Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house scene and inspired generations of DJs worldwide in particular he was a massive inspiration to Daft Punk and the 'French Touch' scene.

Releasing a vast amount of music throughout the 1990s for some of the most consistently underground dance labels including legendary Chicago imprints Cajual, Relief and Dance Mania he finally gained global fame with his 1999 hit 'Get Get Down', a dancefloor anthem that topped charts across Europe. Despite facing physical challenges, including losing both legs in accidents, he remained an unstoppable force in music—touring, producing, and uplifting others with his resilient spirit and signature groove.

Paul Johnson’s classic 1995 debut album on Peacefrog, 'Bump Talkin' is a timeless showcase of Paul’s signature deep, soulful house sound, blending irresistible peak-time, piano-driven anthems with a playful touch of bouncy Ghetto House energy. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Hour Glass Figure
2. Fantasise
3. 4 The World
4. Time Of Love
5. Caught Up In Your Love
6. Bump Talkin
7. Bouncing Bed Springs
8. Autobahn Cruise
9. Tenacious

'Complete Body Talk' is the definitive vinyl compilation of Robyn’s groundbreaking 'Body Talk' trilogy. Personally curated by Robyn, this 2LP set unifies 'Body Talk' Parts 1, 2, and 3 into one continuous collection, featuring fan-favourite tracks including 'Dancing On My Own', 'Call Your Girlfriend', 'Hang With Me' and more.

Pressed on coke bottle vinyl, the set is housed in a premium sleeve highlighted by a silver metallic, reflective front cover.

A complete and iconic package celebrating one of modern pop’s most influential album projects.

TRACK LISTING

1. Don't Fucking Tell Me What to Do
2. Fembot
3. Dancing on My Own
4. Cry When You Get Older
5. Dancehall Queen
6. None of Dem Featuring Röyksopp
7. In My Eyes
8. Include Me Out
9. Hang With Me
10. Hang With Me – Acoustic Version
11. Love Kills
12. We Dance To The Beat
13. Criminal Intent
14. U Should Know Better Featuring Snoop Dogg
15. Indestructible
16. Time Machine
17. Call Your Girlfriend
18. Get Myself Together
19. Stars 4-Ever
20. Indestructible – Acoustic Version 

Recorded in caves, crypts, and shopping centers, Mandy, Indiana's debut album 'I've Seen A Way' is everywhere at once: Their first recordings emerged around 2019, with a smattering of early singles released not long after, culminating in 2021’s critically acclaimed '… EP' which saw the band draw early cosigns including a remix from Daniel Avery and support slots from Squid, and Gilla Band. The latter’s Daniel Fox mixed several of the tracks on the album alongside Robin Stewart (Giant Swan) and the album was mastered by Heba Kedry (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bjork). Like Thomas Bangalter locked in This Heat's Cold Storage fridge studio with Special Interest for a weekend, keeping their setup minimal for maximum effect. Buried found sound samples, sprawling percussive experiments are arranged via oblique references to film soundtrack strategies and experimental video games.. "We take inspiration from films where the language of cinema is disrupted," explains Fair, who takes Julia Ducournau's narrative detournements as a key influence. "We want to alter textures, create clashes, and craft those moments when what you're expecting to happen never comes – by subverting expectations you keep an audience on its toes." Though 'I’ve Seen A Way' was painstakingly crafted, where Mandy, Indiana thrives is the unexpected - and the resulting album sounds like nothing that has come before it.

TRACK LISTING

1. Love Theme 4K VHS
2. Drag Crashed
3. Pinking Shears
4. Injury Detail
5. Mosaick
6. The Driving Rain 18
7. 2 Stripe
8. Iron Maiden
9. Peach Fuzz
10. Crystal Aura Redux
11. Sensitivity Training

Big release outta Casablanca, Morocco from Cee ElAssaad.

The A side starts up with a massive organ house workout that has been played on repeat at Mad Mats' residency at the Soulmates club in Stockholm over the last 6 months or so. A peak time jam rich with spiritual organ licks and boucy beat. Sublime! Emmaculate is on hand to throw down a remix, and it doesn't hold back. Deep, bumpy and utterly funky. Again...those house organs are fully at work!

On the B side Cee goes to church with deep but slight jackin' 4/4s over some heavy gospel preaching. Marcel Vogel makes a long overdue guest visit and delivers a big gospel intro that moves into a jazzy and thumpin' house affair. Big things via Local Talk!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: New guy Cee ElAssaad joins the Local Talk roster with an incredible double header, given extra legs by royal remixes from Marcel Vogel and Emmaculate. Every track's a winner here and should have you strutting around like a proud peacock. Rich musicality, infectious beats, snappy arrangements, this one's got it all.

TRACK LISTING

a. set me free (original)
a. set me free (emmaculate remix)
a. jumpin' (original)
a. jumpin' (marcel vogel remix)

An elegant, erudite and insightful study of a unique and exceptional group, In Another World explores the full creative lifespan of Talk Talk and Mark Hollis while focusing on four remarkable records: The Colour of Spring, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, alongside Hollis’s eponymous solo album, released in 1998.

A quartet of timeless, uncategorisable masterpieces, these works grow in stature with each passing year. Separately, each one is a towering achievement in its own right. Taken together, they become a self-contained universe sculpted in sound.

In Another World mixes close critical analysis of the music, its recurring themes, prevailing moods, unique qualities and ever-growing influence, with informed artist biography, personal reflection, and a vivid reconstruction of the painstaking working methodologies from which these albums emerged.

The book draws on scores of in-depth interviews with original band members and many of the core group of musicians, producers and engineers who helped create the music, as well as record label executives, friends and admiring fellow artists.

Lyrical and impressionistic, engaging and revelatory, the result is a deep and informed immersion in a singular musical world which has fascinated listeners for more than three decades.

'Cost of Living Adjustment' is the sort-of self-titled album from Cola, the Montreal trio of Tim Darcy (vocals/guitar), Ben Stidworthy (bass), and Evan Cartwright (percussion). 'C.O.L.A.' — an acronym for 'Cost of Living Adjustment' — is a fitting conceptual framework for the band's third record. Why? Because 'C.O.L.A.' considers, among other things, socialism vs. hell. It considers: rolling the dice of life. The erie and sweet pangs that nostalgia can provoke. Following two studio LPs which earned the trio praise from Rolling Stone (Best Indie Rock Albums of 2024), Pitchfork (Best Rock Albums of 2024), Stereogum (Best Songs of 2022) and more, 'Cost of Living Adjustment' is abstract, oblique, sometimes strange, whatever you want to call it. But it is also beautiful, in the classic sense. Beautiful like a painting can be beautiful. It touches on the sublime. It is Cola, the band, at their very best.

TRACK LISTING

1. Forced Position
2. Hedgesitting
3. Fainting Spells
4. Haveluck Country
5. Satre-torial
6. Polished Knives
7. Much Of Muchness
8. Third Double
9. Conflagration Mindset
10. Favoured Over The Ride
11. Skywriter's Sigh

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40th Anniversary of the classic and controversial 1986 EP from Jim and William Reid, it also features the title track to Psychocandy, plus four acoustic radio sessions.

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First official vinyl release of the demo sessions recorded by the original three-piece lineup of Talking Heads (Tina Weymouth, David Byrne and Chris Frantz) for CBS/Columbia in 1975. Featuring 15 tracks across 2LPs cut at 45rpm by Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling Sound. Includes demos of "Psycho Killer", " Love --> Building On Fire", "Warning Sign" and more.

'Everything', the debut album from Chicago quartet Bnny, may as well be a field recording taken from the lone country of grief. Written in sessions that span several years by singer Jess Viscius as she processed the death of her partner, the album is a chronicle of love at its most complex and loss at its most persistent. In the same vein as 'Sky Blue Sky'-era Wilco or the harrowing vulnerability of Tomberlin or Helena Deland, Viscius’ songwriting is evocative and intentional. A longstanding member of the Windy City music scene, the album was produced by Dehd’s Jason Balla, and the sparse arrangements pick apart complicated truths while feeling both timeless and transcendent.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ambulance
2. August
3. Promises
4. Take That Back
5. Time Walk
6. So Wrong
7. Sure
8. Not Even You
9. Blind
10. Dreaming
11. Thaw
12. Little Flower
13. Stardust
14. Voice Memo

There are one million ways to approach love, one million ways to experience love, one million ways in which love shapes both the course of our lives and how we choose to navigate that course. On her second album, Bnny’s Jessica Viscius looks love square in its many eyes and describes, with self-awareness and humor, not only what she sees, but what it makes her feel. Deep romantic love, breathy lust, generous self-love—and their opposites, self-loathing, resentment, disappointment—all make appearances. Like a sheet being draped over a clothesline, channeling Mazzy Star and mimicking the soft, gauzy, fresh feeling of realizing you’re able to begin it all again with a new person. Recorded in Asheville at Drop of Sun and produced by Viscius alongside Alex Farrar (Wednesday, Indigo De Souza, Snail Mail), 'One Million Love Songs' is Bnny’s revelatory second album.

TRACK LISTING

1. Missing
2. Good Stuff
3. Crazy, Baby
4. Something Blue
5. Screaming, Dreaming
6. Sweet
7. Nothing Lasts
8. Rainbow
9. Changes
10. Get It Right
11. No One

Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in their college band called The Artistics. In the spring semester of 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a demo tape. The cassette featured tracks soon to be classics in the Talking Heads discography: 'Warning Sign' and 'Psycho Killer'.

TRACK LISTING

LP Tracklisting:
1. Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo) 
2. Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo) 
3. No Compassion (September 1975 Demo) 
4. Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo) 
5. I'm Not In Love (1976 Demo) 
6. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (1976 Demo) 
7. The Book I Read (1976 Demo) (
8. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (1976 Demo) 
9. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (1976 Demo) 
10. Happy Day (1976 Demo)
11. Artists Only (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76) 
7" Vinyl:
1. Psycho Killer
2. Warning Sign 

CD Tracklisting:
1. Psycho Killer (September 1975 Demo)
2. Tentative Decisions (September 1975 Demo)
3. No Compassion (September 1975 Demo)
4. Warning Sign (September 1975 Demo)
5. I'm Not In Love (1976 Demo)
6. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (1976 Demo)
7. The Book I Read (1976 Demo)
8. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (1976 Demo)
9. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (1976 Demo)
10. Happy Day (1976 Demo)
11. Artists Only (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
12. Psycho Killer
13. Warning Sign
14. Psycho Killer (CBS/Columbia Demo)
15. Sugar On My Tongue (CBS/Columbia Demo)
16. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (CBS/Columbia Demo)
17. I Want To Live (CBS/Columbia Demo)
18. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (CBS/Columbia Demo)
19. The Girls Want To Be With The Girls (CBS/Columbia Demo)
20. Who Is It? (CBS/Columbia Demo)
21. With Our Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)
22. Stay Hungry (CBS/Columbia Demo)
23. Tentative Decisions (CBS/Columbia Demo)
24. Warning Sign (CBS/Columbia Demo)
25. I'm Not In Love (CBS/Columbia Demo)
26. The Book I Read (CBS/Columbia Demo)
27. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (CBS/Columbia Demo)
28. No Compassion (CBS/Columbia Demo)
29. Artists Only (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
30. 1, 2, 3 Red Light (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
31. Happy Day (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
32. Don't Worry About The Government (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
33. Psycho Killer (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
34. Love Goes To A Building On Fire (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
35. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
36. With Our Love (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
37. Pablo Picasso (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
38. I'm Not In Love (Live At Max's Kansas City, New York, NY, 10/9/76)
39. No Compassion (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
40. New Feeling (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
41. Psycho Killer (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
42. A Clean Break (Let's Work) [Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77]
43. Sugar On My Tongue (Live At The Jabberwocky Club, Syracuse, NY, 1/26/77)
44. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)
45. Take Me To The River (Live At The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY, 8/17/76)

Often lauded a masterpiece, 'Spirit Of Eden' marked a radical change from Talk Talk’s synth-pop beginnings - moulding into an album that would go onto pioneer post-rock. The album was produced over the course of almost a year, compiling improvised, experimental performances which culminated in a mixture of jazz, ambient, and rock into one of the most experimental albums. Released in 1988, the album has somewhat grown in cult status to frequently appear on a number of greatest albums of all time lists. The album will be cut at half-speed for the first time at Metropolis Studios, following up from the half-speed master of 'It’s My Life' at the end of 2024.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Rainbow
2. Eden
3. Desire
4. Inheritance
5. I Believe In You
6. Wealth

Rare as fish knees, roots gem!

