Fuzz Club Records
Fuzz Club is an independent record label based in London, with a taste for experimental rock and roll, influenced by psychedelia, shoegaze, noise, blues, folk and more.
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Sold outDouble LP, 180g black vinyl, tip-on gatefold sleeve, printed inner-sleeves, remastered by James Plotkin. To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of ‘Dead Magick’, Fuzz Club Records are announcing a vinyl reissue of the debut album from Icelandic psychedelic art-rock project Dead Skeletons.Visit product page →
In the decade since it was originally released on 11/11/11 via Anton Newcombe’s A Recordings label, ‘Dead Magick’ has come to be seen as one of this generation’s definitive works of neo-psychedelia and had an almost cult-like reverence attached to it. Tours around the UK, EU and USA, major international festival dates and critical acclaim soon followed the album’s release, and it also helped to catalyse a burgeoning underground psych scene to whom ‘Dead Magick’s occult sonic belligerence became a crucial and highly-lauded touchstone.
A twelve-track masterclass in “transportative far-out guitar hymnals” (as described by The Quietus’ Luke Turner), the ‘Dead Magick’ double album was an exercise in spiritual rock’n’roll drones shaped by primitive fuzzed-out guitars, repetitive vocal mantras, distorted organs and crashing percussion.
Inspired by bandleader Jón Sæmundur Auðarson’s own diagnosis with HIV, the driving philosophy behind Dead Skeletons (and the wider ‘DEAD’ concept that Jón, aka Nonni Dead, has been exploring since 2003) is defined by the ‘He who fears death cannot enjoy life’ chant heard on the album’s declarative opening track, ‘Dead Mantra’.
The underground hit was the first song released by Dead Skeletons – comprising Jón, Henrik Björnsonn (Singapore Sling), Ryan Carlson and Aislinn Van Kriedt (Asteroid #4) – and laid out the band’s intentions from the off: to use music as a means to inspire people to celebrate and cherish life unshackled from fears and anxieties over their mortality.
“I created the DEAD concept in 2003 as an idea to use art as a therapy to overcome the fear of death and to enjoy life to the fullest. I had been dealing with the HIV virus since 1994 and wanted to use my art skills to explore this idea further and spread positive messages to help other people in the same position as myself”, the Reykjavik-based artist recalls.
The 2021 reissue on Fuzz Club Records comes on 180g black vinyl in a tip-on printed gatefold sleeve with printed inner-sleeves and remastered audio courtesy of James Plotkin.
Tracklisting:
1. Dead Mantra
2. Kingdom of God
3. Psychodead
4. Get On The Train
5. Dead Magick I
6. Ask Seek Knock
7. Ljósberinn
8. Lifðu!/Live!
9. When The Sun Comes Up
10. Yama
11. Dead Magick II -
Reverb Conspiracy Vol. 4 is a collection of 12 tracks from some of the best in Europe's unfathomably fruitful psych scene - offering a plethora of gems of the rock and roll, kraut, shoegaze, folk and garage-rock variety, and just about everything in-between.Visit product page →
The highlights of the record include the dark, discordant krautgaze'of My Invisible Friend, the mammoth 15 minute spaced-out jam from Giobia, the ominous and mind-altering Ulrika Spacek and the kaleidoscopic splendor of Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation.
Volume 4 also boasts immersive cuts from the likes of The Madcaps, Soft Walls, Pretty Lightning, The Oscillation and Fuzz Club's own otherworldly psych juggernauts TAU, 10000 Russos, The Orange Revival and Throw Down Bones - each and every track is a piece of experimental sonic mastery in its own unique and distinct right.
Limited to 1000 copies on double coloured vinyl and double CD.
