” (original)

Los Angeles band Oog Bogo (featuring former Meatbodie Kevin Boog) have released an EP and an LP for Ty Segall’s God? label - now their second LP arrives via In The Red. “Cowgirls” goes off-road, so buckle up, because with songwriter Kevin Boog & engineer Eric Bauer behind the wheel of John Dwyer and Bauer’s studio “Discount Mirrors” - anything can happen. In March of 2024, John Hodge stomped the four-to-the-floor on drums and percussion, as Boog swung back and forth between mutated melodies and total auditory annihilation, vocally and instrumentally. Together, the two swerved hazardously through several roads of smoldering sonic debris… But where does this road lead now? Veering a sharp left turn off the course of Oog Bogo’s previous genres? Sure. A new, unmatched lineup consisting of Gabe Flores (on lead guitar/ backing vocals), Julian Betts (bass guitar) and Grant Snyder (drums)? Why we’re glad you asked! Yes. Accelerating forward, Oog Bogo’s Wipers reject the sorrows of darkened skies that hover over Los Angeles. Monolithic guitar tones grind like freight Trux, flanking you in stereoscopic bliss, as bass metronomically demands your movement alongside their pounding percussive speedometer. Oog Bogo’s harmonies of the lost highways weave you through LA, and siren to you an all-but-haunting message: that rock and roll is ALIVE… and now, with Oog Bogo’s second LP “Cowgirls” on In The Red Records, you’re in the front seat of their Chrome choir. Their momentum has only just begun. So don’t get the blues. Giddy-up.

• The third in the 'psychiatric trilogy' of albums by Luke Haines (The Auteurs, The Servants, Black Box Recorder) and Peter Buck (R.E.M).

• Recorded in Portland Oregon, USA foot-down-to-thefloor- throttle-out style.

Expect to sail through churning psychedelic excursions that ask for clarity on questions like... Have you ever been cold called by someone claiming to represent the Pink Floyd research group? Have you been stranded on the moon with Papa John Philips? (and then realised you were out of drugs). Can you count your nervous breakdowns on the paws of more than two dozen cats? Does it feel like all you ever do is answer questions? Yes? No? Then take a trip down to the river...to blow your mind.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Buck and Haines return for another round of deeply psychedelic excursions that are absolutely full of humour, and so packed with stunning musicianship that they really can't put a foot wrong. Ace.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1 The Pink Floyd Research Group
2 Going Down To The River To Blow My Mind
3 Hot Artists
4 56 Nervous Breakdowns
5 Sufi Devotional
6 Children Of The Air

SIDE B
1 Nuclear War
2 Me And The Octopus
3 In Rock
4 Judy Chicago
5 Papa John
6 Radical Bookshop
7 Special Guest Appearance

Carl Craig’s seminal 1995 debut album, ‘Landcruising’ returns in this definitive single CD reissue.

Expanded with bonus material from his time with Blanco Y Negro.

Includes the full 1995 album as released on Blanco Y Negro, a journey through moody synthscapes, intricate rhythms, and visionary techno sound design.

Features four rare alternate versions and remixes of the single, ‘Science Fiction’, including: ‘Paperclip Edit’ (on CD for the first time), ‘Kenny Larkin Remix’, ‘Flight Through The Unknown’ and ‘From The Top’ (on CD for the first time).

With new liner notes written by Bill Brewster plus a CD booklet including a selected UK discography and sleeve notes.

Originally released at a turning point in techno’s evolution, ‘Landcruising’ saw Craig redefining the genre with cinematic ambition, emotional depth, and Detroit’s unmistakable pulse.

A masterclass in minimalism and melody, ‘Landcruising’ helped to reshape the idea of what techno could be. It’s a time capsule from the golden age of Detroit innovation, yet its sound remains as future-facing and emotionally resonant as ever.

TRACK LISTING

1 Mind Of A Machine
2 Science Fiction
3 A Wonderful Life
4 Technology
5 They Were
6 Landcrusing
7 Einbahn
8 One Day
9 Home Entertainment
10 Science Fiction (Paperclip Edit) (Bonus Track)
11 Science Fiction (Kenny Larkin Remix) (Bonus Track)
12 Science Fiction (Flight Through The Unknown) (Bonus Track)
13 Science Fiction (From The Top) (Bonus Track)

Having penned over 200 songs in the last six years, The Reds, Pinks and Purples release a collection of tracks previously unreleased on physical format that continues to romanticise the wonders and woes of the world.

With song titles that read like chapter sub-heads for a post-Douglas Coupland novella, ‘The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed’ takes The Reds, Pinks and Purples central orator Glenn Donaldson through the turmoil of small talk and everyday water cooler moments with a fine sense of pathos and irony.

Set to a soundtrack that swerves between the dark days of Television Personalities and Byrdsian twang to the Jarvis Cocker-styled rhetoric and vocal tenderness of ‘Richard In the Age Of The Corporation’ with hints of everything from Husker Du’s fuzzed splendour to the chiming majesty of The Chameleons it’s an empowering listen.

The pathos and irony of the glorious track ‘The World Doesn’t Need Another Band’ sets out the band’s store, it’s a measured and quietly outspoken rant at lacklustre opposition peppered with a gorgeous guitar break. Meanwhile, ‘I Only Ever Wanted To See You Fail’ rumbles with an Eddie And The Hot Rods pre-punk riff before dissolving into a tale of self-doubt and remorse, bemoaning others’ good luck. ‘Toxic Friend’ is from the book of the TVP’s Daniel Treacey with an upbeat chorus that smacks of all that was good in old school indie in a hail of fuzzy logic and guitars.

From humble beginnings as a home recording project, The Reds, Pinks and Purples has blossomed into a sporadic live unit with tours on both sides of the Atlantic and appearances at Pitchfork Fest London and Woodsist Fest as well as support slots for indie legends such as Destroyer, Guided By Voices, and The Feelies.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A lovely selection of pieces that haven't ever been available on a physical format from one of our favourite psychedelic jangle-pop outfits, and most prolific songwriters. It's always a hit and miss affair, the ol' B-sides compilation, but if anyone can sidestep that, it's the RP&P. A great, stylistically fluid collection.

TRACK LISTING

1. The World Doesn’t Need Another Band
2. I Only Ever Wanted To See You Fail
3. A Figure On The Stairs
4. Slow Torture Of An Hourly Wage
5. Trouble Don’t Last
6. You’re Never Safe From Yourself
7. Your Cult Is On Fire
8. My Toxic Friend
9. Your Taste Makes You Strange
10. Marty As A Youth
11. What’s The Worst Thing You Heard?
12. No One Absolves Us In The End
13. Richard In The Age Of The Corporation
14. There Must Be A Pill For This

THIS YEARS BANGER IS HERE! After last years crossover smasher ‘Italo Disco Banger’, which picked up love from DJ Harvey, Gerd Janson and Fatboy Slim, Red Rack’em has been back in the lab, cooking up this years contribution to his ever growing, genre hopping series of ‘Bangers’. He’s hit discotheque paydirt once more with the euphoric tropical disco house burner vibes of ‘Secret Banger’. The feedback has been insane with early support from a wide range of tastemakers including Make A Dance, Nikki Nair, Luke Una, Boris Dlugosch and Gallegos, it’s a crossover, summer magic jam, perfect for those Adriatic or Balearic mornings. Secret Banger is an instant classic. Perfectly pitched for festival sunshine and late night heads down parties. It’s a ‘moment’ track, combining the biggest vocal hook this side of Daft Punk, ecstasy pads, tropical boogie strut and the trademark Rack’em club shaking sub bass. Secret Banger is a sureshot, guaranteed to give eyes closed moments to even the most frosty dancefloors. Monday is ostensibly ‘the deeper B Side cut’ but it’s also a certy club wrecker. Samples are being mad flipped people. A wacked out street soul snippet is sliced and diced before the track mutates into a huge pitched down late night jaw bothering incantation. The OG sample is hard cut into the track like a more clever than most DJ on the decks. You need this.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Secret Banger
B1. Monday

• ‘Middle Class Revolt’ was originally released in 1994 and was the band 16th studio album.