“Me Look Like A Lion But Me Humble Like A Man”

Fredrick Dookie & Desmond Silpatt were cousins and close friends who though not prolific, created one stunning reggae tune which has been near impossible to find for over 40 years.
Like artists from Supercat to Sheila Rickards, Freddie & Dessie are of Indo-Jamaican descent. They gravitated to music from an early age.

Recorded at Aquarius and arranged by Wire Lindo, the track features back up vocals from a young Beres Hammond.

"I have loved this song for a very long time and this exclusive reissue has been in the works for several years since I tracked down one half of the duo Dessie aka Desmond Silpatt who is now based in Florida." says Chris from Shella Records.

Freddie who provides the song’s hypnotic vocal was a devout Rasta man who sadly passed away in 2019. He is survived by Dessie, a renaissance man, inventor and author who has penned thousands of songs in his time.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Supreme and massively under the radar roots gem with a proper dub version to boot. Shella continue their domination of our reggae section.

TRACK LISTING

Girls Talk
Version

Talk Show is a new duo collaboration featuring Steph Richards on trumpets and resonating surfaces and Qasim Naqvi on drums, almglocken bells and modular synthesizer. Having worked together on other projects for almost two decades, 'Miss America' marks their first, pure duo collaboration – a space to engage with a sonic language they’ve been cultivating together for years.

The album was recorded live, with Qasim crafting real-time electronics and drum set work, and Steph using trumpets and resonating percussion to summon sympathetic vibrations and otherworldly sounds through timpani, snare and water. The trumpet sounds electronically processed, though every sound is acoustic. Both artists wanted to retain the live nature of their process, so what you hear is virtually untouched.

Sharing an appetite for experimentalism, theatricality and irreverent collisions of sound and image, Qasim and Steph met in 2008 at CalArts- which was a breeding ground for open creative thought and cross disciplinary collaboration. Often working with directors in the theater program, choreographers, or experimental and character animators, Steph and Qasim’s musical language has a rooting in visual performance art. From their first premiere, costumed together inside a giant two-person dress sculpture that consumed a drum set, to their most recent 2025 audio visual nightmare which explores the horrors of 80s daytime reality talk shows, this duo presents a voice the grimy and the grotesque: a new beauty of questionable acts and character flaws in sound.

TRACK LISTING

1. Royalties
2. Mom’s Night Out
3. Miss America
4. Soft As A Rock
5. Death Bed

Twenty-five years since its release My Life Story are reissuing their classic album ‘Joined Up Talking’. 


A nostalgic glance back, delivered with fresh perspective, the brit-pop band’s third album has been lovingly remastered and will be released on vinyl for the first time ever this Autumn. Available on double coloured vinyl, there is also a 3xCD package on offer, full of B-Sides, rarities, and period gems.

Brimming with wit, ambition and unmistakable My Life Story flair, Joined Up Talking features the singles It’s a Girl Thing, Empire Line and Walk/Don’t Walk, plus the groundbreaking world’s first downloadable single If You Can’t Live Without Me Then Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?.

Self-produced with programming wiz Pete Gleadall at Parkgate Studios in 1999, the album has the feel of a millennium time capsule. References to Monica Lewinsky, Tamagotchis, Pret A Manger, the dot-com boom, and even megabytes of storage reflect the everyday vocabulary of the turn of the century with Shillingford’s typically irreverent style.

Across album tracks like “The New New Yorker”, Shillingford stitches together topical newspaper headlines into surreal narratives, while “I Don’t Believe in Love” — originally written when Shillingford was 17 — reveals the band’s roots in classic songwriting traditions.

Building up to the release fans have enjoyed accessing a treasure trove of archive material from the era — digitised tapes, press cuttings and photos — which Jake has shared on his Patreon page.

My Life Story will also perform the album in full alongside a career-spanning “best of” set on special tour dates throughout December.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Side A (Joined Up Talking Remastered)
1. Empire Line
2. If You Can’t Live Without Me Then Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?
3. It’s A Girl Thing
4. Sunday Tongue
5. Yes To Everything
6. Walk/Don’t Walk

Vinyl Side B (Joined Up Talking Remastered)
1. There’s Nothing For Nobody And Everybody Wants To Be Someone
2. The New New Yorker
3. Neverland
4. Stalemate
5. I Don’t Believe In Love
6. Two Stars

Vinyl Side C (B Sides)
1. Cherries
2. Holy Deadlock
3. Emerald Green Blah Blah Blah
4. My Sweet Little Death
5. The History Of The World On Ice
6. I’m A Statistic
7. Sleep

Vinyl Side D (B Sides)
1. Florence's Theme
2. Self-Defence Mechanism
3. Paint It Emerald Green
4. It's A Boy Thing
5. E.G.M.C.M.X.C.I.X

CD 1 (Joined Up Talking Remastered)
1. Empire Line
2. If You Can’t Live Without Me Then Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?
3. It’s A Girl Thing
4. Sunday Tongue
5. Yes To Everything
6. Walk / Don’t Walk
7. There’s Nothing For Nobody And Everybody Wants To Be Someone
8. The New New Yorker
9. Neverland
10. Stalemate
11. I Don’t Believe In Love
12. Two Stars

CD 2 (B Sides)
1. Cherries
2. Holy Deadlock
3. Emerald Green Blah Blah Blah
4. My Sweet Little Death
5. The History Of The World On Ice
6. I’m A Statistic
7. Sleep
8. Florence’s Theme
9. Self-Defence Mechanism
10. Paint It Emerald Green
11. It’s A Boy Thing
12. Walk / Don’t Walk (Parts 1 & 2)
13. E.G.M.C.M.X.C.I.X.

CD 3 (Demos And Rarities)
1. Neverland (RAK Demo ’97)
2. New New Yorker (RAK Demo ’97)
3. Emerald Green Blah Blah Blah (RAK Demo ’97)
4. Walk / Don’t Walk (Battery Demo ’97)
5. Florence’s Theme (RAK Demo ’97)
6. It’s A Girl Thing (Matrix Demo ’98)
7. I Don’t Believe In Love (Matrix Demo ’98)
8. Sunday Tongue (Matrix Demo ’98)
9. Empire Line (Single Version)
10. Grieve (Matrix Demo ’98)
11. Here Comes The Big Weekend (Matrix Demo ’98)
12. If You Can’t Live Without Me Then Why Aren’t You Dead Yet? (Matrix Demo ’98)
13. Stalemate (Matrix Demo ’98)
14. Two Stars (Matrix Demo ’98)
15. There’s Nothing For Nobody And Everybody Wants To Be Someone (Demo ’97)
16. It’s A Girl Thing (D-Bop’s Boys Mix)

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Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and David Byrne met as students at Rhode Island School of Design, and made music in their college band called The Artistics. In the spring semester of 1974, the band gathered in Frantz’s Benefit Street apartment to record a demo tape. The cassette featured tracks soon to be classics in the Talking Heads discography: 'Warning Sign' and 'Psycho Killer'. This new collection includes this newly discovered material alongside an additional 11 demo and live tracks recorded by the original trio lineup of the band (Bassist Tina Weymouth alongside Frantz and Byrne) in 1975 and 1976.

TRACK LISTING

1. PSYCHO KILLER (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
2. TENTATIVE DECISIONS (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
3. NO COMPASSION (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
4. WARNING SIGN (SEPTEMBER 1975 DEMO)
5. I’M NOT IN LOVE (1976 DEMO)
6. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (1976 DEMO)
7. THE BOOK I READ (1976 DEMO)
8. I WISH YOU WOULDN’T SAY THAT (1976 DEMO)
8. LOVE GOES TO A BUILDING ON FIRE (1976 DEMO)
10. HAPPY DAY (1976 DEMO)
11. ARTISTS ONLY (LIVE AT THE OCEAN CLUB, NEW YORK, NY, AUGUST 17, 1976)

7":
1. PSYCHO KILLER - THE ARTISTICS
2. WARNING SIGN - THE ARTISTICS

Small Talk is Chicago duo Whitney’s fourth and unequivocally best and most affecting album. After a decade of being roommates and bandmates, first in Smith Westerns and then in Whitney, Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek entered the studio in the Summer of 2024 sans-producer, with assorted pals dropping in to add parts. The result is 11 incandescent songs that delight on two levels. There are: instant classic Whitney songs here, tunes that tug at the same heartfelt melodic strings they’ve always pulled, and still other moments that speak to how much room they gave themselves to evolve.

TRACK LISTING

1. Silent Exchange
2. Islands (Really Something)
3. Won't You Speak Your Mind
4. In The Saddle
5. The Thread
6. Evangeline Ft. Madison Cunningham
7. Damage
8. Back To The Wind
9. Small Talk
10. Dandelions
11. Darling

The Wytches return for their latest incendiary album, 'Talking Machine', the
Brighton 4 piece bringing a whole new avalanche of their undeniable psych
infused jet black soundscapes alongside a pleasingly lengthy tour.

"I saw the term 'Talking Machine' in a book I was reading about Thomas Edison" lead singer Kristian muses. "It was a nickname for gramophones. I thought that was ftting enough for an album title but I guess like a lot of people, the whole AI thing has been on my mind a lot and I saw a connection there too. Thomas Edison would host these events called Tone Tests where he'd demonstrate how much audio recordings had advanced by fooling the audience in to thinking they were listening to musicians playing live but it was actually all pre-recorded, playing from a gramophone. People feared that a lot of jobs in the entertainment industry and beyond would be replaced by technology, a lot like what's going on now."

TRACK LISTING

1. Talking Machine
2. Black Ice
3. Coffin Nails
4. Perform
5. Factory
6. Romance
7. Is The World Too Old
8. Nothing To See
9. When The Obsession Began
10. Don't Make It For Me
11. Romance 2

Colombia's finest purveyor of all things jazzy and musical, Felipe Gordon is back on Local Talk with a double album, but this time around he's going all live.