Tracklisting:
Vinyl
Side A
1. Tau - Trickster
2. 10 000 Russos - UsVsUs
3. Soft Walls - Never Come Back Again
4. The Madcaps - Moon Night
Side B
5. Orange Revival - Carolyn
6. Pretty Lightning - Graveyard Howls
7. Throw Down Bones - Our Home The Holy Mountain
Side C
8. Josefin Ohren - Dunes
9. Giobia - Sun Spectre
Side D
10. Ulrika Spacek - Beta Male
11. The Oscillation - Kissing The Sun
12. My Invisible Friend - Endless.
CD 1
1. Tau - Trickster
2. 10 000 Russos - UsVsUs
3. Soft Walls - Never Come Back Again
4. The Madcaps - Moon Night
5. Orange Revival - Carolyn
6. Pretty Lightning - Graveyard Howls..
CD 2
1. Throw Down Bones - Our Home The Holy Mountain
2. Josefin Ohren - Dunes
3. Giobia - Sun Spectre
4. Ulrika Spacek - Beta Male
5. The Oscillation - Kissing The Sun
6. My Invisible Friend - Endless -
Available on double 180 gram White vinyl. The ethos of London-based indie label Fuzz Club is a desire to uncover and celebrate the best in fuzz, reverb and drone from every corner of the globe. As well as via their extensive back-catalogue and their Fuzz Club Eindhoven festival, one such particular medium through which they do this is their annual Reverb Conspiracy compilation albums.Visit product page →
Where the first five volumes were hailed as a Nuggets-like documentation of the European psych scene, Reverb Conspiracy Vol 6 - due for release [date] - sees the compilation go global: bringing together bands from South Africa, Australia, the USA, Germany, Brazil, the UK, Italy and Russia.
Amongst a number of the label's own bands - including Medicine Boy's shadowy noise-pop (DE) and Nest Egg's motorik 'mood music for nihilists' (US), plus Steeple Remove's dub-inflected post-punk (FR) and Crimen's heady, repetitive psych-rock (IT) - there is Aussie garage-psych outfit Nice Biscuit, an exclusive cut of Bikini Kill-meets-Oh Sees noise from Julia Robert (SA), as well as lo-fi garage-pop from Super Paradise (UK) and the double-barreled psych-blues wig-outs of Frankie & The Witch Fingers (US).
In the compilations darker moments, though, there is the hypnotically face-melting 'space-surf' of Japanese Television (UK), goth-tinged post-punk from Float (UK), murky psychedelic stoner-rock from Brazil's Firefriend, relentlessly driving krautrock courtesy of Verstärker (USA), the heavy space-rock drones of Psychic Lemon (UK) and Moscow's Selbram, who deal in a jagged alt-rock sound that takes its cues from No Wave, psych and the 'pulse and noise' of city life.
Tracklisting:
1. Julia Robert - Mud Girl
2. Nice Biscuit - Out Of Sight
3. Frankie And The Witch Fingers - Underneath You
4. Medicine Boy - Water Girl
5. Firefriend - Surface To Air
6. Nest Egg - DMTIV
7. Steeple Remove - Ferris Noir
8. Float - Watch
9. Crimen - Flahzz
10. Japanese Television - Tick Tock
11. Selbram - This City You Know
12. Super Paradise - 6:30
13. Verstärker - Mit Glück
14. Psychic Lemon - Interstellar Fuzz Star -
The band's ninth album, Montage Images of Lust And Fear, will be released on March 29th 2019 via Fuzz Club.Visit product page →
Limited to 1000 copies. Available on 180-gram coloured vinyl.
It's undoubtedly their most sincere work in an extensive, decade-long discography with which they've picked up a cult following across the globe - made evident in their millions of YouTube streams and relentless international touring.
In support of the new album, and keeping to their prodigious work ethic, the band have also announced details of a mammoth tour across the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia that'll see them visit 25 different countries. In its rawest moments (The Death of the Author', Blind II'), The Underground Youth's haunting post-punk melancholia recalls the abrasive banshee-like noise of The Birthday Party and Suicide; jagged, shrieking guitars twist and turn as Craig Dyer's dour vocals jerk from morose and impassioned to macabre screams.
Though this is an album of two sides; the more intense and challenging songs punctuated by heartfelt and solemn ballads (Too Innocent To Be True', This Anaesthetised World') that are aided by the additional lap steel guitar of Kristof Hahn (Swans) who plays on six of the album's nine songs.
This is The Underground Youth's most intense and honest record yet - in the ambitious songwriting and live recording (a first for the band), as well as the lyrical subject matter. Talking about the album, Craig explains 'Montage Images of Lust And Fear is inspired by the succession of experiences we are increasingly dealt by the media. Sex, violence, love, suspicion, desire, distress, etc.
