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Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987

    "Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 is the first volume of Captured Tracks’ new venture into compilations – Excavations. Dedicated to compiling forgotten music from the 1970s – 1990s that has a connection to Captured Tracks’ sound and aesthetic, this series will bridge the past to our current roster and showcase the kinds of sounds that inspire us. As an American label, we’ve often wondered why British, Aussie, and Kiwi indie rock from the ‘80s has had the most infuence on modern acts and the collector’s market. Outside of bands like R.E.M., the Rain Parade, the Dream Syndicate, and a few others, most of these bands received little attention from national or international press outlets and markets. The acts on this compilation have a true DiY spirit that lead many of these bands to self-record and self-release within tiny local scenes in small cities and college towns across America.

    Strum & Thrum aims to shed light on this forgotten era of jangly, melodic rock music that emerged from the ashes of post punk and helped kick start the indie rock boom of the early ‘90s that continues to this day. Indeed, many artists featured on Strum & Thrum went on to be part of this boom – Archer Prewitt from the Sea & Cake, Jon Ginoli from Pansy Division, Ric Menck from Velvet Crush, Brent Rademaker from Beachwood Sparks, Barbara Manning, and more went on to be in well known bands in the ‘90s. Spread across two LPs, Strum & Thrum includes an 80+ page booklet with an extensive oral history of the ‘80s indie scene, an introduction by Captured Tracks label head Mike Sniper, and tons of archival images and ephemera. Long live the jangle underground!"


    TRACK LISTING

    Disc 1:
    1. The Reverbs - Trusted Woods
    2. Start - Where I Want To Be
    3. Cyclones - I’m In Heaven
    4. Windbreakers - All That Stuff
    5. Primitons - All My Friends
    6. Bangtails - Patron Of The Arts
    7. The Love In - Late As Usual
    8. Sex Clark Five - She Collides With Me
    9. Three Hits - 5 O’Clock
    10. Crippled Pilgrims - Black And White (Alternate)
    11. Vandykes - Breakin My Heart
    12. Salem 66 - Seven Steps Down
    13. The Outnumbered - I Feel So Sorry Now
    14. The Darrows - Is It You

    Disc 2:
    15. Riff Doctors - Say Goodbye
    16. The Ferrets - She Was Unkind
    17. 28th Day - Pages Turn (Alternate)
    18. Great Plains - When Do You Say Hello?
    19. Downy Mildew - Purple Parlor
    20. The Strand - You And Me
    21. The White Sisters - Misery, Me, & You
    22. Absolute Grey - Remorse
    23. One Plus Two - Promise
    24. The Springfields - Sunflower
    25. Holiday - Change
    26. Pop Art - The Meeting
    27. The Reactions - Tomorrow’s Time Today
    28. A New Personality - Essential Things

    Erland Cooper

    Carve The Runes Then Be Content With Silence?

      Erland Cooper’s new album Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence is set for release in June 2024 – 3 years from the day the only master tape was planted deep into the Orkney soil.

      The album is a recording of Cooper’s brand new three-movement composition for solo violin and string ensemble. The work marks the centenary of celebrated Orkney poet George Mackay Brown, as 2021 marks 100 years since his birth.

      Inspired by natural landscapes and ruminating on time, hope, community and patience, the sole recording of the work – on ¼ inch magnetic tape, with the digital files permanently deleted – has been planted to grow and be nurtured or “recomposed” by the earth, before being exhumed and released in three years’ time. Whilst Cooper will not be unearthing the tape until 2024, he has left a trail for anyone to search and find it if they wish. A map with clues to the location of the planting site will be released via his digital platforms. If the planted tape is found, Erland will invite the discoverer to his studio to embark on a journey together for the treasured first listen. It will then be released exactly as it sounds from the earth.

      Erland Cooper says, “Music can so often feel undervalued and for some, being unable to perform live has at times felt like being buried. When an idea forms there is often an urge to share it as quickly as it develops but like spotting a bird, I want to let this fly and land in its own place and time. The work is one part remembrance and one part celebration of a landmark time.” He adds: “The material on the tape may erode naturally, disintegrate and create drops of silence or the peaty soil may preserve it perfectly well. It may or may not get better with age. I may or may not fall out of favour with my composition. Any alterations to the sound and music [when it comes out of the earth] will be reincorporated into the pages of a new score and live performance, as orchestral articulations.”


      Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

      Pinata: The 1964 Version - 2024 Reissue

        Single-LP Edit Of Piñata Lacquered At Half Speed Master By Metropolis Mastering In London For The Highest Fidelity. Featuring Danny Brown, Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, Polyester the Saint, BJ The Chicago Kid, Big Time Watts, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko & Freddie Kane. “Piñata is a gangster Blaxploitation ­lm on wax,” says Gibbs. As a producer, Madlib, quite simply, is music. 

        TRACK LISTING

        A1. Supplier
        A2. Scarface
        A3. Deeper
        A4. High (ft. Danny Brown)
        A5. Harold’s
        A6. Bomb (ft. Raekwon)
        A7. Shitsville
        A8. Thuggin’
        A9. Real
        A10. Uno
        B1. Robes (ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt)
        B2. Broken (ft. Scarface)
        B3. Lakers (ft. Ab-Soul & Polyester The Saint)
        B4. Knicks
        B5. Shame (ft. BJ The Chicago Kid)
        B6. Watts (ft. Big Time Watts)
        B7. Piñata (ft. Domo Genesis, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko, & Mac Miller).

        The Goa Express

        The Goa Express

          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

          King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard

          Live At Red Rocks (Fuzz Club Official Bootleg)

            Fuzz Club's King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard 'Live At Red Rocks' box set is a heavy-duty, 15 LP monster. Recorded over three nights of the Aussie psych-rock polymaths raining down on the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO, USA, this bootleg captures nearly nine hours worth of live Gizz spread across 86 tracks and 30 sides of vinyl. Live At Red Rocks was recorded live Oct 10, Oct 11 and Nov 2 2022, mixed by the band's Stu Mackenzie and remastered for vinyl by James Plotkin exclusively for this edition.

            Each of the three nights comes in its own 5LP slipcase, all housed together in one giant slipcase alongside a 60-page hardcover book with exclusive Red Rocks live photos by Cidney Bundon.

            All 15 LPs come on 180g coloured vinyl (with a unique colour configuration for each night) in their own heavy card jacket with 3mm spine and a black poly-lined inner sleeve. The artwork for each jacket works as a puzzle and forms one giant artwork. Features collage album art and design by Elzo Durt with original elements by Virgil Finlay. Large fold-out poster included. The box-set is packaged in a bespoke foam-lined box to protect it during shipping.


            Die Radierer

            Batman - Incl. Gary The Tall V Exotic Gardens Remix

            Emotional Rescue takes another trip into the twisted world of post-punk dubs, electronics and oddities here at the hands of DJ, collector and radio host Gary The Tall. The original comes from German duo and new wave innovators Die Radierer whose pop-reggae jam 'Batman' is irresistibly catchy with its low-slung beats and lazy, sun-kissed melodies. It appeared on 1983's In Hollywood and was recorded at their home studio on a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder. Gary The Tall's remix finds him teaming up with Aaron Coyles under his new alias of Exotic Gardens and the results are loopy and dubbed out to perfection.

            TRACK LISTING

            Batman
            Batman (Gary The Tall V Exotic Gardens Reversion)

            Remotif is a fast-rising star with a sound being called 'trance fusion.' He makes his mark again to that end with a new one on Especial that brings more of his modern-day ethnic styles to the driving breaks of techno following outings on the likes of Coymix and Space Lab and sets everywhere from Fabric to Berlin's Warning parties. This one kicks off with 'U 15' which is a busy blend of shimmery timbres and sharp perc, spaced-out pads and psychedelic synths that are ever on the rise. More trance overtones define 'Glint's Pursuit' and 'The Elevated Place' is slick and sleek, ascending and always rising. 'The Sunken Place' shuts down with more slow and percolating dub mutations to round out a superb EP.

            TRACK LISTING

            U 15
            Glint's Pursuit
            The Elevated Place
            The Sunken Place

            Hawksmoor

            Saturnalia

              McKeown creates a patchwork of dream sequences and woozy psychedelia that range from low key groove and floating-in-space cosmic horror. “Electronic folk horror” was how it was described to me, and I gotta say I can get on board with that description. But there’s much more happening here. Moments I’m reminded of Colin Stetson’s excellent Color Out Of Space score, while other times there’s a real Tangerine Dream vibe, ala their Legend soundtrack.

              The Primitives

              Everything's Shining Bright - The Lazy Recordings 1985-1987

                Compiled with guitarist PJ Court, this 2-CD compilation boasts re-mastered music as well as a beautifully annotated booklet boasting rare photos and personal memories from the band.

                Back in the mid-80s, The Primitives combined the fuzz guitars of The Jesus & Mary Chain with the pop sensibilities of Blondie and a nod to cult heroes The Velvet Underground. They swiftly rose from being a popular Indie guitar outfit to charting worldwide with “Crash”, kickstarting a craze in bands fronted by blonde female singers (Transvision Vamp, The Darling Buds et al).

                Between 1985 and 1987, the band issued five singles/EP’s on independent label Lazy Records (also home to My Bloody Valentine and later Birdland) before signing with RCA.

                This 2-CD set also boasts their promo-only live album at the ICA; as such, it offers their entire Lazy output from that period.

                TRACK LISTING

                Disc 1
                1. Thru The Flowers
                2. Across My Shoulder
                3. She Don't Need You
                4. Lazy
                5. Really Stupid
                6. We Found A Way To The Sun
                7. Where The Wind Blows
                8. Stop Killing Me
                9. Buzz Buzz Buzz
                10. Laughing Up My Sleeve
                11. Ocean Blue
                12. Shadow (Guitar Version)
                13. Thru The Flowers (New Version)
                14. Everything Shining Bright
                15. Nothing Left
                16. Across My Shoulder
                17. Crash
                18. Spacehead
                19. Nothing Left (Sounds Version)

                Disc 2
                1.I'll Stick With You
                2. Dreamwalk Baby
                3. Buzz Buzz Buzz
                4. Nothing Left
                5. Out Of Reach
                6. Carry Me Home
                7. Don't Want Anything To Change
                8. Think I'll Stick With You
                9. Dreamwalk Baby
                10. Run Baby Run
                11. Thru The Flowers
                12. Nothing Left
                13. Where The Wind Blows
                14. Out Of Reach
                15. We Found A Way To The Sun
                16. Don't Want Anything To Change
                17. Across My Shoulder
                18.Everything's Shining Bright
                19. Buzz Buzz Buzz
                20. Stop Killing Me
                21. I Wanna Be Your Dog

                Gregory And The Hawk

                Leche

                  Gregory And The Hawk returns with her second FatCat album ‘Leche’, a more mature and honest collection of songs than her previous releases, which sees her expanding instrumentally onto piano and harp yet conveying a sense of her bedroom recording roots.

                  Contributors include Jeremy Backofen (Felice Brothers), Rob Laakso (Amazing Baby, Diamond Nights, Mice Parade, Swirlies), and Adam Pierce (Mice Parade, Swirlies).

                  TRACK LISTING

                  For The Best
                  Landscapes
                  Over And Over
                  Soulgazing
                  Geysir Nationale
                  Frebeight
                  Olly Olly Oxen Free
                  A Century Is All We Need
                  Leaves
                  Puller Return
                  Hard To Define
                  Dream Machine

                  The London Dirthole Company

                  Modern Ist EP

                    The giant avalanche that is THE LONDON DIRTHOLE COMPANY is back with another slab of prime-time partisan punk noise. With a Futurist disdain and Dadaist sense of sardonic humour, the MODERN IST EP celebrates the realities of the Family Of Noise as a truly interactive social experiment. The genuinely odd bunch of protagonists that make up the bands personnel stretch the boundaries of conventional group structure and methods. A truly outsider approach that reverberates with its nebulous intensity and spirit of joy. The result is a fractious cacophony created (on this record) by four drummers, 3 guitarists a bass player and 2 different vocalists. Live the band rotate up to a dozen singers if occasion and availability conspire. The music has elements and attitudes in common with The Monks, Velvet Underground, Pussy Galore and The Fall without any direct plagiarism or imitation. These bands are but ships in the night to the Battleship Dirthole and its crew of desperate fellows. PROFESSOR THE CONFESSOR is an intimate memoir of utterances from the dark recesses of The Professor’s mind. CRYING ONIONS is a sleazy ballad of all-consuming pleasure, timeless romance, sensual purgatory, erotic possession, empty tears, disrobing and eating an onion. TOMORROW, TODAY faces up to the bleak realities of a passion consumed and the vagaries of the staring up from the gutter as you watch your former partner dance the same dance you fell for with someone else. The strapping fit and healthy London Dirthole Company pedigree on this recording; The Nuns, Pulkas, Echobelly, Headbutt, Felix Moment Power Trio, Lot Lizards, Project Dark, Headcleaner.

                    Dude York

                    Halftime For The Holidays

                      The holidays are weird, man. Ostensibly, they’re about family and fun and food and festivities, but more often they portend arguing with your family about politics- and that mental dance you have to do where you’re like “Should I get Trevor a gift even though my funds are dwindling and I’m not even sure if he’s going to get me one in return so this could end up being a whole awkward thing???”

                      The reality of the holidays lies somewhere more liminal, in the space between joy and depression, between excitement and boredom, between “peace on earth and goodwill toward men” and “I think I might murder my entire family.” So who better to teach us the true reason for the season than Dude York, a band whose music so often seems to exist in an in-between space of their own? Dude York are funny and serious and earnest and deeply ironic all at the same time. The three friends who comprise the band—Peter Richards (guitar, vocals), Claire England (bass, vocals) and Andrew Hall (drums, vocals)—have spent their four years together applying their particular Dude York-ian sensibility to topics like mental health, breakups, and the power of art and friendship.

                      Now they’ve returned with Halftime for the Holidays to pop some chestnuts right on your fire and tackle their most poignant theme yet; THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR. Halftime for the Holidays is a holiday record for how the holidays actually feel. Tracks like “Takin’ Care of Christmas” (it’s exactly what you think it is) and “Jingle Bells Rock” (it’s not) deliver the requisite tacky cheer. “Greatest Gift is You” and “My Favorite Part (Of This Time of Year)” soar like the greatest pop-punk love songs, with the added benefit of CHRISTMAS. And songs like “Long Distance Christmas” and “Break Up Holiday” testify to the loneliness that they can spring on you without warning. It’s a record that manages to wrap the strangeness of sleeping in your childhood twin bed and the soft wonder of waking up to snow into one delightful white elephant present that you won’t re-gift.

                      Halftime for the Holidays is self-consciously goofy, but refreshing in its willingness to tackle the misery and joy of the season with equal force. So deck the halls, engage in a regrettable make out session underneath the mistletoe, and rest assured that no matter what kind of reindeer games the universe is playing with you this year, Dude York has you covered.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      01. Break Up Holiday
                      02. Hollywood Holiday
                      03. The Greatest Gift Is You
                      04. My Favorite Part (Of The Time Of Year
                      05. Long Distance Christmas
                      06. Takin Care Of Christmas
                      07. Jingle Bells Rock
                      08. True Meaning
                      09. Silent Night

                      The Lumineers

                      The Lumineers - 10th Anniversary Edition

                        The Lumineers’ breakout debut album captured hearts of fans and critics worldwide in 2012, leading to two Grammy-award nominations and a #2 Billboard chart peak. It features the hit singles “Ho Hey” “Stubborn Love” and “Submarines.”

                        Celebrate the 10th anniversary with a remastered and expanded 2xLP edition pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl, featuring 6 tracks previously unreleased on vinyl, new liner notes, and all-new packaging exclusive behind the scenes photos.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        1. Flowers In Your Hair
                        2. Classy Girls
                        3. Submarines
                        4. Dead Sea
                        5. Ho Hey
                        6. Slow It Down
                        7. Stubborn Love
                        8. Big Parade
                        9. Charlie Boy
                        10. Flapper Girl
                        11. Morning Song
                        12. Ain't Nobody's Problem
                        13. This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
                        14. Elouise
                        15. Darlene
                        16. Slow It Down (live)
                        17. Scotland

                        Hampshire & Foat

                        Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand - Reissue

                        Multi talented UK Jazz Pianist Greg Foat has teamed up with Mercury Award nominated "The Bees" member and multi instrumentalist Warren Hampshire to collaborate on a new LP drawing on their diverse musical influences. Classic British library music, 60s Italian soundtracks & lost Americana combined with touches of modern classical, minimalism, Jazz and Folk. Featuring many members of Greg and Warren's previous bands and one of the U.Ks finest Jazz drummers, Clark Tracy, the LP also features an Edinburgh orchestra and soloists hand picked and scored by the boys. Recorded all analogue onto 2" multitrack in Edinburgh, mixed down by Mattias Glavå at his studio in Gothenburg, Sweden then mastered and cut in Helsinki, Finland, it's truly a European affair. 


                        TRACK LISTING

                        Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand 
                        Lullaby 
                        The Solar Winds (& Cadenza) 
                        A Long Way Home
                        End Song
                        All Washed Up 
                        How The Nights Can Fly 
                        End Song (Reprise)

                        Calexico And Iron & Wine

                        In The Reins

                          Iron & Wine's Sam Beam and the members of Calexico convened in December 2004 at Calexico's home base of Wavelab Studios in Tucson, Arizona. The idea of working together had been tossed around for over three years, though neither bands' schedule loaned itself into making it a reality until then. The resulting session "In the Reins", is a mini-album that is a truly harmonious affair sure to satisfy fans of both bands. The seven tracks are Sam Beam originals and were fleshed out by the full Calexico band. The record also features newcomer Natalie Wyants on vocals, Salvador Duran, a local fixture of the Tucson Flamenco scene, on vocals and Botas. Of course no Wavelab experience would be complete without the appearance of Nick Luca (NL Trio/John Doe Band) and Craig Schumacher, both of whom contributed to the record in the form of engineering and performance.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          He Lays In The Reins
                          Prison On Route 41
                          History Of Lovers
                          Red Dust
                          16, Maybe Less
                          Burn That Broken Bed
                          Dead Mans Will

                          Skip James

                          The Rough Guide To Skip James

                            Skip James was a Delta blues enigma, whose mesmerizing guitar playing and haunting voice produced bluer than blue masterpieces. This beautifully re-mastered collection of his seminal 1931 recordings shows why his otherworldly blues cast its spell on many blues greats from Robert Johnson to Eric Clapton.
                            Arguably the greatest of the original Delta blues guitarists with his mesmerizing and truly unique style. 'The Rough Guide To Skip James' highlights his diverse repertoire of songs ranging from deep, dark Delta blues to upbeat barrelhouse piano tunes and spirituals.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
                            I’m So Glad
                            Drunken Spree
                            If You Haven’t Any Hay Get On Down The Road
                            Cherry Ball Blues
                            Be Ready When He Comes
                            Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
                            Devil Got My Woman
                            How Long “Buck”
                            Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader
                            Cypress Grove Blues
                            Illinois Blues
                            22-20 Blues

                            Various Artists

                            The Men In The Glass Booth: Part 1

                              In May 1976 a record was released that would have an unforeseen and lasting impact on the music industry “Ten Percent” by Double Exposure was an early release on the New York independent label Salsoul Records. America was in the grip of a disco explosion with new clubs opening on a weekly basis; Salsoul saw what was happening and swiftly created a sound for their label, heavily influenced by the music then coming out of Philadelphia, aimed directly at New York’s dance-floors. Records like “Salsoul Hustle,” “Tangerine” and “You’re Just The Right Size” by The Salsoul Orchestra borrowed heavily from the beautifully orchestrated Philadelphia International records but added a more percussive, bass heavy depth that New York’s DJs loved. So what was so special about this particular single then? Double Exposure was, after all, just another band, “Ten Percent” just another song; one of many “disco” records released that week. First of all Salsoul became the first record label to make a twelve inch single available to Joe Public - the exotic format was previously only available to DJs as promotional items or bought under the counter at certain record stores. Not only that though, the extended version was created by Walter Gibbons, a DJ at New York’s Galaxy 21 who’d built his reputation making exclusive versions of tracks to play in his sets.

                              In 1976 it was unheard of for a DJ to set foot in a recording studio, being seen as little more than living jukeboxes by the serious music industry. Recording studios were strictly the domain of recording artists and producers so Walter found himself in a unique position, gaining access to a world no DJ had been granted before.

                              Or so we thought...
                              The Men In The Glass Booth tells the full story. Featuring ground breaking re-edits and remixes by some of the Disco era's most influential DJs including Walter Gibbons, Bobby DJ Guttadaro, Tom Savarese, Jellybean Benitez, Tee Scott and John Luongo, this opulent release also includes a 40 page book which features exclusive photos and insights from some of the story's key figures.


