Years ago we saw Kling Klang in a warehouse basement between Oval and Camberwell - two decades ago, I reckon. Synths were rigged up in a DIY sci-fi fashion, wires and cables everywhere. it was heavy. In 2025 we know heavy takes on all forms. It doesn't need to be guitars. We know punk rock takes on all forms, it's not defined by spikey hair. Nothing is anything anymore.

Wrong Speed is proud to be releasing the second Kling Klang album. It makes sense. Two of the band are in Part Chimp. The band is from our world - on the surface. Dig in though and this record is being beamed in from the furthest reaches of the galaxy. Did you watch 'John Was Trying To Contact Aliens' on Netflix? If not, go watch it. It's 15 minutes long. John would love Kling Klang. This is the music he would have been firing into space, had it existed back then.

Synth heavy, hypnotic, soundtrack inspired, motorik music from the past and the future. DIY as hell. Punk rock as hell. Catchy as hell. Creepy and wild.

300 pressed on sweet wasp yellow vinyl. The band is touring the UK, 26th November through to the 7th December - a rare occurrence, don't miss.

TRACK LISTING

1.  Inter
2.Non Zero
3 Tone Defeat
4. Later
5.Floating District
6. Point Dix Sept
7. Anna O
8. Negative Number
9. Codán
10. Half Life

Human Leather have always been a ferocious live act, unbelievably loud for a 2 piece.

Their gigs are often an overwhelming wall of sludge, howls and amphetamine-addled drums, with spectators flying joyously around the pit. Previous recordings did full justice to the impact of the live show; however, the second helping is something else.

On Here Comes the Mind, There Goes the Body the sludge is still present, rising, and lapping at your ankles, but there’s a new clarity showing off exactly how f*cking good those riffs are.

There are ear worm riffs for days, shout along vocals that roar, shriek and reform into a Greek chorus, drums that thump you repeatedly in the chest and then the whole thing vanishes in just under 30 minutes, leaving you bruised, deafened and with Some Questions about your life. Squint your ears a bit and you'll hear the influences of bands like Karp, Torche and Big Business but they're thrown into a much crustier stew.

The lyrics span a variety of political issues, not limited to the landed gentry, global warming and consumerist harbingers of doom.

Importantly the songs are also not afraid to discuss class issues (unlike many political bands who you suspect have a much sturdier security net). While this could easily feel preachy, every line is delivered with the knowing wink of the underdog and good humour (I am going to smile every time I think of “clod damn” or "QVC Hands" staring up at me from the lyric sheet), and the vibes are as they’ve always been in difficult times - “we know we’re fucked, tonight we mosh, tomorrow we march”. And what is the point of a revolution you can’t dance to?

Speaking of dancing, the final track features an honest-to-god dance beat, acid squelches and disembodied vocal samples, pointing to an alternative universe in which Human Leather are a heavy electroclash band. Here comes the record of the year, bring what is left of your eardrums. You didn’t need that body anyway.

TRACK LISTING

1.  Intro
2. Dark Depths And Surface Tension
3. Existence Is Not A Solo Sport
4. It's A Shit Business, Glad I'm Out Of It
5.Ain't No Such Thing As Civilised, It's Man So In Love With Greed, He Has Forgotten Himself And Found Only Appetites
6. Lore Of The Land
7. QVC Hands
8. Momentary Masters Of A Fraction Of A Dot
9. The Enclosed The Common Land And Built A Fucking Lawn
10. A Birthright Sham, A Downright Shame
11. Spare Me The Pleasant Trees
12. Outro

AAA Gripper have seemingly dropped out of nowhere but the story goes back. The idea was conjured in the summer of 2023 at the first Wrong Speed Records festival in the town of Glastonbury. Inspired by a weekend of radical sounds and fine company a decision was made - 'let's try something'.

Recording hours and hours of bass and drums in deep Somerset then editing it down to a sharp and concise 32 minutes. From Can's Lost Tapes boxset to No Means No's 0+2=1 via a thousand song structure decisions. Wild guitar strafe and precise hyper vocal added. Nine tight tunes magically appeared. The band raised a glass of tea. The band was born. The 'something' had worked.