The album acts as a montage itself, the subject of each song dealing with an aspect of either lust or fear. Like flicking through the channels on a television. Until the end you are overcome by white noise. Static.' Since the release of their aptly-titled eighth full-length, What Kind Of Dystopian Hellhole Is This?
In February 2017, the band have set out on four UK/European tours clocking in at over 100 shows (not including stand-alone gigs). If all that time touring has taught the band anything, it's how to work together as a collective and Montage Images Of Lust And Fear is all the better for it - the first The Underground Youth record with all the band members involved in the writing.
'Unlike previous albums in which I've written the tracks and taken them into the studio to record with or without the band, this record is the product of us all working on the music and arranging the songs together,'
Craig explains: 'We recorded the album live with the four of us playing in the same small room and with our guitarist Leo as producer, running back and forth from the mixing desk to the live room. As a result, the recording perfectly captures the raw intensity of our live performance, something we've never done before.'
The Underground Youth is comprised of Craig Dyer (vocals/guitar), Olya Dyer (percussion), Max James (bass) and Leo Kaage (guitar).
Tracklisting:
1. Sins
2. Last Exit To Nowhere
3. The Death Of The Author
4. This Is But A Dream
5. Too Innocent To Be True
6. Blind
7. Blind II
8. I Can't Resist
9. This Anaesthetised -
Available on 180g vinyl and CD.Visit product page →
Italy's Throw Down Bones are something of an enigma in the experimental underground. Since the release of their highly-praised 2015 self-titled album, they've picked up a notorious reputation on the European live circuit for their pulverising, constantly-mutating live shows.
In a review of the debut, album listeners were told to 'make no mistake, this is dance music' and that may have been true back then but now, back with their second album titled Two, the band have taken that to a whole new extreme.
Ditching the hypnotic coldwave tendencies of their earlier work for an all-out sonic assault of industrial four-to-the-floor rhythms and screeching acid house. Two is due for release via Fuzz Club Records on October 26th and see's the band deal in floor-shaking industrial techno-post-punk occasionally steeped in a euphoric acid-house sheen.
Where the old Throw Down Bones was better suited for intimate venues and psych fests (of which they were a frequent staple, from Liverpool to Eindhoven and everywhere in between), this new evolution sees them turn their eyes to the most underground techno clubs and the sleaziest warehouse venues.
Imagine Death In Vegas, Factory Floor and Aphex Twin jamming in a room together and you might come close but Throw Down Bones would be reluctant to point to any influences'. For them, their corrosive industrial workouts are simply the product of their environment and attitudes, as opposed to who they're listening to at any given moment.
The two key members of Throw Down Bones are Francesco Vanni and Dave Gali but on this effort, their producer James Aparicio also played an integral part in writing the album. Francesco spends his time building bespoke FX pedals and analogue synths under the name Noise Militia and James was formerly the in-house engineer at the Mute Records studio, his credits including Spiritualized, Liars, Nick Cave, Depeche Mode, Mogwai and many, many more.
With Noise Militia prototypes littered around the studio, Francesco and Dave's knack for instrumental experimentation and James'studio prowess, it should come as no surprise that the result is a collection of tracks that push Throw Down Bones'electronica right to the brink. If you like your music intense, punishing and ear-drum-rattling then this is the record for you.
The first three tracks on the album First Follower', We Are Drugs'and Slow Violence'lay out the bands mission from the off, bursting through a pulsing electronic throb are unrelenting motorik basslines that twist and contort as they circles around and around and around, layers of juddering hardware electronics constantly punching through.
Then there's Golovkin', a merciless all-out rave track that zaps you right in the cortex and the electro-throb of Zero Day Exploit'that, like a cyber-attack of the same name, is an unstoppable attack on the senses - it's less in-your-face than the rest of the album but try and stop that programmed acid-tinged groove from tearing through your bloodstream.
It's too late, you won't stand a chance. If their earlier instrumental-oriented works leant into dance territory, then this is the band embracing that with open arms and wide eyes ready to soundtrack the mother of all parties, one punctuated by pure hedonism and a sense that this could very well be the last dance on this wretched rock.
