Debut album from The Goa Express, led by Clarkey alongside his brother Joe and best friends Joey, Naham and Sam.

They met as young teenagers in Burnley - growing up in the rural shadow of England's industrial north, music was a means of escape and a vessel for friendship. Their shared adolescent experiences shaped their collective attitudes and behaviours and, ultimately, the sound and spirit of their band. 6music playlists and Radio 1 support has followed along with a heavy touring schedule.

TRACK LISTING

Honey
It's Never Been Better
Good Luck Charm
You're The Girl 
Small Talk
Can't Stay Quiet
Better Than OK
Talking About Stuff
Portrait
Prove It

Following the instant sell-out of 'MT. FUJI FM' (featuring Gilles Peterson) - The Yussef Dayes Experience returns for 'LIVE FROM MT. FUJI' on standard black vinyl, with music only. The project includes live performances of both pre-released favourites and brand-new compositions, featuring the extraordinary Japanese vocalist / virtuoso Minami Kizuki from Amami Island, on vocals and Sanshin (a traditional three-stringed, long-necked instrument, unique to the region).

TRACK LISTING

1. Chasing The Drum
2. Turquoise Galaxy
3. The Light
4. Amami (feat. Minami Kizuki)
5. Fuji Yama (feat. Minami Kizuki)
6. Chi Ave/ A Love Letter To Salvador
7. The Colour Purple

For just over a decade, EXEK has very quietly become one of the most hypnotic bands on the planet, mutating and growing from record to record, gradually opening themselves up without ever losing that strange, inscrutable, altogether essential quality that’s made them so great—so EXEK-y.

'Prove The Mountains Move' is the seventh album and first for DFA for the Melbourne post-punk outfit. It is, as Wolski says, “a bit more ‘epic’” than anything he’s recorded to date, a lush and unabashedly melodic set of surrealist pop that luxuriates in contradiction. “This record is experimental in its craft,” Wolski says, “but it may not necessarily sound experimental.”

There’s good reason for that. Work began on a cold afternoon in June of 2023, as Wolski and Stephenson came together at Pelican Refill Studios in Melbourne to track drums—the first thing they always do. From there, Wolski went home on his own and began sifting through the beats and breaks they’d captured, letting the drum sounds guide him towards melodies and basslines, looping and layering and laying foundation for what would become 'Prove The Mountains Move'. “I feel comfortable tinkering away alone like a mad scientist,” he says. “I also enjoyed pressing record with no clear intention. More often than not, that would steer me towards an interesting direction that my conscious mind probably wouldn’t have sought out.”

And yet, somehow Wolski arrived at his most direct work since he launched the project, newly inspired by the clarity and concision of mainstream pop, the strong and undeniable pull of a simple vocal melody. After Melbourne’s famously stringent COVID lockdowns ended, he found himself wanting to stay out. “Working on new music took a distant backseat to raging with friends,” he says. “And those parties were filled with big bangers as the soundtrack—stuff I didn’t really listen to on my own, stuff I hadn’t really encountered since my adolescence. But in the early hours of Sunday morning, ‘Alive’ by Pearl Jam sounds like you’re talking to God. And so does 'All I Wanna Do' by Sheryl Crow, and so does 'Feel' by Robbie Williams. Krautrock and dub were still in my DNA, but the music that I started to make was perhaps a little more lighthearted, and perhaps a bit more emotional.”

Which isn’t to say you should expect to hear traces of Eddie Vedder in Wolski’s vocal delivery here, but the stakes feel similar in their own way—this is what it sounds like when EXEK are really going for it. Take, for instance, the levitating synths of opener 'Sidestepping' or the mountainous guitars of 'Arriverderci Back Pain', the piano bench pyrotechnics of 'Don’t Answer (When They Call)' or the Bowie-like melancholy of 'You Have Been Blessed'. The arrangements feel more open, the sonics more focused. It’s not hard to believe him when Wolski says he spent time earnestly A-B’ing his mixes of 'Prove The Mountains Move' against some of the most important albums ever recorded, Abbey Road among them.

But everything is relative. And lyrically, Wolski remains oblique. ”Each song is a vignette into an abstract milieu, whether it’s an experimental chiropractic business at an airport, or scantily clad creatures made from dust at a food court. No matter how wacky, there’s themes and motifs throughout the record, both lyrical and musical, that mirror up and reflect each other throughout different songs.” That dissonance—between the direct and indirect, smooth and textured, shadowed and incandescent, zany and deadpan—is the animating force at the heart of these songs, his best yet.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sidestepping
2. You Have Been Blessed
3. Visiting Dust Bunnies
4. Arrivederci Back Pain
5. Don’t Answer (When They Call)
6. Tyres
7. Spotless
8. Chef’s Hat Renaissance

Some 30 years after they first met in the DJ booth of Tokyo’s Spacelab Yellow nightclub, close friends François Kevorkian and Dimitri From Paris have finally joined forces in the studio. The result is The Nassau Excursion, a dazzlingly good three-track EP inspired by their joint love of disco and boogie-era dance records made at Island Records’ Compass Point Studio in the Bahamas.

Across three essential tracks, François and Dimitri explore and celebrate this distinctive Caribbean post-disco sound – one where weighty basslines and heavy drum machine beats rub shoulders with early ‘80s synths, dub-style production, heady hand percussion patterns and arrangements drenched in space echo and tape delay.

TRACK LISTING

A. The Compass Point Ft. DJ Rocca
B1. Da Riddim
B2. Steppers Revenge

In a cramped club on the lower east side of Manhattan, armed with only an electric guitar, Jeff Buckley stunned audiences with his mysterious, emotionally uncompromising live sets, packed with eclectic covers and his own originals. The four-track Live at Sin-e EP, released in 1993 was his debut release for Columbia Records; here it's expanded with an eight-page, full color booklet of photos and liner notes. The set includes live versions of favorites like 'Grace', 'Last Goodbye' and Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Be Your Husband [Live]
2. Lover, You Should've Come Over [Live]
3. Mojo Pin [Live]
4. Monologue - Duane Eddy, Songs For Lovers [Live]
5. Grace [Live]
6. Monologue – Reverb, The Doors [Live]
7. Strange Fruit [Live]
8. Night Flight [Live]
9. If You Knew [Live]
10. Monologue - Fabulous Time For A Guinness [Live]
11. Unforgiven (Last Goodbye) [Live]
12. The Twelfth Of Never [Live]
13. Monologue - Cafe Days [Live]
14. Monologue - Eternal Life [Live]
15. Eternal Life [Live]
16. Just Like A Woman [Live]
17. Monologue - False Start, Apology, Miles Davis [Live]
18. Calling You [Live]
19. Monologue - Nusrat, He's My Elvis [Live]
20. Yeh Jo Halka Saroor Hae [Live]
21. Monologue - I'm A Ridiculous Person [Live]
22. If You See Her, Say Hello [Live]
23. Monologue - Matt Dillon, Hollies, Classic Rock Radio [Live]
24. Dink's Song [Live]
25. Monologue - Musical Chairs [Live]
26. Drown In My Own Tears [Live]
27. Monologue - The Suckiest Water [Live]
28. The Way Young Lovers Do [Live]
29. Monologue - Walk Through Walls [Live]
30. Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin [Live]
31. I Shall Be Released [Live]
32. Sweet Thing [Live]
33. Monologue - Good Night Bill [Live]
34. Hallelujah [Live]

For his next trick, Danny Krivit serves up a fitting musical tribute to what he refers to as "the royal family of soul" aka The Jacksons. This double A-side brings two classics to 7" for the first time having been pulled from the golden era of 90s house. Both original Michael and Janet remixes have long been staples in Krivit's sets and here he refines E-Smoove's Late Nite remix of 'Remember The Time' into a mix-friendly gem that keeps the essence and bumps up the beats. On the flip, Janet's 'Any Time, Any Place' appears as the beloved D&D remix, which is uplifting, funky and timeless.

TRACK LISTING

Remember The Time (House Remix)
Any Time, Any Place (House Remix)

On its 15th anniversary 'The Fallen By Watch Bird' is reissued as a special expanded edition with The Watchbird Alluminate, featuring reinterpretations by Demdike Stare, The Focus Group, Anworth Kirk, Emma Tricca and others. Originally released on Weaver’s own label Bird Records, it is a tapestry of psychedelic femme-folk-rock drawing influence from Eastern European children's cinema, Germanic kunstmärchen, 70s television music and 80s electronic scores. Steeped in synths and mysticism, this fully realised conceptual record weaves imagery of absent sailors, telekinesis, bird messengers and white witchcraft alongside pagan themes of death and rebirth. A formative masterpiece from her ever-growing discography, 'The Fallen By Watch Bird' continued to build on the themes of its predecessor ('Like An Aspen Leaf') and innovative production techniques developed in her earlier releases.

Presented across seven chapters it features performances from Septième Soeur Wendy Flower of the Wendy & Bonnie folk-pop duo who released 1969’s Genesis, Lisa Jen – Welsh vocalist on Gruff Rhys’ 'Candylion' – lost American folk-pop singer Susan Christie and Bosnian folk musician and violinist Behar.

As accompanying extras, ‘The Watchbird Alluminate’ continues with a sense of wonderment through explorations into drone, psychedelia, folk and shapeshifting soundscapes. Inspired by post-war cinematic interpretations and the traditions of chronicling folk stories, Weaver reimagines the original release with spoken word narrative from Susan Christie reinterpreted by Ghostbox’s Focus Group; elsewhere Bird label artists Emma Tricca and falsetto soloist Magpahi offer their own interpretations. The release evokes David Lynch’s Twin Peaks on ‘Whispers of Winter’ with Wendy Flower alongside alluring vocal moments reminiscent of Vashti Bunyan (‘Turning In Circles’ ft. Emma Tricca) and Kate Bush (‘My Soul Was Lost & No one Saved Me’ ft. Magpahi).

Jane Weaver’s illustrious career has produced an expansive library of music that has seen her journey through solo folkloric and pop leaning beginnings through to the psychedelic synth-pop explorations of today. Celebrating her pioneering vision, Fire Records will be deep diving into her early catalogue with a new reissue series set for release in 2026.

TRACK LISTING

1. Europium Alluminate
2. A Circle And A Star
3. The Fallen By Watch Bird
4. Turning In Circles
5. Hud A Llefrith
6. Whispers Of Winter
7. Noctilumina
8. My Soul Was Lost, My Soul Was Lost, And No One Saved Me
9. Silver Chord
10. Jane Weaver Septiéme Soeur With Demdike Stare – Europium Alluminate
11. The Focus Group With Susan Christie– A Circle And A Star Part 1 (Poetry By Michael Hill)
12. Jane Weaver Septiéme Soeur – The Fallen By Watchbird (Video Edit)
13. Emma Tricca – Turning In Circles
14. Jane Weaver Septiéme Soeur - Majic Milk
15. Jane Weaver Septiéme Soeur With Wendy Flower – Whispers Of Winter
16. Jane Weaver Septiéme Soeur With Anworth Kirk –Noctilumina
17. Magpahi – My Soul Was Lost, My Soul Was Lost & No One Saved Me
18. Jane Weaver Septiéme Soeur* With Samandtheplants And Wendy Flower – Silver Cord
19. The Focus Group With Susan Christie - A Circle And A Star Part 2 (Poetry By Michael Hill)

The year is 2000. After only ten years performing and recording, the Austrian group Naked Lunch had reached the end of the line. They had experienced a meteoric rise throughout the 1990s: less than four years had seen the group move from a mold-infested rehearsal room in an Austrian town to a five-star hotel on Times Square. Imagine endless tours, outrageously expensive recordings in studios from Bochum to New York, an extended stay in London and collapsed major-label deals – imagine, essentially, what the band themselves called “an utterly pointless burning through money”. Eventually, the group returned to their hometown. What remained were mostly disillusioning experiences in the pop business and a huge amount of debt.

Most of us would probably have thrown in the towel at that point. Alas, these men did not. Having grown into a quartet, the band decided to hit the reset button and start over. Together with producer and friend Olaf Opal (including work with The Notwist, International Music, etc.), they barricaded themselves for almost three years in the newly built studio of bassist Herwig Zamernik to work on an album that would eventually be released in 2004 under the name 'SONGS FOR THE EXHAUSTED'.

“The recordings were shameless, insanely intense, exhausting, and at times even disturbing. At the same time, all that long work was also somewhat cleansing and rewarding. Rewarding in the sense that they allowed us to return to a ‘to hell with what others think’ attitude. We were able to create freely again. That’s how this record emerged, and for us it meant a new beginning, a turning point – or rather a kind of rebirth.” (Oliver Welter)

'SONGS FOR THE EXHAUSTED' became not only a milestone in the band’s career. It was also, in a way, a farewell to an unrestrained era and an admission of the exhaustion that resulted from it. The album certainly isn’t easy fare. The record is dark, at times even obstructive. Yet it has the ability to embrace us and, as Anja Plaschg alias Soap&Skin once put it, “to comfort us in feverish nights.” 'SONGS FOR THE EXHAUSTED' was – and remains even today – “a masterpiece once thought impossible!” (Austria’s Der Standard, 2004)

TRACK LISTING

1. God
2. First Man On The Sun
3. King George
4. Stay
5. Lost It All
6. In Your Room
7. The Deal
8. Man Without Past
9. Solitude
10. The Retainer 

Even in a trajectory that was filled with drastic bends and turns, 'Joggers & Smoggers' came as a surprise. If 'Aural Guerilla' (1988) was an attempt to catch the band’s manic live energy in the studio, with seething results, follow-up 'Joggers & Smoggers' was an attempt to ignore nearly all limitations.

These 34 songs brim with a limitless eclecticism, combining the band’s legendary intensity with playful detours, literary inventions and references, and successful collaborations (from noise-rockers Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo to Amsterdam-based improvisers Ab Baars and Wolter Wierbos, and a string of already familiar friends and allies). What you get is no longer a tightly executed batch of songs, but a generous burst of creativity. On this double album, The Ex combines restlessness, playfulness, ethnic influences and improvisatory ideas of the kind that were already hinted at on releases such as 'Dignity Of Labour' (1983) and 'Blueprints For a Blackout' (1984).

The result is their most sprawling and unique album up to that point, perhaps one of their true ‘key releases’, and one that provided the foundation on which their upcoming collaboration with Tom Cora could flourish.

TRACK LISTING

1. Humm (The Fullhouse Mumble)
2. At The Gate
3. Pigs + Scales
4. Coughing
5. Morning Star
6. Wall Has Ears
7. Invitation To The Dance
8. Tightly Stretched
9. Ask The Prisoner
10. To Be Clear
11. Gentlemen
12. Make That Call
13. The Buzzword Medley
14. Shopping Street
15. Crackle Engines Vrôp Vrôp
16. Greetings From Urbania
17. Wired
18. Got Everything?
19. Waarom Niet
20. Courtyard
21. Burst!Crack!Split!
22. Brickbat
23. Hieronymus
24. Nosey Parker
25. People Who Venture
26. Watch The Driver
27. Let’s Get Sceptical
28. Tin Gods
29. State Of Freedom
30. Provisionally Untitled
31. Kachun-K Pschûh
32. The Early Bird’s Wo R M
33. Catkin
34. Upstairs With Picasso 

1991's 'Scrabbling At The Lock' became a turning point for The Ex in several ways. It was their first collaboration with New York-based improviser Tom Cora, who would play nearly 100 concerts with the band. It also expanded their range considerably and turned them into a force that steered their balance of invention and intensity to new heights. It was not only a creative benchmark, it also won them a new audience, as they became one of the first 'punk' bands to cross over into the world of improvised music, and a recurring guest at free music festivals all over Europe.

Follow-up album 'And The Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders' continued that winning streak with another stellar batch of songs that combine scorching energy, with limitless eclecticism and a confident, improvisatory glee. Artful punk, Oriental and European folk inspirations, inventive and passionate lyrics, and a knack for real time-creation seamlessly blend together in a cocktail that is highly combustible and occasionally ominous, but also consistently adventurous and strikingly infectious. By this point, The Ex had become one of the most consistently challenging and forward-thinking bands of their generation. And now 'And The Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders' is finally available again on vinyl!

TRACK LISTING

1. Dere Geliyor Dere 
2. The Big Black 
3. What's The Story
4. Lamp Lady
5. One-Liner From China
6. Everything And Me 
7. New Clear Daze
8. Oh Puckerlips Now
9. Empty V
10. Okinawa Mon Amour
11. Dear House 
12. Conviction Going Gaga
13. Stupid Competitions 
14. Hickwall 
15. War OD

'Junun' is the debut collaborative album by composer Shye Ben Tzur, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, and the Indian ensemble the Rajasthan Express. Originally released in November 2015, the album was recorded in a makeshift studio within the 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India. with Radiohead's longtime producer Nigel Godrich.

