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Peter Doherty

Felt Better Alive

    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

    Warmduscher

    Too Cold To Hold

      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

      Jack Jones

      Jack Jones

        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

        Real Farmer

        Compare What’s There

          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

          Pregoblin

          Pregoblin II

            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)

            Trampolene

            Swansea To Hornsey - Anniversary Edition

              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

              Andrew Cushin

              Waiting For The Rain

                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

                Vona Vella

                Vona Vella

                  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 

                  ‘Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres’ was recorded live to beautifully capture the essence and spirit of the Puta Madres at a family home overlooking a fishing village in Étretat Normandy, over 4 days last summer and mixed at Urchin Studios (East London). The album is engineered by Dan Cox (Laura Marling, Thurston Moore, Florence & The Machine)and produced by Jai Stanley (long time friend and manager).

                  ‘Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres’ is a devastatingly intimate portrait of love, loss, being lost, happiness, tragedy, addiction and the power of the human soul to transcend its darker levels. All the songs from the album were road tested over the last 18 months across Europe at Festivals and headline shows.

                  Songs include the reflective ‘All At Sea,’ the raw ‘Punk Buck Bonafide,’ the upbeat and playful ‘Shoreleave,’ the joyous hymn of liberation ‘Paradise Is Under Your Nose,’ ‘Someone Else To Be’ Peter’s re-imagining of the Velvet Underground’s ‘Ride Into The Sun’ and Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger and ‘Who’s Been Having You Over’ with dialogue from the 1948 film adaption of Graham Greene ‘Brighton Rock’ and the cheeky poke at his own notoriety,“You’re so rock’n’roll.”

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Who’s Been Having You Over
                  Paradise Is Under Your Nose
                  Narcissistic Teen Makes First XI
                  Someone Else To Be
                  The Steam
                  Travelling Tinker
                  Lamentable Ballad Of Gascony Avenue
                  A Fool There Was
                  Shoreleave
                  Punk Buck Bonafide

                  Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres

                  Who’s Been Having You Over / Paradise Is Under Your Nose

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

                    Listen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWgDKIr3VmQ&feature=youtu.be 2000 only worldwide on pink vinyl. Who’s Been Having You Over is the first single from Peter Doherty, The Libertines and Babyshambles new band, The Puta Madres. Paradise Is Under Your Nose will be the second single. This special RSD release brings both digital only singles together. These mixes are exclusive to this RSD release and wont be on vinyl again. Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres release their eponymously titled debut album on Friday 26th April though Strap Originals. ‘Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres’ was recorded live to beautifully capture the essence and spirit of the Puta Madres at a family home overlooking a fishing village in Étretat Normandy, over 4 days last summer and mixed at Urchin Studios (East London). The album is engineered by Dan Cox (Laura Marling, Thurston Moore, Florence & The Machine)and produced by Jai Stanley (long time friend and manager). ‘Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres’ is a devastatingly intimate portrait of love, loss, being lost, happiness, tragedy, addiction and the power of the human soul to transcend its darker levels. All the songs from the album were road tested over the last 18 months across Europe at Festivals and headline shows. Tracks : Who's Been Having You Over (CT Single Mix) - 3.41 / Paradise Is Under Your Nose (Single Version) - 4.41


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