Together with his 8 piece band, Felipe has recorded a "Live Session" that perfectly explains how live played jazz, funk and fusion work so well with electronic dance music. Over eight compositions, Felipe and his band explore everything from downtempo jazz-funk (example, check 'Wes'), jazz-fusion (example, check 'Socorro Y Jupiter'), jazz-house (example, check 'Strings Of The Afterlife').

There's even a great disco-funk cover of 'Gypsy Woman' for added dancefloor effect.

All together, this is a beautiful session where Felipe and his friends showcase what you can expect when you experience this band live on stage...Bogota style!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Wes
A2. The Semi Modular Bird Of Jazz (feat Paula Pera)
A3. Strings Of The Afterlife
B1. Keeping It Jazz / New Arrival
B2. Highly Deep And Conductive
C1. The Colombian Excursions Of House Music
C2. Socorro Y Jupiter
D1. Gipsy Woman (feat Paula Pera & Bob The Egoist)
D2. Son Esquivias

Talking Heads’ groundbreaking second album, 'More Songs About Buildings and Food'. The collection captures a pivotal moment in their evolution and marks the first of three albums produced with Brian Eno and includes a nice selection of rarities!

TRACK LISTING

More Songs About Buildings & Food Tracklisting:
1. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL
2. WITH OUR LOVE
3. THE GOOD THING
4. WARNING SIGN
5. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS
6. FOUND A JOB
7. ARTISTS ONLY 
8. I’M NOT IN LOVE
9. STAY HUNGRY
10. TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
11. THE BIG COUNTRY

Rarities:
1. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (ALTERNATE VERSION)
2. WITH OUR LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)
3. FOUND A JOB (ALTERNATE VERSION)
4. THE GOOD THING (ALTERNATE VERSION)
5. WARNING SIGN (ALTERNATE VERSION)
6. ELECTRICITY (INSTRUMENTAL) 
7. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS (ALTERNATE VERSION) 
8. I’M NOT IN LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)
9. ARTISTS ONLY (ALTERNATE VERSION)
10. THE BIG COUNTRY (ALTERNATE VERSION)
11. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (“COUNTRY ANGEL” VERSION)

Live (3CD & 4LP Box Set Only):
1. NO COMPASSION (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
2. WARNING SIGN (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
3. THE BOOK I READ (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
4. STAY HUNGRY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
5. ARTISTS ONLY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
6. THE GIRLS WANT TO BE WITH THE GIRLS (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
7. UH-OH, LOVES COMES TO TOWN (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
8. WITH OUR LOVE (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
9. LOVE GOES TO A BUILDING ON FIRE (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
10. DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
11. THE GOOD THING (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
12. ELECTRICITY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
13. THE BIG COUNTRY (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
14. NEW FEELING (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
15. PULLED UP (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
16. PSYCHO KILLER (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
17. TAKE ME TO THE RIVER (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
18. FOUND A JOB (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)
19. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (LIVE AT ENTERMEDIA THEATRE, NEW YORK, NY, OCTOBER 10, 1978)

Blu-Ray:

1. Original Album: Dolby Atmos Mix, 5.1 Mix, Hi-Res Stereo
2. Video: Live At Entermedia Theater, 1978 (25 Minute Promotional Film)
3. Video: Live At Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, CA, September 18th, 1978 (47 Minute Single-Camera Video)

On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band, capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York City and showing how a group of art students brought fringe culture to rock’s mainstream, forever changing the look and sound of popular music. “Psycho Killer.” “Take Me to the River.” “Road to Nowhere.” Few musical artists have had the lasting impact and relevance of Talking Heads. One of the foundational bands of New York’s downtown 1970s music scene, Talking Heads have endured as a musical and cultural force for decades. Their unique brand of transcendent, experimental rock remains a lingering influence on popular music—despite their having disbanded over thirty years ago. Now New Yorker contributor Jonathan Gould offers an authoritative, deeply researched account of a band whose sound, fame, and legacy forever connected rock music to the cultural avant-garde.

From their art school origins to the enigmatic charisma of David Byrne and the internal tensions that ultimately broke them apart, Gould tells the story of a group that emerged when rock music was still young and went on to redefine the prevailing expectations of how a band could sound, look, and act. At a time when guitar solos, lead-singer swagger, and sweaty stadium tours reigned supreme, Talking Heads were precocious, awkward, quirky, and utterly distinctive when they first appeared on the ragged stages of the East Village. Yet they would soon mature into one of the most accomplished and uncompromising recording and performing acts of their era. More than just a biography of a band, Gould masterfully captures the singular time and place that incubated and nurtured this original music: downtown New York in the 1970s, that much romanticized, little understood milieu where art, music, and commerce collided in the urban dystopia of Lower Manhattan.

What emerges is an expansive portrait of a unique cultural moment and an iconoclastic band that shifted the paradigm of popular music by burning down the house of mainstream rock.

The 1986 Talk Talk album that showed Hollis and co in the process of turning their backs on chart pop sounds for a more pastoral, experimental prog-flecked gem and setting the path for their 'Spirit of Eden' masterpiece.

TRACK LISTING

1. Happiness Is Easy
2. I Don't Believe In You
3. Life's What You Make It
4. April 5th
5. Living In Another World
6. Give It Up
7. Chameleon Day
8. Time It's Time

Often cited for "anticipating post-rock" and influencing artists like Radiohead, this 1988 masterpiece was conceived through hours of improvised performances edited down and arranged using digital equipment. The end result has elements of rock, jazz, classical, ambient.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Rainbow
2. Eden
3. Desire
4. Inheritance
5. I Believe In You
6. Wealth

Talk Talk's musical journey took them from early 80s synth-pop to early 90s post-rock resulting in a diverse and stimulating legacy. This 1982 release showcases the synth-pop/new wave side to the band. After supporting Duran Duran on their 1981 tour, they released the single 'Mirror Man', as well as their two UK Top 40 hits 'Today' and 'Talk Talk' – all of which are included amongst other great songs on the album.

Their debut album, 'The Party's Over' was released in 1982 and produced by Colin Thurston, who was a former engineer for David Bowie but was better known for producing Duran Duran's first two albums.

A product of its time, the album is classic synth-pop teamed with lyrical depth that went on to be synonymous with lead singer, Mark Hollis.

TRACK LISTING

1. Talk Talk
2. It's So Serious
3. Today
4. The Party's Over
5. Hate
6. Have You Heard The News?
7. Mirror Man
8. Another Word
9. Candy

'Different Talking', the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, seems to exist across time and space, as we all kind of do. It’s a collection of fragments and memories, remembered places, and reinterpreted feelings that adds up to a lucent, humming whole: a sturdy, worldly indie-rock record about aging and the passage of time that nonetheless manages to feel sharply current. Frankie Cosmos’ lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter Greta Kline has long been heralded as one of contemporary indie music’s most deft and most necessary writers, but on 'Different Talking', her lyrics soften out slightly, the wry cynicism that defined recent records now giving way to an acknowledgment of the awesome, and necessary, fallibility of the human brain and heart.

To classify 'Different Talking' as a return to form, or at least a return to the lush directness of earlier Frankie Cosmos records, would be rude but also wholly incorrect: as 'Different Talking' makes clear, you can never return to the comfort and bravery of your early twenties, but that person always kind of lives inside you, no matter how much you change. 'Different Talking' is about finding that person, honoring them, and learning from them. “A lot of the album is about being grown up and figuring out how to know yourself – like, ‘What is moving on?’” says Kline. “How do we move on when we’re addicted to a cycle of haunting our own past? Writing songs is just the way through that.”

Kline has been a fixture of the American indie underground since her late teens when her prolific Bandcamp releases and 2014 indie-label debut Zentropy led her to be dubbed “the poet laureate of New York City DIY.” A tag like that is a lot for young shoulders to take on, but it’s hard to deny the singular influence she has had on contemporary pop music. If the idea of a young woman picking up a synth in her bedroom, putting a couple of songs on the internet, and quickly becoming a superstar is now de rigeur, it’s because Kline and her peers normalized and exalted (female) DIY genius long before they were pinned to moodboards in major-label marketing offices.

A lot has changed since then: after going through a handful of different permutations over the past decade, Frankie Cosmos is now a four-piece featuring Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley. Kline is the only constant, but Stanley, Bailey, and Von Schleicher are crucial collaborators, and to use the names “Greta Kline” and “Frankie Cosmos” interchangeably would be incorrect. Kline remains the primary songwriter, and the music on Different Talking is arranged by the band as a whole, but this is the first album to be self-tracked and self-produced by the band. Not coincidentally, it feels like a purer, more distilled take. “It does feel like the best version of what I’ve wanted to make since I was a teenager,” says Kline. “Although this was recorded in a living room, it’s as high fidelity as anything we’ve made in the studio.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Retaining the pace and structure of their early work, but bolstered by the musical and production skills of Katie Von Schleicher and their earned experience (since the 2012 debut), Frankie Cosmos' 'Different Talking' shows a band at ease with their shifting sound. Warm synths, floating melodies and harmonies, perfectly crisp percussion and impeccable melodic sensibilities. Fantastically paced and perfectly formed.

TRACK LISTING

1. Pressed Flower
2. One Of Each
3. Against The Grain
4. Bitch Heart
5. Porcelain
6. One! Grey! Hair!
7. Vanity
8. Not Long
9. Margareta
10. Your Take On
11. High Five Handshake
12. You Become
13. Joyride
14. Tomorrow
15. Wonderland
16. Life Back
17. Pothole

With “New Yesterday”, E-Talking delivers an adrenaline-fueled and hypnotic three-tracker on his very own label, Nummer Music as we continue to feel the increased tempos and influence of trance onto modern dancefloors.

These three progressive journeys seamlessly blend the echoes of the past with modern synthesis, a skillful homage to the progressive trance scene of the late ‘90s / early ‘00s and the perfect follow-up to his “Cosmic Egg” EP released on Love On The Rocks in 2023, further defining E-Talking’s multi-layered sound. Tasty one!

TRACK LISTING

A1. No Future
B1. In Retrograde
B2. Regressive Jazz

‘Talkin To The Trees’ is a personal and powerful album featuring ten new compositions by Young. 'Big Change', the first song from the album, was released in January 2025, with a message that left no doubt where Neil Young stands in these challenging times.

The Chrome Hearts are Spooner Oldham (Organ); Micah Nelson (Guitar and Vocal); Corey McCormick (Bass and Vocal); Anthony LoGerfo (Drums); with Neil Young (Guitar, Harp, Piano, Vibes). The album is co-produced by Lou Adler and Young, and recorded at Shangri La Studios in Malibu.

TRACK LISTING

1. Family Life
2. Dark Mirage
3. First Fire Of Winter
4. Silver Eagle
5. Lets Roll Again
6. Big Change
7. Talkin To The Trees
8. Movin Ahead
9. Bottle Of Love
10. Thankful

Nico Lahs makes a triumphant comeback on Local Talk with a new release.

Those who favour the slower and more gritty house are in luck. Signals In Outer Space is yet another testament of Nico Lahs' ability to make house that doesn't belong to one style but rather cross several different ones with creativity and confidence.

Speaking of not belonging to one style, Marcellus Pittman delivers a remix that is unique and true to his sound.

Together Nico Lahs and Marcellus create a house 12" that is 100% Local Talk.

