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  • Airport Girl 'Between Delta & Delaware EP' - Cargo Records UK

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    Airport Girl 'Between Delta & Delaware EP' Vinyl 7"

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    “Justifies their Belle and Sebastian and Pastels comparisons” (Tangents).

    Includes B-side used by “match of the day”.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Between Delta & Delaware

    Side B:
    2. Song for David Jones
    3. Theme From 'Fireball XL5'

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  • Allo Darlin 'Capricornia' - Cargo Records UK

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    Allo Darlin 'Capricornia' Vinyl 7"

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    Capricornia is the first single from the eagerly anticipated second album from Allo Darlin' entitled Europe.

    Achingly personal, incredibly poignant and familiar all at once, Elizabeth Morris' songwriting has deepened and developed since their debut, and while the upcoming album may have a more sombre feel to it Capricornia shows that they've lost none of their ability to create sophisticated, intelligent pop music with an uplifting, joyous feel. And for those of you wondering exactly what Capricornia is all about, Elizabeth explains:

    Capricornia is the area in Queensland that I'm from. It has imaginary state lines, roughly around the Tropic of Capricorn, which runs directly through my hometown.

    There's a nice 70s monument that marks the spot where the line passes, out on a lonely dirt road where all the kids learn how to drive. My family have lived in this area for over 6 generations but none of my generation remain. It's a beautiful place.

    Musically, when we first discussed the album with our producer, I suggested that the feel of Europe should be somewhere between A New England by Kirsty Macoll and Cattle and Cane by The Go-Betweens. I think this song is the closest to that.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    Capricornia

    Side B:
    When You Were Mine

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  • Allo Darlin 'Dreaming / You Still Send Me' - Cargo Records UK

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    Allo Darlin 'Dreaming / You Still Send Me' Vinyl 7"

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    Probably the only disco song in the world to feature ukulele and lap steel, Dreaming is a melancholy toe-tapper of a duet with Monster Bobby of The Pipettes, who turned in a guest vocal so bass-worryingly low that he lost a filling.

    A paean to going out dancing and falling in love in a cold climate it'll make you almost nostalgic for the sub-Arctic conditions of the last British winter.

    Flip it over and B-side You Still Send Me is a total heartbreaker, recorded absolutely live in the studio, vocals and all, with every breath and creak audible.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Dreaming  
    2. You Still Send Me

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  • Allo Darlin 'Europe Single' - Cargo Records UK

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    Allo Darlin 'Europe Single' Vinyl 7" - Blue

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    Elizabeth from Allo Darlin' describes what Europe the song is about - "About a year ago I wasn't sure how much longer I'd be able to live in the UK, because my visa was running out and I was running out of options.

    I've lived here for most of my adult life. I started thinking about what I'd lose if I went home, and what I'd gain. What memories I'd take with me if I left." Oddly though the song also turned out to be a remarkably prescient celebration of the togetherness that pulled the band through a disastrous tour of the continent last year, when noxious fumes in their tour van nearly put paid to them altogether. 

    The B-side is an alternative version of the song "Some People Say", recording during the mostly abandoned original album recording sessions in Manchester. It's a slower version than the album version, and is quite beautiful.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    Europe 

    Side B:
    Some People Say (Alternative Version)

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  • Allo Darlin 'If Lonliness Was Art' - Cargo Records UK

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    Allo Darlin 'If Lonliness Was Art' Vinyl 7"

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    Written while visiting her parents on the Queensland Coast If Loneliness Was Art captures some of that Australian sea air with its laidback reggae-ish beach vibe and summery Sha-la-la-la-las.

    Listen carefully though and you'll hear that the carefree disposition of the song masks a quiet despair and longing in the lyrics. As Elizabeth herself says, It's about wanting somebody. Really really badly.Even if the British weather fails to cooperate, If Loneliness Was Art is going to bring a slice of Aussie pop sunshine to proceedings.

    Tracklisting:
    1. If Loneliness Was Art 
    2. Girlfriend

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  • Allo Darlin 'My Heart Is A Drummer' - Cargo Records UK

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    My Heart is a Drummer is the fourth single from Allo Darlin's self-titled debut on Fortuna POP!, an album so chock-full of great tunes that it just keeps on giving. Brightening up the dull wintery days, My Heart is a Drummer calypsos and sashays, combining Elizabeth Morris' signature ukulele with Bill Botting's rumbling bass lines, Paul Rains' rhythmic guitar and Mikey Collins' swinging drum beat.

