A supergroup of sorts - Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, Trashmouth Records’ Luke and Liam May, and Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London and Warmduscher - Decius have travelled the earth liberating people from banality since the release of Decius Vol. I. They’ve revealed to all those they’ve encountered just what was missing in their lives: pump without borders, pump without reasonabsolute pump.
Decius live sets at Berghain’s 19th birthday celebrations, Block 9’s NYC Downlow at Glastonbury and Opium Club in Vilnius have set pulses racing, and they count the likes of Dixon, 2manydjs, Honey Dijon, Mochakk, Or:La, Iggy Pop and Depeche Mode as fans.
Now they offer up Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience). It throbs with an almost impossible sense of potential, and expands on the lexicon of molten desire. The sound has moved into new territories, with tastes of house, disco and techno, all with an underlying base note of acid on tracks such as the slippery night cruise intensity of ‘Birth of A Smirk’, where Colonel Abrams gets his nipples tortured. ‘Queen of 14th St’ is all watersports and Cybotron force from Detroit via Deptford. First single ‘Walking In The Heat’ struts like a sunburnt and horny Kraftwerk, while ‘Ghent’ is purest uncut ’88 acid. Vol. II is the art of seduction in damp rooms painted black. Keep hydrated from whatever source is available. Be your own pleasure centre. Vol. II is veritable selection box of booty bumps and illegal highs made at night for the night and beyond. This is music that takes pride in its walk of shame.
street date: Friday January 29 2025 file under: Dance/Electronic territory: World ex. Europe
2022’s Decius Vol. I plus a string of Decius Trax EPs
• Vinyl editions are housed in a gatefold sleeve with artwork by Peter Harris
• Appease the gods with the limited INDIES ONLY Neptune Turquoise double vinyl, plus black vinyl and CD
• The album hit #2 in the Official UK Dance Chart
• DJ support from Marcel Dettmann, Erol Alkan, Bicep, Trevor Jackson, Midland, DJ Heidi, Octa Octa, Eats Everything, Eclair FiFi, Ewan McVicar, Tiga, Kasper Bjorke, Tia Cousins, Shay Malt, Optimo, ND_Baumecker, Luke Solomon, Maceo Plex, Horse Meat Disco, Richard Fearless, Joe Goddard, Sean Johnston (A Love From Outer Space) and many more
On Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience):
“Splendour & Obedience is a more voluptuous effort than the scratchy edges of Vol. I. It is party music for those frazzled by three consecutive nights consuming the hair, the tail, the whole of the dog” the Quietus - Album of the Week
“You may feel the need to shower after listening” Brooklyn Vegan
“Pulsating acid house curios” The Guardian
“The feel is sweaty, late-night techno, and while the Detroit clatter and acid squelch is more alluring this time around, it’s Saoudi’s lascivious persona that really pulls you into the netherworld” 4/5 Mojo
“A wall-to-wall deviant disco delight that’s simply impossible to resist. All Hail Decius!” Electronic Sound
“Seditious treasures” Uncut
• The second full-length album from Decius – it follows
CAMOUFLEUR GASTR DEL SOL
BACK IN STOCK!
DC133 LP
NO SALES TO UK/EU/ AUS/NZ – LET FLEUR WITH SALES EVERYWHERE ELSE!
Track List:
The Seasons Reverse
Blues Subtitled No Sense of Wonder Black Horse Each Dream Is An Example Mouth Canyon A Puff of Dew Bauchredner
Coming back soon from Gastr del Sol on Drag City:
2024’s retrospective box We Have Dozens of Titles brought the revelatory 1993–’98 output of Gastr del Sol back into the world of physical objects, following a decade in which most of their music was mostly available online. The ruckus that the box generated in the so-called real world was intense enough to warrant some more fun excursions; thus, we begin our vinyl reissue series of the Gastrlog at the end of the line, with their “art-pop masterpiece” (somebody’s words, not ours but we’ll take ‘em): Camoufleur.
Gastr del Sol released Camoufleur in February of 1998. It was a ringing down of the curtain on an extraordinary five years of music making (and unmaking) with one of the best albums of that era or any other.
The backstory: Gastr first appeared out of the ashes of David Grubbs’ postpunk band Bastro, whose final lineup a furious electric triad of Grubbs, John McEntire and Bundy K. Brown evolved into Gastr del Sol with The Serpentine Similar, an album of songs and singing that turned away from the loud and into the acoustic. Brown and McEntire then departed, to focus on the newly-founded Tortoise, just as improviser/tape manipulator/musical polyglot/total freak Jim O’Rourke joined. Picking up on Gastr ’s acoustic fascination, Grubbs and O’Rourke twisted in oblique strains of modern classical, avant garde, tape music, world music and SPACE lots of space launching on an entirely transformative tear with the Crookt, Crackt, or Fly LP, “Mirror Repair” EP and Upgrade & Afterlife 2xLP. Nothing prepared one for the inquests of each successive record, and yet, Camoufleur managed to top them all, by presenting their (so-called) avant explorations which by this time were also incorporating glitchy power-book electronics as pop music.
Released on LP and CD, Camoufleur had a prescient quality: like something that existed beyond such simple formats as LP and CD, or even the designations of "record" and "album." It was the nascence era of the burnt CD, unmarked or attributed in any fashion. Twenty-seven years later and well into the digital era, we’ve come to understand it, by and by: these things of music are far more than the sum of their parts, and duly exist in many forms beyond that of a simple physical platter. Further, the combination of divergent styles into one music is much more comprehensible in this era of the cloud, where music = data (and (IOHO) > “content,” because, yeucchhh!). Gastr may have pointed at data; their clamor may have suggested tags such as post-, art- and experimental rock, but their expression of all and sundry was one of purest soul. Compelled by a similarly intense provocative love of the non-sequitur, they drafted in contributions from a diverse lineup ( Markus Popp, Rob Mazurek, John McEntire, Julie Pomerleau, Steve Butters, Darin Gray, Jeb Bishop, Ken Vandermark, Jeremy Ronkin, Edith Frost and Stephen Prina) that flowed through the songs with an equal weight of improbability and appeal. This was a startling set of sing-along tunes or you could whistle along with the music, or keen along with the sound you couldn’t identify, however you liked.
Once out in the world, Camoufleur went over like gangbusters. Listening in today, it still does time has only burnished its unique superpowers. Upon release, of course, and with the same sense of enigma in which they’d issued their music, Gastr del Sol abruptly vanished, leaving all that stuff to time. And by golly, in time we’ve found it again, and huzzah almighty, have recommitted it to ol’ reliable, the singular magic of the vinyl platter, for the enjoyment and edification of a new nation.
The Serpentine Similar DC106 LP
"Mirror Repair" DC54 12" EP
Crookt, Crackt, or Fly DC43 LP Upgrade
VARIOUS ARTISTS
HardcoreTraxx:DanceManiaRecords
“The first-ever compilation to honour Chicago house music's coarse, brilliant, and suddenly trendy prodigal son.” Pitchfork
Originally released in 2014, Strut re-introduces Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1997, the highly sought-after definitive retrospective of one of Chicago’s most important and innovative house music labels.
Emerging as a raw alternative to the powerhouses of Trax and DJ International during the mid-‘80s, Dance Mania continued to represent street-level Chicago club music into the ‘90s, helping to pioneer the Ghetto House sound.
Hardcore Traxx traces the full story of the label from its heyday. Founded in 1985 and managed by Ray Barney from Barney’s Distribution HQ on Ogden Avenue (moving later to West Roosevelt Road), Dance Mania hit the ground running with its second release in ’86, the incendiary ‘Hardcore Jazz’ EP by Duane & Co. Barney quickly became a trustworthy outlet for early house and acid productions by upcoming Chicago artists such as Lil Louis, Marshall Jefferson and Farley Keith aka Farkey “Jackmaster” Funk.
The label set out its stall with a series of landmark Chicago releases including ‘7 Ways’ by Hercules, Li’l Louis’ ‘The Original Video Clash’ and international smash ‘House Nation’ by Housemaster Boyz. During the ‘80s, it cemented its reputation for uncompromising club records and DJ Tools with sounds spanning raw garage (Victor Romeo’s ‘Love Will Find A Way’), acid trax (Robert Armani) and quality house (Da Posse).
Into the ‘90s, Barney unleashed the groundbreaking ‘Hit It From The Back’ by Traxmen and Eric Martin, ushering in a primitive new sound around faster, stripped down rhythms and X-rated party-starting lyric lines. Barney remembers, “Guys used to call in and ask for music on Dance Mania – they were saying, ‘gimme some of that ghetto stuff’.’ Dance Mania producer DJ Slugo adds, “when we made Ghetto House… we made music for the b*tches. Music for the grinding sh*t and all of that.” The sound spawned a whole new swathe of homegrown producers releasing a fast flow of no-compromise dancefloor bangers: Paul Johnson, DJ Deeon, DJ Funk, DJ Milton, Waxmaster and Slugo all became leaders of the scene. The influence of ghetto house became widespread, not least for Daft Punk, whose track ‘Teachers’ from their ‘Homework’ album in 1997 was effectively a tribute to Dance Mania. The new wave of productions also paved the way for the later Chicago juke and footwork scene
Now revitalised under the leadership of Ray Barney and Parris Mitchell, Dance Mania remains a cornerstone of Chicago’s dance music culture. With Hardcore Traxx, Strut delivers the ultimate tribute to the label, featuring a meticulously curated compilation of its classics, Ghetto House anthems, and hidden gems. The release was produced in collaboration with Dance Mania and compiled by Conor Keeling (creator of the popular Daft Punk-inspired Teachers mix) with contributions from Miles Simpson of Ransom Note. The vinyl edition includes a comprehensive history of the label, artist interviews by DJ Chrissy Murderbot, and rare archival photos.
RELEASE DATE: March 28th 2025
ARTIST: Various Artists
TITLE: Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1995
CAT NO.: STRUT114LP
FORMAT: Vinyl 2LP
BARCODE LP: 730003311413
TERRITORY: WW
TRACKLIST
A1. Hercules– 7 Ways (Club) 6:46
A2. Victor Romeo Featuring Leetrece Brown 4:20
A3. Club Style– Crazy Wild 7:25
B1. Tim Harper– Toxic Waste (Club Mix) 6:48
B2. Vincent Floyd– I'm So Deep Mixed By –Armando 6:57
A new collection of artistic alliances rare & revered, featuring MICHAEL JACKSON
MILES DAVIS
SMOKEY ROBINSON
sentient
Includes the previously unreleased song “COHERENCE” with Cindy Blackman Santana
Santana will be performing in North America & Europe throughout the spring & summer
Carlos Santana is music’s great collaborator, blending his singular guitar style and expansive musical vision with a stunning variety of artists to create something new, unique, and universal.
Santana’s vision for Sentient was to revisit recent collaborations through a new lens, weaving them together into a sonic pilgrimage that passes through jazz, hip-hop, soul, rock, and Latin rhythms. He not only curated the songs to suit his vision, but revisited many of them, enhancing aspects of the tracks to create a coheseive listening experience.
The songs on Sentient range from recent hits and superstar collaborations to rare, unreleased, and overlooked tracks that Carlos wanted to reintroduce in a new context. The result is a spiritual journey through music’s endless possiblities guided by Santana’s uncompromising muse.
SIDE A
1 Let The Guitar Play (Radio Version) with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels
2 Stranger in Moscow (Live)
3 Whatever Happens (Sentient Version) with Michael Jackson
4 Please Don’t Take Your Love (Sentient Version) with Smokey Robinson
SIDE B
1 Get On (Sentient Version) with Miles Davis & Paolo Rustichelli
2 Vers Le Soleil (Sentient Version) with Paolo Rustichelli
3 Coherence with Cindy Blackman Santana
4 Blues For Salvador
CD BONUS TRACKS
Rastafario (Sentient Version) with Miles Davis & Paolo Rustichelli
Full Moon (Sentient Version) with Paolo Rustichelli
I’ll Be Waiting
YUKIMI FORYOU
ReleaseDate:Mar_28th_2025
Influential icon and legendary artist, YukimiNagano, best known to date as the lead singer of the Grammy-nominated, four-piece Swedish band LittleDragon, is due to release her debut solo album, For You, in March2025.The record will feature DeLaSoul, LianneLaHavas plus ErikBoden from Little Dragon who helped co-produce the record.This new venture will also seeYukimi step fully into her power, not just as a singer, songwriter and performer, but as a woman who has long been operating in a male dominated industry blooming on her own.This breakthrough moment has providedYukimi with the space and freedom to explore themes that she has never touched on before; motherhood, herchildren, death, loss, and all encompassing feminineenergy
● Yukimi played her debut, soldout run of US headline shows in December 2024 and will return with a full headlinetour inApril 2025
● Previous live includes Little Dragon performing on some of the world's biggest (and smallest) stages in the world, including Glastonbury (UK), Coachella (US),Lollapalooza (US), Primavera Sound (ES), PitchforkFestival (US), and NPR'sTinyDesk (US).