TRACK LISTING

A. Signals From Outer Space
A. Cruisin'
B. Cruisin' (marcellus Pittman Remix)

Team TD take a break from re-scoring Colin McCrae Rally to pay their own oddball homage to some of their DJ deities in the form of "Talking Drums Volume 8".
Keeping things diverse-yet-disco, this little mover grooves through Muzic Box pump, Lofty symphonics and a Ku-curveball with a smile on its face and a pep in its step.

The A-side erupts in a flash of sexy Euro-NRG, twisted and lifted to give any sweatbox a massive Hardy-on. Sequencers throb, swell and burst, horns wail and not one, but two, killer basslines blast the floor with erogenous urgency. Chuck in a coquettish vocal, delay madness and a fist pumping breakdown and you've got pure peak-time play folks.

The B1 belongs to the sumptuous strings, loose funk and live disco strut of "Too Hot". Low slung, low tempo but plenty punchy, this classy cut builds and builds through Merc-y repetition before blooming a fully fledged groover. Taut funk breaks sit beneath a floor-filling vocal and twinkling Rhodes, the wah guitar works overtime, and it all adds up to take the dance floor temperature sky high. Enjoy on a hi-fi sound system with plenty of spiked punch.

The curtain call comes via the alfresco flamenco-frenzy of Ronseal-approved "Maximum Balearic Dancer", which does exactly what it says on the tin. The TD troupe takes a tiny snippet of Swiss fusion and fleshes it out into the fully fledged floor-filler it always deserved to be. Blessed with a buoyant bassline and balmy mood, this beauty sways along through some weird but wonderful synth riffs, holding you close for that soul-soaring piano solo.
Sometimes you gotta wake up on a beach naked.

Limited Press - Numbered Insert - Drum Fun Guaranteed. .

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Those crate digging crazies are back doing what they do best - mining the sickest seams of oddball disco, new wave debonair and Balearic pomp. Volume 8 keeps the dream(ers) alive and shuffling.

TRACK LISTING

A. Fever Dreams
B1. Too Hot
B2. Maximum Balearic Dancer

Talk Talk’s 'Very Best Of' reissue is a newly re-ordered and now career-spanning compilation. Changes to the original 1997 release puts Talk Talk’s greatest hits in chronological order and with a new inclusion from the band’s final album, 'Laughing Stock'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Talk Talk
2 Today (Single Version)
3. Have You Heard The News?
4. It’s My Life
5. Such A Shame (Original Version)
6. Dum Dum Girl
7. Life’s What You Make It
8. Living In Another World
9. Give It Up
10. April 5th
11. Time It’s Time
12. I Believe In You (Single Version)
13. Eden (Edit)
14. Wealth
15. New Grass

Wish On The Bone' is Why Bonnie's sophomore LP and debut for Fire Talk. It's untethered from any landscape or genre, propelled by this freedom and resulting in Why Bonnie's most catchy, hopeful body of work to- date. Ranging from twangy country infused rock jams to more intimate and lo-fi arrangements, 'Wish on the Bone' is wide-eyed and waiting. It's a coming of age film in which the protagonist rejects the forces that have tried, and failed, to shape her into something other than herself. It leaves you with a hard- fought sense of hope, which is among songwriter Blair Howerton's greatest gifts. "You owe it to the people who are experiencing the worst to just keep pushing," Howerton says. That's the throughline of "Wish On The Bone", a record that rewards with repeated listens.

TRACK LISTING

Wish On The Bone
Dotted Line
Rhyme Or Reason
Fake Out
Headlight Sun
Green Things
All The Money
Peppermint
Three Big Moons
I Took The Shot

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Talk Talk’s iconic ‘It’s My Life’ album, it has been cut at Half-Speed by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, overseen by Talk Talk drummer Lee Harris and Charlie Hollis, son of Mark Hollis, giving the album a greater depth. Originally released in February 1984, ‘It’s My Life’ is the band's second album and followed the 1982 release of their debut ‘The Party’s Over’ which initially received moderate success in the UK reaching number 21 in the UK chart and finding some global success.

By the time they came to writing and recording ‘It’s My Life’ the band had gone from the four piece to a three with Simon Brenner leaving the band. The album initially found considerable international success. ‘Such A Shame', the album's first single was a top 10 hit across Europe and the album’s title track entered global Top 40’s including in the US. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: An absolute classic and a desert islands disc for Andy and me - but then so is most of Talk Talk's discography...

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Dum Dum Girl
2. Such A Shame
3. Renee
4. It’s My Life

Side 2
1. Tomorrow Started
2. The Last Time
3. Call In The Night Boy
4. Does Caroline Know?
5. It’s You

One year after the release of their studio album ‘Pink Color Surgery’, The Psychotic Monks return to us more assertive than ever with ‘Talking Through Repetition’. Renowned for their fiery, experimental and emotionally charged live performances, The Psychotic Monks decided to share the vital essence of their music to a wider audience by recording their current live set.

Recorded between shows in Dijon and Dunkerque during the bands 2023 tour, the live set (of track taken from ‘Pink Colour Surgery’) was recorded in one take at the legendary La Frette studios (Nick Cave, Arctic Monkeys), and once again stylishly produced by accomplice Daniel Fox (Gilla Band, Lambrini Girls, Sprints) and mastered by Jamie Hyland (CASKRÉ).

TRACK LISTING

01. All That Fall

02. Crash

03. Décors
04. Location.memory
05. Post-Post-
06. Smile, Imagerie

Punk pioneers Crass continue their vinyl reissue series, re-pressing their limited releases by adjacent artists through Crass Records, in association with One Little Independent. 

“The wonderful thing about Rubella Ballet is that they have always embraced Anarcho-punk hallmarks as much as they toss them aside” - Punk News

Rubella Ballet are a gothic punk band formed in 1979 known for their unique ultraviolet shows, wearing homemade Day-Glo clothes created by vocalist Zillah Minx. Rubella Ballet’s first gig supporting Crass and Poison Girls led to their own headline and support tours with the likes of Death Cult, The Damned, Faith No More, The Mission, Doctor and the Medics, Flux Of Pink Indians, Sex Gang Children, Conflict, Alien Sex Fiend and so many more.

Penny continues, “Rubella Ballet, ‘the one that got away’. Sid and Zillah, the key members of this progressively colourful outfit, are true punk warriors, indeed, they’re an unstoppable force. They’d have been released on Crass Records way before now but, back in the day, one of their other band members had a gripe with Crass, and put the mockers on it, so it never happened. But now, after the best part of fifty years, Crass Records are joyful to announce that Rubella Ballet are on board at last. Let the rainbows shower fairy dust on us all.”

Penny finally notes that “Our [Crass’s] interest was never in personalities, profits or power, and neither did we have time for reformist liberals. Our position was solidly revolutionary; we took no prisoners. Ours wasn’t a show, it was a battle, not a living, but a lifestyle, a lifestyle with a difference - rather than looking only to ourselves, we sought to share our gains. I feel that this willingness added great strength to the form of anarchism that we practiced both on stage and out on the street.”

In giving a platform to an impressive array of other bands, Crass Records broadened the front of what popularly became known as anarcho-punk. Not, it must be said, a moniker that Crass themselves much favoured. In this respect, Crass’s classic line, ‘There is no authority but yourself,’ makes its point. Crass sought to empower others, and the output of Crass Records does much to confirm this, while ‘2 By 2 And Back Again’ seems to nail it - ‘get out of your own way, we’re all in this together.’

TRACK LISTING

Money Talks
False Promises

Queer country rock from south of the Mason-Dixon line. High school
folkie Charles Brown teamed up with regional rural rock rascals Sleepy
Creek, triggering an unrequited inter-band love story and this album’s melancholy title track.

This 15-song LP gathers Brown’s solo and band work from 1976-’82, and Jon Freeman’s accompanying essay dissects the origin story of this private press pioneer.

TRACK LISTING

1. Just Want To Talk To You
2. Tennessee Woman
3. Talk Too Much Blues
4. Restless
5. The Hurtin’ Kind
6. Livin’ In A Suitcase
7. Circles
8. Trouble Is
9. All The Time
10. Like A Stone (Love Without Love)
11. Where Did The Love Go?
12. Colorado (My Lady Says)
13. On The Corner
14. The Hurtin’ Kind (Demo)
15. I Just Want To Talk To You (Live

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the celebrated Talking Heads and Jonathan Demme’s concert film Stop Making Sense, the set will be re-released as a 2LP and 2CD/Blu-ray set this summer.

When it arrived in September 1984, Stop Making Sense was an artistic and commercial triumph. The film had people dancing in theatre aisles, and the soundtrack sold over two million copies. Just last year, the Library of Congress added Stop Making Sense to the National Film Registry in recognition of its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance. The inspiration for Stop Making Sense came when director Jonathan Demme saw Talking Heads perform during the band’s 1983 tour for Speaking in Tongues. Afterward, he approached them with the idea of making the show into a concert film. They agreed and worked together over the next few months to finalize the details. Ultimately, Demme filmed three shows at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983 to create Stop Making Sense.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklisting:
A1 Psycho Killer
A2 Heaven
A3 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
A4 Found A Job
A5 Slippery People
A6 Cities
B1 Burning Down The House
B2 Life During Wartime
B3 Making Flippy Floppy
B4 Swamp
C1 What A Day That Was
C2 This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
C3 Once In A Lifetime
C4 Big Business / I Zimbra
D1 Genius Of Love
D2 Girlfriend Is Better
D3 Take Me To The River
D4 Crosseyed And Painless

CD Tracklisting:
CD1
1 Psycho Killer
2 Heaven
3 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
4 Found A Job
5 Slippery People
6 Cities
7 Burning Down The House
8 Life During Wartime
9 Making Flippy Floppy
10 Swamp
CD2
1 What A Day That Was
2 This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
3 Once In A Lifetime
4 Big Business / I Zimbra
5 Genius Of Love
6 Girlfriend Is Better
7 Take Me To The River
8 Crosseyed And Painless

Blu-Ray - As Above

Land of Talk, the influential Montreal-based outfit led by Lizzie Powell, today announced Applause Cheer Boo Hiss: The Definitive Edition, the expanded and remastered first vinyl reissue of the band’s beloved debut EP.

Applause Cheer Boo Hiss: The Definitive Edition is a collector’s dream, with bonus music spread out across two LPs housed in a gorgeous gatefold jacket with new and updated artwork. The first LP features a remastered and expanded 10-song version of the original EP, along with five additional downloadable bonus tracks of live material and remixes. The second LP features a remastered version of L'Aventure Acoustique, the limited and adored 10-track release featuring acoustic versions of all seven original Applause Cheer Boo Hiss tracks, as well as acoustic versions of “Young Bridge,” the future Land of Talk track “Some Are Lakes,” and a cover of Wintersleep’s “Weighty Ghost”—all on vinyl for the first time.

“I feel like I’m never going to be fully satisfied with anything I do, but having said that, I’m super proud of the whole EP. If that’s my legacy, I’m good,” says Powell. The urgent and raging Applause Cheer Boo Hiss opener “Speak to Me Bones” is also out today alongside a stripped-back acoustic version–one of five L'Aventure Acoustique songs mixed/engineered by Justin Vernon (who would go on to produce and play guitar on Land of Talk’s debut full length, Some Are Lakes, the following year). “[Fugazi’s] ‘Smallpox Champion’ is a song that definitely inspired the outro to ‘Speak to Me Bones,’ which is a song that I would love to play live again, especially because I wrote it long before MeToo, and since the MeToo movement a lot of people have been naming their abusers, and the abuse of powers in the music industry,” Powell explains.