    Allo Darlin' are a breath of fresh air breezing through stale music everywhere. Elizabeth Morris' thoughtful yet playful creations are achingly personal, incredibly poignant and familiar all at once. Incorporating tunes that you think you must have heard before, she twists them into something new and highly intoxicating. Bringing a certain Australian aesthetic from her native country, she translates effortlessly into the London scene, using ideas very much based on every day life and observations.

    My Heart is A Drummer is a statement of inner strength and defiance with lyrics somehow manages to include a chain-smoking asthma suffering boyfriend, that nervous in love feeling of twisting your fingers round the telephone cord and Paul Simon's Graceland. Meanwhile the b-side, an acoustic version of their last single If Loneliness Was Art, tells of longing for someone who is seemingly out of reach.

    Tracklisting:
    1. My Heart Is A Drummer  
    2. If Loneliness Was Art (acoustic)

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  • Allo Darlin 'Northern Lights' - Cargo Records UK

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    Allo Darlin 'Northern Lights' Vinyl 7" - Orange

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    The superbly jangly Northern Lights is the third single to be taken from Allo Darlin's second album 'Europe'. It's written about a New Year's Eve spent in Sweden and somehow manages to imbue a wintery scene with a sweet breath of sunshine as Elizabeth Morris' voice rings out clear as a bell and Paul Rain's guitar melodies shine brightly.

    It's backed by Golden Age, a B-side which seems to exist simply to prove that Allo Darlin' have super-catchy melodic pop gems to burn. In any other band's hands this might be a single rather than tucked away as the flip of the third single from the album, but then it's this kind of willful perversity that makes Allo Darlin' so very special!

    Tracklisting:
    1. Northern Lights 
    2. Golden Age

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  • Allo Darlin 'Polaroid Song / Will You Please' - Cargo Records UK

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    Allo Darlin 'Polaroid Song / Will You Please' Vinyl 7"

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    The Polaroid Song is the first fruit from Allo, Darlin's debut album, recorded at Soup Studios below the Duke of Uke and scheduled for release in 2010.

    A breezy, bouncy, eighties-style pop song that could have come straight from the soundtrack of a John Hughes movie, it was inspired by Polaroid's decision to stop manufacturing the iconic film, a move that prompted Elizabeth's photography-obsessed boyfriend to start his own stockpile.

    B-side Will You Please Spend New Year's With Me? possesses a childlike naivety and emotional directness that conjures up the anti-folk lullabies of Kimya Dawson.

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  • Allo Darlin' 'Bright Eyes' - Cargo Records UK

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    Allo Darlin' 'Bright Eyes' Vinyl 7" - Clear

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    Limited Edition (500) 7" Single.

    The first single to be taken from Allo Darlin's album 'We Come From the Same Place', "Bright Eyes" is a hugely enjoyable duet between singer Elizabeth Morris and guitarist Paul Rains.

    Recording their vocals simultaneously in the live room of the studio, the two were able to play off one another and capture the humour and affection inherent in the song's lyrics.

    "Bright Eyes" isn't the first duet the band have recorded, early single "Dreaming" featured Monster Bobby of The Pipettes trading lines with Elizabeth, but as she notes, that then poses its own problems when it comes to playing live.

    "I wanted to write another duet, but the only problem with doing that is that when you play live it's very rare that the person you recorded it with can be there. So I thought it would be great to write a song with Paul singing the other part. I love Paul's singing and I wanted to hear him do it more, so it's quite selfish really!"

    "We Come From The Same Place" is the third full-length recording from the much loved Anglo-Australian four-piece and is made up of smart, beautiful pop music, with lyrics that resonate with experience and melodies that chime, echo and soar.

    The album combines the eagerness, urgency and immediacy of their 2010 self-titled debut with the contemplation, sophistication and ambition of their 2012 follow-up "Europe," and yet it goes beyond either both sonically and in the songs.

    It was written at a time of considerable change for songwriter Elizabeth Morris, a time during which she fell in love, moved to Italy and got married. The truism is that third albums are difficult beasts, but by remaining true to themselves Allo Darlin'have side-stepped the pitfalls to produce a wonderful record - thoughtful and exciting and exquisitely played - that will please their existing army of fans and newcomers alike.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:

    Bright Eyes

    Side B:
    The Best I Can

     

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  • Bearsuit 'Please Don't Take Him Back' - Cargo Records UK

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    Bearsuit 'Please Don't Take Him Back' Vinyl 7"

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    Please Don't Take Him Back is the debut single from Bearsuit's new album The Phantom Forest. Since their full-length oh:io in 2007, the Norwich boy/girl five-piece have undergone a dramatic line-up change, swapped violins, flutes and horns for dirty synths and fierce guitars, notched-up their sound, brought in big time producer Gareth Parton and created a perfectly off-the-wall pop masterpiece. 

