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Double Vinyl is limited to 500 copies Side A/B is solid red vinyl and side C/D is solid green vinyl. Tracklisting is different to the CD.Visit product page →
Harmonics of the Night' is the third in what he conceived of as a trilogy of recordings from guitarist Andy Summers. Following on from 'Metal Dog' and 'Triboluminescence', 'Harmonics of the Night' began its life as a guitar improvisation for a museum installation of Andy's own photos. He did not like the music they had chosen in the gallery so sat down and recorded some guitar improvisations.
Summers says that he built this set out from there. These songs and the photos that inspired them have become a staple of his solo guitar shows. Stand out tracks: 'A Certain Strangeness', 'Harmonics of the Night' and 'City of Crocodiles'. The album will be released by Cargo Records on October 15th (to accompany a new exhibition of his photos at the Leica Gallery, Mayfair starting on October 21st) Andy explains more about the album - The music for Harmonics of the Night came from a real-life situation, which was the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of my photography at the Pavillion Populaire in Montpellier.
I was able to visit the museum in advance of the opening and decided this time( instead of the usual unsuitable music being played by the whatever gallery! ) that I must make a music installation to accompany the photography on the wall, a piece that could be looped and thus provide a continual musical counterpoint to the visual. I made a twenty minute single guitar improvisation. A Certain Strangeness .
This piece put a certain approach in my in my head and pointed me in the direction of eleven more tracks. It was the guiding spirit. These pieces which vary from minimalist approaches to African influenced dance pieces and are what I consider the sonic parallels to the photography.
The vinyl version of ‘A Certain Strangeness’ is 19:20 whereas the CD version is 11:00.
Vinyl Tracklisting:
A Certain Strangeness
City Of Crocodiles
Aeromancer
Chronosthesia
Harmonics Of The Night
Mirror In The Dirt
Prairie
Fantoccini
Aphelion
Spell
Inamorata (Vinyl version)
Micrografia (Vinyl only)
Ecstasy Blooms (Vinyl only)
A Joint In Kensington (Vinyl only)
CD Tracklisting:
1. A Certain Strangeness
2. City Of Crocodiles
3. Aeromancer
4. Chronosthesia
5. Harmonics Of The Night
6. Mirror In The Dirt
7. Prairie
8. Fantoccini
9. Aphelion
10. Spell
11. Inamorata
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The third release in Fu Manchu's 30th Anniversary vinyl reissue series, Return To Earth 91-93 Deluxe Edition, is the first ever update to this legendary compilation of the band's earliest singles.Visit product page →
These songs are the only ones recorded with the band's original lead guitarist, Scott Votaw, as well as the only ones recorded as a three piece of the original core line-up of Scott Hill (vocals/guitar), Mark Abshire (bass) and Ruben Romano (drums).
Return To Earth 91-93 Deluxe Edition features the 9 songs from the original release including the first version of fan favorite, 'Ojo Rojo,' plus 2 newly discovered tracks that have never been heard before: 'Ford-Natic' and an early version of 'Shine It On,' which was later re-recorded for their debut album.
All songs were remixed by Scott Hill along with the band's current producing partner, Jim Monroe (Adolescents, Channel 3, Ignite) and remastered by Carl Saff for optimum fidelity.
This limited edition 2,000 unit LP run is pressed on neon purple vinyl and the newly designed gatefold package includes never before seen photos of the band and flyers from their early shows.
The limited edition 1,000 unit CD run also features the updated art and a digital specific remaster.
Tracklisting:
1. Don't Bother Knockin'(If This Van's Rockin')
2. Ford-Natic
3. El Don
4. Pick-Up Summer
5. Ojo Rojo
6. Pinbuster
7. Senioritis
8. Shine It On
9. Simco
10. Space Sucker
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East London's Tigercats first release for Fortuna POP!, Mysteries, is vividly emotional and sonically expansive, blending the very best of indiepop with complex song structures, lush production and beautiful arrangements.Visit product page →
Tigercats combine the talents of songwriter, singer and guitarist Duncan Barrett with his brother Giles on bass, Laura Kovic on keyboards and vocals, and Jonny Evans on drums, as well as recent recruit Paul Rains from Allo Darlin' on guitar. And on Mysteries they're joined by living legend Terry Edwards (Gallon Drunk / Tindersticks), who contributes saxophone and trumpet on several tracks.
