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The Courettes

Shake! / You Woo Me

    Two brand new tracks by The Courettes on GOLD coloured vinyl! A-side will also feature on the band’s next album! B-side exclusive to this release! The grooviest Courettes’ tune to date! Try to listen to ‘Shake!’ without rocking your hips! An invitation - or better, an intimation - to put out your pointy shoes, let it loose and make your best sleazy moves! Killer fuzz riffs, Motown beats, hints of soul and young Tina Turner vibes are all in there, showcasing a bit of the recipe of The Courettes’ next album due out in September 2024 on Damaged Goods Records. 

    TRACK LISTING

    1.Shake!
    2. You Woo Me

    Larkin Poe

    Self Made Man

      After a remarkable two-year run that saw them earn a GRAMMY? Award nomination for their last chart-topping studio album while touring the world from Nashville to New Zealand and back again, Larkin Poe have returned with what is undeniably their most wide-reaching, artistically adventurous, and self-determined work to date. Once again taking the producer reins and releasing on their own Tricki-Woo Records label, Self Made Man sees the multiinstrumentalist sister duo, comprised of the Atlanta-bred, Nashville-based Rebecca and Megan Lovell, pushing their music and message towards hitherto unexplored terrain, inspired by their epic world travels yet still powerfully rooted in the creative heritage of their beloved American South. From the thunderous power of the album-opening "She's A Self Made Man," through the nostalgic "Tears of Blue to Gold" and fierce Chicago blues of "Scorpion," to the front porch jubilation of "Easy Street," the album is ambitious in both its eclectic, energetic sound and its resolutely welcoming mission, its universal lyrical approach fueled by tradition, invention, and Larkin Poe's remarkable ability to touch the hearts and souls of their fellow humans worldwide.

      TRACK LISTING

      SIDE A
      1. She’s A Self Made Man
      2. Holy Ghost Fire
      3. Keep Diggin’
      4. Back Down South
      5. Tears Of Blue To Gold

      SIDE B
      1. God Moves On The Water
      2. Every Bird That Flies
      3. Scorpion
      4. Danger Angel
      5. Ex-Con
      6. Easy Street

      Larkin Poe

      Kindred Spirits

        After a remarkable two-year run that saw them earn a GRAMMY® Award nomination for their studio album, Venom & Faith, and chart-topping success of their 2020 album, Self Made Man, Larkin Poe, comprised of the Atlanta-bred, Nashville-based sister duo Rebecca and Megan Lovell, are gearing up to release a covers album named Kindred Spirits.

        Coming up in a family of music lovers, a lot of the songs Megan and Rebecca have always gravitated towards learning have been with them since childhood; they started a YouTube series dedicated to paying tribute to their musical heroes in 2015 that unexpectedly took off and when fans began requesting recorded versions of the songs, the sisters started daydreaming about how an interpretive album might take shape. In recording Kindred Spirits, their admiration for the artists who originally wrote and performed the songs blossomed into an even deeper reverence.

        Bringing these songs into the studio, stripping them back to the bones and recording them live and raw, felt like a ritual. Megan and Rebecca are grateful for the experience of making this album and grateful to the Kindred Spirits who have come before them and written the soundtrack of their lives. Music is a bridge that can connect generations across time.

        TRACK LISTING

        SIDE A
        1. HellHound On My Trail
        2. Fly Away
        3. Rockin’ In The Free World
        4. (You’re The) Devil In Disguise
        5. In The Air Tonight
        6. Nights In White Satin

        SIDE B
        1. Who Do You Love
        2. Take What You Want
        3. Ramblin’ Man
        4. Bell Bottom Blues
        5. Crocodile Rock

        Woo

        Into The Heart Of Love

          Absolutely essential. Deluxe 2LP edition of this impeccable album from 1988. The spot glossed Gatefold jacket features artwork including archival photos & drawings from Woo’s archives as well as liner notes by Clive Ives (one half of the band). Issued for the first time in its entirety on vinyl, spread over two LPs, and remastered from newly discovered hi-quality DAT sources, we’re thrilled to present the definitive version of Woo’s most fully-formed album. A cosmic testament to the healing power of love, utilizing vocoded clarinets, pastoral guitars, homespun folk lullabies, and lilting electronics, coalescing into a an hour plus long journey through their otherworldly soundscapes. A prime entry point to Woo’s sound, containing some of their most beloved songs, such as ‘Make Me Tea,’ ‘It’s Love,’ ‘Hopi’ and many others, and also including a never-before heard bonus track – the vocal version of ‘It’s Love.’

          Into The Heart Of Love was originally self-released on cassette in 1988, with a wider cassette release in 1990. Compiled from home recordings from the preceding years, and released during a transitional point for the band, the Ives brothers see this album as their most complete work, offering space to the listener to stretch out and immerse themselves into the warmth of their sound.