• This edition contains singles, demos as well as a BBC session and three live shows from the era.

• This Set as with the other Fall reissues has been compiled in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton and has notes by Fall guru Daryl Easlea.

• Mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce with art by Becky Stewart. The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. The band has existed in some form ever since, and is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years, but is often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and is always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

The band is noted for its prolific output having released over 25 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They have never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles in the late 1980s, but have maintained a strong cult following. The band were long-associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "They are always different; they are always the same."

The Fall
Mark E. Smith – Vocals, Tapes
Craig Scanlon – Guitar
Steve Hanley – Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Simon Wolstencroft – Drums, Programming
Karl Burns – Drums, Percussion, Guitar, Vocals
Dave Bush – Keyboards, Programming, Whistle, Backing Vocals

Additional personnel
John Peel – voice on "Symbol of Mordgan"

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE: Middle Class Revolt
1 15 Ways
2 The Reckoning
3 Behind The Counter
4 M5#1
5 Surmount All Obstacles
6 Middle Class Revolt!
7 War
8 You're Not Up To Much
9 Symbol Of Mordgan
10 Hey! Student
11 Junk Man
12 The $500 Bottle Of Wine
13 City Dweller
14 Shut Up!

DISC TWO: Singles
1 Behind The Counter - Permanent Singles PERM 13 & 14
2 War - Permanent Singles PERM 13 & 14
3 Cab Driver - Permanent Singles PERM 13 & 14
4 M5 - Permanent Singles PERM 13 & 14
5 Happy Holiday - Permanent Singles PERM 13 & 14
6 Behind The Counter (Remix) - Permanent Singles PERM 13 & 14
7 15 Ways - Permanent Singles PERM 13 & 14
8 Happy Holiday - Promo Mix
9 Middle Class Revolt - The Drum Club Prozac Mix
10 Middle Class Revolt - The Drum Club Orange In The Mouth Mix
11 Middle Class Revolt - Rex Sargeant Mix
12 Surmount All Obstacles - Rex Sargeant Mix
13 M5 - John Peel Session #17 - 12/1/94
14 Behind The Counter - John Peel Session #17 - 12/1/94
15 Reckoning - John Peel Session #17 - 12/1/94
16 Hey! Student - John Peel Session #17 - 12/1/94

DISC THREE: Shepherds Bush Empire - 29-Apr-94
1 Surmount All Obstacles
2 Behind The Counter
3 The Reckoning
4 15 Ways
5 M5
6 You're Not Up To Much
7 Ladybird (Green Grass)
8 Hey! Student
9 War
10 Big New Prinz

DISC FOUR: Shepherds Bush Empire 29-Apr-94
1 Middle Class Revolt
2 Happy Holiday
3 British People In Hot Weather
4 Glam Racket
5 Free Range
6 I'm Frank
7 Strychnine
8 A Past Gone Mad
9 Return

DISC FIVE: Live At The Assembly Rooms, Derby 1994
1 Long Intro Start!
2 M5
3 15 Ways
4 The Reckoning
5 You're Not Up To Much
6 Behind The Counter
7 Surmount All Obstacles
8 Ladybird (Green Grass)
9 War
10 Free Range
11 Middle Class Revolt
12 Glam-Racket
13 Hey! Student
14 Return
15 Dead Beat Descendant
16 Life Just Bounces

DISC SIX: Live @ Tramps New York 10th September 1994
1 Behind The Counter
2 M5
3 15 Ways
4 Reckoning
5 Free Range
6 Ladybird (Green Grass)
7 War
8 Big New Prinz
9 Middle Class Revolt
10 Lost In Music
11 Glam Racket
12 L.A.
13 Dead Beat Descendant 

Red Laser Records switches on the smoke machine and strobe light, dishes out the high grade poppers and continues with the most unprofessional approach in the biz as they celebrate their FIFTIETH fuckin' release - a double disc photon torpedo diving into the label's roster and featuring all new tracks from RL stalwarts across the ages.

Marking this half century milestone, their in-house graphics team have been on a strict diet of kryptonite and engine oil, conjuring up one of the most lavish (and budget destroying) gatefold sleeves to date; alongside personal insights (and an in-depth cigar review) on their 13 year journey from label heads Il Bosco and Pharaoh Brunson.

Eight, sizzling, white hot MANCTALO jams that'll have knickers dropped, shirts lifted, fists pumping and your room stinking of fried circuit boards quicker than you can say #inabiteveryoneelse.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: A huge milestone for local firm and manctalo originators Red Laser is celebrated in suitably fine form with eight brand new tracks from the roster's crack squad of machine molestors. Coupled with one of the most eye-catchingly glorious sleeves to date (don't forget the cigar review!); this is a proper collectors item from the celebrated Manchester label.

TRACK LISTING

A1 - Kid Machine - Neutron Star
A2 - Tommy Walker 3 - Fell Running
B1 - Starion - Nebula
B2 - Il Bosco - Nottio Botherdini
C1 - LeonxLeon - The Laser Gazer
C2 - Flemming Dallum - Solar Eclipse
D1 - Starion - Red Laser Worshippers
D2 - Tom Sharkett - Mind In Motion (Il Bosco Remix)

Nu-Balearica meets deep space club disco, with not-so-subtle injections of first wave Windy City proto-house. Mirlaqi returns to the Star Creature realm. The follow up to his 2019 "Telescope Buyers Guide" release. Features a nu-Balearic remix from Star Creature labelmate A Vision Of Panorama along with an updated club mix on the flip. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Dedicating your track to Mars isn't something new, there's an entire sub-section of the UR catalogue doing such. Star Creature however shuns the spacey techno inflections for more plasma poolside revelry.

TRACK LISTING

A) Dances On The Red Planet (A Vision Of Panorama Remix)
B) Dances On The Red Planet (Club Remix)

Exact replica reissue of the much sought-after £100+ garage band DIY/Punk 45 rarity from The Reducers. Sounds like a lo-fi version of other early DIY punk groups like TV Personalities, O-Levels and Desperate Bicycles.

Originally self-released in four different colour sleeve variants on Vibes Records in 1978 and now available to independent retailers on Soul Jazz Records in a very special one-off edition.

The Reducers were from Bury, Greater Manchester, in existence 1978-1980. They released two singles on the independent Vibes label, followed by one more single after briefly signing to EMI.

