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The love for Sally C’s sound and burgeoning label shows no sign of slowing down. Last year’s ‘Big Saldo’s Chunkers 002’ was a phenomenon. Led by ‘Downtown’, which became one of the most beloved tracks of the year, it secured over 30 BBC Radio 1 plays and genre-crossing support from Peggy Gou to TSHA and Bradley Zero. Critical acclaim came from Bandcamp, RA and beyond.

Launched in 2020 with ‘Big Saldo’s Chunkers 001’ that’s currently on its fourth repress, the Chunker sound is special to all those who know it. Taking influence from artists including K-Hand and Fast Eddie, Sally draws on the sensibilities of classic US house music, crafting unique dancefloor cuts that don’t compromise on quality.

Active on the release front over the last 12 months with well-received remixes of Obongjayar, LB aka LABAT and a fresh original on Rhythm Section, we witness a noticeable evolution in her sound with BSC003. “I wanted to challenge myself when writing this record. I still haven’t released a full EP on another label, so I wanted to pair straight up Chunkers with something a bit different to shake up the Chunker energy,” she shares.

The four-tracker opens with ‘All Love’, a joyous house banger that swaps out Sally’s trademark Chunker bassline for a sexier groove. When the euphoric piano breakdown kicks in, soon accompanied by the ‘dance’ vocal on repeat, we’re reminded of the exultant power of rave. ‘

Hit It’ follows, a proper Chunker to the core. A hip house-informed jam, it’s packed full of tight drums, stabs, sirens and one of Sally’s monster Chunker b-lines. An absolute tune!

‘Control’ is a low-slung roller, encapsulating her love for simplistic production principles that birth memorable results. A headsy offering ripe for the after-hours.

‘‘Get Up’ is an ice-cool slab born out of a jam on a drum machine that hits at 144bpm. “I wasn’t sure how this would fit on the record being this speed, but it’s exactly what I envisioned when I wanted to challenge myself more. It’s raw and rolling and as soon as I made it, I knew it fitted into the Chunker family,” Sally explains.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Loud and wobbly chunkers from rising star Sally C who fires over the third volume of her cult series. The formula hasn't changed it's just gotten more refined!

TRACK LISTING

A1. All Love
A2. Hit It
B1. Control
B2. Get Up

Sally Anne Morgan

Carrying

    Multi-instrumentalist Sally Anne Morgan, known for her work as part of The Black Twig Pickers, and half of House and Land (with Sarah Louise), cultivates seeds sown by folk musics and psychedelia.

    ‘Carrying’ tills the rich soil of Appalachian traditions and her rural North Carolina surroundings into warm, reflective songs about the weight people carry with them, as well as Morgan’s own pregnancy and the birth of her first child.

    Bridging the more freeform, expansive leanings of 2021’s ‘Cups’ and the lucid beauty of her acclaimed 2020 debut, ‘Thread’, ‘Carrying’ finds Morgan imbuing her masterfully crafted songs with more subtle and intricate arrangements.

    The album’s exploratory nature is anchored by a full band, comprised of some of the most thoughtful players in the psychedelic folk and ‘cosmic country’ spheres, including a guest appearance by Ripley Johnson (Rose City Band, Wooden Shjips, Moon Duo), and the foundational rhythm section of fellow The Black Twig Pickers collaborators: drummer Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn Band, Pelt), guitarist Andrew Zinn, and bassist / engineer Joe Dejarnette.

    Morgan finds unity in the burdens and joys, tensions, and releases of modern living as a common thread that people bear in their day-today lives. “So much of what we accumulate and carry around with us burdens us, but we also can’t or don’t know how to let go,” says Morgan. The profoundness and mundanity of that weight ran parallel for Morgan as she literally carried her child to term: the utter commonality of enduring what billions of parents before her had, and the awesome power of the human body and spirit, the complicated and unpredictable wash of emotions that come with nurturing and nourishing another life.