                              STAFF COMMENTS

                              Patrick says: BBE answer the prayers of all us non-millionaire disco fans, taking us on a journey through the alternative 12" history via this exhaustive collection of acetates and DJ edits. Mega!

                              Don Rendell And Ian Carr Quintet

                              The Complete Lansdowne Recordings, 1965-1969

                              After an epic licensing odyssey that's taken us almost 20 years, we're finally able to announce the 5LP boxset release of the first ever official re-issue of all five of the iconic Lansdowne recording sessions by the legendary UK jazz combo, the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet.
                              The five albums; Shades Of Blues (1965), Dusk Fire (1966), Phase III (1968), Change Is (1969) and Live (1969), have reached almost mythical status in the collector's world. Regarded as holy grail artefacts for even the seasoned aficionado, the collective second hand market value comes to an astonishing £6000.
                              Many have tried - and failed - to reissue these albums by legitimate means. However, two decades since our initial approach, Universal Music has gone to great lengths to research their vast archives, and we have finally managed to succeed.
                              The complete Don Rendell & Ian Carr Lansdowne recording sessions have now undergone a full and unprecedented boxset reissue. We located and acquired the original analogue master tapes from the Universal vaults and created masters at Abbey Road Studios to produce audiophile quality 180g pressings replete with replica artwork - shape, design, and even paper stock. No stone has been left unturned to deliver this absolute labour of love to the highest possible standard! The enclosed booklet contains never before seen photographs, interviews with the remaining living band members and liner notes from BBC Radio 3 presenter and award-winning jazz writer Alyn Shipton.
                              The band played together for seven years and during this fruitful time they made a plethora of deeply melodic, post-bop British jazz compositions that later on took influences from Indo and more spiritually guided jazz. Produced by the influential Denis Preston and recorded at his Lansdowne Studios in London, the band was primarily made up of saxophonist Don Rendell, trumpeter/composer Ian Carr, and pianist/composer Michael Garrick. This is UK jazz at its absolute finest, and the quality of our box set pays testament to that.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              1 Blue Mosque
                              2 Latin Blue
                              3 Just Blue
                              4 Sailin'
                              5 Garrison '64
                              6 Blue Doom
                              7 Shades Of Blue
                              8 Big City Strut
                              9 Ruth
                              10 Tan Samfu
                              11 Jubal
                              12 Spooks
                              13 Prayer
                              14 Hot Rod
                              15 Dusk Fire
                              16 Crazy Jane
                              17 On! [clip]
                              18 Les Neiges D'Antan (Snows Of Yesteryear)
                              19 Bath Sheba
                              20 Black Marigolds
                              21 Elastic Dream
                              22 One Green Eye
                              23 Boy, Dog And Carrot
                              24 Cold Mountain
                              25 Black Hair
                              26 Mirage
                              27 On Track
                              28 Vignette
                              29 Pavanne
                              30 Nimjam
                              31 Voices
                              32 You've Said It 

                              William And Jim Reid

                              Never Understood: The Story Of The Jesus And Mary Chain - Record Store Edition

                                For 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents' East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister. They knew they couldn't play in the same band because they'd argue too much, so they'd describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus and Mary Chain.

                                The rest was not silence, and picking up those conversations again more than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands for the very first time - a wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness, that also somehow manages to be a love letter to the Scottish working-class family.

                                Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

                                Wild God

                                  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


                                  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

                                  William And Jim Reid

                                  Never Understood: The Story Of The Jesus And Mary Chain

                                    For 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents' East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister. They knew they couldn't play in the same band because they'd argue too much, so they'd describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus and Mary Chain.

                                    The rest was not silence, and picking up those conversations again more than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands for the very first time - a wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness, that also somehow manages to be a love letter to the Scottish working-class family.

                                    Ted Kessler

                                    To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised, Unauthorised History Of Billy Childish - SPECIAL EDITION

                                      SPECIAL EDITION SIGNED BY BILLY CHILDISH & TED KESSLER.

                                      BOUND IN LIME GREEN LINEN BOARDS, WITH FOILED TITLES DESIGNED BY BILLY AND HOUSED IN A CUSTOM KRAFT PAPER SOLANDER BOX WITH FOUR-COLOUR INSIDE PAINTING.

                                      THIS EDITION ALSO INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE VINYL AND SIGNED WOODCUT PRINT BY BILLY CHILDISH.

                                      STRICTLY LIMITED TO JUST 500 COPIES.


                                      In 1977, 17-year-old Steven Hamper was a stonemason in the dockyards of Chatham, Kent. His heart, however, beat in sync with the punk rock tremors of the era, seduced by its celebration of amateurism. So, in a gesture of revolutionary defiance, he took a 3lb club hammer and smashed his hand, vowing to never work again. In doing so, Steven Hamper metamorphosed into Billy Childish, a true renaissance man.

                                      Childish has since remained steadfastly true to punk's DIY cred, becoming one of the most recognisable and authentic voices in whichever artistic endeavour he undertakes. He has released over one hundred and fifty albums of raw rock and roll, punk, blues and folk, written many volumes of searing poetry as well as several autobiographical novels. But what he is perhaps best known for in recent years is his painting, for which he is now critically, commercially and internationally feted. He hasn't changed course in any of his disciplines, though. The world just caught up with the sheer volume of his brutally honest work.

                                      To Ease My Troubled Mind is a mosaic portrait collated over a year of interviews with Childish, as well as with close family, ex-girlfriends, bandmembers past and present, friends, foes, collaborators, even his therapist. It is an unflinching, yet frequently spiritual and funny portrait of an artist whose obstacle-strewn upbringing formed the backbone of his work: raised in a broken home and abused as a child, Childish was an undiagnosed dyslexic in remedial class at school who is nevertheless now Britain's most prolific and uncompromising creative force.

                                      Ted Kessler

                                      To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised, Unauthorised History Of Billy Childish

                                        In 1977, 17-year-old Steven Hamper was a stonemason in the dockyards of Chatham, Kent. His heart, however, beat in sync with the punk rock tremors of the era, seduced by its celebration of amateurism. So, in a gesture of revolutionary defiance, he took a 3lb club hammer and smashed his hand, vowing to never work again. In doing so, Steven Hamper metamorphosed into Billy Childish, a true renaissance man.

                                        Childish has since remained steadfastly true to punk's DIY cred, becoming one of the most recognisable and authentic voices in whichever artistic endeavour he undertakes. He has released over one hundred and fifty albums of raw rock and roll, punk, blues and folk, written many volumes of searing poetry as well as several autobiographical novels. But what he is perhaps best known for in recent years is his painting, for which he is now critically, commercially and internationally feted. He hasn't changed course in any of his disciplines, though. The world just caught up with the sheer volume of his brutally honest work.

                                        To Ease My Troubled Mind is a mosaic portrait collated over a year of interviews with Childish, as well as with close family, ex-girlfriends, bandmembers past and present, friends, foes, collaborators, even his therapist. It is an unflinching, yet frequently spiritual and funny portrait of an artist whose obstacle-strewn upbringing formed the backbone of his work: raised in a broken home and abused as a child, Childish was an undiagnosed dyslexic in remedial class at school who is nevertheless now Britain's most prolific and uncompromising creative force.

                                        The Joy

                                        The Joy

                                          The Joy, a five-piece acapella group from South Africa is releasing their self-titled debut album which was recorded and captured on film in one take at Paul Epworth’s Church Studios in late 2023.

                                          In Hammarsdale in South Africa, where the Zulu tradition of a cappella singing is central to the cultural identity of its people, you’ll have to transcend the sum of your constituent parts to truly command attention. But singing together as teenage boys for the first time, Pastor (Ntokozo Bright Magcaba), Duzie (Melokuhle Mkhungo), Guduza (Sphelele Hlophe), Sthombe (Phelelani Sithole) and Marcus (Sanele Ngcobo) have no reason to pause and consider that.

                                          In Hammarsdale, Ladysmith Black Mambazo have been worshipped for decades – their Grammy-winning success an authentication of the fact that the magic of isicathamiya music isn’t restricted to the townships where it flourished. The Joy grew up on Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but their harmonies harks back to another vocal tradition. Mbube means ‘lion’, which gives some indication of the elemental power its practitioners summon when bursting into song. This seems to be the lineage into which lead vocalist Duzie seems to be tapping when he cuts loose from the intonations of his co-travellers, as if compelled to commune with the ancestral spirits whose music he invokes.

                                          In the right hands, these songs can open the gates of heaven, so perhaps it’s not so surprising that, for The Joy, they open up the gates to places they’d never imagined they’d see with their own eyes. First prize in a municipality-wide singing contest earns them something in the region of $1,300, which they divided in five and sent straight to their families, where it’s most needed. Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson pronounce themselves fans, the latter calling them “my favourite group” and inviting them onto her US talk show. Sessions produced by longtime champion Two Inch Punch amass millions of streams either in spite or because of the fact that they correspond to nothing else competing for your attention in the modern musical firmament. And, displaying the brotherhood that they say bonded them together from that very first session, they insist that the music speaks to them all with one voice, telling them what to do before they themselves are even aware of it.

                                          The Joy sing about the big stuff – the power of dreams, religious faith – but actually when they address the harrowing specifics of day to day life, sometimes these are the moments that assume even greater emotional magnitude.


                                          TRACK LISTING

                                          1. Uhlenge
                                          2. Amaqatha Amancane
                                          3. Mama Ka Nomthandazo
                                          4. Bayang'khethela
                                          5. Mama Uleli Kanjani
                                          6. Ngiphuphe Ngilele
                                          7. Mashaya Kancane
                                          8. UBaba Uthwelekanzima
                                          9. You Complete Me
                                          10. Amandla Ka Moya
                                          11. Jesu

                                          Walt Disco

                                          The Warping

                                            Walt Disco are taking new shape. Lead vocalist and songwriter Jocelyn Si, drummer and co-songwriter Jack Martin, synth player Finlay McCarthy, bass player Charlie Lock and guitarist Lewis Carmichael dismantled accepted narratives and restrictive norms on debut album Unlearning. On their new record the band hold a mirror up to many shifting faces, once again welcoming the listener into a theatrical world, at once euphoric and unsettling. The Warping makes permeable the barriers of time and self, passing back and forth between memory and the future, calling out to younger selves and imagined identities. We’re not in Kansas anymore.

                                            Written on both sides of the Atlantic, from Los Angeles and Austin to Glasgow and London, The Warping is a significant step forward from a band who have already seen strong success. After its release in 2022, Unlearning picked up nominations for the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award and AIM Independent Album of the Year, while shows at SXSW, festivals across Europe and support stints with Primal Scream and Duran Duran saw the band reach new fanbases and cross genre divides.

                                            Taking the cinematic glam of their debut and pushing it further, the band brought in classically trained orchestral musicians. Sonically, the horns, woodwind and swelling string sections lend an entirely new level to the Walt Disco sound - one that feels both fantastically organic and technically accomplished. While the foundations were laid during pre-album recording sessions at Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music’s studio the songs themselves largely come together in collaboration. In comparison to the ‘Frankensteined’ recording process for Unlearning, stitched together across a digital divide of necessity during lockdown, The Warping was co-produced by the band and Chris McCrory, with engineering from The Vale studios’ Chris D’Adda, and the instrumentation is almost entirely analogue.

                                            Deft lyricism takes in deeply personal issues and writes them large, transposing feelings of envy, fear, joy and hope out of individual experiences. Yearning for another self is a recurring dream on The Warping, as they explore gender dysphoria and envy with radical honesty, accepting them as two tangled threads in the same experience. The world, the band note, can feel like a hostile environment at the moment - especially for queer people, trans people, or anyone who is different. But they aren’t going to let that stop them. Jocelyn agrees. ‘If I’m beaten down by it, I’m not going to be able to pay it forward and act accordingly,’ they say. On The Warping, every moment changes with just a trick of the light.

                                            TRACK LISTING

                                            1. Seed
                                            2. Gnomes
                                            3. Come Undone
                                            4. The Warping
                                            5. You Make Me Feel So Dumb
                                            6. Pearl
                                            7. Black Chocolate
                                            8. Jocelyn
                                            9. The Captain
                                            10. Weeping Willow
                                            11. I Will Travel
                                            12. Before The Walls

                                            John Grant

                                            The Art Of The Lie

                                              Following the runaway success of his last LP, Boy From Michigan, which crashed the UK Top 10 back in July 2021, legendary singer-songwriter John Grant returns with his hugely-anticipated sixth album, The Art Of The Lie.

                                              Released 14th June via longtime label Bella Union, The Art Of The Lie is Grant’s most opulent, cinematic, luxurious album yet and confirms Grant’s status as a modern electronic auteur. Grant likens the musical flavours of The Art of the Lie to the sumptuous Vangelis soundtrack for Bladerunner or the Carpenters if John Carpenter were also a member. While undeniably a John Grant record, nestling humour into tragedy, bleeding anger into compassion, there is a musical ambition and nerve to ‘The Art of the Lie’ which offsets its most political and personal moments.

                                              The Art of The Lie was produced by Grant and Grammy-nominated producer Ivor Guest who is perhaps best known for his work with Grace Jones & Brigitte Fontaine. The album features an array of celebrated musicians including Dave Okumu, Seb Rochford and Robin Mullarkey.


                                              TRACK LISTING

                                              1. All That School For Nothing
                                              2. Marbles
                                              3. Father
                                              4. Mother And Son
                                              5. Twistin Scriptures
                                              6. Meek AF
                                              7. It's A Bitch
                                              8. Daddy
                                              9. The Child Catcher
                                              10. Laura Lou
                                              11. Zeitgeist

                                              Johnnie Johnstone

                                              Through The Crack In The Wall : The Secret History Of Josef K

                                                Everything was just so intense. There was an alienation and awkwardness about Josef K, but that was actually very true to life for me. Listening today I find really difficult because it brings back so many memories, so many ghosts and characters from the past.

                                                -- Paul Haig. A lot of what Josef K were about was as much to do with what not to play as what to play. Josef K could never have anything rootsy, no blues scale.

                                                We were always looking for the modern. -- Malcolm Ross. Josef K are the great lost post-punk band.

                                                Taking their name from the haunted protagonist of Franz Kafka s existentialist novel The Trial, they posed for photographs before brutalist and gothic architecture and produced visionary, often incendiary music that felt like the product of perpetual anxiety. And it really was. Through The Crack In The Wall is the first ever biography of the band, tracing their story from their origins in the leafy suburbs of Edinburgh through to their untimely implosion four years later.

                                                It s a tale of fun and frenzy, filled with highs and lows. From their thrilling live shows, which left onlookers spellbound, to more anxious occasions confronting a baying audience of rioting anarcho-punks in Brussels; from a brief spell as press darlings of the inkies to the fateful decision to pull their debut album just as pop stardom beckoned -- one that continues to haunt them today. Drawing extensively on new interviews with the band members and those around them as well as contemporary press articles, the book explores the band s inner workings and analyses their relationships with Postcard Records supremo Alan Horne, labelmates Orange Juice, and manager Allan Campbell.

                                                It re-evaluates their position in the pantheon of post-punk greats and considers how their music helped shape the UK independent scene of the eighties. More than anything else, though, the book s primary purpose is to celebrate the incredible music Josef K made and consider what makes it more vital today than ever.

                                                Fu Manchu

                                                The Return Of Tomorrow

                                                  The Return Of Tomorrow is Fu Manchu’s first new album in 6 years, and they made sure that it was worth the wait. Their 14th album is their 1st double LP of new material and it was conceived of as a vinyl listening experience. The first LP features 7 songs in their iconic heavy fuzz sound including the first single, “Hands Of The Zodiac” and the relentlessly catchy “Loch Ness Wrecking Machine.” The second LP sees the band mellowing out with 6 slower tempo jams including the synth inflected “Solar Baptized” and the title track. Both LPs are 45RPM for the thickest possible sound. CD listeners need not worry, as this version of the album was mastered specifically for the format.

                                                  Like the band’s most recent album, Clone Of The Universe, and the band’s 3 part Fu30 EP series, The Return Of Tomorrow was recorded at The Racket Room in Santa Ana, California by Jim Monroe (Adolescents, Ignite) and co-produced with Fu Manchu.

                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                  1. Dehumanize
                                                  2. Loch Ness Wrecking Machine
                                                  3. Hands Of The Zodiac
                                                  4. Haze The Hides
                                                  5. Roads Of The Lowly
                                                  6. Time Is) Pulling You Under
                                                  7. Destroyin’ Light
                                                  8. Lifetime Waiting
                                                  9. Solar Baptized
                                                  10. What I Need
                                                  11. The Return Of Tomorrow
                                                  12. Liquify
                                                  13. High Tide

                                                  Earth Tongue

                                                  Great Hunting

                                                    Earth Tongue, the brainchild of guitarist Gussie Larkin and drummer Ezra Simons, present their second full-length album Great Haunting. The duo, known for their heavy flavor of fuzz-soaked psychedelic rock, are also pleased to unveil their signing to In The Red Records.

                                                    Earth Tongue’s partnership with In The Red stems from a run of shows supporting the legendary Ty Segall throughout New Zealand. Larkin explains: “Ty’s band Fuzz was a significant influence for our sound early on. Ezra and I saw them play live in London about nine years ago, long before Earth Tongue existed. We absorbed a lot of music at that time, and in fact many of the bands we saw released records via In The Red.”

                                                    Great Haunting sees the duo draw inspiration from the eerie depths of ’70s and ’80s horror cinema, delivering a sonic concoction of dark and primitive songs with thick layers of fuzz and punchy, compressed drums. The album was engineered by Jonathan Pearce from The Beths at his studio on Karangahape road in Auckland.

                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                    1. Out Of This Hell
                                                    2. Bodies Dissolve Tonight!
                                                    3. Nightmare
                                                    4. The Mirror
                                                    5. Grave Pressure
                                                    6. Miraculous Death
                                                    7. Sit Next To Satan
                                                    8. Reaper Returns
                                                    9. The Reluctant Host

                                                    Will Gregory Moog Ensemble

                                                    Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project

                                                      Will Gregory Moog Ensemble present their debut album, Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project, made in collaboration with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

                                                      This neo-classical electronic album is filled with spirals of melody, circular structures, sequences, and patterns inspired by the works of the Greek mathematician Archimedes. The ensemble, as the name suggests, is led by Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory and has been active on the live circuit since 2005. The members include Portishead’s Adrian Utley, a long-time collaborator of Will’s, who plays on the album and produced it. Also playing on the record are John Baggott, Graham Fitkin, Simon Haram, Vyvyan Hope-Scott, Ross Hughes, Hazel Mills, Daniel Moore, Hinako Omari, Eddie Parker, Harriet Riley and Ruth Wall. Their instruments include Minimoog, Moog Voyager, Korg 700s, Prophet 6, and Roland JX-3P, with their individual lines and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales coming together in intricate arrangements creating a stunning superstructure of sounds.

                                                      Heat Ray is an album that brings ancient history into the modern world, pushing us towards an endlessly curious and fascinating future.

                                                      Available on vinyl and CD, sleeve notes by Matt Parker, comedian, best-selling author and recreational mathematician, who’s YouTube’s channel Stand-up Maths has over 137 million views.

                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                      1. Young Archimedes
                                                      2. Buoyancy Theory
                                                      3. Circles, Spirals And Pi
                                                      4. Law Of The Lever
                                                      5. The Claw
                                                      6. Archimedes’ Screw
                                                      7. Heat Ray
                                                      8. The Sand Reckoner
                                                      9. Archimedes’ Legacy

                                                      Goat Girl

                                                      Below The Waste

                                                        Goat Girl - Lottie Pendlebury (she/her), Rosy Jones (they/them) and Holly Mullineaux (she/her) are excited to announce their third album “Below The Waste” which is being released on Rough Trade Records. The album was co–produced by the band & John Spud Murphy (Lankum & black midi).

                                                        Pieced together like a collage over an extended period of time, the instrumentation was tracked mostly over a ten-day stint in Ireland at Hellfire Studios, in the shadow of the infamous Hellfire Club itself. They also used Damon Albans, Studio 13. Additional strings (Reuben Kyriakides and Nic Pendlebury), woodwind instruments (Alex McKenzie) and vocals (including a choir made up of family and friends) were added to this framework at a number of locations, from a barn in Essex to Goat Girl’s own studio in South London.