TRACK LISTING

Things Go Wrong
We Are Normal

Take a ticket, find yourself a comfortable seat and embark on a musical journey across the underground musical landscape of 1970s Germany…. As the sound of the 1960s drifted off into outer space, open-minded musicians across Germany - East and West - forged their own unique path into the 1970s and beyond, strangely free of the overtly commercial and conformist concerns of their neighbours around Europe. Why this generation from this particular nation might be beyond giving a ficken is a topic for someplace else, but for reasons of their own Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Faust, Conrad Schnitzler and their contemporaries sought not to explore the pop charts but the boundaries of inner space and intellectual curiosity, veering with wild and free abandon from rock to jazz to lengthy progressive wig outs and formative electronica in the process. Many never returned, lost and adrift on a sea of dope smoke and Moog arpeggios, but ‘Electric Junk’ nevertheless charts and documents their journey for future generations.

Compiled and sequenced with your own journey into inner space in mind, we proudly present a remarkable snapshot of a movement like no other. Rebellious, politically charged, communal and lysergically informed, these artists took their non-macho, long-haired proto punk outlook around the world in its many forms, finding favour throughout Europe, Asia and the US. Critical acclaim and the occasional hit were their rewards, alongside inadvertently inventing and influencing uncountable niche genres, questionable fashion statements and must-hear bands.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 GURU GURU - Electric Junk
2 JANE - Early In The Morning
3 BRAINTICKET - Black Sand
4 KRAAN - Head
5 KARTHAGO - Why Don't You Stop Buggin' Me
6 EPSILON - She Belongs To Me
7 ELOY - Daybreak
8 MESSAGE - Dreams And Nightmares (Dreams)
9 NOSFERATU - Highway
10 LA DÜSSELDORF - Silver Cloud

DISC TWO
1 KLAUS SCHULZE - Satz Gewitter (Energy Rise, Energy Collapse)
2 LAVA - Piece Of Peace
3 TANGERINE DREAM - Movements Of A Visionary
4 HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS - Regenmacher
5 CONRAD SCHNITZLER - Wild Space 6
6 NINE DAYS' WONDER - Moment
7 FAUST - Jennifer
8 NOVALIS - Dronsz
9 AGITATION FREE - You Play For Us Today
10 SILBERBART - Brain Brain 

DISC THREE:
1 EDGAR FROESE - Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
2 CLUSTER - Georgel
3 MY SOLID GROUND - The Executioner
4 POPOL VUH - Ah!
5 KLAUS SCHULZE - Some Velvet Phasing
6 TRIUMVIRAT - March To The Eternal City
7 TANGERINE DREAM - Ultima Thule Pt 1
8 EMBRYO - A Place To Go
9 FAUST - On The Way To Abamae
10 ELECTRIC SANDWICH - China (Single Version)
11 MY SOLID GROUND - Dirty Yellow Mist

DISC FOUR:
1 RAMSES - La Leyla
2 FRAME - Frame Of Mind
3 A.R. & MACHINES – Als Hätte Ich Das Alles Schon 'mal Gesehen
4 JANUS - Red Sun (2013 Remix)
5 GURU GURU - Stone In
6 HOELDERLIN - Schwebebahn
7 ORANGE PEEL - We Still Try To Change
8 PELL MELL - City Monster
9 OS MUNDI - A Question Of Decision
10 SWEET SMOKE - Darkness To Light

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 12TH ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 14th.

Juanita and Juan is a dynamic musical duo formed by Alice Bag and Kid Congo Powers, two influential figures in the punk and alternative music scenes who first crossed paths in 1977 during the early days of the Hollywood punk movement. Their friendship, rooted in a shared passion for raw, boundary-pushing music, has led to a new creative partnership that transcends genres and defies labels, although the two refer to their sound as “Loud Lounge.”

Alice Bag, a founding member of the pioneering punk band the Bags, is known for her fierce stage presence and unapologetic, feminist approach to punk music. She has spent decades championing the voices of women in rock and advocating for social justice, both through her music and activism. Kid Congo Powers, an original member of The Gun Club and a key player in The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, as well as his own band, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, brings his audacious blend of noisy, psych-infused rock with a touch of glam. His unique guitar playing and distinctive style have made him a beloved figure in underground music circles.

Together, Juanita and Juan blend their influences—Bag's fiery vocals and penchant for dark melody with Powers’ atmospheric, reverb-laden guitar tones—creating a musical landscape that is both nostalgic and fresh-sounding. Their collaboration captures the adventurous spirit of their punk roots while embracing new sonic territory.

The duo’s chemistry is undeniable, with their musical partnership serving as both a testament to their enduring friendship and the spirit of musical exploration that began for the pair in 1976, proving that punk is not just a genre, but a lasting, ever-evolving attitude.

TRACK LISTING

1. Aftertaste
2. Jungle Cruise
3. Ven A Mi
4. Interrupter
5. The Prez
6. Crocodile
7. DBWMGWD
8. Put Your Weapons Down

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

We Play House Recordings label boss Red D is back on his Red Basics solo outlet with more lo fi rawness, this time taking cues from spoken word deep house legends like Blake Baxter and Mike Dunn. Opener ‘The J Principle’ pairs seductive lyrics by the enigmatic Max Erotic with pure electronic house funk to make any soul melt.

After this there’s no time to rest when ‘Raw Shit’ comes along with its wicked off-kilter groove spiced up with dirty lyrics and chord stabs to shake up those late night floors. On the flip side it’s all about Red D’s love for the 313 with a slamming oldskool Detroit techno track aptly called ‘Troisentrois Groove’.

Basics were rarely this fundamental.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Came for the Mike Dunn-esque, vocal jack trax "The J Principle" and "Raw Shit"; stayed for the slamming, Detroit-inspired techno blast that is "Troisentrois Groove". A happy time had throughout.

TRACK LISTING

The J Principle
Raw Shit
Troisentrois Groove

'Chaotic Shimmer' is a collection of songs that vary in texture and genesis. The A side has a stronger sense of familiarity with the more rocking numbers, while the B side stretches out in more exploration. Some of the same electronic elements of 2024's 'Black Holes Don't Choke' can be found in songs like 'Music For The People' and 'Caught Waiting'. There is also a subtle nod to Minor Threat in the lyrics of 'Caught Waiting'. The track 'Path I'd Like to Follow' is dreamy and meditative - channeling JJ Cale or late sixties San Francisco fog. The opening track is a rocket ship waiting to escape the dull confines of this singular consciousness, and it creates a space for the title track to transcend at will. All of the songs were recorded by Charles Moothart at his studio in Los Angeles. He wrote, performed, recorded, and mixed everything heard on this album. Reserving the right to do as thou wilt is rock and roll 101. The world is chaos, and chaos is creativity. To accept and embrace this is to tap in to the 'Chaotic Shimmer' - a transcendent energy. Music is for the people.

Charles Moothart is a multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. He plays guitar in bands like FUZZ and Primitive Ring, as well as drums in GØGGS and Moonhearts. He was the touring drummer for Ty Segall's Freedom Band, as well as the Ty Segall and White Fence collaborative tours. Moothart has also released solo work under his initials CFM.