The album features Ben Tzur's compositions, which incorporate devotional Sufi qawwal musicians singing in Urdu and Hebrew. Greenwood contributed guitar, bass, keyboards, ondes Martenot, and programming, aiming to use chords sparingly and instead focusing on North Indian ragas. The recording process sought to capture the "roughness" of Indian music, avoiding the high fidelity often found in world music recordings.

The making of 'Junun' was also documented by acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, offering an intimate look at the creative process and vibrant daily life during the album’s production. His film, also titled 'Junun', debuted at the New York Film Festival in October 2015.

'Junun' (an alternate spelling of "junoon", meaning "mania" or "the madness of love") received widespread critical acclaim—including Album of the Year honors from The Sunday Times, who called it “one of the most inspired releases of the year” and “intriguing, sinuous, and essential listening”. The group also supported Radiohead's 2018 'Moon Shaped Pool' tour, performing under the name Junun.

TRACK LISTING

1. Junun
2. Roked
3. Hu
4. Chala Vahi Des
5. Kalandar
6. Eloah
7. Julus
8. Allah Elohim
9. Ahuvi
10. Azov
11. Junun Brass
12. There Are Birds In The Echo Chamber
13. Modeh

The man who never misses is back with another big hit. This time, Danny Krivit drops a double shot of deep-digging NYC energy aimed at the floor. First, he flips Billy Paul's 'East', the first track ever released on Philadelphia International Records, into a taut, bass-driven groover that keeps the spirit but sharpens the energy. Flip it over and you're in early-80s Manhattan as Final Edition's seminal 'Can't Keep Running Away' is retooled into a sleek boogie-funk stomper that is stripped to its rhythmic core and laden with an irresistible hook. As ever, pure Mr. K magic that cannot fail to bring the good times.

TRACK LISTING

East
Can't Keep Running Away

THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28th FROM 10AM ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29th).

Space-surf-psych-rock quartet Japanese Television's album 'Automata
Exotica' has been remixed by invited friends and peers; including Goat Fool from GOAT, Factory Floor's Gabe Gurnsey, and Edgar Breau from cult band Simply Saucer.

Informed by UFO encounters, ritualism, robots, Northern Soul, and nuclear weapons, 'Automata Exotica' was released in March 2024 and was described as "Heavy but also joyful" by The Quietus, "A fuzzy blast of space-surf energy " in Shindig and "A remarkable and unique proposition" by Louder Than War.

Rather than having been transformed out of all recognition, "reimagined" is a more apt term to describe this new version of 'Automata Exotica'. With the album's eight tracks presented via considered, alternative mixes with pertinent sonic application, it hangs together incredibly coherently - albeit as a wild and feverish psychedelic experience.

JTV toured with GOAT while writing 'Automata Exotica', with the fat fuzz tones and extended middle percussion section of 'Typhoon Reggae Police' heavily influenced by their time watching and learning from side stage. Starting life as an uneasy mixture of scratchy 60s garage rock and 70s Afghan psych folk, Goat Fool from GOAT ripped the song apart and stitched it back together. Recognisable but weird and uncanny, it's a stripped down, oppressive, shimmering voodoo nightmare.

TRACK LISTING

1, Golden Birds - Edgar Breau & Mike Trebilcock From Simply Saucer Remix
2. Typhoon Reggae Police - Goat Fool From GOAT Remix
3. Death Waltz II - The Gathering Doubt Remix
4. Ariel School Sighting - Floral Image Remix
5. Automata Exotica - Rossana Remix
6. Fantasia - Sugo Remix
7. Uranium Knights - Phil MFU Remix
8. Tabadaboum - Gabe Gurnsey Remix

Columbus, GA — In the late 1980s, Columbus native Kenneth Jordan was such a powerhouse on the local music scene that talent shows had to rewrite their rules. His voice was so captivating (and his wins so frequent) that some claimed the competitions were rigged.

Jordan, deeply rooted in the city's thriving R&B circuit, eventually turned his creative energy toward faith-based music. Teaming up with several local musicians, he recorded "Excitement (Rap For Jesus)", a gospel-infused rap track that aimed to connect with a younger audience enthralled by the sound of hip-hop. His goal was simple: to give youth something uplifting to rap about and listen to.

In 1985, following a personal health scare and a period of reflection, Jordan transitioned from R&B to gospel music. "I took it as a sign from above that it was time to make a change," he later shared. Though his lyrics found new purpose, his signature soulful style remained unchanged.

Fast forward to December 2022 in Little Rock, Arkansas, where record collector and producer Brian Sears stumbled upon a well-loved copy of "Excitement (Rap For Jesus)" while purchasing over a thousand vinyl records from the trunk of an SUV in a Lowe's parking lot. Struck by the track's energy and message, Sears went into "detective mode" to uncover the story behind the voice—and the man—on the record.

Today, Kenneth Jordan continues to share his gift with his community, leading spirited performances every Sunday at his local church in Columbus. Nearly four decades later, his music and message still resonate with the same joy and conviction that first made him a hometown legend.

TRACK LISTING

1. Excitement (Rap For Jesus)
2. Jesus Is The Way

The Jimi Hendrix Bold As Love boxsets offer a premium collector experience in both a 5LP & Blu-ray or 4CD & Blu-ray package. Each set features 27 previously unreleased recordings from 1967, including demos and alternate takes, as well as television and radio performances. This deluxe edition includes the stereo and mono mixes for the Axis: Bold As Love album, all newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original flat master tapes. Both stereo and mono mixes are included in high-resolution 24bit/96kHz audio, as well as a newly created, immersive Dolby Atmos mix by Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod. A 36-page booklet rounds out the offering, filled with rare photos, detailed liner notes, and track-by-track insights. This release is ideal for Hendrix fans and vinyl enthusiasts looking for a definitive archival edition of one of Hendrix’s most iconic albums.

TRACK LISTING

LP Box Set Tracklist:

LP1 - Original Stereo Mix:
1. EXP
2. Up From The Skies
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Wait Until Tomorrow
5. Ain’t No Telling
6. Little Wing
7. If 6 Was 9
8. You Got Me Floatin’
9. Castles Made Of Sand
10. She’s So Fine
11. One Rainy Wish
12. Little Miss Lover
13. Bold As Love

LP2 - Original Mono Mix:
1. EXP
2. Up From The Skies
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Wait Until Tomorrow
5. Ain’t No Telling
6. Little Wing
7. If 6 Was 9
8. You Got Me Floatin’
9. Castles Made Of Sand
10. She’s So Fine
11. One Rainy Wish
12. Little Miss Lover
13. Bold As Love

LP3:
1. Mr. Bad Luck [Take 6]
2. She’s So Fine [Take 4]
3. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Take 30]
4 The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice [Paramount Studios]
5. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Instrumental]
6. The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice [Instrumental]
7. Stone Free/Up From The Skies [Demo]
8. Up From The Skies [Take 2]
9. Ain’t No Telling [Demo]
10. Ain’t No Telling [Take 12]
11. Little Miss Lover [Demo]
12. One Rainy Wish [Take 1]
13. You Got Me Floatin’ [Take 1]
14. Untitled Guitar Experiment
15. Castles Made Of Sand [Take 16]

LP4:
1. Bold As Love [Take 19]
2. Wait Until Tomorrow [Take 2]
3. Spanish Castle Magic [Take 2]
4. Little Wing [Take 2]
5. Untitled Instrumental #1 [Take 3]
6. Untitled Instrumental #2 [Take 1]
7. Little Miss Lover [Alternate Version]
8. Spanish Castle Magic [Take 4]
9. Wait Until Tomorrow [Take 14]
10. Castles Made Of Sand [Backwards Guitar]
11. One Rainy Wish [Alternate Version]
12. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Original Mono Mix]
13. The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice [Original Mono Mix]

LP5:
1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Sweden 9/5/67]
2. Fire [Sweden 9/5/67]
3. The Wind Cries Mary [Sweden 9/5/67]
4. Foxey Lady [Sweden 9/5/67]
5. Hey Joe [Sweden 9/5/67]
6. I Don’t Live Today [Sweden 9/5/67]
7. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Sweden 9/5/67]
8. Purple Haze [Sweden 9/5/67]
9. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Dee Time]
10. Purple Haze [Hoepla]
11. Foxey Lady [Hoepla]
12. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Top Of The Pops] 

CD Tracklisting:

CD1 - Original Stereo Mix:
1. EXP
2. Up From The Skies
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Wait Until Tomorrow
5. Ain’t No Telling
6. Little Wing
7. If 6 Was 9
8. You Got Me Floatin’
9. Castles Made Of Sand
10. She’s So Fine
11. One Rainy Wish
12. Little Miss Lover
13. Bold As Love

CD2 - Original Mono Mix:
1. EXP
2. Up From The Skies
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Wait Until Tomorrow
5. Ain’t No Telling
6. Little Wing
7. If 6 Was 9
8. You Got Me Floatin’
9. Castles Made Of Sand
10. She’s So Fine
11. One Rainy Wish
12. Little Miss Lover
13. Bold As Love

CD3:
1. Mr. Bad Luck [Take 6]
2. She’s So Fine [Take 4]
3. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Take 30]
4. The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice [Paramount Studios]
5. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Instrumental]
6. The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice [Instrumental]
7. Stone Free/Up From The Skies [Demo]
8. Up From The Skies [Take 2]
9. Ain’t No Telling [Demo]
10. Ain’t No Telling [Take 12]
11. Little Miss Lover [Demo]
12. One Rainy Wish [Take 1]
13. You Got Me Floatin’ [Take 1]
14. Untitled Guitar Experiment
15. Bold As Love [Take 19]
16. Castles Made Of Sand [Take 16]
17. Wait Until Tomorrow [Take 2]
18. Spanish Castle Magic [Take 2]
19. Little Wing [Take 2]
20. Untitled Instrumental #1 [Take 3]
21. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Original Mono Mix]
22. The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice [Original Mono Mix]

CD4:
1. Little Miss Lover [Alternate Version]
2. Spanish Castle Magic [Take 4]
3. Wait Until Tomorrow [Take 14]
4. Castles Made Of Sand [Backwards Guitar]
5. One Rainy Wish [Alternate Version]
6. Untitled Instrumental #2 [Take 1]
7. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Dee Time]
8. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Sweden 9/5/67]
9. Fire [Sweden 9/5/67]
10. The Wind Cries Mary [Sweden 9/5/67]
11. Foxey Lady [Sweden 9/5/67]
12. Hey Joe [Sweden 9/5/67]
13. I Don’t Live Today [Sweden 9/5/67]
14. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Sweden 9/5/67]
15. Purple Haze [Sweden 9/5/67]
16. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp [Top Of The Pops]
17. Purple Haze [Hoepla]
18. Foxey Lady [Hoepla] 

Following acclaimed outings 'About Love and Loving Again' and 'Hold Your Love Still', Christian Kjellvander returns with 'Ex Voto / The Silent Love', a quietly devastating and profoundly intimate record that completes an unofficial trilogy exploring love in its most tender, conflicted, and spiritual forms.

Originally conceived as an album of ten soft, calm country songs, 'Ex Voto' gradually evolved into something more expansive, yet the embryo of that intention remains, pulsing gently beneath every track. The record opens with two stripped-back songs, flows into a louder, more dynamic centre piece, then drifts back into stillness, mirroring the emotional journey of its creation. As with its predecessors, 'Ex Voto' continues Christian’s exploration of themes like love, religion, the natural world, and beauty, subjects he approaches with poetic precision and emotional depth. But this album goes deeper. It is more intimate, more raw. Christian was in a different place when he began writing it, and while the gravitational centre of his artistry remains constant, that personal shift colours the entire record.

Recorded live over a few days in an old summer house by the sea at Sweden’s southern tip, the album captures the breath and quiet of a room where no headphones were needed, where vocals bleed into the space through a PA, and every creak of the floorboards became part of the sound. The spectres of each voice and instrument haunt the multi-tracks like spirits lingering in a deep desert night. It’s romantic and cinematic, a kind of small-town noir transposed from the Texan wilderness to the Swedish coast. At the heart of the record is Kjellvander’s deep, expressive baritone and lyrical clarity, surrounded by a sparse yet richly textured palette: brush drums, bass clarinet, mournful cornet, Rhodes, synths, and the haunting counterpoint of female vocals. From the ghostly intimacy of 'Love of Another' to the stormy crescendo of 'Deathrider', the album moves with patience and purpose.

Songs like 'God Simple' and 'It Can Heal If You Let It' ride slow grooves into emotional catharsis, while 'The View Is Watching' swells into a shadowy, psychedelic dirge. Even the instrumental 'Ex Voto' hums with spiritual weight. Producer Tobias Fröberg focused on the scale of Christian’s voice and the gravity of his words, using reverb to lend a hyper-real quality to the album’s mood. The sound is different to its predecessors, and so was the recording process - just players in a room, leaning into the silence between sounds. The result is a document of presence: atmospheric, unguarded, and emotionally resonant. Ex Voto / The Silent Love is a record that inspires patience. It’s not to be consumed, but sat with, like a long conversation late into the night.

TRACK LISTING

1. Love Of Another
2. Hole In My Heart
3. God Simple
4. The View Is Watching
5. Obsession
6. It Can Heal You If You Let It
7. Ex Voto
8. Deathrider
9. Reasonable Love

The third volume of the Excursions in Gwoka series brings forth fresh sun-bathed rhythms, perfect for summer. It is a collaboration between Guadeloupean legends Djenmbi, who is the synth composer of Akiyo's 'Deboule', and master ka player Klod Kiavue, alongside Montreal electronic twosome Topium. Their cover of the traditional folkloric song 'Bo Bay Lamen' (which translates as "to give a hand") takes it into lush soundscape territory with golden hues and gentle underlapping drums. It is complemented by Afro-cosmic and dancefloor-ready remixes from Kay Suzuki and Aroop Roy, who makes his Beauty & The Beat debut. Also featured is 'Ti Bedon,' a modern electronic gwoka fusion track from the quartet's 2022 CD-only album.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. "Bo Bay Lanmen" (Original Mix)
2. "Bo Bay Lanmen" (Kay Suzuki Remix)

Side 2
1. "Bo Bay Lanmen" (Aroop Roy Remix)
2. "Ti Bedon"

Axis: Bold As Love, the second album from The Jimi Hendrix Experience was the follow up to the hugely successful Are You Experienced. This masterpiece is home to the classics Little Wing, Castles Made Of Sand and Bold As Love. This edition of the album will be pressed on Electric Orange colour vinyl.

The biggest-selling UK debut album of 2011, What Did You Expect From returns as a special pressing on white vinyl. The album spawned no less than six singles and, as noted by the NME at the time: “It’s the sound of youth… It’s indie rock, and The Vaccines do it better than any young British band has done in years.”

Bobby Caldwell may be best known for his timeless hit 'What You Won't Do For Love' but he has also penned a ton of other tunes that are just as great. Edit king Danny Krivit knows that and now shines a light on some of the hidden corners of the American's discography with a twist of Caldwell's first single, 'The House Is Rockin'. Opening with an extended, DJ-friendly drum break, Krivit stretches the track into the breezy, sunlit groover it always hinted at being and on the flip, he reworks Eddy Grant's 'California Style', teasing out its pre-house vibes and zeroing in on the bubbling synths and hypnotic bassline while trimming the vocals. As always with Mr K, these are both essential edits.

TRACK LISTING

The House Is Rockin
California Style (Part 2)

John Carpenter’s soundtracks for the most recent Halloween trilogy, made alongside his frequent collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, marked the legendary director and composer’s return to film scoring after nearly two decades away. 2018’s Halloween, 2021’s Halloween Kills, and 2022’s Halloween Ends were all directed by David Gordon Green, who engaged Carpenter early in the pre-production process, ultimately enlisting him as both an executive producer and soundtrack composer for the trilogy. Now, for the first time, expanded editions of all three scores are being made available in a deluxe box set by Carpenter’s longtime label, Sacred Bones Records.