                                                        Singer Lottie on lead track: “I was listening to lots of music at the time by Phillip Glass and Deerhoof that plays with the relationship between tension and resolution which definitely influenced this song. I was yearning for honesty and authenticity in relationships I held with people, probably partly because at the time, like everyone, we were so isolated from one another. But it also felt deeper than that, like the conversations I dreamt of stripped away all of the etiquettes we desperately clung onto and went below the surface to where the most interesting parts of ourselves tend to be suppressed.”

                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                        1. Reprise
                                                        2. Ride Around
                                                        3. Words Fell Out
                                                        4. Play It Down
                                                        5. Tcnc
                                                        6. Where’s Ur <3
                                                        7. Prelude
                                                        8. Tonight
                                                        9. Motorway
                                                        10. S.m.o.g
                                                        11. Take It Away
                                                        12. Pretty Faces
                                                        13. Perhaps
                                                        14. Jump Sludge
                                                        15. Sleep Talk
                                                        16. Wasting

                                                        Dinked Edition Tracklisting:
                                                        Side A:
                                                        Reprise
                                                        Ride Around
                                                        Words Fell Out
                                                        Play It Down
                                                        Side B:
                                                        Tcnc
                                                        Where's Ur <3
                                                        Prelude
                                                        Tonight
                                                        Side C:
                                                        Motorway
                                                        S.m.o.g
                                                        Take It Away
                                                        Pretty Faces
                                                        Perhaps
                                                        Side D:
                                                        Jump Sludge
                                                        Sleep Talk
                                                        Wasting

                                                        Dinked Bonus 7":
                                                        Side A:
                                                        Where's Ur <3 (demo)
                                                        Sleep Talk (fka Mellotron Improv)
                                                        Ride Around (fka Wavey Bye)
                                                        Side B:
                                                        Play It Down (sad Demo)
                                                        Wasting (demo)








                                                        The Mysterines

                                                        Afraid Of Tomorrows

                                                          The Mysterines are a four piece alternative rock band from Liverpool, England.
                                                          Formed in 2016, the angst-ridden, grunge-inspired indie quartet are fronted by vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter Lia Metcalfe.

                                                          Their imposing frontwoman melds together more than her lifetime’s worth of experiences with the kind of deep, impassioned vocal you won’t forget in a hurry. In her songs and stagecraft you’ll see and hear everything from PJ Harvey’s raw and ragged stomp to the crazed carnival energy of Tom Waits and eviscerating poetics of Patti Smith.

                                                          The first great British rock band of the post-pandemic era, The Mysterines let us in on Lia’s unfiltered look at life, the universe and everything, complete with serious riffs and an unflinching honesty. 


                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                          1. The Last Dance
                                                          2. Stray
                                                          3. Another Another Another
                                                          4. Tired Animal
                                                          5. Jesse You're A Superstar
                                                          6. Hawkmoon
                                                          7. Sink Ya Teeth
                                                          8. Junkyard Angel
                                                          9. Goodbye Sunshine
                                                          10. Inside A Matchbox
                                                          11. So Long
                                                          12. Afraid Of Tomorrows

                                                          Bloomsday

                                                          Heart Of The Artichoke

                                                            Recommended if you like: Hand Habits, Slow Pulp, Frankie Cosmos, Lomelda, Lucy Dacus, Big Thief.

                                                            “Bloomsday’s Iris James Garrison makes achieving sonic bliss look easy.” Consequence of Sound

                                                            Produced by Ryan Albert of Babehoven; features vocals from Babehoven, Richard Orofino, h. Pruz. Mixed by Henry Stoehr of Slow Pulp.

                                                            'The way Bloomsday’s Iris James Garrison writes songs feels like somewhere between a mirror and a memory. Spacious, full-bodied folk songs, they are an ode to things that are good no matter how small; they sometimes feel like the ghost of a Mary Oliver poem. Bloomsday’s new record, 'Heart of the Artichoke', is a relic of unfettered creativity and community. They recount the miracles of the mundane, the memories that become sacred, an ode to all that is holy: nightswimming, songs plucked from the ether, the ways friendship can endure.

                                                            Like earlier Bloomsday songs, the work here is threaded with warmth; it’s simmering, crisp and deeply human, an encapsulation of the present moment. Recorded across 10 days in June 2023 in upstate New York at duo Babehoven’s studio and co-produced by Babehoven’s Ryan Albert, with mixing by Henry Stoehr of Slow Pulp. The record was built out with a wide ranging group of collaborators, including inventive drumming from Andrew Stevens (Lomelda, Hovvdy), Alex Harwood, Richard Orofino, Babehoven’s Maya Bon, Hannah Pruzinsky (h.pruz, Sister.), and Chris Daley. It was an insulated and collaborative experience: all family dinners on the back porch, bonfires, feeling a full sense of joy, of friendship, of purity in the artistic self.

                                                            Collaboration is an integral part of Bloomsday’s musical process. Garrison is malleable in the studio, their songwriting generous and spacious. But in listening to the record, there’s a sense that Garrison leaves room for the players, for the listener; for songs to find the shapes they’re meant to take. Garrison’s role as maestro is crucial, singular – it’s a collaborative, exploratory spirit harnessed by Garrison’s intuition, and by an honest commitment to carve out creative space for play, to delve into what’s known – or pushing past that, into unknown. “The ghosts of the past still come up and haunt me,” Garrison says, “but I sit in what I have and see it. All of these songs are about loved ones, about personal struggles with getting out of my head and being present.” Heart of the Artichoke was written from a healed, matured place – written in a moment of safety from chaos. It’s a prayer for the present, an appreciation of tenderness and what happens once we give ourselves the space to really see, and really feel – becoming free and whole – an ode to the way healing allows us to bloom.

                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                            1. Where I End And You Begin
                                                            2. Virtual Hug
                                                            3. Dollar Slice
                                                            4. Artichoke
                                                            5. Look After
                                                            6. Night Swim
                                                            7. Carefully
                                                            8. Bumper Sticker
                                                            9. Object Permanence
                                                            10. Old Friend

                                                            Casey MQ

                                                            Later That Day, The Day Before, Or The Day Before That

                                                              "Remembering is not the opposite of forgetting," Casey MQ sings at the start of Later that day, the day before, or the day before that, his new LP and Ghostly International debut. It's a phrase fittingly misremembered from something the LA-based, Canadian-born composer came upon as he spiraled into unconscious and subconscious-led writing sessions at the piano. Casey’s known for his 2020 breakthrough release babycasey, which gave voice to songs seen through the lens of childhood, various film score work and collaborations with artists such as Oklou (who returns here), Eartheater, and Vagabon. His gifts as a producer and songwriter are rooted in textural world-building and the excavation of personal truth. With Later that day... he questions what is true entirely, understanding our mind's tendency to bend and project onto pictures of the past. Across vivid, baroque pop balladry, Casey MQ reorients his recording project and point of view under the notion that memories are malleable. All the joy, pain, love, and loss housed within remembrance is open to interpretation and deconstruction, which he does deftly, with curiosity and complete artistic freedom.

                                                              "It's a memory album," Casey puts it simply, winding up for the deeper unpacking, "and it might be a breakup album, too...there are more questions than answers." Engaging his dreams and sitting with sheet music at his newly acquired piano, he looked to new and old inspirations including the works of Claude Debussy, Joni Mitchell, and Joe Hisaishi's beloved Studio Ghibli film scores. "Since I was young, I always wanted to write a piano album." babycasey's studied electronic sound isn't wholly abandoned on Later that day... instead, it comes through like an atmosphere, giving Casey's more spacious, minimal arrangements a distinct luster and sheen. The textures and tones shift from song to song as if mirroring the way our minds constantly recontextualize, remember, and forget.

                                                              Cathartic opener "Grey Gardens" — its title derived from a dream abstractly related to the Toronto restaurant, but not the 1975 film, which he cites as another coincidental false memory — presents the record's plaintive, haunted feeling. "Even if not reading into lyrics, sonically I wanted it to feel like you're being pulled into a universe. Not fantasy or otherworldly per se, something more tangible, of the body and mind,” Casey says. “Hearing it back, I realized this track was the key to unlocking it." His tender falsetto hovers above ambient washes and echoed keys, each word falling carefully in the crevices. "Asleep At The Wheel" unfolds on arpeggiated synth before a burst of symphonic color; the synth returns inverted to harmonize with the outro, "I love a car crash, I love a story, I love a memory, I swear it's real..."

                                                              Casey leans into digital imagination on the warm, introspective "Me I Think I Found It." Subdued, stuttered percussion underscores the singer as he cycles through pixelated imagery — screenshots, smiles, streetlights — searching for higher meaning through love. Built on ascendent chord distortions, "Dying Til I'm Born" gives the record one of its boldest pulses of emotion. The back half stretches out; "Is This Only Water" is sparse and foggy, "Baby Voice" is intimate and desperate for something to remain. "Words For Love" grooves on guitar, and "Tennisman9" aches in heartbreak. French musician Marylou Mayniel, aka Oklou, appears as the collection’s only guest for the closing duet, "The Make Believe," a bright and buoyant send-off that gives Later that day... both a sense of resolve and cyclical-motion. "We are young, under the sun," they sing together, a parting image brimming with lightness.

                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                              01. Grey Gardens
                                                              02. Asleep At The Wheel
                                                              03. Me, I Think I Found It
                                                              04. Dying 'Til I'm Born
                                                              05. Is This Only Water
                                                              06. See You Later
                                                              07. Baby Voice
                                                              08. Words For Love
                                                              09 Tennisman9
                                                              10. The Make Believe (feat. Oklou)

                                                              Iceboy Violet & Nueen

                                                              You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through The Fire

                                                                This collaboration between Spanish producer Nueen and Manc vocalist / rapper Iceboy Violet - who has previously sprinkled their magic dust across Hyperdub releases from aya and Loraine James - traces the arc of a four year relationship, memorialising its highs and documenting its lows, processing, reflecting, and then ending with the ecstatic spark of new love. It’s a magical, intimate and heartfelt album, sometimes anguished but often enchanting. Nueen's music responds with foggy, but richly detailed, production. Smudgy drill-laced beats contrast with curdled, spiralling chords, at times drawing out a malevolent ambience. ‘You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire’ is an immensely affecting and lucid album, powerfully wrought, ultimately hopeful.

                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                A1. Heartbreak Of A Broken Stitch (ft Harriet Morley)
                                                                A2. SM_FID
                                                                A3. Everything Ends With An Inhale
                                                                A4. Cement Skin
                                                                A5. Pixel Petals
                                                                A6. Slammd (Interlude)
                                                                A7. Closer
                                                                B1. Terrence’s Time Bomb
                                                                B2. Fragmentary (Eraser)
                                                                B3. Inside My Head (Interlude)
                                                                B4. Still (ft Dawuna)
                                                                B5. Fawning (Interlude)
                                                                B6. Kiss Me Again (6am In Helsinki) (ft Bennettiscoming)

                                                                Bat For Lashes

                                                                The Dream Of Delphi

                                                                  ‘The Dream Of Delphi’ is an ode to motherhood created in LA, Natasha’s second home, during the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s a sonic archive of a time when Natasha birthed her daughter Delphi earth side. The record weaves together ten song poems, documenting the polarity of navigating both an exterior world that was seemingly turning upside down, whilst also experiencing theprofoundly personal and transformational early moments of mothering Delphi, named after the Greek Oracle, the ancient future teller. The music became Natasha’s sanctuary, born out of stolen trips to the studio, where each track was improvised and completed in a few hours and chronologises her diary like offerings over a period of two years; from “TheMidwives Have Left”; to writing a “Letter To My Daughter”; and all the way through to “Waking up”, as well as a cover of her daughter’s favourite song, “Home”.

                                                                  While the storytelling behind Bat For Lashes’ previous albums have traditionally used otherworldly narratives and female lead characters (e.g. ‘Laura’, ‘Daniel’ and ‘The Bride’), for the first time, ‘The Dream Of Delphi’ is about Natasha’s personal experience of themagical and sometimes melancholy intimacy of early motherhood. This record creates a more private form of mythology around the music than her previous work. ‘The Dream Of Delphi’ touches on more of an instrumental “Bat For Lashes” world, and shows Natasha to be both a confident composer and craftswoman of intimate landscapes. While the music creates a more womb-like, ambient space for the listener, it still leaves ample room for her signature dream pop songwriting to vibrate through. Natasha has worked with Brad Oberhofer, Mary Lattimore and Jack Falby on this record.

                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                  The Dream Of Delphi
                                                                  Christmas Day
                                                                  Letter To My Daughter
                                                                  At Your Feet
                                                                  The Midwives Have Left
                                                                  Home
                                                                  Breaking Up
                                                                  Delphi Dancing
                                                                  Her First Morning
                                                                  Waking Up
                                                                  The Dream Of Delphi (Extended Strings Version)

                                                                  Vegyn

                                                                  The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions

                                                                    Vegyn releases his emotionally rich sophomore album, The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions. Sublimely crafted songs, each allowing for a dose of human imperfection, wobbling on a tightrope between elation and an eerie melancholia. The record includes guest features from John Glacier, Léa Sen, Matt Maltese, Lauren Auder and Ethan P. Flynn, and is released through his own imprint, PLZ Make It Ruins.

                                                                    The producer's shape-shifting musical output has so far tended towards excess, whether working with some of the world’s biggest rap and R&B artists (Frank Ocean, Travis Scott, Kali Uchis), or unleashing 70 track mixtapes, letting light into his creative process by sharing scraps from the cutting room floor. By contrast, this new album emerged from a space of free-flowing experimentation, with a lighter touch to the productions. His trademark flourishes and BPM changes take a backseat to melody and clear structure. As Vegyn himself puts it: “I’m just trying to make interesting songs – feeling was the focus.”

                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                    1. A Dream Goes On Forever (feat. John Glacier)
                                                                    2. Another 9 Days (feat. Ethan P. Flynn)
                                                                    3. Turn Me Inside (feat. Léa Sen)
                                                                    4. Halo Flip (feat. Lauren Auder)
                                                                    5. Everything Is The Same
                                                                    6. The Path Less Travelled
                                                                    7. Makeshift Tourniquet
                                                                    8. Time Well Spent
                                                                    9. In The Front (feat. John Glacier)
                                                                    10. Trust (feat. Matt Maltese)
                                                                    11. Stress Test
                                                                    12. Last Night I Dreamt I Was Alone
                                                                    13. Unlucky For Some…

                                                                    Back in 2019, Emotional Rescue began a series where it licensed some all-time favourites, remastered them and pressed them up with new remixes by modern producers. It now draws to a close after many fine instalments with early 80s band The Impossible Dreamers. Their cult 'Spin' arrives here with an epic nine-minute extended reversion that is heavy on the dub and percussion and also an even more dubcentric reprise from regular label artist Dan Tyler of Idjut Boys and Noid fame, her under his NAD guise. There is plenty of raw and raucous rhythm to this 12" that will enliven any dancefloor and round out this series in style.

                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                    Spin
                                                                    Spin (NAD Reversion)
                                                                    Spin (NAD Riddim Reprise)

                                                                    Young Jesus

                                                                    The Fool

                                                                      John Rossiter (Young Jesus) had quit music to study permaculture and to work in landscapes and gardens. His last album, 'Shepherd Head', was too much time spent on the computer. Working with soil and plants gave him some life back. He said, “You know, when gardening, the right decision to make for the landscape is usually the one that is already happening. It just takes time to read what that is."

                                                                      So, John left the orchard to meet Shahzad Ismaily (Feist, Lou Reed, Arooj Aftab) for lunch. They instantly bonded, talking about improvisation, rhythm, the heart. On a lark, Shahzad invited John to New York.

                                                                      Songs started to form, songs about shame and grief, love and redemption. They came fast, a song a day for two weeks. It was different from past albums, which felt like years of hammering out lyrics and ideas. This one came in the wake of a long illness, where tunes came in a rush, as if they were physical, as if the body couldn’t heal without them. An almost involuntary outpouring, overrunning his usual self-consciousness.

                                                                      Rossiter had to sit and transcribe without judgment: let the ideas grow on their own. Shahzad was in LA one day when John sat down at the piano and played them for him. They decided to record them at Shahzad's Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn – these songs would blossom into Young Jesus’ album, 'The Fool'.

                                                                      Inner landscaping requires presence and bravery. It can get pretty dark and strange the deeper you walk into that jungle. And it’s from the absolute pits of that inner landscape that the truest music rises from.

                                                                      At the end of the last session, Rossiter and Alex Lappin sat down and drew tarot cards. John drew The Fool.


                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                      1. Brenda & Diane
                                                                      2. Two Brothers
                                                                      3. Rabbit
                                                                      4. Rich
                                                                      5. Moonlight
                                                                      6. MOTY
                                                                      7. The Weasel
                                                                      8. Am I The Only One?
                                                                      9. Sunrise
                                                                      10. Dancer
                                                                      11. God's Plan

                                                                      La Luz

                                                                      News Of The Universe

                                                                        “I was in a dream, but now I can see that change is the only law.”

                                                                        With a credo adapted from science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, an album title from a collection of metaphysical poetry, and an expansion in consciousness brought on by personal crisis, guitarist and songwriter Shana Cleveland learns to embrace a changing world with unconditional love on 'News of the Universe', the new full-length from California rock band La Luz.

                                                                        'News of the Universe' is a record born of calamity, a work of dark, beautiful psychedelia reflecting Cleveland’s experience of having her world blown apart by a breast cancer diagnosis just two years after the birth of her son. It’s also a portrait of a band in flux, marking the first appearance for drummer Audrey Johnson and the final ones from longtime members bassist Lena Simon and keyboardist Alice Sandahl, whose contributions add a bittersweet edge to a record that is both elegy for an old world and cosmic road map to a strange new one.

                                                                        But is there any band in the world more suited to capturing the chaos of change in all its messy beauty than La Luz? Formed by Cleveland in 2012, La Luz is beloved for their ability to balance bedlam and bliss, each new record another fine-tuning of the band’s mix of swaggering riffs with angelic vocals borrowed from doo-wop and folk; a band so reliably great that it makes the huge step forward in confidence and sheer musicality that is 'News of the Universe' all the more formidable. Cleveland, also a writer and painter, has developed into a truly original songwriter with her own canon of haunted psychedelia. Yet if Cleveland has spent years writing songs about ghosts, what lurks in the shadows of 'News of the Universe' is nothing less than death itself. “There are moments on this album that sound to me like the last frantic confession before an asteroid destroys the earth,” says Cleveland.

                                                                        The powerful sense of openness that permeates 'News of the Universe' is at least partially due to the fact that it is a record made entirely by women—from the performing, writing, and producing all the way through to the recording, engineering, and mastering. Working with producer Maryam Qudos (Spacemoth), the all-female environment allowed Cleveland to feel safe tapping into difficult places and expressing hard emotions women are socialized to suppress.

                                                                        Unashamedly vulnerable, unabashedly feminine, and undeniably triumphant, 'News of the Universe' is another knockout record from a band so reliably great that it has perhaps led people to overlook how pioneering La Luz really are: women of color in indie music forging their own path by following their own artistic star into galaxies beyond current musical trends, always led by an earnest belief in the cosmic power of love and a great riff. Never is that more true than on 'News of the Universe', which might be La Luz’s most brutal record to date but also their most blissful.


                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                        1. Reaching Up To The Sun
                                                                        2. Strange World
                                                                        3. Dandelions
                                                                        4. Poppies
                                                                        5. Good Luck With Your Secret
                                                                        6. Always In Love
                                                                        7. Close Your Eyes
                                                                        8. I'll Go With You
                                                                        9. Blue Moth Cloud Shadow
                                                                        10. News Of The Universe
                                                                        11. Moon In Reverse
                                                                        12. Blue Jay

                                                                        The Oscillation

                                                                        The Start Of The End

                                                                          Following a series of meditative explorations in the form of the Singularity Zone series of releases, The Oscillation have returned with a new sense of vigour and purpose. Refreshed and re-energized, the result is ‘The Start Of The End’, an album that casts more light and shade than ever before to create a mood of hope and re-birth. Be it the celestial majesty of the title track, the melodic infusions that drive opening track ‘War On The Mind’ or the pulsing grooves underpinning ‘Faraway’ and ‘Body Electric’ or even hypnotic repetition at the heart of ‘Mantra’ and ‘The Eternal’, this music brimming with zeal and confidence. And to crown it all, closer ‘Sovereign’ is akin to communing with angels.

                                                                          At once warm and welcoming, ‘The Start Of The End’ is an album quite unlike anything that The Oscillation have ever released before. Fuelled by optimism and taking stock of what’s good about life and what needs to be jettisoned, the record is a result of spiritual and physical re-charging and cleansing.

