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Cover of Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right by Real Farmer.

Real Farmer

Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right

Strap Originals

Real Farmer's new album becomes their third release to be recorded at Far Out Sound Studios in Rotterdam by Niek Van Den Driesschen (Rats on Rafts, Iguana Death Cult), following debut album 'Compare What's There' (2024) and EP 'RF II' (2025). "Not all songs are punk songs, but everything is written in this spirit," says Real Farmer. "There’s so much happening in the world, that if you’re even a little empathetic, you can’t help but feel overwhelmed and saddened [by it all]. Music remains such an important outlet as well as a meeting point for politics and worldviews. And with this album we hope listeners can also find a sense of empowerment and hope through our songs."


TRACK LISTING

1. Missing Link
2. 9 Till Not Alright
3. I.D.K.T.S
4. Sob Story
5. System
6. Settle
7. Wash Away
8. Heart Out
9. Beggars Hymn
10. The Mass
11. Run By Animals
12. Judas

Flexi-disc:
1. The Pressue Of Others

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Cover of Carnival by Vona Vella.

Vona Vella

Carnival

Strap Originals

The dreamy harmonising of Everything But The Girl. The propulsive urgency of The Strokes. The lilting folk-pop of The Coral. The introspective songcraft of Belle and Sebastian. The bittersweet, lyrical side-eyes of The Beautiful South. Vona Vella have all these elements and so many more, all weaving together to form a contemporary sound both gossamer delicate and fiercely robust.

Since their eponymous debut album in 2023 (released on Strap Originals, Pete Doherty’s label), the seed of their signature sound – wistful indie-pop harmonies, exquisitely blended male/female vocals – has not so much grown as erupted through the dream-pop meadow into a towering, flowering beanstalk. Today, with their second album Carnival, the former indie-pop duo have spectacularly evolved into a dynamic five-piece band, with key musical contributions from the musicians they’ve so successfully toured with over the last two years, drummer Jake Bott (who they’ve known since they were 17), bassist Claud J Melton (who they found on TikTok through a search for a female bassist), and guitarist Dexter Howell (a friend of a friend). As a five-piece, their innate pop sensibilities are now newly bolstered by a confident, thrilling propulsion, izzy and Dan, still the main songwriters and vocalists, are thrilled with the sound, where the possibilities are endless. Vona Vella may be names after two flowers, but there’s nothing twee happening here.

TRACK LISTING

1. Carnival
2. Bass Driver
3. You Can Be So Ugly
4. Come By
5. Over And Over
6. I Wanna Tap Into Your Heaven Again
7. Exit Plan
8. Settle Down
9. Brand New Boy
10. Selfish Dogs
11. Falling In A Sleeping Wind
12. Bear Trap
13. Bottled

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Cover of GOOD FOR THE SOUL by GANS.

GANS

GOOD FOR THE SOUL

Strap Originals

Across their upcoming debut album 'GOOD FOR THE SOUL', GANS tackles subjects of acceptance, self-destruction, and body image. Informed by a shared love of painting, literature, and poetry in particular, GANS is where all of these concepts coalesce, in the hive-mind of songwriters Euan Woodman (drums, vocals) and Thomas Rhodes (bass, vocals)

TRACK LISTING

1. A FOOL
2. IN TIME
3. IT'S JUST LIFE
4. NIGHTWALKING
5. FAR AND WIDE
6. EVERYTHING IN EXTREME
7. I THINK I LIKE YOU
8. THE KING'S HEAD
9. THIS PRODUCT
10. OH GEORGE
11. WELL DONE

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Cover of Felt Better Alive by Peter Doherty.

Peter Doherty

Felt Better Alive

Strap Originals

His first solo album in nine years, 'Felt Better Alive' is Peter Doherty’s most confident solo collection yet - sprinkled with radiant playfulness, almost innocence at times, shot through with Peter Doherty’s signature melodic nous, quirky poetic realism and visual story-telling gifts.

TRACK LISTING

1. Calvados
2. Pot Of Gold
3. The Day The Baron Died
4. Stade Océan
5. Out Of Tune Ballon
6. Felt Better Alive
7. Ed Belly
8. Poca Mahoney’s
9. Fingee
10. Prêtre De La Mer
11. Empty Room

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Cover of Too Cold To Hold by Warmduscher.

Warmduscher

Too Cold To Hold

Strap Originals

Comprised of Clams Baker Jr., Benjamin Romans Hopcraft, Adam J. Harmer, Marley Mackey, Quinn Whalley, and Bleu Ottis Wright, Too Cold To Hold is undoubtedly their best and most ambitious album to date. Taking on board the repetitive and polyrhythmic grooves of gqom (an alluring South African take on house music), adding in a dash of hip hop flavours and even jazz, and then harnessing that to their punk-funk, disco pogo, it’s a spellbinding mix. The album is produced by the band’s Ben Romans Hopcraft alongside Jamie Neville.