Mysteries is the second album from Tigercats, described by The Sunday Times in a review of their 2012 debut Isle of Dogs (Fika Recordings) as 'a very, very good band - ¦. The kind of band that make you want to be a teenager again, so they can be your band.' Isle of Dogs fizzed with jangly punk, afro rhythms and spoken word sections, while Mysteries is a sophisticated pop record, effervescent and spirited, with care and love poured into every song.
What makes a very, very good band even better? Two years of heavy touring for one, bringing them closer as a band but also pushing themselves and honing their skills. Many of the songs on the album have been live staples, starting off one way and mutating in to something totally different, giving the songs time to grow and develop before heading in to the studio. And once they did head in, bassist Giles Barrett's day job at London's legendary Soup Studios allowed the band nearly unlimited time to get deeper in to the recording process - so deep that it verged on insanity. As Giles says, 'We took every song as far as it could possibly go. There was a lot of speeding up and slowing things down with the tape machine, and the arguments over fractions of a bpm would get heated. There were a few times the tapes were mysteriously wiped overnight."
Highlights include album opener 'Junior Champion', a pop gem in the shape of bishops, knights, kings and queens - a Bobby Fischer-referencing love song and anthem for chess fans everywhere - and 'Wheezer', of which Duncan says cagily, 'I don't want to say what this song is about, the record's not called Mysteries for nothing. Although this one is just a small, silly mystery and it should be pretty easy to work out - the clue is in the title'. The album closer, the gorgeous, woozy 'Wendy & Lisa', sees Duncan referencing another of his musical obsessions, saying, 'This is the result of reading too many terrible Prince biographies and conflating The Revolution's private lives with my own in dreams. There is a dream logic to the song that made sense when I wrote it, but I can't figure it out now.'
Although Duncan is the vocalist for most of the songs, Laura takes the lead on two, the dreamy Saint Etienne-esque 'Laura & Cesar' (based on two minor characters in Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives), and the forthcoming single, the fabulous 'Sleeping in the Backseat', of which Duncan says, 'I've always wanted to write a good driving song, but I don't have a license so this is probably the closest I'll get.'
Mysteries is the sound of a band of outstanding musicians fulfilling their potential and using their talents in the studio to realise their musical vision, retaining their infectious hooks, their heart and their sheer danceability, and coupling it with a bright new contemporary sound. Superbly crafted and full of personality, Tigercats'second album suggests that they won't remain a mystery much longer.
Tracklisting:
1. Junior Champion
2. Laura And Cesar
3. King Of Vic
4. Globe Town
5. Call Me If You Need Me
6. Wheezer
7. Too Sad To Tell You
8. Sleeping In The Back Seat
9. So Haunted
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Indie powerhouse Fortuna POP! is proud to announce the release of Old Magick, the second solo album by Steven James Adams, former songwriter/singer/guitarist from the critically acclaimed Broken Family Band. Old Magick is proof that Adams's gift for marrying exceptional lyrics with inescapable earworms is very much intact.Visit product page →
With minimal instrumentation, Old Magick is, in part, a reaction to Adam's first solo outing House Music (2013), an album recorded in his living room and featuring an array of musical friends, including members of bands as disparate as pop-rockers The Vaccines and folk-idols Lau.
This time around, he relocated to The Premises studios in Hackney with producer Dan Michaelson at the helm. 'The irony of going somewhere a bit more high-tech to make something with less people and instrumentation wasn't lost on me', notes Adams. With Michaelson also adding guitar and piano - lending his distinctive, pared-down style to many of the songs - and drums from Daniel Fordham (The Drink) the recording process was consciously self-contained. 'We worked in a bubble', says Adams, 'Michaelson wanted to make a record that sounded like me, not me trying to do something I don't normally do'and all I wanted was to make a record that sounded like him recording me.'
While the album title hints at Adams's interest in the dark arts, the lyrical content of Old Magick covers a lot of ground. Opening track 'Togetherness' is a topical meditation on how our society treats people from other countries, set to a disarmingly pretty tune. On the upbeat 'Kings of The Back of The Bus', Adams contrasts the posturing of youth with the choices we make as we get older ('Now it's just massage music'.) Elsewhere, desperation is in the air, as the deluded protagonist of 'Ideas' tries in vain to rescue a relationship gone wrong, a theme echoed by 'French Drop', an old conjuring term for a trick in which an object appears to disappear without having gone anywhere. The bad, sad trip of 'Sea of Words' pilfers the phrase 'the news from nowhere' from William Morris, former resident of Walthamstow, Adams's adopted home, while 'The Golden Bough' is 'a rock 'n roll song about neuroscience and the "spiritual" choices people make in Western culture.'