                                                                          Leaving the claustrophobic environs of the big city for a more bucolic backdrop, the change in location has left a profound mark on Demian Castellanos, the creative force behind The Oscillation. Where the exorcism of dark emotions of previous album ‘Untold Futures’ left Castellanos wondering if he’d ever make music again, his new surroundings stirred something within him.

                                                                          “When I made my new home, I allowed myself time to do nothing for a while,” says Castellanos, “and I then started some new songs without worrying about them being on an album. I just wrote with the mindset to put out something positive.”

                                                                          He continues: “I did a lot of reflecting on the past and really wanted to change something in myself, but not knowing how and thinking that a lot of people must be feeling the same way.”

                                                                          Recalling the creation of ‘The Start Of The End’, Castellanos says, “Writing and recording in an environment where I had little contact with people, no hanging out or partying or even having conversations was very interesting.”

                                                                          The result is an album that’s recognisably the work of The Oscillation while pointing to a variety of new directions. ‘The Start Of The End’ is a line in the sand and one that points to a better tomorrow.

                                                                          For fans of : Spectrum / Recurring Era Spacemen 3, Loop, AR Kane, MBV, bdrmm, Cocteau Twins , Telescopes and early 90s Creation records..


                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                          Side A
                                                                          War On The Mind
                                                                          Far Away
                                                                          The Start Of The End
                                                                          The Eternal
                                                                          Side B
                                                                          Body Electric
                                                                          Mantra
                                                                          Sovereign

                                                                          Bonus Dinked Edition CD Tracklisting:
                                                                          Sovereign (Celestial Mix) 26.53
                                                                          The Eternal (Unseen Mix) 09.17
                                                                          Body Electric (Magnetic Mix) 08.26
                                                                          The Start Of The End (Around And Around Mix) 07.38
                                                                          Aftermath (Fade In) 04.03


                                                                          Sean Khan Presents The Modern Folk & Jazz Ensemble

                                                                          Sean Khan Presents The Modern Folk & Jazz Ensemble

                                                                            Saxophone master Sean Khan presents a brand new album project on Acid Jazz – The Modern Folk & Jazz Ensemble. The album explores the sounds of the late-’60s/early-’70s folk revival, recast and reimagined in a jazz setting with featured guest singers, including compositions by Pentangle, Sandy Denny, John Martyn and Nick Drake.

                                                                            Featured vocalists are the legendary Pentangle lead singer Jacqui McShee, acclaimed singer-guitarist Rosie Taylor-Frater, and emerging artist Kindelan. Sean Khan meanwhile is known as one of the UK’s premier saxophonists, and particularly his ‘Supreme Love: A Journey Through Coltrane’ LP. His distinctive Soprano playing can be heard throughout.

                                                                            Presented in a beautiful, evocative sleeve and inner-sleeve layout on LP and gatefold-style CD.

                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                            1. She Moves Through The Fair
                                                                            2. Solid Air
                                                                            3. Light Flight
                                                                            4. Parasite
                                                                            5. Things Behind The Sun
                                                                            6. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
                                                                            7. I’ve Got A Feeling
                                                                            8. Ode To Nick Drake

                                                                            The Pearlfishers

                                                                            Making Tapes For Girls

                                                                              After a hiatus of five years, The Pearlfishers, Glasgow’s finest, return with their ninth album for Marina – most probably their best and most immediate one so far.

                                                                              Driven by main man David Scott’s exceptional songwriting and sophisticated arrangements, Making Tapes For Girls is a goldmine of pop gems – full of witty & colourful lyrics about the affirmative & healing power of music and pop escapism. 

                                                                              The title track evokes memories of those days of compiling a C-30/60/90 for your loved one or secretly adored one: “I didn’t know how to say the right thing / So I left it to Joni and Paul...”. Those mix tapes that came straight from your heart & soul – “the nub of it, the truth of it, the ‘you’ of it.” It is another Pearlfishers classic in the vein of My Dad The Weatherfan and Even On A Sunday Afternoon and also David Scott’s nod to Terry Hall’s The Colour Field.

                                                                              All of these 12 new tracks could have made it easily onto such a tape. Kisses On The Window is a very personal and straightforward love song, with a beautiful string quartet arrangement. Hold Out For A Mystic, most definitely the only song in pop history which references Henri Matisse and Billy Childish in the same line (“The Fauve and the Stuckist man”), is built around a cosmic ELO acoustic guitar sound, while Put The Baby In The Milk channels Carole King jumping through some harmony hoops à la Laura Nyro. We experience more name dropping in The Word Evangeline, a rumination on all songs featuring that name, from The Cocteau Twins to Emmylou Harris to Matthew Sweet. Yellow & The Lovehearts is a wonderful two part suite that takes us from full-on shiny pop to a glacial Simon & Garfunkel soundscape. We are even visiting a Fleetwood Mac-ish vibe in Until I Knew Happy – listen to that great cosmic country banjo solo which creates a fantastic widescreen sound! The super poppy We’re Gonna Make A Hit Record, Boy features the great line: “And we’ll sing it out for Judee Sill and Tony Bourdain”.

                                                                              Oh yes. When The Sun Comes Back To The West Coast definitely lives up to its title – a return to the catchy Byrds harmonies of The Pearlfishers’ Marina debut The Strange Underworld Of The Tall Poppies.

                                                                              Most of the album was recorded at La Chunky Studios in Glasgow where everything is vintage – from an old Ludwig kit, old Wurlitzer electric piano and Fender Rhodes keyboards to tons of vintage microphones and compressors. It made a big stamp on the overall sound to an album which is most probably the best one by The Pearlfishers yet.


                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                              01. Making Tapes For Girls
                                                                              02. Kisses On The Window
                                                                              03. Hold Out For A Mystic
                                                                              04. Put The Baby In The Milk
                                                                              05. Until I Knew Happy
                                                                              06. The Word Evangeline
                                                                              07. We’re Gonna Make A Hit Record, Boy
                                                                              08. Yellow & The Lovehearts
                                                                              09. The Wild Lives
                                                                              10. Protect The Heart That’s Beating
                                                                              11. When The Sun Comes Back To The West Coast
                                                                              12. Sweet Jenny Bluebelle

                                                                              The Howlers

                                                                              What You've Got To Lose To Win It All

                                                                                ‘What You've Got to Lose to Win It All' Is the highly anticipated debut album from East London Trio The Howlers, a 15 track collection, produced by Black Honey and defined by resilience, friendship and unconditional love through unimaginable pain. Taking their lead from an eclectic range of influences, from the film scores of Ennio Morricone and John Willams, to desert blues pioneers Tinariwen, Kurt Vile, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Father John Misty, The Howlers are far from your conventional British guitar band. The album's announcement comes with the release of new single ‘Lady Luck’ and the promise of an exceptional debut record.

                                                                                The Debut album promises glorious, expansive songs that conjure up cinematic landscapes a long, long way from London’s East End. Escapism, perhaps, but entirely understandable and justified given what frontman Adam has experienced over the last two years. Two life threatening illnesses in the course of two months, the loss of four family members and two close friends and the following immeasurable grief have all played a huge part in the creation of the album, the devoted bond between bandmates and the unique connection between the band and their fanbase.

                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                1. Intro
                                                                                2. How Long
                                                                                3. I Need Your Love
                                                                                4. To Make A King
                                                                                5. El Dorado
                                                                                6. Further Down The Line
                                                                                7. Cowboy’s Don’t Cry
                                                                                8. Wanting, Waiting, Wishing
                                                                                9. Lady Luck
                                                                                10.On The Run (Over You)
                                                                                11. Once Again
                                                                                12.Matador (Interlude)
                                                                                13.Nothing To Lose
                                                                                14.When The Flowers Bloom Again
                                                                                15.Take It Easy

                                                                                The Lovely Eggs

                                                                                Eggsistentialism

                                                                                  “Eggsistentialism” sees The Lovely Eggs return after a 4 year break since their Number One Independent Selling Album “I am Moron”. During that time they have made their own TV show Eggs TV (featuring Ian McKaye, Stewart Lee, Katie Puckrik, Maxine Peake, David Shrigley and more), dueted with Iggy Pop, played a load of sold-out gigs and festivals and fought a campaign to save Lancaster Music Co-op (a community rehearsal rooms and recording studio where they live).

                                                                                  Recorded at home in Lancaster, with production advice from Dave Fridmann, the album was mixed at Tarbox Road Studios, NY with Dave Fridmann and the band.

                                                                                  As the title suggests, “Eggsistentialism” explores a much more personal, introspective, and reflective side to The Lovely Eggs world and sees the Eggs explore new sounds and experiment in unventured musical territories.

                                                                                  “The new album is really a reflection on what has been happening to us these last couple of years, stewing up in Eggland in our own juices,” explains Holly. “It’s about loss and strength. On this album you’ll hear us at our lowest and most vulnerable. Daily life is hard. Realising everything you grew up with and loved is never coming back, alongside the responsibilities of caring for others is sometimes hard to take. The album is about life and death. Eggsistentialism. It’s about dragging yourself through all the shit to get to the other side.”

                                                                                  “It’s a bit of a ‘wilderness years’ album,” continues Holly. “We haven’t released a new record since 2020 and in the meantime, we’ve been here fighting shit and trying to defend a right to a lifestyle that we’ve enjoyed here in this town for the last 30+ years as working musicians who refuse to get a “normal” job and tow the line. It’s about believing in something and not letting go. But that unwillingness to give in ultimately takes its toll. It does start to destroy you and the album is kind of a documentation of that destruction and collapse as well as the strength we’ve got to get through it all. Ultimately, this is a hopeful record about survival.”

                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                  1. Death Grip Kids
                                                                                  2. Nothing/Everything
                                                                                  3. Meeting Friends At Night
                                                                                  4. People TV
                                                                                  5. My Mood Wave
                                                                                  6. I Don't Fucking Know What I'm Gunna Do
                                                                                  7. Memory Man
                                                                                  8. Things
                                                                                  9. Echo You
                                                                                  10. I Am Gaia

                                                                                  Cage The Elephant

                                                                                  Neon Pill

                                                                                    Neon Pill is the highly anticipated new album from Cage The Elephant, and group’s first new music since their album, Social Cues, which won Best Rock album at the 2019 GRAMMY Awards. Cage The Elephant consists of brothers Matt Shultz (vocals) and Brad Shultz (rhythm guitar) along with Daniel Tichenor (bass), Jared Champion (drums), Nick Bockrath (lead guitar) and Matthan Minster (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals).

                                                                                    Of Montreal

                                                                                    Lady On The Cusp

                                                                                      On Of Montreal’s latest album, 'Lady on the Cusp', Kevin Barnes shapeshifts between genres with each song. On tracks like 'Rude Girl on Rotation', Barnes revisits sounds of late 60’s guitar pop & psychedelia reminiscent of 2013’s 'Lousy With Sylvianbriar', while 'Young Hearts Bleed Free' and 'Music Hurts The Head' showcase Barnes’ love of experimental funk pop that has been present throughout much of the band’s discography. 'Lady on the Cusp' is another exciting listen from one of the most prolific and influential artists making music today.


                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                      1. Music Hurts The Head
                                                                                      2. 2 Depressed 2 Fuck
                                                                                      3. Rude Girl On Rotation
                                                                                      4. Yung Hearts Bleed Free
                                                                                      5. Soporific Cell
                                                                                      6. I Can Read Smoke
                                                                                      7. PI$$ PI$$
                                                                                      8. Sea Mines That Mr Gone
                                                                                      9. Poetry Surf
                                                                                      10. Genius In The Wind

                                                                                      Various Artists

                                                                                      The Best Of Rare Mod

                                                                                        The ’Rare Mod’ series has been one of the most enduring Acid Jazzcurated comps of recent years. This included the CD Volumes 1-3 and a 3CD Boxset, uncovering a host of lost classics that capture sound of the original Mod scene: Hard R’n’B, Beat & Soul, and archetypal Pop from the 1960s.

                                                                                        For the first time, the Best Of… is available on vinyl, with choice selections from across the series, presented in a hip, evocative sleeve, with printed inner, and on orange transparent vinyl. The track-list contains a couple from the legendary Fleur De Lys, as well as a track from their brief billing as ‘Shyster’. Elsewhere, there are several productions from unsung hero and prolific session man Graham Dee, and even a turn from young David Bowie performing with The Riot Squad!

                                                                                        An absolute must-have collection of the less-heard tracks from one of the most iconic periods of British music.

                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                        1. Mud In My Eye – The Fleur De Lys
                                                                                        2. It’s A Hard Way – Cathedral
                                                                                        3. She’s Got The Time – The Afex
                                                                                        4. Tick Tock – Shyster
                                                                                        5. Big Bird – Dog Soul
                                                                                        6. I’m A Man – The Top Six
                                                                                        7. I’m Waiting For The Man – The Riot Squad
                                                                                        8. We Can Make It Together – Tony & Tandy
                                                                                        9. A Love I Believe In – Maxine
                                                                                        10. Brick By Brick (Stone By Stone) – Fleur De Lys
                                                                                        11. Soul Ride – Mike Berry
                                                                                        12. Just A Little Misunderstanding – Richard Kent Style
                                                                                        13. Sing A Simple Song – Ossie Lane Show
                                                                                        14. Mr. Super Cool – Graham Dee

                                                                                        Alan Braufman

                                                                                        Infinite Love Infinite Tears

                                                                                          In 1975, the New York City alto saxophonist Alan Braufman released his debut album, Valley of Search, on the India Navigation label. Braufman went on to record and tour with everyone from Carla Bley to The Psychedelic Furs, and didn't release another album under his name until 2020's The Fire Still Burns, which received rave reviews from The WIRE, Downbeat, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and NPR.

                                                                                          2024's Infinite Love Infinite Tears is a surprisingly catchy program of free jazz, richly detailed and forthright, embodying a range of emotions and circumstances that convey individuality, collectivity and hope. There is much history and love in this band, and in Alan Braufman’s art overall. Fifty-odd years after debuting on record, his sound-world is as vital and inviting as ever.

                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                          1. Chasing A Melody
                                                                                          2. Infinite Love Infinite Tears
                                                                                          3. Spirits
                                                                                          4. Edge Of Time
                                                                                          5. Brooklyn
                                                                                          6. Liberation 

                                                                                          Earth Ball

                                                                                          It's Yours

                                                                                            December 2012 I showed up totally exhausted in Vancouver BC after touring stupidly and relentlessly for however many straight months and got a job at a call centre raising money for the Red Cross. It was a scent free office but one time this woman cooked a piece of fish in the microwave for 10 minutes on low and hot boxed the whole office - we got sent home early no pay. There was the other woman I named the Call Centre Coltrane because her pitch and routine usually involved improvised flights of fancy that went off in both directions at once somehow landing back down with a credit card number and a donation. I used to sleep under the desk. I was there a few months and at the time I reconnected with John Brennan who I had played with briefly in Montreal at the Mutek Festival. In Montreal John was running an experimental music night at a burrito shop downtown called Garbage Night. While in Vancouver I began connecting with the music scene there and would go hang out with the Shearing Pinx lads who I think lived with Sydney the bass player at the time. I knew Nic and Jer from an AIDS Wolf Tour and was so stoked to get to know them both better. I really fell in love with that era of Vancouver's music scene.

                                                                                            Fast Forward to today. 2024

                                                                                            Actually it was the dying days of 2023 but you get it and John asks if I'll sit in with Earth Ball and I keep thinking about Earth Balance, the vegan butter everyone eats here. I brought my aching bones and my ipads on the beautiful ferry named the Queen of Oak Bay and out to Nanaimo BC, home of the nanaimo bar (a dessert treat - special to this region - that seems to be more popularly found under the weird glass sneeze guards in office building deli's out east in Ontario.... anyhoops ). No one in Nanaimo wants to talk to me about the famous treat. I asked a couple of people. Silence. Nanaimo is like London, Ontario but more fried and by the sea. The town is filled with blown out old sea dawgs with tin coffee pots and loose leaf tobacco, then there's the usual streetfolk you find in this part of the Canadian Pacific Northwest and a bunch of bohemians who I guess have left Vancouver behind - that fine city having become uninhabitable for those not making over 100k a year. And then up the way are all the retirees. Yup Nanaimo is a strange one. They mined the shit out of this region and Nanaimo is surely haunted by those buried in mining shafts or maimed by the heavy machinery or blown up by accident in the explosives store house. And when Earth Ball fire up the amps in Izzy and Jer's basement you can hear the voices of the ghosts hum through electrical lines and out the speakers, Kellen's hued feedback, Izy's sturdy basslines, Jer's paperbag guitar tone and rumble pack zaps, Liam's (aka the Kid) sheets of sound and Brennen's multidirectional drums. You wouldn't guess Earth Ball was auto-composing and from what my rat brain can tell - the lyrics are improvised too...Improvising lyrics and singing them is the hardest thing to do in all of music.. Izzy and Jer are pros. And their attitudes are pro too.

                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                            1. Moon FM
                                                                                            2. Antifreeze
                                                                                            3. Through & Through
                                                                                            4. A Need To Cool Down
                                                                                            5. Flash In The Pan
                                                                                            6. Hollowgramma

                                                                                            Various Artists

                                                                                            Back To Black: Songs From The Original Motion Picture

                                                                                              The official soundtrack release to the new film of Amy Winehouse, Back  To Black, releasing Spring 2024. Amy Winehouse is widely considered as one of the greatest artists in recent history, selling more than 30 million records worldwide. Her acclaimed self-produced 2006 album Back to Black, propelled her to global stardom, going on to win a (then) record breaking 5 Grammy Awards, including Record Of The Year and Song of The Year for hit single Rehab.

                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                              Single LP/CD
                                                                                              1. Amy Winehouse - What Is It About Men
                                                                                              2. Amy Winehouse - Stronger Than Me
                                                                                              3. Amy Winehouse - Know You Now
                                                                                              4. The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack
                                                                                              5. Billie Holiday - All Of Me
                                                                                              6. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
                                                                                              7. Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs
                                                                                              8. Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy
                                                                                              9. Amy Winehouse – Love Is A Losing Game
                                                                                              10. Sarah Vaughan Featuring Clifford Brown - Embraceable You
                                                                                              11. Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own
                                                                                              12. Nick Cave – Song For Amy

                                                                                              Double LP/CD
                                                                                              Disc 1:
                                                                                              1. Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser
                                                                                              2. Amy Winehouse - What Is It About Men
                                                                                              3. Amy Winehouse - Stronger Than Me
                                                                                              4. Amy Winehouse - I Heard Love Is Blind
                                                                                              5. The Specials - Ghost Town
                                                                                              6. Amy Winehouse - Know You Now
                                                                                              7. Little Anthony & The Imperials - I'm On The Outside (Looking In)
                                                                                              8. The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack
                                                                                              9. Billie Holiday - All Of Me
                                                                                              10. The Shangri-Las - Dressed In Black
                                                                                              11. Donny Hathaway - I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know
                                                                                              12. The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun
                                                                                              13. Amy Winehouse - Fuck Me Pumps

                                                                                              Disc 2:
                                                                                              1. Tony Bennett - Body & Soul
                                                                                              2. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
                                                                                              3. Amy Winehouse - Valerie (Live Lounge Version)
                                                                                              4. Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs
                                                                                              5. Willie Nelson - That’s Life
                                                                                              6. Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy
                                                                                              7. Amy Winehouse - (There Is) No Greater Love
                                                                                              8. Amy Winehouse - Me & Mr Jones
                                                                                              9. Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game
                                                                                              10. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
                                                                                              11. Sarah Vaughan Featuring Clifford Brown - Embraceable You
                                                                                              12. Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own
                                                                                              13. Nick Cave - Song For Amy

                                                                                              Various Artists

                                                                                              Above The Rim (The Soundtrack)

                                                                                                Death Row Records/ gamma is pleased to announce the release of a 30th Anniversary edition of Above The Rim (The Soundtrack) on 17th May. This is the first time the full 21-song tracklist will be available on vinyl. All previous LP releases have been 18 tracks. It will be available on double yellow with orange and red splatter vinyl.


                                                                                                Upon its initial release, Above The Rim (The Soundtrack) sold over 2 million copies and held the #1 spot on the Billboard R&B Albums chart for 10 consecutive weeks. The soundtrack is loaded with songs from epic artists including Tha Dogg Pound featuring Nate Dogg and Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dr. Dre, Warren G, DJ Quik and Al B. Sure! Additionally, this special 30th Anniversary edition will now include tracks from 2Pac "Pain" (feat. Stretch), Lord G “Mi Monie Rite!" and 2Pac “Loyal To The Game" (feat. Treach & Riddler).