TRACK LISTING

Halloween Ends Tracklist:
1. Where Is Jeremy?
2. Halloween Ends (Main Title)
3. Laurie’s Theme Ends
4. The Cave
5. Tire Slash
6. Cool Kid
7. Drags To The Cave
8. Evil Eyes
9. Transformation
10. Because Of You
11. Walk With Me
12. Requiem For Jeremy
13. In The Restaurant
14. Bridge Fight
15. Kill The Cop
16. Corey And Allyson 
17. Side Of The Road 
18. Corey And Michael
19. Slap
20. Corey’s Requiem
21. Take The Mask 
22. The Junk Yard
23. Where Are You?
24. Suicide 
25. What Did You Do? 
26. Bye Bye Corey
27. The Fight
28. Before Her Eyes
29. The Procession
30. Cherry Blossoms
31. Halloween Ends

Halloween Kills Tracklist:
1. Logos Kill
2. Hawkins Discovered
3. Flashback
4. Spit
5. Hey Kid
6. The Myer’s House
7. Cops Explore
8. Irst Attack
9. Stand Off
10. Halloween Kills (Main Title)
11. Let It Burn
12. He Appears
13. From The Fire
14. Strodes At The Hospital
15. Cruel Intentions
16. Phone Call
17. Massacre
18. Someone’s In The Car
19. Halloween Trick
20. Back At The Hospital
21. Goodbye Michael
22. Gather The Mob
23. Rampage
24. Frank
25. Search
26. Frank And Laurie
27. Evil Dies Tonight
28. The System Failed
29. Blood On The Door
30. Disturbed Man
31. Violent Return
32. Hallway Madness
33. It Needs To Die
34. Look At Me
35. Reflection
36. Hunting A Killer
37. Righteous Intention
38. Morbid Discovery
39. Unkillable
40. Payback
41. Michael’s Legend
42. Back To His Sister’s Room
43. Final Kill
44. Michael Answers
45. Halloween Kills (End Titles)

Halloween Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Aaron Meets Michael
3. Halloween Theme
4. Laurie’s Theme
5. Aaron And Dana Enter Laurie’s Compound
6. Laurie’s Past
7. Prison Montage
8. Laurie Breaks Down
9. Karen’s Flashback
10. Lumpy Explores Crash
11. Michael Kills
12. Hawkins Arrives At Crash Site
13. Dana’s In The Shower
14. The Story Of Judith’s Death
15. The Gas Station
16. Michael Kills Again
17. Gas Station Aftermath
18. The Shape Returns
19. The Boogeyman
20. The Shape Kills
21. Hawkins Called To Babysitter’s House
22. Laurie Sees The Shape
23. Babysitter Aftermath
24. Sartain Meets Laurie
25. Looking For Allyson
26. Wrought Iron Fence
27. The Shape Hunts Allyson
28. Talking To Cops
29. Allyson Discovered
30. Gun Closet
31. Halloween Theme (I’ve Got Eyes)
32. Sartain’s Gone Mad
33. Say Something
34. Through The Woods
35. Ray’s Goodbye
36. The Shape Attacks Laurie
37. The Shape Is Monumental
38. Searching For The Shape
39. Mannequin Panic
40. Death Drum
41. The Shape And Laurie Fight
42. The Grind
43. Trap The Shape
44. The Shape Burns
45. Halloween Triumphant

Recorded in rehearsal rooms and homes in the aftermath of a pandemic, 'Dreams Buried Under The Sea' carries a sense of Autumn: an ending of things, and new beginnings. Of harvesting and the storing of all that is good, in preparation for the harsh winter to come. Initially falling together from the ashes of sometimes celebrated electric-folkies The Eighteenth Day Of May back in 2006, Trimdon Grange Explosion have a way of taking their time. Built on the strong friendships of the individuals going way back, their approach to music-making has involved infrequent London based live appearances, but lots of recording, the results offered forward only when necessary.

The years following have seen the departure of founding member, viola player Alison Cotton to concentrate on well received solo work, but still appearing on three tracks on the new record. Alison’s departure preceded the arrival of new member, formidable bassist Ben Reed whose long resume includes work with Frank Ocean, Sampha and Hannah Peel, in addition to making solo records, the most recent being “Bandaged” on Esoteric in 2023. His arrival frees up original bassist Mark Nicholas to join Ben Phillipson on guitar duties. Phillipson also takes sole charge of vocals, double-tracked and harmonised. Drummer Karl Sabino completes the line-up, also handling most of the recording and production.

Not completely putting their folk tendencies to one side, the album documents a band learning to communicate with the new line-up; a sound that stretches from the Albion Country Band’s pastoral intricacy to Pavement’s lo-fi inscrutability by way of The Rain Parade/Byrdsian school of chiming guitars.

A recent live review in Shindig! (July 2025) noted the “propulsive ride-cymbal-driven drum and bass groove underpins intertwining dual raga-drone guitar lines; when one goes high, the other goes low and vice versa, making for sublime psych-head listening”.

'Dreams Buried Under The Sea' is at times uplifting, often heavily melancholic, and marks a culmination of sorts for Trimdon. Its release on Dom Martin’s Feral Child label also completes a circle, their debut release being a 7” on his previous Great Pop Supplement imprint way back when. 

High-grade Shed in sub-heavy stepping, to no-fuss direct techno form. Occupying its own completely unique space on the sound field, but still hitting all the necessary biological receptors that us humans possess for maximum dancefloor enjoyment - Tip!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Shed masterfully crosses the streams here with a futuristic piece of nightclub engineering on "The Net". "Trophy" see him opt for a heads-down, flat-lined thudder in a similar vein to early Skudge. Bunker busters!

TRACK LISTING

A1. The Net
B1. Trophy

Given that Mr K (that's NYC disco and house legend Danny Krivit to you and me) has been re-editing tracks since the late 1970s, it's perhaps unsurprising that his well of killer re-cuts never seems to run dry. On his latest two-track missive, he abandons the sprawling epics he's renowned for and instead offers up two on-point, radio-ready workouts. On 'Church Girl Church', he gives his take on a lightly wonky, new wave-era synth pop number, emphasising the slightly sleazy and futurist synth melodies, the just off metronomic machine drums and wild-eyed female lead vocals. 'Rise & Shine', meanwhile, is a tight, joyous and mood enhancing take on a piano-powered slab of righteous gospel-soul perfection.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Main room disco grooves from Mr. Krivit, here with 'Rise & Shine' featuring a bright piano progression and syrupy smooth vocals, while 'Church Girl Church' brings the gospel power, with a soulful vocal sitting atop synth stabs and echoing kick drums.

TRACK LISTING

Rise & Shine
Church Girl Church

The musical process for The Telescopes' 14th album, "Experimental Health", not only kept to a specific set of instruments but also a substantial amount of crushing and sound degradation was done to the tracks to elicit a certain kind of resolution. The result is an album radiating a dark and abrasive, yet ethereal energy. Created entirely independently by Stephen Lawrie in a remote cottage in West Yorkshire between January to May 2022, the record was made with broken toys and cheap synths - mostly Pocket Operators and miniature synths, with no guitars present. The complexity of sound rests within the simplicity of the composition and musical arrangements. The bonus remixes are two divergent interpretations by Black Market Karma and Mosaic Runes, both artists deploying their own respective skill sets and aura. The former with unfurling guitars and live drums, spreading a magnetic warmth and charm. The latter returning to the cryptic spectres haunting the record, drawing out the hidden spirit of broken equipment and infusing the tracks with their signature fractured ice.

TRACK LISTING

1. Because They Care
2. The Turns
3. When I Hear The Sound
4. Leave Nobody Behind
5. 45e
6. Wrong Dimension
7. Repetitive Brain Injury
8. The Turns Again
9. Leave Nobody Behind (Black Market Karma Remix)
10. 45e (Mosaic Runes Remix)

Two fields of existence collide as Nolla (Finnish psych/space rockers) & Mike Vest (Maximalist guitar guru, Bong, Blown Out, Drunk In Hell, Artifacts & Uranium, Modoki, Tomoyuki Trio, Mienakunaru etc) merge their creative visions for the third time.

Creating a steady and surreal exploration through astral planes. Nolla improvised the ground layer in their signature minimal space-rock style and MikeV wrapped everything up in lavish layers of fuzz, phased and U-Wah layered guitars.

Blending octaval tones, around an array of electronics & vocal harmonies. Resulting in a constant trance like psychedelic drone rock.

It's time to join the extraterrestrial communion, beyond the skies, convert into the mode of light and pay homage to his mighty eminence.

TRACK LISTING

A1. As We Convert (8:48)
A2. The Chariot (10:03)
B1. His Eminence (12:30)
B2. Dispersion (7:27)

Recorded and mixed at Duke Reid’s storied Treasure Isle studio by Duke’s nephew, young engineer Errol Brown, 'Dub Expression' collects dubbed up treatments of seminal rockers rhythms crafted for Marcia Griffiths, John Holt, Dennis Brown and more.

Propelled by the drums of Lowell “Sly” Dunbar, the appropriately named Revolutionaries (with their tough and radical sound) were the ideal group to reflect a turbulent period in Jamaican politics. While the band’s personnel remained fluid—depending on which players were available and frequently overlapping with other seminal sessions bands such as Joe Gibbs’ The Professionals and Bunny “Striker” Lee’s The Aggrovators—The Revolutionaries were most known as Channel One’s house band in the mid to late ’70s.

The decision to top-bill The Revolutionaries, rather than feature an individual artist as was customary at the time, was made by Kingston’s most celebrated female producer, Sonia Pottinger who shrewdly determined that The Revolutionaries’ name alone would be a can’t miss selling point. One only needs to spend a minute with Dub Expression to hear why.

Originally released in 1978 on Pottinger’s High Note label, 'Dub Expression' represents the essence of dub in its purest form. An absolute classic. Liner notes by JR Gonne.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Gun Court Dub
2. Ital Stew
3. Super Tracks
4. Dread At The Controls
5. Ghetto Dub
6. Ranking Marshal
7. Down Town Ting
8. Bond Street Rock
9. Melodious Dub
10. Mark Dis Yah Dub

Mutant is proud to present Academy Award®-winning composer Michael Giacchino’s latest installment of his Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen series - Featuring more iconic scores from Giacchino’s career that have been exclusively rearranged and re-recorded for this series in the retro lounge style of the 1950s.

Volume 2 spans the period of 2012 to 2022 and features not only his work with Marvel Studios (including their iconic Marvel Studios Fanfare, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and more!) but also more career defining music for Disney • Pixar (Inside Out, Coco and Lightyear) as well as smaller, cult classics like John Carter, and Tomorrowland, more personal films such as Jojo Rabbit and The Book of Henry. He has taken these iconic themes and transformed them into soothing, beautiful 60’s lounge-inspired reworks.

Other highlights include ‘The Batman Suite’, taken from Matt Reeves' 2022 blockbuster The Batman, ‘Jyn Erso’s Theme’ from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, as well as themes for War For The Planet Of The Apes, Jurassic World and two selections taken from his directorial debut Werewolf By Night

"We are thrilled to continue exploring Michael’s storied career with this incredible collection of some of his most beloved themes reworked for warm summer nights with a cocktail (or mocktail) in hand," says Mutant co-founder Spencer Hickman. "Michael is a rare composer who is comfortable with superheroes, horror, action, or intimate drama. He always manages to create incredibly beautiful earworms that have been further highlighted by these stripped-back downtempo versions of his award-winning themes.’

Featuring liner notes by Charles Phoenix, artwork by Luke Insect, and pressed on limited edition color vinyl (also available on CD)
“So much was rooted in the big orchestral sound, so it was really about scaling it back. The real trick is figuring out the little fun hooks and things you can add along the way. There were no rules; I was up for anything. It was a way to re-engage with the material and be creative in a new way.”

Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen – Volume 1 includes an array of reinterpreted pieces from Michael Giacchino’s career. Highlights include ‘Primordial Forest’ from the 1997 video game The Lost World: Jurassic Park, ‘Life and Death’ from Lost, the theme from Ratatouille, ‘Roar!’ from Cloverfield, ‘Enterprising Young Men’ from Star Trek (2009), ‘A Man, A Plan, A Code, Dubai’ from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, and a Super 8 suite.

TRACK LISTING

1. John Carter
2. Inside Out
3. Jupiter Ascending
4. Jurassic World
5. Tomorrowland
6. Marvel Studios Fanfare
7. Doctor Strange
8. Jyn Erso's Theme (from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
9. Zootopia Suite
10. The Book Of Henry
11. Will He Shoemaker (from Coco)
12. Fiesta De La Cruz (from Coco)
13. Crossing The Marigold Bridge (from Coco)
14. Spider-Man
15. War For Planet Of The Apes
16. Bad Times At The El Royale
17. Jojo Rabbit
18. An American Pickle
19. Let Him Go
20. The Batman Suite
21. Thor: Love And Thunder
22. Lightyear
23. Werewolf By Night Suite
24. Bloodstone Suite (from Werewolf By Night)

RECORD STORE EXCLUSIVE - SIGNED COPIES WITH BONUS BILLY & HELLS PORTRAIT ART PRINT.

As a member of Big in Japan, The Slits and, most famously, Siouxsie and The Banshees and The Creatures, 'Budgie' became one of the era-defining drummers in the much-mythologised post punk scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Growing up in working class St Helens in the 1960s, Peter Clarke lost his mum as a young boy and it's her 'absence' that haunts the pages of this book. Disenchanted with art school inLiverpool, Peter became Budgie and befriended the likes of Jayne Casey, Holly Johnson, Pete Burns, Bill Drummond and other luminaires of the legendary Eric's' Club, before taking off for London and the big city heat of punk. Budgie's unique technique and musical sensitivity endeared him to the all-female group The Slits, who asked him to play on their debut album Cut. Subsequent touring with former members of the Sex Pistols and others from the post punk aristocracy firmly established Budgie's reputation for innovation.

But the beating heart of this painfully honest and frank account of a life often sabotaged by substance abuse and alcoholism is, of course, his long-term position as Siouxsie and The Banshee's drummer and co-writer alongside ex-lover, and ex-wife, Siouxsie Sioux. In the Banshees and seminal side project The Creatures, their creative partnership produced some of the most seductive and celebrated pop music of the decade, from Juju, through A Kiss in the Dreamhouse to the salutary valedictory album, Peepshow. Eventually, their personal relationship started to fall apart, with inevitable consequences for both bands. The Absence is brave and unflinching in its dissection of how and why this happened. Angels emerged, many of them female, to show Budgie that a mother's lost love can be replaced.

A man and musician whose creativity and singular style came to define the goth-pop 1980s as much as any other individual, Budgie's life is both fabulously glamorous and a tawdry cautionary tale. For the first time the story of this most exalted and mysterious of bands has been told by one who survived inside the belly of the beast.

Throughout the 1980s the inimitable Sun City Girls self-released over twenty full-length cassettes . Each of these cassettes were universes unto themselves, each a slice of the one of a kind SCG universe. Three Lobed is honored to help bring some these long out of print titles to vinyl for the first time ever over a series of 2xLP releases. Remastered from original sources and packed within heavy gatefolds filled with never-before-seen vintage photos, these titles give fans - long time, long suffering, intrigued by the legend - the first real chance to hear these titles in over thirty years. Presented here are 'Extra-Sensory Defection' which was originally released in 1989 as 'Cloaven Cassette #22' and 'Graverobbing in the Future' which was originally released in 1989 as 'Cloaven Cassette #20'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Scarlet Prism Death Dance
2. Black Gobi
3. Live Crash
4. Mystery Panhandle
5. Wanna Go Up See Witches In The Hills Part 1
6. Wanna Go Up See Witches In The Hills Part 2

The one and only edit king really struck gold with his iconic rework of Marvin Gaye's 'I Want You,' which now celebrates 20 years with its first-ever 7" reissue on Most Excellent Unlimited. Stripping back the original to spotlight Gaye's sensual vocals and minimal conga-driven rhythm, this near-drumless edit is pure magic. On the flip, Mr K delivers a euphoric edit of Billy Paul's Philly disco gem 'Only The Strong Survive' and stretches its soaring vocals and propulsive groove into an extended, floor-lifting finale. Both sides are essential: one intimate and sultry, the other triumphant and explosive, making this another essential 45 rpm from Mr. K.

TRACK LISTING

I Want You (Mr K 7" Edit)
Only The Strong Survive (Mr K 7" Edit)

Playing wildly improv but tuneful music - cross Can's rhythm section with Roland Kirk, and Motown and you'll get close to where The NJE is coming from. These are three musicians at the top of their game - with hints of soundtracks for spaghetti westerns and Bollywood that only enriches the mix!

The Near Jazz Experience are Terry Edwards on saxes and trumpets, Mark Bedford on bass and Simon Charterton on drums.

TRACK LISTING

1. Astro Disco
2. Tuba Cop
3. A Head
4. Bebinca Beat
5. Midwinter
6. Funky Kino
7. Evermore
8. Burner
9.Tritone
10. Character

Classic-era, wreckin' ball tribal techno here from JR2K aka Jackson Ryland, who channels the spirit of DJ Rush, Marco Carolla and early 00's Jeff Mills into an intoxicating new club formular which nods to its contemporaries at Dolly and Limited Network as much as it does vintage Axis records. 