Tracklisting:
1. First Follower
2. We Are Drugs
3. Slow Violence
4. NO-FI
5. Golovikin
6. Is This Us
7. Known Unknown
8. Zero Day Exploit -
Available on 180-gram vinyl. On the latest Fuzz Club Session we dragged The Gluts from their native Milan to bring them aboard Soup Studio, a boat turned recording studio in East London's Trinity Buoy Wharf.Visit product page →
A formidable live force, the session sees them scorch their way through six tracks of relentless, grimacing noise-punk that captures the band's snarling, fuzzed-out power in all it's glory - translating just as well in the studio as it does when they're on stage.
The LP, due for release November 23rd, contains five tracks from their Fuzz Club released sophomore album, Estasi (2017), and one cut from their debut album Warsaw (2014).
Tracklisting:
1. Ash
2. Rag Doll
3. Colline Bianche
4. Ponytail
5. Squirrel
6. That's Me
Release Date: 23/11/2018 -
Visit product page →Available on 180g coloured vinyl ltd. to 300 copies.
On Vonal-Axis', their fifth album in a career spanning two decades, Steeple Remove have signed to Fuzz Club and carved out an album that warps their Moog-devotion into a whole new beast.
One that journeys from shoegaze-drones that weigh heavy on your chest ('Oval Strii', 'Monochrome Continuum'), to kosmische psychedelic pop ('Waters') and dub-inflected post-punk ('Ferris Noir') that falls somewhere between Metal Box-era PiL and the shimmering, textural guitars of The Durutti Column.
Vonal-Axis, due for release November 30th, is the bands finest work yet - their latest in a very lengthy career that's seen them remain a mysterious presence on the fringes of the experimental French underground since forming the project back in 1997.
Emerging out of Rouen, a small city in the Normandy region of France, the four-piece arrived with their now impossible-to-find debut album, The Importance Of Being Steeple Remove (1998) - released on the cult label Sordide Sentimental who put out earlier works from the likes of Joy Division, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV.
After that they all but disappeared, not returning until eight years later with Radio Silence (2006) and Electric Suite (2008), both marking a departure from their early experimental electronica into a wider pool of kraut, psychedelic rock and atmospheric pop. Save for the odd single and live show, it took another six years to hear a full record from the band - that being the 2014 LP Position Normal which left them to pick up glowing, long-overdue praise across Europe.
Choosing not to leave it quite so long this time, enter Vonal-Axis: a nine-track LP that sees them attempt to hone in on their near quarter-century of experimentation to produce a collection of tracks that are sometimes poppy, sometimes heavy, but always exploratory.
The album was recorded by the band themselves on an old 8-track recorder, taking half-written songs into the studio and then improvising on top of them to maintain the energy the songs had when played live. Lending his production prowess on the mixing duties was Demian Castellanos, the mastermind behind The Oscillation, whom Steeple Remove became good friends with after both bands played together several years ago.
Among the long list of other bands Steeple Remove have shared the stage with is krautrock leviathans Faust and Damo Suzuki, London punk-rockers Wire and D.C. stoner rock troupe Dead Meadow - offering a pretty clear insight into the many sonic worlds Steeple Remove have journeyed into and found a home through the years.
Steeple Remove is Arno Van Colen (Vocals/Synths), Walter Thomas (Percussion), Mana Audisio (Guitars) and David B (Bass).
Tracklisting:
1. Oval-Strii
2. Blood Veins
3. Ferris Noir
4. Set It
5. In Dreams
6. Monochrome Continuum
7. In The Waves
8. Waters
9. Pink Ferris
Release Date: 07/12/2018 -
Sold outDutch industrialists RMFTM already showcased their collaborative mastery when they teamed up with Salford's Gnod for the Temple ov BBV project and having now retired the former output, the Eindhoven four-piece are back with a new collab LP with fellow label-mates 10,000 Russos.Visit product page →
Portuguese trio 10,000 Russos are best known for conjuring up concrete slabs of kosmische psych-rock and now, having teamed up with a new completely electronic RMFTM, their repetitive droning mantras have manifested into a whole new beast - the looped, motorik chants feeding perfectly off of RMFTM's throbbing free-form electronics.
Free from any sort of structure or direction, the result is an intense, jarring collection of deranged industrial freak-outs that make Einstürzende Neubauten sound like Depeche Mode.
Painting a dreary image of barren, polluted landscapes in the dystopia we seem so desperate to hurtle towards, on this record RMFTM and 10,000 Russos have carved out a soundtrack for the end of times whilst simultaneously asserting, once again, that both bands are some of the finest within the dark, murky underbelly of experimental music.