          Woo is the uncategorizable project of Clive and Mark Ives from Brighton, UK. Since the 1970s, the duo have been recording a plethora of eclectic sounds, most falling under the blanket genre of new age, but spiraling out toward notions of ambient sounds, jazz, and other spiritual takes on modern music. They received some acclaim for their early releases, including 1982's Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong and 1989's It's Cosy Inside, but their work began to receive renewed appreciation during the 2010s, when labels such as Drag City and Palto Flats reissued the band's albums. The brothers remained active all the while, digitally self-issuing material.

          TRACK LISTING

          Hopi
          Taizee
          Make Me Tea
          A Little Long Way
          Frogs Of Fandango
          When You Find Your Love
          Complex Art
          Trishas Return
          Into The Heart Of Love
          Love On Other Planets
          Dont Delay
          Woo Woo
          The Subtle Shadow
          Sarah
          Are You Falling
          Its Love
          Mountains
          Gentle Actions
          The Return Journey
          The Heart Of Love Lullabye
          The Heart Sleeps
          Spaces We Breath
          It's Love (Vocal)

          Woo

          Paradise In Pimlico

            After their celestial Arcturian Corridors opened proceedings on Quindi, London-based brothers Clive and Mark Ives are back with a new record. When Woo first began recording at home in the early 70s, Clive and Mark were the embodiment of furtive genius. Since re-emerging in 2013, they’ve released scores of albums, collaborated with Seahawks, and have now struck up a productive relationship with Quindi.

            On Paradise In Pimlico, you’re hearing a very different sound to the one gently creaked out on early classics like Into The Heart Of Love. This is fulsome, contemporary production rich in detail and artful sound design, but crucially, Clive and Mark’s gorgeously melodic approach remains open and inquisitive, even with the sheen and shimmer of modern studio techniques.

            Woo sound more confident than ever in their composition, too. The crystalline, fragile tones of ‘Cadenza D’Innocenza’ glide through key changes that spell out an engrossing narrative, while the cascading melodies on ‘Moment To Moment’ pirouette across the space between notes with masterful poise. ‘Paradise In Pimlico’ is an illustrious suite of orchestral composition played out with the lightest touch, framed by the slightest of synthesized fauna and topped off with tender sax and flute. Album closer ‘In Case Love Fails’ takes on a subtly cinematic urgency with its undercurrents of walking bass and the strike of the string section (synthetic or otherwise).

            There’s space for markedly new approaches, too. The rhythm section on ‘The Motorik Mirror’ clunks and pops with a tactile, high-definition quality which teeters between electronic sculpture and clockwork, organic machination. The deft, lightly-brushed drums coursing through ‘Even More Notes’ see Clive and Mark step into a different mood, celebrating the beat as another fluid, tonally-rich texture in the mix and adding a smoky, jazzy hue to the Woo repertoire.

            It’s far from a drum-focused exercise though. At every turn, you’re confronted with aching beauty and timbral surprises. If there’s one constant throughout Paradise In Pimlico, it’s the omnipresent chimes. These twinkling drops of light scattered throughout are something of a hallmark of Woo, ensuring the lilting, lullaby-like magic of their music persists whichever direction they head in.


            TRACK LISTING

            A1. Let It All In
            A2. The Motorik Mirror
            A3. Cadenza D'Innocenza
            A4. Gold Star
            B1. Paradise In Pimlico

            Floodlights

            From A View

              ‘From a View’ is the debut album from Melbourne’s Floodlights.

              'From a View' explores themes of identity, personal cross-roads and the misuse of power.

              The bands first exploration into proper studio recording with a well regarded sound engineer. It was recorded over two days onto a 24 track tape machine at Head Gap studios in Preston in November.

              Floodlights are made up of members Louis Parsons, Ashlee Kehoe, Joe Draffen and Archie Shannon. They present a distinctly Australian perspective, with a shambolic, catchy sound that melds 80s Indie-Rock rock with 90s New Zealand jangle-pop.

              Following a tour of Australia’s East Coast in October last year the band began working on “From a View”. The songs were arranged and performed as a band, but often began from Louis or Ash presenting ideas to the group and building on them from there. The songs themselves were written over various points in the bands short career, yet come together very fittingly to show their distinct sound.

              Lead single Thanks For Understanding is about two lives going in different directions. It describes the complicated process of growing apart from someone, even though you still care for them.


              STAFF COMMENTS

              Laura says: Great debut album from this Melbourne four piece. They have a distinctly Antipodean sound, that draws on 80s and 90s indie rock with a nod to Flying Nun records in it's prime.