● Past collaborations also include Mac Miller, Kali Uchis, Gorillaz, Tinashe, Big Boi, JID, KAYTRANADA, Flume, De La Soul, BADBADNOTGOOD, DJ Shadow, ODESZA, Faith EvansandDaveSitek,ChildishGambino, Rhye, and more.
● Yukimi’s singular voice has made waves outside of the group, too, perhaps best-evidenced by her show-stopping feature on SBTRKT's breakout single "Wildfire”.
Socials
Instagram: @yukimiforyou (23k followers)
TikTok: @yukimiforyou
Facebook: @yukimiforyou
X: @yukimiforyou
CAT NO: ZEN313
UPC: 5054429199505
Box Lot: 30
140g BlackEcoVinyl 1LPin printed inner sleeves, housed in a printed matte varnish 12” Gatefold Sleeve. Download Code sticker included.
Recommended if you like… Little Dragon, Kelela, Jessie Ware, Lianne La Havas, Raveena, Blood Orange, Celeste, Janelle Monet, Charlotte Day
Wilson
PERFUME GENIUS
Coming March 28: Glory, the new album from Perfume Genius.
[The following is an abridged version of Daniel Felsenthal’s bio for the album]
Glory has a pristine surface and a tender, roiling underside. Mike Hadreas’ seventh album is muscular, filled out by his partner in life and songcraft Alan Wyffels and longtime producer Blake Mills alongside the fiercest band Perfume Genius has ever assembled: guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr and Jim Keltner, and bassist Pat Kelly. These players marshall their power, and Hadreas his macabre imaginings and gallows humor, to humane ends. Perfume Genius pries open a mildewed den full of alienation, longing and desire and lets it bask in the sunlight.
The record’s central conflict, says Hadreas, is the “back and forth between internal and external.” Promoting his string of beloved, increasingly ambitious albums during the past decade and a half—touring the world, dwelling in the public eye—clashed with his innate impulse toward isolation. For Glory, he discovered a new songwriting process because he welcomed the dynamics of a group, leaving room in his compositions for his friends to flesh out the arrangements. As Hadreas says: “I’m more engaged with the band and the audience. I’m still on some wild tear, but there’s more access and it’s more collaborative, in a way that makes it better, but also scary— because it feels more vulnerable.” … - Daniel Felsenthal
• THE FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN 3 YEARS
• HEADLINING NORTH AMERICAN TOURING CONFIRMED THROUGH 2025
• “NO FRONT TEETH” FEATURES VOCALS FROM ALDOUS HARDING
• OUTDOOR MARKETING CAMPAIGN SET
• SET MY HEART ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY TOP ALBUMS OF 2020 LISTS: PITCHFORK, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NPR, SPIN, STEREOGUM, LINE OF BEST FIT, MORE
• 100 MILLION ALBUM STREAMS ON S.M.H.O.F.I. TO DATE (GLOBALLY)
Praise for Set My Heart On Fire Immediately:
“Fantastic... sprawling and dynamic... his best work to date.” - Pitchfork (9.0, Best New Music)
“A pop savant whose vision keeps getting more all-encompassing.” - Rolling Stone
“The results are uniformly fantastic: rich, fascinating and moving, packed with gorgeous melodies and arrangements that feel alive.”
The Guardian (five stars)
William Onyeabor - Body and Soul in Cross River Basin Blue* (Only Variant!)
Tracklist
The Way to Win Your Love
Poor Boy Body and Soul I Believe In God
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“So great!” – Mick Jagger “… irresistible…” – The Times “…ridiculous!” – Gilles Peterson “…a fantastic man…” – The Wire “...comète musicale…” – Liberation “…a killer party mix!” – Rolling Stone “…completely exhilarating…” – Télérama “…something new, finally.” – La Repubblica “…simplyphenomenal…”– Bob Boilen, NPR ★★★★-“…amajordiscovery…”– Record Collector “…absolutelyfabulous!”– Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6 “8/10…adevastatingblendoffunktensionandproslipperiness…”– Uncut “…the one thing beyond doubt, is how wonderful the music is.” – Alex Petridis, The Guardian “…incredible fireworks celebrating dance, peace and love. This disc is a small miracle.” L’Express ★★★★ “…after more than 30 years his recordings speak for themselves” – David Hutcheon, Mojo “…searing synth-funk and proto dance floor ear-worms, unlike anything or anyone else…”
12”: XL-1522-T
File Under: Alternative
Vinyl non-returnable
The Smile
Don’t Get Me Started / Instant Psalm The Remixes
STREET DATE: March 28th, 2025
2024 was a massive year for The Smile (Thom Yorke, Tom Skinner, Jonny Greenwood) with two critically acclaimed albums released in those 12 months and appearing on Best of Year lists for Billboard, Pitchfork, The Independent, Treblezine and many more.
This latest offering brings together band favorite James Holden and frequent collaborator Robert Stillman to provide their epic takes on CUTOUTS singles. Holden’s remix of ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ brings the original into a cosmic realm of looping analogue and rhythmic complexity, whilst the AA side ‘Instant Psalm’ from Stillman is a sonically transportive adventure across many forms.
UNREST
Perfect Teeth - 30th Anniversary Edition
Bowing out at their creative peak, Perfect Teeth is the wonderful final album by American 90s indie rock greats Unrest. Having just clocked 30 years, 4AD and the band are revisiting it to present a remastered edition of the original album on black vinyl. Alongside a celebratory double CD of Perfect Teeth / Extra Teeth; the album remastered plus a bonus disc of EP tracks, singles and rarities.
Borrowing their name from a Henry Cow record, Unrest formed in 1983 at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia (just outside of Washington, D.C.). Beginning as an improv instrumental band, they were soon perfecting genre-hopping eclecticism and issuing recordings (often in cassette form) via frontman Mark Robinson’s DIY label TeenBeat, as well as on notable labels such as 4AD, Caroline and Matador.
Their last album, Perfect Teeth features the latter year classic line-up of founding members Mark Robinson and Phil Krauth plus bassist Bridget Cross (a one-time member of Velocity Girl) and was recorded in the Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN, in early 1993, mere days after Nirvana completed In Utero in the very same space.
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STUDIO ONE SHOWCASE 45
28 th March 2025
Soul Jazz Records' Studio One Showcase 45 features a roll call of classic Studio One reggae legends including Horace Andy, Cornell Campbell, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Skatalites and more – seminal reggae artists who all launched their careers at the legendary Studio One label. The album was previously only ever released as a long-deleted limited-edition seven-inch box set for Record Store Day. This album has now been expanded into a super double-vinyl album edition as well as first time on CD, with both featuring a massive eight bonus tracks of wicked Studio One classics and rarities. The album also comes with newly commissioned sleeve and track notes by Noel Hawks.
Featuring seminal cuts like Bob Marley and The Wailer's original version of 'One Love', Freddie McGregor's take on the classic 'Beat Down Babylon', Judah Eskender Tafari's re-version of 'Danger In Your Eyes' plus more from The Skatalites, Lone Ranger, Johnny Osbourne and more!
1. Freddie McGregor - Beat Down Babylon (2.44)
2. Cornel Campbell - No Man's Land (2.54)
3. Judah Eskender Tafari - Danger In Your Eyes (2.54)
4. Tony & Howie - Fun It Up (2.45)
5. Liberation Group - Namibia (3.44)
6. Winston Francis - Love Me Today, Not Tomorrow (2.44)
7. Roland Alphonso - Jah Shakey (2.07)
8. Joe Higgs - Dinah (3.15)
9. Brown Eagle - Natural Living (3.29)
10. Freddie McKay - So Long, Farewell (2.40)
11. Jackie Mittoo - Mixing (2.07)
12. The Heptones - How Can I Leave You (3.11)
13. The Skatalites - Sudden Destruction (2.39)
14. Lone Ranger - Dance A Fe Cork (3.19)
15. Horace Andy - Mamie Blue (3.13)
16. Johnny Osbourne - Run Up Your Mouth (3.10)
17. Bob Marley and The Wailers - One Love (3.00)
18. The Cables - What Am I To Do (4.49)
Street date: 28th March 2025
Artist: Soul Jazz Records Presents
Title: Studio One Showcase 45 Expanded Edition
Label: Soul Jazz Records
Format 1: 2xLP
UPC: 5026328005461
Cat. No. LP-SOJR-546
Format 2: CD
UPC: 5026328105468
Cat. No. CD-SOJR-546
Nick Stamey, 877-733-3931 x277
nick@redeyeworldwide.com
5026328005461
5026328105468
No shipments outside of North America
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Soul Jazz Records presents two 7” singles by JOE BATAAN!
NEW EXCLUSIVE SUPER LTD. Edition of 300 copies worldwide.
100% KILLER, KILLER Nu Yorican LATIN FUNK masterpieces originally released in 1974!
Release Date: 28th March 2025
Joe Bataan – Latin Strut
‘Latin Strut’ is Joe Bataan’s take on Deodato’s equally classic ‘Super Strut’, with Bataan adding loads of incredible and infectious percussion, wah wah funk guitar and more to make a stone-cold CLASSIC 45!
Alongside 'Aftershower Funk' this is one of the toughest latin/funk tunes ever recorded in New York in 1974. THE BOMB!
Artist: Joe Bataan
Title: Latin Strut
Label: Soul Jazz Records
Format: 7” single
Cat.no. SJR403-7
UPS: 5026328004037
Tracks: A: Latin Strut / B: Peace, Friendship and Solidarity
Joe Bataan – Aftershower Funk
Alongside 'Latin Strut', this is one of the toughest latin/funk tunes ever recorded. Both sides of this single or super-heavy Latin/Funk/Salsa monsters! THE BOMB!
This single is issued in exact replica label artwork, housed in bespoke Soul Jazz Records recycled card master sleeve.
Artist: Joe Bataan
Title: Aftershower Funk
Label: Soul Jazz Records
Format: 7” single
Cat.no. SJR404-7
UPS: 5026328004044
Tracks: A: Aftershower Funk / B: Latin Strut
Contact: Nick Stamey 877-733-3931 x277 nick@redeyeworldwide.com No shipments outside of North America
For Translucence is the debut album from Whitney Johnson and Lia Kohl. Their dialogue, found initially in free improvisation on viola and cello, has evolved over time into (for the moment) this: a neophonic orchestral expression. A living, breathing meditation in which layers of acoustic strings, synthesizers, field recordings, radio and sine waves illuminate and change each other as they twine and grow.
Lia and Whitney began playing together in 2018, exploring the space between Lia’s cello and Whitney ’s viola, with their shared tuning one octave apart. There was an ease in weaving their instruments and voices, whether playing outside, with extended technique; or inside, playing melodic lines with rich tones.
Several years passed before they considered recording, as the shared parts of their identities – string players, composers, and sound artists based in Chicago; both interested in solo composition as well as improvisation and collaboration – soaked the fertile ground. Then their individual concerns – Lia, exploring the possibilities and dualities of mundane and profound sounds; Whitney (as Matchess and herself ) presenting the listener with the effects of sound on bodies and minds – were able to be more finely articulated and integrated in this finished work.
Recording at Experimental Sound Studio, Whitney filled out the low end of her sound with sine waves, making binaural beats through function generators and her ARP Odyssey synthesizer. Lia added an AM/FM radio and her Teenage Engineering OP-1 synthesizer. Using the open strings on both viola and cello to create the drones and establish a baseline of gravity, they improvised, building up phases of spontaneity before giving careful consideration to what they’d assembled, editing it to arrive at a final mix. The resulting sound isn’t electro-acoustic, exactly; more like electronics and acoustics together, with each layer transforming the one next to it. Within the double layers of their four strings and added instruments, a symmetry emerges that is the key to For Translucence.
The role of serendipity and humor in their collaboration is another key to the proceedings. The songs are two improvisations superimposed over each other, the titles derived from the two fundamental frequencies in which they improvise. The binaural beats form a sculptural structure of drone over which further improvisations are made. This is where surprise and laughter come into the focus; like all of time put together, both inside and outside history, their past and future selves unfolding with a flowing energy of fresh discovery breathing through it.