Tracklisting:
1. A Song TO Get Rid Of The Crooked Crosses
2. Dazzling Rays
3. The World I Hunt
4. Clamber Into Night -
Sold outAvailable on 180g coloured vinyl and gatefold cover. Ltd to 300 copies.Visit product page →
Silent Animals may be the debut album from Italian trio Crimen, but it arrives over a decade into their career. Simone Greco (bass, voice, sound engineering) and Patrizio Strippoli (guitars, voice) formed the band in the Centocelle district of Rome in 2007, before recruiting Giuseppe Trezza (drums and electronics) six years later.
After a string of successful EPs and two years hibernating to record the opus, the band feel now is the time to release a full length. A heady cocktail of krautrock, psychedelia, noise rock and post-punk, Silent Animals takes us on a whistle-stop tour of Europe's musical history with a newfound stomp and malignancy.
Conceived in their own DIY studio in Rome, the Flamingo Recording Studio, the band has self-produced and engineered their debut in a state of total creative independence. The group says of their long-awaited debut: "Silent Animals talks about emotive fragility and wasted loves. It sounds nocturnal and psychotic, though essentially it's a work about love and the exorcism of fear and anxiety".
An exorcism it certainly is, full of gnostic grooves and cathartic releases. The most forthright example of this is the first single from the album, Six Weeks'. It's hard rocker cloaked in reverb, feedback and throbbing electronics - sounding downright satanic as Simone bellows 'six-six-six' as the song constantly veers on the verge of sub-atomic explosion.
Tracklisting:
1 Above The Trees (Rockets)
2 Batida
3 Flahzz
4 From My Bed
5 Six Weeks
6 Left Behind
7 Supermarket
8 Hit Mania Death
Release Date: 27/07/2018 -
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Sherpa The Tiger are a brand-new band hailing from Lviv, Ukraine. With an arsenal of cheap, decrepit Soviet synthesisers, the four-piece combine a love of minimalist ambient music and the kosmische grooves that came pumping out of Eastern Europe in the 60s/70s.
There are two sides to Sherpa The Tiger, there are the danceable groove-ridden cuts that channel the funkier repetitions of CAN's Future Days LP, held together and propelled by a jagged drumbeat that Jaki Liebezeit would surely be proud of.
And then there are the more stripped-back moments, which see cosmic, ambient deconstructions that could easily have found themselves on the score of some kind of 80s crime-thriller set against the neon-lit backdrop of Miami.
Tracklisting:
1. Peninsula
2. Periscope
3. Golden Ratio
4. Contre-jour
5. Cavalcade
Release Date: 29/06/2018 -
Available on 180gm coloured vinyl.Visit product page →
Separated by 7000 miles, Routine Death is the husband and wife duo of Lisa (Gothenburg) and Dustin Zozaya (Austin), the latter also playing in Fuzz Club favourites Holy Wave.
The duo will be releasing their debut album, Parallel Universes in June, offering the perfect introduction to the dark, lo-fi pop world - channelling an ethereal darkwave sound with bewitching lo-fi vocals and the glitchy electronics of Broadcast, or even Stereolab.
Born out of this distance is a certain kind of intimacy, the use of cheap equipment and a creative process that involves constantly sending tracks forwards and backwards over the internet results in a minimalist noise-pop sound that shuns the overbearing sonic-excess that most new shoegaze bands fall victim to, instead stripping things down to the absolute fundamentals.
Lisa's sublimely entrancing vocals float over repetitive midi drumbeats (made using an app on Dustin's phone), glitched-out loops, droning organs and fuzzy lo-fi guitars.
Tracklisting:
1. The Anteroom (intro)
2. Life Inside A Vacuum
3. Star Alliance
4. Diamonds
5. Parallel Universe
6. Charm Tooth
7. Salvaged Denim
8. The Impossibility of Paying Our Debts
9. Heart & Soul
10. Belong
Release Date: 29/06/2018 -
Available on 180gm coloured vinyl.Visit product page →
RF Shannon takes a drastic shift from the long form, pensive desert meditations of their previous record. 'The process was a drastic shift from the one we took with Jaguar Palace'and I was hooked. It was a blast all of the time.