                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                1. Anything Swv
                                                                                                2. Old Time's Sake Sweet Sable
                                                                                                3. Part Time Lover H-Town
                                                                                                4. Big Pimpin’ The Dogg Pound Gangstas
                                                                                                5. Didn’t Mean To Turn You On 2nd Ii None

                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                1. Doggie Style D.J. Rogers
                                                                                                2. Regulate Nate Dogg & Warren G
                                                                                                3. Pour Out A Little Liquor Thug Life
                                                                                                4. Gonna Give It To Ya Jewell & Aaron Hall
                                                                                                5. Afro Puffs The Lady Of Rage

                                                                                                Side C

                                                                                                1. Jus So Ya No Cpo-Boss Hogg
                                                                                                2. Hoochies Need Love Too Paradise
                                                                                                3. I’m Still In Love With You Al B. Sure!
                                                                                                4. Crack ‘Em O.F.T.B.
                                                                                                5. U Bring Da Dog Out Rhythm & Knowledge
                                                                                                6. Blowed Away B-Rezell

                                                                                                Side D
                                                                                                1. It's Not Deep Enough Jewell
                                                                                                2. Dogg Pound 4 Life Tha Dogg Pound
                                                                                                3. Pain 2pac & Stretch
                                                                                                4. Mi Monie Rite! Lord G
                                                                                                5. Loyal To The Game 2pac, Treach & Riddler

                                                                                                Shannon & The Clams

                                                                                                The Moon Is In The Wrong Place

                                                                                                  The Moon Is In The Wrong Place is an upbeat, yet poignant narrative on grief and resilience from Shannon & The Clams. Woven from the threads of devastating loss and communal ties in the aftermath of profound loss – the sudden passing of Shannon's fianceé just months before their wedding – this record unfolds as the Clams' most introspective to date. With Dan Auerbach's production, the album delves deep into themes of heartache and healing, and showcases the band's trademark wry psychedelia, energetic nostalgia, and flourishes of retro beauty. It's a tribute to the power of art and community to triumph over tragedy, and a milestone in Shannon & The Clams' venerable oeuvre.

                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                  CD TRACKLIST

                                                                                                  1. The Vow
                                                                                                  2. The Hourglass 
                                                                                                  3. Big Wheel 
                                                                                                  4. Oh So Close, Yet So Far 
                                                                                                  5. UFO
                                                                                                  6. What You're Missing 
                                                                                                  7. Real Or Magic 
                                                                                                  8. The Moon Is In The Wrong Place 
                                                                                                  9. So Lucky
                                                                                                  10. Dalí's Clock
                                                                                                  11. Bean Fields
                                                                                                  12. In The Grass 
                                                                                                  13. Golden Brown 
                                                                                                  14. Life Is Unfair

                                                                                                  VINYL TRACKLIST

                                                                                                  SIDE A

                                                                                                  1. The Vow
                                                                                                  2. The Hourglass 
                                                                                                  3. Big Wheel 
                                                                                                  4. Oh So Close, Yet So Far 
                                                                                                  5. UFO
                                                                                                  6. What You're Missing 
                                                                                                  7. Real Or Magic 

                                                                                                  SIDE B

                                                                                                  1. The Moon Is In The Wrong Place 
                                                                                                  2. So Lucky
                                                                                                  3. Dalí's Clock
                                                                                                  4. Bean Fields
                                                                                                  5. In The Grass 
                                                                                                  6. Golden Brown 
                                                                                                  7. Life Is Unfair

                                                                                                  Jordan Rakei

                                                                                                  The Loop

                                                                                                    GRAMMY-award nominated Jordan Rakei is a renowned multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer, and songwriter who, over soon-to-be-five studio albums, has been on a wide-ranging journey that explores the outer reaches of his inner psyche, traversing themes of emotional evolution, personal growth and family with unwavering sincerity. Always positioning himself in and amongst the bigger questions in life, he has navigated his musical journey with passion and precision, unveiling something new about himself through his songwriting at every turn. The Loop is by far Rakei’s most cohesive and evolutionary work to date following an impressive career of previous releases, each of which have demonstrated his natural curiosity and capabilities in exploring new sounds.

                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                    1. Flowers
                                                                                                    2. Freedom
                                                                                                    3. Friend Or Foe
                                                                                                    4. Royal
                                                                                                    5. Trust
                                                                                                    6. State Of Mind
                                                                                                    7. Hopes And Dreams
                                                                                                    8. Learning
                                                                                                    9. Cages
                                                                                                    10. Forgive
                                                                                                    11. Everything Everything
                                                                                                    12. Miracle
                                                                                                    13. A Little Life

                                                                                                    Keeley Forsyth

                                                                                                    The Hollow

                                                                                                      Keeley Forsyth is a singer, composer and actress from Oldham, UK. A frequent presence on primetime TV since the mid-'90s, over the past few years she has forged an unusual parallel career as a unique and uncompromising new presence in contemporary music. Described by Pitchfork as “arid and beautiful”, by Uncut as "astonishing" and The Sunday Times as "one of the most remarkable in years”, Keeley's debut LP 'Debris' (2020) and follow-up 'Limbs' (2022) drew unanimous critical praise, prompting comparisons with Nico, Beth Gibbons, Aldous Harding, Nick Cave, Anohni and even Scott Walker. It's often stated that no one else is making music quite like this.

                                                                                                      The bleak and foreboding landscape surrounding Keeley's North Yorkshire home seems to inhabit her third LP, 'The Hollow'. The moors, visible from her studio window, impact upon a music that feels made of these places: windswept, rain-soaked and blinking through the low-lit landscape. The album's title derives from discovering a long-abandoned mining shaft whilst out walking - the past lurking within and haunting the present we now occupy. A connection to time that places us within it, facing what is gone and what may come. But also, perhaps that time has no concern as to whether we're here or not.

                                                                                                      Keeley's unique elemental voice again sits centrally within this world-building. Her cathartic reflections are exorcisms in song. We hear an artist making sense of her life, willing to expose vulnerability without ever appearing weak. Working again with producer Ross Downes, the LP features Matthew Bourne and Colin Stetson, Forsyth sought to expand both her voice and music. Taking aspects of sacred music, minimalist post-classical, dark ambient, film and theatre soundtracks, she layers her vocals into chamber choirs, applies pitch shifts and other digital processing, moves from clear articulate intention to mumbled numb utterances.

                                                                                                      Composer Mihály Vig's score to Bela Tarr’s film 'The Turin Horse' is reimagined as a pressurised outpouring, recasting the everyday within a mythical light of survival and hope. On ‘A Shift’, Mal Finch's protest song ‘We Are Women, We Are Strong ‘, originally sung by wives and daughters in support of the '80s miner’s strikes, is recontextualised in solidarity for an experience of creative labour.

                                                                                                      A sought-after collaborator, Keeley is currently working towards new projects with Ben Frost, Teho Teardo, and Matthew Bourne. She has provided vocals for Louis Carnell; remixed both Gazelle Twin and Quin Quis; has soundtracked Maxine Peake’s directorial debut; and is currently developing a stage and studio project with Ben Frost and writer Robert MacFarlane.

                                                                                                      A magnetic live performer able to create an immersive almost ritualistic experience, Keeley recently received a standing ovation at Unsound and supports the LP with shows at Bristol New Music, Rewire festival and London's ICA.


                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                      Side A
                                                                                                      1. The Answer
                                                                                                      2. The Hollow
                                                                                                      3. Come And See
                                                                                                      4. Eve
                                                                                                      5. Turning
                                                                                                      6. A Shift
                                                                                                      Side B
                                                                                                      1. Slush
                                                                                                      2. Drag Me Down
                                                                                                      3. Do I Breathe
                                                                                                      4. In The Corner
                                                                                                      5. Horse
                                                                                                      6. Creature

                                                                                                      Blancmange

                                                                                                      Everything Is Connected - The Best Of Blancmange 1979-2024

                                                                                                        Celebrating 45 years of Blancmange, Everything Is Connected (Best Of) is the first collection to be curated by Neil Arthur, tastefully blending a mixture of hits and personal favourites. Originally from the UK’s post punk DIY scene, Blancmange found success in 1982, long player ‘Happy Families’ selling Gold in the UK, and its 3 singles becoming international hits. They went on to have 7 Top 40 hits and 70 weeks in the UK album charts. Long-standing admirers include Moby, John Grant and Honey Dijon, who states that “British synth pop was hugely influential in the burgeoning house music scene and Blancmange was a big part of that.”

                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                        LP:
                                                                                                        Side One
                                                                                                        1 Living On The Ceiling
                                                                                                        2 Waves
                                                                                                        3 Blind Vision
                                                                                                        4 Don’t Tell Me
                                                                                                        5 The Day Before You Came
                                                                                                        Side Two
                                                                                                        1 What’s The Time?
                                                                                                        2 Distant Storm
                                                                                                        3 Mindset
                                                                                                        4 Reduced Voltage
                                                                                                        5 Some Times These

                                                                                                        CD:
                                                                                                        Disc 1
                                                                                                        1 Sad Day (Original Version)
                                                                                                        2 I’ve Seen The Word
                                                                                                        3 God’s Kitchen
                                                                                                        4 Feel Me
                                                                                                        5 Living On The Ceiling
                                                                                                        6 Waves
                                                                                                        7 Game Above My Head (12 Inch Version)
                                                                                                        8 Blind Vision
                                                                                                        9 That’s Love, That It Is
                                                                                                        10 Vishnu
                                                                                                        11 Don’t Tell Me
                                                                                                        12 The Day Before You Came
                                                                                                        13 What’s Your Problem
                                                                                                        14 Lose Your Love
                                                                                                        15 Why Don’t They Leave Things Alone
                                                                                                        16 Drive Me
                                                                                                        17 I’m Having A Coffee
                                                                                                        18 The Western
                                                                                                        19 Just Another Spectre
                                                                                                        Disc 2
                                                                                                        1 The Fall
                                                                                                        2 Last Night (I Dreamt I Had A Job)
                                                                                                        3 Jack Knife (Red Shift EP)
                                                                                                        4 What’s The Time?
                                                                                                        5 We Are The Chemicals
                                                                                                        6 Anna Dine
                                                                                                        7 Distant Storm
                                                                                                        8 I Smashed Your Phone
                                                                                                        9 Not A Priority
                                                                                                        10 Mindset
                                                                                                        11 This Is Bliss
                                                                                                        12 Clean Your House
                                                                                                        13 Commercial Break
                                                                                                        14 Some Times These
                                                                                                        15 Reduced Voltage
                                                                                                        16 Take Me
                                                                                                        17 Again, I Wait For The World
                                                                                                        18 Wish
                                                                                                        19 Empty Street 

                                                                                                        Various Artists

                                                                                                        Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora 1980​-​93

                                                                                                          Highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was utilising new music technology and recording techniques. A period of movement, emigration and innovation.

                                                                                                          The dawn of the 80s saw an increase in emigration following a period of political upheaval at home, with many Ghanaians moving to Europe - especially Germany - to find work. Musicians recording both at home and abroad began to blend highlife with outside influences, taking inspiration from US disco and boogie, European new wave and Caribbean zouk and soca, reflecting new surroundings and cementing musical connections forged in London, Hamburg, Toronto and New York.

                                                                                                          Ghana Special celebrates this key period of musical innovation and cultural
                                                                                                          exchange that redefined the parameters of Ghanaian music and accelerated the cultural exchange between West Africa and Europe.

                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                          1. The Godfathers - Ebe Ye Yie Ni
                                                                                                          2. Pat Thomas - Gye Wani
                                                                                                          3. Pepper, Onion, Ginger & Salt - M.C. Mambo
                                                                                                          4. Andy Vans - Adjoa Amisa
                                                                                                          5. George Darko - Kaakyire Nua
                                                                                                          6. Rex Gyamfi - Obiara Bewu
                                                                                                          7. Starlite - Anoma Koro
                                                                                                          8. Abdul Raheem - Alaiye
                                                                                                          9. Jon K - Asafo
                                                                                                          10. Kwasi Afari Minta - Barima Nsu
                                                                                                          11. Marijata (feat. Ata Kak) - Otanhunu
                                                                                                          12. Gyedu Blay Ambolley - Apple
                                                                                                          13. Dadadi - Jigi Jigi
                                                                                                          14. Charles Amoah - Fre Me (Call Me)
                                                                                                          15. Ernest Honny - New Dance
                                                                                                          16. Bessa Simons - Sii Nana
                                                                                                          17. Nan Mayen - Mumude
                                                                                                          18. Nana Budjei - Asobrachie

                                                                                                          Christoph Dallach

                                                                                                          Neu Klang : The Definitive History Of Krautrock

                                                                                                            West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, still suffering the after-effects of the Second World War. Many stream out of the lecture halls and onto the streets.

                                                                                                            Some into the underground. And some into the practice basements, in search of the soundtrack of the movement. The unique and adventurous sounds that German bands like Can, Neu!, Amon Düül, Popul Vuh, Tangerine Dream, Faust, Cluster or Kraftwerk produced back then, now known as Krautrock, are considered a blueprint for modern rock music.

                                                                                                            And the stream of their creative admirers and continuators has been constantly widening since the first fans like David Bowie and Iggy Pop: whether Blur, Aphex Twin, Sonic Youth, Radiohead or the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. In Neu Klang, Christoph Dallach interviewed its pioneers, including Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay of CAN; Neu!'s Michael Rother; Dieter Moebius of Cluster; Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream; Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and many others. Their answers combine to form an oral history that points far beyond the individual band histories: on the one hand, into the past, to Nazi teachers, post-war parental homes, free jazz, terrorism, LSD and extremely long hair; but just as much into the future, to global recognition, myth-making, techno or post-rock.

                                                                                                            Andre Marmot

                                                                                                            Unapologetic Expression : The Inside Story Of The UK Jazz Explosion

                                                                                                              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.

                                                                                                              Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band

                                                                                                              Loophole

                                                                                                                62 years of music, loves, losses, long summer days and longer, darker nights are vividly recalled by ‘our greatest living songwriter’, Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band as he plays out flickering scenes from his life on new album, Loophole, set for release on Fri 3 May 2024 on Modern Sky.

                                                                                                                12 evocative and autobiographical songs to be accompanied by the written word as Michael Head prepares his memoirs for release with an autobiography with Nine Eight Books. 

                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                1 Shirl's Ghost
                                                                                                                2 Ambrosia
                                                                                                                3 Ciao Ciao Bambino
                                                                                                                4 Tout Suite!
                                                                                                                5 The Human Race
                                                                                                                6 You Smiled At Me
                                                                                                                7 A Ricochet Moment
                                                                                                                8 Connemara
                                                                                                                9 Merry-Go-Round
                                                                                                                10 You're A Long Time Dead
                                                                                                                11 Naturally It's You
                                                                                                                12 Coda

                                                                                                                7" - Exclusive To Dinked Edition
                                                                                                                Side A
                                                                                                                1. Connemara - Acoustic (Live From Hebden Bridge)
                                                                                                                Side B
                                                                                                                2. Tour Suite! (Live Acoustic From Hebden Bridge)

                                                                                                                Camera Obscura

                                                                                                                Look To The East, Look To The West

                                                                                                                  Look to the East, Look to the West, the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen (Let’s Get Out of This Country, My Maudlin Career), have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their most sophisticated effort to date.

                                                                                                                  It is also the most hard-fought album of Camera Obscura’s career. Following the 2015 passing of founding keyboardist and friend Carey Lander (to whom the penultimate track “Sugar Almond” is addressed), the band went into an extended hiatus. They remained in contact, but their status was uncertain until they announced their return, having been invited to perform as part of Belle & Sebastian’s 2019 Boaty Weekender cruise festival, along with a pair of sold-out warm-up shows in Glasgow. Donna Maciocia (keys and vocals) joined founding members Kenny McKeeve (guitar and vocals), Gavin Dunbar (bass), and Lee Thomson (drums and percussion) for those shows and has since become a regular songwriting partner of Campbell’s.

                                                                                                                  Recorded in the same room where Queen wrote “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Look to the East, Look to the West feels big, a widescreen reframing of Camera Obscura’s sound that, paradoxically, saw the band go back to basics there are no string or brass arrangements, with more emphasis placed on piano, synthesizers, Hammond organ, and drum machines, and, perhaps most strikingly, the group have dropped the veil of reverb that characterized their previous albums. The tinges of country and soul that give Camera Obscura’s baroque take on pop music its bittersweet edge have never been more apparent guitars shimmer into the distance, keys haunt, and Campbell’s voice searches for the heart, reflecting on love, loss, and the passage of time.

                                                                                                                  Lead single “Big Love” relishes in the space between country rock and prog, a pining break-up anthem featuring the soaring pedal steel of Tim Davidson. It’s a Nashville Sound heartbreaker, tackling the complexity of wanting to rekindle a bad relationship with Campbell’s uncanny ability to render the past: “It was a big love, she said / That’s why it took ten years to get her out of her head,” she begins.

                                                                                                                  “We’re Going to Make It in a Man’s World” was co-written with Maciocia for filmmaker Margaret Salmon’s 2021 film Icarus (After Amelia). (Salmon, in turn, shot Look to the East, Look to the West’s cover photography featuring Fiona Morrison, who was on the cover of Camera Obscura’s debut, Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi.). Ironic and sincere, the two navigate the reality of being women in the music industry, somehow floating over Davidson’s

                                                                                                                  pedal steel and Maciocia’s keys. “The Light Nights” is a swooning song propelled by a western shuffle and killer guitar, striking a balance between a particularly good honky-tonk joint’s jukebox and a lost gem of California pop music waiting to be discovered in a 7” bin.

                                                                                                                  Look to the East, Look to the West is the sound of a band that has grown more confident in its sound and purpose than ever. It is Camera Obscura at their best and most evocative, an album that completely rearranges the listener’s emotional core, leaving them sad and exhilarated at the same time. Camera Obscura’s catalog is replete with songs people point to as life-changing, songs that will stick with them all their lives. Look to the East, Look to the West has 11 of them; take your pick. 

                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                  1. Liberty Print
                                                                                                                  2. We’re Going To Make It In A Man’s World
                                                                                                                  3. Big Love
                                                                                                                  4. Only A Dream
                                                                                                                  5. The Light Nights
                                                                                                                  6. Sleepwalking
                                                                                                                  7. Baby Huey (Hard Times)
                                                                                                                  8. Denon
                                                                                                                  9. Pop Goes Pop
                                                                                                                  10. Sugar Almond
                                                                                                                  11. Look To The East, Look To The West.

                                                                                                                  Ibibio Sound Machine

                                                                                                                  Pull The Rope

                                                                                                                    Pull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard–led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remain, but, further honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album Electricity, the connection they aim to foster has shifted venues from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat-soaked, all-night dance club.

                                                                                                                    Williams and Grunhard attribute this shift to a matter of collaborators, recording Pull the Rope with Sheffield-based producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A.) over the course of two weeks. The way the pair wrote songs changed significantly rather than Eno penning lyrics to music generated by Max and company’s jamming, Orton started with Eno and Max writing together before adding the band. With less time in the studio

                                                                                                                    and a new way of considering how they built songs, the duo found making decisions about Pull the Rope’s sound quicker and more instinctual than before.

                                                                                                                    “Ross is from Sheffield, which has an edgier, more industrial vibe than London,” Grunhard explains. “He hears things differently than us, is more grounded in rave and grungier sounds, and knew when to add drums or push the instrumentation more. It was very different for us, but it lends itself to where Ibibio Sound Machine is going.”

                                                                                                                    In melding their songwriting process, Grunhard and Williams have, impossibly, pulled the trick of making Ibibio Sound Machine a tighter band than ever before, building out from their core in a way that highlights the electrifying group of musicians they play with. Rather than recording with the full band in the room, Pull the

                                                                                                                    Rope was sculpted, elements added and shaped by Grunhard, Williams, and Orton along the way. As a result, Pull the Rope is a nimble, sleek machine that’s thrilling from the first note of the opening title track, Eno’s otherworldly voice and PK Ambrose’s throbbing bass driving through a kaleidoscopic array of house, post-punk, funk, Afrobeat and disco, bangers and ballads, making an argument for unity that begins on the dancefloor. “We are the places we grew up, the places we’ve been, and the people we’ve met along

                                                                                                                    the way,” Williams says. “Hopping around the globe, we’ve found that people are fundamentally the same they’re people. Opposing sides push and pull, but there is an alternative to war, violence, and suffering.”

                                                                                                                    Lead single “Got to Be Who U Are” literally globetrots, name checking locales across the world that would feel disparate were it not for how well-traveled they are. Eno growing up in the musical melting pot of the Ibibio region of Nigeria and Max being a conservatory-trained musician from Australia, one could call their meeting in London and formation of Ibibio Sound Machine predestined.