TRACK LISTING

1. Carried In The Wind
2. Chaotic Shimmer
3. The Path (I'd Like To Follow)
4. Bring To Bloom
5. Caught Waiting
6. Music For The People

What’s the first thing you think of when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, melody-maiming John Dwyer careening across your cranium, rounded out by a wild-eyed wrecking crew that drives every last hook home like it’s a nail in the coffin of what you thought it meant to make 21st-century rock ’n’ roll? Yeah, that sounds about right. But it misses a more important point—how impossible Thee Oh Sees have been to pin down since Dwyer launched the project in the late ’90s as a solo break from such sorely missed underground bands as Pink and Brown and Coachwhips. (While Dwyer still records songs on his own, Thee Oh Sees is now a five-piece featuring keyboardist / singer Brigid Dawson, guitarist Petey Dammit, drummer Mike Shoun and multi-instrumentalist / singer Lars Finberg.) That restlessness extends to everything from the towering, thirteen-minute title track of 2010’s Warm Slime LP to the mercurial moods of 2008’s The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In. Now, Thee Oh Sees chase the home-brewed symphonies of Castlemania with the scrappy, high-wire hooks of Carrion Crawler / The Dream. Originally envisioned as two EPs, it was cut live to tape in less than a week at Chris Woodhouse’s Sacramento studio in June, reflecting the battering-ram bent of the band’s live show better than any bootleg ever could. “As I’m sure most would agree,” explains Dwyer, “Castlemania was more of a vocal tirade. This one’s meant to pummel and throb.” That it does, whether one blasts the slow, speaker-bruising build of “The Dream,” the sunburnt organs and dovetailing guitars of “Crack in Your Eye” or the interstellar instrumental “Chem-Farmer,” a perfect example of what happens when one takes a well-oiled machine—a gang of rabid road warriors, really—and adds a second, groove-locked drum set to the mix. To listen is to realize that Dwyer’s music is as manic as the underground comic inclinations of his artwork; colorful and confusing in a way that’s more than welcome. It’s downright refreshing, like a slap in the face at 5:00 in the morning. Or, as Dwyer puts it, “You have to leave a mark somehow.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Carrion Crawler
2. Contraption/Soul Desert
3. Robber Barons
4. Chem-Farmer
5. Opposition
6. The Dream
7. Wrong Idea
8. Crushed Grass
9. Crack In Your Eye
10. Heavy Doctor

Originally issued in January 2005, ‘The Secret Migration’ was the sixth album by Mercury Rev.

In the UK, where the band were signed to V2, the album spawned two singles, ‘In A Funny Way’ and ‘Across Yer Ocean’.

Back in 2020, Cherry Red unveiled a deluxe 5CD edition of this sometimes overlooked album, compiled and co-ordinated in conjunction with Mercury Rev’s twin lynchpins, Jonathan Donaghue and Sean ‘Grasshopper’ Mackowiak.

Four years on, ‘The Secret Migration’ is treated to its first-ever reissue on vinyl – and with the added bonus of a second disc. Joining the original album are various B-sides and originally unissued out-takes.

Among the bonus are cover versions of Bobby Charles’ Bearsville gem ‘Tennessee Blues’; ‘Afraid’, originally by Chicago rock band Dovetail Joint; two Paul Westerberg songs, The Replacements’ ‘Androgynous’ and his solo effort ‘Good Day’; Daniel Johnston’s ‘Blue Clouds’; and ‘I Never Had It So Good’ by Paul Williams.

Formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1989, MERCURY REV quick grew to become leading figures in left field alternative rock. Earlier albums veered towards experimental, off-kilter psychedelia but by the end of the decade, the band had developed their own brand of serene, piano-based Americana with the acclaimed, best-selling LP ‘Deserter’s Songs’ (1998).

Mercury Rev are currently active with forthcoming shows over the coming months around a brand new studio album.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE 1
1. Secret For A Song
2. Across Yer Ocean
3. Diamonds
4. Black Forest (Lorelei)
5. Vermillion
6. In The Wilderness
SIDE 2
1. In A Funny Way
2. My Love
3. Moving On
4. The Climbing Rose
5. Arise
6. First-Time Mother's Joy (Flying)
7. Down Poured The Heavens
SIDE 3
1. Tennessee Blues (featuring Bonnie Anthony)
2. Afraid
3. Seagull
4. Androgynous
5. Mirror For A Bell
6. Good Times Ahead
7. I Never Had It So Good (featuring Bonnie Anthony)
SIDE 4
1. Blue Clouds
2. Late Night Request
3. A Season Of Poussin
4. Good Day
5. Look At Brutis With His Knife

THE LATEST IN THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL ‘C’ SERIES, RIFFING ON THE ORIGINAL ‘C86’ CASSETTE.

EXPLORING THE POST-BAGGY, PRE-BRITPOP INDIE SCENE OF 1992.

PACKED WITH WELL-KNOWN FAVOURITES – Radiohead, The Charlatans, Ride, Lush, Inspiral Carpets, Dodgy, Boo Radleys, The Auteurs, The Stairs, Levitation, Sultans Of Ping F.C. among them.

1992 saw the British indie scene unwittingly poised to go overground and global in the wake of the guitar’s revival in the early 1990s. ‘C92’ captures something of a no-man’s land moment in time, with the “baggy” scene brushed aside by American grunge and the artists who’d come to define the rest of the decade only beginning to emerge.

From the intensity of shoegaze pioneers Ride and Lush, through to melody-driven 60s revivalists Inspiral Carpets and The Stairs, in hindsight the year can be seen as a period of healthy transition and expansion which ultimately saw the scene pulled together by the music media under the umbrella term “Britpop”. Established names such as The Charlatans and Boo Radleys glided effortlessly over the landscape re-alignment, whilst soon-to-be household names like Radiohead and The Cranberries took their first tentative steps into a bigger world, enjoying the license to pursue their artistic persuasions with the luxury of major label financial backing. A sea change was clearly coming.

Essential for collectors of the ‘C’ series, fans of that time and place and anybody interested in the ongoing, mazy story of British pop music, ‘C92’ brings with it familiar favourites and previously unknown gems, to sit alongside other titles in the series.

TRACK LISTING

Disc One:
1 Radiohead - Prove Yourself
2 The Auteurs – Showgirl
3 Delicious Monster - Dull Dull Dull
4 Ride - Leave Them All Behind
5 Gallon Drunk - Bedlam
6 Swallow - Tastes Like Honey
7 Blind Mr Jones - Fading Fast
8 Adorable - Homeboy
9 Earwig - Safe In My Hands
10 Huggy Bear - Single Bullets
11 Jacob's Mouse - Oblong
12 Kinky Machine - Going Out With God
13 White Town - Bewitched
14 Wonky Alice - Sirius
15 Moonshake - Secondhand Clothes
16 Swirl - Grass Harps (Sing For Me)
17 Some Have Fins - Watered Down
18 The Last Peach - Jarvis
19 The Harvest Ministers - You Do My World The World Of Good

