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Seefeel

Pure, Impure - 2025 Reissue

Seefeel are a pioneering, experimental electronic band. Formed in London in the early 1990s, they emerged as one of the most innovative bands bridging shoegaze and electronic music, known for their textured soundscapes, minimalist rhythms and ambient sensibilities.

This new, expanded version of 'Pure, Impure' brings together Seefeel’s three classic EPs; 'More Like Space', 'Plainsong', and 'Time to Find Me', and includes Aphex Twin mixes and a previously unreleased demo of 'Moodswing'. Remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road Studios, this 11-track collection also features newly reimagined artwork.

Their 1993 EP 'Pure, Impure', released on Too Pure, marked a pivotal moment in their evolution, offering a more stripped-down, hypnotic approach than their debut Quique. The EP’s tracks explore loop-based structures, subtle melodic shifts and the fusion of organic guitar tones with machine-like precision. 'Pure, Impure' reflects the band's growing interest in dub, ambient techno, and post-rock aesthetics. The EP served as a blueprint for their future work, signaling a deeper dive into electronic experimentation. With its understated beauty and genre-defying sound, the EP remains a key release in Seefeel’s catalogue.

TRACK LISTING

1. More Like Space
2. Time To Find Me (Come Inside)
3. Come Alive
4. Blue Easy Sleep
5. Plainsong
6. Moodswing
7. Minky Starshine
8. Time To Find Me - AFX Fast Mix
9. Time To Find Me - AFX Slow Mix
10. Plainsong - Sine Bubble Embossed Dub
11. Moodswing - Demo

Seefeel

Quique - 2025 Reissue

Seefeel's 'Quique' emerged in 1993 on the Too Pure label, blending elements of shoegaze, ambient, and electronic music into an innovative and genre-defying sound. The record’s complex textures, pulsating rhythms, and ethereal melodies create an immersive listening experience, with tracks like “Climactic Phase #3” and “Industrious” showcasing the band's pioneering approach. Mark Clifford's intricate production, combined with Sarah Peacock’s delicate vocals, crafts a dreamlike atmosphere. 'Quique' was a trailblazer for the fusion of organic and digital soundscapes.

TRACK LISTING

1. Climactic Phase #3
2. Polyfusion
3. Industrious
4. Imperial
5. Plainsong
6. Charlotte's Mouth
7. Through You
8. Filter Dub
9. Signals

Seefeel

Quique (Redux)

Seefeel's 'Quique' emerged in 1993 on the Too Pure label, blending elements of shoegaze, ambient, and electronic music into an innovative and genre-defying sound. The record’s complex textures, pulsating rhythms, and ethereal melodies create an immersive listening experience, with tracks like “Climactic Phase #3” and “Industrious” showcasing the band's pioneering approach. Mark Clifford's intricate production, combined with Sarah Peacock’s delicate vocals, crafts a dreamlike atmosphere. 'Quique' was a trailblazer for the fusion of organic and digital soundscapes.

TRACK LISTING

CD1:
1. Climactic Phase #3
2. Polyfusion
3. Industrious
4. Imperial
5. Plainsong
6. Charlotte's Mouth
7. Through You
8. Filter Dub
9. Signals

CD2:
1. Clique
2. Is It Now?
3. Filter Dub (i-01 Mix)
4. Come Alive (Climactic Phase #1)
5. Time To Find Me (Alternate Desk Mix)
6. Charlotte's Mouth (Avant Garde Mix)
7. My Super 20
8. Climactic Phase #3 (Overnight Mix)
9. Silent Pool

Mclusky

The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire - 20th Anniversary Edition

Twenty years ago, mclusky released their third album, 'The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire' via Too Pure. In the years since, their legend has only grown, proved by their recent sold-out tour dates and announcement of a new album. Alternative Press described them as “a smash up between the scabrous rock noise of the Jesus Lizard and the jagged rhythms and open spaces of Gang Of Four”. Originally produced by the late, great Steve Albini, this reissue has been mastered by his close friend and Shellac bandmate, Bob Weston.

TRACK LISTING

1. Withoug MSG I Am Nothing
2. That Man Will Not Hang
3. She Will Only Bring You Happiness
4. Kkkitchens, What Were You Thinking?
5. Your Children Are Waiting For You To Die
6. Icarus Smicarus
7. Slay!
8. You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus
9. Lucky Jim
10. Forget About Him, I’m Mint
11. 1956 And All That
12. Falco Vs. The Young Canoeist
13. Support Systems

Moonshake

Eva Luna - 2023 Reissue

Moonshake was formed in 1991 by David Callahan (vocals, guitars, samplers), formerly of The Wolfhounds, and New York musician Margaret Fiedler (vocals, guitars, samplers). Callahan and Fiedler recorded a demo for Creation Records, and were joined by John Frenett (bass) and Miguel Morland (“Mig”, drums) to record and release the First EP for Creation in 1991 . They took their name from a 1973 single by Can. Both Fiedler and Callahan wrote songs, and they would (generally) sing on the songs that they wrote. Their output of shared inspiration produced wildly different results - Can, PIL, Kraftwerk, MBV, Erik B & Rakim were a melting pot that made Moonshake somewhat uncategorizable, and as Margaret noted in an interview, “Moonshake was a collision - it was supposed to be a collision.”