We Invented Work For The Common Good is a deep dive into the world of the working person. How we end up. Why we climb onto the conveyer belt and never get off. The front cover is one of many of the same photo taken every day, on the walk to work, the dark mills looming - KEEP THEM BUSY, THEY WON'T RISE UP.

Music is therapy. They think it's part of the bread and circuses. We know it's armour. We know it's weaponry.

TRACK LISTING

1. Lower Demons
2. Wasp Women
3. The Arcade Claw King
4. The Saucer Makers Boy
5. Let Me See Your Hands
6. Angel Washes
7. Young Paunchy
8. Hair Vampire
9. The Gold Sells Out

Follow up to the debut 12" EP that was pressed, sold out, repressed, sold out, and pressed again. They're currently mastering their debut album (recorded by Sam from Pigsx7), it's due in the Autumn on Wrong Speed. To keep the merch table hasslers happy WSR have pressed this super limited 7", with two cover versions on the B-Side. In the last 12 months the band have been named One's To Watch by BBC Introducing, had numerous Radio One plays, had a live 6Music Session for Riley + Coe, and have shared stages with Benefits, Big Joanie, Swami John Reis, House Of All, Uranium Club, and more.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Hardest Man In Billingham
2.Fuck Friday
3. Sooprize Package For Mr. Mineo

Amplification moves air and gestures to the celestial. A splitter van parks in a service station. The afterglow of the stage. The weight of a bass cab up a steep flight of metal stairs. Hey Colossus are no strangers to the dualities of life as a loud rock band. But more importantly, they know how to channel both facets into records that transcend all limitations in a blinding volley of incandescence.

'Dances / Curses' - their lucky thirteenth record - is the work of six musicians at the peak of their considerable powers of intuition and inspiration.Constant motion is also something Hey Colossus know a little about, now into their eighteenth year as a band in a never-ending search for new trouble and new epiphanies. When this iteration of the band - which came together around the making of their last release, 2019’s ‘Four Bibles’, geographically spread between Somerset, Watford, London, Nottingham and Sheffield - first began work the chemistry apparently took care of itself, with their meetings at weekend rehearsals seeing them undergo a process less like jamming and more like a particularly intensive form of instant composition. Whatever sparks were spontaneously flying in these initial sessions, they gave rise to enough material to make 'Dances / Curses' a double record, running the gamut from the rhythmically-driven, infectiously melodic songcraft of ‘Donkey Jaw’ and ‘Medal’ via the slow-burning atmospherics of ‘U Cowboy’ to the mightily motorik-driven 15 minute travelogue that is ‘A Trembling Rose’, which takes in a plethora of unified headspaces in richly cinematic style.

Longterm Hey Colossus fan Mark Lanegan makes an appearance amidst the languid and sun-soaked denouement of ‘The Mirror’, the existential gravitas of his tones entirely at home in these revelatory surroundings. Fittingly for a band who operate entirely by their own co-ordinates, 'Dances / Curses' is released on bassist Joe Thompson’s own Wrong Speed Records (and Learning Curve Records in the US), his latest such venture in a lifetime of steadfast belief in the DIY maxim, “It's 100% time for all bands to take control of their shit” he notes. All the tools are there to do it yourself. Back your own horse. It's practical. It's positive. There's a chance things will never be the same, if change doesn't happen now it never will.”

True to form for a band in full control, 'Dances / Curses' is far from the kind of sprawling psych opus that exists purely due to the band being too baked, biased or blasé to edit it down. Indeed, this serendipitous record marks something even these six musicians never necessarily intended - a work in the tradition of the double album with an element of mystery, a record that somehow changes itself every time it returns to the shelf. Somewhere on the great continuum between Unwound’s Leaves Turn Inside You and Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through "The Secret Life Of Plants", somewhere between the dances of aspiration and the curses of reality, Hey Colossus have created their finest alchemical achievement to date.

TRACK LISTING

1. Eyeball Dance
2. Donkey Jaw
3. Medal
4. Dreamer Is Lying In State
5. Nine Is Nine
6. A Trembling Rose
7. A Trembling Rose (Reprise)
8. The Mirror
9. Revelation Day
10. Stylites In Reverse
11. U Cowboy
12. Dead Songs For Dead Sires
13. Blood Red Madrigal
14. Tied In A Firing Line