With gently increasing intensity rising throughout the individual songs and the album as a whole, For Translucence emerges as a natural destination spot for people, a place that invites us to witness and relate to its unique organic nature as it blooms.
Also from Whitney Johnson on Drag City"
Whitney Johnson Hav DC923A LP
Matchess Stena DC923Z CS
Jay Marie, Comfort Me Mess Esque
DC950 LP
Street Date: March 28, 2025
NO SALES TO UK/ EU, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND – BRING AID AND JAY MARIE, COMFORT ME TO ALL OTHER TERRITORIES
Track List:
Light Showroom
Take Me To Your Infinite Garden
Liminal Space
That Chair
Crow's Ash Tree
Let Me Know You
Armour Your Amor
No Snow
Also available from Mess Esque:
Mess Esque
DC833
Mess Esque is an Australian duo who sound like they literally dreamed themselves into being, and might even still be in the dream that made them! Helen Franzmann ( McKisko) and Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Tren Brothers) initially partnered on Mess Esque’s shared inner plane circa 2020. Since then, they’ve taken their preferred path — the one less traveled — at an unhurried pace. Yet Jay Marie, Comfort Me is their third album in less than five years, and the new music feels a hemisphere away from their first efforts: a whole new atmospheric level above, with greater depths to descend into as well. All hail the dreamers — they travel in abstract shapes that the rest of us don’t even know how to imagine.
Mess Esque first launched as a correspondence course. The two swapped tracks between Melbourne and Brisbane, experimentally pairing Mick ’s guitar, keys and loops with Helen’s ruminative vocals, in search of a dance floor hit. It was in vain; they didn’t chart there. But the relationship of their sounds immediately clicked, and they wrote songs and songs — all without ever meeting face to face! — leaving the equivalent of a ghostly fingerprint on the production lens, with warm beams of music glowing through. They released Dream #12 through Australian label Bedroom Suck in April 2021, with a self-titled album on Drag City following six months later. Then it was time to actualize in the same spaces for some touring: Australia, the US, UK, Europe, and New Zealand. It was a whole different way of hearing and seeing for Mess Esque, bound to affect the approach for their junior album, yeah?
But no, instead of getting themselves together in one room and rocking it to high heavens, Mick and Helen retreated to their safe distances, some 800 miles apart, and continued the absentee ballet as before. The exquisite corpse-style songwriting seems to suit ‘em! And us too. And wait, what’s this? Jay Marie, Comfort Me has an edge to it: that savage grace that comes from actually drawing breath and stepping up in the witness of others. Rocking, we daresay — nothing else to call songs like “Crow’s Ash Tree” and “Take Me To Your Infinite Garden”, wow! — without ever losing the sweet ramble of their inception. The process of becoming, in all its aspects, has made Mess Esque’s efforts ever more visceral and incisive, their music billowing up to the skies while drawing close to the bone in the same moment.
Jay Marie, Comfort Me is co-produced by Helen and Mick themselves, along with Nick Huggins, who recorded the Dirty Three’s acclaimed Love Changes Everything, Mick ’s Don’t Tell the Driver, and McKisko’s Southerly album. Along with Keeley Young and Kishore Ryan from the live band, the album features cellist Stephanie Arnold and a couple of Australia’s living legends of percussion: Bree van Reyk (whose 2022 album Superclusters is a beautiful monster!) and Mick ’s ol’ Dirty Three partner in crime, Jim White.
The title — Jay Marie, Comfort Me — is from a line in the song, “That Chair”. That’s Helen’s sister in there. She died in her sleep unexpectedly last year. It feels right to have her name on the jacket.
Jay Marie, Comfort Me reaches exciting new heights in the Mess Esque journey, propelling their uniquely twisted aural circus to a new level of dance-ability, exaltation and effect. Fitting the immediacy at their core with new dimensions, Mess Esque push themselves — and therefore, us — into more vivid states of being.
Antigone EIKO ISHIBASHI
DC944 LP
Street Date: March 28, 2025
NO EXPORT TO UK, EU, AUSTRALIA, NZ –ANTIGONE IS GO IN ALL OTHER TERRITORIES
Are we through the looking glass yet? It’s 2025, and we’re still waiting for the imperfect old world to turn into a supersick brave new one. here’s no shortage of raging clear-and-present dangers and fresh outrages for every calendar day –but nothing’s ever scarier than what we, one of the insane, innovate to amuse ourselves. Take Antigone, Eiko Ishibashi’s new album – a musical masterwork rife with chilling speculations, all calling from inside her own head!
For Antigone, her first album of songs with lyrics and singing since 2018’s acclaimed The Dream My Bones Dream, Eiko teases out images from a dystopia not unlike the one we’ve already got. Hers is suffused with a ‘scene missing’ quality, its continuity laced with sudden, odd details sprung like traps from within her music’s smooth, expansive sound. Like these lines from “Coma”:
Also available from Eiko Ishibashi:
Track List: October Coma Trial Nothing As Mona Lisa Continuous Contiguous The Model Antigone
Covered with ashes, long winter, Spring is yet to come Candle and soap Hold onto them tight and oppose gravity
This is your grid, watched by the security camera You still have some time to be a survivor in Eden.
Whatever’s going on here doesn’t feel linear, but it’s not unfamiliar. It’s a clash of context with Eiko's serene vocals and the well-appointed precision of the soundscape... uncanny, disturbing, not entirely okay. That’s it working! And it keeps ticking like clockwork through the whole album.
An accomplished keyboardist/multi-instrumental composer and improviser, Eiko consolidates her conceptions throughout Antigone. On her early songbased albums – 2013’s sci-fi-themed Imitation of Life and 2014’s poptastic Car & Freezer, we sensed an album-oriented direction, built song by song into an inevitable whole. 2018’s conceptually-united The Dream My Bones Dream allowed Eiko to tell stories closer to home. Her instrumental works since then – 2022’s For McCoy (Black Truffle) and the soundtracks for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s films, Drive My Car and Evil Does Not Exist – have seen her diversity of musical ideas operating in an increasingly integrated long-form presentation.
With these transformative encounters in hand, Eiko and her band – drummer Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, bassist Marty Holoubek, Norweigan accordionist Kalle Moberg, Ermhoi on backing vocals, Joe Talia playing percussion and Jim O’Rourke on Bass VI, synths, etc – bring a wide array of sounds and moods to the songs here, referencing pop, funk and jazz, ambient, electronic and musique concrète in a seamless flow.
Antigone is a bittersweet look at our already-alternate reality, Eiko’s jarringly personal vision glimpsed through a latticework of ambitious compositions and on-lock production techniques. At last! Now, the year 2025 will never be the same.
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Street Date: March 28, 2025
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Track List: Fire God Dead Meat Parade UPS
Blessed Ignorance
I Got A Leotard Lark's Vomit Instrumental
Sweet Roughness Blues Long Way Back What's What
Don't Make Me (Live at CBGB 1983)
The fragmented shards from the history of punk rock are still being sourced! Thanks to the rediscovery of a long-lost cache of cassette tapes, Bag People can now be counted, the sounds of their feral stink sitting perfectly in the grime-streaked canon of NYC’s early-‘80s post-punk/no-wave era. Their lore commences in Chicago’s western suburbs. In 1977, Carolyn Master and Diane Wlezien were juniors at Proviso West High and rock ‘n rollers, with a particular taste for English rock – The Who, The Stones, The Kinks, Bowie, T. Rex – they were wild for it. One day in World History class, Diane recalls Carolyn asking her if, a) she wanted to buy some drugs, and b) she wanted to start a band. The answer to both questions was YES.
They put an ad out for a guitarist, Gaylene Goudreau answered, and they clicked right away – but after a year or so trying to make it in LA as the Runaways-like girl group Lois Lain, they were back in Chicago, disillusioned. Gaylene joined DA!, when, opening for DNA at Tut’s one night, her life was changed. DNA’s noise-rock energy was clearly the way forward! She got back with Carolyn and Diane and they started over again, this time as Bag People.
Algis Kizys saw them one night in early ‘82 at Chicago’s infamous Space Place, then beat out some kid named Albini in a tryout for the bass spot. Pete Elwyn, working for the weekend at Poppin' Fresh Pies while drumming in a two-piece band called The Pedestrians, saw DA! and Bag People shows before joining.
Their line-up set, they played on the Chicago scene for awhile, with bands like The Cadavers and The Functionally Illiterate. In late 1982, they decamped to Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood. Deep within NYC’s atomized urban interior, with deserted and destroyed shit everywhere, dudes selling drugs on every corner… it was a zone of lawlessness and neglect that’s honestly unimaginable today. In this hellscape, as they tried to live and play music, their raw and freezing practice space was broken into repeatedly while, out in the streets, every member of the band was mugged. “If you were on the streets after dark, you were either a criminal or insane,” recalls Algis. Or you were in Bag People!
The amorphous horror of this scene echoes distortedly through these recordings, an onslaught converging Carolyn and Gaylene’s scabrous guitar interplay, Algis and Pete’s free-roaming rhythm and Diane’s nihilistic gutter-siren vocal projections. It’s absolutely SICK – its own kind of music.
Once they’d relocated to Manhattan, sharing time at Swans’ practice space at 6th and Avenue B, they’d collectively evolved a set of songs that stood up well with the varied brutalities of all their neighbors – Sonic Youth, Rat at Rat R, Live Skull, Swans, False Prophets et al. They played out all around New York – at CBGB’s, A7, SIN Club, the Peppermint Lounge – and somehow made it to in Philly, DC, Pittsburgh, Chicago and St. Louis too.
A few songs were recorded at Hi Five Studio in the Gramercy Park neighborhood. They taped more at the practice space, and a set at CB's but, constantly fucked up on booze and the drugs being hawked around the Lower East Side, the chaos of the times was wearing them thin. By the end of ‘83, it was apparent that things were falling apart. Pete literally disappeared after Christmas, taking a large part of their recordings with him. They got other drummers, but in July of 1984, they dissolved.
It would be nearly forty years before their lost recordings were heard again. After Carolyn finally found Pete (on social media, no less!), Algis drove up to Massachusetts to get them so they could be heard at last. “Holy crap!” Diane thought – the stuff sounded really powerful. As we can now hear, it was a glorious noise. The Bag People had their own insane way of doing things that wasn’t like anybody else – not for very long, anyway.
28, 2025 SEEFEEL
Quique 2XLP + Quique Redux 2XCD
QUIQUE 2XLP
STANDARD EDITION
A1. Climactic Phase #3
A2. Polyfusion
B1. Industrious
B2. Imperial
C1. Plainsong
C2. Charlotte’s Mouth
C3. Through You
D1. Filter Dub
D2. Signals
LP: PURE-374-LP
Vinyl non-returnable
QUIQUE REDUX 2XCD
1-1 Climactic Phase #3
1-2 Polyfusion
1-3 Industrious
1-4 Imperial
1-5 Plainsong
1-6 Charlotte’s Mouth
1-7 Through You
1-8 Filter Dub
1-9 Signals
2-1 Clique
2-2 Is It Now?
2-3 Filter Dub (i-01 Mix)
2-4 Come Alive (Climactic Phase #1)
2-5 Time To Find Me (Alternate Desk Mix)
2-6 Charlotte’s Mouth (Avant Garde Mix)
2-7 My Super 20
2-8 Climactic Phase #3 (Overnight Mix)
2-9 Silent Pool
CD: PURE-373-CD
Originally released in 1993, Quique was the first album by the UK band Seefeel, and it became a must-have for any serious collector of ambient techno. Released by too pure, the album was reissued in expanded form as Quique Redux on cd in 2007. We are excited to make both releases available again, newly remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road. Quique is available as a double LP, and Quique Redux is available on 2XCD with new artwork.
Quique Redux is comprised of Quique plus 9 bonus tracks.
Beginning as a standard rock band in early 1992, the UK quartet known as Seefeel soon grew bored with the restraints of normal musical forms and started working with loops and programs rather than lyrics and choruses, creating a sound all their own. They combined the ambient guitars and ethereal vocal aesthetics characteristic of the shoegazer/dream pop movement with the rhythmic structure of electronic dance music.
The only artist ever invited to remix The Cocteau Twins, Seefeel remain a real inspiration to a variety of artists, from Boards Of Canada and Ulrich Schnauss through to Analogue Bubblebath-era Aphex Twin and back round to Tom Middleton (contemporaries include KLF’s Chillout, Aphex’s Ambient Works and The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld).
