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Unmarry Me

Clean Fight / Spanner In The Hurt

    Unmarry me is a triangular shaped group comprising of lise frances and Jon Slade and Chris Rowley.London to Brighton and back again. Unmarry me are a group that have been together for about half a year of a world in trouble . Unmarry me are therefore a group trying to carve out some joy and light as a form of resistance, no small feat or maybe grandiose but worth stating. Unmarry me is comprised of personnel who have all had time or continue to have time in other groups, who did not take easy routes or money and didn't make many friends, so it goes.. These groups respectively or chronologically were and are huggy bear, comet gain, I'm being good, help she cant swim, snoozers, adulkt life, bands that time will record as being on the right side/s of history and herstory.. Unmarry me are of a completely different stipe or ilk but comprise the antagonist and peculiar DNA s that honor this, unmarry me play and record and create and make in a d i y syncretism that's useful to themselves, distinct and not worth talking about...Unmarry me are about bending , queering, breaking and resetting rules, smudging boundaries and having a lovely time. Unmarry me is a romance but you might not or might want to identify with its protagonists, unmarry me is up to you, make the right choice.

    TRACK LISTING

    Clean Fight
    Spanner In The Hurt

    The Smashing Times

    Mrs. Ladyships And The Cleanerhouse Boy

      The Smashing Times are a mainstay in the indie pop underground. The group mistrals the new modern life perfectly, the sharper world. Collaged with 12 string guitar and mallet on the floor tom.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Mrs. Ladyships And The Cleanerhouse Boys
      2. June Rabbit
      3. A Taste Of Honey
      4. Rupert Tingle, Button Thief
      5. Can I Have Some Tea?
      6. Wednesday, On A Hummingbird's Wing
      7. Good Spring Morning
      8. I Paint The Picture
      9. Chooning Song
      10. Ben Jimeny The Green Grocer
      11. Moon Viewing Party
      12. Tarts And Vicars
      13. You Know It In Your Heart
      14. Saturn And Janus

      Peter Perrett

      The Cleansing

        'The Cleansing' doesn’t only match Peter Perrett’s best work but expands it: an ambitious double album comprising 20 songs, with his uniquely narcotic and alluring melodies, gorgeous South London drawl and ravishing rock dynamic now allied to a wider span of musical arrangements and lyrical concerns. Alongside his trusted team of sons Jamie (guitar / production) and Peter Jr (bass) plus members of his live band, Perrett is assisted by a roster of starry guests including Johnny Marr, Bobby Gillespie and Fontaines DC’s Carlos O’Connell.

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: Jagged garage guitars, driving percussion and Perrett's unmistakeable semi-spoken drawl come together into a nuanced mix of indie and punk, topped with well-written, heartfelt lyrics. Brilliantly modern, while retaining the sound we know from Perrett's previous work, not to mention the star-studded guest contributions. Lovely.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. I Wanna Go With Dignity
        2. Disinfectant
        3. Fountain Of You
        4. Secret Taliban Wife
        5. Solitary Confinement
        6. Women Gone Bad
        7. Survival Mode
        8. Mixed Up Confucius
        9. Do Not Resuscitate
        10. The Cleansing
        11. All That Time
        12. Kill A Franco Spy
        13. Set The House On Fire
        14. Feast For Sore Eyes
        15. There For You
        16. Art Is A Disease
        17. World In Chains
        18. Back In The Hole
        19. Less Than Nothing
        20. Crystal Clear

        Screensaver

        Clean Current / Repeats

          Naarm/Melbourne 4-piece screensaver is back with a double A-side 7-inch single just 6-months after delivering their 10-track debut album Expressions of Interest on Upset the Rhythm (UK) and Heavy Machinery (AU) to positive international response.

          The band return with two distinctly different tracks that extend upon the blend of post-punk, new wave and synth-punk on their debut.

          Side A, Clean Current is a burst of high-energy: nervy guitars and groovy bass underpinned with krautrock drums and cosmic synth noise, overlayed with delay heavy vocals. Repeats is the flipside of the coin, a moody post-punk stomper, led by gritty sawtooth synth, chorus-soaked guitar, textural percussion and soaring vocals. Lyrically Clean Current spits out retorts aimed at the engulfing nature of anxiety whilst Repeats critiques the repetition of modern life, languishing human existence.