Old Magick sees Adams playing with new sounds and ideas but he has a message for fans of his earlier output: "I've still got the old magic" he says. "I also have some new magic. And some crap jokes".
Adams takes Old Magick on the road in the UK this March, with some magic (and magick?) related surprises. His shows are wonderful to behold: funny, intimate and wildly unpredictable. According to a recent Guardian article "you'd struggle to find a British songwriter of the last 15 years who's had such consistently good reviews." A genuine entertainer, a truly gifted songwriter, and perhaps the closest thing there is to a British Bill Callahan, Adams has produced a high watermark of a record in Old Magick, proof that his reputation is deserved.
Tracklisting:
1. Togetherness
2. Kings of the Back of the Bus
3. Modern Options
4. Ideas
5. French Drop
6. More Togetherness
7. Sea of Words
8. The Golden Bough
9. An Ending
10. Sonny -
Sold outAfter 2014 which saw the band supporting Goat & the Brian Jonestown Massacre on their European tours .Visit product page →
This 4 track EP runs at over 24 minutes .
Their new EP is Stockholm Death Star which is recorded in the band's own studio in Sweden's capital and consists of four new tracks. Those of you who are already familiar with the group will probably recognize their trippy spacerock over pulsating motorik beats from their earlier releases, and their feel for melodies is still very much present in the four songs.
Produced by the bands guitarist, singer and main songwriter during the dark months of the Scandinavian winter, the music still has an ethereal light glimmering through the blissfully stoned vocal harmonies and chiming twelve string guitar riffs. " If you live in a dark and cold city covered in snow and the times around you are dark as well, you have to look extra hard and try to find a little spark of light inside yourself" as Joakim æhlund puts it.
Three of the tracks have that typical almost danceable groove that we have come to expect from this band and there's even a sort of ballad ending the EP, the almost dubby, seven and a half minutes long, spaced out "Vapour RIP", which though its rather dark lyrics deal with a misspent life and futile regrets, ends in an uplifting almost religious crescendo with fuzz guitars and mellotron strings.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Stockholm Death Star
2. I Woke Up In A Dream
Side B:
1. Anywhere but here
2. Vapour R.I.P -
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Magic Castles are a five-piece psychedelic rock band from Minneapolis MN. Their sound has been described as minimalistic, dream pop & neo-psychedelic rock. Drawing from a myriad of influences, combining the hazy, "floaty" atmospherics of bands like Spacemen 3 and Galaxie 500, with the organ-drenched psych of the mid/late 60's--particularly American west coast folk-rock, Magic Castles continue to create an altogether unique sound.
Since their 2012 release on Anton Newcombe's imprint they have toured consistently, building a solid reputation for wall-of-sound live shows, stretching out their songs to new dimensions. The Magic Castles were the supporting act for BJM's east coast tour in 2012. Thrasher Magazine recently used their song "Big Sur" in a skate video alongside Kurt Vile. On April 20th 2014, BJM released a beautiful 12" split single with The Magic Castles for Record Store Day.
"Sky Sounds was recorded at The Old Blackberry Way Studio in Minneapolis, MN by Neil Weir. Produced by Neil Weir, Jason Edmonds, "Sky Sounds sees the band reaching new heights. The album is dense with lush arrangements, jangling backward guitar sweeps, ever deepening melodic layers, symphonic Farfisa tones, and bright vocal harmonies. A host of guest musicians were included on select tracks, adding cello, viola, flute & trombone.Tracklisting:
1. Trembling Hands
2. Sky Sounds
3. Dragonfly
4. Silent
5. Rebecca's World
6. White Stone
7. Mole People
8. Wander -
Heavyweight Vinyl LP with free download.Visit product page →
Gatefold all card digipack CD.
Produced by Bernard Butler, London trio Flowers' debut album Do What You Want To, It's What You Should Do captures the intensity of being young in fourteen deceptively simple pop songs that take their power from their brevity, elevated by Rachel Kenedy's extraordinary voice.