                                                                                                                    “Mama Say” and “Let My Yes Be Yes” touch themes of female empowerment. They’re indicative of the band’s depth as they push further into the electronic; “Mama Say” hits notes of electropop while “Let My Yes Be Yes” fuses electro to Afrobeat. Ibibio Sound Machine have always imbued their music with political consciousness, and the light that shines through in Williams’ vocals and voice has never felt more necessary. The sound of Pull the Rope, then, is hope in darkness, bliss in spite of bleakness. Once again, Ibibio Sound Machine are here to provide the soundtrack to the best night of your life, and the better world to come.

                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                    1. Pull The Rope
                                                                                                                    2. Got To Be Who U Are
                                                                                                                    3. Fire
                                                                                                                    4. Them Say
                                                                                                                    5. Political Incorrect
                                                                                                                    6. Mama Say
                                                                                                                    7. Let My Yes Be Yes
                                                                                                                    8. Touch The Ceiling
                                                                                                                    9. Far Away
                                                                                                                    10. Dance In The Rain

                                                                                                                    Dub & Sound International returns for a third time and this one welcomes legendary Jamaican trombonist Vin Gordon who is rightly 'Digging The Vibes.' The title track kicks off and pairs his playful patterns with a Dubsetters rhythm and some nice sunny and soothing melodies from Trommie aka Don Drummond Jr. After the horn-led, organic and unhurried instrumental comes a dub that is fleshed out with a little more echo and is a sublime bit of roots. A second version adds another perspective to the original and we already look forward to hearing more from this project.

                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                    Digging The Vibes
                                                                                                                    Vibes Dub
                                                                                                                    Vibes Riddim

                                                                                                                    The Lemon Twigs

                                                                                                                    A Dream Is All We Know

                                                                                                                      Following the release of Everything Harmony, which garnered acclaim from Questlove, Iggy Pop, Anthony Fantano, The Guardian, and countless others, The Lemon Twigs—the New York City rock band fronted by brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario—have once again captured the attention of the music listening public. Set for release less than a year after their last album, A Dream Is All We Know is a joyous affair. As the title suggests, it’s less of a sober look at the darker side of life, and more a hopeful sojourn into the realm of dreams.

                                                                                                                      Michael’s line in lead single and album opener “My Golden Years” – “In time I hope that I can show all the world the love in my mind” – serves as a statement of intent for the whole collection of songs, as the brothers race against time to create as much quality pop material as possible. On track two, The Lemon Twigs invite listeners into a bubblegum paradise with euphoric harmonies and biting clavinet (“They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place”), followed by an existential space age epic (“A Dream Is All I Know”), and, elsewhere on the album, a baroque pocket-prog tune (“Sweet Vibration”), a two-part nightmare-comedy that doesn’t let up (“Peppermint Roses”), and more.

                                                                                                                      Equipped with the songwriting chops of a lost era (somewhere between The Brill Building and 10452 Bellagio Road) the new record was carefully arranged and produced entirely analog in the brothers’ Brooklyn recording studio. Most of the tracks were constructed with the two brothers swapping instruments and layering all the parts themselves, but one exception to that rule was “In The Eyes Of The Girl,” which was co-produced by Sean Ono Lennon in his upstate New York studio.

                                                                                                                      While the album is chock full of progressive pop ideas, it closes appropriately with an ode to early rock and roll on “Rock On (Over and Over),” contextualizing the band as part of a lineage of rock and roll that’s never really stopped. For The Lemon Twigs, it took almost a decade for critics and audiences alike to present them with the major accolades they’ve earned this past year. While their initial records were appreciated for the musical proficiency they displayed, the brothers’ past few records have communicated their ideas with more clarity and emotional resonance. In other words, “It took too long to say ‘rock on.’”

                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                      1. My Golden Years
                                                                                                                      2. They Don’t Know How To Fall In Place
                                                                                                                      3. Church Bells
                                                                                                                      4. A Dream Is All I Know
                                                                                                                      5. Sweet Vibration
                                                                                                                      6. In The Eyes Of The Girl
                                                                                                                      7. If You And I Are Not Wise
                                                                                                                      8. How Can I Love Her More
                                                                                                                      9. Ember Days
                                                                                                                      10. Peppermint Roses
                                                                                                                      11. I Should’ve Known Right From The Start
                                                                                                                      12. Rock On (Over And Over)

                                                                                                                      The Magnetic Fields

                                                                                                                      69 Love Songs - 25 Anniversary Edition

                                                                                                                        Limited edition silver vinyl anniversary reissue of the Magnetic Fields’ classic 1999 rumination on, of course, love. Funny, smart, dark, memorable, and a lifetime’s worth of listening. Stephin Merritt solidifies his songwriting genius on his “most ambitious and fully realized work.” (AMG)

                                                                                                                        This vinyl reissue is remastered for vinyl and beautifully packaged in a 10” slipcase box with three double gatefold sleeves and a 24 page booklet!

                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                        1 Absolutely Cuckoo (1:34)
                                                                                                                        2 I Don't Believe In The Sun (4:16)
                                                                                                                        3 All My Little Words (2:46)
                                                                                                                        4 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off (2:41)
                                                                                                                        5 Reno Dakota (1:05)
                                                                                                                        6 I Don't Want To Get Over You (2:22)
                                                                                                                        7 Come Back From San Francisco (2:48)
                                                                                                                        8 The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side (3:43)
                                                                                                                        9 Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits (2:25)
                                                                                                                        10 The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be (1:11)
                                                                                                                        11 I Think I Need A New Heart (2:32)
                                                                                                                        12 The Book Of Love (2:42)
                                                                                                                        13 Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long (2:33)
                                                                                                                        14 How Fucking Romantic (0:58)
                                                                                                                        15 The One You Really Love (2:53)
                                                                                                                        16 Punk Love (0:58)
                                                                                                                        17 Parades Go By (2:56)
                                                                                                                        18 Boa Constrictor (0:58)
                                                                                                                        19 A Pretty Girl Is Like (1:50)
                                                                                                                        20 My Sentimental Melody (3:07)
                                                                                                                        21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing (2:27)
                                                                                                                        22 Sweet-Lovin' Man (4:59)
                                                                                                                        23 The Things We Did And Didn't Do (2:11)
                                                                                                                        24 Roses (0:27)
                                                                                                                        25 Love Is Like Jazz (2:56)
                                                                                                                        26 When My Boy Walks Down The Street (2:38)
                                                                                                                        27 Time Enough For Rocking When We're Old (2:03)
                                                                                                                        28 Very Funny (1:26)
                                                                                                                        29 Grand Canyon (2:28)
                                                                                                                        30 No One Will Ever Love You (3:14)
                                                                                                                        31 If You Don't Cry (3:07)
                                                                                                                        32 You're My Only Home (2:17)
                                                                                                                        33 (Crazy For You But) Not That Crazy (2:18)
                                                                                                                        34 My Only Friend (2:01)
                                                                                                                        35 Promises Of Eternity (3:46)
                                                                                                                        36 World Love (3:07)
                                                                                                                        37 Washington, D.C. (1:53)
                                                                                                                        38 Long-Forgotten Fairytale (3:37)
                                                                                                                        39 Kiss Me Like You Mean It (2:01)
                                                                                                                        40 Papa Was A Rodeo (5:01)
                                                                                                                        41 Epitaph For My Heart (2:50)
                                                                                                                        42 Asleep And Dreaming (1:53)
                                                                                                                        43 The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing (2:46)
                                                                                                                        44 The Way You Say Good-Night (2:44)
                                                                                                                        45 Abigail, Belle Of Kilronan (2:00)
                                                                                                                        46 I Shatter (3:09)
                                                                                                                        47 Underwear (2:49)
                                                                                                                        48 It's A Crime (3:54)
                                                                                                                        49 Busby Berkeley Dreams (3:36)
                                                                                                                        50 I'm Sorry I Love You (3:06)
                                                                                                                        51 Acoustic Guitar (2:37)
                                                                                                                        52 The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure (3:10)
                                                                                                                        53 Love In The Shadows (2:54)
                                                                                                                        54 Bitter Tears (2:51)
                                                                                                                        55 Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget (1:55)
                                                                                                                        56 Yeah! Oh, Yeah! (2:19)
                                                                                                                        57 Experimental Music Love (0:29)
                                                                                                                        58 Meaningless (2:08)
                                                                                                                        59 Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin (1:46)
                                                                                                                        60 Queen Of The Savages (2:12)
                                                                                                                        61 Blue You (3:03)
                                                                                                                        62 I Can't Touch You Anymore (3:05)
                                                                                                                        63 Two Kinds Of People (1:10)
                                                                                                                        64 How To Say Goodbye (2:48)
                                                                                                                        65 The Night You Can't Remember (2:17)
                                                                                                                        66 For We Are The King Of The Boudoir (1:14)
                                                                                                                        67 Strange Eyes (2:01)
                                                                                                                        68 Xylophone Track (2:47)
                                                                                                                        69 Zebra (2:15)

                                                                                                                        Jessica Pratt

                                                                                                                        Here In The Pitch

                                                                                                                          On her fourth album, west coast artist Jessica Pratt expands the scope of her artistry, placing her sharpest songs to date within an ever-broadening pool of influences including spectral '60s pop, Hollywood psychedelia and bossa nova. Whereas Pratt's 2019 record, Quiet Signs, floated elegantly in the ether, Here in the Pitch is entrenched in more earthen characteristics, as the title suggests, and her craft is emboldened with a newfound gravitas.

                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                          Side A
                                                                                                                          A1 Life Is
                                                                                                                          A2 Better Hate
                                                                                                                          A3 World On A String
                                                                                                                          A4 Get Your Head Out
                                                                                                                          A5 By Hook Or By Crook

                                                                                                                          Side B
                                                                                                                          B1 Nowhere It Was
                                                                                                                          B2 Empires Never Know
                                                                                                                          B3 Glances
                                                                                                                          B4 The Last Year

                                                                                                                          Normil Hawaiians

                                                                                                                          Empires Into Sand

                                                                                                                            ‘Empires into Sand’ is the first album of new material from Normil Hawaiians in 40 years. The group first refined their sound during the early 80s, hitting on a pastoral experimentalism that drew on ambient drone, motorik impulse and post-punk pep.

                                                                                                                            ‘Empires into Sand’ came together in the familiar manner of their original three albums, with improvisation and nuance informing the blueprint of the tracks. It was with the official release of this last record ‘Return of the Ranters’ (originally recorded in 1984/85, but then unconsciously shelved) in 2015 by Upset The Rhythm that led to the group reconnecting with the intention of playing music together again. Normil Hawaiians played a launch show for that ‘lost album’ and followed that up with more concerts, including an appearance at Supernormal, a residency at the Edinburgh Festival, gigs at Cafe OTO. They were even chosen by Richard Dawson to perform with him in London.

                                                                                                                            Throughout this time, Normil Hawaiians revisited their original songs for live performance. However for a group always so interested in evolving their sound, it came as no surprise that they shirked at the idea of a faithful retread. The band pushed their songs into new inventive dimensions, still progressive at core, but now imbued with a cosmic uncanny. A cinematic approach that was always quietly present has come to the fore. The quaint weirdness of folk song, the humanity of communal practice and the group’s ecological mindedness have all found a place in Normil Hawaiians’ current sound world.

                                                                                                                            When Normil Hawaiians write and record music they prefer to gather in a remote location and live together for a while, such is their communal ethos. Being far-flung across the UK, the Family Hawaii (numbering seven key members) decided to encamp to Tayinloan, a small village on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland. They set up their own studio in an isolated, windswept house overlooking the sea and started the tape rolling. Noel Blanden from the band explains the process neatly: “we set up and began playing, slowly and patiently, allowing the music to take its own shape based on where we were staying and our ongoing friendship. We recorded for days, capturing everything. A lot of new and rich ideas began to emerge”.

                                                                                                                            Normil Hawaiians took their time to develop these threads at their own pace, allowing songs to mutate and settle over months. Simon Marchant deftly produced and recorded the album whilst also performing in the band, this marked the first time the band had total control of their own sound. The last few years has seen the band reconvene in Herne Bay, Faversham, London and Leith to record new parts, constantly responding to the changing form of these quietly spectral songs of defiance.

                                                                                                                            ‘Empires into Sand’ incorporates samples from old rehearsals and live music into the new finished pieces, this is in continuum with their previous records. Snippets of sound from the static of short wave radio and satellite transmissions also embellish the work. In fact the whole album is stitched together with interludes, creating an acutely immersive 45 minutes. ‘Exiles’ opens the album amid swirling atmospheres, synth flights and recordings of Vilnis Egle (father of Zinta Egle from the band) retelling his experience of fleeing his home in Latvia during Soviet occupation in 1942. George Bikandy also features on this track talking about his flight from Syria in 2014. ‘Ghosts of Ballochroy’ is a winding river of a song featuring a lively discourse in Scots courtesy of Rodney Relax. There’s a commitment to truth telling present across this hopeful album populated with angels, incoming tides, long shadows and the rose-washed sun. “From our broken windscreen, we feel the breeze” soars Guy Smith triumphantly over the driving beat of ‘Waterfalls : Bedford 330’. ‘Big City Sky’ flutters and sparkles with rapid synth runs, tape-looped drums and Jimmy Miller’s commanding vocal. With ‘In The Stone’ Zinta’s melody is deliberately jagged and blunt, exaggerated by octave-layered vocals and interjections from Guy.

                                                                                                                            This is thought-provoking, boundary-bothering music. Honest in intent, a solidarity of vision. The album’s title is derived from a poem by band member Mark Tyler, who sadly passed away during the recording process and the transience of life is felt heavily throughout. Noel best coins the group’s wish for the album: “we wanted to create an album that acknowledges our history and also reflects who we are today. We remained true to ourselves and we wanted to make something beautiful without removing the edges.” ‘Empires into Sand’ certainly does that, it’s an echo from the past, an echo from the future.


                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                            SIDE A
                                                                                                                            01. Exiles
                                                                                                                            02. Ghosts Of Ballochroy (ft. Rodney Relax)
                                                                                                                            03. Waves NR728524
                                                                                                                            04. Back Home To The Stars
                                                                                                                            SIDE B
                                                                                                                            05. Waterfalls / Bedford 330
                                                                                                                            06. We Stand Together
                                                                                                                            07. Big City Sky
                                                                                                                            08. In The Stone (Luddenham Mix)
                                                                                                                            09. North Atlantic

                                                                                                                            CD Bonus Tracks
                                                                                                                            (The LP Version Will Also Feature These Via The Download Card.)
                                                                                                                            10. Where Is Living?
                                                                                                                            11. Ornament Of The Tribe
                                                                                                                            12. In The Stone (Scratch Mix)
                                                                                                                            13. Deep Beneath Snow

                                                                                                                            The Cat's Miaow

                                                                                                                            Skipping Stones: The Cassette Years '92-'93

                                                                                                                              The Cat’s Miaow return to World Of Echo with Skipping Stones: The Cassette Years ’92-’93, their second compilation for the imprint, and the fourth in a loosely defined series of reissues associated with the group (also including The Shapiros’ Gone By Fall: The Collected Works of The Shapiros and Hydroplane’s Selected Songs 1997-2003). It’s a smart selection of songs by one of Australia’s finest independent pop music groups, whose initial run, across the nineties, was as mysterious as it was bewitching. A generous double album featuring thirty-five songs drawn from The Cat’s Miaow’s history, Skipping Stones lets listeners in on a bunch more secrets.

                                                                                                                              An even deeper pass through the archives of The Cat’s Miaow, Skipping Stones is a welcome follow-up to 2022’s Songs ’94-’98, which pulled together material from seven-inch singles and compilations. Diving into the four cassettes that the group released over a two-year period, Skipping Stones is full of surprises, rich with unexpected and inspired detours, while reminding everyone just how clear and distinct The Cat’s Miaow’s music was from the very start. Looking in from the outside, they always felt like a group that knew just what they were doing, but intuitive as they are, they weren’t forcing anything: these songs always sound exactly what they need to be, rough edges, playful moments and all.

                                                                                                                              It's also a fascinating snapshot of one arm of the ‘international pop underground’. While they were clearly listening to music from the US, UK and elsewhere – there are glimpses of Galaxie 500, Spacemen 3, Beat Happening, and The Pastels in some of the songs here – The Cat’s Miaow also feel, consciously or not, part of a continuum of Australian underground pop that takes in The Particles, The Lighthouse Keepers, The Cannanes, The Honeys, Even As We Speak, and The Sugargliders (who they would cover several times). Like those before them, The Cat’s Miaow balanced opposing forces in their music: naivete and knowingness; fragility and strength; worldliness and world-weariness; play and seriousness; heartache and pleasure.

                                                                                                                              The four cassettes that Skipping Stones draws from – Little Baby Sour Puss, Pet Sounds (both 1992), From My Window, and How Did Everything Get So Fucked Up (both 1993) – were released or assisted by Toytown, a Melbourne cassette label of rare taste, savvy and intelligence, run by Wayne Davidson. Toytown felt like the perfect early home for The Cat’s Miaow, their cassettes rubbing shoulders in the label’s catalogue with brilliant groups like Sukpatch, The Ah Club, Kitty Craft, and Land Of The Loops. The local context is just as important, too, with The Cat’s Miaow sharing their time and creative vision with friends in The Ampersands, Stinky Fire Engine, Girl Of The World, Super Falling Star, Pencil Tin and The Sugargliders. And cassettes were an important form of exchange – cheap, easy to reproduce, not too expensive to send interstate or overseas, they were the most accessible DIY format for any group starting to spread the word about their noise.

                                                                                                                              All of this is to say, the thirty-five songs here landed in several different contexts, national and international, which goes part-way to explaining the group’s curious cosmopolitanism, the style and spirit in their sound. The Cat’s Miaow may have been bedroom dreamers, but their songs were richly informed, with the sweetest of girl-pop moves sashaying into walls of tremolo-d and distorted guitar, jangling six strings tangling with melodic bass that’s pure Peter Hook/Naomi Yang, while the gentle trickle of a drum machine or the earthy twitch of brushes on drum skins provided the spine for Kerrie’s and Bart’s lovely, unforced singing.

                                                                                                                              There are a clutch of gorgeous songs here that would reappear in a different form on later releases, classics like “The Phoebe I Know”, “Third Floor Fire Escape View”, “Not Like I Was Doing Anything” and “You Left A Note On The Table”, but plenty of other magic too, all of it finding its way to vinyl for the first time (some tracks appeared on compact disc via the compilations A Kiss and A Cuddle [Bus Stop, 1996] and Songs For Girls to Sing [Drive-In, 1997]). Remarkably, The Cat’s Miaow have also recently released a split single with Rocketship featuring newly recorded material and returned to the stage for their second-ever gig.

                                                                                                                              But this double LP on World Of Echo feels like the very core of the thing – some of the most heartbreakingly beautiful, effortlessly lush and deeply moving pop music you’re likely to hear.

                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                              Disc 1 - Side A
                                                                                                                              How Did Everything Get So Fucked Up?
                                                                                                                              Make A Wish
                                                                                                                              Hollow Inside (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              Faded (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              Not Like I Was Doing Anything (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              Disappointed
                                                                                                                              I Wanted None Of This
                                                                                                                              Fire Damage
                                                                                                                              Halo

                                                                                                                              Disc 1 - Side B
                                                                                                                              From My Window
                                                                                                                              Aurora
                                                                                                                              It Might Never Happen
                                                                                                                              Nothing's Ever Quite That Simple
                                                                                                                              Brighter Star
                                                                                                                              The Phoebe I Know (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              Little And Small
                                                                                                                              Sleepyhead
                                                                                                                              Dust From A Memory
                                                                                                                              A 50s Ballad
                                                                                                                              A Few Words
                                                                                                                              From My Window

                                                                                                                              Disc 2 - Side C
                                                                                                                              Pet Sounds
                                                                                                                              Third Floor Fire Escape View (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              You Left A Note On The Table (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              Short Sighted (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              I Hate Myself More Than You Do
                                                                                                                              Talking To Trees
                                                                                                                              Ice Cream
                                                                                                                              Saviour For The Hurrying Man
                                                                                                                              Ferry No. 6

                                                                                                                              Disc 2 - Side D
                                                                                                                              Little Baby Sour Puss
                                                                                                                              Nothing New (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              Climb My Stairs (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              Autumn (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              I Really Don’t Know (original Cassette Version)
                                                                                                                              Sunday
                                                                                                                              Memphis ‘54
                                                                                                                              Walk On By
                                                                                                                              Georgie

                                                                                                                              Aïsha Devi

                                                                                                                              Aethernal Score (Live With The BBC Concert Orchestra)

                                                                                                                                'Aethernal Score', Aisha Devi’s commission for the BBC Concert Orchestra, is an attempt to intensify the vibrational capacities of the orchestra and divert the expected course of classical-electronic collaboration. Devi has always used her art to push against cultural presumptions, so it made sense to assemble the initial framework for the piece from some of her acclaimed back catalogue, meshing it with new compositions and reworking everything with orchestral elements that follow Devi's radical metaphysical and theoretical guidelines. It's best described as a twenty-minute "mixtape" that embodies the connections between the concert hall, the club and the sacred ritual - or even a demonstration of the orchestra's hidden potential.