The key players in Seefeel were Mark Clifford (guitar and programming), Justin Fletcher (drums and programming), Sarah Peacock (vocals) and Darren Seymour (bass).
“a mix of fuzzy shoegaze guitars, ethereal dream-pop and some kind of churning electronic haze that rewards exploration, even if for the first time” – LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Seefeel, have struck a sublime groove midway between MBV’s sensual tumult and Aphex Twin’s ambient serenity” - SPIN
“We can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one... hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof” Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing Snapped Ankles have given up trying to make sense of it all. The forest only offers so much protection. Feeding on a diet of fractured narratives, meme culture, viral moments and the very worst of human impulses weighs heavy. The woodwose hold up a mirror to the absurdity of modern life once again. The only sane response is to dance. Make your way to the clearing, gather around the megalith of speakers, drum machines, amps and synthesisers and dance like there’s no tomorrow.
Hard Times Furious Dancing is an invitation to all those lost in the unrelenting noise of the present, to leave it all behind and come together in the forest. Driven by the primitive thrust of their single-oscillator ‘log’ synths, high and low culture collide in a surreal, free flowing narrative - but the rhythm is universal. This is easily the closest Snapped Ankles have come to capturing their rapturous live energy in the studio. It’s everything you’ve come to know and love from a Snapped Ankles album, amped all the way up until the ground begins to shake.
The sound of Hard Times Furious Dancing evolved at Snapped Ankles’ South London ‘Forest Rayve’ club nights in 2024 in response to that age-old primal urge to bring people together and make them move. It’s the first time the woodwose have road tested new material to this extent before committing it to tape since debut album Come Play The Trees, and in doing so have harnessed that feral energy once again. This surreal human/woodwose connection is the very best release from an algorithm that knows you better than you know yourself. Dance it all loose.
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SNAPPED ANKLES HARD TIMES FURIOUS DANCING
street date: Friday March 28 2025 file under: Rock & pop territory: World ex. Europe
• It is available to retail on CD, black vinyl and as a limited INDIES ONLY ‘Don Quixote’s Green’ vinyl version [there are also Dinked and Bandcamp exclusive variants]
• Lead single ‘Raoul’ is accompanied by a surrealist video by Gil Anselmi & Jack Foster
• The word of the forest continues to spread, with the previous album taking them on two North American tours and festivals as far afield as South East Asia + a headline show at Camden’s iconic Roundhouse
• Snapped Ankles embark on their biggest tour to date, with a run of over thirty shows in the UK and Europe this spring, including a night at Fabric in London on May 15th
• Forest Of Your Problems peaked at a tantalising #41 in the official UK album chart (#2 in the indie chart & #5 in the physical chart)
• It was album of the day on BBC 6 Music and album of the week at Brooklyn Vegan and Amazing Radio
• End of year honours included The Quietus, Rough Trade, Piccadilly and Jumbo Records
• Plans for a full summer of festivals and more North American touring later in 2025
on Forest Of Your Problems:
“Forest of Your Problems takes in Krautrock, tribal rhythms, post-punk - but it winds up sounding almost nothing like anyone else” The Guardian
“The kind of hyperactive, motorik bangers that can send audiences into hysterics” Album of the week, Brooklyn Vegan
• Hard Times Furious Dancing is the fourth album by secretive forest dwellers Snapped Ankles - it follows 2021’s Forest Of Your Problems
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There were three great beats in the 70s: Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, James Brown’s Funk and Klaus Dinger’s NEU!-beat. BRIAN ENO SIDE 1
NEU! is so wonderful. They make me very happy. I love it when people glorify space and simplicity. Yay! for NEU! JOHN FRUSIANTE, Red Hot Chili Peppers
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March 28, 2025
Kinski Stumbledown Terrace
“One of the finest rock bands Seattle has produced." — The Seattle Times
Kinski’s journey through experimental melody and noise is a full-bore sensory thrill ride.
Described by NME as “like Sabbath in a washing machine during a power surge,” Kinski is back to its original power trio format of Chris Martin (guitar), Lucy Atkinson (bass) and Barrett Wilke (drums).
After 25 years and nine albums, including a trio on Sub Pop and three for Kill Rock Stars, Kinski has toured internationally with the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Mission of Burma, Dead Meadow, Comets on Fire, and somehow even Tool.
On their Comedy Minus One debut "Stumbledown Terrace,” (cmo055) Kinski continues their exploration of heavy, provocative guitar-driven songs, sonorous rhythms, and emotional release.
Recorded with legendary producer Tim Green at Louder Studios, their new album fully captures the unmatchable energy and power of Kinski’s live shows.
Kinski will be touring in advance of and following the album's release.
Keyboardist, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones shares his most elevated solo project to date, All The Quiet. A galvanising statement of intent, traversing jazz, funk, dub, hip hop, and soul music, entirely written, produced, and mixed by Armon-Jones himself. As a band member, he is best known as part of the Mercury prize winning Ezra Collective, who capped 2024 by being the first jazz band to headline London’s Wembley Arena. All The Quiet (Part I) is the first chapter of atwo part album, released on his own label, Aquarii Records. Guest musicians & features includeNubyaGarcia,OscarJerome,GoyaGumbani,andmore.
Six years have passed since Armon-Jones’ last solo album, 2019’s Turn To Clear View was releasedonGillesPeterson’sBrownswoodRecordings,butdon’tmistake that gap for a break. In this time he’s toured the world, built a studio, contributed to albums from the great and good of UK jazz, and recorded collaborative releases with Liam Bailey, Fatima, Hak Baker, Prince Fatty, Ranking Joe, Maxwell Owin, and dubsteplegendMala
CDTracklist:
1. Lifetones
2. Forgiveness
3. Kingfisher(feat.Asheber)
4. NothingNoble
5. EyeSwear(feat.GoyaGumbani)
6. DangerEverywhere
7. TheCitadel
8. Snakes
9. ShowMe
10. HurryUp&Wait
Serebii Dime
For his second full-length LP and most realized release as Serebii yet, Callum Mower had one thing he had to overcome first: he was “terrified” of himself.
After establishing the Serebii project with several albums’ worth of trancing neo-soul and shape-shifting ballads, much of it done in collaboration with fellow New Zealander Arjuna Oakes, Mower had no lack of confidence in his musical abilities. But much of Mower’s focus in the past was on instruments and production—swirling, cinematic instrumentals under his own name or funky art-pop jams with others on vocals. On Dime, however, Mower knew he wanted to push forward with his own singing placed center stage. “It’s exposing,” Mower says of releasing music so heavy on his singing. “It feels like you’re walking into a public space naked.”
Mower, it turns out, has nothing to be afraid of. He has a gentle croon deceptive in its power—on a song like “Feet for Pegs,” for example, he lures you in with a Tropicalia guitar progression, but carries the song on vocal subtleties that pass like wisps of smoke. And using that voice, he’s created an album unlike anything he’s done before, rolling seamlessly from track to track—not just a collection of songs but a singular project conceived to work together as a unified statement. “That was the approach with Dime,” Mower says. “To really focus on putting something together that sounded like it was done in one sitting. One chapter.”
For a few months, Mower did little besides eat, sleep, and make music. Outside of a deep love for the music of Aldous Harding, which he takes as inspiration, Mower didn’t listen to much outside of his own work. Instead, he focused on developing a routine: yoga, walks, free writing in the morning to get everything out instead of letting it bottle in. “Just trying to feel, trying to release, and then going in and conjuring that while you’re hovering over a chord progression,” he explains. “Just focus on expression.”
On “Verrans Corner,” the Serebii sound crests over a tall wave as Mower sings of “sailing like furniture on estuaries,” his voice recalling the jazzy falsetto of Thom Yorke. “Dime,” the title track, started as a finger-plucked guitar melody in a strange tuning that led to Mower putting the whole song together in a day. It’s a reflection on the feeling of having been cast into the world with little more than some loose change and ending up back where you started, wondering what it was all about: “Thought I’d never
look back,” he sings, “Running a lie to keep on track.” But it’s also the word that came into Mower’s head when he wrote it—a dime, as in a perfect ten: “I just remember being like, that’s a dime. I got my dime.” (The album, notably, deliberately, features ten songs.)
Mower finished about 80 percent of Dime on his own before he realized that what was actually still missing wasn’t something he needed to do himself. “I got to a certain point where I just really missed working with people,” he says, laughing. “That is one of my favorite things to do: be in a room with someone and try to catch all those intricacies and bounce off each other.” Mower called up a few friends—Carla Camilleri, Leith Sye Towers, Skud Gambosi, Tessa Dillon—to add touches and write different parts. And then there was one last collaboration like no other.
For “The Randan,” Mower asked his grandfather, Allan Watkins, to read some of his writing he’d done about adolescence. As Mower recorded his grandfather’s live reading of words about growth and social confusion, he improvised a backing synth track. The result is a song that feels experimental and otherworldly, but surprisingly warm at the same time. Three generations of New Zealanders bridged over a love of music and art—and a grandfather and grandson both pushing aside apprehensions about their own voices to make something beautiful and meaningful. (Watkins’ voice was affected by a recent stroke.)
Watkins, a musician himself, was the one who got Mower into music as a kid; in more than one sense, there is no Serebii without him. “It felt appropriate to get my grandpa involved,” Mower says, “as an ode to him for encouraging me in the first place.”
"An impressive multi-faceted creative pushing the boundaries of style and timbre” Wonderland
"Serebii invites his fans to dive deep into meticulously layered tracks, created using instruments and words from all over the globe.” METAL Mag
LP Box Lot: 30
Packaging: Standard Jacket
Vinyl is non-returnable
Catalog: IL2125
Release Date: March 28, 2025
Genre: Alternative/Indie/R&B/Soul
For Fans Of: Michael Kiwanuka, James Blake, Sampha, Rhye, Nick Hakim, Jordan Rakei
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GENRE: Jazz, Americana BOX LOT: 30
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FOR FANS OF: MARC RIBOT, BRIAN ENO, & WILCO
TRACK LISTING
APPALACHIAN LANDSCAPE
ANYHOW LANE
DIVISION STREET
STANDING ROCK VEGA
HIGHWAY ONE LOOP
TEAR OF THE CLOUDS
DEEP DEUCE
WAITING ROOM
MUSIC FOR ROADS
STREET DATE 03/28/2025
Music For Roads is a new immersive instrumental collaboration between Finnish psychedelic indie folk group Tuomo & Markus and jazz trumpet virtuoso Verneri Pohjola . It's a cross cultural collaboration between Nordic jazz and indie folk/Americana players, who created a unique, cinematic soundscape.
They brought in some established guests in the studio, inc. NYC guitar legend Marc Ribot and French saxophone player Sylvain Rifflet . The inspiration for these tracks came from the many tours these Finnish musicians have had in America over the years. American landscape, history, Americana culture and the current political turmoil created a common thread for these tracks. The title for the album is a nod to Brian Eno’s Music For Airports. All the immersive tracks were captured live in the studio onto 2” tape and mixed in 7.1.4. format back onto magnetic tape, making it the world’s first fully analog Dolby Atmos master. The musicians used the immersive format in a creative way to enhance the music and arrangements.
Website: www.tuomomarkus.com
THEE SACRED SOULS
The second 45 from Got a Story to Tell offers up two staff favorites. The moody, mid-tempo mover "My Heart is Drowning" opens with a foreboding, echo-drenched drip that lurks behind singer Josh Lane's tale of a forlorn lover who's past mistakes have left him drowning in despair. With its brooding piano and gritty bassline this song would track well in classic R&B and soul circles with equal command. "Stuck in the Mud" also leans towards an earlier R&B sound but with a subtle tinge of gospel via the call and response vocals that permeate this impeccably heartfelt composition.
JUNIOR SCAIFE and the Penrose Scholars
Junior Scaife returns with two strikingly soulful sides produced and co-written by Penrose staunchman, Anthony Masino. As one of the most gifted vocalists on today's soul scene, Junior Scaife injects profound soulfulness into every syllable. With its viby groove and infectious background melody "Nobody Gets My Love" marries the visceral rawness of late sixties Detroit sides ala Hestor and Wylie with a relaxed West Coast je ne sais quoi. On the flip is "Too Much Too Soon", a rugged ballad dripping with wah wah and class, sure to turn heads on the low-rider scene.