    “Breathtaking, string-laden psychedelic folk” - Brooklyn Vegan

    “Meditations on folk music, rather than the thing itself, stern and cerebral at times, but intermittently lush and beautiful...” - Dusted Magazine

    TRACK LISTING

    Beekeeper
    The Center
    Dawn Circle
    Summerwater
    Awake
    Streets Of Derry
    Diamond Joe
    Song For Arthur

    The Stone Roses

    Sally Cinnamon

      This single was first released in 1987 and captures The Roses in their second phase - youthful pure pop influenced by early Creation and in particular Primal Scream and the Jesus And Mary Chain (but without the feedback!) It's one of their prettiest ever tunes and features a lyric untypical of any other song they did in that it tells a cute little story with a twist at the end. It's three minutes of perfection, basically! For years, the so-called single mix of Sally has been the only available version. This is infact what sounds to me like a demo. On this release we have the correct original single (erroneously titled12 inch version0 which has a far lusher sound and the beautiful heavilly percussive outro. You need this proper version. Of the b-sides: "Here It Comes" is a 60s beauty power-pop gem that stayed in their live set well into 1989, whilst Ian Brown once described "All Across The Sands" as his favourite ever Roses song. Now that's saying something! 

      For this special release we have previously unreleased live versions of the 3 original songs, with Here It Comes featuring twice. All in all, a welcome release of a single which should basically never be allowed to go out of print. It's a classic.

      STAFF COMMENTS

      Andy says: Finally reissued, with some nifty extras. In my humble opinion, one of the best pop singles of all time!

      TRACK LISTING

      Sally Cinnamon - Single Mix
      Here It Comes
      All Across The Sands
      Sally Cinnamon - 12" Single Mix

      Sally Cinnamon (Live 1987)
      Here It Comes (Live 1987)
      All Across The Sands (Live 1987)
      Here It Comes (Live 1987)

      Sally Shapiro

      Rent

        Swedish synthpop duo Sally Shapiro (the duo of Sally Shapiro and Johan Agebjörn) announce a new 12" 'Rent' co-mixed by Johnny Jewel.

        On the single, Johan offered "I am a longtime fan of Pet Shop Boys and have been thinking from time to time about covering some PSB song, without any clear idea of how to do it. Suddenly it became apparent that the melancholic and painfully beautiful harmonies of 'Rent' would suit our style perfectly, and I started playing a synth line over the chorus."

        Johnny Jewel added "Sally Shapiro's cover of this Pet Shop Boys classic keeps the original close to the heart. Emphasizing the baroque leanings of the chord progression, they take it further with a 16th note melody careening over icy pads. The result is a Synthwave skyline scraping the upper atmosphere in the never-ending race to survive the first of the month. It's a twisted tale of the politics of economy in relationships where the currency is love. Sally's crystalline coo glides over Johan's elegant Italo production as the bass line anchors the galloping rhythm section. Home is where the heart is...but shelter comes first in this game of love."

        Sally added "We also think the lyrics to Rent are intriguing, how the singer – in our version, a mistress – tries to convince herself that she’s happy, while the melancholy shines through. Pet Shop Boys is also very much childhood nostalgia for me."

        Johan was a member of the Pet Shop Boys Club as a child, and even got a penpal request published in the official fanclub magazine in 1993. Johan said "I received numerous answers! I had a pretty long correspondence with a fan from the UK."

        TRACK LISTING

        A1. Rent (Extended Mix)
        A2. Believe In Me (Italoconnection Remix)
        B1. Rent (NICOLAAS Remix) Feat. Steve Moore
        B2. Rent (Instrumental)

        Sally Anne Morgan

        Cups

          Multi-instrumentalist Sally Anne Morgan tills the soil of old timey music, folk practices old and new, and psychedelia to sow music that reaches out beyond its roots.

          ‘Cups’ dives headfirst into the waters of the Morgan’s unconscious mind and plumbs those depths for swells of fertile brilliance and awe.

          In stark contrast to the traditional and pop-informed structures of her previous album, ‘Thread’, ‘Cups’ adopts a free-flowing approach intuitive and receptive, brimming and shifting and changing across a fragile equilibrium of pieces both improvised and composed.