    Please Don't Take Him Back is a technicolour widescreen heartache. It's as cool as a disco ice queen with a warm heart; as sophisticated as a gin martini; exhilarating as strobe lights on a tireless dance floor; as touching as tender disco.

    It bridges the gap between Blondie and Duran Duran; The Human League and Depeche Mode, and jumps up and down all over other indie pretenders.

    The two tracks on the B-side see the band's last two download singles, Pushover and Muscle Belt, get a physical release for the first time.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Please Don't Take Him Back 
    2. Pushover 
    3. Muscle Belt 

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  • Bearsuit 'When Will I Be Queen?' - Cargo Records UK

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    Bearsuit 'When Will I Be Queen?' Vinyl 7"

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    When Will I Be Queen? is the 2nd single from Bearsuit’s forthcoming new album The Phantom Forest.

    Since their full-length oh:io in 2007, the Norwich boy/girl 5 piece have undergone a dramatic line-up change, swapped violins, flutes and horns for dirty synths and fierce guitars, notched-up their sound, brought in big time producer Gareth Parton and created a perfectly off-the-wall pop masterpiece.

    Bearsuit’s internal reshuffle last year has resulted in a more beefed-up, edgy sound. The band now consists of Iain Ross (guitar & keyboards), Lisa Horton (keyboards), Jan Robertson (guitar & keyboards), Charlene Katuwawala (bass) & Joe Naylor (drums). All 5 sing.

    With their new rhythm section they went on to record The Phantom Forest (Out Mar 7) with Gareth Parton (producer of Go Team!, Foals, The Breeders, Pink Grease & Pete & the Pirates. Known for their electric and outlandish performances, Bearsuit will be playing shows around the UK in February and March (see dates below). They’ve previously supported the likes of Crystal Castles, Future of the Left, Lightspeed Champion and Hot Chip.

    They’ve also played various festivals including Latitude, Bestival, The Great Escape and Offset, as well as several abroad including South By South West (Austin, Texas) and CMJ in New York (where they were voted ‘Best Breakthrough Act’).

    “A colourful pop hotchpotch” NME

    “Louder than an explosion in a fireworks factory” Artrocker

    "Cinematic doodlings, screamy art punk, and many twists and turns" The Independent

    "Retro space age, riotously cute disco-punk. This is what my 80s sounded like." Everett True

    Tracklisting:
    1. When Will I Be Queen? 
    2. When Will I Be Queen? (KANEDUBSTEP Remix)

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  • Cinema Red And Blue 'Come Back To The City, Babyface' - Cargo Records UK

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    Cinema Red And Blue 'Come Back To The City, Babyface'

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    Despite their untimely demise after twenty years in showbiz, Fortuna POP! are fulfilling their contractual obligations to subscribers of their singles club with the release of four final smash hit 45s, the first of which comes from indie supergroop Cinema Red And Blue with "Come Back To The City, Babyface", a slice of feel good West Coast pop with a nod or two to in the direction of The Lovin' Spoonful. 

    The songs were farted out by David Feck of Comet Gain and recorded with Bongo Gary Olson at Marlborough Farms in New York City some years ago, time moving more slowly these days, and as for who played what it's hard to tell with all the mushrooms and whiskey swimming around the basement but unless the boys in the bodega didn't all do it you can count on some members of Comet Gain, Crystal Stilts and Pale Lights being involved. 

    Inevitably this will be a massive smash hit just as Fortuna POP! leave the rock'n'roll building, but hey, them's the breaks, enjoy the groovy sounds while you can.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    Come Back To The City, Babyface

    Side B:
    The Captain's Song
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  • Comet Gain 'Sad Love And Other Short Stories' - Cargo Records UK

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    Comet Gain 'Sad Love And Other Short Stories' Vinyl 7"

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    Coloured Vinyl 7 Ltd to 500 copies.

    Taken from the album Paperback Ghosts, Comet Gain's new single 'Sad Love' and Other Short Stories is a classic upbeat indiepop tune, brimming with melody and slathered in chiming Byrdsian guitars.