March 28, 2025
Topshelf Records
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Home market: South Korea
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540 NE Tillamook Street Portland, OR 97212 United States info@topshelfrecords.com
The pre-cursor to Mid-Air Thief's cult-acclaimed album Crumbling, Gongjoong Doduk exhibits a distinct universality, merging disparate sounds and styles into a cohesive, electronic-infused folk amalgam that tactfully blurs the lines between organic and synthetic. Listeners are led through enrapturing passages of swirling melodies underscored with eloquent plucks, strums, and bursts of bubbly glitches. Individual phrases drift into one another as if in a dream, cohered by entrancing hooks and vocal soundscapes. Gongjoong Doduk is a compelling accomplishment of both composition and production, bending as it does to its unique contours of consonance and dissonance, always resolving to a place of calm and beauty.
For Fans of:
Cornelius, Sufjan Stevens, Rei Harakami, Grizzly Bear, and other Topshelf artists: Bellows,Flung,H A U N T E R, Harry the Nightgown,Moller,Really Big Pinecone, Thanya Iyer,Tiger Tsunami, Weatherday,Zenizen.
Selling Points:
• LP is includes printed dust sleeve, lyric sheet, two download codes, marketing sticker, an obi strip and tan-in-pink swirl vinyl.
• Track "Crumbling Together" sampled by Kid Cudi for song used in Net�ix Original Series Entergalactic.
• Press support from NPR Music, MTV News, Bandcamp Daily, and more.
• 100k monthly Spotify listeners.
• Over 8 million combined Spotify streams.
• All formats include 2 bonus tracks.
• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions.
• Press campaign handled by Will Osiecki.
"[...] texturally rich, densely layered, and restlessly dynamic music, but Mr. Thief and Summer Soul's �uttery, wind-sailing vocals maintain a serene hold over the colorfully mutating arrangements." -MTV
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Dedicatedtothepowerofpopmusic,SobsareSingapore’spremierindiepoppropagandists.AfterreleasingabreakoutbedroompopEP Cat ap anda dream-jangleLP TelltaleSigns thatbroughtinternationalembrace,Sobsnowassembleafront-to-backindiepopbehemoth– AirGuitar –afteramuch anticipatedthree-yearwait.
GN offersabevyoftales,lamentsandtriumphs,whichrecountnear-tragediesbythetraintracks,cripplingepisodesofloneliness,remembrancesofa deceasedfamilypetwithfreezerburn,andonandon.Thesongsshiftandbreatheasworldsalltheirown,tiedtogetherbythegroup’sself-proclaimed ‘post-country’sound,whichcombinesmomentsofdistortionandaDIYaestheticwithadevotiontosimplesongwritingandtiestotheAmericanasounds ofyearspast.
Born in the wilderness of a West Virginia holler and now making his mark in Nashville, Gyasi (yes, that’s his actual name) is a dazzling singer, guitarist, and songwriter who is breathing fresh life into rock n’ roll through his exciting blend of glitter and glam. Gyasi is a glam-rock triumph. – ROLLING STONE
This album is fu**ing BRILLIANT! – GOLDMINE
A party-hearty pretty boy who can rock as hard as you need him to. – CLASSIC ROCK Groove and fizz with all the melodic energy of the ‘70s great. – SHINDIG ! ALIVE0222
Territory: North America, Canada, Oceania Genre: Electronic, Trip-Hop, Experimental
OHYUNG aka Lia Ouyang Rusli describes their new album as “my trans self and my former self in conversation, from both perspectives.” The record represents their lengthy, complicated, but crucial journey between lives, strewn with both doubt and excitement. It is an ecstatic, pop-oriented shift in direction from an artist primarily known for noise, experimental hip-hop, and ambient music, but carried with sleek confidence, maturity, and a silvery, hallucinogenic shimmer that reveals Rusli’s experimental background. It is, writes Rusli, “sometimes written from a dark place and other times from a place of happiness.” Throughout, darkness and light rise and fall in layers of phased strings, trip-hop drum production, and earworming vocal lines.
Also a film score composer, Rusli’s songwriting craft is meticulous and nuanced. “no good” explores “the worst version of myself as a trans person, feeding doubt to my pre-transition self” with its core lyric anyone can see / I’m no good for you, delivered over a relentless beat, swooning strings, and glistening synthesis. Later, “i swear that i could die rn” renders a Spectreish Motown beat lamenting and lush with breathy synths and knife-edge melodies that eventually yield a hazy, gliding string section, created again from mutated, spliced, and transitioned royalty-free sample packs. The track is about “seeing my beautiful friends at raves and feeling at home appreciating the harsh noises of hardcore techno and acid. Feeling that I could die at this moment and be happy.”
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LINDSAY LOU
QUEEN OF TIME
STREET DATE: MARCH 28, 2025
“Guided by life experiences, Lindsay Lou's sound and songwriting continues to evolve and intertwine her sturdy Bluegrass roots with progressive Americana and Folk.” – PBS
Nashville artist Lindsay Lou’s captivating vocals are capable of untold multitudes: a molasses-sweet instrument equally capable of clarion ache, slicing deep into the soul. The daughter of a literal coal-miner and millwright, and the granddaughter of a teacher gone Rainbow Gathering healer, Lou honed her honest and resonant style with her bluegrass-inspired band, Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, and Michigan supergroup, Sweet Water Warblers (Rachael Davis, May Erlewine), excavating elements of bluegrass, folk, Americana, and soulful pop for their emotional depths. Whether bathing in the radiant sunset of Tennessee or digging into the rich loam of her midwest upbringing, Lou has an innate ability to bring an immediacy to both affairs of the heart and philosophical thought. On her new album Queen of Time, Lou captures a new arc of haloed beauty, becoming unattainable in her own way—a vibrant, powerful woman who can share herself with the world, and yet define a mystic sense of inner self as well.
“I saw a literal manifestation of the sacred feminine, and had this profound sense that I was meant to embody it,” recalls celebrated singer-songwriter Lindsay Lou after journeying through a hallucinogenic ritual that would inform the way she processed waves of grief in the sea of change ahead of her The loss of her grandmother, the end of her marriage, and the overwhelming turmoil of COVID lockdowns found the Nashville-based artist on a spiritual journey of self-knowledge and healing with this gift from the mystic swirl. On her new album Queen of Time, Lou explores that quest across ten tracks of tender, heartbreakingly beautiful music. Featuring a gamut of guests including GRAMMY® Award-winners Billy Strings and Jerry Douglas, Queen of Time celebrates love and loss, but above all, the art of living as an unattainably—a vibrant, powerful woman who can share herself with the world, and yet define a mighty sense of inner self as well.
ARTIST: LOVE IS A DRAG
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LP-MH-8017B UPC: 090771421319
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A crisp, spellbinding intro sets the mood for the first song on Maintenant Jamais, Population II's third album. With the guidance of producer Dominic Vanchesteing (Marie Davidson, Chocolat), the turbulence of the band’s previous releases is structured and refined. The result is a sophisticated rock album that surprises with its languorous grooves, as heard on Le thé est prêt, while staying true to the raw power for which the band is renowned, as demonstrated on vigorous tracks such as La Trippance and Rédemption naturelle
The album follows with Prévisions, a song that ripples with finesse before abruptly transitioning into the instrumental number Macavélique rock While Haut-fond and Cardinaux are true feats of elegant prog rock, Mariano (Jamais je ne t'oublierai) and homme étoilé prove that Population II is also endowed with a profound melodic sensibility capable of creating catchy and explosive hooks.
On this new album, the trio fine-tunes the distinctive style they’ve been developing for several years, thanks in part to a fusion of shared influences – from Soft Machine to MC5 to L'Infonie – but also to a rare complicity that can only blossom between such close friends. This creative chemistry is what makes the band's complex songwriting seem so fluid and supple. Population II breaks through their previous sonic frontiers while remaining true to their roots. Therein lies the achievement of Maintenant Jamais
PRESS QUOTES
one of the most exciting bands to emerge from Montreal in recent memory (Exclaim!)
This inventive trio is as comfortable in their musical skin as they are indifferent to the mainstream’s siren call (Post-Punk) Their sound is ferocious, their chemistry mind-boggling as they hammered out jams tighter than Air Canada economy class. (Pop Matters)
SELLING POINTS
- Album will be accompanied by a filmed live session
- PR Teams & Booking Agents in Canada, USA, France
- Upcoming plays at SXSW
- Previous album was Long-Listed for the 20124 Polaris Music Prize
- Previously signed to Castle Face Records
POPULATION II MAINTENANT JAMAIS
Release Date: March 28, 2025
Bonsound (BONAL113) - LP
14Tracks, including singles: Le thé est prêt and Mariano (Jamais je ne t’oublierai)
A1. Maintenant et Jamais
A2. Prévisions
A3. Macavélique rock
A4. Haut-fond
A5. Mariano (Jamais je ne t’oublierai)
A6. La Trippance
A7. Poudreuse Blues
A8. i + i
TRACKLIST
B1. Le thé est prêt
B2. homme étoilé
B3. Rédemption naturelle
B4. 13 1 3 1
B5. La Cache
B6. Cardinaux
LP - Black
Item Number: BONAL113–LP
UPC: 198846887722
Box Lot: 25
Packaging: Single LP, Gatefold Jacket, Black Vinyl, Printed Insert Export Status: Worldwide
It’s only at the victorious closer “Hello,” a song that serves as summary and introduction, where Fusilier meets us with the prescript of his debut album Ambush: “When it eats me up, don’t be mad ‘cause I’m finally free.” For Fusilier (that’s fyoo·suh·leer), Ambush is his maternal guide to fighting and loving in the shadow of defeat, its title taken from his mother’s maiden name as much as the act of surprise. For the listener, Ambush is a ferocious whirlwind of polyrhythms, cutting lyricism, classical motifs, distorted riffs, and soaring vocals that document a journey for self-love and humanity in the face of indignity and commodification. Throughout, Fusilier triangulates influences of dance music, turn of the century rock, and southern hip-hop to produce a sound that’s as politically urgent as it is singularly fun
“When I started Ambush I thought it was something I was doing—bombarding the world with a bunch of world-changing songs,” Blake Fusilier laughs. “The more I thought about it and fleshed it out, the more I realized that it was something being done to me everyday, from seemingly innocent advertisements to full-on macro aggressions.” It’s this fascination with a sense of safety—both real and imagined—that allows Fusilier to create songs that are fortified like a shield. On the shuffling and harrowing "U N I NO," Fusilier rattles off all the places he is defenseless as a Black person in America (“in the comfort of a home... on the open country road... unless you sound what they wanna see... on our back or on our knees”) before leading us to his most explicitly optimistic and earnest lyric: “The future’s an open road / But don’t go alone.” Ambush’s lone ballad “Satellites” revels in the vulnerability of loving openly, with Fusilier’s silvery falsetto delivering “I lived my life as a code / never let anyone close / So you can imagine the shame of needing your face everyday” somewhere between a plea and a whisper.
tracklist:
1. Ambush
2. ...popstar
3. LLC
4. Nightmare Muscle
5. Birds
6. ...clingingtofutureglory
7. NSA
8. Satellites
9. ...itstoobad
10. U N I NO
11. Hello
12. Capital in the 21st Century [BONUS, LP ONLY]
selling points:
● RIYL: Yves Tumor, Perfume Genius, Model/Actriz, Nine Inch Nails, Fela Kuti, James Brown, Prince
● ALBUM + SINGLE PRESS FROM: Rolling Stone, The AV Club, The Boston Globe, Alternative Press, Brooklyn Vegan, Queerty, The Line of Best Fit, Consequence.
● “A dance party / mosh pit for the end of the world.”
● Album credits include Bartees Strange, Corey Smith-West (Bathe), Carlos Hernandez (Carlos Truly), Teeny Lieberson (Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory), Vishal Nayak (Nick Hakim), and more
● Secret track “Capital in the 21st Century” available on LP only, behind Side B locked groove.
Tout Est Gore Red & Black Vinyl
Future Glory Green Vinyl Super LTD Edition, Indie Retail Exclusive
Track List:
Disc 1
1. Aubervilliers, pont Francis-de-Pressensé, 2019-09-10
2. Pantin, 2019-09-11
3. Greenpoint, 2021-08-26 (3)
4. Paris, place de la Bastille, 2019-09-12
5. Aubervilliers, rue des Fillettes, 2019-09-13
6. Carlisle, 2020-05-14
7. Épinay-sur-Seine, 2019-09-14
8. Paris, bois de Vincennes, 2019-09-15
9. Fort Edward, 2022-01-18
10. La Courneuve, parc de la Liberté, 2019-09-16
11. La Plaine Saint-Denis, 2019-09-17
Disc 2
Craig Shepard On Foot: Aubervilliers
From September 10th through October 3rd, 2019, Craig Shepard lead groups of two to twelve people on walks between three and twelve hours beginning and ending at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. Shorter walks covered the immediate neighborhood.