Flowers are Sam Ayres (Guitar/Synths), Rachel Kenedy (Vocals/Bass/Synths) and Jordan Hockley (Drums), brought together by Sam's advert for a singer to make music like "Madonna through a broken tape machine". The three of them immediately moved in together and spent the following weeks writing pop songs, practicing daily in their living room and recording through the night, barely sleeping with the excitement of it all and amassing a huge collection of over a hundred songs in demo form.
When they posted the results of their feverish recording online, word quickly spread and within weeks they were touring Europe with The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, despite never having played live before. More shows followed, including a support for Young Marble Giants in London at the behest of another fan who had discovered them via the internet, Young Marble Giants guitarist / songwriter Stuart Moxham. Appropriate first supports, as Flowers' live performances draw a line between the joyous fuzzpop of The Pains and the minimalist brilliance of Young Marble Giants. The reception at the shows was nothing less than rapturous, with audiences blown away by their intensity and compelled by their sparse beauty: Jordan a physical yet inventive presence behind the drum kit, Sam a constant blur of kinetic energy on guitar and Rachel utterly still. The shows would often end with the stark and mesmeric Stuck, with Rachel alone, accompanying herself a one-string bass guitar, soul laid bare.
It was clear that Flowers needed a producer to help them capture the emotion and simplicity of their live show and that search led them to the door of Bernard Butler, whose track record and love of the Cocteau Twins marked him out to be the perfect choice. That and his love of the Gibson ES-355 guitar that Sam also plays. And so it was that Flowers' very first foray into a proper recording studio was at Butler's 355 Studio ' a daunting prospect for a young band, softened by Butler's sensitive production and access to his collection of beautiful analogue synths and Vox organ. Band and producer worked in harmony to produce a set of songs much cleaner and clearer sounding than anything they had recorded before, dispensing with the wall of sound that characterised their home recordings and providing the clarity to allow the songs to breathe.
Across these fourteen songs, Flowers explore the gamut of emotions that come with youth. As Rachel says, We were young writing this album (we still are I think!), so all the songs reflect the emotions of being young, which covers just about everything to the extreme; loneliness, happiness, rejection, love, torment, excitement... . For every song about the carefree, halcyon days of youth (Young, Forget The Fall), there is another about the pain of relationships (Drag Me Down, Lonely). The album closes with a run of three exquisite numbers: Be With You, a song of reassurance, about knowing that everything will get better somehow, because it can't not, some things are too good to ever end.; Plastic Jane, about someone who wears a facade with nothing underneath (lyric: Your plastic pain / just like Novocaine); and the aforementioned Stuck.
Most of the songs weigh in at less than three minutes, a deliberate strategy for a band that seeks strength in simplicity. Our songs tend to be quite short - if there's something that doesn't need to be there, take it out! Just leave in the best bits, explains Rachel. We love all kinds of things, Ramones, Madonna, The Misfits, Iggy & The Stooges, Joy Division, all sorts! The album doesn't sound too much like any of those, but the songs are short and simple pop songs, and all those artists we love write songs like that.
Indeed, Flowers' genius is in their ability to convey a remarkable amount of emotion with minimal instrumentation. Rachel possesses one of those beautiful pop voices to die for, with echoes of Elizabeth Fraser, Hope Sandoval and Harriet Wheeler, whilst Sam's guitars chime and churn with an incredible intensity and Jordan's drums rip right through with urgency and precision, resulting in a beautiful album that conjures up a strange and entrancing sort of magic. Haunting, mesmerizing and intense, Do What You Want To, It's What You Should Do is an impressive calling card from a sensational new band.
1. Young
2. Forget The Fall
3. Drag Me Down
4. Worn Out Shoes
5. Lonely
6. Joanna
7. If I Tell You
8. Comfort
9. I Love You
10. All Over Again
11. Anna
12. Be With You
13. Plastic Jane
14. Stuck
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"No Filter" is the rightful extension of the Sleaford Mods idea in my opinion but dont let that drive you into thinking this is some rehash.Visit product page →
John Paul has, with the help of Rat and Steve Underwood, created a horrible account of modern forgotten england from the edge of his stool in the corner of the pub away from all the hard men he once ran with. Its the re-awakening of a mind trying to tune into truth and its brutal.