TRACK LISTING

1. Speak To Me Bones
2. Sea Foam
3. Summer Special
4. Breaxxbaxx
5. Magnetic Hill
6. All My Friends
7. Street Wheels
8. Young Bridge
9. Two Ships
10. Dark Nature Places
11. Speak To Me Bones (Acoustic)
12. Sea Foam (Acoustic)
13. Summer Special (Acoustic)
14. Breaxxbaxx (Acoustic)
15. Magnetic Hill (Acoustic)
16. All My Friends (Acoustic)
17. Street Wheels (Acoustic)
18. Young Bridge (Acoustic)
19. Some Are Lakes (Acoustic)
20. Weighty Ghost (Acoustic Wintersleep Cover)

After the introduction that was their debut EP 'Hello, My Name Is', Currls now extend the invitation to explore their world even further with a 6 track EP that will leave you feeling empowered and wanting revolution. With rawness and honesty all throughout, each song poses a fresh perspective muscially and lyrically, whilst at times remaining tongue in cheek but discussing themes of angst and anxiety of the modern world. Currls remain your friends that will fight the cause and have your backs every step of the way.

Recorded in their hometown of Brighton, at Metway Studios, with finishing touches layed down at Bella Union's studio, this project has been long in the works and shows the direction in which Currls are rapidly paving, with a mighty thud every step of the way. The name of the EP comes from the idea that when we have nothing to talk about or when we think theres no common ground, we talk about the weather. Sometimes theres too much going on in our lives and in the world that talking about the weather can be our way of preventing the conversation from expanding; 'Let's Talk About The Weather' is the idea that we don't talk anymore, but there's also hope that we will; It's from the standpoint of our inner voices and collective surroundings, we experience so many heightened emotions. "Our blood, sweat and tears have went into getting this EP completed", describes Holly, "We spent so many hours tweaking it, listening to it, sitting in the garage in the freezing cold editing, we just wanted to get this into peoples ears". "We were so excited, confused and amazed that we had won the RSD competition and this is the first time we have ever had the chance to release any vinyl!", "We recorded this at the beginning of 2023 and since then, we have grown so much as a band.

This is a taste of what's to come, not only that, but this is specially exclusive just to vinyl, just for you' "We hope our song's can louden your voice, your heart and make you realise your magic is NEVER lost".

TRACK LISTING

1. Cruel
2. Weather
3. Throwback
4. Blame
5. Bad Habits
6. Still Here

The sixth album from Still Corners is “Dream Talk”. Beautifully arranged, elegant and wistful, Dream Talks is a set of ten carefully crafted classic songs. From the autumnal opener "Today is the Day" to the hot summer night finale of "Turquoise Moon", Still Corners have created a sound that is focused, stylish and seductive. Tessa Murray says, "The genesis for a lot of these songs came from dreams. Every night I would write down the dreams I could remember. While recording I would pull out my book of dreams and sing over various looped phrases Greg had been working on, the repetitive nature of the looping and singing almost felt like going into a trance. A lot of the songs came from that process, it was fun and what I thought were sort of ramblings ended up surprising us with their various meanings and imagery."

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Drifting, 50's influenced indie music that's both warmly evocative and hugely danceable. There are moments that could easily be played on a Balearic beach bar soundsystem, but soaring synth moments pull us out of the reverie and onto a swaying, undulating dancefloor.

TRACK LISTING

1. Today Is The Day
2. The Dream
3. Faded Love
4. What Is Real
5. Lose More Slowly
6. Secret World
7. Let's Make Up
8. Crystal Blue
9. The Ship
10. Turquoise Moon

Since forming in San Francisco in 1983, Frightwig have had two objectives: Spread joy and smash the patriarchy. For 40 years, they’ve succeeded on both fronts, with a mix of in-your-face hardcore energy and a fearless activist spirit.

A formative influence on the Riot Grrrl movement and beyond, the band embrace fellow freaks, sinners, and misfits - and the coven of Frightwig devotees has only grown larger and stronger with time.” – Jeanne Fury (writer and co-author of ‘Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks’)

Produced by Eric Drew Feldmen (PJ Harvey, Pixies, The Residents, Frank Black, OK Go, Captain Beefheart).

TRACK LISTING

1. Ride Your Bike
2. What Is Love?
3. War On Women
4. Big Bang
5. Aging Sux
6. A Man’s Got To Do
7. Redistribution Of Wealth
8. Crawford’s Song
9. My Crotch Does Not Say Go
10. Crazy World
11. Hot Air Rising
12. Shine Your Light
13. The Possum

If Talk Show’s exhilarating full-length debut, Effigy, feels more like a film than an album, that’s no coincidence. The band crafted the collection to soundtrack a fictional nightclub. “One of the biggest influences on this record was the intro to the movie Blade, where this character’s being dragged through a meatpacking plant and into the vampire rave,” says frontman Harrison Swann. “There’s so much tension and anticipation and intimidation in that scene. We wanted to create the kind of music we’d play if we were performing in that club, to put ourselves into that scene and see how far we could push it.” With Effigy, Talk Show do more than just push their sound; they completely reinvent it. Produced by Remi Kabaka Jr., of Gorillaz, the record offers up a bold and exhilarating showcase for the band’s dramatic evolution, drawing on everything from The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy to Nine Inch Nails and The KLF as it taps into a raw, primal sound at the intersection of techno, electronic, industrial, and rock music. The songs are dark and gritty, fueled by blistering guitars and explosive drums, and Swann’s vocals are nothing short of hypnotic, leaning on repetition and restraint to reach for transcendence in the midst of swirling sonic chaos. The result is an immersive, multi-sensory experience, one that conjures up a dark, sweaty warehouse packed with moving bodies all radiating heat and desire, anxiety and release, ecstasy and desperation

TRACK LISTING

1. Got Sold
2. Gold
3. Panic
4. Oh! You're! All! Mine!
5. Small Blue World
6. Red/White
7. Closer
8. Catalonia
9. Oil At The Bottom Of A Drum

Naked is the eighth studio album by Talking Heads and was originally released in 1988. The album peaked at number three in the UK Albums Char and includes the singles “(Nothing But) Flowers” and “Blind”. Reissued for the first time since the original release.

Lizzie Powell has always been a risk-taker. As the creative force behind the influential Canadian outfit Land of Talk, the Montreal-based songwriter has over the past 15 years amassed a catalog of four unimpeachable albums that stretch the boundaries of indie rock. But Performances, their fifth LP, feels like a total reinvention: an unflinching statement from an artist who’s not afraid to say how they feel. Though it trades muscular guitar rock for understated piano, it’s still the most urgent, cathartic, and personal release of Powell’s career so far. “It's the weirdest, mightiest little record I've made since I used to write music on my four-track when I was 14,” says Powell. “I needed to make a love letter to my teenage self by being more vulnerable and doing all the production myself.” Here, they doggedly value their own intuition over anything else to make their most rewarding album yet. 

Performances is a defiant and resonant blow against expectations and outside pressure. It’s an LP showcasing an artist without constraints and allowing themself to be radically honest. “The album title is very literal,” says Powell. “I'm performing what's in my brain but I'm tired of performing femininity for the music industry, femininity in my life, respectability, and vulnerability. I'm trying to grow out of these and break out of these roles in my life.” Powell’s fearlessness as a songwriter has already led to Land of Talk boasting an unmistakably essential discography but with this album, they find the perfect opportunity to give themself the grace to truly double down on their own vital sensibilities. They usher the songs every step of the way from demoing to producing, imbuing each track with immense care and unfiltered feeling. 

“This is me reclaiming Land of Talk as it always has been,” says Powell. “Every record we've made has just been one step closer to me figuring out how I want to make a record myself. I might not ever make an album like this again, but I just felt like I owed it to myself to try.” 

TRACK LISTING

1. Intro (high Bright High)
2. Your Beautiful Self
3. Fluorescent Blood
4. Marry It
5. Rainbow Protection
6. Clarinet Dance Jam
7. Sitcom
8. Semi-Precious
9. August 13
10. Pwintiques 

Formed in 2019, Lifeguard are Asher Case (bass, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, percussion), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals). At its core, Lifeguard is a punk band. Their music is loud and energetic. It’s also, at its core, visceral and hypnotic. For the Chicago-based trio that can include repetition and blasts of speaker cone-shredding feedback. Their songs adeptly balance melody and chaos, rhythm and drone. Hooks and noise are held to the same standard. Both have to stick.

They’re a young band, but they’ve already found a place at the forefront of an important emerging music community in their hometown. They are quite prolific. In just three years, Lifeguard has put out a full-length, two EPs, and two 7” singles.

Crowd Can Talk and Dressed in Trenches are closely related. They were recorded in separate sessions, but at the same studio (Electrical Audio) and with the same engineer (Mike Lust) and within the space of 12 months. Each finds the band refining its voice – honing songs that are succinct, hooky, and propulsive. There's a newly disciplined attention to detail. Lifeguard write together through collaboration and improvisation, but they’ve learned to streamline their sound, to make each hook, beat, and gesture purposeful.

On each record, there are echoes of underground guitar bands from decades past. This is not record-collector music, though. It’s the product of a present-day community. Lifeguard are, first and foremost, a performing band and the songs are written to stand up in that moment.

“More than old records – before that, before anything – we’re influenced by live shows and people around us,” explains Slater. “The inspiration comes from playing shows with people and having that mind-blown moment of seeing some friend play at Schubas or Book Club,” adds Lowenstein. “It’s happening on these tiny little scales of seeing kids play live and [knowing] this is something new and interesting.”

TRACK LISTING

Crowd Can Talk

New Age (I’ve Got A)
I Know I Know
Fifty Seven
Typecast

Dressed In Trenches

17-18 Lovesong
Alarm
Ten Canisters (OFB)
Shutter Shutter
Tell Me When

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Queen Talk: Live at the Left Bank is an official never-before-seen concert recording from one of the greatest female jazz organists of all-time, Shirley Scott

With George Coleman on tenor saxophone and Bobby Durham on drums completing a powerhouse trio, this hand-numbered (to 3,000), double LP set was transferred from the original tape reels and is pressed on 180- gram vinyl. It features 100 minutes of music and is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with an extensive booklet containing liner notes by acclaimed music writer A. Scott Galloway, rare photos by Don Schlitten and Raymond Ross, and memorabilia from the Left Bank archives.

Jazz heads can also find interviews with jazz organ icon Joey DeFrancesco, Scott’s former bandmate saxophonist Tim Warfield, and pianist Monty reminiscing about drummer Bobby Durham. The set is co- produced by label owner musician Cory Weeds and renowned archival recording producer Zev Feldman.

The show was recorded at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore Maryland on August 20, 1972 and hasn’t ever been previously available. Philadelphia- born Scott rose to fame in the late 1950s playing the Hammond B-3 organ influenced by blues and gospel evolving into '60s soul jazz. She recorded numerous albums for Prestige, Impulse!, Atlantic, Cadet and Candid performing with countless jazz legends including Stanley Turrentine, Oliver Nelson and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis.