Disc Two:
1 The Cranberries - Dreams
2 Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love (Edit)
3 The Charlatans - Weirdo
4 Scorpio Rising - Saturnalia (7" Version)
5 Boo Radleys - Lazy Day
6 Th' Faith Healers - My Loser
7 Kingmaker - Eat Yourself Whole
8 Submarine - Chemical Tester
9 Bleach - Shotgun
10 Catherine Wheel - Balloon
11 Poppy Factory - Stars
12 Dodgy - Worth The Blood
13 The Rosaries - Leaving
14 Hair & Skin Trading Co - Ground Zero
15 Levitation - World Around
16 The Exuberants - Who Knows How Many Tonight
17 The Stairs - Mr Joke Shop Owner
18 Sun Dial - I Don't Mind (EP Version)
19 Headcleaner - Bogieman
20 Egyptian Kings – A Matter Of Time
21 Thousand Yard Stare - Comeuppance

Disc Three:
1 Inspiral Carpets - Dragging Me Down
2 Sweet Jesus - Real Babe
3 Lush - Superblast (Remix)
4 Revolver - Don't Ever Leave
5 Sultans Of Ping F.C - U Talk 2 Much
6 Daisy Chainsaw - Pink Flower
7 Teenage Filmstars - Kiss Me
8 Secret Shine - Secret Shine
9 Headtime - Being There
10 The Telescopes - You Set My Soul
11 The Revs - Julie Got A Raise
12 Mexico 70 - Wonderful Lie
13 Drop - Sorrow
14 The Wendys - Gobbledygook
15 The Suncharms - Tranquil Day
16 Medalark Eleven - I Call Your Name
17 Smashing Orange - Whenever
18 Greenhouse - Her Too
19 Spitfire - Wild Sunshine
20 The Moonflowers - Brothers And Sisters
21 Triple Blind - Stoke
22 Amelia Fletcher - Can You Keep A Secret?

Rahim Redcar (fka Christine and the Queens) presents his new album “Hopecore”. Collector Transparent Blue Vinyl. Includes “DEEP HOLES”. 

TRACK LISTING

A Side
A1. Forgive 8888888
A2. Elevate
A3. Ins8de Of Me
A4. Deep Holes
A5. Red Birdman Emergency

B Side
B1. Opera - I Understand
B2. Manuela Danse 

WRWTFWW Records is happy to announce a new collaborative album between Polish producer, multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer Albert Karch (notably known for his superb 2019 album Celestially Light featuring Ichiko Aoba) and Irish ambient master and label’s favorite Gareth Quinn Redmond (Ar Ais Arís, Laistigh Den Ghleo, Umcheol albums from the WR catalogue). The 6-track LP comes as a limited edition of 300 copies worldwide with an artwork by Dublin artist Barry Gibbons and liner notes. It is available in digital format as well.

Recorded in at Albert Karch’s studio in Warsaw in January 2023, Warszawa is conceptually rooted in the reason the two artists met in the first place: the work of Japanese composer Satoshi Ashikawa (Still Way - Wave Notation 2) who sought to compose a time that was stationary. Sparse in approach but sharp with intention, the 6 pieces of the collaborative album were sculpted with precise and floating use of piano, drums, synthesizers, and strings. The result is gentle but emotionally deep minimalistic ambient, reassuring environmental music with an indescribable Mark Hollis touch, also an artist whose worked influenced the recording sessions.

Gareth Quinn Redmond’s previous albums, Laistigh Den Ghleo, another ode to the work of Satoshi Ashikawa, Umcheol, mixing ambient with traditional Irish music instruments, and his tape loops wonder Ar Ais Arís are still available on WRWTFWW Records - complete the collection now!

Warszawa by Albert Karch and Gareth Quinn Redmond is dedicated to the memory of Satoshi Ashikawa.

- For fans of ambient, minimalism, environmental, Satoshi Ashikawa, Mark Hollis, Erik Satie, Midori Takada, piano, synth, quiet Winter nights in a warm place, with a friend, or two.

- Limited edition (300 only!) vinyl of Albert Karch and Gareth Quinn Redmond’s ambient collaborative effort dedicated to the memory of Satoshi Ashikawa, with an artwork by Barry Gibbons.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Ajar
A2. Palette
A3. A Life (1955 - 2019)
B1. For Ashikawa
B2. 251536
B3. Warszawa

Hot on the heels of Sukuma, Durban's Sugarman Sandy B returns to Red Motorbike with Bink Party!

This time around, he's teamed up with label boss Eddie C on production, as well as an assortment of underground artists from around the globe whom he has collaborated with during his WorldKwaitour, which he combined with the 30th anniversary of his successful underground independent debut, AmaJoviJovi.
Bink, the genre Sandy B coined, is a modern take on Kwaito's loose rhythms and the mid-tempo funk we've come to know and love from the Red Motorbike stables.

Sandy B's Zulu staccato rap and R&B stylings sound as fresh as ever as he continues to connect with his global family through his international travels, currently on tour across Asia and Australia.

Bink Party into 2025!!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Love a bit of Sandy B me. His track's always whip up a bit of curiosity and excitement. We've not heard from him for a while though, so this new set, on Eddie C's Red Motorbike is much welcome.

TRACK LISTING

A. Bink Party (stanza Remix)
A. Bink Party
A. Head Turner
B. Bink Party (stanza Instrumental)
B. Te Lo Dice A Ti
B. Head Turner (instrumental)

Formed in Sunderland in 2000, The Futureheads spearheaded the UK’s post-punk revival with angular guitars, unconventional song structures and intricate four-part vocal harmonies.

The band’s debut album ‘The Futureheads’ (2004), which included their iconic cover of Kate Bush's ‘Hounds of Love’ (NME Single of the Year 2005), reached number 11 in the UK charts. Praise in 2006 was followed by extensive world touring and further albums; ‘This Is Not The World’ (2008), ‘The Chaos’ (2010) and a cappella album ‘Rant’ (2012) all on their own label, Nul Records.

After a hiatus, The Futureheads returned in 2019 with ‘Powers’ cementing their reputation as a band of joyous vitality.

Ross Millard - Vocals and Guitar
David "Jaff" Craig - Vocals and Bass Guitar
Barry Hyde - Vocals and Guitar
Dave Hyde – Vocals and Drums

TRACK LISTING

1 The Beginning Of The Twist
2 Hounds Of Love
3 Decent Days And Nights
4 Struck Dumb
5 Meantime
6 Skip To The End
7 Good Night Out
8 Radio Heart
9 Carnival Kids
10 Beeswing
11 Jekyll
12 Walking Backwards
13 Worry About It Later
14 A To B
15 Area
16 First Day
17 I Can Do That
18 Listen, Little Man!
19 Heartbeat Song

Sgt Papers are a punk rock duo of brothers Ivan and Felipe Garcia from Hermosillo, Sonora, in the heart of the desert in Mexico.

They started in 2017 releasing their first album “Sgt. Papers Lonely Psych Punk Band” independently, creating a buzz in the local independent rock scene and the independent scene in the US. They began touring the US playing both clubs and festivals.

They followed this with two more albums in 2019 and 2021 while the same time helping grow the rock scene in Hermosillo. Their following grew along with the band. Their approach to recording and touring has been very DIY.

The band’s sound is a combination of psych, garage, punk all played with plenty of distortion.