His wordplay and observations are near exceptional and at some points, and like all good music, it nearly devours itself as it tells musical convention to get fucked. The music too, is so fucking crap its beautiful, like the mundane back ground music sent out from head office to all its pubs.
'No Filter" has for me in some ways pushed the envelope of the Workers Tale, the arrival into mid-life with its disgust for the old shit you did and the attitudes that came with all that. Its solid." - Jason Williamson / Sleaford Mods. -
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Live At The Venue:
The show musically covers work from the then contemporary albums ‘return of...’ and ‘LC’ along with tracks later to appear on ‘Another Setting’ and ‘Without Mercy’.
At the time, the band were approached after the show by a well-known live recordings dealer, who was interested in putting out an album based on the desk mix he had ‘acquired’ without any knowledge of the band. Intrigued, the group agreed to meet him at the venue of his choice, a Mayfair Hotel, where he arrived in his crème Rolls Royce.
A deal was struck on a napkin to release only 4000 copies, with Vini having full control over the choice of the Mark Warner artwork.Amigos Em Portugal:
"a beautiful insight from Reilly’s travels" Sounds.
Digitally re-mastered from vinyl, this is a limited re-release of the hard to find Import ‘AMIGOS EM PORTUGAL’.
‘Amigos’ released first time originally in 1983 is a pre-cursor to one of the great Durutti Column albums ‘ Without Mercy’.
Recorded in only a couple of days – such is always the case with Vini Reilly - the album allegedly was supposed to be a single or extended play but the newly formed Portuguese label had the tapes and different ideas! Vini was just enjoying the tape time, playing many of his current ‘work in progress’ pieces.
These sketches later became part of the Tony Wilson classical experiment made with Northern College Music degree students, ’Without Mercy’.
Most of the tracks here have a beautiful fragility whether just solo guitar instrumentals ‘Estoril a Noire’ or piano pieces such as ‘Wheels Turning’ or the piano loop from ‘Without Mercy ‘ ‘Favourite descending intervals’.
Yes…… the times when Vini played piano….. the years before he believed he was ‘an awful and discombobulated pianist’ in his own words …. -
Sold outFactory Floor were originally commissioned by London's Science Museum, to write a brand new live score for Fritz Lang's 1927 silent cinematic landmark, Metropolis.Visit product page →
The 150 minute score was performed live at the Science Museum's IMAX in April 2017, coinciding with the 90th anniversary release of Metropolis and as part of the acclaimed Robots exhibition and event series.
Heart of Data and Babel will be the first 12' release on Factory Floor's own imprint H/O/D Records.
The label was originally set up by the band with Cargo distribution in view of having an outlet for there collaborative projects, an idea that came into phase during their residency at London's ICA in 2011. An inspired six and half minute track, Heart of Data bears all the hallmarks of a Factory Floor record but as you've never heard them before. An animated modular synth groove sets in motion the atmospheric textures within the spacial arrangement.
The B side Babel which traverses many scenes in the film, retains a transient meditative pulse in pursuit of space and time. Both bring together an emotive relationship between the machine like qualities of their instruments and visual images provided by Fritz Lang's industrial masterpiece.
Following the success of the London Science Museum event, Factory Floor's reimagined Metropolis score was performed live at Sheffield's Sensoria Festival in October 2017 and the recorded audio was showcased at the Brighton Film Festival at the Attenborough Centre for creative arts on November 2017.
The H/O/D label art was designed by British artist Haroon Mirza, adapted by Sam Moore and Nik Void. Heart of Data is the first of two 12' releases planned for early 2018 with a full length audio of the score on CD and download to follow.
Factory Floor are Gabriel Gurnsey and Nik Void, whose electronic improvisational style of performance has seen them at home in gallery spaces like Tate Modern, to clubs like fabric and Berghain to a remote volcanic Island of Stromboli in collaboration with artist Haroon Mirza.
Their critically acclaimed second album 25 25 was released in the summer of 2016 on DFA Records.
Release Date: 09/02/2018 -
Sold outVisit product page →Hurtling out of the south of Bristol, The Shimmer Band channel an explosive mix of rock n'roll and psychedelia that sounds at once gratifyingly familiar and yet thrillingly fresh. The five piece - Tom Newman (singer), Willz Hatcher (drums), Tom Smith (guitar / synths), Tom Kuras (bass) and Babsy (guitar) - capture the vitality and ferocity of the greats, adding their own triumphant swagger and brash gang mentality to create instant anthems.