Their debut album Eva Luna took its name from a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende and the tracks on it are split evenly between the two songwriters. Callahan’s songs are somewhat

angry, dissonant, post-punk affairs, while Fiedler’s are just as angular, but her quieter sometimes near whispered vocals compliment her writing partner’s equally. Producer/engineer Guy Fixsen, fresh from his work on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless, was instrumental in making the album cohesive.

This album has been critically revisited often since its original release, with Tiny Mix Tapes describing their sound as “an updated take on Can and Public Image Limited’s rhythmic propulsion with noisier guitar work and a predilection for sampling influenced by The Young Gods.” Last year, in a wonderfully long piece to celebrate the album’s 30th anniversary, Louder Than War wrote that they were blown away by the album’s “utterly spellbinding, dizzyingly genre-defying approach at articulating explicitly the sound of a city in the throes of urban psychosis and derangement...Eva Luna really is one hell of a ground-breaking record, and it stands resolutely alone among all of the albums released in 1992 as no other band has managed to create anything remotely similar before or since. It really is a unique album with few equals.”

In 1993, the original incarnation of the band split up, and Margaret Fiedler and John Frenett went on to form Laika with Guy Fixsen. Callahan and Morland continued on with guest musicians, with Callahan ultimately remaining the band’s sole original member. Moonshake ended in 1997 but their legacy is indisputable.

TRACK LISTING

1. City Poison
2. Sweetheart
3. Spaceship Earth
4. Beautiful Pigeon
5. Mugshot Heroine
6. Wanderlust
7. Tar Baby
8. Seen & Not Heard
9. Bleach & Salt Water
10. Little Thing
11. Secondhand Clothes
12. Blister
13. Beeside
14. Home Survival Kit
15. Drop In The Ocean
16. Coming (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
17. Beautiful Pigeon (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
18. Sweetheart (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
19. Mugshot Heroine (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)

PJ Harvey

Dry - Remastered Vinyl Edition

Dry is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey, originally released on Too Pure Records on 30 March 1992. The album was recorded at The Icehouse, a local studio in Yeovil. Critically lauded both on release and retrospectively, the album contains the singles “Dress’ and ‘Sheela-Na-Gig’

Back in print for the first time in almost 20 years, Beggars Archive on behalf of Too Pure Records is pleased to announce the re-issue of Dry on vinyl. The album was remastered by the original producer “Head” and has been replicated to the original version as much as possible. 

Pitchfork – “On her debut, Polly Jean Harvey matched Patti Smith’s incandescence with Bessie Smith’s lasciviousness, outplayed everyone on the British indie circuit, and became an instant star - 9.2”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Available on vinyl for the first time in 20 years, PJ Harvey’s ‘Dry’ was a kick in the spine for indie music of the time, and remains as uncompromisingly raw and sonically hulking as it did back then.

TRACK LISTING

Oh My Lover
Oh Stella
Dress
Victory
Happy And Bleeding
Sheela-na-gig
Hair
Joe
Plants And Rags
Fountain
Water

Stereolab

The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music

 ‘The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music’ is an 8-track mini album, released in 1993.

Often noted as being one of the most influential and original bands of the 90s, Stereolab were formed by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier in London in 1990 and released 13 studio albums, 15 EPs and numerous singles. Simon Reynolds commented in Rolling Stone that the group’s early records form “an endlessly seductive body of work that sounds always the same, always different.”

Theirs is a rich, overflowing palette, readily able to blur the gulf between Os Mutantes and the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra; merge Krzysztof Komeda with the Velvet Underground, Francoise Hardy with Neu! and Burt Bacharach with Esquivel. A deluxe blend, in other words, with ingredients plucked assiduously from pop’s coolest outposts: 50’s lounge, Rive Gauche chanson, Brazilian tropicalia, North American art rock, East European film music, Krautrock. hi-fi test recordings, mood music and more. Somehow they distil these apparently incongruent components into an ageless exotica that is all their own.