              TRACK LISTING

              Side A: 
              1 Water's Edge
              2 Matter Of Time
              3 Walk Away
              4 Don't Pick That Scratch
              5 Glory Of Control
              6 Thanks For Understanding

              Side B:
              7 It Was All Going So Well
              8 Tropical Fun
              9 Proud And Well
              10 Shifting Shadows
              11 Happiness

              Woo

              Arcturian Corridor

                The premise for Quindi Records is simple – to represent music with a universality at its core. Without adhering to specific genre tropes, the releases are intended to have a meaning and purpose in all kinds of situations – a social soundtrack as much as a stimulating experience, feeding emotions and the psyche with a sentimental palette of sounds. Lovers’ music, loners’ music, music for friends and family alike.

                Woo makes for a perfect choice to meet this loose concept head-on – the music of Clive and Mark Ives straddles disparate worlds and finds its own peculiar balance. On one hand it’s delicate synthesizer music with a minimalist bent, while on the other their joyous, twinkling harmonies have an immediacy that speaks to the soul. You can detect privacy in their craft – the brothers originally recorded their music in relative isolation in London in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. It’s only in recent years their sublime work has enjoyed a wider audience through an extensive run of reissues.

                Arcturian Corridor presents a rare, previously unreleased piece of music from Woo – the expansive suite of the title track that unfurls across five parts. It’s an enchanting listen that shows a new breadth and depth to the duo – detailed drum programming and a broader palette of synth tones cascading in elegant unison. The name refers to Arcturus, the fourth brighteststar in the night sky. As Woo themselves explain, “The Arcturian Corridor is said to be a channel of light that brings.


                TRACK LISTING

                A1: Arc I 4.48
                A2: Arc II 4.14
                A3: Arc III 3.57
                A4: Arc IV 3.40
                A5: Arc V 4.16
                B1: Love On Other Planets (Woo Remix) 5.13
                B2: AC V (Wino Wagon Remix) 7.42
                B3: AC II (Ultramarine Remix) 4.18

                Woo

                When The Past Arrives

                  Woo are brothers Mark and Clive Ives. Emboldened by the success of the recent reissue of ‘It’s Cosy Inside’, Mark and Clive had a listen to hundreds of previously unreleased tracks recorded in the 70s and 80s to assemble their first new record in two decades, ‘When The Past Arrives’, from Drag City / Yoga Records.

                  With comparisons to Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Animal Collective, Cluster, and Brian Eno, Woo’s profile in the world of atemporal music has been growing for years. For the lucky few who know, like Fela, or Neu!, Woo has their own instantly recognisable vibrantly pulsing sound, a quiet sound of comfort and contentment.

                  “If we got something good happening it would continue into the early hours. I remember one morning waking up still sitting at my keyboard, the phone as my pillow. The woman below us would thump the ceiling with a broom handle when she got sick of the noise, so that influenced a lot of what we could do and how we would work: drums became triangles, clarinets were played real breathy, guitars were plucked, not strummed. Even hitting the keyboard keys were not to be struck too hard. This new album is mainly a result of these late night recordings. Soft melodic compositions created on either piano or guitar, then multi tracked with improvisations and harmonic patterns.” - Clive.

                  ‘When The Past Arrives’ is a collection of deceptively airy jams, addictive, crystalline. Uncut called ‘It’s Cosy Inside’ “the epitome of domestic bliss,” and Pitchfork observed that the album “stakes itself on the premise that the most cosmic and revelatory experiences you’ll ever have will all happen between your house and the backyard.” As if to answer, the Ives brothers selected a vocal track to complete the album, which asks, “How far out, will you go today up the garden path?”

                  The album includes performances from a handful of very special guests including Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (singing duet on "Would You") and members of Lambchop and The Silver Jews (Matt Swanson on bass, Tony Crow on synth and William Tyler on electric guitar). Strings and horns were recorded in Kangaroo Valley by Tony Dupe. "A Loud Call" was recorded in a brick house on a leafy street in Nashville, Tennessee by engineer and producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Andrew Bird, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy). Partly written on the road , partly written at home, the songs on "A Loud Call" find their inspiration in the tenuous gaps between hope and resignation, romance and indecision, nostalgia and rejuvenation. From the swelling guitar feedback and beds of vocal harmonies which engulf the opening track ("Warm Jets") to the odd-pop, bicycle wheel percussion of "Time It Takes" and the bright sparks of trumpets and pizzicato cellos on "A Heart Divided" the album is richer and more full bodied than its predecessors. But for all it's diversity, "A Loud Call" is effortlessly cohesive: quotidian narratives, epigrams against heartbreak, and vivid, otherworldly fragments are anchored by Holly's distinctive phrasing and lyrical concision.


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