Only 200 copies pressed and only available in physical shops.

Move quick!  

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Slammin' mainroomers delivered in style by Jackson Ryland. Not only that - super limited, vinyl only press exclusive to physical shops. Shove that USB up yer jacksie!

TRACK LISTING

A1 On The Run
A2 Life Goes On
B1 Stretchy Material
B2 Into It

'The Amateur View' is widely hailed as one of the definitive records of late ’90s analog electronica. Released in the U.S. via Mute Records, it was named one of UNCUT's Albums of the Year in 1999 and perfectly captured the introspective, experimental mood of the era.

The album's influence was far-reaching—so much so that Saint Etienne enlisted To Rococo Rot for their 2000 album Sound of Water. At the time, To Rococo Rot were the band of the moment—jetting across the globe to play the most cutting-edge electronica festivals, including wild WARP events where none other than Aphex Twin spun support DJ sets, The trio was invited three times by John Peel to record radio sessions in the BBC studios between 1997 and 1999.

Bands like Modeselektor still cite them as key influences and pioneers. Stephen McRobbie of The Pastels, Mark Fell (SND), and Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) are all big fans—Kieran even remixed a track from their debut album so did Mira Calyx and Daniel Miller of Mute, a longtime supporter, and yes Björk is a fan too. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: An electronic classic, and one of my favourite examples of the sort of glitchy, fractured melodies we'd expect from newer bands like Múm or Four Tet. There's a lot of influence can be heard in electronic music nowadays that sprang from this album, and it's available once more!

TRACK LISTING

1. I Am In The World With You
2. Telema
3. Prado
4. A Little Asphalt Here And There
5. This Sandy Piece
6. Tomorrow
7. Greenwich
8. Cars
9. She Loves Animals
10. Die Dinge Des Lebens
11. Set
12. Cars (Variant)
13. Meet The Lucky Kitchen
14. Telema (Längs)
15. Rocket Fuel
16. Copa
17. Pantone 6
18. Numbers In Love
19. Casper
20. Milker
21. A Day Long
22. Pantone 1 

Originally released in 2001 on respected Japanese punk label H.G. Fact, All the Footprints You’ve Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead introduced envy to Americans when it was licensed for limited release in 2003 on Dim Mak Records. Their original pressing sold out almost immediately, and the album fell to the fate of fetching increasingly obscene prices on eBay and Discogs. Temporary Residence Ltd. reissued envy’s back catalog in 2008, which sparked an even larger and broader interest in the band. At the heart of that historic back catalog is All the Footprints You’ve Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead – widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. Along with its follow-up, A Dead Sinking Story, it is justifiably viewed as an essential post-hardcore classic whose monumental footsteps created unending ripples.

TRACK LISTING

1. Zero (2:04)
2. Farewell To Words (2:45)
3. Lies, And Release From Silence (4:47)
4. Left Hand (3:01)
5. A Cradle Of Arguments And Anxiousness (5:24)
6. Mystery And Peace (6:48)
7. Invisible Thread (2:43)
8. The Spiral Manipulation (3:28)
9. A Cage It Falls Into (6:10)
10. The Light Of My Footprints (4:12)
11. Your Shoes And The World To Come (8:04)

Next up on Feral Child (alongside the mighty new Lake Ruth full length) comes an absolute banger of a 45 from The Hologram People.

Following hugely well received and sought after releases on Dreamlord Recordings, Library of the Occult, Up In Her Room and others, the duo of Jonathan Parkes (Korb) and Dom Keen (Studio Kosmische) release 'Bongo Express' as a limited one-off vinyl pressing for Crouch End based label Feral Child.

A heady, psychedelic collision of bongos and analogue synths create a dusty mid 70's groove of masterful krautrock infused funk instrumentation. The duo’s trippy soundtrack and radiophonic leanings are at the fore across both sides of this beauty. It is anticipated that a quick sell out is on the cards, and the single looks wonderful too- dressed in Feral Childs’ new psych company bags designed by label head Dom. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Bongo Express
2. Afternoon Sniper

New Candys are set to make a powerful return in 2025 with the release of their highly anticipated fifth album, 'The Uncanny Extravaganza', via Fuzz Club. Marking a bold evolution in the band’s sound, the latest from the Venetian outfit blends their psych-rock roots with fresh electronic influences and cutting edge production by Maurizio Baggio (The Soft Moon, Boy Harsher). It’s a genre-defying sonic experience that could be their most compelling work yet – veering between aggressive, gritty sounds, synth-driven rhythms, and dreamy, melancholic minimalism.

TRACK LISTING

1. Regicide
2. Crime Wave
3. Breathe Me In
4. Night Surfer
5. You'll Never Know Yourself
6. Aquawish
7. Cagehead
8. Wild Spaghetti West
9. Gills On My Lungs
10. Final Mission 

Revered as one of London’s ‘leading disco labels’, The Disco Express slows no signs of slowing down. Steaming in HOT with with seven Summer sizzlers, the much loved label serves up certified dance floor heat ahead of the sunny season.

Oozing in top tier quality, the Summer Heatwave vinyl compilation encompasses the best new music forthcoming on The Disco Express. Including superb remixes by the scintillating Bosq and Dr Packer, Summer Heatwave features 100% original music by label regulars Magnolia, Maryag, Rayowa, Third Attempt and label boss Bustin’ Loose.

Pulsating with pure infectious Summer grooves, this compilation is truly essential for Disco, Nu-Disco and House music lovers worldwide.

TRACK LISTING

A1. La Felix - Hot
A2. Maryag - Mundial
A3. Borka & The Gang - Tem Que Sonhar (Bosq Remix)
B1. Rayowa - Can You Feel The Love (Dr Packer Remix)
B2. Magnolia - Jacuzzi Sunset
B3. Bustin’ Loose - Pharaoh’s Lean Time
B4. Third Attempt - See You

A definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall, featuring never-before published essays and ephemera from fans, collectors and the artist and band themselves.

This is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about Mark E Smith. This is a book about The Fall group - or more precisely, their world. Over a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original; it was an education. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M.R. James, contemporary dance and Manchester City? Bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans, EXCAVATE! is a vivid, definitive record - an illumination of the dark corners of the Fall's wonderful and frightening world.

'To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations, choc-stock-full of loving Acts by true Apostles, simultaneously both the scrapbook you wished you'd kept and a portal to futures & pasts, known & unknown, & a Fantastic Celebration of this Nation's Saving Grace. - 'DAVID PEACE

'A container sized treasure trove bursting at the hinges with strangeness and wonder . . . I strongly advise you to buy it.' - MAXINE PEAKE

Expanded to include all related single, EP and bonus tracks – plus a selection from The Loft's archive of live in-studio performances and previously unreleased alternate mixes and demos. Includes Wilco classics "Art of Almost", "Dawned on Me”, "Sunloathe” and many others. The triple Black LP Vinyl format was previously a RSD exclusive release and is very limited. 

Wilco’s legendary 2011 album now on 2CD. Expanded to include all related single, EP and bonus tracks – plus a selection from The Loft's archive of live in-studio performances and previously unreleased alternate mixes and demos. Includes Wilco classics 'Art of Almost', 'Dawned on Me', 'Sunloathe' and many others.

TRACK LISTING

1. Art Of Almost
2. I Might
3. Sunloathe
4. Dawned On Me
5. Black Moon
6. Born Alone
7. Open Mind
8. Capitol City
9. Standing O
10. Rising Red Lung
11. WholeLove
12. One Sunday Morning
13. I Love My Label
14. Speak Into The Rose
15. Message From Mid-Bar
16. Sometimes It Happens
17. Black Moon (iTunes Session)
18. Born Alone (SiriusXM Session)
19. Dawned On Me (SiriusXM Session)
20. I Might (SiriusXM Session
21. Cruel To Be Kind (feat. Nick Lowe)
22. Art Of Almost (Demo)
23. Rising Red Lung (early Rough)
24. Sunloathe (early Rough)
25. WholeLove (iTunes Session)

Rilo Kiley was born from hunger, from the insatiable desire to write one’s own story. The band’s origins can be traced back to Los Angeles in the late 1990s, when Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett discovered a shared songwriting obsession and began performing together. After some starts and stops, a band was formed with Pierre “Duke” de Reeder playing bass. They called themselves Rilo Kiley, borrowing a name that came to Sennett in a dream.

For their second record, Rilo Kiley headed to Nebraska to record with Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis alongside new drummer Jason Boesel. Here, Lewis truly becomes a generational songwriter, spinning interior mysteries regarding romance, depression, trauma, hope, and isolation into cathartic revelations. 'The Execution of All Things' was a triumphant arrival.

Originally released in 2002, the celebrated and beloved album 'The Execution of All Things' is a hallmark of indie rock. Hailed by fans and critics alike as an essential component to any record collection.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Good That Won't Come Out
2. Paint's Peeling
3. The Execution Of All Things
4. So Long
5. Capturing Moods
6. A Better Son/Daughter
7. Hail To Whatever You Found In The Sunlight That Surrounds You
8. My Slumbering Heart
9. Three Hopeful Thoughts
10. With Arms Outstretched
11. Spectacular Views
12. Outro

7" Tracklist:
1. Jenny You're Barely Alive
2. Emotional (Until Crickets Guide You Back)
3. After Hours

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

1 LP 34 minutes duration, this RSD Vinyl to be the only physical release. "Extra Faded" is made with 100% unreleased extended or instrumentals versions of songs from "Faded" the new The Liminanas' album released on Februrary 21st, 2025. 

A Tidewater classic, almost lost to time, now here & celebrated once again is 'An Extraordinary Dream'. The first of two singles created by Larry Gray & his group, 'The Soul Seekers'. Recorded in 1969 at Charlie McClendon studios, 5-piece Huntington High alumni consisted of members at the forefront of their musical landscape, backing national acts who came through town, led by Larry Gray who had returned from a five year stint at Stax Records in Memphis as Otis Reddings' saxophonist.

TRACK LISTING

1. An Extraordinary Dream
2. An Extraordinary Dream (Instrumental)

The one and only Mr. K presents a two-sided treat here starting with Janice McClain's underrated 1983 disco track and featuring a smooth, laid-back groove that blends steppers vibes with mid-tempo Philly soul. Written by McClain's uncle Milt Tennant and Thom Page, it captures a classic sound that is further enhanced by McClain's heartfelt vocals. This edit trims the rare 12" version for a 7" debut with pristine sound and the B-side flips to a fresh take on 'Brazil', which was a 1975 hit by the Ritchie Family. Mr. K's edit extends the vamp section, offering a full, uninterrupted four minutes of irresistible disco joy.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Lord Krivit returns to his 7" series once again. With a smoochy soul number on side A and an extravagant example of pure disco POMP on side A, what's not to love?

TRACK LISTING

Giving My Love
Brazil

There has always been a broad picture of the scope of music that has come out of the Bristol and Bath areas. It may surprise observers that some of that heady creativity included the more commercial end of straight up pop music.Did it lead anywhere, or have any merit? Were they, the acts, any good? Did they get any exposure and recognition? In the end the 18 tracks on the CD and 11 on the vinyl editions of the compilation do the 'talking'. It's a treasure trove of glorious commercial, but savvy and sexy pop music. Get into the groove of this wonderful west of England sonic pleasure feast!

First time on 7" single back to back, two soul gems the Mizell Brothers created for Motown legend, Marvin Gaye.

Both recorded in 1973.

TRACK LISTING

1. Woman Of The World
2. Where Are We Going

With the new acido 038, Budde & Osti from 100 Records present almost a small sample library, which they have called their "experimental playground" - in order to offer listeners an additional listening perspective that allows an insight into their work. A jazz and house-heavy six-track with the experimental highlights of the Trash Archives - a collection of 99 pieces that can be freely downloaded from Bandcamp. All pieces were recorded live in the studio using largely analogue equipment and masterfully mastered here by Mike Grinser.

TRACK LISTING

A1. 40
A2. 13
A3. 36
B1 74
B2. 30
B3. 57

Bristol Archive present an album of the cream of Bristol's 1980s 'Goth' scene. With sleeve notes from Pete Webb; a member of one of Bristol's earliest Goth bands; Necromancy, quotes from Jon Klein of Specimen and in beautiful trans red vinyl. This is another hugely valuable document of the music and scene in Bristol and the Southwest.

The Bristol Goth Explosion was a key part of the growth of the whole scene in the UK in many ways. Two bands on this compilation were formed in 1981: Specimen and Necromancy. Specimen made the move to London in 1982 and started the Batcave club now synonymous with the Goth story. The other; Necromancy stayed in Bristol and played and partied at the Bastille Club, a similar club to the Batcave, but a hidden and less known transgressive den for the emerging Gothic Punk scene. The Bastille was infamous; you saw Quentin Crisp partying there, Friar Tuck locked in a dancer's cage, Stan the Man a guy in yellow speedos on roller skates gliding around the dance floor and a 70-year-old regular flashing her knickers whilst doing the Can-Can! Members of The Cure, Bauhaus and Echo and the Bunnymen passed through the club and Bristol's beautifully preened punks waltzed to the Blue Danube by Strauss one minute and Bauhaus the next.

The Bastille run by David Darling was a meeting point, party scene and the one part of the musical glue that tied these bands together. This album features Specimen, Claytown Troupe, Fear of Darkness, Necromancy, Temple, Exit Stance and The Long March many of whom frequented the Bastille. It is an album that represents the darker side of Punk and Post Punk and then the scene that became known as Goth, but it represents the variety of musical influences and styles that were involved in those scenes.

The album is dedicated to the key people, clubs and venues that contributed to its flourishing; the Bastille and its founder David Darling, music journalist Dave Massey (NME, Sounds) who supported and wrote about this scene in the mainstream and local music press at the time, the members of these bands and the people who went to the gigs and the clubs and who travelled the country looking and dressing in an incredible way. Another project instigated by Mike Darby and the wonderful Bristol Archive Records.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Specimen - Stand Up Stand Out
2. Fear Of Darkness - Lay Me Down
3. Temple - Book Of Dreams
4. Temple - Spine
5. Exit Stance - Conspiracy Of Silence

Side B
1. Claytown Troupe - Prayer
2. The Long March - Weakness
3. Necromancy - Waltzing
4. Necromancy - Save Your Praise
5. Exit Stance - Esthetics

Romanian producer and DJ Miruna Boruzescu aka Borusiade has always dealt in brilliantly futuristic sounds that are both austere yet hypnotic. Now they're back on Dark Entries with third full length THE FALL: A Series of Documented Experiences after many great outings on the likes of Comeme, Pinkman and Cititrax. This latest work explores memory and embodiment through nine moody tracks that blend melancholic synths, deep basslines and powerful drums into introspective soundscapes that muse on love and loss. We're told that 'Save Me' and 'The Fall' are born from heartbreak but distil pain into something beautiful while tributes to artists like Porn Darsteller and Genesis P-Orridge also appear in this fantastically personal album.

TRACK LISTING

1. Save Me
2. Darsteller
3. Credo
4. Rapture Capture
5. Lurking
6. The Fall
7. Pandrogyne
8. Eerie
9. Recovery And Redemption

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Charlatans’ third album Up To Our Hips, they have released this expanded edition featuring the original album in addition to 10 bonus tracks comprised of live session recordings, rare mixes and more, all curated by Tim Burgess. The special package has brand new reimagined artwork by Nik Void and the LP is pressed on petrol blue bio vinyl.

Released in 1994, Up To Our Hips was a new direction for the band. It leaned slightly away from the lighter pop songs of their previous two albums and is darker, heavier and organ led. At the time, they were listening to a lot of Small Faces, Beatles, and Dylan and watching David Lynch films all while navigating internal band stress, and many of the lyrics on the album reflect the stress of the band at the time. The tracks that have been added to the release include two live tracks recorded for the Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley Show, plus B-sides, alternate mixes and more.