    Over yearning harmonies and keening strings songwriter David Feck muses on a love left behind and what might have been, on a life haunted by memories of unrequited romance. Comet Gain are David Charlie Feck (vocals, guitar), Ben Phillipson (guitar), Rachel Evans (vocals), ex-Morrissey/The Meteors drummer Woodie Taylor (percussion), Anne Laure Guillain (keyboards) and new recruit, Clientele bassist James Hornsey ' a motley group of like-minded romantics, taking pride in an abject failure to care about the normal band model. Inspired at times by early Creation Records, Television Personalities and mod culture, drawing from the same ideals as Dexys, The Style Council and Vic Godard and from the lineage of The Velvet Underground, The Byrds and the 13th Floor Elevators, their mystic anarchist principles blend French New Wave with English kitchen-sink heart.

    For years they have drifted through scenes picking up people and emotional ties - from Riot Grrrl to acid punks, C86 to lo-fi - yet somehow outliving their peers and in turn inspiring a younger generation of DIY musicians like The Cribs, Love Is All, Veronica Falls, and Crystal Stilts. With Paperback Ghosts, Comet Gain have brought together their myriad influences to create a richly textured affirmation of their twenty-year anti-career, a cohesive aesthetic of sound, artwork, liner notes and ideas.

    Steeped in melancholy but with a beating pop heart, Sad Love' and Other Short Stories is both one of the album's high points and a timeless single in its own right. 

    "Indie-pop lifers on top form on their seventh full-length" Uncut

    "Crisp and wistful, it has a satisying apple-sharp bite... there's a warm and lovely heart at this record's centre" Q

    "You need 'Paperback Ghosts' in your life - and whatever your life is like, this album will make it that little bit better" A Layer Of Chips
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  • Darren Hayman And Papernut Cambridge 'I've Been A Bad Bad Boy' - Cargo Records UK

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    Darren Hayman And Papernut Cambridge 'I've Been A Bad Bad Boy'

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    Purple Rain Coloured Vinyl 7' (Limited to 300).

    For fifteen years, and over fourteen albums, Darren Hayman has taken a singular and erratic route through England's tired and broken underbelly.  Influenced by punk through his art college years and then American lo-fi indie in the '90s he fronted John Peel favourites Hefner.

    His solo career has earned widespread critical acclaim with his many and varied projects including his Essex trilogy, his Lido album, and recently a project to set the poems of William Morris to music entitled 'Chants For Socialists'. In addition to his solo career, Darren has been moonlighting as the drummer in Papernut Cambridge, the sprawling pop collective led by former Death In Vegas guitarist Ian Button and pals, described by Mojo as 'An escapist mix of 70's glam, Nuggets-psych and 80's indie, all balancing pop bliss and more sinister psychological depths'.

    And now Darren has stepped out from beyond the drumkit to record two cover versions, with Papernut Cambridge as his backing band - 'I've Been A Bad Bad Boy' by Paul Jones, and 'Big, Big Deal' by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel.

    Darren explains: 'To me it seems like Papernut Cambridge is the band Ian wanted when he was a teenager but only got around to doing now. Everything Papernut Cambridge does is like a hazy, mash up version of a 1970s rock band. A group that might have guested on 'Marc' one week and never be seen again. I also wanted Papernut Cambridge to belong to that era where bands covered each other songs and backed each other on different releases.

    To that end, even though Ian has recorded his own version of Bad, Bad Boy on Papernut Cambridge's Nutlets record, I asked Ian if I could record my own version with the 'Nut' backing me. I feel like Ringo stepping forward. I am the singer in my favourite band. Oh and by the way, I am a bad, bad, boy, I'm also kind of a big deal.'

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    I've Been A Bad Bad Boy

    Side B:
    Big Big Deal

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  • Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern 'Calling Out Your Name Again' - Cargo Records UK

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    Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern 'Calling Out Your Name Again' Vinyl 7"

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    Ex-Hefner frontman’s brilliant new duet with Emmy The Great Ex-Hefner frontman Darren Hayman met Emma-Lee Moss when they were both recording sessions for a radio station in North London. Like many, Darren was struck by the audacity of Emma-Lee’s “Emmy the Great’ stage name and decided to celebrate their new friendship by recording a duet.

    “I always assume singers younger than me don’t know shit,” says Darren of Emmy, “but watching Emmy play at the Union Chapel earlier this year was an education for me. Her wit, stage presence and intelligence are something to behold and of course she has those beautifully intricate songs.”For their duet Darren wrote a love song about illicit sex in parked cars. 