                                                                                                                                Inspired by her Himalayan heritage, Devi has been exploring the entrancing sonic application of monastic practices such as throat singing for many years, as well as developing psychoacoustic methods. This led her to perceive sound as a way of expanding brain activity - something that also plays a shrouded role in the world of chamber music. Applying this to the orchestra, she began thinking about each instrument as a discrete frequency range, searching for its ethereal properties rather than fixating on an object saddled with cultural baggage. Using the density, amplitude and vibrational impact of the sounds in unison, Devi was able to summon the club environment, seizing that space's inherent power - Devi was making orchestral rave.


                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                1. Spacetime Expiration Binaural
                                                                                                                                2. Two Serpents Theme
                                                                                                                                3. DNA Morphosis
                                                                                                                                4. Aetherave Theme
                                                                                                                                5. Graal Interlude
                                                                                                                                6. Genesis Theme
                                                                                                                                7. Mind Vapor Interlude
                                                                                                                                8. Aethernal Binaural
                                                                                                                                9. And If You Had Eternity?
                                                                                                                                10. Al Kemie March
                                                                                                                                11. Neurobytes²
                                                                                                                                12. Antigravity
                                                                                                                                13. I’m Not Always Where My Body Is Theme

                                                                                                                                Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band

                                                                                                                                Loophole - Instore Ticket Bundle

                                                                                                                                  THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT!!!!!!!!

                                                                                                                                  We are very excited to welcome Michael Head to Piccadilly Records on Sunday 14th April at 1pm to perform a solo acoustic set followed by a signing session.

                                                                                                                                  PRE-ORDER A TICKET BUNDLE EDITION TO GAIN ENTRY. 


                                                                                                                                  Due to the event being a few weeks prior to the album release date you'll be given an art print upon entry for Mick to personally sign later.

                                                                                                                                  * Please note, physical tickets will not be issued for this event. Please bring your order confirmation, either printed or on your phone, to gain entry.*

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                                                                                                                                  62 years of music, loves, losses, long summer days and longer, darker nights are vividly recalled by ‘our greatest living songwriter’, Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band as he plays out flickering scenes from his life on new album, Loophole, set for release on Fri 3 May 2024 on Modern Sky.

                                                                                                                                  12 evocative and autobiographical songs to be accompanied by the written word as Michael Head prepares his memoirs for release with an autobiography with Nine Eight Books.

                                                                                                                                  Various Artists

                                                                                                                                  Eccentric Soul: The Tammy Label

                                                                                                                                    Lost in the soot and fallout from Youngstown, Ohio’s infamous Black Monday steel industry collapse was Tony March’s cross-generational Tammy label. From its early days as a doo wop powerhouse to their last gasps chasing disco hits, Tammy unintentionally documented Youngstown’s small but prolific Black music scene. This single LP surveys the label’s best R&B, soul, funk, and disco, with 13 tracks from Ice Cold Love, Lynn Minor, J.C. and the Soul Angels, The Snapshots, Iron Knowledge, Roy Jefferson, and Steel City Band. Housed in a deluxe tip-on jacket, with a booklet crammed full of notes and ephemera, The Tammy Label continues Numero’s 20 year tradition of preserving regional Ohio music.

                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                    1. Ice Cold Love - Sheer Magic
                                                                                                                                    2. Lynn Minor And His Band - I Finally Found True Love
                                                                                                                                    3. J.C. & The Soul Angels - True Love Is Hard To Find
                                                                                                                                    4. Ice Cold Love - Wonderful To Be Loved
                                                                                                                                    5. Iron Knowledge - Oh Love
                                                                                                                                    6. The Snapshots - Should I Believe You
                                                                                                                                    7. J.C. & The Soul Angels - Angel's Theme
                                                                                                                                    8. J.C. & The Soul Angels - Nightmare Strut
                                                                                                                                    9. J.C. & The Soul Angels - Dance Party (Pt.1)
                                                                                                                                    10. Steel City Band - Shakin' It Down (Pt.1)
                                                                                                                                    11. Iron Knowledge - Give Me A Little Taste Of Your Love (Pt.2)
                                                                                                                                    12. Roy Jefferson With J.C. & The Soul Angels - He's Got To Go (Pt. 1)*
                                                                                                                                    13. Lynn Minor And His Band - Hesitate One Time For Me

                                                                                                                                    Vanishing Twin

                                                                                                                                    The Age Of Immunology - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                      Vanishing Twin’s seminal LP, The Age Of Immunology, receives a LTD edition pressing on None ‘Pink’ and Sine ‘Teal’ vinyl, limited to 500 units each and paired with matching sleeve art. As essential take on psych-pop futurism and a must for fans of Broadcast, Sun Ra and Ennio Morricone.

                                                                                                                                      Establishing the band as innovators in their field, the record was declared “a masterpiece” by The Line Of Best Fit, while The Quietus asserted Vanishing Twin as “one of the most original and exciting acts of the moment”.

                                                                                                                                      This was the group’s first LP for Fire Records, at the time of recording the band’s evolving lineup consisted of songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti, bassist Susumu Mukai, synth/guitar player Phil MFU and visual artist/film maker Elliott Arndt on flute and percussion.

                                                                                                                                      The album was produced by Lucas in a number of non-standard, non-studio settings. ‘KRK (At Home In Strange Places)’ summons up the spirit of Sun Ra’s Lanquidity and Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio and was simply recorded on an iPhone during a live set which crackled with psychic connectivity on the Croatian island of Krk. The magical Morricone-esque lounge of ‘You Are Not an Island’, the blissed-out Jean-Claude Vannier style arrangement of ‘Invisible World’ and burbling sci fi funk ode to a 1972 cult French animation, ‘Planète Sauvage’, were all recorded in nighttime sessions in an abandoned mill in Sudbury.

                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                      1. KRK (At Home In Strange Places)
                                                                                                                                      2. Wise Children
                                                                                                                                      3. Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life
                                                                                                                                      4. You Are Not An Island
                                                                                                                                      5. The Age Of Immunology
                                                                                                                                      6. Magician’s Success
                                                                                                                                      7. Planète Sauvage
                                                                                                                                      8. Backstroke
                                                                                                                                      9. Invisible World
                                                                                                                                      10. Language Is A City (Let Me Out!)

                                                                                                                                      BONUS TRACKS: Download ONLY
                                                                                                                                      1. The Age Of Immunology (Version)
                                                                                                                                      2. Magician’s Success (Live)
                                                                                                                                      3. Backstroke (Live)
                                                                                                                                      4. Language Is A City (Let Me Out!) (Live)
                                                                                                                                      5. You Are Not An Island (Version)
                                                                                                                                      6. Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life (Extended Life Version)

                                                                                                                                      The Bolshoi

                                                                                                                                      Country Life

                                                                                                                                        The Bolshoi released three albums during their existence, but they also recorded a fourth album that was never officially released during their tenure. Provisionally titled Country Life, it was released in 2015 as part of a limited 5-CD box set. We are excited to now release it on vinyl for the first time. Country Life consists of demos recorded for the album, and many of these only survived on reference cassettes but were digitally restored. We are especially thrilled that Trevor Tanner has recorded a brand new acoustic reimagining of the song “Dolores Jones” made specifically for this release.

                                                                                                                                        The Bolshoi were different. Their songs were dark and subversive, sufficient evidence for many critics to corral them under the 'Gothic' banner at the time of their debut - but they really only "flirted" with Goth. They oozed dark, pensive lyrics supported with inventive pop-goth guitar making them nearly impossible to categorize.

                                                                                                                                        The suburban surrealism of the lyrics was rooted in the stories from characters on the fringes of society rather than brooding romantics, with an undercurrent of boredom, inadequacy and violence. Not the usual themes for pop success!The Bolshoi released three albums during their existence, but they also recorded a fourth album that was never officially released during their tenure. Provisionally titled Country Life, it was released in 2015 as part of a limited 5-CD box set. We are excited to now release it on vinyl for the first time. Country Life consists of demos recorded for the album, and many of these only survived on reference cassettes but were digitally restored. We are especially thrilled that Trevor Tanner has recorded a brand new acoustic reimagining of the song “Dolores Jones” made specifically for this release.

                                                                                                                                        The Bolshoi were different. Their songs were dark and subversive, sufficient evidence for many critics to corral them under the 'Gothic' banner at the time of their debut - but they really only "flirted" with Goth. They oozed dark, pensive lyrics supported with inventive pop-goth guitar making them nearly impossible to categorize.

                                                                                                                                        The suburban surrealism of the lyrics was rooted in the stories from characters on the fringes of society rather than brooding romantics, with an undercurrent of boredom, inadequacy and violence. Not the usual themes for pop success!

                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                        1. World In Action 
                                                                                                                                        2. Under The Shed 
                                                                                                                                        3. What’s Your Favourite Colour 
                                                                                                                                        4. Country Life 
                                                                                                                                        5. We Don’t Want Him Here 
                                                                                                                                        6. Boy From The Nursery World 
                                                                                                                                        7. Long Tall Sally In A Black Dress 
                                                                                                                                        8. Too Late 
                                                                                                                                        9. Out There In The Distance 
                                                                                                                                        10. Castaway 
                                                                                                                                        11. Dolores Jones 
                                                                                                                                        12. Yee Hee 
                                                                                                                                        13. Madame Hecate 
                                                                                                                                        14. Last Chance For The Slow Dance 
                                                                                                                                        15. Everything Is Done For You Today 
                                                                                                                                        16. Dolores Jones 2023

                                                                                                                                        The Saints

                                                                                                                                        Eternally Yours

                                                                                                                                          After releasing their debut album "(I’m) Stranded" to both critical and commercial success, The Saints followed up with the 1978 album Eternally Yours. The set features some of their most popular tracks to this day, including “Know Your Product”, “Private Affair”, and “This Perfect Day”.

                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                          SIDE A
                                                                                                                                          1. Know Your Product
                                                                                                                                          2. Lost And Found
                                                                                                                                          3. Memories Are Made Of This
                                                                                                                                          4. Private Affair
                                                                                                                                          5. A Minor Aversion

                                                                                                                                          SIDE B
                                                                                                                                          1. This Perfect Day
                                                                                                                                          2. Run Down
                                                                                                                                          3. Orstralia
                                                                                                                                          4. New Centre Of The Universe
                                                                                                                                          5. Untitled
                                                                                                                                          6. (I’m) Misunderstood
                                                                                                                                          7. International Robots

                                                                                                                                          The Bevis Frond

                                                                                                                                          The Clocks - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                            ‘The Clocks' was originally issued in 2007 as a CD-only limited edition of 110 for members of 'The Bevis Frond Online Community'. It comprised 19 previously unissued tracks. Most of these were home demos featuring just Frond frontman Nick Saloman on all instruments and vocals. Since then, it has never been re-issued in any format. It is therefore with great pleasure that Blue Matter are re-issuing it for the first time, and now as a vinyl double album and limited CD. Due to certain circumstances, three of the original tracks could not be used, so these have been replaced these with another three previously unheard tracks from Nick Saloman's extensive archives. These songs include the seven minute 'She's Taken It All', originally intended for 2004's 'Hit Squad' album but dropped at the last minute due to timing constraints. The beautiful 'You Better Make Do' and the edgy 'Devil Doll' have also been added. We are delighted to be able to make this 'long lost' album available once again and think it will be a welcome addition to the Bevis Frond canon.

                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                            Side One.
                                                                                                                                            1 Worlde Is Older
                                                                                                                                            2 The Clocks
                                                                                                                                            3 Home Is Where The Head Is
                                                                                                                                            4 Cut To The Quick
                                                                                                                                            Side Two.
                                                                                                                                            5 Bless Him
                                                                                                                                            6 Anything You Say
                                                                                                                                            7 Devil Doll
                                                                                                                                            8 God
                                                                                                                                            9 When I’m Gone
                                                                                                                                            10 I Need The Rush.
                                                                                                                                            Side Three.
                                                                                                                                            11 Watch The Sun
                                                                                                                                            12 You Better Make Do
                                                                                                                                            13 Little Ray
                                                                                                                                            14 She’s Taken It All.
                                                                                                                                            Side Four.
                                                                                                                                            15 Things He Said
                                                                                                                                            16 I’ll Save Myself
                                                                                                                                            17 I Wasn’t There
                                                                                                                                            18 I’m Better Now
                                                                                                                                            19 Shades 

                                                                                                                                            MINING

                                                                                                                                            Chimet

                                                                                                                                              In October 2017, ex-Hurricane Ophelia and Storm Brian hit the British Isles. These weather systems had formed separately over the Atlantic before moving north-east and converging. In addition to 100mph winds and widespread damage and disruption, the storms brought dust from the Sahara Desert that turned the skies orange over much of the UK. This otherworldly meteorological phenomenon serves as a fitting backdrop to Chimet.

                                                                                                                                              Chimet charts the progress of the two storms over the course of a week, utilising data from Chichester West Pole Beacon a weather station in the Solent which stands in some of the most treacherous waters in the UK.

                                                                                                                                              The album was created using 2,016 sampled data streams, translating seven days of information into 67 minutes and 12 seconds of detailed and evolving music. With mother nature orchestrating the piece, she is joined by intuitive and powerful improvisations on piano, cello and synthesiser. The recording captures the sense of building expectation and tension, the dropping air pressure, the rising winds, the interlocking storm systems and the serene aftermath. The shifts are seamless, monumental and open to the elements.

                                                                                                                                              Chimet is a record to lose yourself in. Like the sea itself, it doesn’t give up its secrets easily. The listening experience seems to change depending on your state of mind, and resonates on a primal level which belies its data led compositional approach. For generations, artists and musicians have been drawn to the sea for their inspiration. That emotional response to the vastness of the ocean is a powerful force. While the origins of Chimet lie in the numbers, the resultant record sits proudly in that artistic tradition. Music to watch the horizon to.

                                                                                                                                              Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby: project concept, artistic direction, data sourcing, analytics & programming PJ Davy: sound design & programming Matthew Bourne: piano, cello & Lintronics Advanced Memorymoog (LAMM) synthesiser


                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                              A1. Ophelia (14:40)
                                                                                                                                              A2. Petrichor (5:58)
                                                                                                                                              B1. Latent (4:40)
                                                                                                                                              B2. Chimet 50º 45’.45 N, 00º 56'.59 W (7:59)
                                                                                                                                              C1. Arise (12:20)
                                                                                                                                              C2. Force 10 Pt. 1 (2:19)
                                                                                                                                              D1. Force 10 Pt. 2 (15:00)
                                                                                                                                              D2. Debris (6.29)

                                                                                                                                              Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand

                                                                                                                                              Willson Williams

                                                                                                                                                ‘Willson Williams’ witnesses the meeting of two likeminded musicians who’ve built their successful, independent careers on inventive folk instrumentation, reflective and sincere lyricism, and not a small amount of self-deprecation. Their modest confessionals, written poetically and over nostalgic and atmospheric melodies, are as relatable as ever, and together they find new ways to unpack their feelings.  

                                                                                                                                                One overarching theme on the album is that of grief, when the writing process saw them both, tragically, in mourning for separate loved ones; Dan for his brother Karl and his friend Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit, and Kathryn for her friend, comedian and BBC Radio 4 presenter Jeremy Hardy. They explain that “the initial premise and starting point for us was discussions and open conversations on bereavement. We’d both recently lost friends who were also in the public eye, and we talked about the strange place between personal loss and the communal grieving of a public figure”. Contrastingly, the music on ‘Willson Williams’ is warm, heartfelt and even cheerful, an opposing nature that is completely in keeping with both their humour and candidness.

                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                1. Arrow
                                                                                                                                                2. Grace
                                                                                                                                                3. R U 4 Real
                                                                                                                                                4. Our Best
                                                                                                                                                5. Shelf
                                                                                                                                                6. Wish
                                                                                                                                                7. Sweetest Wine
                                                                                                                                                8. Weekend
                                                                                                                                                9. Sing Out
                                                                                                                                                10. Elvis
                                                                                                                                                11. Big Nothing

                                                                                                                                                Jacques Renault / The Patchouli Brothers / Paul Older / Elado

                                                                                                                                                Let's Dance Vol 3

                                                                                                                                                Funkyjaws Music keeps on keeping on with its Let's Dance series, which now hits volume number three. It is another doozy that follows the tradition of bringing together four different and equally able artists on one 12". Jacques Renault kicks off with some funky and disco-fried fun on 'Such A Tease' and The Patchouli Brothers take it old school with their steamy disco burner 'Wishin' U Would Call.' The flipside keeps the good vibes alive with some lovely cowbell action and mad-funky riffs on Paul Older's 'Dancin' On Your Mind' and then a little steamy psyched-out guitar magic defines the glorious closer 'House Of Rising Sun.'

                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                Jacques Renault - Such A Tease
                                                                                                                                                The Patchouli Brothers - Wishin' U Would Call
                                                                                                                                                Paul Older - Dancin' On Your Mind
                                                                                                                                                Elado - House Of Rising Sun

                                                                                                                                                BMX Bandits

                                                                                                                                                Dreamers On The Run

                                                                                                                                                  BMX Bandits are back with their twelfth studio album, their most musically ambitious so far – 'Dreamers On The Run'. An album dedicated to all the outsiders out there. BMX Bandits were formed in the Scottish ex industrial town of Bellshill in 1985 by Duglas T Stewart and Sean Dickson. When Sean left to concentrate on his other band The Soup Dragons so began BMX Bandits, not as a conventional band of the same 4 or 5 faces but as an ever growing extended musical family which has included members of The Vaselines, The Pastels, The Pearlfishers and Teenage Fanclub over the years. In 2014 Duglas formulated the idea for a new BMX Bandits album that would be called 'Dreamers on the Run', about living in two worlds; the world of dreams and of music while trying to survive the real world.

                                                                                                                                                  Duglas started writing songs for the new album and even booked a couple of shows to perform these new Dreamers songs live. Then Duglas got ill, his mental health spiralled out of control and this led to physical health problems. The project was put on hold, the planned live shows and recording were cancelled. During lockdown Duglas was commissioned to provide the soundtrack for an independent feature film ‘Dreaded Light’. For this project Duglas chose multi instrumentalist Andrew Pattie to be his main collaborator. Andrew had being playing guitar live for the band for a few years. Duglas recalls “After recording an actual soundtrack for an actual movie together it became obvious to me that Andrew was the right collaborator to make this very cinematic album that I’d dreamt of.

                                                                                                                                                  He had the musicality and fearlessness that it needed.” So now, ten years later than originally planned 'Dreamers on the Run' is here. “Together we worked on some of the song ideas and themes that I had a decade ago, completing them together and both of us wrote new material that complemented the album’s narrative.” The album was mastered by Duglas’ original partner in crime Sean Dickson, now known as Hifi Sean and features guest appearances by giants of the International Pop Underground Jowe Head and Calvin Johnson.

                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                  Tracklist:

                                                                                                                                                  A1. Dreamers On The Run
                                                                                                                                                  A2. Setting Sun
                                                                                                                                                  A3. Time To Get Away
                                                                                                                                                  A4. What He Set Out To Be
                                                                                                                                                  A5. Cockerel’s Waiting

                                                                                                                                                  B1. My Name Is Duglas (Don’t Listen To What They Say)
                                                                                                                                                  B2. Home Before Dark – In The Industrial Zone
                                                                                                                                                  B3. Hop Skip Jump (For Your Love)
                                                                                                                                                  B4. The World Was Round
                                                                                                                                                  B5. Things You Threw Away
                                                                                                                                                  B6. Digital Dreamers

                                                                                                                                                  Tracklist Bonus 7":

                                                                                                                                                  A1. Setting Sun (Single Version With Intro)
                                                                                                                                                  A2. Your Class (Even More Dreams Version)
                                                                                                                                                  B1. Home Before Dark (Even More Dreams Version)
                                                                                                                                                  B2. Come Dance With Me

                                                                                                                                                  Zutons

                                                                                                                                                  The Big Decider

                                                                                                                                                    Recorded at Abbey Road Studios with legendary songwriter and producer Nile Rodgers, alongside the band's original producer Ian Broudie. The multi-platinum selling band released three studio albums between 2004 and 2008, scoring 9 UK Top 40 singles including two Top 10s with ‘Why Won’t You Give Me Your Love?’ and the all- conquering ‘Valerie’, the latter a triple-platinum hit for Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse. Today they return to share the fruits of their extended time away. The Big Decider comes into view as an album of stark significance to the band, completed by Dave McCabe (guitar, lead vocals), Abi Harding (saxophone, vocals) and Sean Payne (drums, vocals). Written against the backdrop of a decade and a half’s worth of lived experience, it is born under the weight of family tragedies, lives lost and created, reality checks, and home truths faced up to and stared down. Wrestled into shape under the kind of steam that only decades-long friendships - with all their messy fall-outs, make-ups, breakdowns and ultimately love - can muster, The Big Decider became the sound of water passing under the bridge, and love for music, love for each other, and love for creating together becoming the most important thing of all.