Local Talk present a live recording with Soulphiction & Netzer from 2018, recorded live just a month before the official release of "Bizzness" the first of several releases Soulphiction and Local Talk released together.

"Bizzness" is by many considered a classic and had all the trade marks of a Soulphiction tune with its dusty soul and funk-infused house ingredients.
This live version really shows the vision and forward thinking of Michel Baumann using his Soulphiction moniker.

Also included on this release is a - as far as we know it - unreleased track called "Dileila Emergency Dub".

A track built around a heady deep house theme that captures the sweaty, back-in-the-day feel we all love to hear in a track.

TRACK LISTING

A. Bizzness Live @ BIX
B. Dileila Emergency Dub Live @ BIX

With Mickey Hampshire (The Milkshakes, Mickey And The Salty Seadogs, Mickey And Ludella), Bruce Brand (The Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, Auntie Vegetable, Thee Headcoats, The Kravin' "A"s, The Clique, Dutronc, The Voo-Dooms and more) and John Gibbs (The Wildebeests, The Kaisers), this Medway- based trio have got enough rhythm 'n' beat and rock 'n' roll in their blood streams to power the Starship Enterprise!

Since 1991 The Masonics have been raising roofs all across the land, and disturbing audio grooves on at least ten studio albums and seven singles. There's no stopping them!

Two 7 “EP’s released simultaneously, each with four songs that the band have carefully chosen to cover, all of which have featured in their live sets throughout the years.

TRACK LISTING

Side A 1. I'm Talkin' About You 2. Clarabella
Side B 1. Ride Your Pony 2. The Girl Can't Dance

‘They Only Talk About The Weather’ is an album of acute emotional exploration. It’s Arny’s coming-of-age journey, from writing in school, staring out of dorm room windows, being on the road, to today. With poetic proficiency and a knack for composing melodies that bury themselves deep into the subconscious, Arny writes of loneliness and existentialism with stark relatability. There’s a quiet confidence that comes from these tracks; crystal clear in their conception, completely honest, and masterfully arranged. She walks us through her relationships growing up and her realisations about other people as well as herself. We listen as she unpacks herself to a backdrop of vividly painted natural landscapes.

The album’s relationship with weather is noteworthy. Examining her surroundings is how Arny puts to words her feelings. The sparsely populated and confined Westfjord peninsula in north-western Iceland is its own character here, and the bitter but playful snow colours her deeply personal prose across the whole LP. In this sense, ‘They Only Talk About The Weather’ can be a warming comfort to those who need it most as ice forms outside and nights fall earlier in the evening. She tells us; “I like to use the weather, in one of my songs I even make it a person, I sing “I am blinded by the light of winter, but it comes and goes away, I don't like her very much, you can't depend on anything she'll say”.

Musically she draws inspiration from folk and blues roots, utilising a less-is-more approach to convey openness, choosing to rely mostly on the delicate strumming of acoustics and her dulcet voice. On two tracks, ‘cold aired breeze’ and ‘ties’, Arny plays with a full band for the first time on record, adding layers of shuffling drums, soaring lap steel and synth padding to emphasise impact. Elsewhere on the album minor flourishes reveal themselves constantly, rewarding repeat listens.

Arny’s also gained a great deal of experience in a short space, being an active touring artist for the first time. She says “It's hard, but it’s really nice as well. I’ve learned a lot from each show, every crowd is different. I haven’t travelled much either so it’s been cool to see all these different places. With this album, I feel like I’ve gotten further. There’s so much here about the past, and some of it’s newer, so it feels a little like I’ve revisited some stuff and blended it with me right now. Going over things, wishing I’d done things differently, thinking a lot about what’s happened. But in the end, it’s brought me here.”

She cites influences from the likes of Andy Shauf, Phoebe Bridgers, Bon Iver, Leif Vollebekk and Gregory Alan Isakov. Born and raised in a small town called Ísafjörður, she attended music school from the age of 6 learning to play the piano and gradually taught herself guitar. She recorded the album at studio Hljóðriti in Hafnarfjörður and will continue to make her mark globally with her intimate and affecting live performances. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Whatever It Means
2. Cold Aired Breeze
3. Balcony
4. Sníglar
5. Wind Was Blowing
6. The World Is Between Us
7. They Only Talk About The Weather
8. Ties
9. Untitled
10. Abandoned 

Touch The Ground, the new EP by rising UK post-punk band Talk Show was produced by Joe Goddard (Hot Chip) and Al Doyle (Hot Chip/LCD Soundsystem).

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Track 1
2. Underworld
3. Cold House
SIDE B
1. Dirt In The Keyboard
2. Leather
3. 6

The Paranoyds are Southern California DIY rock royalty. Fueled by the fiery energy of their live shows paired with raw lyricism and subtle societal commentary, The Paranoyds are unafraid and unapologetically in perpetual pursuit of a good time. The four-piece is made up of Laila Hashemi (keyboardist-vocals), Lexi Funston (guitars/vocals), Staz Lindes (bass/vocals) and David Ruiz (drums, vocals) who together masterfully blend light-hearted playfulness with sharp sincerity over fuzzy guitar, dreamy vocals and punchy, punky rock-n-roll.

Talk, Talk, Talk, the sophomore album from The Paranoyds gives the band space to expand, evolve and above all, have fun. Over 11 tracks, the band experiments with sounds that span an eclectic array of genres–from jazz, to lo-fi punk-rock, to groovy R&B–that melt together showcasing the innovative range of The Paranoyds.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE 1
1. BWP
2. Lizzie
3. Nissan Overdrive
4. Typing
5. Single Origin Experience
6. Freak Out
SIDE 2
1. Andrew
2. Over And Done
3. 6th Street Bridge
4. LA 2032
5. Sunburn

2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the debut album of one of the most critically-acclaimed and pioneering bands to come out of the UK. Talk Talk’s The Party’s Over was a start of a journey for Mark Hollis (vocals), Simon Brenner (keyboards), Lee Harris (drums), and Paul Webb (bass) who constantly evolved throughout their career from synth-pop beginnings into pioneering avant-garde post-rock in the latter stages of the band, being a large influence on artists such as Radiohead, St. Vincent and many more.

Talk Talk launched with the release of the single Mirror Man in February 1982, followed by Today and the eponymous single Talk Talk, with the latter two charting #14 and #23 in the UK respectively. The Party’s Over was produced by Colin Thurston, the former engineer for David Bowie but was better known for producing Duran Duran's first two albums. Charting in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and USA, The Party’s Over is classic synth-pop teamed with lyrical depth that went on to be synonymous with lead singer, Mark Hollis. Earlier this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of these singles, many of the B-sides were made available digitally for the first time such as Strike Up The Band and ? (aka Question Mark).

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
Talk Talk
It’s So Serious
Today
The Party’s Over
Side B:
Hate
Have You Heard The News
Mirror Man
Another Word
Candy

Talking Therapy Ensemble is the latest project from composer, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Emma-Jean Thackray, following 2021’s acclaimed debut album Yellow. Talking Therapy Ensemble are something between free-jazz madness and groove, somehow between composition and improvisation, and exist somewhere between the public and the private. Through the cathartic process of improvisation they find a release of stress and suffering - their talking therapy - inspired by the blues, crusty punk, the confessional poets of the 50s and 60s, and artists such as Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra Arkestra, Albert Ayler, and Irreversible Entanglements.

TRACK LISTING

A1 I Didn't Want To Wake Up Today
B1 Too Much / Too Little
B2 Panic
B3 Shh

Weaving in and out of R&B, 80’s synth pop, jazz and indie, NYC-based collective Michelle is refreshingly predominated by queer and POC members, showcasing a transformative era in pop music. The album announcement and new track follow a string of celebrated singles as well as their 2018 debut album Heatwave, which came together in just two-weeks and received praise from NME, The fader and more.

TRACK LISTING

Mess U Made
Expiration Date
Pose
Syncopate
No Signal (feat. Isa Reyes)
Talking To Myself
50/50
Looking Glass
End Of The World
Fire Escape
Hazards
Layla In The Rocket
Spaced Out, Phased Out
My Friends

Lily We Need To Talk Now is a record Konigsberg has been slowly chipping away at since 2016, revising and re-recording the songs over the years. The eleven-track collection is her first proper full length, following her anthology of EPs and unreleased tracks, The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now, released in 2021 by Wharf Cat Records. The new record is catchy the whole way through, like much of her poppy and plainspoken indie rock output that’s made her a fixture of the NYC underground in recent years. Her voice twists and turns and dashes around her clever wordplay in new ways; there are hints of power-pop, pop-punk, and downtempo introspection, all dotted with easter eggs of winking humor.

True to its title, this collection of songs is like a check in with herself. “On “That’s The Way I Like It,” with backing vocals from longtime collaborator Paco Cathcart, she reflects on the feeling of “struggling with someone you love, and how you can get all evil about it, like a brat, like a baby.” On “Proud Home”, she sings one of the records boldest earworm hooks (“You’ve got a lot of fucking things to be proud of!”) and tries to comfort a friend who has a crush on her mom. “I really cracked myself up with the lyrics,” she says. “It’s kind of a Stacey’s Mom riff. I decided it’s a dedication to Adam Schlesinger [of Fountains of Wayne].” “Roses, Again” is a new take on a familiar Lily tune (originally on Good Time Now) re-recorded at the request of her current live band, who have evolved the song on the road.

TRACK LISTING

1 - Beauty
2 - Sweat Forever
3 - That’s The Way I Like It
4 - Alone
5 - Don’t Be Lazy With Me
6 - Proud Home
7 - Hark
8 - Bad Boy
9 - Roses, Again
10 - Goodbye
11 - True

BADBADNOTGOOD return with their highly anticipated album, "Talk Memory", the sixth full length excursion from this Canadian trio if you count their collaboration with Ghostface Killah amongst their discography. Collaborators include legendary composer Arthur Verocai and contemporary icons such as Terrace Martin, Karriem Riggins and Laraaji.

It's high octane, ambitious and noisy, modern jazz set firmly in present times and holding no punches with its delivery. The boys can play, make no mistake, effortlessly drifting from languid passages to all-out throttle. Considering there's only three of them, it's a full and realized sound; slightly gritty but sophisticated in its execution; with each musician challenging the next to out-better themselves. As the songs swirl into a mighty cresendo you can almost picture them trying to compete with each for dexterity and flair... I'm sure they'd be an amazing prospect live.

Favourite moment for me is the opener of disc two, "Love Proceeding", featuring Arthur Verocia, which glides in on optimistic and cinematic sax before erupting into an explosion of augmented 7s and frenzied drums; the ultimate example of jazz's fusion of tension and release; a formular that's executed with aplomb throughout the album.

Advanced and highly accomplished, "Talk Memory" finds these bastions of modern jazz in exquisite form. Recommended. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: BadBadNotGood return for their first LP for XL Recordings, with their trademark enthusiastic jazz fusion sound in full force, bolstered with a number of huge music industry names. It's yet another groundbreaking juxtaposition of loungey downbeat jazz and rhythmic hip-hop, both innovative and warmingly familiar.