Talking about the first track to be taken from the album, ‘Fashion Week’, which is a joyous account of fashion’s die-hard fans rather than the more visible arrivistes or dilettantes, Clams said: “Those that will do anything to become that thing. That creation. And live it. It’s real artistry when you don’t have the means and you’re doing it. You’re hustling to get on the guest list, you get in, you’re done up by means that you can’t really afford, whatever you do… It’s a celebration of people who will do whatever to look good and feel good and step above wherever they are in their own minds.”

TRACK LISTING

1. An Introduction By Irvine Welsh
2. Fashion Week
3. Pure At The Heart
4. Top Shelf
5. Body Shock
6. Cleopatras
7. Immaculate Deception
8. Out Of Body
9. Staying Alive
10. Too Cold To Hold
11. Weeds In The Garden

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Cover of Jack Jones by Jack Jones.

Jack Jones

Jack Jones

Strap Originals

Having established himself as a guitar slinging matinee idol fronting Welsh riot starters Trampolene and riding shotgun in Peter Doherty’s band the Puta Madres, Jack Jones releases his debut solo album ‘Jack Jones’. For this album Jack Jones has put away his guitar and embraced a fresh and highly contemporary sound in which to couch his hard-hitting state of the nation poems of existential fear and loathing.

His lyrics tackle many of today’s burning issues: mental health, drug addiction, mortality, and the tortuous demands of technology. There’s also joy and hope in there. With some of his catchiest tunes so far, it’s a record that’ll both open up this natural-born star to untapped audiences, and reveal hidden depths to those already ‘on the team’.

Much like the first Specials album at the turn of the 1980s, you can imagine ‘Jack Jones’ being useful to youngsters in 2024 trying to navigate the problems of today – swap birth control and street violence for mindless hedonism and mental-health struggles, and you have an equally bold and connective roadmap to the pitfalls of contemporary young-adult living.


TRACK LISTING

1. Make It So
2. Breathe
3. Gladys
4. Peaches Out Of Reach
5. The Mountains(You & I)
6. Who Let The Bass Pump Through The Floor
7. MDMA Day
8. Dumbphone
9. What You Waiting For
10. Let Down
11. Love & Tears

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Cover of Compare What’s There by Real Farmer.

Real Farmer

Compare What’s There

Strap Originals

Real Farmer’s debut album, Compare What’s There, is released 8th March 2024. As active members of the vibrant local music scene of Groningen in The Netherlands with their wonderfully infectious punk noise, concocting fast paced, driving songs with wiry riffs, propelling drums, and winding melodies. Each track stands on its own, both expressing a nostalgia for a different time and reflecting the time and place the songs were written in, showing the multifaceted personalities that make up Real Farmer. Real Farmer will be playing six shows for Independent Venue Week in January and February on the ‘Triple Dutch Tour’ with fellow Dutch up-and-comers Personal Trainer (including members of Real Farmer) and The Klittens. In March the band are on the road again supporting Bull in Brighton along with five headline shows

TRACK LISTING

1. The Feeding
2. Inner City
3. Waiting For
4. Empty
5. Gentrified
6. I Can't Run
7. Perry Boys
8. Next In
9. The Straightest Line
10. Consequence
11. Wayside
12. Wasted Words
13. Never Enough

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Cover of Pregoblin II by Pregoblin.

Pregoblin

Pregoblin II

Strap Originals

PREGOBLIN II is a strange name for a debut album. For the artist who created it, Alex Sebley aka PREGOBLIN, its astonishingly heartfelt and brilliantly catchy assemblage of songs is the culmination of a tortuous genesis period. Its release finally, he hopes, will usher in a fresh, more positive chapter for him, a sequel to all the misery and bullshit up to this point – hence the title. The creative journey to this point has been labyrinthine and frequently painful. As far back as the early ’10s, Sebley was registering his embryonic talent alongside Lias and Nathan Saoudi in The Saudis, the chaotic pre-Fat White Family ensemble where he played guitar and co-authored raw, post-punk material including FWF’s breakthrough tune ‘Touch The Leather’. PREGOBLIN receive a healthy 50,000 plays a month on Spotify. Previous singles include: Combustion which to date has amassed 2.2M streams and was dubbed ‘Single of the year’ last year in The Quietus. Other PREGOBLIN songs include Anna (flowers Won’t Grow), Love Letters, Snakes & Oranges and Wimpy & Wimpy Love with the Pop Group. “PREGOBLIN II’s genre-straddling dexterity and melodic riches mark it out as a loser classic fit to rank alongside Beck and Daniel Johnston. The tunes are memorable and the execution’s forward-facing and inspired” 

TRACK LISTING

1 Big Hitters Feat: Armand Schaubroeck (Rock Version)
2 Roma
3 Everybody's Ill (At The Moment) Part 1
4 Everybody's Ill (At The Moment) Part 2
5 Moving On
6 Nobody Likes Me Feat: Jessica Winter
7 Make Luv (I Like To Party)
8 Alpha Business
9 These Hands Aka Danny Knife Feat: Peter Doherty
10 Sort It Out Down There
11 Wimpy (Album Version)
12 Two Kinds Of Music
13 Big Hitters (Reprise)

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Cover of Swansea To Hornsey - Anniversary Edition by Trampolene.