We kept a quick pace due to external circumstances via random or otherwise inevitable interruptions, so we learned to take what we could get. If a take was good, it was a keeper, we didn't second guess it. In just four days we had demoed the majority of my new material and it just felt so right.''explains Shane Renfro, the mind behind RF Shannon.
The final product of the seize the moment approach behind the writing and recording process echoes the themes Trickster Blues attempts to dissect. 'The lyrics are about acknowledging consequences and saying "so what", the reward is worth the risk, etc. It's about feeling a pull, a calling, and dedicating to it hell or high water, whatever that may be. Its the heart of it all.''Renfro continues. To be able to listen and say 'That's it, that's the song. It is what it is, and we like what it is' Sounds a little underwhelming in that sense, but that's what I wanted. I just wanted the songs to speak for themselves. Our old material is challenging and dense, and I love it. I love the spaces we have created. But I wanted to record songs that could just stand alone and be what they are.''
Release Date: 29/06/2018 -
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You Said Strange come from the north-western region of Normandy in France, although if it was up to them they'd come from the States, somewhere between Texas and Cali. They've been growing their own Norman-spiced-up definition of psychedelia for a few years now, making their way on a historically busy road.
Having just signed to Fuzz Club, You Said Strange are gearing up for the release of their debut full length, Salvation Prayer.
The album was recorded in Portland, USA with Peter Holmström of The Dandy Warhols after both bands toured together back in 2015. Salvation Prayer is a condensation of heady riffs, haunting melodies and bright rhythms, half-way between 90s shoegaze and 60s psychedelia.
The album touches on the theme of belief, the kind that affects even the most Cartesian spirit; may it be superficial, spiritual, superstitious, religious or moral.
This very-human interpretation of reality is meant to help those who seek to free themselves, dream or flee, and that's what the band is all about.
Tracklisting:
1. Salvation Rain
2. Power House
3. Brain
4. Get Out
5. Cold Crusader
6. Tilelli
7. Halo
8. Extend
9. Leave The Lord
10. Just Wait
11. The Way To The Holy Wa (Jesus)
Release Date: 13/07/2018 -
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Medistation is a brand new alt-rock/noise pop project from The Orange Revival's Eric Strand.
Rumbling out of Stockholm on a cloud of feedback and reverb, the debut recordings from the project - a self-titled five-track 12" EP. On the EP, Medistation sound like the best band that Creation never signed - channelling the sluggish razor-sharp guitars and commanding vocals of the Mary Chain with glimmers of ethereal noise-pop that falls somewhere between the gospel-psychedelia of Spiritualized and Primal Scream before Gillespie discovered acid-house and amphetamines at the turn of the nineties.
Guest appearances by Jake Garcia (The Black Angels / The Ripe) and Cobian Modeste (The Buttertones).
Tracklisting:
1. Pool Of Blood
2. I Never Knew
3. The World Is Weeping
4. Anything For You
5. The End
Release Date: 04/05/2018 -
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The Third Sound is the solo project of Icelandic singer-songwriter Hákon Aðalsteinsson, formerly of Singapore Sling and currently touring in Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Now residing in Berlin with a fleshed-out live line-up, The Third Sound are gearing up for the release of their fourth album All Tomorrow's Shadows'- arriving via Fuzz Club Records on May 11th.
Recorded by the band themselves over the harsh Berlin winter, the new record is their most refined yet - offering an expansive exploration into krautrock-tainted post-punk and dark psychedelia.
Following on from their 2016 LP Gospels of Degeneration', the new album takes a much more sparse and rhythmic approach than we've seen before, combining hypnotic guitar drones, motorik rhythms and haunting vocals - the last track boasting a guest feature from Anton Newcombe, who released the band's debut album on his own imprint A Recordings.
Tracklisting:
1. When We Finally Wake Up
2. Nine Miles Below
3. New Messiah
4. Bright Shining Light
5. Half Alive
6. No Exit On The Edge
7. Can Never Find Your Way Back Home
8. We'll Be Together
9. On Our Way To Desolation
10. Photographs (feat. Anton Newcombe)
Release Date: 04/05/2018 -
Sold outSeattle garage-rock outfit Night Beats have had an extremely busy year that's seen their bluesy, psychedelic rock and roll lead them to acquire a cult-like status at an unfathomable pace.Visit product page →
The trio is seen by many as 'cutting edge garage rock innovators' Louder Than War, which is quite a feat when it's so common to see modern garage-rock bands fall into the trap of being overly nostalgic to their R'n'B forefathers, to the point of unoriginality - that couldn't be any further from what Night Beats are doing.