The band's debut single Shoot Me (Baby)'came out on February 12th and received plays from Steve Lamacq on his 6Music show. Due to unprecedented demand they are releasing a collectors limited to 500 only 7' single of SHOOT ME (BABY) b/w FREAK CITY.
Written by The Shimmer Band, produced by David Francolini and recorded at the Komplex in Bristol, Shoot Me (Baby) is a Sly-Stone-meets-The-Suicide musical thrill, oozing with attitude, that showcases their fearless brand of rock n'roll.
Having already supported the likes of The Strypes and The Jesus and Mary Chain, and sold out national headline tours, including a 6 date mini tour in December, the Shimmer Band will be announcing more live UK dates shortly.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
Shoot Me (Baby)
Side B:
Freak City -
Visit product page →There's something great about a three-piece - think The Cocteau Twins, The Clean, Galaxie 500 - and the way that irreducible nucleus takes its strength from its limitations, making a virtue of its purity. And so it is with London trio Flowers, returning with their second album Everybody's Dying To Meet You in February 2016 via Fortuna Pop! (EU) and Kanine (US). Over the course of ten intensely thrilling pop songs, singer Rachel Kenedy's ethereal vocals and Sam Ayres textured guitar are backed by the powerful, metronomic beat of drummer Jordan Hockley.
Flowers began with Sam's year-long search for a singer, and when he posted one last fateful advert, stating he wanted to make pop songs like "early Madonna through a broken tape machine", this led him to Rachel. Right away the two fell into a deeply creative and romantic partnership. Currently sharing a flat in East London with their adorable dog Batman, they restore vintage musical equipment and feverishly record demos.
The first batch, polished up by none other than Bernard Butler, turned into debut Do What You Want To, It's What You Should Do released in 2013. Created during a period of illness for Ayres, the result is an album that, while exquisite in its own way, is necessarily subdued in tone.
For Everybody's Dying to Meet You the band retreated to Bark Studios in Walthamstow to work with producer Brian O'Shaughnessey (The Clientele, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine), a return home for Sam, who was born and spent most of his life in the area. It proved to be the perfect fit for Flowers, the sessions enabling them to capture the essence of both their dynamic live sound and their distortion-laden home demos. Effortlessly blending pop songs with noise while leaving space for more stripped back elements, the recordings strike a perfect balance between the sweetness of Rachel's voice and Sam's abrasive guitar stylings. Their musical inspirations, from shoegaze, C86 and New Zealand's Flying Nun label, are now evident.
The infuriatingly catchy first single and opening track 'Pull My Arm' nearly didn't make it onto the album. Written during rehearsals for their tour with Luna after album recording sessions had finished, the band hastily booked another day at Bark and laid it down the day after the tour finished. Band favourite 'Ego Loss' began with Sam playing with a new guitar pedal and writing a punk number - ¦ before the addition of Rachel's words saw it morph into something completely different. Other highlights include the pop rush of 'Bitter Pill' and the mesmeric, slow-burning 'Intrusive Thoughts'.
Armed with a youthful intensity and determination that shows in their songs, Flowers have succeeded in harnessing their singular magic. Exuberant and electrifying, Everybody's Dying To Meet You crackles with confidence.
Tracklisting:
LIVE:
1. Pull My Arm
2. Bitter Pill
3. Ego Loss
4. All At Once
5. Intrusive Thoughts
6. How Do You Do
7. Tammy
8. Russian Doll
9. My Only Friend
10. Bathroom Sink
Wednesday 6th January - Fortuna POP! Winter Sprinter @ The Lexington,
London Friday 12th February - Album Launch, Rough Trade East,
London Friday 11th March - Sebright Arms, London -
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After a bit of a break from albums, not counting the Return to Earth singles compilation, Fu Manchu fully fired up and took off again with King of the Road, an album that doesn't so much follow on from The Action Is Go as flat out continue it.
Hill has a touch more bite to his vocals this time around, but otherwise there's little to differentiate the two records -- and that's very much meant as a compliment. With plenty of touring and other things under their belts, the lineup has fully jelled and sounds it, Bjork's bad-ass drumming (and occasional cowbells, of course) and Balch's insane lead guitar crunch possibly even better than ever.