Longer walks explored the connections between Aubervilliers and adjoining neighborhoods. At the middle of each walk, the group stopped, stood in a circle and listened to ambient sounds of the site while Shepard made a field recording.
All slight motions, including rustling clothes and little coughs were picked up by the microphones; each participant’s stillness became their performance. The 3CD release includes a field recording from each walk interspersed with melodic pieces for music box and for sruti box.
From September 10th through October 3rd, 2019, Craig Shepard lead groups of two to twelve people on walks between three and twelve hours beginning and ending at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. Shorter walks covered the immediate neighborhood.
Longer walks explored the connections between Aubervilliers and adjoining neighborhoods. At the middle of each walk, the group stopped, stood in a circle and listened to ambient sounds of the site while Shepard made a field recording.
All slight motions, including rustling clothes and little coughs were picked up by the microphones; each participant’s stillness became their performance. The 3CD release includes a field recording from each walk interspersed with melodic pieces for music box and for sruti box.
RIYL: John Cage, Michael Pisaro, Christian Wolff, Dan Joseph, Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Pauline Oliveros
Vega Trails Sierra Tracks
Double Black BioVinyl LP, in printed reverse board sleeve, and packed in resealable protective sleeve.
Double Black BioVinyl Limited LP, in printed reverse board sleeve, containing a ltd 12” 300gsm artwork print and packed in resealable protective sleeve.
CD edition, in printed reverse board, gatefold style sleeve and packed in resealable protective sleeve.
Label: Gondwana Records
Catalogue No: GONDLP074
GONDLP074LE
GONDCD074
Barcode (EAN): 4062548097511
4062548097528
4062548097535
Contact: adam@k7.com
File under: Contemporary Jazz / Jazz Crossover
Street Date: 03/28/2025 - March 28th
Inspired by the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains north-west of Madrid, his home since August 2022, Milo Fitzpatrick presents Sierra Tracks the new album from his expansive, cinematic, chamber-jazz project Vega Trails.
Having cut 2022’s beautifully resonant debut album ‘Tremors in the Static’ as a duo, alongside saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands and Sunda Arc), Milo now substantially expands upon that blueprint with his follow-up, ‘Sierra Tracks’, which, as the title suggests, was conceived at his new home in central Spain and adds piano, vibraphone and strings to the mix. The beautiful Spanish countryside offered inspiration too.
However while Sierra Tracks features an expanded line-up including pianist Taz Modi (a colleague alongside Milo in Portico Quartet’s live band) providing “some rhythmic movement behind us, to free up the bass and sax from being so busy” and vibraphone specialist Harriet Riley, multi-reedist Jordan Smart remains a key voice in Vega Trails. “Jordan has a really direct and exciting way that he connects with his instrument, and the audience,” Milo reflects. “He's into jazz, but also folk of many traditions, and he can play different wind instruments –soprano and tenor sax, bass clarinet, the dadouk, and the Ney flute from Turkey and Armenia. Knowing his phrasing, I wrote very much with him in mind.”
Milo also re-engaged with the cello, an instrument he hadn’t played since school days, adding an extra dimension to his own sound, but it was a conversation with Gondwana Records label mate, Hania Rania, about recording orchestral arrangements that helped bring Sierra Tracks fully into focus.
A shaping influence on Milo’s vision for the record was David Toop’s seminal book, ‘Oceans of Sound’, and he perceived each track as an aural story. “I wanted to make sounds that felt equal to where I’ve been roaming in the mountains and forests out here, that reflect the incredible scale of the place. You get these huge views and skylines, which it’s hard to find words for.” The curious sounds that open the album, at the beginning of ‘Largo’, are an approximation, by Milo on cello, of a harmonic series that is often heard in the Sierra region: when the local knife-sharpeners travel around the neighbouring villages, plying their trade, they play a similar riff on pan pipes to proclaim their arrival. “You get all these announcements, from people collecting scrap iron and steel, or delivering fruit and bread, and I thought that kind of thing would make a good opening for the record.” With that colourful reference as an overture, ‘Sierra Tracks’ shapes up as a love letter to the rocky landscape within which its creator now resides. It is also, he says, about his mental-health journey out of the pandemic years, which have been so testing for us all.
“I had been thinking about Time, and how history repeats itself, but also how one can become trapped in thoughts, especially on difficult personal subjects, and how these become cyclical in our minds. But I also wanted to talk about how walking or running can help release oneself from these cycles and find clarity and order from tangled emotional thinking patterns. It’s like discovering a new path from your usual running route, and how that can change your perspective and help find a type of peace and acceptance.”
Through the album there are motifs and melodies that repeat from one tune to another, which of course resemble cyclical thoughts and memories.
“So, to me,” Milo concludes, “this record is an exploration of the relationship between the complex, tangled world of one’s mental processes and how moving through the tangible world, especially through nature, can help find definition and clarity.”
As such, ‘Sierra Tracks’ really is medicine for the mind, body and soul.
Pressed on high quality black BioVinyl at Optimal in Germany for maximum sound quality
Track Listing: A1. Largo A2. Els A3. Murmuration
B1. Dream House B2. Clarifantasia B3. Reverie B4. Murmur
C1. Old Friend; The Sea C2. When this is Over C3. Sleepwalk Tokyo
Official Websites: https://vegatrails.com/ https://gondwanarecords.com/
2CD
(Steve Kilbey & Donnette Thayer) –
Ethereal Message (An Anthology)
EARS207CD 2025-03-28 5060446073865
Steve Kilbey from The Church & Donnette Thayer from Game Theory
• Fully remastered recordings from both original HEX albums
• Completely new artwork in deluxe gatefold sleeve with full colour booklet
• Liner notes about each song by Donnette Thayer
• Both albums have been out of print for over 20 years
Tracklist:
DISC 1 1. Diviner 2. Hermaphrodite 3. Ethereal Message 4. Mercury Towers 5. Out Of The Pink Sky 6. Fire Island 7. In The Net 8. Silvermine 9. Elizabeth Green 10. An Arrangement DISC 2 1. Monarch 2. Shelter 3. March 4. Centaur 5. Antelope 6. Hollywood In Winter 7. Orpheus Circuit 8. Aquamarine 9. Hell 10. Vast Halos
Anne Briggs –The Time Has Come
(Green Vinyl) Earth Recordings
LP green vinyl repress, standard single sleeve printed inner.
Offering some of her first original compositions, ‘The Time Has Come’ was a break from tradition in more ways than one for Anne Briggs. Where previous recordings displayed the unaccompanied melodies of her voice, this album - originally released by CBS in 1971brings additional instrumentation in the form of guitar and bouzouki. The result is that her vocals are not submerged but heightened - the plucked strings providing the perfect foil for her crystalline inflection. ‘The Time Has Come’ is a mix of Anne’s own songs alongside some notable covers (Lal Waterson, Steve Ashley, Stan Ellison, Henry McCulloch). All are graced with the quietly self-assured elegance of Anne’s playing, with sounds ranging from the breezy ‘Clea Caught A Rabbit’ to the terrible beauty of ‘Wishing Well’ - each song typifying the bouzouki or guitar style. To say that Anne was an accomplished picker is to do her something of an disservice - the intricacy of her finger-work rivals - and more often than not eclipses - any number of her contemporaries.
Tracklist:
1.Sandman's Song
2.Highlodge Hare
3.Fire And Wine
4.Step Right Up
5.Ride, Ride
6.The Time Has Come
7.Clea Caught A Rabbit
8.Tangled Man
9.Wishing Well
10.Standing On The Shore
11.Tidewave
12.Everytime
13.Fine Horseman
Artist: Thala
Title: Avalanche
Release date: 03.28.25
Label: Fire Records
Track List
A1. 1st of the year
A2. body to you
A3. don't want you to die
A4. drive song
A5. spit you out
B1. sinner
B2. sleep paralysis
B3. tongue-tied & starry eyed feat. Sfven
B4. It’s good
B5. avalanche
Thala - Avalanche
Following on from her formative debut ‘Adolescence’, Thala releases her remarkable new album ‘Avalanche’ on Fire Records. As 2023’s EPs revisited painful chapters in her life, ‘Avalanche’ offers a more focussed worldview, tackling more mature matters of the heart. Drawn to the cerebral emotion of early 90s shoegaze and indie rock, these are songs to live by. This is pop music that blossoms from verse to chorus much like Sharon Van Etten, with piercing soundscapes by way of Ethal Cain and Wolf Alice.
A reawakening, full of positivity and purpose from the everyday thrall of life. ‘Avalanche’ sees Thala caught in that moment when indie confidently explodes into soaring panoramic rock, a coming of age statement and a strident evolution from her previous work. Opening cut ‘1st of the year’ is a heady slice of realisation that everything’s not going to work out as planned and is an outpouring of emotion which reveals a darker side to her music.
It sets the scene for a cathartic awakening; Thala is a performer living life’s rich adventures and rolling with its punches; ‘don’t want u to die’ is an honest parable filled with modern-day melancholy, it’s a liberating piece of indie rock that surges with dramatic heft and is executed with pinpoint precision; ‘spit it out’ is a cursory chronicle of revenge served cold, while ‘tongue-tied & starry-eyed’ (featuring Communion artist Sfven) is the understanding that sometimes you just have to move on. Thala takes us on her personal trip as ‘drive song’ slides into a somnambulant plea with vintage Cure-like chiming guitars while ‘body to you’ raises the ante with a gloriously triumphant chorus of “it’s alright, it’s alright”.
MEMORIALS MEMORIAL WATERSLIDES
ORANGE VINYL RE-PRESS OUT 2025-03-28
‘Memorial Waterslides’ is the debut album from MEMORIALS, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire). This is an otherworldly, surrealist pop record that is both timeless and timely, displaying a rare mix of classic songwriting and avant-garde attitudes.
MEMORIALS create panoramic pop that draws on both the familiar and the strange, while also treading new ground. With their playful and experimental style, combined with a love of good tunes, they sit comfortably alongside Broadcast, Portishead, Arthur Russell, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo and Tortoise.
The album is awash with imagery evoking a lost future, a veiled present and a daydreamed past, each song playing a role in creating a swirling, widescreen atmosphere, the listener taken along for the ride. Produced entirely by the two of them, the sound of the record was inspired by the reel-to-reel tape experiments they first played around with onstage as they began to develop their multi-layered recordings for live performances as a duo.
Following their acclaimed 2023 soundtracks ‘Women Against The Bomb’ and ‘Tramps!’, a European tour with Stereolab (they’ve been called “Stereolab’s evil twin”) and a new music commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Verity and Matthew arrived at MEMORIALS in reverse, escaping their soundtracking day jobs to create cosmic journeys through the garden shed into psychedelic rock, far-out folk and wild analogue electronics.
“Exciting and unpredictable” - The Guardian.
ORANGE VINYL FIRELP766C 809236002877
www.firerecords.com
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
FOREVER HOWLONG
ReleaseDate:April4th,2025
Forever Howlong is Black Country, New Road’s first studio release since 2022's UK #3 album Ants From Up There, which gave the band their second Top 5 UK album in 12 months alongside their Mercury Prize shortlisted debut For the first time, and follows 2023's Live at Bush Hall, an album The Guardian claimed was a “magical resurgence” in a triumphant five-star review. Now, on studio album three, the band are once again building from the ground up in yet another miraculous musical transformation.
The long-awaited new record was produced by James Ford (Fontaines D.C.,Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Blur) and sees Black Country, New Road settled into a new shape in which vocal duties – and most of the song writing – is split between Tyler Hyde, Georgia Ellery, and May Kershaw. “It created a real through line for the album, having three girls singing," says Ellery. "It's definitely very different to Ants From Up There, because of the female perspective - and the music we've made also compliments that."
Forever Howlong is an ambitious, meticulously detailed record that includes everything from folk to prog via baroque pop and touches of alt-rock – with nods to everything from Joanna Newsom to Randy Newman via Fiona Apple and Janis Ian – yet all the while retaining that unmistakably unique sound that only this combination of musicians can come up with. Although hugely varied and expansive, the album also feels deeply cohesive and focused, as it takes three distinct voices and styles and seamlessly intersperses them into a new collective sound.