In January 2016 the trio released their third LP Who Sold My Generation'on Heavenly Recordings which was met to massive, wide-spread praise.
'an exhilarating, hedonistic modern psych album that means the album doesn't just pay homage to a lot of the great influences but sounds just as good.' Clash
During a UK tour earlier in the year in support of the new album, London imprint Fuzz Club invited the band to spend one of their days off at Lovebuzz Studios, an analogue studio in South London, and record a live session. The result is the first instalment in the new Fuzz Club Session series, one which will also boast Holy Wave, Heaters, The Entrance Band, 10 000 Russos, Sonic Jesus and more.
Fuzz Club's reasoning behind the live session series is to take some of the best names in psych and rock and roll, bring them to a studio and strip things down to their absolute fundamentals - just raw, unkempt rock and roll, recorded straight to tape in one take using totally analogue equipment.
There isn't a better band to kick-start the series than Night Beats, with their white-knuckle R'n'B and soulful psychedelic tendencies making for a truly insatiable performance.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. No Cops
2. Sunday Mourning
3. Burn To Breath
4. Love Ain't Strange (Everything Else Is)
Side B:
1. Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut (Bo Diddley)
2. Bad Love
3. Power Child
Release Date: 13/04/2018 -
Sold outAvailable on 180gm bone-coloured vinyl and CD.Visit product page →
Back in November last year, psych-rock overlords King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced they'd be giving away Polygondwanaland'- their fourth LP of the year - for free and for everyone to do with as they please. Naturally, it was pretty inevitable that it was to be given the Fuzz Club treatment.
Priding themselves on high-quality vinyl pressings, Fuzz Club have created a must for audiophiles and record collectors alike. The lacquer was cut at half-speed by engineer-extraordinaire Miles Showell (The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who) over at Abbey Road Studios, which means that every tiny little detail of King Gizzards'wonky, hedonistic sonic prowess has made its way into the record's grooves.
Not only will it sound absolutely incredible but it'll also look the part too.
With alternative artwork, the LP is housed in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket with printed inner-sleeves and glued inside the gatefold will be a 16-page booklet which includes lyrics and a bunch of reworked illustrations taken from the original artwork provided by the band.
Aside from all of that, Polygondwanaland'also happens to be the Australian band's finest record to date.
Whilst on their previous albums they've dealt in everything from jazz, soul and folk through to krautrock, stoner and doom, on this collection of tracks the Australian heavyweights hone their batch to psych-freak-outs into ten mind altering prog-tainted jams.
Tracklisting:
1. Crumbling Castle
2. Polygondwanaland
3. The Castle In The Air
4. Deserted Dunes Welcome Weary Feet
5. Inner Cell
6. Loyalty
7. Horology
8. Tetrachromacy
9. Searching...
10. The Fourth Colour
Release Date: 13/04/2018 -
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Back in 2016, London label Fuzz Club launched its Fuzz Club Sessions series, the aim being to bring some of the best in underground music to various London studios to lay down a live session recorded straight to 2' tape in one take and released on vinyl.
A couple of years on and the sessions have dealt in raw, surfy garage (see Night Beaters, Heaters and Holy Wave), improvised psych-blues jams (see The Entrance Band), solemn post-punk (see The Underground Youth) and industrial post-punk/kraut (see 10 000 Russos and RMFTM).
Now it's the turn of Danish mavericks, and long-time label alumni, Tales Of Murder And Dust.
Comprised of two cuts from 2016s The Flow In Between LP, one from their debut album Hallucination Of Beauty and a brand new track, on the session TOMAD offer a world of gloomy, cinematic post-rock - taking cues from everything from opiate blues and drone-rock through to goth and New York No Wave.
Bleak, atmospheric and utterly bewitching, there's not many bands who would be able to sound quite as mesmerisng and grandiose when captured live - making this one of the finest Fuzz Club Sessions to date and an absolute must for fans of the dark and experimental.
Tracklisting:
1. Tidal Wave
2. Endless Repetition
3. Fragile Absolutes
4. On My Mind
Release Date: 13/04/2018
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