Together it's all one megariff and nasty, slamming rhythm after another, and face it, anyone expecting anything else from Fu Manchu really needs to find another band. Joe Barresi co-produces with the band, and while there's no extra keyboard/organ weirdness this time around, it hardly matters.
In as much as there's a theme to King of the Road beyond the basics of driving, drugs, and that demon rock & roll, it's driving -- there's a reason why the cover and internal art features a slew of great '70s-era photos from a massive van rally.
The one shot of the fully leather-covered interior of one mobile love nest, complete with black curtains, about says it all. Then there's the megachugging title track ("King of the road says you move too slow!"), "Hell on Wheels," "Boogie Van," and so forth -- call it a concept album that doesn't waste time with elves and yogis.
As with the last album, a punk/new wave nugget gets the cover treatment here -- none other than Devo's "Freedom of Choice." Needless to say, now it sounds just like a Fu Manchu original. -
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Carina Round 'Slow Motion Addict (X) - (10th Anniversary Edition RSD17)'
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Limited Edition - 500 x 3 LP + DVD.Visit product page →
Slow Motion Addict (X) British singer/songwriter Carina Round marks her third consecutive Record Store Day release with the tenth anniversary release of her third studio album, the critically acclaimed - "Slow Motion Addict' making its vinyl debut, re-packaged as "Slow Motion Addict (X)' the definitive collection, including the original album, compiled with previously unreleased and highly sought after bonus tracks as the 2 x LP 'Slow Motion Rehab' and 'Slow Motion Addict - A Film' making it's DVD debut.
This collection has been specifically compiled for Carina's immensely loyal and passionate fan base, who have long championed for this release, in addition to to the many newer supporters Carina has gained as a member of the LA and Jerome AZ based band - Puscifer, with whom Carina is more recently a member, alongside fellow band mates including Maynard James Keenan, also of the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle, some of whom are discovering Carina's solo repertoire for the first time.
Proving herself as one of UK's most enigmatic songstresses since the release of her 2001 debut album 'The First Blood Mystery'. Round's music has also won her fans and collaborators amongst highly regarded musicians such as: Ryan Adams, Billy Corgan, Dave Stewart and Brian Eno amongst many others. -
Abyss was recorded under a full moon over three intense days, and has the off the leash'abandon of Fun House'era Stooges'.Visit product page →
Sonically, it's a fat dose of doom meets slowed down hardcore punk; filled with loud, ultra distorted guitar, and yet, a surprising amount of melody as well.
In fact, Yuko has said that the band's name is a combination of Black Sabbath and Stereolab, well here on Abyss'is where that strange mix begins to make musical sense.
The band haven't lost their love of lo-fi or Riot Grrrl'attitude.
Vocals go from shoegaze melodic to hardcore screams. The guitars are loud and heavily gnarled to the point of chaos, and underneath all this, the drums rolling and tumbling thunder amidst the riffs.
Yes there is a smattering of Sabbathy Wizarding'of course, but submerged within dark, deep fuzz and punk rock crank and grind.
In truth the vibe is closer to both the arty heaviness of early Boris, and the sweet savagery of My Bloody Valentine, than any kind of doom'tropes. It's a sound that is undoubtedly BlackLab's own.
Tracklisting Vinyl:
Side A
1. Insanity
2. Fade and Melt
3. Weed Dream
4. Amusement Park Of Terror
Side B
1. Forked Road
2. Chained
3. Sleepless Night
4. Sun
Tracklisting CD:
1. Insanity
2. Fade and Melt
3. Weed Dream
4. Amusement Park Of Terror
5. Forked Road
6. Chained
7. Sleepless Night
8. Sun
Release Date: 08/05/2020 -
The fourth release in Fu Manchu's 30th Anniversary vinyl reissue series, No One Rides For Free, is a new vinyl specific remaster of the band's debut album. These songs are the only recordings of the band's line-up of Scott Hill (vocals/guitar), Mark Abshire (bass), Eddie Glass (guitar) and Ruben Romano (drums).Visit product page →
The 8 song collection was recorded on April 16 and 17, 1993 at Sandbox Studios in Los Angeles, produced by the band along with Brant Bjork. This reissue was remastered by Carl Saff for optimum fidelity.