    “The album Essex Arms is about love in unloved places. I wanted to sing about a lawless, hidden version of the countryside, but still treat the subject with tenderness and respect.”Darren continues to forge an increasingly, idiosyncratic career path; writing the theme tune and staring in a Spanish Sitcom, playing a 30 people capacity show in a 100 year old paper mache observatory and playing possibly Britiain’s most remote festival on the Isle of Eigg.

    Darren is also writing the best tunes of his career; increasingly complex and mature songs. His band, The Secondary Modern, are a tight, tough, but soulful folk-rock orchestra reminiscent of a more urban Incredible String Band or an Anglicized Lambchop.“Calling Out Your Name Again” is the second single to be released from Essex Arms, Darren’s latest album. Besides the title track, the EP includes three songs taken from the album sessions that are exclusive to this release – Essex Arms, Beach Head and Until We Got Bored.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Calling Out Your Name Again  
    2. Essex Arms 
    3. Beach Head 
    4. Until We Got Bored

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  • Discordia 'Y Sun Over Discordia' Vinyl 7

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    Discordia 'Y Sun Over Discordia' Vinyl 7"

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    Solo single from John Sims main man, mixing hip-hop beats with samples and melodica on a great instrumental number.

    Melody Maker single of the week “effortlessly cool, this sexy little number glides across the hip-hop battlefields, limbo dances along Brazilian beaches and passes through Kraftwerk’s electro lab. Hugely inventive, deliciously impulsive, and the summer starts right here”.

    “a pocket money DJ Shadow… smashing” (Robots and Electronic Brains)
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  • Evans The Death 'Catch Your Cold' - Cargo Records UK

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    Evans The Death 'Catch Your Cold' Vinyl 7" - White

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    Following the singles 'Threads/I'm So Unclean' and 'Telling Lies', Evans the Death return with their third single from their eponymous debut album.

    'Catch Your Cold' sees the band continue where 'Telling Lies' left off; a blistering, hook-laden song swathed in psych-fuzz guitars and lo-fi exuberance.

    Revved-up basslines and frenetic drums give the track a garage rock rattle, whilst vocalist Katherine Whitaker is all nonchalant charisma and reckless abandon.

    B-side to the single is the anarchic 'Crying Song', which features comedian Stewart Lee in lachrymose mood as he takes lead vocals, so to speak, sobbing uncontrollably for just under 90 seconds.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Catch Your Cold 
    2. Crying Song

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  • Evans The Death 'Enabler' - Cargo Records UK

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    Limited Edition 7" (Reverend Black Grape coloured vinyl)
    Enabler is the first single to be taken from Evans the Death's new album Expect Delays, out 2nd March. 


    Recorded again with producer Rory Atwell (Test Icicles, Warm Brains), the new long-player bristles with underlying tension and veers from rip-roaring noise to quiet contemplation, underpinned by Katherine Whitaker's extraordinary voice. Enabler opens with a sonic onslaught of fuzz and feedback before the rhythm section explodes into life and the song kicks in, Whitaker's distinctive vocals doubled up like sinister twins prowling around a gorgeously discordant melody.

    Still barely out of their teens, there's a tremendous sense across Expect Delays of a band coming into their own, honing a plethora of influences to make a sound that is uniquely them. Each song on the album has a different feel to it: some of them are melodic and pretty; some of them heavy and dissonant; and some of them are, to quote guitarist Dan Moss, 'a bit strange'. While retaining the post-punk and 90s alt-rock inspired elements that peppered their debut, the music is more expressive, heavier and more experimental, and the lyrics more nuanced, the sense of despair leavened by sharp wordplay and humour.

    The unsettling undercurrent of melancholy and hopelessness that pervades the record has its roots in the last three years, spent eking out an existence on the poverty line in Cameron's Britain, leaving them with a succession of minimum-wage jobs and unemployment benefits interviews. As guitarist Dan Moss relates, the album is about 'being in London and feeling hopeless and a bit lost. Not having any money, relationships falling apart, things just not connecting or going anywhere and getting absolutely wasted all the time.'

    Named after the undertaker in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, the band's 2012 self-titled inaugural album saw critical acclaim from the likes of Q, Uncut and Artrocker, as well as radio play on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music and XFM. Following the departure of bassist Alanna McArdle to Joanna Gruesome, the band regrouped around the core of brothers Dan and Olly Moss and singer Katherine Whitaker for the recording of Expect Delays. Drummer James Burkitt was recruited from Leeds'band The ABC Club to complete a lean and taut new four-piece.

    'Evans the Death manage to make humdrum everyday existence seem quite magical' Q ****

    Tracklisting:
    A. Enabler
    B. (You Sound Like) An American

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