TRACK LISTING

1. Signal From The Noise
2. Unfolding (Momentum 73) Featuring Laraajii
3. City Of Mirrors Featuring Arthur Verocai
4. Beside April Featuring Karriem Riggins, Arthur Verocai
5. Love Proceeding Featuring Arthur Verocai
6. Open Channels (physical Only)
7. Timid, Intimidating
8. Beside April (Reprise) Featuring Arthur Verocai
9. Talk Meaning Featuring Arthur Verocai, Terrace Martin And Brandee Younger

Initial copies of the coloured vinyl edition include an exclusive 11" x 11" art print whilst stocks last.

The duo consists of Camila de Laborde and Daniel Hermann-Collini and met in London’s global melting pot. Originally they hail from Mexico City and Munich respectively and now call Lisbon home. Produced + mixed by Peter Kember (Sonic Boom, Spacemen 3, Spectrum) who has mixed bands such as Panda Bear, Beach House and MGMT Camila Fuchs creates experimental electronic pop with spectral vocals and avant-garde sensibilities. Currently based in Lisbon, the project was formed by Camila De Laborde (Mexico City) and Daniel Hermann-Collini (Munich) in London in 2012. The band released their debut album Singing From Fixed Rung in 2016, followed by 2018's Heart Pressed Between Stones on ATP Recordings. Met with international praise, Camila Fuchs has performed at numerous well-regarded festivals including Mutek Mexico, Primavera Sound and All Tomorrow's Parties Festival. They have also supported and shared the stage with Plaid, Actress, Aleksi Perälä, Starcrawler, Charles Hayward, William Basinski, Braids and The Orb.

Kids Talk Sun is the duo's third full-length album. It was produced and mixed by Peter Kember. With an imaginative, child-like approach, Camila Fuchs have managed to harness a transformational space of exploration and experimentation. Filled with a youthful sense of wonder, Kids Talk Sun is a meditation on childhood, as well as the exchanges between humans, between humans and nature, and within nature itself. A textural, drumless offering, "Sun" opens the album with a slow-tempo arpeggiation guided by Laborde's transporting voice. The words “heat me up, heat them up” conjures warmth that radiates throughout the album. “There was no way, no need to be careful,” Laborde sings in “Moon Mountain.” Mirroring the lyrics in approach, the band taps into a playful psychedelia with dense, hypnotizing instrumentation. Synths contract and swell punctuated by bleeps, bloops, and spaced-out effects beautifully articulated by Kember's production.

A step into darker territory, "Come About" shows the band's breadth of range with Laborde's voice soaring over a driving downtempo rhythm, pleading for love and dedication to be taken and received, with a haunting effect. Kids Talk Sun was recorded near the sea and wilderness outside of Lisbon, with the band shifting back and forth from the natural world to the studio. The result is an ecosystem of complex, ever-evolving sounds working together, with generosity given to the process itself; the biomimicry of plants, insects, the sun and moon, earth, seasons, and cycles gorgeously reimagined in sonic form. There is a sense of multiplicity, a reassurance on change deeply rooted in transformation, on things disintegrating, decomposing, and something new coming to ground us, arms open, and ready for hope.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Camila Fuchs' previous releases have always indicated towards a multi-faceted psychedelic electronic powerhouse, but nly on 'Kids Talk Sun' has that possibility become quite so crystal clear. Texturally rich but imbued with the sort of avant-pop spirit of 70's psych or the octaved drive of Italo-disco. Absolutely astounding work.

TRACK LISTING

01. Sun
02. Moon’s Mountain
03. Gloss Trick
04. Roses
05. Sandstorm
06. Silenced By Hums
07. Come About
08. Mess
09. Pool Of Wax

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

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

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

TRACK LISTING

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

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

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

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

STAFF COMMENTS

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

TRACK LISTING

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

Recorded in November 2018 at Ballintubbert House, Ireland, “a few pay grades above what we're used to!”, the alien construction of Ballintubbert and its corridors help to navigate Girl Band’s cataclysmic sound within a world of its own.

“In many ways the idea behind the album was to make an audio representation of the house.“ And this enigmatic manor becomes Girl Band’s sonic playground: to place yourself within a space, and to work with that space harmoniously. Dan continues, “We recorded all the drums twice: once on the landing and once in the cellar” -The Well of Souls- “and during production we could actually cut in between both these sounds”. The Talkies vacillates between being big, ambient, and atmospheric to suddenly terribly intimate and up close.

The Talkies is living, breathing, in a continual state of metamorphosis. It encompasses everything there is to love about Girl Band while simultaneously causing an exciting level of discomfort. The moaning and sawing guitars, atonal blankets of sound, abstractive lyrical repetition, chugging snare and ascending/descending snakes and ladders noise-rock guitar deliver something that is so distinctively Girl Band.

…Eregenis. Album closes to steady breathing. It drips with catharsis, slow and mindful and purging over the familiar key and darkly syncopated grooves which closes the door to Girl Band’s sonic universe and brings ‘The Talkies’ to its first and final silence.

TRACK LISTING

Prolix
Going Norway
Shoulderblades
Couch Combover
Aibophobia
Salmon Of Knowledge
Akineton
Amygdala
Caveat
Laggard
Prefab Castle
Ereignis

Two more of our favourite cuts from The Sylvers first album, produced by Jerry Butler, Keg Johnson and Michael Viner, written by the hugely talented Leon Sylvers III. ‘I Know Myself’ was sampled by 9th Wonder for his ‘Easy’ track.

The Goon Sax are James Harrison, Louis Forster and Riley Jones from Brisbane, Australia. Still in high school when they made their first album Up To Anything in 2016, their brand of awkwardly transcendent teenage guitar pop took earned them wide-spread critical acclaim.

For album number two, they flew to Melbourne to record with James Cecil and Cameron Bird, respectively former/current members of Architecture In Helsinki, and 'We're Not Talking' shows how much can change between the ages of 17 and 19. It's a record that takes the enthusiasms of youth and twists them into darker, more sophisticated shapes. Relationships are now laced with hesitation, remorse, misunderstanding and ultimately compassion.

Drummer Riley Jones really comes to the fore here, joining Louis and James in singing lead and writing songs for the first time, making the band the musical equivalent of an equilateral triangle (the strongest shape in physics).

Delivering brilliantly human and brutally honest vignettes of adolescent angst, The Goon Sax brim with personality, charm and heart-wrenching honesty. 'We’re Not Talking' is a record made by restless artists, defying expectations as if hardly noticing, and its complexity makes 'We're Not Talking' even more of a marvel.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: 'Up To Anything' was a revelation when it came in, brilliantly clever and melodic, but gritty and poetic at the same time. 'Were Not Talking' continues that legacy but with a bit more of a world-wise tilt, swapping out some of the major key melodies and psychedelic progressions for more solemn interludes, focused more on the nuances of songmanship than the youthful power of the debut. A brilliant progression from this Australian trio, and yet another reason why we'll continue to love The Goon Sax.

TRACK LISTING

1. Make Time 4 Love
2. Love Lost
3. She Knows
4. Losing Myself
5. Somewhere In Between
6. Strange Light
7. Sleep EZ
8. We Can't Win
9. A Few Times Too Many
10. Now You Pretend
11. Get Out
12. Til The End

"This time working solely with Steve Lillywhite, the Furs introduce a brighter, poppier side to their underground rock edge, with smashing results throughout. The group produces some powerful songs, even more rough-edged than before. Especially striking is "Dumb Waiters," with its queasy, slow-paced arrangement that allows both Kilburn's sax and Ashton's guitar to go wild. However, the six still create some undeniable pop classics. Most well-known is the lead track, "Pretty in Pink," inspiration for the iconic John Hughes film years later and re-recorded as a result. The original is still where to go, though, with Butler's catchy description of a romantically unsure woman matched by a killer band performance. Similarly lighter numbers on the record call to mind a rockier version of Roxy Music's output in later years: elegant, romantic angst given a slightly rougher edge in both music and vocals. "She Is Mine" is especially fine as a gently swinging number with some of Butler's best, quietly ruminative lyrics. Straight-up anthems abound as well, the best being the amazing "Into You Like a Train," which mixes the blunt desire of the title with a sparkling Ashton guitar line and a fast rhythm punch. Talk Talk Talk ends on another high with "All of This and Nothing." A soft, acoustic guitar-sax-rhythm combination introduces the song, then fades away for the main section to begin; Butler details bits and pieces from a lost relationship over a sharp full-band performance, and a final drum smash leads into a reprise of the start -- a fine way to end a fine record." All Music.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1:
1. Dumb Waiters - The Psychedelic Furs / James Brown
2. Pretty In Pink
3. I Wanna Sleep With You
4. No Tears
5. Mr. Jones

Side 2:
1. Into You Like A Train
2. It Goes On
3. So Run Down
4. All Of This And Nothing
5. She Is Mine

Talk Talk's musical journey took them from early 80s synth-pop to early 90s post-rock resulting in a diverse and stimulating legacy. This 1982 release showcases the synth-pop/new wave side to the band. After supporting Duran Duran on their 1981 tour, they released the single Mirror Man, as well as their two UK Top 40 hits Today and Talk Talk – all of which are included amongst other great songs on the album.

Their debut album, The Party's Over was released in 1982 and produced by Colin Thurston, who was a former engineer for David Bowie but was better known for producing Duran Duran's first two albums.

A product of its time, the album is classic synth-pop teamed with lyrical depth that went on to be synonymous with lead singer, Mark Hollis.

TRACK LISTING

1. Talk Talk
2. It’s So Serious
3. Today
4. The Party’s Over
5. Hate
6. Have You Heard The News
7. Mirror Man
8. Another Word
9. Candy

The band’s breakthrough record It’s My Life saw the arrival of producer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Friese-Greene, who became a significant creative force in the band and an unofficial fourth member for the remainder of its existence.

It’s My Life saw the band seek a less synthesized sound and less New Romantic image, which included keyboardist Simon Brenner leaving the band. The new sound gave the band commercial success, with the title track becoming a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. It went on to be covered by No Doubt in 2003 reaching number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and remaining on the chart for 28 weeks.

The album also contained the single "Such a Shame" (a song inspired by the book The Dice Man) which became a Top 10 hit across Europe. A third single, "Dum Dum Girl", was also a success in Europe and NZ in particular.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1:
1) Dum Dum Girl
2) Such A Shame
3) Renée
4) It’s My Life

Side 2:
1) Tomorrow Started
2) The Last Time
3) Call In The Night Boys
4) Does Caroline Know
5) It’s You

Talk Tight is Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s first release, and it was originally released on CD in March of 2016 on Ivy League Records in the band’s home country of Australia. Talk Tight – a mini-album, or extended EP, if you will – garnered the band critical acclaim in their home country and in the US, where Pitchfork gave the record an 8.0 and described it like so:
Seven rip-roaring tracks that move by their own logic, any one of which could be a single and all of which leave you wanting more in the best way possible... Listening to these seven tunes, you can easily trace a national lineage: the relentlessness of Radio Birdman, the pop literacy of the Go-Betweens, the rambunctious energy of the Easybeats, and the belief—shared with Courtney Barnett—that guitars are not just crucial to the message but might very well be the message themselves.