The Charlatans - easily recognized by their hallmark sound of driving Hammond organs, northern UK soul and house-influenced rhythms, swaggering guitars and Tim Burgess’ sunny yet yearning vocals - are one of the most consistent British pop bands of the past 3 decades. The band has released an album every few years since 1989, each of which landed in the top half of the UK music charts, 3 of them hitting #1 and spawning 22 top 40 singles. The band has over- come obstacles from nervous breakdowns to addiction to near bankruptcy to the heartbreaking deaths of two founding members, all the while adapting, transforming and producing new music in spite of it all.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Boldly instating hippy maestro Steve Hillage behind the desk, this record was the moment when The Charlatans finally settled upon their classic rock, groove, soul, mod pop (and everything else!) sound. They would go on to produce three massive albums in as many magical years, culminating in the peerless "Tellin' Stories", but this was where it all began.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Come In Number 21
A2. I Never Want An Easy Life If Me And He Were Ever To Get There
A3. Can’t Get Out Of Bed
A4. Feel Flows
A5. Autograph
B1. Jesus Hairdo
B2. Up To Our Hips
B3. Patrol
B4. Another Rider Up In Flames
B5. Inside-looking Out

BONUS TRACKS:
C1. Subterranean
C2. Full Of Culture
C3. Out
C4. Up To Our Hips (Recorded Live For The Steve Lamacq And Jo Whiley How)
C5. Stir It Up (Alternate Instrumental Mix)
D1. Withdrawn
D2. Feel Flows (Alternate Mix)
D3. You & Everybody
D4. Don’t Let It Stand AKA Can’t Get Out Of Bed
D5. Another Rider Up In Flames (Recorded Live For The Steve Lamacq And Jo Whiley Show)

The Hebrew surf-grunger returns! 'The End of Teenage' captures Charlie
Megira’s Berlin years with the Bet She’an Valley Hillbillies, shortly before his death. A time-traveling, five-song murder mystery guitar album that owes as much to Dick Dale as it does David Lynch. This expanded 10 year anniversary edition also includes the 11-song demo, where Megira’s familiar themes of drive-inn melancholia, beach blanket bongos, and desert drifting are explored in the privacy of his bedroom. Let him whisper in your ear.

TRACK LISTING

1. Jack The Ripper
2. Lord I Ain’t Gonna Bump With No Big Fat Woman No More
3. Rock Around The Block
4. Wall Of Death
5. Turn Around
6. Hava Nargila
7. A Whole Lot Of Nothing But The Blues
8. Banana
9. Little Skinhead Girl
10. Rasco
11. The Death Dance
12. Jack The Ripper
13. Heart And Soul
14. Alligator Man
15. Banana
16. The Death Dance III

So, in 45 years they did more than 2000 concerts in 45 countries. It was time for a new 45rpm 7" single. From the brand-new set they are playing full-on this year, they picked two blinding tracks: 'Great!' and 'The Evidence'. Urgent, willful, adventurous, open hearted and joyfully obstinate. As such, The Ex remains true to that one, indestructible adage: forward in all directions!

Bristol is a city that has managed to not only surprise the wider world with its output but has managed to do the same to the citizens of the place. The 1980's was a decade that personified that aspect to music making out west and the second volume of the Bristol Post-Punk Explosion has managed to capture the vibe to perfection. Feat tracks from Electric Guitars, Essential Bop, Art Objects, Moskow and more.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds return with new album, ‘Wild God’.

“I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me,” Cave says. “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a masterplan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”

Across ten tracks, the band dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave’s soul-stirring narratives. It is the sound of a group emboldened by reconnection and taking flight. There are moments that touch fondly upon the Bad Seeds’ past but they are fleeting, and serve only to imbue the relentless and restless forward motion of the band.

Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann, Cave began writing the album on New Year’s Day 2023. With sessions at Miraval in Provence and Soundtree in London, the Bad Seeds added their unique alchemy, with additional performances from Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar, acoustic guitar).

“Wild God…there’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it.” Nick Cave

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: Wild God heralds a new phase in the constantly evolving story of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. It combines the meandering, fluid structures employed since 2013’s Push The Sky Away, with the more muscular, dynamic sound of earlier output. Of course it wouldn’t be a Bad Seeds album without a heavy dose of pain, sadness and death, but unlike the unending bleakness of recent releases, there’s a definite shift both lyrically and musically: glimmers of optimism cutting through the dark skies. With huge string swells and almost gospel-like multi vocal crescendos there’s a power to the songs that perhaps reflects the strength of human spirit: a feeling that despite all the darkness in the world, love & hope will always endure.

TRACK LISTING

1. Song Of The Lake
2. Wild God
3. Frogs
4. Joy
5. Final Rescue Attempt
6. Conversion
7. Cinnamon Horses
8. Long Dark Night
9. O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
10. As The Waters Cover The Sea

As Alex Izenberg was piecing together the sweeping, psychedelic opuses on his full-band debut Alex Izenberg & The Exiles, the Los Angeles artist was focused on a simple goal: making something built to last. At the heart of his songs are bold ideas that take inspiration from the heady musings of philosopher Alan Watts, the multi-layered storytelling of King Crimson, and the imagistic vistas of Fleet Foxes. While the subject matter may feel esoteric—“My unconscious named the tongue/Of the lights of closed eyes” goes a characteristic lyric—Izenberg and his band let the music drift pleasantly to earth. The melodies are romantic and warm, and the arrangements are invitingly expansive, making expert use of a new ensemble formed around the strongest songs of his career.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Gospel Of Exiles
2. An Obscured Odyssey
3. The Wraith Behind Our Eyes
4. Drinking The Dusk Away
5. Dreams Of Déjà Vu
6. Threaded Dances
7. Only The Moon Knows
8. Pareidolia
9. United States (of Mind)
10. Apophenia
11. As The Dawn Serenades The Dark

Mr. K Edits' latest release caters to roller skaters and groove enthusiasts alike. It features two mid-tempo tracks uniquely edited by the studio scalpel master himself as they make their debut on 45rpm. First is Rodney Franklin's 'Felix Leo,' which was originally overshadowed by his hit 'The Groove.' It unfolds with hypnotic chords trimmed to their essence and unfolds at a gradual, majestic pace with captivating and lush strings making it all the immersive. Second up is Prince's early gem 'In Love' which showcases his instrumental prowess with drums, bass, guitar, and creamy synth lines. Mr. K extends the mix seamlessly, enhancing its danceable rhythm and timeless appeal with his usual class.

TRACK LISTING

Felix Leo
In Love

This One Is For The Party is the final studio album by The Trammps, originally released in 1984. The Trammps, hailing from Philadelphia, were a prominent fixture in the disco scene of the 1970s. Consisting of Earl Young, Harold Wade, Jimmy Ellis, Robert Upchurch, and Stanley Wade, they were known for their infectious grooves and energetic live performances. The Trammps earned their place in music history with hits like “Disco Inferno” and “Hold Back the Night”, but also “Shout” and “Move” became disco classics.

40 years after its original release, the tracks of This One Is For The Party continue to fill dance floors at parties and their influence can be heard in modern dance and pop music. The album also features a guest performance by the Dutch female group Mai Tai on “I Don’t Know (One For The Party)”.

In celebration of its 40th anniversary, This One Is For The Party is available as an expanded edition, including the extended version of the Top 40 hit “Move” as a bonus track. Also, the album has been completely remastered at Artone Studio in Haarlem, The Netherlands.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Are You Ready
2. I Will Be Here For You
3. Twenty-Five Miles
4. Truly Wonderful
5. Shout

SIDE B
1. Move
2. Shine A Light
3. I Don't Know (One For The Party)
4. Fantacity
5. Move (Extended Version) (bonus Track)

We are delighted to bring you the follow up to the successful 'The Bristol Punk Explosion (1977-1979) album released in November 2023 - a twelve-track compilation entitled 'The Bristol Punk Explosion Vol 2 (1977-1981).'The sleeve notes are written by Tim Williams author of the 1977 Loaded Fanzine. Tim talks about the transition from Soul to Punk, the demise of Prog Rock and the fashion culture that sat seamlessly alongside the music. There are three previously unreleased tracks never before available on vinyl.

The Cortinas were the first. They played the Roxy Club, released two singles on Mark Perry and Miles Copeland's Step Forward label, graced the front cover of Sniffin' Glue and recorded a Peel Session. Taking their cue, bands like Social Security (the first band on Heartbeat Records), The Pigs (whose 'Youthanasia' single was released by Miles Copeland's New Bristol Records), The Media, 48 Hours and Private Dicks gave Bristol one of the strongest provincial early punk scenes.

The area of Barton Hill gave us The X-Certs, who by 1978 could already pull audiences of five hundred into Trinity Hall. Though we did not realise it at the time, they effectively bridged the gap between the late 70s Bristol scene and what our American cousins like to term the UK82 bands.

In time bands from the suburbs of Bristol started to appear on the scene, Misdemeanor (who were managed by the late Dennis Sheehan U2's tour manager for thirty plus years), Apartment from Downend (whose photo adorns the front cover) and Noiz Boiz from Weston Super Mare, the seaside town just down the road.

This compilation is designed to give all fans of Punk a snapshot of what Bristol Punk was all about during that period. We close side Two of the album with The X-Certs Clash infused /reggae single 'Together' and follow it with one of Bristol finest Roots reggae bands Talisman and their single 'Wicked Dem'. The punky/reggae party had truly started as we move into the 80's Bristol Stylee! Bristol Boys Make More Noise! 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. The Cortinas - Fascist Dictator
2. The Media - Wanna Be A Number
3. The Pigs - Psychopath
4. Private Dicks - She Said Go
5. Misdemeanor - Radio Radio
6. The X-Certs - Queen And Country

Side 2
1. Apartment - The Car
2. 48 Hours - Train To Brighton
3. Noiz Boiz - Noiz Boiz
4. Social Security - Stella's Got A Fella
5. The X-Certs - Together
6. Talisman - Wicked Dem

A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itself. For many in the nineties, jazz was viewed as an obsolete, uncool music, a genre loved by out of touch white men with deeply questionable taste. And yet, by 2019, a new generation of UK jazz musicians were selling out major venues and appearing on festivals line ups around the world.

How has UK jazz regenerated its image so totally in twenty-five years? And how did it ever become uncool in the first place?Reaching back to the roots of jazz as the 'unapologetic expression' of oppressed peoples, shaped by the forces of slavery, imperialism and globalisation, Andre Marmot places this new wave within the wider context of a divided, postcolonial Britain navigating its identity in a new world order. These artists have crafted a sound which reflects the nation as it is today - a sound connected to the very origins of jazz itself. Drawing upon eighty-four interviews with key architects of this jazz renaissance and those who came before them - from Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd to Gilles Peterson, Courtney Pine and Cleveland Watkiss - Unapologetic Expression captures the radical spirit of a vital British musical movement.

Mute presents EXTRA a brand new album of unearthed live recordings and remastered tracks by Australian London-based post-punk band These Immortal Souls, on vinyl and CD.

This record includes extensive sleeve notes by original member Harry Howard and is released alongside the 2024 remaster editions of their debut album, Get Lost (Don’t Lie!), and their second album I’m Never Gonna Die Again. The tracklist for this record features their visceral, propulsive reimagining of Alice Cooper’s 1972 track ‘Luney Tune’, as well as covers of ‘Open Up and Bleed’ by Iggy Pop & James Williamson, ‘Some Velvet Morning’ written by Lee Hazlewood, which lead singer Rowland S. Howard notably covered with Lydia Lynch, and ‘Hey! Little Child’ written by Alex Chilton.

The band consisted of Australian-born Rowland S. Howard, who rose to prominence as Nick Cave's collaborator in the Birthday Party, his bass-playing brother Harry Howard, drummer Epic Soundtracks (formerly of Swell Maps and Jacobites), and keyboardist Genevieve McGuckin. They came together 1987, after Soundtracks and the Howard brothers split from Crime & the City Solution and were joined by McGuckin to form These Immortal Souls in London.

Available on vinyl and CD.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bad (Remastered)
2. My One-Eyed Daughter (Remastered)
3. Luney Tune (Remastered)
4. Open Up And Bleed (Remastered)
5. Up On The Roof (Remastered)
6. Some Velvet Morning (Live)
7. "Blood And Sand" She Said (Live)
8. Hey! Little Child (Live)
9. These Immortal Souls (Live)
10. Get Lost (Don't Lie!) (Live)

The wonderful Mr K is back with more edit magic on his own Most Excellent label, this time adding his own spin to 'Wela Wela', a hard edge and raw funk cut from Black Blood, a band of musicians from central Africa but who were based in Belgium. This one was never a hit back in the day for some reason but is built on a killer groove that Mr K reworks and tweaks for more suitable dance floor deployment. It was formerly on his Grass Roots record but now makes its way to a handy 7". On the flip is 'Komi Ke Kenam (Fish & Funjee)' which has tough breaks and funk bass that will ensure 'floors get down and dirty.

TRACK LISTING

Wela Wela
Komi Ke Kenam

This album covers the period 1979 to 1987 and features 14 tracks.

When punk rock started to fizzle out and Squat Punks started to appear on the streets, many of the UK's disaffected youths had already moved sideways into Modernism and fell in love with bands like The Jam, Secret Affair, The Purple Hearts, The Lambrettas and The Chords but lets also remember our love for The Beat, Madness and The Specials.

The West Country embraced the scene and produced its own authentic Mod bands like The Reaction, Mayfair and The Newbeats. Alo features The Rimshots, The Review and more

Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician s scenic route to fame and artistic validation. If Morrissey was the Oscar Wilde of the 1980s indie scene, Simpson was its William Blake, a self-destructive genius so lost in mystical visions of a new arcadia that he couldn t meet the rent. Simpson s career begins alongside fellow Liverpool luminaries Julian Cope, Ian McCulloch, Bill Drummond, Ian Broudie, Will Sergeant, Pete Wylie, Pete Burns, and Pete de Freitas at the infamous Eric s club, where, in 1976, he finds himself at the birth of the city s second great musical explosion.

Along the way, he co-founds and christens the neo-psychedelic pop group The Teardrop Explodes, shares a flat with a teenage Courtney Love, and forms The Wild Swans, the indie band of choice for literary-minded teens in the early 1980s, who burn bright and brief, in the process recording one of the all-time great cult hit singles, Revolutionary Spirit . Marriage, fatherhood, and tropical illness follow, interspersed with artistic collaborations with Bill Drummond and members of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, among others. Following an onstage reunion with Cope at the Royal Festival Hall, Simpson discovers that seven thousand miles away, in the Philippines, he is considered a musical god.

Presidential suites, armed guards, police escorts . . .

you couldn t make it up, and, incredibly, he doesn t need to. Revolutionary Spirit marks the arrival of an original literary voice. It is the story of a musician driven by an unerring belief that artistic integrity will bring its own rewards, and an elliptical elegy to the ways it does.

Written in his own unmistakable voice and with a new afterword by the author, this is the frank and fascinating memoir by arguably the greatest bass player of his generation. Beginning with an East End childhood in a London barely recovered from the War, he takes us on a journey through the beginnings of punk and post-punk as a founding member of Public Image Limited, an illustrious forty-year solo career which has seen collaborations musical greats such as U2, Brian Eno and CAN and a Mercury Music Prize nomination through to the present day still playing to sell out audiences. Along the way we hear how Wobble navigated chronic alcoholism and marital breakdown and has emerged as a national treasure.

If you ever wondered how got his name, the answer is here: his teenage pal Sid Vicious gave it to him when he drunkenly slurred Wobble's real name, John Wardle.

Brilliant rough and funky two sider from Charles Barnwell's band The Funnybone express. A very obscure deepfunk spin with that splash of modern sound that was so appreciated at the time (I can't actually remember whether it was Ian or Keb that first played this). It has remained an extremely rare and sought after slab of wax and this limited run of 500 will serve to sort out the heads that know the score. Big up DJ Mr Big Happy (check out his NTS show) and Daniel Mathis (Check his show Reachin' Out on WYXR) for helping unearth this rare banger.

TRACK LISTING

1. All The Way Down
2. Tonight's The Night

Zach Phillips & Olia Eichenbaum met online in late 2018 and quickly began collaborating remotely, and in France and Brooklyn. First working together under the name the Pearly Gates, they toured western Europe together in 2019 with a common band shared between Olia's project Œ & Zach and Ma Clément's group Fievel Is Glauque. After taking a year off, it was during the early months of the pandemic that they started sending music and lyrics back and forth. Before they knew it, the entire Perfect Angels album was written and recorded in under a month, with Olia & guests' remote overdubs taking a bit more time. It was recorded entirely to Tascam 388 1/4" 8-track tape with computers intervening only during guest overdubs, mixing & mastering.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Moat (feat. Shoko Igarashi)
2. All Love (feat. Thom Gill)
3. Orchids Are Not Sold
4. The Meaning Of Love (feat. Gaspard Sicx)
5. The Informant (feat. Ryan Power & Logan Hone)
6. Una Palabra
7. Exit From The Ultra-World (feat. Shoko Igarashi)
8. You're So Alive
9. Sightseeing
10. Sweetheart (feat. Vincent Pieuvre)
11. Fue Ayer
12. I'm Outbid (feat. Logan Hone)
13. Lamb Of Shame (feat. Logan Hone)
14. Touch Of Touch (feat. Vincent Pieuvre)
15. What Am I Gonna Do With You? (Hey Baby)
16. Angels Suffering
17. Two Minutes Of The Year
18. No Better Pain (feat. Chris Cohen)

Live at Max's Kansas City is a live album by the Velvet Underground recorded at the famous nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South in New York City. It was originally released on May 30, 1972, by Cotillion, a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records.