          The fluid pieces twirl from pensive, looped fiddle to tiptoed banjo to patient, sunny parlour guitar arpeggios to droning dulcimer and a litany of percussive ripples with gentle ease.

          By distilling her most immediate inspirations into layers of sparkling timbre and buoyant rambles, Sally Anne Morgan’s ‘Cups’ builds a sense of community from within, like a back porch jam with her own subconscious.

          “Meditations on folk music, rather than the thing itself, stern and cerebral at times, but intermittently lush and beautiful... [‘Cups’] captures essential bits of folk music, frames them in stark, repeating ways, and makes us look at them differently.” - Dusted Magazine

          “[‘Cups’ is] a totally charming album that bares the unspoiled essence of its creator, a thoroughly engaging artist forging her own singular path upon the resilient precepts of the past.” - No Depression

          “Morgan has created a record that’s a meditative idyll... If you need a bit of spiritual realignment, then ‘Cups’ is a necessity, a moment of peace in a punishing world.” - Raven Sings The Blues

          “breathtaking, string-laden psychedelic folk” - Brooklyn Vegan

          TRACK LISTING

          Night Window
          Prune
          Hori Hori
          Pythagoras
          Sandbox
          Through The Threshold
          Home Soup
          Angeline
          In Come A Bee
          Word For World

          Sally Shapiro

          Sad Cities

            REWIND…

            15 years ago, they shared their first song online. Blogs & record labels immediately took notice & swarmed. Our introduction to the elusive Swedish duo was the now classic “I’ll Be By Your Side”, a shimmering Italo Disco track with ethereal vocals that hypnotized everyone who heard it. Johan’s elegant production was years ahead of what anyone else was doing at the time, & the elusive falsetto of the dreamlike singer was unforgettable. In 2007, their debut album, Disco Romance, was revered by the press. The album was nominated as “Best Dance/Electronic Album of the Year” & was given a spot in Pitchfork’s Top 50 albums of 2007. Their sound was a unique take on the romantic club music of the mid 1980’s. At the time you could count the artists exploring this territory on one hand. Johnny Jewel began corresponding with Johan later that year resulting in Agebjörn’s remix of Glass Candy’s “The Chameleon”. The seminal After Dark compilation had come out that summer & the kindred spirits kept in touch.

            Their debut album sees remixes by other likeminded producers like Lindstrøm, Tensnake, Junior Boys, CFCF, & Juan MacLean. In 2009, My Guilty Pleasure, picks up where Disco Romance left off. They collaborated with Electric Youth (known from the ”Drive” soundtrack) on their third album Somewhere Else in 2013. Johan is a fixture on European dancefloors collaborating with Lindstrøm, Glass Candy, Annie, Wolfram, Hercules & Love Affair, & more. In 2018 he produced the addictive Samantha Fox single “Hot Boy”.

            PAUSE…

            Sally is notoriously shy, remaining shrouded in anonymity. To this day she insists on recording her vocals alone in the studio & refuses to perform her songs live. In 2016, the duo went underground & released what was thought to have been their final single.

            FAST FORWARD…

            Working in deep seclusion over the last half decade, they recorded an incredible collection of material out this fall via Italians Do It Better. A gorgeous bouquet of pure electronic bliss mixed by Johan Agebjörn & Johnny Jewel. The enigmatic duo re-surfaces from the underground this week with “Fading Away”, a first look at a new era.

            PLAY…

            TRACK LISTING

            1. Forget About You
            2. Believe In Me
            3. Down This Road
            4. Sad City
            5. Dulcinea
            6. Falling Clouds
            7. Love In Slow Motion (Feat. Electric Youth)
            8. Million Ways
            9. Tell Me How (Feat. Tommy ’86)
            10. Christmas Escape
            11. Fading Away

            Presents For Sally / 93MillionMilesFromTheSun

            An Arms Reach Away / Darkness Inside

              A match made in heaven ... UK's tonal magicians 93MillionMilesFromTheSun and Presents For Sally have been friends for a long time, and UK's Wrong Way Records finally brought them together on a limited edition 8 track pink and yellow split vinyl.