TRACK LISTING

1. Un Toque O Dos
2. Ya No Hay Papel
3. FUGA!
4. Un Día Me Vas A Matar
5. Déjalo Para Después
6. Pónchate
7. Beso En La Mejilla
8. Diosito
9. En Las Nubes
10. Pérdida Total
11. Hacerme Wey

The fledgling Anorax label keeps to its’ #eatsleepcollect mantra by releasing this much loved and in-demand iconic work of beauty for the first time ever on vinyl. It’s stating the obvious to say that "Decide" is a top tier soulful house BOMB! The combination of Jay-J’s precise but haunting San Francisco production, Big Brooklyn Red’s life affirming vocals and the truly awesome remixes from the late Ethan White (R.I.P) together conjure up a masterpiece that defines the genre.

The remixes from Ethan, the co-founder and keyboard player of Tortured Soul have up till now only been available on digital release. Jay-J (Joseph John Hernandez) dug into his Shifted Music vaults to come up with the original 2009/ masters for this limited edition 7” release.

"Decide" is an affirmation who believes that true house music is a spiritual thing.

PS - Look out for a blinding, 10" reissue of the Italian Dream House epic by Don Carlos - "Alone" - also due soon on the label! 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Anorax is proving to be one hell of a reissue label for fans of deep house and disco. Two essential releases in and another in the pipeline from Don Carlos, I've bagged every one and can attest for nice, rich, clean pressings of these bona fide classics. Hope they continue the good work!

TRACK LISTING

A. Decide (Ethan White Easy Trax Mix)
B. Decide (Ethan White Lazy Boy Dub) 

One of the most revered, reviled and talked about records in all Australian music history (I’m) Stranded, by The Saints, finally gets the vinyl box set treatment.

A joint collaboration between long standing L.A garage label In The Red, Universal Music Australia and spearheaded by Feel Presents and Saints founder Ed Kuepper, the deluxe edition of (I’m) Stranded will feature 4 x vinyl long players covering all the band’s studio and live recordings from 1976 thru 1977 and includes;
• The iconic debut album remastered for vinyl for the first time in over 40 years
• A five-song live performance from Paddington Town Hall Sydney 3.4.1977 appearing on vinyl for the first time.
• A full live performance from the Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival, London November 1977 appearing on vinyl for the first time
• All three tracks from the 1977 This Perfect Day 12” single and all four tracks from the 1977 1-2-3-4 double 7” single
• The previously unreleased 1976 demo mix of the full (I’m) Stranded album.

In addition to all that vinyl (I’m) Stranded deluxe edition will also features a 28 page 12” x 12” photo essay of the band covering their origins from 1973 through the end of of ’77, authorised band history, an 8” x 10” 1976 promo photo and a (I’m) Stranded sticker.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1 (Remastered Album):
1. (I'm Stranded)
2. One Way
3. Wild About You
4. Messin' With The Kids
5. Erotic Neurotic
6. No TIme
7. Kissin' Cousins
8. Story Of Love
9. Demolition Gril
10. Nights In Venice

Disc 2 ('76 Demo Mix):
1. (I'm Stranded)
2. One Way Street
3. Wild About You
4. Messin' With The Kids
5. Erotic Neurotic
6. The Story Of Love
7. No Time
8. Kissing Cousins
9. Untitled
10. Demolition Girl
11. Nights In Venice

Disc 3 (Singles & Live At Paddington Town Hall):
1. This Perfect Day
2. Do The Robot
3. L I E S
4. Lipstick On Your Collar
5. One Way Street
6. Demolition Girl
7. River Deep Mountain High
8. This Perfect Day
9. Rundown
10. Erotic Neurotic
11. Demolition Girl
12. Nights In Venice

Disc 4 (Live At Hope & Anchor, London):
1. Introduction
2. Do The Robot
3. Lost And Found
4. Lipstick On Your Collar
5. River Deep Mountain High
6. Untitled
7. Run Down
8. This Perfect Day
9. Messin' With The Kids
10. Orstralia
11. Nights In Venice
12. (I'm) Stranded
13. Demolition Girl
14. One Way Street

Ahead of the curve as ever, in 1972 The Residents turned their back on the mainstream music industry and established their own Ralph Records imprint, taking control of every aspect of the recording, design and manufacturing process of their records. Over the next decade, Ralph would release numerous seminal singles and albums by a diverse range of artists from both the US and Europe, capturing the zeitgeist perfectly in the era of punk and new wave, when the DIY aesthetic went overground.

Featuring key singles, vital album tracks and a number of recordings appearing on CD for the first time, as well as previously unheard material from Schwump, Snakefinger, MX-80 Sound and Gary Panter, ‘Buy Or Die!’ is not only an insight into The Residents’ world but also into the workings of their DIY mindset, with most of the tracks here being recorded in the group’s own studio, and released in artwork produced by their own graphics department. From established names such as Yello and The Residents themselves, to lesser-known gems by Fred Frith, Tuxedomoon et al, this is a distinctive snapshot of that experimental and open-minded time and place, as seen through the lense of one of America’s most adventurous artists.

Complete with a 7,500 word first hand account essay from The Residents’ Mysterious Archivist, plenty of unusual and rare imagery and many tracks sourced directly from the Ralph tape archive, all overseen by The Residents (enabled by RA), ‘Buy Or Die!’ will entertain, enthral and infuriate in equal measure.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 Ivory And The Brain Eaters - Fire
2 The Residents - Smelly Tongues
3 The Residents - Satisfaction
4 Schwump - Aphids In The Hall
5 Schwump - You're A Martian / Home
6 Schwump – ‘maginary Dreams (Demo)*
7 The Residents - Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life
8 The Residents - Tourniquet Of Roses
9 The Residents - Constantinople
10 Snakefinger - The Spot
11 Snakefinger - Smelly Tongues
12 The Residents - Hello Skinny
13 The Residents - Not Available (A Brief Introduction)
14 The Residents - Santa Dog '78
15 Art Bears - Rats & Monkeys
16 Art Bears - Collapse
17 Art Bears - The Winter Wheel
18 Snakefinger - What Wilbur?
19 Snakefinger - Kill The Great Raven
20 Chrome - Meet You In The Subway
*previously Unreleased

DISC TWO 
1 Chrome - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
2 MX-80 Sound - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
3 The Residents - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
4 Tuxedomoon - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
5 Snakefinger - Picnic In The Jungle
6 MX-80 Sound - Someday You'll Be King
7 MX-80 Sound - White Night
8 Tuxedomoon - What Use?
9 Tuxedomoon - 7 Years
10 MX-80 Sound - It's Not My Fault
11 Snakefinger - The Model
12 The Residents - Diskomo
13 Snakefinger - The Man In The Dark Sedan
14 The Residents - Amber
15 The Residents - Shut Up, Shut Up RDX
16 Gary Panter - Tornader To The Tater
17 Gary Panter - Italian Sunglasses Movie
18 Gary Panter - Rozz Tox*
19 Snakefinger - Golden Goat
20 MX-80 Sound - O Type
21 MX-80 Sound - Old Too Fast*
*previously Unreleased

DISC THREE
1 Fred Frith - Dancing In The Street
2 Fred Frith - What A Dilemma
3 Yello - Bimbo
4 Yello - I.T. Splash
5 Yello - Night Flanger
6 Yello - Bostich
7 Yello - Rock Stop
8 MX-80 Sound - Why Are We Here?
9 Tuxedomoon - Jinx
10 Tuxedomoon - Incubus (Blue Suit)
11 Fred Frith - A Spit In The Ocean
12 Fred Frith - Saving Grace
13 Renaldo And The Loaf - A Medical Man
14 Renaldo And The Loaf - Honest Joe's Indian Gets The Goat On The Way To The Cowboys' Conga
15 Renaldo And The Loaf - Ted's Reverie
16 Renaldo And The Loaf - Melvyn's Repose
17 Snakefinger - Breakfast In Baltimore (1981 EP Demo)*
18 Snakefinger - Life Isn't Easy (1981 EP Demo)*
19 Yello - Pinball Cha Cha
20 Yello - Homer Hossa
21 Snakefinger - Eva's Warning
22 The Residents - Would We Be Alive?
*previously Unreleased

Debut solo record from Manchester based writer Nathan McIlroy, formerly of Frazer King.