2LP Expanded Edition of the legendary final concerts with Lou Reed recorded in 1970. Limited Edition Purple and Magenta Vinyl. Includes “I’m Waiting for the Man”, “Sweet Jane”, “Pale Blue Eyes”, “Femme Fatale” and more.

Kylie's Number 1 album 'Tension', featuring viral hit ‘Padam Padam’, was released to widespread acclaim in September 2023 and revered as 'her most irresistible release in decades'. Extension (The Extended Mixes) features extended versions of all 11 tracks from the album on neon pink and green splatter clear double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.

Kylie’s glittering career has seen her amass sales of over 80 million records worldwide, 5 billion streams and 9 UK No 1 albums. Her multiple awards include 3 BRIT awards, 2 MTV awards and a Grammy. She is the only female artist to score a No 1 album in five consecutive decades in the UK. Her 2019 Glastonbury performance was the most-watched TV moment in the festival’s history. In so many ways she stands alone in the pop arena – a superstar artist whose constant reinventions and explorations keep her firmly rooted in the present whilst defining and celebrating much of our collective past.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Padam Padam (Extended Mix)
2. Hold On To Now (Extended Mix)
3. Things We Do For Love (Extended Mix)
SIDE B
1. Tension (Extended Mix)
2. One More Time (Extended Mix)
3. You Still Get Me High (Extended Mix)
SIDE C
1. Hands (Extended Mix)
2. Green Light (Extended Mix)
3. Vegas High (Extended Mix)
SIDE D
1. 10 Out Of 10 (Oliver Heldens Feat. Kylie Minogue) (Extended Mix)
2. Story (Extended Mix)

Previously unreleased live concert from the Jimi Hendrix Experience from 1967. The concert, which took place at the Hollywood Bowl in California in August 1967, features the original Experience line up of Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass.

The concert followed their incendiary American live debut at the Monterey Pop Festival that June - and immediately preceded the US release of 'Are You Experienced', their debut album - and saw the Experience opening for The Mamas & The Papas.

Before a sold-out audience of 17,000 people, the Experience overwhelmed an unsuspecting audience with a superb show that encompassed his renditions of songs by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters as well as signature songs such as 'Purple Haze' and 'The Wind Cries Mary'. This recording has never been bootlegged and captures the Jimi Hendrix Experience at a unique moment in their illustrious career. 

Originally released at the tail end of summer in 2001, Explosions In The Sky’s second album, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever was a visceral, speaker-destroying escalation from the modest minimalism of their debut, How Strange, Innocence.

Remastered with subtle grace by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever – Anniversary Edition is beautifully packaged with restored original full-color artwork and heavyweight full-color inner sleeve. Exquisitely pressed onto colored vinyl for the first time ever, this is Those Who Tell the Truth at the absolute peak of its ineffable power.

TRACK LISTING

1. Greet Death (7:19)
2. Yasmin The Light (7:04)
3. The Moon Is Down (10:03)
4. Have You Passed Through This Night? (7:19)
5. A Poor Man’s Memory (6:05)
6. With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept (12:05)

'Live in Maui' is a live performance from 1970 featuring Hendrix, Billy Cox, and Mitch Mitchell at the height of their playing powers - restored and mixed by longtime Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer. 

Originally released on x2 CD and x3 LP in 2020 (to accompany the feature length documentary Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix In Maui), this new x1 LP Vinyl version presents highlights from two legendary live shows on 30th July 1970.

Van Morrison unveils his 45th studio album, ‘Accentuate the Positive’.

Like this year’s acclaimed ‘Moving On Skiffle’, ‘Accentuate The Positive’ sees Van Morrison returning to one of his childhood passions: this time rock ‘n’ roll. Growing up in Belfast shortly after World War II, he was immensely inspired by the heady sounds of 20th century blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Listening to artists such as Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and The Everly Brothers, it wasn’t long until Van was intuitively reinterpreting these sounds with his own band in local hometown venues.

Several decades later, Van Morrison now revisits the genre by reimagining some of his personal favourites for ‘Accentuate The Positive’, and infusing those timeless songs with an energy that constantly challenges and expands upon its traditions. Van’s inimitable voice combined with superb arrangements and highly accomplished brings a fresh zeal to such great songs as The Johnny Burnette Trio’s ‘Lonesome Train’, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates’ ‘Shakin’ All Over’ and Big Joe Turner’s pioneering rock ‘n’ roll hit ‘Flip, Flop and Fly’.

Contributors to the album include electric guitar from the late Jeff Beck and vocals from Chris Farlowe on ‘Lonesome Train’, plus guitar from Taj Mahal on ‘Lucille’ and ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1) You Are My Sunshine
2) When Will I Be Loved?
3) Two Hound Dogs
4) Flip, Flop And Fly
5) I Want A Roof Over My Head
Side 2
6) Problems
7) Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes
8) The Shape I’m In
9) Accentuate The Positive
10) Lonesome Train
Side 3
11) A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues
12) Shakin’ All Over
13) Bye Bye Johnny
14) Red Sails In The Sunset
15) Sea Of Heartbreak
Side 4
16) Blueberry Hill       
17) Bonaparte’s Retreat
18) Lucille
19) Shake Rattle And Roll

the remarkable account of Paul McCartney's time in Wings and ascent into solo stardom, by renowned music biographer Lesley-Ann JonesNo comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published, until now. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band on the Run sold over 6 million copies worldwide and became EMI's biggest selling album of the 1970s in the UK.

Music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones has met McCartney many times and knew his late wife Linda. Here she shows how crucial Linda was to the evolution of Wings - at great cost to herself given the ridicule she was to encounter. But Linda saw that McCartney needed the band in the wake of the break up of the Beatles.

Drawing on extensive interviews and her trademark meticulous research, the author shows how this period in Paul McCartney's career was to become crucial not only to his development as an artist, but to his very survival.

“The songwriter that helped kick off indie rock as we know it" NPR…

Remixed and remastered under the supervision of Martin Phillipps, this expanded edition of The Chills’ debut album is reissued for the first time in over 35 years. The newly mixed edition features additional rarities and unreleased tracks from The Chills vaults, along with brand new reimagined artwork by Martin Phillipps and a host of additional liner notes.

Originally produced by Mayo Thompson (Pere Ubu/Red Krayola) and featuring standout tracks ‘Wet Blanket’, ‘Night Of Chills Blue’, this extended 18-track edition includes much-lauded tracks from the era, such as ‘House With A Hundred Rooms’ and the awesome ‘Party In My Heart’.

Part of the 80s extraordinarily vibrant and innovative independent music scene in New Zealand, The Chills became flag bearers, taking the Dunedin sound, as championed by the Flying Nun label, to the world. Long recognised as one of New Zealand's most influential bands, Brave Words is a shining example of their unique sound and has been praised as a masterpiece by critics and fans alike.

“‘Brave Words’ may well be The Chills' finest album.” AllMusic.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1 Push (Remastered)
A2 Rain (Remastered)
A3 Speak For Yourself (Remastered)
A4 Look For The Good In Others And They'll See The Good In You (Remastered)
A5 Wet Blanket (Remastered)
A6 Ghosts (Remastered)
Side B
B1 Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn (Remastered)
B2 Night Of Chill Blue (Remastered)
B3 16 Heart-Throbs (Remastered)
B4 Brave Words (Remastered)
B5 Dark Carnival (Remastered)
B6 Creep (Remastered)
Side C
C1 The Oncoming Day (Remastered)
C2 I Think I’d Thought I'd Nothing Else To Think About (Remastered)
C3 House With A Hundred Rooms (Remastered)
Side D
D1 Party In My Heart (Remastered)
D2 Living In A Jungle (Remastered)
D3 Rain (Alternate Instrumental Version - Remastered)

This is what a living legend looks and sounds like” Rolling Stone.

The Chills reissue their celebrated early singles compilation, this 24-track expanded version of Kaleidoscope World gathers together tracks from the ‘Dunedin Double’ compilation, live recordings, ‘Doledrums’ single and the band’s seminal ‘Pink Frost’.

The collection also contains ‘The Lost EP’, with early takes on their groundbreaking ‘Submarine Bells’ album, alongside the aching ‘I Love My Leather Jacket’, perfectly illustrating the rollercoaster ride of Martin Phillipps and The Chills as portrayed in the award film The Triumph And The Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps.

“Singer/guitarist Martin Phillipps’ group was at the forefront of the extraordinary little guitar-pop scene in New Zealand in the early ’80s.. Kaleidoscope World is the major document of their early era.” Pitchfork

Part of the 80’s extraordinarily vibrant and innovative independent music scene in New Zealand, The Chills became flag bearers, taking the Dunedin sound, as championed by the Flying Nun label, to the world. Long recognised as one of New Zealand's most influential bands, Kaleidoscope World is a definitive artifact from Martin Phillipps’ groundbreaking project.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
A1 Kaleidoscope World
A2 Satin Doll
A3 Frantic Drift
A4 Rolling Moon
A5 Bite
Side B
B1 Flame Thrower
B2 Pink Frost
B3 Purple Girl
B4 This Is The Way
B5 Never Never Go
B6 Don't Even Know Her Name
B7 Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe
Side C
C1 Whole Weird World
C2 Dream By Dream
C3 Doledrums
C4 Hidden Bay
C5 I Love My Leather Jacket
C6 The Great Escape
Side D
D1 Oncoming Day (Early Version)
D2 Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn (Unplugged)
D3 Martyn’s Doctor Told Me
D4 I'll Only See You Alone Again
D5 Green-Eyed Owl (Live)
D6 Smile From A Dead Dead Face (Live)

This autumn, Erased Tapes are set to release ‘Give It to the Sky: Arthur Russell’s Tower of Meaning Expanded’ by composer and producer Peter Broderick and French 12-piece group Ensemble 0; a complete re-recording of Russell’s epic minimalist orchestral composition originally released in 1983. Released 6th October, ‘Give It to the Sky’ also includes unreleased tracks by Russell which have been restored and re-recorded, resulting in an 80-minute reanimation that threads several lost songs into a meticulous and gorgeous rendering.

Ensemble 0 weave in and out of Broderick’s additions. ‘Corky’, a poignant cowboy ballad that Russell never finished, appears, disappears, and reappears three times, the droning exhalations of ‘Tower of Meaning’ making it feel sweeter and sadder. Arriving just after the triumphant halfway mark, the title track is a sublime meditation on mere existence, about staring at some simple rural scene and marcelling at the miracle of being anywhere at all. It is an apt encapsulation of how this entire project feels – a glorious way to hear something that might have seemed familiar as if for the very first time.

Russell was never much for definitive versions, of course. He was constantly rethinking the possibilities of a piece, of wondering what else it could do. ‘Give it to the Sky’ is a powerful affirmation of those principles, using Tower of Meaning’s framework to build outward and upward, to shape something that functions within Russell’s wondrous, paradoxical world. And ‘Give it to the Sky’ is also not intended to be some definitive last word. Broderick and Ensemble 0 speak already of the ways it may shift on stage, of where else it might lead.

TRACK LISTING

A1.Tower Of Meaning I
A2. Tower Of Meaning II
A3. Tower Of Meaning III
A4. Tower Of Meaning IV
A5. Corky I / White Jet Set Smoke Trail I
A6. Consideration
B1. Tower Of Meaning V
B2. Tower Of Meaning VI
B3. Tower Of Meaning VII
B4. Tower Of Meaning VIII
B5. Tower Of Meaning IX / Corky II
C1. Tower Of Meaning X
C2. Give It To The Sky
D1. Tower Of Meaning XI
D2. Tower Of Meaning XII
D3. Corky III
D4. White Jet Smoke Trail II

‘Love And Death - The Five Chandeliers Of The Funereal Exorcisms’ pulls back the veil unto a nocturnal scene populated by shadows, embers burning coldly in the underworld. Marina Zispin is your guide, siren and protector both. Marina Zispin is the negative space between musicians Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid. Love And Death is the duo’s debut release, five chandeliers of melancholic, vibrant synth pop twinkling in the inky blackness. Both originally hailing from the North East of England and forming a musical partnership before lockdown, Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid initially worked remotely. Having relocated to South London and Newcastle respectively, Marina Zispin was born in earnest after the duo could begin writing and practising in the same space. Bianca Scout is a celebrated musician and dancer with a number of solo and collaborative works in her discographywhile Martyn Reid is a mainstay of the UK noise and power electronics scene, most recently with solo project Depletion. Marina Zispin largely eschews both Scout’s deconstructed approach to song and Reid’s focus on visceral, noise- based productions; the result is a new entity, the underground pop star that exists only in darkened dreams. Marina Zispin, then, is an avatar cajoled, nurtured and directed by Scout and Reid. Analogue electronics redolent of the early 80s Cold Wave and Synth Pop era form the base of the Zispin worldview, with Bianca Scout donning the Marina disguise, embodying the character over five songs of swooning drama, playful melodic interplays and tear-stained, doe-eyed sentiment. Flowers In The Sea opens with an austere 4/4 beat and hypnotic synth parts before Scout/Zispin floats in across the lagoon. Scout’s vocal tone is an instant winner, sweet like honey pouring down over the cold, robotic productions and stereo-panned synth work. We can almost see the petals drift into the horizon before being pulled under by the artist’s sadness. Ski Resort bursts out with a Jacno-inspired bassline and backing that could have been buried in a French disco in 1982 (think Stereo or Linear Movement) before Scout’s narrative details frivolousness and regret before a magical shift for the final coda into major key. Backworth Gold Club closes Side A, a mysterious rigid beat and minor chord synth arpeggios swimming in space, floating and obscure. On Side B, Hymn carries the tone on, church-like synths holding down the pattern for Zispin/Scout to float above in a flowing gown of reverb. The marriage of Reid’s cold musical backbone and Scout’s effortless vocal and co- production is in full flow here, the vocals at times rising to the rafters of this nocturnal place of worship, at other points they’re fuzzy samples cutting in and drifting out or sung with an extreme autotune, abstract and perfect in the moment. Surprise Party is the most straightforward pop bullet, Scout/Zispin’s vocal peering out more from the fog, perhaps revealing more than usual: vulnerability, maybe, the wandering muse of the artists behind the veil or just another layer of mystery behind the enigma? Marina Zispin’s Life & Death - The Five Chandeliers Of The Funereal Exorcisms ends as it began, scintillating in obscurity, leaving everything unanswered but open.

TRACK LISTING

1. Flowers In The Sea
2. Ski Resort
3. Backworth Golf Club
4. Hymn
5. Surprise Party

When The View reconvened last year after five years apart, the three old-friends realised just how much they have missed… well, everything about being in a band: the rush of seeing an audience react to their performances, the camaraderie of being together, a simple jam idea evolving into a fully-fledged song. A run of comeback gigs at Glasgow’s O2 Academy saw all 10,000 tickets sold in advance, the fan reaction was overwhelming and they were even joined on-stage by an old friend in the shape of ‘Line of Duty’ actor Martin Compston. After all that, how could you resist wanting more? Especially as their rehearsals for the shows saw the band conjure up a wealth of new song ideas just like they did back when they first started out. 

Frontman Kyle Falconer says, “Working with Youth on our third album 'Bread and Circuses' was one of the best experiences of my career so we jumped at the chance to revisit the opportunity with him in Spain. To be able to go into the studio again as a band with added experience was just magical."

Kyle and bandmates Kieran Webster (bass/vocals) and Pete Reilly (guitar) departed their homes in Scotland to record the record in the inspiring surroundings of Granada, Spain, with the assistance of a top tier producer in the shape of the Grammy Award winner Youth (The Verve, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Charlatans). They returned with ‘Exorcism of Youth’ in the bag, a record which combines the raucous energy of The View’s early work with some poignant slowburners drawn from personal experience, and Kyle’s gift for lyricism which is equal parts observational, witty and insightful.

The View launch the album by sharing its lead single ‘Feels Like’. The band’s fiery energy ignites the song in a blaze of melody before hitting the kind of instantly irresistible hook with which they’ve made their name. It’s a track perfectly built for upcoming shows too, with its breakdown sure to be an immensely atmospheric moment when they hit summer festivals.

Kyle adds, “This one felt anthemic from the get go. Even though under the surface it’s about somewhere everyone’s been in their life before: regret of losing someone amazing due to your inner demons and seeing them moving on with their life, when you’re stuck in a ‘nightmare not a dream.’ When I first sat down to write it I had Holden Caulfield from ‘Catcher in the Rye’ in mind. It’s playing out in his mind and it’s his own paranoia destroying him from the inside out when in reality she’s the perfect woman."