TRACK LISTING

Avant Garde M.O.R.
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Mellow)
The Groop Play Chord X
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Foamy)
Ronco Symphony
We're Not Adult Orientated
U.H.F. - MFP
We're Not Adult Orientated (Neu Wave Live)

Thee MVPs

Sesh

Thee MVPs are closing out a very solid 2017 with a brand new 45 of two solid gold rippers. Already this year the band have smashed a 36 day world tour across America, SXSW and the UK, opening for notable acts like Meatbodies, Television, Mystery Lights, Night Beats and Pulled Apart By Horses as well as numerous international and national shows.

In the final months of a year we can all agree has been caked in shredded nerves, it's only fitting that Thee MVPs newest single ‘Sesh’ is a 3 minute stomper of low tuned riffs set against some Weezer-style vocals, which addresses the issue of the ‘session’. It only takes about 10 seconds to realise the lyrics ain’t the happy message that’s being rolled out on the upbeat guitars. A song about dealing with your lot as a millennial and using the drink just a tad too much to see you through the week, it’s the Thursday morning rush of the guilts soundtrack you brought on yourself for already having two benders this week.

Mastered at Abbey Road and recorded by hard hitting producer Wayne Adams, Thee MVPs know their way around a tune and a riff and a beat in that way only a group with 200+ gigs and countless tours will know, with an upcoming UK tour supporting Together Pangea and some special release shows planned across the UK and mainland EU, dig in deep to these very excellent cuts of classic / punk / garage / pop / whatever rock.

Pet Crow

How Are You Wired?

Derby-based Pet Crow formed nearly two years ago and in that relatively short space of time they’ve caused a stir within the DIY scene and beyond, being featured in publications such as Louder Than War, Upset Mag, New Noise, The Revue and The National Student.

They’ve been featured on such shows as Radio X (formerly XFM) and Amazing Radio and shared stages with the likes of The Lovely Eggs and Menace Beach.

Having drawn comparisons to a wide range of artists such as The Julie Ruin, MC5 and The Sonics, their sound is an energetic and groove-laden mix of garage-punk / rock with nods to riot-grrl and surf-rock.

Seize The Chair

Knew You'd Never Been There

Sheffield-based Seize The Chair release ‘Knew You’d Never Been There’ on 7” on the Too Pure Singles Club.

Warm and melodic with a soft grooving bassline, there’s a great 90s nostalgia to ‘Knew You’d Never Been There’.

Backed with brand new track ‘Secret Sister’.

For fans of Ride and The Charlatans.

TRACK LISTING

Knew You’d Never Been There
Secret Sister

The St Pierre Snake Invasion

Dick E Mozart

“Dick E Mozart” is 1:16 of grunge fuelled hardcore brilliance backed with the equally brilliant “Appendages”

The St Pierre Snake Invasion are a 5-piece rock band based in Bristol, England. They consist of Damien Sayell (Vocals), Sam James (Drums), Szack Notaro (Guitar), Dave Larkin (Bass guitar) and Patrick Daly (Guitar). The band took their name from an historical event from 1902 when the eruption of a volcano on the island of St Pierre, Martinique, sent an army of 6 ft. long snakes to the mulatto quarter of St Pierre in a mad dash to avoid the flowing lava. They killed over 50 people before the town’s street cats fought them off. A tsunami soon followed, killing all in its path, leaving only two survivors.

Unqualified Nurse Band

Death Surf A52 / White Dove

Too Pure present the third instalment of the 2017 edition of the Singles Club with the awesome Unqualified Nurse band.

Derby’s Unqualified Nurse Band follow up 2016’s debut album ‘Debasement Tapes’ with the two headed beast that is ‘Death Surf A52’ / ‘White Dove’.

‘Death Surf A52’ is a one note juggernaut that opens up into Dream Surf bliss, weaving its way through 50 shades of rock and roll with no intention of slowing down for anybody.

Significant other ‘White Dove’ staggers and struts and then before you know it you’re howling at the Harvest Moon.

Both songs recorded by Rich Collins at SNUG Recording CO, Derby and mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton. 

TRACK LISTING

Death Surf A52
White Dove

Family Scraps

Mistakes

The Too Pure Singles Club is proud to announce the first single for 2017 will be by Family Scraps.

Family Scraps is Matthew Johnson (MJ) of Hookworms and Suburban Home Studio and this Too Pure 7" is his first release under the name.

Mistakes and It Follows are two songs about loss and were recorded at Suburban Home before and after the Boxing Day floods of 2015.

A full length album will follow in 2017.

TRACK LISTING

Mistakes
It Follows

Grief Tourist

Strigoi

Too Pure Singles Club announce ‘Strigoi’, the latest release from Grief Tourist.

Grief Tourist were formed by drummer Lee Vincent and inspired by Ceremony’s ‘Rohnert Park’ album. You can tell, too. “I would send GarageBand recordings to Rich [Wells], who lives in Leeds,” says Vincent. “He would scream over the recordings and record them on a dictaphone in his front room, then send them back. The recordings had that gross quality we wanted, so we definitely wanted to replicate that when we recorded properly. He’s upgraded to screaming in his mate’s carpet shop now.” Morgan Sinclair completed the line-up and off the trio went to a Perspex Flesh show, which also influences their bludgeoning punk.