This release is the first time Talk Tight has been available worldwide, and the first time it is available on vinyl anywhere. The band released their Sub Pop debut, The French Press EP, in March of 2017, and they are currently working on their first full-length album.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wither With You
2. Wide Eyes
3. Heard You’re Moving
4. Clean Slate
5. Tender Is The Neck
6. Write Back
7. Career

The new band from Al Monte from Total Control, UV Race, Dick Diver etc.

Second Pressing on CLEAR VINYL, 300 only... 

Terry is getting ready, combing his hair, buttoning his jacket, turning the key in the door. “I’m doing fine” sings Terry out loud, he knows. Divide him into four and you get Al Montfort (UV Race, Total Control, Dick Diver etc.), Amy Hill (Constant Mongrel, School Of Radiant Living), Xanthe Waite (Mick Harvey Band) and Zephyr Pavey (Eastlink, Total Control, Russell Street Bombings).

Inevitably, Terry likes to make a noise. Drums, guitars and all his voices come into play, making a solid raft for Terry’s melancholic musings to navigate the languid rapids. This all unravels at its own pace, conducting a conversation with the commonplace. ‘Talk About Terry’ marks the band’s first venture into the recorded domain collecting together three of the greatest misshapen glam pop tunes Melbourne, Australia has to offer. Let’s sit up at the table. Let’s start the dialogue now, as Terry is well on his way.

Originating in New York City, Talking Heads drew inspiration from funk, rock, classical minimalism, and African rock to create one of the most individual and stimulating bands to emerge from New Wave. Lead by Byrne’s whimsical, esoteric lyrics and the bands intricately layered polyrhythmic textures, Talking Heads found international fame and went on to become ranked in Rolling Stone’s ‘100 Greatest Artists of All Time’ (2011).

Originally released in 1982, the double live LP ‘The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads’ features the original quartet in recordings from 1977 and 1979, with the second album consisting of their expanded 10 piece line up that toured with the band throughout 1980-81. The release includes the cult hits ‘Psycho Killer’, ‘Life During Wartime’ and ‘Take Me To The River’.

The Talks Ska/Reggae band with Punk attitude from Yorkshire in the UK.

In a short space of time the band have been building themselves a live reputation around the UK and Europe for delivering a bouncing, sweaty shows supporting the likes of The Specials, Rancid, The Beat, The King Blues, The Toasters and many more.

The new single from the band "Can stand the rain" features the legendary Neville Staple of The Specials released 26th November 2012. The song hit over 55 thousand views in it's first week on Youtube and has been featured on Channel 4 and Channel 5 shows including UK's popular show ‘Hollyoaks’.

New EP 'WestSinister' is out now and The Talks are touring throught the UK and Europe throughout the summer of 2013

TRACK LISTING

1. Life In Colour
2. Modern SUB-Uban Life
3. Can Stand The Rain - Ft Neville Staple
4. Friday Night
5. Politicks - Ft Hekima
Bonus Track
Bring It Up

The innovative New Wave band Talking Heads formed in 1975 comprised of David Byrne (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Frantz (drums and backing vocals), Tina Weymouth (bass and backing vocals) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar, and backing vocals). Between their first album in 1977 and their last in 1988, Talking Heads became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, while managing to earn several pop hits.

Released in 1979 ‘Fear Of Music’ is the band’s third album. Produced by the quartet and Brian Eno it includes singles ‘Life During Wartime’, ‘I Zimbra’ and ‘Cities’.

180GM LP. Cut From Analogue Masters. Original Artwork. Embossed sleeve.

TRACK LISTING

I Zimbra 3:06
Mind 4:12
Paper 2:36
Cities 4:05
Life During Wartime 3:41
Memories Can't Wait 3:30
Air 3:33
Heaven 4:01
Animals 3:29
Electric Guitar 2:59
Drugs 5:13

London duo Man Like Me release their new album ‘Pillow Talk’. The album has been mixed by Mike Skinner, who is also credited as executive producer after re-launching his label tBeats to release the record. Skinner helped co-produce and mix the new album which includes last summer’s electro smash, 'Squeeze' and new single, 'Wallow' - a concoction of carnival drums and whistles, muddled electronics, big bass and an insanely infectious chorus.

Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock, the group’s 1991 final album, took a year to make, and yet it has required decades to fully appreciate. Following up on the abstract 'Spirit of Eden', which sufficiently alienated pop fans of the band’s earlier material, 'Laughing Stock' took spaces in recorded music to new extremes, with layers of silence breathing through strings, woodwinds, percussion and Mark Hollis’s delicate vocals.

The record exists as one complete thought, albeit with jagged diversions and tangents. Hollis’s and producer Tim Friese-Greene’s goal from the beginning was to create an album that completely enveloped the listener. During recording, microphones were placed at distances as far as 30 feet from the instruments they were recording, and passages were captured with no clear intention as to where they would finally be placed. Before ProTools made the cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop process standard in songwriting, Hollis and Friese-Greene were in the studio with flugelhorn and viola players, capturing notes and phrases they collected and combined into the six tracks that became 'Laughing Stock'. Everything was recorded straight from the original instruments, as Hollis continued reacting against the synth artificiality of his past. It was released on jazz label Verve, further declaring that 'In A Silent Way' was a greater influence than any pop group to which Talk Talk had been compared in the past. 'Laughing Stock' grows like vines in a garden out of any speakers. The full power of the music is as engrossing as it is oblique, like wrapping oneself in a blanket of thoughts. Talk Talk’s music is unapologetic in its obscureness, caressed in the gentle beauty of subtlety and warmth.

TRACK LISTING

1 Myrrhman 5:33
2 Ascension Day 6:01
3 After The Flood 9:27
4 Taphead 7:01
5 New Grass 9:46
6 Runeii 4:59

Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno's production, it's a record that bursts out of the downtown scene that birthed the band, and hints at the directions (positive and negative) they'd take in the near future.

Here, Jonathan Lethem takes us back to the late 1970s in New York City and situates Talking Heads as one of the most remarkable and enigmatic American bands. Incorporating theory, fiction, and memoir, and placing Fear of Music alongside Fritz Lang, Edgar Allen Poe, Patti Smith, and David Foster Wallace. Lethem's book is a virtuoso performance by a writer at the peak of his powers, tackling one of his great obsessions.

Talk Talk’s classic albums ‘Spirit of Eden’ and ‘The Colour of Spring’ get re-issued on 180g heavyweight vinyl cut from the original analogue master, together with a DVD featuring the album delivered as a 96kHz/24 bit LPCM stereo mix. The DVDs both feature one extra track … ‘Spirit of Eden’ has the ‘b’ side ‘John Cope’ while ‘The Colour of Spring’ includes the ‘b’ side ‘It’s Getting Late In The Evening’.

Also released on CD with updated artwork - art directed by Mark Hollis - 'Spirit of Eden', 'The Colour of Spring', 'It's My Life' and 'The Party's Over'.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: One of Elbow-man, Guy Garvey's favourite ever albums, this has a drifting but heavy, otherworldly vibe.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Rainbow (1997 - Remaster)
2. Eden (1997 - Remaster)
3. Desire (1997 - Remaster)
4. Inheritance (1997 - Remaster)
5. I Believe In You (1997 - Remaster)
6. Wealth (1997 - Remaster)

Bonus DVD With Vinyl:
1. The Rainbow
2. Eden
3. Desire
4. Inheritance
5. I Believe In You
6. Wealth
7. John Cope

‘Sweet Talk’ is the first EP from Australian duo Kito & Reija Lee. Kito provides the catchy, bass-heavy production skills, which blend perfectly with Reija Lee's crisp vocals and absolutely massive hooks. The two have been friends since childhood, and previously collaborated on ‘LFO’, which appeared on Kito's EP for Skream's Disfigured Dubz label, but this is their first proper release together. Kito & Reija Lee take dubstep in the perfect pop-crossover direction, doing it with class and flair. In a dubstep scene dominated by men, Kito & Reija Lee have managed to bring a decidedly female perspective to the table while staying true to the genre's roots. Kito's production is sexy and intelligent, rough in the right places, and supremely catchy. The EP's title track might be the best example, taking equal turns at being sultry, hard and mysterious, while Reija's manipulated vocals tell her boy to get his shit straight. ‘Broken Hearts’ is the poppiest cut, with Reija shouting an in-yr-face hook that will be stuck in your head way beyond first listen. ‘On The Jam’ features Kito cleverly twisting Reija Lee's vocals into autotuned heaven, and ‘This City’ rounds out the EP on a mellow edge with yet another huge catchy chorus.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Sweet Talk
A2. Broken Hearts
B1. On The Jam
B2. This City

Men, the Brooklyn-based band & art/performance collective, consists of core members JD Samson (Le Tigre), Michael O'Neil (Ladybug Transistor) & Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR). This is their debut album release on IAMSOUND, via Columbia Records. The band focus on the raw energy of live performance & the radical potential of dance music. Musical styles merge between guitar-laden dance-floor funk & funky electronica, with a lyrical bite!

Talking Heads first LP "77" introduced the New York band perfectly. A mish mash of art-punk-funk, with heavy doses of bubblegum and a splash of the Caribbean. 11 tracks which show off the bands varying influences, David Byrne's weird vocal delivery, and the constant tempo changes and twists in their style. You can hear hints of the moody side of their sound on tracks such as "New Feeling" and "Who Is It?", contrasting with the jolly funk of "Pulled Up" and "Uh Oh Love Has Come To Town" all of this is augmented by the albums standout "Psycho Killer", a brooding slice of paranoid punk that still sounds fresh today.

TRACK LISTING

Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town 2:48
New Feeling 3:09
Tentative Decisions 3:04
Happy Day 3:55
Who Is It ? 1:41
No Compassion 4:47
The Book I Read 4:06
Don't Worry About The Government 3:00
First Week / Last Week...Carefree 3:19
Psycho Killer 4:19
Pulled Up 4:29

Taken from their forthcoming debut album "More Money Less Grief", "Talk About It" is a three minute blitz through the wonderful world of The Metros. Bottled down it is essentially a rhythmic, anthemic, schizoid punkoid stream of tourettes-iousness that fits as much sound tracking mischief on the streets of their native Peckham as on any in this Fair Isle. This summer's most wonderfully belligerent sing-a-long is here. Produced by their mate Baxter Dury, "More Money Less Grief" avoids the clichéd one dimensional formula often adopted by young bands today; incorporating and invoking pop hooks, thrashy punk rock, hummable choruses, tongue-in cheek humour, frank pub-crawl tales of teenage sex and adventure, whilst still capturing the youthful exuberance that makes them uniquely The Metros.

Sam Hutchinson is a singer-songwriter based in Nottingham, England. "Don't Want To Talk EP" is the 19-year-olds' third commercial release as a solo artist. He is influenced by the likes of Nick Drake, Elliot Smith and Ben Christophers and has been compared with artists as diverse as Doves and Leonard Cohen. For his third release, Sam spent two months recording and mixing five songs of pristine guitar and understated vocal harmonies.

Two tracks form their "Make Up The Breakdown" album: "Talk To Me, Dance With Me" and "Oh, Goddamnit" along with a live version of "Le Le Low". Jerky punk funk guitar rhythms, percussive drums and half chanting half wailing vocals. Add to that fun, catchy tunes and you've got some damn fine pop songs!