Elsewhere, the album darts from highlight-to-highlight, taking in a cocktail of ‘60s pop and punky punch on ‘The Wonder Of It All’, strutting and swaggering on ‘Neon Nights’, and channelling driving, anthemic rock like a trio of Scottish Springsteens on ‘Woman of the Year’. At times, though, it represents an evolution for the band too, with the sweeping strings of ‘Black Mirror’ and the darker alt-pop production of ‘Footprints In The Sand’. Ultimately ‘Exorcism of Youth’ is where The View should be at this stage in their lives: still burning with the passion of youth, but with the confidence and control that comes from having been around the block and, in the process, learned from the experience.

TRACK LISTING

1. ‘Exorcism Of Youth’
2. ‘Feels Like’
3. ‘The Wonder Of It All’
4. ‘Arctic Sun’
5. ‘Shovel In His Hands’
6. ‘Allergic To Mornings’
7. ‘Black Mirror’
8. ‘Neon Nights’
9. ‘Dixie’
10. ‘Woman Of The Year’
11. ‘Footprints In The Sand’
12. ‘Tangled’

It was all change when The Fall signed to Fontana. Guitarist Martin Bramah, who had founded the group with Smith, returned, replacing Smith's ex-wife Brix, who had been in the group since 1983. There were few cries of sell-out, however, when The Fall signed to a major; it was just part of an evolutionary process. The three Fontana albums, Extricate, Shift- Work and Code: Selfsh were stunningly consistent.

Released in February 1990, Extricate was a big bold statement, coopting some Madchester beats into The Fall's mix, with the band and Smith on excellent form. From the catchy indie of Hilary and The Littlest Rebel, the oblique attack on past lovers in Sing! Harpy, and the touching rumination on death and new love, Bill Is Dead, Extricate is one of the group's most coherent albums. Smith also worked with dance producers Coldcut updating the Lisa Stansfeld sung track My Telephone as Telephone Thing.

This re- issue faithfully replicates the original 1990 Fontana Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sing! Harpy
2. I'm Frank
3. Bill Is Dead
4. Black Monk Theme Part I
5. Popcorn Double Feature
6. Telephone Thing
7. Hilary
8. Chicago, Now!
9. The Littlest Rebel
10. And Therein...

William The Conqueror's fourth album finds the indie-rock trio firing on all cylinders as frontman Ruarri Joseph confronts the thin line between creativity and madness, inspired by compassion for the reallife angels of the world. Produced by the band in a playground of vintage gear and mixed by Barny Barnicott (Arctic Monkeys, Sam Fender, Kasabian), the resulting album's ten tracks marry earworm tunes with insistent, imperious, soaring rock shapes, punctuated by chorus hooks that are simultaneously nuanced and anthemic. Joseph's compelling semi-spoken vocals and swamp-blues-Seattlescuzz guitars are propelled by the rhythm section of Naomi Holmes (bass) and Harry Harding (drums) as Excuse Me While I Vanish delivers an effortlessly winning blend of melody and ensemble dynamics, the most accomplished and undeniable William The Conqueror album to date.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Puppet And The Puppeteer
2. The Bruises
3. Sheepskin Sleeve
4. L.W.Y.
5. Somebody Else
6. Shots Fired From Heaven
7. The Tether
8. Elsie Friend
9. A Minute's Peace
10. In Your Arms

The Gold Experience, released in 1995, was the first full-length Prince album to be credited to his unpronounceable symbol and was released at the most public, heated stage of his battle with the major label industrial complex. With the word “SLAVE” written on one cheek, Prince shined on the opulent ballads “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” and “Gold” and the defiant single “[eye] Hate U,” and the album earned widespread critical acclaim. Available as black vinyl double LP.

A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene-from amateur skate parks and underground hardcore clubs to worldwide phenomenon-as told by one of its founding fathers and lead guitarist of legendary alternative rock band, Mudhoney. In the late 80s and early 90s, Steve Turner and his friends-Seattle skate punks, hardcore kids, and assorted misfits-started forming bands in each other's basements and accidentally created a unique sound that spread far beyond their once-sleepy city. Mud Ride offers an inside look at the tight-knit grunge scene, the musical influences and experiments that shaped the grunge sound, and the story of Turner's bands, Green River and Mudhoney, which went from underground flophouse shows to selling out stadiums with Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

Including stories about the key moments, musicians, and albums from grunge's beginnings to its come-down from the highs of global success and stardom, this is the first account of the musical phenomenon that took over the world from someone who was there for it all. Written by Steve Turner, lead guitarist of Mudhoney, a foundational grunge band that inspired musical icons from Kurt Cobain to Sonic Youth, Mud Ride features a foreword by Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard and never-before-seen photographs and grunge memorabilia throughout. Take a seat and ride through the messy and muddy grunge scene that grew from the basements of the Northwest and went on to circle the globe.

Super cool one-off collector’s pressing in a fold out paper sleeve and specially silk-screened ‘Punk 45’ outer sleeve.

Exact reproduction of this excellent two-sider (double B-side) ‘The Only Sound’ / ‘New Musical Express’, the debut punk single by Dansette Damage from Birmingham, originally released on the tiny Shoestring Records in early 1978.

The tracks were produced incognito by Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin. “Robert put all needles in the red which is why it sounds so raw! Also, we couldn’t sing and you can hear Robert’s high falsetto at the top end, trying to keep us lot in tune!” said the band.

Original copies of this record sell for over £100, so here is a chance to see and hear what all the fuss is about.

Dansette Damage’s ‘NME’ features on Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Punk 45: I’m A Mess’.

TRACK LISTING

The Only Sound
New Musical Express

Celebrating its 20th anniversary with remastered audio, an expanded tracklist and a gatefold jacket, The Exploding Hearts' instant-classic debut Guitar Romantic is back. With ten undeniable songs clocking in at just 28 minutes, the Exploding Hearts' album operated as the punk rock equivalent of Ernest Hemingway’s writing: Nothing extraneous, simple, straightforward, to the point, deserving of no additional flourish or accoutrement, with every creative decision pushing forward the work as a whole. Arguably, perfect.

TRACK LISTING

1. Modern Kicks
2. I'm A Pretender
3. Thorns In Roses
4. You're Black And Blue
5. Sleeping Aides And Razorblades
6. Rumors In Town
7. Throwaway Style
8. Boulevard Trash
9. Jailbird
10. Still Crazy
11. Busy Signals
12. I'm A Pretender (King Louie Mix)
13. So Bored

Live In St. Kilda is a twelve song live album from a one-time-only show in which Kid Congo Powers was backed by The Near Death Experience. Kid Congo says, “How did I hook up with The Near Death Experience you may ask? One fine day Kim Salmon, my long time Scientists Surrealist Beast of a friend, wrote from Australia to ask me to play at his book launch for his biography Nine Parts Water, One Part Sand: Kim Salmon And The Formula For Grunge on November 9th, 2019. The launch was to take place at the Memo Music Hall in St. Kilda, a seaside suburb of Melbourne. A royal command performance for the king of Kim? How could I say no to such an honor? What to do about a band? It did not take more than a minute for each of us to suggest Harry Howard and The Near Death Experience as the logical choice. I was a massive fan of the band already and we shared crossed paths as expats claiming out our musical in 1980s London. Harry with Crime And The City Solution and These Immortal Souls, Dave and Clare with The Moodists, Kim with the Scientists and me with Gun Club and Fur Bible. Needless to say it was fantastical to get together and make a playlist for Kim featuring covers by Suicide and Shangri La, with mine and NDE’s songs as well. The night was magic—I still am floating on a surrealistic pillow remembering the night. Enjoy the racket, enjoy the love, enjoy this record of friendship and celebration.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Snapping garage percussion and screaming guitars lay the foundation for Kid Kongo Powers' unmistakeable vocals and scathing live show. Featuring the Near Death Experience members instead of the usual Pink Monkey Birds has lent his sound an even more raw edge, accentuated by the live setting. Hefty.

TRACK LISTING

1. LSDC
2. I Found A Peanut
3. Black Santa
4. La Llorona
5. The Only One
6. Sophisticated Boom Boom
7. New Kind Of Kick
8. Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne
9. She Doesn't Like It
10. Sex Beat
11. When He Finds Out
12. Garbage Man

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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have built a reputation for blistering anthems that owe as much to brooding desert rock as it does hardcore and power-pop. They're redefining punk-rock with a sound that straddles eras and genres, putting The Rattlesnakes in a category all their own, while also challenging tired cliches and setting the world to rights. These two tracks will only be released physcially for RSD with no future plans to release them on other formats. 'The Drugs' features Mercury Award winner and UK chart topper Jamie T. Spec: Transparent red / transparent red 7", CMYK Labels, White Paper inners, Spined Sleeve, Shrinkwrap

There is a global musical movement happening right now, and an integral part of this rhythmic and cultural evolution is the legendary Grammy award-winning DJ / Producer / Artist Louie Vega.The movement is comprised of the Expansions In The NYC album and the Expansions NYC events, and it represents the very best in music, dance and club culture from New York City to London to Miami to Ibiza and every locale around the world where people appreciate the power of house music.

Up next in the continuing series of product releases and events in connection with the Expansions juggernaut, a limited edition Expansions In The NYC 7” boxset on Nervous Records.

“Releasing vinyl has always been part of my mantra, but this is a unique one,” said Louie Vega. “For the first time having our music released on a (10) piece 7” set along with new original art by Andrew Thiele (who also created the Expansions In the NYC Album cover), it’s a highlight in the history of all my vinyl releases. Not too many artists release 10 pieces of vinyl within a set. And what makes it even more special is the calibre of all the amazing artists who worked on the tracks and songs with me. This is a landmark and essential collector’s item. A veritable “Must Have!” Never before have all these artists graced one album together from Honey Dijon to Lisa Fischer, Moodymann to Bernard Fowler, Robyn to Unlimited Touch, and Karen Harding to Kerri Chandler. It’s a dancer’s and vinyl collector’s paradise.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: The hot and highly acclaimed collection from Louie Vega gets a 7" box set release. For lovers of real house music, "Expansions" has been one of the strongest albums in recent years.

TRACK LISTING

A. The Star Of A Story Ft. Lisa Fischer 
B. Deep Burnt Ft. Axel Tosca 
C. Change Your Mind Ft. Bernard Fowler 
D. Another Day In My Life 
E. Seven Mile Ft. Moodymann 
F. Come Away Ft. Kerri Chandler 
G. Music Is My Life Ft. Unlimited Touch 
H. You Got Me Dancing Ft. Audrey Wheeler & Cindy Mizelle 
I. Chimi Ft. Elements Of Life 
J. Love Has No Time Or Place Ft. Elements Of Life (Unreleased Instrumental Dub) 
K. Atmosphere Strut Ft. DJ Spinna 
L. Cosmic Witch Ft. Anané 
M. How He Works Ft. Nico Vega 
N. A Place Where We Can All Be Free Ft. Janine Lyons 
O. Touch The Sky Ft. Tony Momrelle 
P. Dreaming Ft. Cindy Mizelle 
Q. All My Love Ft. Robyn 
R. Feel So Right Ft. Honey Dijon 
S. Free To Love (Louie Vega & Karen Harding) 
T. It's All Good (Louie Vega Remix) (Bebe Winans Ft. Debbie Winans Lowe & Korean Soul) 

Futurismo present their new anthology series: Altered Vision, beginning with SUBURBAN ANNIHILATION The California Hardcore Explosion / From The City To The Beach: 1978-1983.

This aggressive collection draws from California’s rich history of punk, more specifically hardcore: a new sound that eschewed melody for intensity, a sound that took punk harder and faster, a sound intrinsically American. Whilst hardcore was also burning over on the East Coast, it was in California that it had ignited and sprawled, a sonic punch in the face that raged socio-political disdain and total abandonment for commercialism, fuelled by a crumbling American Dream and the collapse of family values.

Suburban Annihilation takes you from the major cities, to the coastal towns, to the SoCal suburbs, showcasing some the most important bands of the West Coast. Blasting off with the Adolescents ‘I Hate Children’, it heads from the year zero of Middle Class’s ‘Out Of Vogue’ to the surf punk of Agent Orange’s ‘Bloodstains’, from the blues tinged outlaw of The Gun Club’s ‘She’s Like Heroin to Me’ to the classic anti-anthems: ‘Live Fast Die Young’ by the Circle Jerks, lifted from their seminal Group Sex album, and the hardcore staple ‘California Über Alles’ by the Dead Kennedys. Also present are so many other bands integral to the era: T.S.O.L, Wasted Youth, Germs, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, Negative Trend, Flipper and many more.

Though the music was designed to repel, this historical document has been lovingly designed to remind us that this genre created some of the most immediate and acutely-realised music ever produced. Making this collection of choice cuts essential for long-time fans of hardcore and punk, just as those new and inquisitive about one of the most angry and pissed off genres to have given birth in America. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Martin says: Words can't adequately express how incredible this record is. While the Gun club's psychobilly assault and Dead Kennedys' laser guided genius were very much appreciated this side of the Atlantic, much of the rest was not, only making it over on limited numbers as obscure imports for the curious. A tragic omission. The California hardcore scene, diverse, wild, aggressive shot through with irreverence, had no peers at the time. These acts were the inspiration for many bands who went on to dominate the American punk and alt-rock scene. Do yourself a favour.

TRACK LISTING

1. Adolescents - I Hate Children
2. Middle Class - Out Of Vogue
3. Agent Orange - Bloodstains
4. Dead Kennedys - Chemical Warfare
5. Simpletones - I Like Drugs
6. Suicidal Tendencies - Fascist Pig
7. T.S.O.L. - Abolish Government/Silent Majority
8. Circle Jerks - Beverly Hills
9. Wasted Youth - Fuck Authority
10. The Gun Club - She’s Like Heroin To Me
11. Redd Kross - Burn Out
12. China White - Live In Your Eyes
13. Circle Jerks - Live Fast Die Young
14. Negative Trend - How Ya Feeling?
15. Eddie And The Subtitles - American Society
16. Channel 3 - Manzanar
17. Flipper - Ha Ha Ha
18. Rikk Agnew O.C. - Life
19. Social Distortion - Playpen
20. Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles
21. Shattered Faith - I Love America
22. The Weirdos - Helium Bar
23. Middle Class - Insurgence
24. Germs - Communist Eyes
25. Adolescents - Kids Of The Black Hole 

In its isolated cities, cut off from the fashions of the capital, a unique style of music began to develop, inspired equally by the sounds of the surrounding forests, the roll of the mighty Amazon and Ucayali Rivers, and the rhythms of cumbia picked up from distant stations on transistor radios. With the arrival of electricity, a new generation of young musicians started plugging in their guitars and trading in their accordions for synthesizers: Amazonian cumbia was born.Powered by fast-paced timbale rhythms, driven by spidery, treble-damaged guitar lines, and drenched in bright splashes of organ, Amazonian cumbia was like a hyperactive distant cousin of surf music crossed with an all- night dance party in the heart of the forest. While many of the genre's greatest tracks were instrumental, and others were simple celebrations of life in the jungle, the goal of every song was to keep the party going.

Radio stations in Lima remained unaware of the new electric sounds emanating from the jungle, but a handful of pioneering record producers ventured over the mountain passes to the cities of Tarapoto, Moyobamba, Pucallpa – even Iquitos, a city reachable only by boat or plane – and lured dozens of bands to the recording studios of the capital to lay down their best tracks. Although many became local hits, few were ever heard outside the Amazonian region … until now.

With eighteen tracks from some of the greatest names in Amazonian cumbia, Perú Selvatico is both the improbable soundtrack to a beach party on a banks of the Amazon and a psychedelic safari into the sylvan mysteries of the Peruvian jungle.

TRACK LISTING

Descarga Royal - Los Royal ´s De Pucallpa 03:30
La Cervecita - Sonido Verde De Moyobamba 02:09
Selva Virgen - Los Zheros 02:40
Moyobambina - Grupo Siglo XX De Rioja 02:43 
Humo En La Selva - Los Invasores De Progreso 02:58
La Hamaca - Los Cisnes 02:54
Cumbion Universal - Fresa Juvenil De Tarapoto 03:35
La Trochita - Los Rangers De Tingo Maria 02:40
La Bola Buche - Los Invasores De Progreso 03:21
Bailando En El Infinito - Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical 02:56
Safari En La Selva - Los Cisnes 02:52
Baila Bonito - Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical 02:55
Ali Baba - Los Zheros 02:43
La Palmerita - Fresa Juvenil De Tarapoto 02:57
Recordando A Aguaytia - Sonido Verde De Moyobamba 02:18
El Pasito De Miriam - Grupo Siglo XX De Rioja 02:51
Rio Mar - Los Cisnes 02:34
La Uñita - Los Zheros 02:22

THE PICCADILLY RECORDS ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2022.