TRACK LISTING

Strigoi
Hung Again
Skull
Greef
Nails In
Not Here

Paul Draper

Feeling My Heart Run Slow

This two track vinyl, which includes a stunning collaboration with prog rock musician Steven Wilson, is released on Too Pure records to celebrate their 100th release and is limited to only 500 copies.

TRACK LISTING

A. Feeling Your Heart Run Slow
B. No Ideas

Hippies Vs Ghosts

Wazo

Hippies Vs Ghosts are primarily Owain Ginsberg from Masters In France / We Are Animal and ‘Wazo’ will be the band’s debut 7”.

Since blasting on to the scene some 18 months ago, under this particular guise, Ginsberg has regularly blown listeners away with his kaleidoscopic, instrumental Morricone meets Krautrock sound, during which time he’s served up a number of quality EPs, one off tracks and a stunning debut album, ‘Mother Tongue’ (one of 2014’s finest).

In a parting gesture to a rather productive 2014, Hippies Vs Ghosts sign off with brand new 7″ single ‘Wazo’. ‘Wazo’ captures the very essence of Hippies Vs Ghosts; Krautrock indebted psychedelia of epic proportions. Propelled onward by a chugging bass and persistent percussives, it hurtles along at breakneck speed with menacing intent, bending and contorting through a sea of swirling noise and scorching riffs. Urgent, catchy, and oh so irresistible!

B-side companion ‘Hibou Calling’ is a much more tempered affair. A gentle acoustic strum, soft percussion and hushed repeated vocals fuse with some floaty sonic sounding atmospherics to soothe the soul and whisk one’s mind away to a lofty transcendental plain.

‘Wazo’ is released as part of the Too Pure Singles Club.

TRACK LISTING

Wazo
Hibou Calling

Electrelane

No Shouts No Calls

‘No Shouts No Calls’ is the fourth studio album by Brighton based Electrelane. Originally released on Too Pure back in 2007 it’s widely considered the band’s most accessible work to date and it delivers a set of urgent, romantic epics.

Tracks like ‘The Greater Times’ and ‘To The East’ are direct yet complex, with soaring melodies, and the contrast between intimate, almost too-personal words and the swelling sounds around them is exquisite.

And while the album is dominated by the intense, impatient joy of ‘At Sea’, which rides glorious swells of keyboards and fuzzy guitars, its lightly heartbroken moments are just as lovely: ‘Saturday’ boasts beautiful call-and-response vocals and lyrics that feel like a nursery rhyme about a breakup; ‘Cut And Run’ pairs a lighthearted melody and ukulele with the painful realization that a relationship is likely over.

‘No Shouts No Calls’ instrumentals are just as strong as the vocal tracks, and they revel in the pure emotional power of sound. ‘Tram 21’s mischievous organ and guitar interplay is jaunty and slightly trippy, while ‘Five’ is the album’s searing, insistent powerhouse.

‘No Shouts No Calls’ might be some of Electrelane’s most accessible work, but it’s far from safe; in fact, its sweet vulnerability is exactly what makes it so special.

Finally available again on lavish double vinyl.

Electrelane

Singles, B-Sides & Live

Electrelane are a band with a relatively long history – three albums and an EP as well as several singles over six years – yet their consistently uncompromising attitude and ability to release outstandingly fresh and unique records has kept them somewhat of an enigma, with each record feeling like a re-birth and the beginning of something very special. "Singles, B-Sides & Live" is not only a celebration of Electrelane's diverse work but also the first time that rare, non-album tracks have been available on one compilation. It includes limited 7" releases from Fierce Panda and Indenial as well as singles released on Electrelane's own label Let's Rock before signing to present label Too Pure in 2003.

PJ Harvey

Dry

The awesome 1992 debut album from one of the most unique and compelling female artists of the past 20 years. A powerful, groundbreaking set, "Dry" serves as an introduction to Harvey's fierce, blues-tinged guitar and highly visual lyrical angle that picks at the scabs of female iconography. On these raw, angry songs she's joined by musicians Stephen Vaughan (bass) and Robert Ellis (drums, vocals, harmonium). Includes classic songs "Sheela-Na-Gig", "Dress" and "Oh My Lover". Essential.

McLusky

McLuskyism

Mclusky are dead. And yet "Mcluskyism" is here; a lasting testament to one of the most under-rated UK bands of recent years. There are few around that share their musicianship, graft and humour which, aptly according to Pitchfork, 'lightens the harsh crunch of their mom-murdering instrumental beatdown' and 'gives them a way to take the piss out of themselves'.


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