              Doncaster's 93MillionMilesFromTheSun have four studio albums, a compilation and a good amount of EP’s under their belt, and the whole lot of them managed to seduce our ears in an irresistible way. The four songs by Nick Noble continue the path in a remarkable way and offer the listeners a wonderfully sparkling, highly catchy shoegaze/noise pop wall-of-sound, filled with swirling guitars, fuzzy reverberation, psychedelic injections, acoustic colours and crunchy splinters, accompanied by Nick's emotional vocals and coated with an embracing melancholic twist. From the epic, dynamically circling opener "I'm Waiting" to the closing gem "Edge Of Nowhere" with its romantically swirling, yearning sunrise atmosphere - the band passionately mixed an addictive and magic cocktail.

              Presents For Sally first emerged on the radar in 2008 when the band’s song "Flowers Falling Sideways" appeared on the line-up for a shoegaze compilation entitled "The Secret Garden". Since then, the band served us two splendid full-length trips as well as several captivating singles and EP's. The four songs on this split album confirm once more that Presents For Sally are one of the most talented crews to surface on the shoegaze/indie rock radar: the band's way to create tonal diamonds that run the gamut from pop sensibility to reverberant atmospheres and crashing wall-of-sound spirals that beg to be played at high volumes is highly remarkable. Matt Etherton, Anna Etherton and Phil Russel continue their drop of magnetically alluring, irresistibly melodic treats. From the groovy'n'spicy mid-tempo opener "An Arms Reach Away" (sung by Matt) to smooth'n'relaxing pearls with a dreamy vibe like "1000 Magic Lands" (sung by Anna), the band created a tempting and delightful sound journey from start to finish. 


              TRACK LISTING

              Side A: PFS
              1. An Arms Reach Away
              2. 1000 Magic Lands
              3. Not Young Not Old
              4. Perfume Boat

              Side AA: 93MMFTS
              1. I’m Waiting
              2. Darkness Inside
              3. Fall Into The Sky
              4. Edge Of Nowhere

              Sally Dige

              Hard To Please

                Consolidating 2 years of solo work, “Hard To Please” is the debut album by Canadian polymath Sally Dige. First coming to prominence in the synth-wave scene with an elusive, meta-persona in a blur of homemade costumes, Dige’s world has grown to encompass visual art, theatre and design elements. Most surprising on her long-awaited debut however is the occasional removal of the various masks and characters Dige has played to date, revealing something more tangible and fragile underneath.

                “Hard To Please” still revels in a darkly thrilling, Euro synth-pop music, awash with dry ice and hidden in shadow, most personified on the instant classic 'Immaculate Deception'. However, on the long, nocturnal walk home Dige begins to sing of loneliness, being lost, the transience of our relationships. Attention to detail is paramount. On the title-track the crisp early-80s, swooning bass line duets with Dige’s desperate plea to a lover fading into the distance, a presence lamented with even more pathos on the towering, early-4AD-esque, slow-burner 'Your Girl'. It’s a new fragility that effortlessly manages to convey a luxurious, inescapable sensuality at the same time.

                Indeed, 'Hard To Please' portrays a clear narrative, with electronic body movers like Doppelganger portraying an out-of control, self-obsessed persona at the beginning of the record. Breaking down into the foggy murk, the more hopelessly romantic album closers “A Certain Beauty” and “Dance Of Delusion” burn a ghostly image into the listener’s mind, as Dige, or someone like her, over Cure-like swooning reverberations entreaties the powers that be to let her dance. Dige never fully reveals her hand, but the game is worth playing endlessly.

                TRACK LISTING

                1. Hard To Please
                2. Immaculate Deception
                3. So Far Away
                4. Doppelganger
                5. Losing You
                6. Your Girl
                7. A Certain Beauty
                8. Dance Of Delusion

                The Creature Comfort

                Sally Sucks

                  The Creature Comfort is a legendary lost Manchester band.