This limited edition 1,000 unit LP run is pressed on white vinyl with black splatter and includes an exclusive white 7" with red splatter that features 2 never before released live performances of "Time To Fly" and "Ojo Rojo" recorded on June 26, 1993 at in Pomona, CA.
The newly designed gatefold package includes never before seen photos of the band and flyers from the shows of the era.
Vinyl LP Tracklisting:
1. Time To Fly
2. Ojo Rojo
3. Show And Shine
4. Mega-Bumpers
5. Free And Easy (Summer Girls)
6. Superbird
7. Shine It On
8. Snakebellies
7" Tracklisting:
1. Time To Fly
2. Ojo Rojo -
Visit product page →Slum of Legs are a queer, feminist noise-pop DIY band. We are Alex, Emily, Kate, Maria, Mich and Tamsin. We write songs about ghosts, architecture, gender, loneliness and hair envy. You can dance to all of them. Sometimes we sound like The Shaggs, Slant 6 and La Dusseldorf playing at an impromptu party in space.
One of our songs is a live séance. We've performed on a Norwegian mountain and in many, many basements. We like pylons and onstage pile-ons. We're interested in modernist architecture, art & literature.
We use collage & cut-up in our artwork and this also reflects the fractured nature of our songs and how the 6 of us, who all bring completely different influences to the band, have been stuck into a blender with the controls jammed.
We are a giant pop-psych, punk monster with twelve legs. Our songs are melodic and dissonant, anthemic and experimental.
Our debut album Slum of Legs'is a manifesto for compassion and defiance in a confusing, unrestful world.
Praise for Slum of Legs:
"a kind of fiendish exploratory outsider pop music that recognises no limitations - ¦.weird, dissonant, home made, different from anything you'd make". (Stereo Sanctity)
an enticing bunch, fusing influences ranging from riot grrl, classical and krautrock'(Drowned in Sound)
a six-headed eruption of disillusionment and reality checking - ¦. ready to take on everyone and anyone'. (Collapse Board)
'the post everything band you didn't even know you'd been waiting to hear' (Impose magazine)
Release Date: 13/03/2020 -
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'I don't have any repressed emotions that I know of. The world I write about is a jaded version of reality, but where it comes from isn't quite apparent to me yet'Following the release of two self-titled EPs over the past 12 months, AUTOBAHN announce details of debut album, Dissemble, out on 21st August via Tough Love. Dissemble was recorded with Matt Peel at The Nave, a hometown studio situated in the wholly appropriate setting of a disused church. The band co-produced the record with Peel over six intense weeks at the start of 2015, dedicating all of their time to the studio and taking potentially unhealthy cues from the legacy of notorious obsessive, Martin Hannett. The result is an album that pushes the band through various degrees of light and shade, but ultimately into new, unexpected sonic spaces.
'You need to remember all of this world I write about is a warped reality of people I've known or experiences I've been in. I think you can just tell when a bands from Leeds, can't you?'
Motivated by the encouragement of a supportive local scene, AUTOBAHN formed in Leeds in early 2013, and immediately began playing live across the north of England. Those early forays across the Pennines were vital in not only helping the band form their own sound, but also hold a symbolic role in understanding their genesis. The North as both idea and identity is integral to what AUTOBAHN are, where post-industrial landscapes intersect with sudden wide open spaces, a place where community is central, but loneliness can be palpable. There's a dark, oppressive edge to their music, but a hopefulness too. Sisters of Mercy, yes, but also brothers in arms.
'The first track was intended to be a link to the past records. We leave the past behind after that.'
AUTOBAHN first came to the attention of Tough Love via a local support slot with Tampa romantics, Merchandise, and reached the wider world with the release of two now sold out 12's. Those first recordings suggested a classic modern punk band with a penchant for death and glamour, and an impatience to be heard. Time and touring has afforded them the ability to shift gear significantly, and the renewed ambition of Dissemble stands as testament to that. The band were immediately a thrilling live force, but on this album they're wider, more urgent when they want to be, more thoughtful when required. Dissemble is an appropriate title (meaning to conceal one's true motives), because there's something canny at work here. The surface suggests despair, but scratch deeper and the lyrics display a lightness of touch that skewers the over-earnest and overly-serious.
'Dissemble is a twisted romantic view of how AUTOBAHN think: don't take life too seriously'
Life is a joke, but AUTOBAHN aren't laughing. How could they?