PICCADILLY RECORDS EXCLUSIVE: 
For a limited period only, buy either the CD or vinyl you’ll get an exclusive 14 track CD bonus disc, 'Live At Strathaven'.

Finding that luck, love and letting things roll works out for him just fine, Michael Head leads his Red Elastic Band into a fresh chapter with optimism and some of the best music of his career, releases his, Bill Ryder-Jones-produced album, Dear Scott.  

Revered by heavyweight songwriting peers and discovered by new generations of discerning listeners, all enraptured by the fruits of Head’s winding, 40-year career, the Liverpool singer-songwriter enters a new age of creativity and collaboration with Dear Scott. Promising to be a shimmering jewel cast by the minds and hearts of Merseyside’s finest musicians, the 12-track album is dusted with both Ryder-Jones’ artistry and the heavyweight musicianship of The Red Elastic Band, which Head found had ‘stepped up’ following almost a year apart, forcing him to dig deeper himself.

Of slipping back into writing and recording in 2021, Head continues: “After being apart for a while, I went for a walk on the beach with the band and it was beautiful, literally and personally. Rehearsals followed and it clicked into place, with one thing leading to the next. It’s very much the ethos we’re working by, keeping things simple, but keeping the momentum. I’d met Bill a few times and he’s a lovely guy. Once we knew he was interested in producing the album we didn’t need to think about it again, it just progressed and became a completely natural thing.”

Dear Scott refers to novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose debt-ridden, down-and-out years captured the imagination of Head, specifically a postcard Fitzgerald addressed to himself upon checking in at Hollywood’s infamous Golden Age retreat, The Garden Of Allah Hotel. Head explains: “A decade after being the king of the jazz age, Fitzgerald arrived unfashionable and sober, ready to conquer Hollywood. His agent with a sense of humour booked him into The Garden Of Allah, where writers, movie stars and even Stravinsky sometimes lived. He famously picked up a postcard on checking in and addressed it to himself.”

The postcard read: Dear Scott, How are you? Have been meaning to come and see you. I have living at the Garden Of Allah. Yours Scott Fitzgerald

Head states that the formation of The Red Elastic Band in 2008 began with ‘whoever was available at the time’, primarily as a vehicle for live performance, producing one, previous album in 2017’s Adiós Señor Pussycat. The band has since developed into a cohesive, mutually-supportive and permanent line-up, with Phil Murphy on drums, Tom Powell on bass, Danny Murphy on guitars and Nathaniel Cummins on guitars and backing vocals being the musicians taking on the world in 2022 alongside Head. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Dear Scott is a masterpiece. Twelve perfect songs with melodies to die for and words that feel like scenes from a film condensed into poetry. Michael Head is the Liverpudlian genius renowned for his classic pop songs from “Thank You” and “Jean’s Not Happening” through to “Comedy” and “Meant To Be”. Forty years making music and he’s just made his joint best LP, one that if you’re into guitar based pop music you’d be daft to ignore.

It’s not always been like this. In a career buffeted by personal problems and dodgy deals it has taken the arrival of erstwhile Coral guitarist Bill Ryder Jones, a fellow Merseysider and huge fan, to draw the very best out of Mick. Bill has helped create what feels like a greatest hits LP but made up of brand new songs. There’s jangling indie pop, jazz, mystical folk, roving psych pop and even a splash of bossa, taking us right back to Mick's days as a teen star in the Pale Fountains! As I mentioned, each track is a short story or mini movie touching on the kindness of strangers, old Hollywood dreams, the futility of war, Liverpool trips, Love from afar and even a murder in gangland made wild and funky on album highlight “Gino And Rico”.

The tunes themselves are proper ear worms and the album is designed as an old fashioned two sided listen. Side 1 has six perfect pop songs, hit after hit, but flip it over and you’re whisked off into what almost feels like a song suite, interspersed as they are with towering strings, mad interludes (each track has contrasting parts that surprise and amaze) and psych rock guitar; it’s bewildering but oh so beautiful and it grows and grows with every listen. The record starts off neat but slowly expands into the stratosphere only to end on a heavenly lullaby, melancholic and magical.

Mick’s other great album, Waterpistol, was loved by all at Piccadilly nearly 30 years ago. That we’re here again all these years later is bizarre and brilliant.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Kismet
A2 Broken Beauty
A3 The Next Day
A4 Freedom
A5 American Kid
A6 Grace And Eddie
B7 Fluke
B8 Gino And Rico
B9 The Grass
B10 The Ten
B11 Pretty Child
B12 Shirls Ghost 

'The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience' is the upcoming album by Cornwall-based folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Angeline Morrison, her first record for the historic Topic Records label. Produced by Eliza Carthy and featuring some of her beautiful, soaring string arrangements, The Sorrow Songs was recorded in Cornwall at Cube Studio and is a work of what she calls 're-storying.'

"The traditional songs of the UK are rich with storytelling, and you can find songs with examples of almost any kind of situation or person you can think of. But whilst people of the African diaspora have been present in these islands since at least Roman Times, their histories are little known - and they don't tend to appear in the folk songs of these islands."

Angeline Morrison began to wonder if she could discover more about the lives of these ordinary and extraordinary Black ancestors and create an album of songs in the sonic style of UK folk and traditional music, in the hope that this silent space could then begin to be filled with stories. With the help of Arts Council National Lottery funding, Angeline began what became a year of research into this neglected area of Black British history. The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience is the result.

Released to commemorate Black History Month in October, this powerful record is intended to honour these Black ancestors who lived in these islands and to act as a gift to the folk community.

TRACK LISTING

Interlude - Some Terrible Habits
Unknown African Boy (D.1830)
Black John
Interlude - These Little Ones
The Beautiful Spotted Black Boy
Mad-Haired Moll O'bedlam
Interlude - Nobody Round Here Likes It
The Hand Of Fanny Johnson
Cinnamon Water
Hide Yourself
Cruel Mother Country
Interlude - In The Village
The Flames They Do Grow High
Interlude - Need Not Apply
Go Home
Slave No More

The Comet is Coming returns with their second full length album on Impulse! Records. King Shabaka, Danalogue, and Betamax’s newest effort finds the Mercury Prize-nominated trio creating a musical landscape that is equally cerebral as it is physically enthralling. While containing elements of jazz throughout, this release leans further into heavy dance-hall themes, providing hypnotic, electronic soundscapes to dance to while keeping you intellectually stimulated.

TRACK LISTING

1. Code
2. Technicolour
3. Lucid Dreamer
4. Tokyo Nights
5. Pyramids
6. Frequency Of Feeling Expansion
7. Angel Of Darkness
8. Aftermath
9. Atomic Wave Dance
10. The Hammer
11. Mystik

The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. With Expert, The Beths wanted to make an album meant to be experienced live, for both the listeners and themselves. They wanted it to be fun -- to hear, to play -- in spite of the prickling anxiety throughout the lyrics, the fear of change and struggle to cope.

Most of Expert was recorded at guitarist Jonathan Pearce’s studio on Karangahape Road in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand) -- and sometimes in the building's cavernous stairwell at 1am -- toward the end of 2021, until they were interrupted by a four-month national lockdown. They traded notes remotely for months, songwriting from afar and fleshing out the arrangements alone, the first time they’d written together in such a way. The following February, The Beths left the country for the first time in more than two years to tour across the US, and simultaneously finish mixing the album on the road. That latter half felt more collaborative, with everyone on-hand to trade notes in real time, until it all culminated in a chaotic three-day studio mad-dash in Los Angeles. There, Expert finally became the record they were hearing in their heads.

Expert is an extension of the same skuzzy palette the band has built across their catalog, pop hooks embedded in incisive indie rock. The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.”

The rest is a capsule of The Beths’ most electrifying and exciting output, a sonic spectrum: “Your Side” is a forlorn and sincere love song, emotive; while “Silence is Golden,” with its propulsive drum line and stop-start staccato of a guitar line winding up and down, is one of the band’s sharpest and most driving. “When You Know You Know” skews a bit groovier, pure pop and a natural addition to the band’s live set. “Knees Deep” was written last minute, but yields one of the best guitar lines on Expert. There’s a certain chaos across the 12 tracks, the palpable joy of playing music with long-time friends colliding with the raw nerves of pain.

Stokes strings it all together through her singular songwriting lens, earnest and self-effacing, zeroing in on the granules of doubt and how they snowball. Did I do the wrong thing? Or did you? And are we still good people at the end of it? She isn’t interested in villains, but instead interested in just telling the story. That insecurity and thoughtfulness, translated into universality and understanding, has been the guiding light of The Beths’ output since 2016. In the face of pain, there’s no dwelling on internal anguish - instead, through The Beths’ music, our shortcomings are met with acceptance. And Expert In A Dying Field is the most tactile that tenderness has been. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Expert In A Dying Field
2. Knees Deep
3. Silence Is Golden
4. Your Side
5. I Want To Listen
6. Head In The Clouds
7. Best Left
8. Change In The Weather
9. When You Know You Know
10. A Passing Rain
11. I Told You That I Was Afraid
12. 2am

Featuring many unreleased recordings and rarities from the cult favourite and all endorsed by the Tom Rapp estate. The grand masters of acid folk, Pearls Before Swine outline the genius of leader Tom Rapp on an album created from a dusty box of tapes left behind by the incisive tunesmith. Never before heard recordings remastered to create the perfect route into the essential ‘Balaklava’ and ‘One Nation Underground’ albums that kick started a whole genre. This new vinyl compilation was made in collaboration with, and fully endorsed, by the Tom Rapp estate. 

TRACK LISTING

1 State U
2 Translucent Carriages
3 Ring Thing (Three Rings)
4 The Jeweler
5 Harding Street
6 New Man
7 I Saw The World
8 For The Dead In Space
9 From The Movie Of The Same Name
10 Rocket Man
11 Teacup Kingdom
12 Images Of April
13 If You Don’t Want To (I Don’t Mind)
14 Sin Of Jesus 

Max Tundra, aka Ben Jacobs, announces the reissue of his first three studio albums: the uncategorisable 2000 debut ‘Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be’, 2002’s breakthrough ‘Mastered by Guy at The Exchange’, and the 2008 masterwork ‘Parallax Error Beheads You’. Available to independent retailers on coloured vinyl.

Ben is one of the most influential artists of popular music right now. The hyperpop pioneer has collaborated with the likes of Arca, Daphne & Celeste and A.G. Cook.The natural musical predecessor to the likes of PC Music, Jacobs also boasts a remix roster which includes Pet Shop Boys, The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand. The reissues’ announcement went down wonderfully, with pick-up in Pitchfork, The Line of Best Fit and other key media outlets, as well as social support from Danny LHarle, Shygirl, Arca, A.G. Cook, Colin Self and Caroline Polachek.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Merman
A2. Mbgate
A3. Lysine
A4. Fuerte
A5. Pocket
A6. Cabasa
B1. 61over
B2. Lights
B3. Hilted
B4. Acorns
B5. Gondry
B6. Labial

Orange was the 4th studio album from The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and features the aforementioned single “Flavor” along with “Bellbottoms.”

Bellbottoms was used prominently in the opening sequence of hit film "Baby Driver" (2017).

“1994’s Orange finds the Blues Explosion at the exact moment they left behind the pompadour- and-sideburns Crypt Records trash-can garage-rock universe and sidled their way into the Beastie Boys/Beck/Cibo Matto downtown genre-fucking cosmpolitan party. Beck actually shows up on Orange, literally phoning in a guest verse on “Flavor”, and they toured with the Beasties soon after. It’s easy to hear what those guys liked in the band’s assault. The Blues Explosion were honest, organic experimenters– fusing tons of different styles into their musical assault without compromising their ferocity or making any of it sound forced. These influences are fully internalized, rather than self-consciously stapled on.” – Pitchfork.

"Orange is the most commercially successful set JBSE ever turned in, but that's beside the point. In the 21st century, it sounds every bit as messed up, necessary, and frenzied as it did in 1993" All Music Guide.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bellbottoms
2. Ditch
3. Dang
4. Very Rare
5. Sweat
6. Cowboy
7. Orange
8. Brenda
9. Dissect
10. Blues X Man
11. Full Grown
12. Flavor
13. Greyhound

The Gold Experience was the first full-length Prince album to be credited to his unpronounceable symbol and was released at the most public, heated stage of his battle with the major label industrial complex. With the word “SLAVE” written on one cheek, Prince shined on the opulent ballads “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” and “Gold” and the defiant single “Eye Hate U,” and the album earned widespread critical acclaim.

TRACK LISTING

P. Control
NPG Operator #1
Endorphinmachine
Shhh
We March
NPG Operator #2
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Dolphin
NPG Operator #3
Now
NPG Operator #4
319
NPG Operator #5
Shy
Billy Jack Bitch
Eye Hate U
NPG Operator #6
Gold 

Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Life Between Islands’ collection is inspired by the launch of Tate Britain’s exhibition of the same name. This landmark exhibition explores the links between Caribbean and British art and culture from the 1950s to now. ‘Soundsystem Culture: Black Musical Expression in the UK 1973-2006’, focuses on the most important Black British musical styles to emerge out of the distinctly Caribbean world of sound systems. The album features an all-star line-up including Dennis Bovell, Shut Up and Dance, Cymande, Digital Mystikz, Brown Sugar, Funk Masters, Janet Kay, Ragga Twins and more.

The album is a lightning-rod journey across Roots Reggae, Jungle , Jazz- Funk, Lovers Rock, Jazz, Dubstep and more. Much of Soul Jazz Records’ catalogue comes out of these genres and this album is partly an overview of some of Soul Jazz’s earlier releases (including Digital Mystikz’ long-deleted groundbreaking and now highly collectible single ‘Misty Winter’) alongside some choice rare and classic tunes that span over 30 years of sound system culture.

Many of the tracks represent how Black British artists defined their own identity, with songs such as Brown Sugar’s righteous ‘Black Pride’, ‘I’m In Love with A Dreadlocks’ and Tabby Cat Kelly’s powerful ‘Don’t Call Us Immigrants’. Aside from being musically rooted in the distinctly Jamaican-born phenomenon of the sound system, much of this identity is also shaped by the triangular relationship of being British-born, of Caribbean heritage, and with an equal love of African-American Jazz, Funk and Soul, as evidenced with many Lovers Rock reggae covers of American soul tunes (such as those of Jean Carn, William de Vaughan and Rose Royce featured here). This stateside influence can also be heard in groups such as the Funk Masters, a group formed by reggae radio DJ Tony Williams, whose jazz-funk music successfully crossed over into New York’s clubland, as well as the great Cymande, whose unique street-funk became staple material for numerous US hip-hop artists in the years that followed.

In the early 1990s, jungle and drum and bass artists took the essence of reggae’s soundsystem culture - MCs, dubplates, crews - and applied them to their own music, applying heavy reggae bass lines to intense double-speed drum breakbeats. At the forefront of this new movement were the duo Shut Up and Dance, working closely with The Ragga Twins, aka Deman Rocker and Flinty Badman, both MCs for North London’s infamous Unity reggae soundsytem. In the early 2000s, dubstep, spearheaded by Digital Mystikz, became the latest instalment in this ever evolving soundsystem culture.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Dang this is good! Skilfully joining the dots of sound system culture from its very beginning till now would seem like a daunting task for anyone. But guided by the Black identity of the majority of Sounds, Soul Jazz offer up a catch-all release that takes us from roots reggae and soul to jungle and dubstep without ever losing sight of the subwoofer. A phenomenal collection which, by way of a few choicely licensed joints ("Misty Winter", "RK1" especially), should be a instant-buy for anyone with a penchant for UK dance music.

TRACK LISTING

Black Slate - Sticks Man
Dee Sharp - Rising To The Top
Asher Senator - One Bible 
Cymande - Fug
Digital Mystikz - Misty Winter
Winston Curtis - Be Thankful For What You’ve Got
Trevor Hartley - It Must Be Love
Shut Up And Dance featuring The Ragga Twins - Java Bass
Brown Sugar - Black Pride
The Terrorist - RK1
Black Harmony - Don’t Let It Go To Your Head
Pebbles - Positive Vibrations
The Ragga Twins - Ragga Trip
Janet Kay And Alton Ellis - Still In Love
Funk Masters - Love Money
Cosmic Idren - Compelled
Harry Beckett - No Time For Hello
Sandra Reid - Ooh Boy
Tabby Cat Kelly - Don’t Call Us Immigrants
Brown Sugar - I’m In Love With A Dreadlocks