                                                                                                                                                    TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                    1. Creeping On The Dancefloor
                                                                                                                                                    2. Pauline
                                                                                                                                                    3. Water
                                                                                                                                                    4. In Your Arms
                                                                                                                                                    5. Disappear
                                                                                                                                                    6. Company
                                                                                                                                                    7. The Big Decider
                                                                                                                                                    8. Rise
                                                                                                                                                    9. Best Of Me

                                                                                                                                                    Parsnip

                                                                                                                                                    Behold

                                                                                                                                                      Green shoots have burst forth from Parsnip, let’s warmly welcome the Australian group’s sophomore album ‘Behold’.

                                                                                                                                                      The production is ambitious, with 12-string and acoustic guitars, percussion, piano, saxophone and harmonium all sitting comfortably in these outstanding songs. Drawing comparisons with Dolly Mixture, Sara Goes Pop, Look Blue Go Purple and The Field Mice, Parsnip are an animated ensemble, full of life, emotional complexity and humour. The laughter in the dark is real, but then the sun comes up and we all must meet the day. Even the flowers turn their faces. Behold!

                                                                                                                                                      Recorded across three sessions over the last three years, ‘Behold’ is a testament to Parsnip at their most creative, catchy and collaborative. This album showcases the multi-talents of all four members, with spirited performances adding dazzle to the thirteen tracks.

                                                                                                                                                      Paris Richens lets the bass playfully roam. Carolyn Hawkins tumbles feeling into the drum rumble. Stella Rennex’s guitar soars alongside her saxophone work, whilst a sprightly keyboard is tenderly attended by Rebecca Liston. Everyone sings amidst this lush canopy.

                                                                                                                                                      Patience, environmental cues and internal signals are integral for a garden to flourish. The same can be said of the conditions necessary for ‘Behold’ to emerge. It is an album gleeful in reassessment, changed priorities and anticipation. The roots are deeply anchored to mystery, drinking up a hidden wonderment that lies within. ‘Monument’ is a twist of melody and mania, “For what am I? But a channel of light” they attest amongst the whoops and hollers. ‘The Babble’ sounds like Ray Davies playing Wordle for enlightenment. In fact most of these songs are pointing the way towards growth and understanding. ‘Turn to Love’ is mesmeric and timeless, thoroughly serene and perfectly judged. Parsnip write songs as a form of communion with the intangible in our increasingly delusory world, but there is always a gentle reminder; don’t take anything too seriously! “My head is gonna split in two, fix it with flour and glue” they demand on ultimate bop ‘Papier-Mâché’, this juxtaposition of mature resolve with childlike astonishment packs a more powerful punch.

                                                                                                                                                      On ‘Behold’, Parsnip explore both the inner and outer realms of consciousness with quick wits and some seriously quality jangle and jolt. ‘The Light’ is a whip smart workout, sprouting naturally from the propulsive nature of their debut album ‘When the Tree Bears Fruit’ (2019). ‘Placeholder’ is also devastatingly honest and channels The Field Mice as it buries itself like an arrow into your heart. 


                                                                                                                                                      TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                      01. Monument
                                                                                                                                                      02. The Light
                                                                                                                                                      03. Duality
                                                                                                                                                      04. L.O.N.E.
                                                                                                                                                      05. Placeholder
                                                                                                                                                      06. Pockets
                                                                                                                                                      07. Unearthing
                                                                                                                                                      08. The Babble
                                                                                                                                                      09. Turn To Love
                                                                                                                                                      10. Clear Blue Sky
                                                                                                                                                      11. Swan Song
                                                                                                                                                      12. Papier Mache
                                                                                                                                                      13. Kutastha

                                                                                                                                                      The KVB

                                                                                                                                                      Tremors

                                                                                                                                                        'Tremors' sees Manchester-based cold wave duo The KVB return to the darker sound that embodied their earliest releases whilst retaining the infectious energy of their previous album Unity which MOJO described as having a “sense of wonderment throughout”. The band have dubbed their sound on 'Tremors' as ‘dystopian pop’, and wrote it with the live show in mind; full of energy, hooks and dynamic moments. Writing the album between Manchester and Bristol, the band have drawn on their own back catalogue and the music that inspired them at the very beginning of their artistic journey. The end result is the most complete album from The KVB to date, full of emotive impact and hooks presented in a uniquely shadowy atmosphere with an idiosyncratic detachment that adds to the cinematic quality of their sound.

                                                                                                                                                        TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                        1. Negative Drive
                                                                                                                                                        2. Words
                                                                                                                                                        3. Tremors
                                                                                                                                                        4. Labyrinths
                                                                                                                                                        5. In The Silence
                                                                                                                                                        6. Tremors (Reprise)
                                                                                                                                                        7. Overload
                                                                                                                                                        8. Dead Of Night
                                                                                                                                                        9. A Thirst
                                                                                                                                                        10. Deep End

                                                                                                                                                        Dawn Chorus And The Infallible Sea

                                                                                                                                                        Reveries

                                                                                                                                                          Sonic Cathedral will release the new album by American ambient trio Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea.

                                                                                                                                                          Reveries is Zach Frizzell, Marc Ertel and Damien Duque’s first album for over three years, and follows the success of their debut Liberamente. Together, the trio craft delicately textured and slowly unfurling sonic vistas, occupying a unique aural domain that lies between guitar-driven drone music and modern classical compositions.

                                                                                                                                                          With their individual projects they are incredibly prolific, but Dawn Chorus releases are few and far between and Reveries represents a refined evolution, leaning more heavily toward string-based arrangements and compositional virtuosity. It is the very essence of what they are calling “dronegaze”, pushing the boundaries of the ambient genre while embracing a profound auditory expression.

                                                                                                                                                          According to the trio, the six, long tracks on Reveries are “heavily reliant on improvisation, intuition, and allowing the compositions to exist in their own moment; the aim was a feeling of fluidity and a sense that every instrument has its place and purpose”.

                                                                                                                                                          And they’re right. The opening title track emerges quietly in a swirl of strings; lead single ‘Deus’ eases its fittingly reverent grain into a glorious minor-key immensity; ‘Cadere’ pulls together a cast of orchestral instruments into a comforting devotional; ‘Somnium’ plays out in diffuse, shimmering melodic rounds; ‘Vale’ blossoms from a pair of sparse, alternating chord swells; and ‘Aufero’ is the perfect coda that reprises the low-end rumble of the album’s overture before being swept away on a sea of dissonance.

                                                                                                                                                          “We live in an era of infinite distraction,” says Zach Frizzell, “where often the most valuable thing you can find is a respite for the soul.” How right he is. This, truly, is music from a higher place.

                                                                                                                                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                          1. Reveries
                                                                                                                                                          2. Deus
                                                                                                                                                          3. Cadere
                                                                                                                                                          4. Somnium
                                                                                                                                                          5. Vale
                                                                                                                                                          6. Aufero

                                                                                                                                                          Of Montreal

                                                                                                                                                          Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                            Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? is of Montreal's landmark 2007 album. The album defined of Montreal's career and continues to be hailed as a classic. Pitchfork called the album "Ceaselessly fascinating and inexhaustibly replayable," honoring it with "Best New Music" and placing it in the Top 5 albums of 2007.

                                                                                                                                                            With Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, of Montreal has created its masterpiece. It is an irresistible and remarkable album, sounding like a logical extension of the erratic indie-disco sounds of The Sunlandic Twins. However, Hissing Fauna is also the most personal of Montreal album to date, with Kevin Barnes, lead of Montreal songwriter, pouring tremendous amounts of emotion, heartbreak, frustration and elation into its twelve tracks.

                                                                                                                                                            Written and recorded primarily during what they call "an insane year," Hissing Fauna sees Barnes adopt a new writing style. It's an unabashedly autobiographical attempt from a songwriter whose early material tended towards characters and story-songs. Barnes continues down the whimsical pop-funk path, while changing up its lyrical scope; and Hissing Fauna balances its poppy nature while showcasing brutal and unflinching honesty. 

                                                                                                                                                            TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                            1. Suffer For Fashion
                                                                                                                                                            2. Sink The Seine
                                                                                                                                                            3. Cato As A Pun
                                                                                                                                                            4. Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
                                                                                                                                                            5. Gronlandic Edit
                                                                                                                                                            6. A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger
                                                                                                                                                            7. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
                                                                                                                                                            8. Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider
                                                                                                                                                            9. Faberge Falls For Shuggie
                                                                                                                                                            10. Labyrinthian Pomp
                                                                                                                                                            11. She's A Rejecter
                                                                                                                                                            12. We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafling
                                                                                                                                                            13. Du Og Meg
                                                                                                                                                            14. Voltaic Crusher/Undrum To Muted Da
                                                                                                                                                            15. Derailments In A Place Of Our Own
                                                                                                                                                            16. Miss Blonde, Your Papa Is Failing
                                                                                                                                                            17. No Conclusion 

                                                                                                                                                            Of Montreal

                                                                                                                                                            The Sunlandic Twins - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                              Of Montreal's seminal record, The Sunlandic Twins, arrived in April of 2005 as the follow-up to their breakthrough album, Satanic Panic in the Attic.

                                                                                                                                                              TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                              1 Requiem For O.M.M.2
                                                                                                                                                              2 I Was Never Young
                                                                                                                                                              3 Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
                                                                                                                                                              4 Forecast Fascist Future
                                                                                                                                                              5 So Begins Our Alabee
                                                                                                                                                              6 Our Spring Is Sweet Not Fleeting
                                                                                                                                                              7 The Party's Crashing Us
                                                                                                                                                              8 Knight Rider
                                                                                                                                                              9 I Was A Landscape In Your Dream
                                                                                                                                                              10 Death Of A Shade Of A Hue
                                                                                                                                                              11 Oslo In The Summertime
                                                                                                                                                              12 October Is Eternal
                                                                                                                                                              13 The Repudiated Immortals
                                                                                                                                                              14 Art Snob Solutions
                                                                                                                                                              15 The Actor's Opprobrium
                                                                                                                                                              16 Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks
                                                                                                                                                              17 Everyday Feels Like Sunday
                                                                                                                                                              18 Family Noveau
                                                                                                                                                              19 Psychotic Feeling
                                                                                                                                                              20 Kristiansand
                                                                                                                                                              21 Micro University
                                                                                                                                                              22 Subtext Read, Nothing New
                                                                                                                                                              23 Noir Blues To Tinnitus 

                                                                                                                                                              Of Montreal

                                                                                                                                                              Satanic Panic In The Attic - 2024 Reissue

                                                                                                                                                                Satanic Panic in the Attic is of Montreal's sixth full-length release and first for Polyvinyl. Previously, the band released two albums for Bar/None and three for Kindercore. The prolific Athens, Georgia band is an established staple of the US indie-pop scene and has been a continual touring presence.

                                                                                                                                                                The sound of Satanic Panic in the Attic is a slight departure from of Montreal's previous releases yet continues the band's tradition of continually redefining themselves. The influence of 1970's Afro beat and 80's New Wave can clearly be heard throughout the album -- offering fans a new perspective previously unheard from the band. 

                                                                                                                                                                TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                1. Disconnect The Dots
                                                                                                                                                                2. Lysergic Bliss
                                                                                                                                                                3. Will You Come And Fetch M
                                                                                                                                                                4. My British Tour Diary
                                                                                                                                                                5. Rapture Rapes The Muse
                                                                                                                                                                6. Eros' Entropic Tundra
                                                                                                                                                                7. City Bird
                                                                                                                                                                8. Erroneous Escape Into Erik Eckles
                                                                                                                                                                9. Chrissy Kiss The Corps
                                                                                                                                                                10. Your Magic Is Working
                                                                                                                                                                11. Climb The Ladder
                                                                                                                                                                12. How Lester Lost His Wife
                                                                                                                                                                13. Spike The Senses
                                                                                                                                                                14. Vegan In Furs 

                                                                                                                                                                The Ballistic Brothers

                                                                                                                                                                London Hooligan Soul - 2024 Repress

                                                                                                                                                                  Comprising of Darren Rock, Darren House and Ashley Beadle (of XPress 2), alongside David Hill and Uschi Classen, they combined their talents on a series of mysterious vinyl releases in the heady days of the London club scene. If you were part of a clubbing tribe in the early/mid ‘90s - any clubbing tribe - you will have danced to the Ballistic Brothers.

                                                                                                                                                                  TRACK LISTING

                                                                                                                                                                  1. Portobello Café
                                                                                                                                                                  2. Come On
                                                                                                                                                                  3. Soho Cab Ride
                                                                                                                                                                  4. I’ll Fly Away
                                                                                                                                                                  5. Jah Jah Call You
                                                                                                                                                                  6. Mark’s Lude
                                                                                                                                                                  7. I Don’t Know
                                                                                                                                                                  8. Sister Song
                                                                                                                                                                  9. A Beautiful Space
                                                                                                                                                                  10. Steppin’ Into Eden
                                                                                                                                                                  11. Peckings
                                                                                                                                                                  12. Uschi’s Lament

                                                                                                                                                                  Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds

                                                                                                                                                                  That Delicious Vice

                                                                                                                                                                    “It's a new lineup,” landlord of the avant-garage Kid Congo Powers exclaims of the Pink Monkey Birds edition responsible for the fifth studio full-length of their 19 year recording career, That Delicious Vice.

                                                                                                                                                                    “We've gone from a four piece to a three piece,” continues Kid, whose unique guitar style has been at the center of some of the most forward-thinking bands in punk and garage: The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Knoxville Girls, to name a handful.

                                                                                                                                                                    “I'm not sure if living in the desert is making me want more space in music or not,” laughs Kid, a Tucson resident for a few years now. “Maybe I’m turning into a desert stoner rocker. But I'm not a stoner, so that's not happening.”

                                                                                                                                                                    No, the former Brian Tristan is most decidedly not unleashing a Kyuss tribute album. But you hear the desert all over That Delicious Vice, beginning with opening instrumental “East Of East,” its Duane Eddy/Rowland S. Howard guitar twanging through some malicious reverb. You feel it in the slide guitar-drenched theme from an imaginary western, “Silver For My Sister,” which echoes the pioneering Los Angeles blues punk band Kid formed with Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Gun Club. There’s also such unique pieces as the acid/garage cumbia title track, translated into Spanish at least for its name, “Ese Vicio Delicioso.” As he tells the tale of his musical journey over the Pink Monkey Birds’ cowbell-thumping Latinate rhythms, Kid’s thickly distorted guitar groans and screams with feedback, likely a conscious sonic homage to Jimi Hendrix, name checked in the lyrics.

                                                                                                                                                                    But the album’s major hallmark has to be its extended collaboration with Alice Bag, the face of and voice of early LA punk titans The Bags. How and why these two took this long to unite creatively is a dense mystery, considering both graduated with honors from early Hollywood punk palace The Masque, and their photos had to have stared at one another from opposite pages of a few issues of Slash or fLiPSiDe.

                                                                                                                                                                    This led to “Wicked World,” a full-on Kid Congo/Alice Bag duet that’s That Delicious Vice’s second track and major fulcrum. Over rat-a-tat “Big Bad John” drums, a blast of fuzz bass, and Kid’s siren-like slide guitar, the co-composers recount in tandem the tale of a child “born into trouble from a devil seed/Every fork in the road led her here.” It’s a short drive from there through a poor childhood and bad decisions to turning tricks and seeking kicks, amid an atmosphere heady with the scent of sex. The action stops, and Alice chants, “One two three four five six seven — you’re going to Hell, and I’M GOING TO HEAVEN!!” It’s a pulp paperback reincarnated as primal rock ‘n’ roll.

                                                                                                                                                                    That Delicious Vice is produced by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, recorded and mixed by Jim Waters [Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Sonic Youth] at his Waterworks Studios facility in Tucson. It features nine new original tracks that are the band’s strongest to date. The band will be touring Australia in April with more touring to follow.

                                                                                                                                                                    Acetone

                                                                                                                                                                    I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can Stand - Live At The Knitting Factory, NYC: May 31, 1998 (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                      101 Strings

                                                                                                                                                                      Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000 (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                        The 1975

                                                                                                                                                                        The 1975 - Live At Gorilla (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                          On the 1st February 2023, the 1975 played their debut album The 1975 in full for the first time since its 2013 release. The album debuted at number one on the UK charts in September 2013, is certified platinum (US) and 2 x platinum (UK), and set the path toward a solid run of international chart-topping, awards, and sell-out arena tours across their subsequent releases. For the 10th anniversary in 2023, the band recorded the gig making this available on digital and CD. RSD2024 sees the album released on vinyl for the first time pressed on white vinyl with brand new artwork.

                                                                                                                                                                          Air

                                                                                                                                                                          Kelly Watch The Stars (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                            Originally released in 1998 this was the second single from the much acclaimed Moon Safari album. Released as a Picture Disc for RSD 2024

                                                                                                                                                                            Viv Albertine

                                                                                                                                                                            Flesh (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                              America

                                                                                                                                                                              Live From The Hollywood Bowl - 1975 (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                                Travel back in time to August 3, 1975: America takes the stage at the Hollywood Bowl backed by a symphony conducted by George Martin. The never-before-heard tapes have recently been remastered for the new release Live From The Hollywood Bowl - 1975, featuring the live renditions of Americaís hits like ìSister Golden Hair,î ìHorse With No Name,î ìVentura Highway,î and more. This is an unreleased album from the prime of their career. The RSD exclusive will be a 2LP colour variant and include a printed insert of a set list handwritten & autographed by the band.

                                                                                                                                                                                Olafur Arnalds

                                                                                                                                                                                ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                                  At The Drive-In

                                                                                                                                                                                  In/Casino/Out (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                                    The long out-of-print sophomore title from seminal El Paso, Texas band At The Drive-In, featuring favourites "Napoleon Solo," "Chanbara," and "Alpha Centauri." Drowned In Sound proclaims, ìIn/Casino/Out screams at you, beats you into a pulp along with all your conceptions of punk, chews you up and spits you out a newly formed individual" while Vice describes the record as "a document of the moment when one of punkís most exciting bands discovered what they wanted to be." Pressed on limited edition Purple & Green Smoke vinyl.

                                                                                                                                                                                    At The Gates

                                                                                                                                                                                    Slaughter Of The Soul (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                                      Originally issued in 1995, ëSlaughter of the Soulí is considered as one of the most important and influential metal albums of all time. Featuring the classic tracks ëBlinded by Fearí, ëColdí and ëSuicide Nationí, the album married melodic sensibilities with razor edged aggression to devastating effect.

                                                                                                                                                                                      PRESSED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES. THIS ALBUM HAS BEEN SPECIALLY RECREATED USING ëFDRí ñ FULL DYNAMIC RANGE MASTERING - ALLOWING THE MUSICíS NUANCES TO SHINE THROUGH AND GIVING THIS CLASSIC ALBUM A MORE FEROCIOUS AND DYNAMIC SOUND, ENABLING THE LISTENER TO IMMERSE IN THE FULL AUDIO HEAVINESS LIKE NEVER BEFORE. Limited edition Orange and white splatter vinyl with Earache Records exclusive ë35 years Of Noiseí branded OBI Strip & Hype Sticker. ? Includes exclusive new liner notes by At The Gates bassist Jonas Bjˆrler, along with a 12" colour insert featuring classic era photographs. ? Only 1000 copies worldwide, a must have for any death metal vinyl collection. ? Widely considered as one of the most important and influential metal albums of all time

                                                                                                                                                                                      Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon

                                                                                                                                                                                      In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                                        The Beat

                                                                                                                                                                                        Wha'ppen? (Expanded Edition) (RSD24 EDITION)

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                                                                                                                                                                                          The second of the three English Beat/ Beat albums expanded for RSD with a 2nd LP of non-LP singles and remixes.

                                                                                                                                                                                          The Bevis Frond

                                                                                                                                                                                          Live At The Great American Music Hall (RSD24 EDITION)

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