                  Once under the management of Gareth Evans (The Stone Roses) with a residency at Manchester’s iconic rock venue The International, (sharing the stage with Gun Club, Mudhoney, Suicidal Tendencies, Cornershop, American Music Club), The Creature Comfort’s riotous live performances and frontman Ben Le Jeune’s lyrical surrealism led the way to a large, local underground following. Then, on the cusp of joining the pantheon of big-time Mancunian acts like Oasis and Elbow, the band were forced to split up due to personal circumstances.

                  Now after the long unplanned hiatus, founder and frontman Ben Le Jeune has resurrected The Creature Comfort, writing and recording a brand new album and enrolling the help of fellow musicians (Steve Jones – guitar, Chris Livesey – bass, Christian Payne – drums) for The Creature Comfort’s first live dates of the millennium.

                  An essential yet still-secret part of the city’s musical heritage, The Creature Comfort’s outsider post-punk music inhabits a sonic space somewhere between Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

                  ‘Sally Sucks’ is the first single taken from The Creature Comfort’s very long-awaited debut (following in September). A snarling, pounding, almost frenzied 2.25 mins of unadulterated old-school pop-punk. On the b-side is ‘Windowpane’, showcasing Le Jeune’s observational lyrical wit in a dark ode to Manchester. The cover artwork features a skater from the Manchester Roller Derby team.

                  Sally Murray

                  Battleground

                    Recorded almost entirely on borrowed equipment in a south Manchester bedsit, Sally Murray's debut four track release captures her highly personal and ambitious approach to songwriting and is a thing of raw, strange beauty. The Nottingham–born singer's effortless performances are brought to life by her rich, low voice which is shot through with East Midlands grit, that on this recording, is multi-tracked and up front, commanding the listener's attention. Alongside her vocals are bowed and detuned guitars, analogue synthesizers, lap steel, e-bow, drums and old 70s home organs. While her music isn't in thrall to any particular artist or genre, some would maybe cite the sounds of Feist, PJ Harvey and Bert Jansch as possible musical heros of Sally's though stylistically this mini-album blends a wide scope of influences including acapella township gospel, lo-fi indie grunge, Sixties psychedelia and bare acoustic balladry. Sally has been writing songs from a very early age - her first ever song was about a supernova ready to explode and destroy the earth written when she was five years old - and in recent years she has built up a loyal following in her hometown.

                    The Tamborines

                    Sally O'Gannon

                      West London-based Brazilian/British four-piece The Tamborines formed around the nucleus of Henrz (guitar/vocals) and Lulu (keyboards), and completed their line-up with the addition of second guitarist Aaron and drummer Thur. This CD single features the two tracks that appeared on their Sonic Cathedral debut 7": "Sally O'Gannon" - The Warlocks gone pop; an infectious garage rock rave-up combining 'Raw Power'-volume guitars with swooping Korg keyboards and a chorus the size of California, and "Be Around" - darkens the West Coast psychedelia with some black-clad East Coast sleaze, ending up something like Roger McGuinn and his 12-string Rickenbacker jamming with Lou Reed and John Cale on "Sunday Morning". It also includes "Come Together" from their second 7" - like The Jesus And Mary Chain if they'd ever learned how to lighten up. And the EP draws to a close with a demo version of "Sally O'Gannon".

                      The Vanity Set / Sally Norvell

                      Split

                        The Vanity Set are a side project of Bad Seed's men James Sclavunos and Thomas Wydler, along with a collection of guest musicians - Kid Congo Powers, Sally Norvell, Larry Mullins (Iggy Pop), Daria Klotz (God Is My Co-Pilot), Pete Shore (Boss Hog) and Chris Pravdica (The Gunga Din). Sally Norvell is well known for her previous recordings and tours with outfit Congo Norvell featuring legendary ex-Gun Club guitarist Kid Congo Powers and her duets with Mark Eitzel.


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