          TRACK LISTING

          01. Clean Current
          02. Repeats

          Mission To The Sun

          Cleansed By Fire

            RIYL: Ritual Howls, Throbbing Gristle, Coil, The Legendary Pink Dots, Suicide, Cabaret Voltaire, Sonic Youth, Current 93 & The Stranglers.

            Mission to the Sun synthesizes ambient, post-industrial landscapes with expansive arrangements and haunting vocals. Comprised of Christopher Samuels (synths, samples, programming) of Ritual Howls and Kirill Slavin (vocals), the Detroit-based duo creates an atmosphere of lamentation for a world left behind. Fragments of industrial noise and hypnotic synths fill Samuels' foreboding, alien terrain, and it's in this vastness that Slavin’s voice mourns the drudgery of everyday life and the loss of universal consciousness.

            The duo's debut album, Cleansed by Fire, takes the listener on a journey home to the inferno of the sun, navigating memories of a life lived, dissolved into time. A wind of desolation opens "Take Me Back," with Slavin mourning for a return home to a distant reality. The song uses repetition to build a somber ambience while maintaining a spaciousness sparsely accented by noise with care and precision. Slavin's lyrics examine the conflict and paradoxes that riddle the human condition with

            Samuel's instrumentation providing a fitting backdrop. "The Unbroken Sea" illustrates this symbiotic reflection with a propulsive bass line contradicted by ethereal synths that swell and contract, only to be finally engulfed by a pulsating crescendo of rhythmic noise at the end. The dystopian title track "Cleansed by Fire" marches steadily along to a creeping darkwave rhythm. The basic elements of dance music are there, yet the song remains devoid of danceability. Punctuated by lyrics inspired by J.G. Ballard and technological isolation, a glimmer of pop sensibility can be found beneath the haze of the track's potent mood.

            Mission to the Sun beautifully captures an alien feeling: one ripe with despair and longing, one that doesn't quite belong to this world or time. A slow, satisfying burn, Cleansed by Fire traverses the dystopian past and present, while moving toward the future.

            TRACK LISTING

            01. Take Me Back
            02. Cleansed By Fire
            03. Damaged
            04. Mission To The Sun
            05. The Unbroken Sea
            06. Computers
            07. In Your Eyes
            08. Three Crossings

            Don Carlos

            Wipe The Wicked Clean

              Born Don McCarlos, the roots singer processes one of reggae’s most distinctive voices. His vocal mannerisms are instantly recognisable over a tune, yet he remains one of Jamaica’s best kept secrets. Kingston Sounds look back to some of his finest moments that set the tone for his popularity that was to follow in the dancehall period of reggae.

              He began his musical career in 1973, when, alongside Garth Dennis and Derrick Ducky Simpson, he formed one of reggae's foremost groups Black Uhuru.

              He then joined Wailing Souls before going solo under the shorter name Don Carlos. Kingston Sounds find this set hard to beat as most of his classis are represented here.


              Clean George IV

              God Save The Clean

                Tenement Records is pleased to announce the release of God Save The Clean by Clean George IV on 28th November.

                It is a modern British pop/rock epic, the sound of one mans very singular worldview.

                The last time George released a record (2007's 'First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women' included here in a new version) it received extensive play on radio's 1,2 and 6 making several end of year lists and scoring them live sessions with Huw Stevens and Vic Galloway on their radio 1 shows.

                Soon afterwards the band went on hiatus for various reasons, mainlyastrological and geographical. George moved back to Edinburgh and joined a myriad of side projects, attempted to undertake a classical music degree, got sued by Kraftwerk and co-wrote and produced a few albums with various friends in various places. He eventually decided to tackle finishing this album with the help of band member and record producer Tom Morris and his brother Tom McFall, also a producer and engineer.

                It is an album with more than it's fair share of bombast and ambition. From the swaggering anti cocaine anthem 'Real Men Take Speed' through the power pomp of 'Winter Son' and the post-landfill gloom of 'Fat=dead' this is a record made up of conflicting elements from many disparate genres, all underpinned by George's cosmic deadpan. Other highlights include 'London Scotland', first single 'Pets in the Blitz' and album closer 'Ex-Life'.


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