Socials
Instagram: @blackcountrynewroad (159k followers)
TikTok: @blackcountrynewroad (40k followers)
Facebook: @blackcountrynewroad (29k followers)
X: @BCNRband (38k followers)
CAT NO: ZEN314
UPC: 5054429199758
Box Lot: 15
CAT NO: ZEN314E
UPC: 5054429201598
Box Lot: 15
CAT NO: ZENCD314
UPC: 5054429201611
Box Lot: 35
- Recycled black 140g 2LPin a Curious Matter gatefold sleeve with 20-page colour booklet
- Includes MP3 download code
- Eco jazz transparent blue double 140g vinyl in a negative effect artworked Curious Matter gatefold sleeve with 20-page colour booklet
- Exclusive to indie retailers
- Includes MP3 download code
- CD in a Curious Matter gatefold sleeve with 20-page colour booklet
SIDEA
1.Besties
2.The Big Spin
3.Socks SIDE B
1.Salem Sisters
2.Two Horses
3.Mary
SIDE C
1.Happy Birthday
2.For the Cold Country SIDE D
1.NancyTries toTake the Night
2.Forever Howlong 3.Goodbye (Don’tTell Me)
Genre: Alternative KeyMarkets: NewYork City, LosAngeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Mexico City
Recommendedifyoulike… black midi, Squid, Pavement, Dry Cleaning
PreviousRelease:
Release Title:Ants From Up There
Date of Release: February 4th, 2022
Label: Ninja Tune
Formats: Standard LP, Deluxe LP, CD
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
THE COMPLETE DIRTY SOUTH
AVAILABLE ON BLACK VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME! BOTH ORIGINAL PRESSINGS HAVE
In 2004 the Drive-By Truckers released what would become the best selling album in their illustrious catalog. The Dirty South is a concept album that examines the state of the South, and unveils the hypocrisy, irony, and tragedy that continues to exist. The album features live show staples like, “Tornadoes”, “Where The Devil Dont Stay” and “Puttin’ People On The Moon” as well as rarities like “Goode’s Field Road” and “Daddy’s Cup.”
The Complete Dirty South is a band-led rework of the original album. Principal member, Patterson Hood, took the reins and reimagined this record as it was originally intended. The complete version features resequenced audio, three additional tracks, four remixes along with updated vocals. The packaging comes with a perfect bound book featuring liner notes from Patterson Hood, track by track descriptions from Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell as well as never before seen photos along with updated artwork from the late Wes Freed.
“This ‘Director’s Cut’ is the way it was always intended to be heard” - Patterson Hood
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Where The Devil Don’t Stay
2. Tornadoes
3. The Day John Henry Died
4. Puttin’ People On The Moon
5. Goode’s Field Road
Side B
1. Carl Perkins Cadillac
2. TVA
3. The Sand of Iwo Jima
4. Danko/Manuel
Side C
1. The Boys From Alabama
2. The Buford Stick
3. Never Gonna Change
4. Cottonseed
Side D
1. The Great Car Dealer War
2. Daddy’s Cup
3. Lookout Mountain
4. Goddamn Lonely Love
VINYL
CONFIG: 2xLP, Black Vinyl, 32-page booklet, Gatefold, Slip-Sleeve Case.
UPC: 607396590612
Catalog: NW5906LP
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Rock n Roll
CD
CONFIG: Digi Wallet, Slip Case, 48-page booklet
UPC: 607396654826
Catalog: NW6548 CD
Box Lot: 30 Count
Genre: Rock N Roll
MARKETING POINTS
• THE DEFINITIVE VERSION FINALLY AVAILABLE AS THE BAND INTENDED
• FEATURING RESEQUENCED AUDIO, 3 ADDITIONAL TRACKS, UPDATED VOCALS ON 2 TRACKS, AND 4 REMIXES
• REMASTERED BY ACCLAIMED ENGINEER GREG CALBI
• INCLUDES A PERFECT BOUND BOOK WITH NEW LINER NOTES BY PATTERSON HOOD, NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS, AND UPDATED ART FROM THE LATE WES FREED
POISON IDEA
WAR ALL THE TIME
LP-AMLE-0012B
UPC: 843563169704
LP-AMLE-0012C
UPC: 843563169711
• POISON IDEA’S 2ND FULL LENGTH
• BACK IN PRINT ON BLACK VINYL
• NORTH AMERICA EXCLUSIVE PRESSING OF 100 COPIES ON COLOR VINYL
POISON IDEA’s momentum hasn’t slowed down one bit; this is still their brand of loud, potent powerthrash. Slightly more metal than in the past but the accent here is on the force and fury. Scorching. Each song on War All the Time flows into the other in a natural sequence for maximum impact and the whole thing blows over before you know it, but everything stays in your head, banging against the walls of your frontal bone. All this makes a good album, but what turns War All the Time into an amazing album are the lyrics and their delivery. Jerry A took the negative side of the world around him and expressed it in detail, rendered with words that can be read in a universal manner, expressing everything trivial and worthy of our puke in a language better suited to talk about the beauty of life. And those words remain as true to this day as the band’s riffs are brutal.
POISON IDEA
LAST SHOW IN FRANCE
LP-AMLE-0033
CUPC: 843563169698
• POISON IDEA’S BLISTERING LAST SHOW IN FRANCE
• EXCLUSIVE RETAIL PRESSING OF 500 COPIES ON BURGUNDY VINYL
On July 10th, 2019, POISON IDEA played their very last show in France. The setlist was chosen by friend, fan and birthday boy, Ed. 15 songs covering the band's entire history. At this point of the tour the band was as tight as a machine, and it shows.
Sarah Mary Chadwick knows what the right song — or the wrong song — can do to a room. For a long time, she worked in bars, until one day when she woke up and realized that being a musician was enough to cover the bills. And now, on her ninth full-length solo release, Take Me To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?, the New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based singer has made a collection of sounds which seem to emanate from a dive bar jukebox.
Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? marks a deliberate pivot. The album’s open, introductory chords evoke seem fit to score a scene in a Michael Haneke movie in which some stern German woman stomps down a whitewashed hallway. By the time that Chadwick’s crackly soprano joins in, it figures almost as a kind of intrusion upon what had been, up until that point, a pure mood. “You don’t have to listen to all the lyrics,” she attests. Chadwick's calling card since her earliest releases — a jagged, one-take immediacy — has been dialed back, leaving room to inconspicuously crowbar as much poeticism into the songs as she possibly could. “It’s like someone talking to you over a movie, whether you tune into the person talking to you or you tune into the movie, your reaction’s the same: ‘What the fuck did she just say?’”
Instead of crafting tracks that, to enjoy, meant consciously hurling oneself into them, she wanted something a little bit less participatory: “something that you can dip in and out of, something that you can just throw on.” Something that can survive, fulfill its purpose, comfort or delight, even as a backdrop to washing dishes, folding towels, sprinkling baking soda over a spot of carpet where the dog took a piss. (Isn’t that what we, in building ourselves up — if stockpiling resilience is what it means to mature — all aim for? To flourish, even when attention is withheld?)
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LAWRENCE HART COME IN OUT OF THE RAIN
TRACKLISTING
1. Lotus Bloom
2. NoMoreLuv4u
3. Closer To You
4. Out Of The Rain
5. Just Belong
6. Still But Still Moving
7. Love U Bring
8. Hear Ur Heartbeat
9. The Wind Cry
10. Fucking Mega
11. Daydreamers
12. The Wave Cry
CATALOG NUMBER: DS177
RELEASE DATE: April 4, 2025
FILE UNDER: Electronic “H”
CD Boxlot: 30 UPC: 887832017723
LP w/ DOWNLOAD
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887832017716
Vinyl is non-returnable
OVERVIEW
Come In Out of the Rain is the long-awaited debut album from UK-based DJ, producer and multiinstrumentalist, Lawrence Hart. An ‘emotional garage record, euphoric and therapeutic,’ as Hart puts it, Come In Out Of The Rain journeys through cinematic melancholia, soaring synths and moments of fragility peppered with forgotten vocal samples. Hart’s style expresses his sciencesavvy tech skills with emotion-evoking vibes and dancefloor fuel, creating a sound both club-ready and perfect for immersing yourself in: ‘A big thing for me on this record is balancing the more mechanical and technical side of my music with the heart and euphoria.’
SELLING POINTS
• An album of emotional and euphoric electronica for fans of Burial, Fred Again, George FitzGerald.
• Support from Pete Tong, Floating Points, The Blessed Madonna, Joy Anonymous, Dixon & Many more.
• Gorgeous LP packaging design by Casey Roarty.
• LP comes with a download card.
DOUBLE SIX RECORDS
20 Jay Street, Suite 626 Brooklyn, NY 1 1201
718.797.4229 / dominorecordco.com
Contact: Cyrus Lubin cyrus@dominorecordco.com
REDEYE
505 Eno Street, Hillsborough, NC 27278
Contact: Jill Wheeler jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
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Sold o na ional I LOVE YOU alb m o r
TOUR DATES
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5/16/2025 Pi sb rgh, PA PPG Pain s Arena (S ppor ing Pearl Jam)
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12. Ne er Sa I Coming 13. Kiss Kiss
14. D ll (fea . Sof c l )
15. Please Me
16. e ho gh i o ld be a good ime
ARTIST TITLE LABEL
STREET DATE
CONFIGURATION
DESCRIPTION
CATALOGUE # UPC
Teen Jes s and he Jean Teasers I Lo e Yo Too Mom+Pop M sic 3/28/25 LP
Coke bo le clear in l i h l ric/pho o fold pos er DLL031LPA 810090096391 4/04/25
Element 101 : Stereo Girl LP
TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
1. To Whom It May Concern
2. Dead Romance Language Club
3. A Faithful Fascination
4. Standing On The Edge Of Night
5. Today and Always
6. Just To Like You
SIDE B
7. 20 Years In The Making
8. A Wish For You
9. Private Conversations
10. A Desperate Plea For The Retaliation Of The Mundane
11. Introspective
12. Silhouette
SELLING POINTS
Stereo Girl is available on vinyl for the first time
Produced and Engineered by Bill Stevenson (Descendents/ALL), Stephen Egerton (Descendents/ ALL), and Jason Livermore at The Blastin Room Studio
Album was remastered from the original masters by Jason Livermore
Pressed on 180g Jersey Shore Blue and Pink Noise vinyl. 300 copies worldwide.
STREET DATE :04 April 2025
FOR FANS OF: ALL, The Descendents, The Go Go’s, Letters to Cleo, Elvis Costello
GENRE: Punk Rock/Pop Punk RELEASE: Worldwide
LP UPC: 798154875420
FORMAT: LP Jacket, gatefold insert, 180g Jersey Shore blue vinyl
Burnt Toast Vinyl is excited to announce the first-ever vinyl release of Stereo Girl by the New Jersey female fronted, pop-punk band, Element 101 Stereo Girl was recorded in May 2000 at The Blasting Room Studios in Ft. Collins, Colorado and was produced and engineered by Bill Stevenson (Descendents/ALL), Stephen Egerton (Descendents/ALL), and Jason Livermore. Stereo Girl was originally released on February 12, 2001 on Tooth & Nail Records. The band supported the national release of Stereo Girl by playing festivals, opening for New Found Glory, and touring with bands such as Further Seems Forever, The Juliana Theory, Coheed & Cambria, Piebald, and many others. The Stereo Girl vinyl release has been remastered from the original Stereo Girl tapes by Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room. Stereo Girl is pressed on 180 gram vinyl and will be available in two limited variants, Jersey Shore Blue & Pink Noise. The album artwork was redesigned by Matt Traxler and includes rare photos of the band from the studio. The Stereo Girl LP is available now for purchase.
The pop-punk, female fronted, five-piece Element 101 hails from New Jersey and molds their own brandish scale of punk rock, reminiscent of Elvis Costello, Letters to Cleo, the Go-Go's, ALL, and the Descendents. Signed to Tooth & Nail Records, Element 101 is comprised of vocalist Crissie Verhagen, guitarists Chris Mizzone and Danny Papa, bassist Sal Ciaravino, and drummer Nick Acocella. They issued their debut Future Plans Undecided in spring 2000. Stereo Girl followed in early 2001. By the time Element 101 prepped for their third album, they reached a new musical level. More Than Motion, which was released in fall 2002, showcased a new found confidence from the band as well as a melodically tight sound.
“Given the album’s emphasis on savvy power chords ad seamless execution, it’s the indelible, confectionary-induced sensibilities of ‘To Whom It May Concern’ and ‘Standing on the Edge of Night’ that lure you in relentlessly. While Stereo Girl itself may not be new, this remastered, first-time-on-vinyl appearance of this 2001 pearl has arrived.” – Neal Agneta, Big Takeover Burnt Toast Vinyl, www.burnttoastvinyl.com PO Box 42188 Philadelphia PA 19101 Scott Hatch, btv@burnttoastvinyl.com, 215.353.0990
aya ~ hexed!