The record is produced by Jim Noir and his sonic fingerprints sculpt the raw materials into a weird pop opus. Noir is also releasing the record on his Dook Recordings label and played drums and vocals on several tracks.

Recorded by McIlroy’s long-time friend and musical associate, Big A, the songs are laden with cracked harmonies and homemade instruments, including found materials used as percussion. The pair drew on the talents of fellow travellers for backing vocals and rhythm tracks which has resulted in the live outfit expanding to a three piece, with Ben Price (bass) and Charlie Garson (drums) on board.

Commenting on the writing process McIlroy explains:
“It was written during a period of madness and adverse offending behaviours. The songs dash from one theme to another and reflect the mistaken beliefs we cling to when our perceived realities are threatened. It’s also got jokes.”

Opposing a streaming culture that values top tracks and playlists, the record is intended to be heard in one sitting, with Side A showcasing more extroverted songs, in all their loudmouth braggadocio, and Side B being more introspective and honest.

TRACK LISTING

1. Please Like And Subscribe
2. Are You Feeling Lucky Post-punk?
3. Dirt From The Ground
4. King Of The Hypocrites
5. Bite The Bulb
6. Brother Superior
7. Gateway Drug
8. Treading Water In The Shallow End
9. Brass
10. Mysanthropy
11. Mood Disorder

Before we pack away the poppers for another year, let Red Laser take you for one last spin on the waltzers. Tried and tested at our recent road block parties in Manchester, these edits shine a light on four primo-grade Italo face melters. Fervently excavated by Bosco over countless visits to Bel Paese and streamlined for the hydrofoil, with some extra added calories for the club.

Opener 'Destiny' tweaks and shudders under analogue arpeggios, dazzling Strat chops and cosmic bass interplay before dropping into a simply glorious female vocal that, thankfully, gets plenty of airtime before Bosco calls close. A track so close to perfection we had to make it longer. 'Flavio', up next - and half sung in Italian so we only know a bit of what she's on about - is another supreme slice of Italo disco from the upper echelons that Bosco snaffled between glugs of Barolo and a face full of worm cheese. Sure to instigate group hugs, 4AM declarations of love, tears of happiness and huge pelvic thrusts dependant on environment and inebriation.

The tingles continue on side B with another supernova burning bright across the stars. 'Newsin' introduces itself with a joyous marriage of marimba and synth before yet another vocal proves Italians really do, do it better when it comes to writing some of the catchiest hooks and choruses in the universe.
'Lace', featuring the record's only male vocal appearance, has a romantic, proto-goth-new-wave vibe; like if Robert Smith and Richard Butler had a chem-sex love child after a wild night in Baia Degli Angeli.

Not sure who the woman in lace is, but we'd defo like to see her down The White Hotel one night...

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Red Laser complete what may well be their most prolific year to date with a clutch of edits straight from Il Bosco's studio. Source material gathered through countless trips to Italy before being trimmed and polished for our discerning Mancunian ears. Worth the entrance fee for that "Destiny" cut alone... Bellisimo!

TRACK LISTING

A. Destiny (il Bosco Edit)
A. Flavia (il Bosco Edit)
B. Newsin (il Bosco Edit)
B. Lace (il Bosco Edit)

Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 - a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. The three longstanding bandmates recognize the achievement of their longevity as a creative unit. Initially offering a raw, propulsive sound that emphasized Janovitz’s imposing guitar squall, Buffalo Tom’s early approach gave way to a more melodic, yet no less distinctive, style. They have released ten studio albums and their most recent, 'Jump Rope', was released earlier this year.

Released in 1993, 'Big Red Letter Day' found the band doing what they do very well indeed, but with more body and gloss to the production. The album was recorded in LA by The Robb Brothers and features numerous favourites, in particular: 'Sodajerk', 'I’m Allowed', 'Treehouse' and the classic 'Late At Night'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sodajerk
2. I’m Allowed
3. Tree House
4. Would Not Be Denied
5. Latest Monkey
6. My Responsibility
7. Dry Land
8. Torch Singer
9. Late At Night
10. Suppose
11. Anything That Way

Red Laser continue their prolific purple patch, unpacking four more slabs of red lit Manctolo from a host of box jammers, old and new.

Frank Butters wastes no time at all, 'The Call Of The Wild' engaging photon tubes with a highly kinetic array of crystalline synth shards, thunderous bass and hyperactive sfx. Without geeking out too much, special mention has to go out to the synthesis on display here - Butters advancing up the levels of sonic shamanism as he conjures up never-before-heard patches of interstellar cosmic NRG...

Bob Swans' 'Bodyform4U' unites the robots with a universal message of togetherness. Its multiple layers of shuddering arpeggios and star-aligned synths working in unison to quell any fears and send us off into a space age utopia. One that'll work as well soundtracking the end of the session as it will as the dancefloor's filling up; its subtle anthemic qualities sure to rouse the spirits of even the most dehumanized cyborgs.

New signing Lone Saxon drops 'Hypersleep' which utilises rich piano chords and a hefty breakbeat, switching up the vibe but keeping things super uplifting. This one reminds us of that innocent period when you could get on the megabus for 50p and score three for a tenner on the dancefloor. An evocative vocal refrain adds a moment of thoughtful introspection in between the e-rushes and arm-raising for another moment of interactive harmony.

Finally, 'Webo' sees Franz Scala (with a little help from Il Bosco) return to source, delivering a bona fide slice of maximum balls out MANCTALO chug. With tension-wrought chord progressions, delicious layers of lead melodies and a soaring vocal, there's few that can resist the charms of this late night electro-disco hyper anthem.

All aboard the starship !

RL x

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Final twelve of 2024 from the RL camp. It's been a busy year for the leading Manctalo mischief makers but they certainly end it on an amyl-scented high here. Primed n ready for one last knees up at The White Hotel 7th Dec before they hit the mattresses for the festive period.

TRACK LISTING

A. Frank Butters - Call Of The Wild
A. Bob Swans - Bodyform4u
B. Lone Saxon - Hypersleep
B. Franz Scala - Webo

Waters says ‘when we recorded the stripped down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon was looming on the horizon. It occurred to to me that The Dark Side Of The Moon could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album. I discussed it with Gus and Sean, and when we’d stopped giggling and shouting ‘You must be ****ing mad’ at one another we decided to take it on. It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it. It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the seventy nine year old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty nine year old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, “We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us”. And also it is a way for me to honor a recording that Nick and Rick and Dave and I have every right to be very proud of.’