Trampolene

Swansea To Hornsey - Anniversary Edition

Strap Originals

Due to unprecedented demand TRAMPOLENE (the Welsh group, not the bouncy thing spelled with an ‘i’!) will re-release their classic debut album ‘Swansea To Hornsey’ (Anniversary Edition)  through Strap Originals.

On the same day singer, guitar slinger and lead Tramp, Jack Jones, will publish his first novel, also entitled ‘Swansea To Hornsey’. Says Jack Jones: “The album and the book is ‘Swansea To Hornsey’ as it should have been. We couldn’t find anyone to publish the book the first time round. I always wanted to give fans the ultimate experience of listening to the album & reading my book. I was gob smacked when Peter (Doherty) said he loved the book so much he was gonna start a publishing company and put my book into the world…not something you hear every day. We edited it together as we drove across Europe…getting to know each other even deeper. It was a magical time, and now this all feels like a surreal dream. The album has been going for silly money on eBay & fans are always asking for it to be re-pressed…so we thought f**k it, let’s make it happen.”


TRACK LISTING

Artwork Of Youth
Imagine Something Yesterday
Alcohol Kiss
Dreams So Rich, Life So Poor
The Gangway
Ketamine
You Do Nothing For Me
Primrose Hill (cd Only)
The Boy That Life Forgot
Beautiful Pain
Already Older Than I Dreamed I’d Be
Blue Balls & A Broken Heart
Storm Heaven
Pound Land

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Cover of Waiting For The Rain by Andrew Cushin.

Andrew Cushin

Waiting For The Rain

Strap Originals

Pre-order the album and receive a free poncho.

23-year-old singer-songwriter Andrew Cushin is Newcastle’s fastest rising star. He has already recorded with Noel Gallagher and counts Paul Weller and Sam Fender among his biggest cheerleaders.

Andrew grew up on a council estate in Heaton, Newcastle. His songs, delivered in a gorgeous baritone that sounds way beyond his years, are full of his experiences growing up, his lust for life, his grief at the loss of loved ones, his hopes and fears, his love and his stoicism.

Andrew Cushin released his debut single It’s Gonna Get Better (2020) followed by Waiting For The Rain (2020); ’Where’s My Family Gone’ (2021) featuring production and guitar from Noel Gallagher and in 2022, through Peter Doherty’s Strap Originals label, You Don’t Belong EP and double A Side single You’ll Be Free / Dream For A Moment.

“Cushin recalls acoustic Noel Gallagher circa Morning Glory.” – Sunday Times Culture.

“The kitchen-sink realism of his songs, raised on the concrete turfs of council estates and smokefilled social clubs of Newcastle, is something the chart-topping Toms, Jacks and Georges of guitarpop are not only desperately lacking, but entirely unaware of.” - The Line of Best Fit.

TRACK LISTING

1. Let Me Give It To You
2. Just Like You’d Want Me To
3. Comedown
4. It’s Coming Round Again
5. 4.5%
6. Broken Love Song
7. Waiting For The Rain
8. Wor Flags
9. Dream For A Moment
10. I Want You To Be There
11. You’ll Be Free
12. The End

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Vona Vella

Vona Vella

Strap Originals

Leicestershire’s answer to Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, Vona Vella (Izzy Davis and Dan Cunningham) release their eponymously titled debut album, through Strap Originals on Friday 28th July. ‘Vona Vella’ was recorded at The Libertines’ Albion Rooms studio in Margate and produced by Jason Stafford (Jamie T, Sports Team, The Libertines) and Vona Vella.

The Indies only Blue vinyl also has an exclusive Night Time Cover. All twelve tracks on the album were co-written by the duo: Dan playing the guitar and piano, with Izzy on guitar and flute… and joined by Jake Bott on drums. Having toured last year supporting the Libertines, Tim Burgess and Morcheeba and last month Peter Doherty, Vona Vella performed at The Great Escape in Brighton along with a headline show in London and an appearance at Dot2Dot Festival in May and supported Reverend & The Makers in Bristol on June 11th at Dareshack. Further headline shows and festival appearances will be announced shortly.

Vona Vella comprises twenty-one-year-old singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Izzy Davis and Dan Cunningham. The band officially formed in Autumn 2020, after Ross Godfrey from the band Morcheeba heard their (then-unreleased) single ‘Sun’ and decided to remix it. Once released it proved an instant viral hit, racking up over 1 million streams. Vona Vella released their debut EP ‘Go Outside Forever,’ in early 2022, which was given a glowing review by none other than Paul Heaton and in January of this year a remix of the title track from the EP, ’Go Outside Forever,’ was featured in the hugely successful NBA2K23 video game. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Divine
2. Thought We Were Falling In Love
3. Ariel
4. Intertwined
5. Kim
6. Telephones
7. Stop Running In The Dark
8. I Would Do Anything You Wanted To
9. Anchor
10. Old Girl
11. What We Could Be
12. Roll Into Forever 

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