Catalogue Number : LP-HDB-069
Street Date : 03.28.2025
Format : LP
UPC : 5056321681980
Box Lot : 20
aya's incredibly inventive Hyperdub debut album imholedistilled the incisive sonic experimentation of her early run of releases, the tongue -in-cheek giggles of her DJ sets and radio show, and the identityfluxing lyricism of her live shows into a delirious tug of war between pleasure and dysmorphia. The album was championed from all corners, 'Best New Music' in Pitchfork to Radio 6 DJ Maryanne Hobbs 'Album of the Year', followed by a run of incredible live shows which drew new listeners further into her world.
hexed!, a a s second album, confronts the desperation and d sfunction of addiction. Internalised phobias and suppressed traumas haunt the corridors and golden hours once romanticised on 2021 s imhole ; daymares concealed by nocturnal afters -hopping and ke bag circles. Opener I am the pipe I hit m self with e poses the gra portrait secreted somewhere between the 8th and 9th floors of her previous record. I used to sa some shit for sure , I used t o say it when I was me-less . he ed! is about what happens when aya turns the lights on.
A1. I am the pipe I hit myself with A2. off to the ESSO A3. the names of Faggot Chav boys A4. heat death A5. peach
B1. hexed! B2. Droplets B3. navel gazer B4. The Petard is my Hoister B5. Time at the Bar 04.04.2025
WSR-052
j.o.y.s –
j.o.y.s LP
Street Date: 04/04/25
LP-WSR-052, UPC 781661739118
Track Listing:
1. dastardly
2. yucca valley
3. vinegar (interlude)
4. river | road
5. blue water prison
6. lee & leo
7. heights
8. '96 (jumping cholla)
RIYL: Daniel Lanois, loveliescrushing, Dean Hurley, Stars of the Lid, Tim Hecker, Aarktica
j.o.y.s. is both the moniker of and the debut self-titled LP by the Los Angeles based artist Ramon Narvaez. j.o.y.s. is an acronym for “jump out of your skin”. While the phrase can conjure moments of shock and surprise, Narvaez, however uses the phrase as a foot lamp illuminating a path towards momentary transcendence - a sudden or gradual process of skin-shedding of former selves and past lives. j.o.y.s., as an album, lives in the sinewy flex of an ouroboros turn - reconciling with the past before blissfully stumbling into something new.
The music on j.o.y.s. follows a similar serpentine path. An album is comprised of 9 songs that represent the culmination of countless hours of experimentation and collaboration that went into recording this album. This consisted of Narvaez living in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles using a spartan set-up of electric guitar, a few pedals and a laptop and Narvaez’s longtime friend and collaborator Justin Gaynor contributing pedal steel from his apartment in Crown Heights in Brooklyn.The synchronicity not lost on the two, the theme of travel or trekking is prominent on the album - both in the physical sense and across the ribbon of memory that shape our identity.
To that end, Narvaez’s friendship and collaboration with Justin Gaynor (who releases music under the name Bestamo) started in High School in Piscataway, New Jersey, extended into the heady days of early aughts Brooklyn and continued even when Narvaez moved across the country. The two would dedicate Fridays to improvising and exploring new sounds together through video chat - bending time around them to keep their collaboration alive. A Tim Hecker show and Relatives in Descent by Protomartyr were pivotal gifts from the universe that would encourage Narvaez to turn these improvisations with Gaynor into a fully fleshed record. This led to Narvaez seeking out Sonny DiPerri, whose production credits include DIIV, Emma Ruth Rundle, my bloody valentine as well as Protomartyr’s Relatives in Descent to mix j.o.y.s. and serve as the resident mentor / spiritual advisor. During these sessions Narvaez would use this opportunity to understand how DiPerri worked, why he liked what he liked and why he made decisions during production. Following this tutelage, Adam Gonsalves was brought on to master the record for vinyl.
j.o.y.s. revels in intransigence. Nothing can last. As Matt Colquhoun puts in the introduction to Mark Fisher’s heartbreaking Ghosts of My Life - our identity and relationship to the past are “portals in perpetual collapse”. Depression, friendship, longing are all briefly satiated while in the peak experience of creating something as a response to them. But even that is impermanent. These sounds - improvised, exploratory, ecstatic - are eventually edited, whittled down and pressed to wax - not tombs but portals to the past.
Label Contact: Ryan Hall, whitedsepulchrerecords@gmail.com
Distro Contact: Lori Miller, lori@redeyeworldwide.com, 877-733-3931 x216
Originally released in 2006, SignaltoNoise was White Willow’s attempt to break out from the established 70s prog rock sound. Wanting a sound that was a bit more up to date, the band chose to work with an outside producer.
“We were great fans of the work Tommy Hansen had done with various bands, and we knew he had a really nice studio. So we set off to Denmark and spent some wonderful weeks in his garden studio in Horsens. One of our influences on this record was City Boy; we wanted a similar kind of amalgam of progginess and catchiness. We also had a singer, Trude Eidtang, who was very comfortable experimenting with vocal harmonies, which brought a new aspect to the band’s sound.”
This re-release, meticulously remastered by Jacob Holm-Lupo brings new life to the album, featuring the iconic original cover art for the first time on vinyl. It’s the fifth in a series of six White Willow re-releases on Karisma Records.
MARKETING&PROMOTION
Ads in magazines such as Prog Magazine, Eclipsed Magazine, Norway Rock Magazine, Classic Rock etc.
SELLINGPOINTS
Re-release of the classic, long out-of-print 5th White Willow album
For fans of Anekdoten, Wobbler, Landberk & Scandinavian prog in general
Limited LP version on Bone White vinyl
Band website: www.facebook.com/whitewillowband Label website: www.karismarecords.no
For interviews, info & promo material, contact Karisma Records and Martin Kvam: e-mail: post@karismarecords.no / tel: +47 95 74 92 19
Artist: Mekons
Title: Horror
Release date: 04.04.25
Label: Fire Records
Track List
A1 The Western Design
A2 Sad and Sad and Sad
A3 Glasgow
A4 Fallen Leaves
A5 War Economy
A6 Mudcrawlers
B1 A Horse Has Escaped
B2 Private Defense Contractor
B3 Sanctuary
B4 Surrender
B5 You're Not Singing Any More
B6 Before The Ice Age
Mekons - Horror
Legendary postmodern, post punk, post human, past caring collective Mekons return with a brand-new album for 2025. Their first release on Fire Records, ‘Horror’ a collection of songs written in late 2022 but providing a horribly prescient reflection of the world in its current miasma and how we got here.
‘Horror’ looks at history and the legacies of British imperialism with mashed up lyrics set against a typically eclectic sound that amalgamates everything from dub, country, noise, rock & roll, electronica, punk, music hall, polka and you can even take your partner for a nice waltz on ‘Sad And Sad And Sad’. The roots of their global sound reflect their nomadic journey through time and space from Leeds to California in the West and Siberia in the East and is woven into the fabric and intricacies of their song creation…
Sounding like The Chills and R.E.M circa the I.R.S Records years, ‘Mudcrawlers’ sees just about the whole band joining Jon Langford on vocals speaking of Irish famine and refugees journeying to Wales. ‘War Economy’ shivers in the cold of such Boroughs spiked one-liners: “Clinical coercion will not achieve dominance!” Sounding like its straight off a Jenny Holzer neon sign (she of Abuse Of Power Comes As No Surprise), it’s held together by a disgruntled swaggering riff that underpins an explosion of disquiet.
Meanwhile, Rico takes the lead on the maliciously luscious ‘Fallen Leaves’ an appalled and appalling Hammer Horror take on climate breakdown reminiscent of Rolling Thunder Dylan, that recalls The Pogues at their most introspective, its Celtic twilightism augmented by Susie Honeyman’s keening violin as the dying sun sinks down and the river Styx flows on in the pitch black night.
Almost 50 years in the making, these Mekons continue to astound, their sound, sentiment and method of delivery blended to perfection by bass player and studio wizard, Dave Trumfio. The Mekons are Jon Langford, Sally Timms, Tom Greenhalgh, Dave Trumfio, Susie Honeyman, Rico Bell, Steve Goulding, and Lu Edmonds.
Artist: The Nightingales
Title: The Awful Truth
Release date: 04.04.25
Label: Fire Records
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The Nightingales – The Awful Truth
The Nightingales return with ‘The Awful Truth’, a modern mutant music hall interpretation of the day’s news, a haunting jolt into realism narrated with all the angst of an insistent, slightly dishevelled late-night newscaster. Following the widely celebrated Stewart Lee-narrated King Rocker film in 2020, the curtain has finally been raised on the magic of the “long serving punk/alternative rock volunteer” (The Quietus). As pertinent as ever, The Nightingales release a poignant tirade on modern times heralded, quite rightly, as ‘The Awful Truth’.
Opening cut, ‘The New Emperor’s New Clothes’ is an upbeat immersive eruption with a thumping percussive piano holding proceedings in order; think the Velvets meet Fairport Convention in a crowded boozer, still waiting for their man. ‘Same Old Riff’ recalls Bowie’s ‘Queen Bitch’ rekindling the class war struggles and throwing sharp focus on the national unrest in the summer of 2024.
Robert Lloyd’s acidic one-liners trace the collapse of modern society, retaining the harmonious warble of a veteran pub crooner infected with the growl and grouse of The Fall, Nick Cave and at times Beefheart reincarnated.
In the early 80s they enjoyed cult status as darlings of the credible music scene and were championed by John Peel, who said of them – “Their performances will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far enough distanced from the 1980’s to look at the period rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands stand revealed as charlatans.” Their time has indeed come.
The Nightingales are Robert Lloyd, Andreas Schmid (Faust) on bass, Fliss Kitson (Violet Violet) on drums and guitarist, James Smith (Damo Suzuki).
“They genuinely sound more vital than ever.” Uncut
POISON IDEA
FEEL THE DARKNESS
CD-AMLE-0018
UPC: 614511853828
LP-AMLE-0018
UPC: 614511877022
POISON IDEA
BLANK BLACKOUT VACANT
CD-AMLE-0009
UPC: 614511866026
LP-AMLE-0009
UPC: 614511868525
POISON IDEA
WAR ALL THE TIME
CD-AMLE-0012
UPC: 614511849821
POISON IDEA
RECORD COLLECTORS ARE STILL PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLES
CD-AMLE-0025
UPC: 614511869423
LP-AMLE-0025
UPC: 614511870221
POISON IDEA
LATEST WILL AND TESTAMENT
CD-AMLE-0011
UPC: 614511846127
LP-AMLE-0011
UPC: 614511847728
POISON IDEA KINGS OF PUNK
CD-AMLE-0026
UPC: 614511872621
LP-AMLE-0026
UPC: 614511880220
POISON IDEA PICK YOUR KING
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UPC: 614511878425
POISON IDEA GET LOADED & FUCK
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UPC: 614511871020
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UPC: 614511870726
POISON IDEA WE MUST BURN
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LP-AMLE-0037
UPC: 614511883825
POISON IDEA
DARBY CRASH RIDES AGAIN: THE EARLY YEARS VOL. 1
LP-AMLE-0014
UPC: 614511876728
POISON IDEA
PIGS LAST STAND
CD-AMLE-0020
UPC: 798576915124
LP-AMLE-0020
UPC: 614511864428
POISON IDEA
THE BEAST GOES EAST
CD-AMLE-0023
UPC: 614511873024
POISON IDEA LAST SHOW IN FRANCE
CD-AMLE-0033
UPC: 843563178201
JERRY A. FROM THE FIRE INTO THE WATER
CD-AMLE-0028
UPC: 614511872324
LP-AMLE-0028
UPC: 614511874328
JERRY A & THE KINGS OF OBLIVION
LIFE AFTER HATE
CD-AMLE-0031
UPC: 614511876520
POISON IDEA
LEGACY OF DYSFUNCTION
CD-AMLE-0015
UPC: 614511851923
LP-AMLE-0015
UPC: 614511853125
POISON IDEA
LP-AMLE-0029
UPC: 614511880824
POISON IDEA
TRIBUTE TO G.I.S.M.
SI-AMLE-0032
UPC: 614511879323
JERRY A. & THE NEO GIRLS + NORMA SILVER & THE GOLD SPLIT 7" ("FOOLS GOLD" YELLOW VINYL)