As founding member, lyricist, and principal composer of Pink Floyd during the band’s most influential and creative period, Roger Waters has achieved global success and global renown.

Waters co-founded Pink Floyd in the mid-1960s. Under Waters’ guidance, Pink Floyd made a series of best-selling albums during the 1970s, of which the most successful and iconic were The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Roger Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and is now one of the most successful solo artists in the world.

TRACK LISTING

1. Speak To Me
2. Breathe
3. On The Run
4. Time
5. Great Gig In The Sky
6. Money
7. Us And Them
8. Any Colour You Like
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse

‘A Distant Shore’ is a much loved indie classic.

Freshly mastered at Abbey Road Studios with new sleeve-notes penned by Tracey, this 2024 edition is available on both vinyl and CD, a beautifully presented reminder of the album’s elemental beauty.

Released to critical acclaim on Cherry Red back in September 1982, Tracey's debut solo album is full of engaging, melodic tunes and heartfelt lyrics delivered with her distinctive warm vocals.

Recorded for just £138 in a studio in a garden shed when she was a 19-year-old first-year student at Hull University, it is an astonishing demonstration of Tracey's songwriting talent, stripped down to vocal and semi-acoustic guitar.

The LP was released during a fertile period in her early career, when she was also playing with the group The Marine Girls and just about to embark on a life-long musical and personal partnership with Ben Watt in Everything But The Girl. Its stark minimalism made it stand out from the crowd, and the album remained on the Independent chart for many months. To this day, ‘A Distant Shore’ remains one of our proudest achievements here at Cherry Red Records.

Fully supported by the artist, 'A Distant Shore' is now being represented with the addition of five hitherto unheard demo recordings, hand-picked by Tracey from her archive of cassettes. ‘Lucky Day’ was recorded during the same session as the album but somehow never made the grade; the other four tracks here were recorded during a later session but then set aside, to be re-recorded a while later with EBTG for their first album, Eden. Freshly mastered at Abbey Road Studios with new sleeve-notes written by Tracey, this 2024 edition is available on both vinyl and CD, a beautifully presented reminder of the album’s elemental beauty.

TRACK LISTING

CD:
1 Small Town Girl
2 Simply Couldn't Care
3 Seascape
4 Femme Fatale
5 Dreamy
6 Plain Sailing
7 New Opened Eyes
8 Too Happy
Bonus Tracks
9 Lucky Day (Demo) *
10 Another Bridge (Demo) *
11 Even So (Demo) *
12 The Spice Of Life (Demo) *
13 Fascination (Demo) *
* Previously Unreleased

Vinyl:
Side A
1 Small Town Girl
2 Simply Couldn't Care
3 Seascape
4 Femme Fatale
5 Dreamy
6 Plain Sailing
Side B
1 New Opened Eyes
2 Too Happy
Bonus Tracks
3 Lucky Day (Demo) *
4 Another Bridge (Demo) *
5 Even So (Demo) *
6 The Spice Of Life (Demo) *
7 Fascination (Demo) *
* Previously Unreleased

Recorded on the band’s UK Tour of December 1972, which followed the release of the band’s recent studio album ‘DOREMI FASOL LATIDO’. The live show was a continuous performance linked by poetry recitation by Robert Calvert and was a complete audio-visual experience. Featuring the dancers Stacia, Miss Renee and Tony Carrera, the concerts also featured an elaborate light show by famed lighting designer Liquid Len. The Space Ritual tour followed the huge success of the Silver Machine single (although the song did not feature in the live set) and three concerts were captured on tape by the Pye Records mobile unit.

The resulting double album was adorned with memorable artwork and was a Top Ten hit in the UK upon its release in May 1973. This 50th anniversary 2LP black vinyl repress was cut at Abbey Road studios utilising the original master tapes.

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1. Earth Calling
2. Born To Go
3. Down Through The Night
4. The Awakening

Side Two
1. Lord Of Light
2. Black Corridor
3. Space Is Deep
4. Electronic No. 1

Side Three
1. Orgone Accumulator
2. Upside Down
3. 10 Seconds Of Forever
4. Brainstorm

Side Four
1. Seven By Seven
2. Sonic Attack
3. Time We Left This World Today
4. Master Of The Universe
5. Welcome To The Future

‘The Infotainment Scan’ was originally released in 1993 and was the band 15th studio album reaching no 9 on the album chart. 

This set contains singles and demos as well as BBC sessions and three live shows from the era.

Compiled in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton and has notes by Fall guru Daryl Easlea and have been mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce with art by Becky Stewart.

The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. The band has existed in some form ever since, and is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years, but is often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and is always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

The band is noted for its prolific output: and have released over 25 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They have never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles in the late 1980s, but have maintained a strong cult following.

The band were long-associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "They are always different; they are always the same."

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
The Infotainment Scan
1 Ladybird (Green Grass)
2 Lost In Music
3 Glam Racket
4 I'm Going To Spain
5 It's A Curse
6 Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room
7 Service
8 The League Of Bald-Headed Men
9 A Past Gone Mad
10 Light/Fireworks

DISC TWO
Bonus Tracks
1 Why Are People Grudgeful?
2 League Moon Monkey Mix
3 Why Are People Grudgeful? - Permanent Single
4 Glam Racket - Permanent Single
5 The Re-Mixer - Permanent Single
6 Lost In Music - Permanent Single
7 A Past Gone Mad - Alternate Version
8 Instrumental Outtake
9 Service - Instrumental Demo
10 Glam Racket - Instrumental Demo
11 Lost In Music - Mix 3
12 Lost In Music - Mix 7
13 Lost In Music - Mix 14

DISC THREE
At The BBC Peel Session 13/3/93
1 Ladybird (Green Grass)
2 Strychnine
3 Service
4 Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room Mark Goodier Session 17/5/93
5 Glam Racket
6 War
7 15 Ways
8 A Past Gone Mad Hallam University, Sheffield - April 7th 1993
9 Intro
10 Why Are People Grudgeful?
11 Ladybird
12 Glam Racket
13 Free Range
14 Going To Spain
15 The League Of Bald-Headed Men
16 Lost In Music

DISC FOUR
1993 11th October Batschkapp Frankfurt Germany
1 Intro Track
2 M5
3 Ladybird (Green Grass)
4 High Tension Line
5 Glam Racket
6 Why Are People Grudgeful?
7 I'm Going To Spain
8 Free Range
9 Behind The Counter
10 Strychnine
11 Big New Prinz
12 A Past Gone Mad
13 Lost In Music
14 Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room
15 Idiot Joy Showland
16 (Instrumental Interlude)
17 The Mixer
18 Dead Beat Descendant

DISC FIVE
Live At Liberty Lunch, Austin, Texas, 11th September 1993
1 Intro
2 M5 [aborted]
3 M5
4 Ladybird (Green Grass)
5 Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room
6 Lost In Music
7 Idiot Joy Showland
8 Big New Prinz
9 Free Range
10 I'm Going To Spain

DISC SIX
Live At Liberty Lunch, Austin, Texas, 11th September 1993
1 Glam-Racket
2 Why Are People Grudgeful?
3 A Past Gone Mad
4 Strychnine
5 League Of Bald-Headed Men
6 Dead Beat Descendant
7 Return
8 The Mixer
9 High Tension Line