Release Date: 28/07/2017

"After "Moloch", their first album hit the scene last year, ANCST has toured relentlessly. Besides putting out a few more of their dark ambient releases, the Berlin based blackened crust collective has gone quieter at the end of 2016 to write new material for a row of releases to be put out in 2017.

The first in line will be this EP entitled "Furnace" which see's the band heading out into much more melodic territories while still featuring the aggression of former releases.

"Furnace" delivers 5 new songs of bastard sound black metal / hardcore crossover that takes no prisoners."

Tracklisting:
1. Away From Atrophy
2. Urban Tomb
3. Chronicles Of Emptiness
4. Broken Oath
5. In Stone
6. Cadence

Release Date: 21/07/2017

Copenhagen based black metal quartet SOLBRUD will release their third album ’Vemod’ on June 9th via Indisciplinarian and Vendetta Records.

Since the release of SOLBRUD’s self titled debut album in 2012, the band has been an immense power in black metal, which was only emphasized by the 2014 sequel ’Jærtegn’ in all its beautiful grimness. Both albums and the quartet’s emotional and intense live performances have since then consolidated SOLBRUD as a band with a special, artistic vision unfolding in non-compromising and boundary pushing black metal.

Now SOLBRUD is ready with their third full length ’Vemod’ (Danish for sadness or melancholy). It is an album proclaiming the imminent fall of mankind musically accompanied by yet another envigoured take on the band’s wuthering and melodic variety of black metal. 

As SOLBRUD’s previous album ‘Jærtegn’, ‘Vemod’ is recorded with producer Lasse Ballade (Slægt, Orm, Halshug) in his Ballade Studios in Copenhagen, this time during a freezing January 2017. In addition, the legendary Flemming Rasmussen (Metallica, Morbid Angel, Rainbow) has overseen the mastering in Sweet Silence North where the album received an old school tape mastering enhancing the band’s analogue and organic sound.

As with the band’s two previous albums, the record consists of 4 tracks, which this time makes up a playing time of 50 epic and intense minutes.

Tracklisting:
1. Det Sidste Lys
2. Forfald
3. Menneskeværk
4. Besat af Mørke

Release Date: 21/07/2017

Rarities, Remixes And Original Unreleased Recordings. A collector's Dream!

16 tracks in total. 7 from various compilations or rare single/tour related releases plus 9 other remixed and previously unissued original recordings. Manna from Heaven Street!

Tracklisting:
1. The Concrete Fountain
2. The Only Good Neighbor
3. 13 Years Of Carrion
4. My Black Diaries
5. Burn Again
6. Punishment Initiation
7. We Said Destroy
8. Europa Rising
9. Death Of A Man
10. Rocking Horse Night
11. Passion Power Purge
12. My Black Diary
13. In Sacrilege
14. Many Enemies Bring Much Honor
15. Unconditional Armistice

Release Date: 21/07/2017

From Autumnal to Vernal Equinox, this is the Death In June Winter tree. Stripped bare, but for thirteen of its branches.

But they are as strong as ever, and with thirteen glasses and one last toast, this new album captures the true essence of Death In June, again setting new standards in its self-created genre.

Let the Blackbirds kiss you and may The Rule Of Thirds dictate your life.

CD packaged in a standard Jewel Box.

Tracklisting:
1. The Glass Coffin
2. Forever Loves Decay
3. Jesus, Junk And The Jurisdiction
4. Idolatry
5. Good Mourning Sun
6. The Perfume Of Traitors
7. Last Europa Kiss
8. The Rule Of Thirds
9. Truly Be
10. Their Deception
11. My Rhine Atrocity
12. Takeyya
13. Let Go

Release Date: 21/07/2017

Considered to be one of the most influential albums of all time, the deleted original 1987 version of this album stands centerstage with works by The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix and Joy Division.

It marked a definitive shift in style for Death In June and the true beginning of a new musical genre, Neo Folk.

This digitally remastered edition was the bonus CD accompanying the 20th Anniversary Stone Circle Edition of Brown Book issued in 2007, and contains 7 songs from the original album coupled with 7 remixed, re-recorded and rare versions of the remaining songs.

In effect it is Brown Book II, Braun Buch Zwei! To test and to try. This is the sound of the true believer, sounding better than ever!

CD packaged in a standard Jewel Box.

Tracklisting:
1. Heilige Tod
2. Touch Defiles
3. Hail! The White Grain
4. Runes And Men
5. To Drown A Rose
6. Red Dog - Black Dog
7. The Fog Of The World
8. Europa: The Gates Of Heaven And Hell
9. Punishment Initiation
10. Brown Book Re-Read
11. Burn Again
12. Zimmerit
13. Europa: The Gates Of Heaven
14. Brown Book

Release Date: 21/07/2017

Finally re-assembled onto 1 single CD and a double LP, the best of 1992's “But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?” and 1995's “Rose Clouds Of Holocaust” albums plus 2 rare single tracks from the same period, which is generally considered one of the high points in Death In June's career.

(All these songs were previously available on the 2009 limited stone commemorative edition “Symbols And Clouds Euro Cross”.)

Track Listing CD/LP: (original recordings 1992-95):
1. Death Is The Martyr Of Beauty
2. He's Disabled
3. The Mourner's Bench
4. Because Of Him
5. Little Black Angel
6. The Golden Wedding Of Sorrow
7. The Giddy Edge Of Light
8. Ku Ku Ku
9. Hollows Of Devotion
10. But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?
11. Cathedral Of Tears
12. Lord Winter
13. God's Golden Sperm
14. Omen-Filled Season
15. Symbols Of The Sun
16. Luther's Army
17. 13 Years Of Carrion
18. The Accidental Protégé
19. Rose Clouds Of Holocaust
20. Leopard Flowers

Release Date: 21/07/2017

With his ice-cold debut album Pessimist delivers a defining work which to us represents the culmination of nearly a decade of collective research and development in underground drum’n’bass. It is hard to think of any producer, past or present, who has so skilfully and successfully bridged the sonics and sensibilities of d’n’b and techno.

In fact Pessimist makes drum ‘n bass work as techno: combining the monotone, infinite-horizon quality of the latter with the rhythmic swerve and soundsystem heft of the former.

The perfectly formed ‘Balaklava’ 12” for BEB’s A14 sub-label in 2016 was his first work to attract serious attention outside of d’n’b circles, but the young Bristol producer’s singular aesthetic had been honed across important records for the likes of Samurai and Ingredients, and as a member of the Ruffhouse crew, and since then the experimentation has continued across releases and remixes for UVB-76, Osiris Music and Ilian Tape.

Cutting edge techno-dnb hybrids form the backbone of this, his first LP, but there’s more to it than that. Out of its relentlessly noir, paranoid, smoked-out dubscape emerge fierce, Babylon-shall-fall jungle tear-outs (‘Through The Fog’); zoned, acidic rave (‘Peter Hitchens’); downtempo breakbeat excursions (‘Glued’); sleek and rude ‘Balaklava’-esque steppers (‘Spirals'); and passages of bleak, bombed-out industrial ambience.

At times it feels like the missing link between British Murder Boys and Source Direct, or what might have happened if late 90s UK junglists had listened more closely to Chain Reaction. But really, it sounds like Pessimist and Pessimist alone.

The ruthless minimalism, and the tension which comes of that restraint; the swing and propulsion of the drum programming; the abyssal reverbs and long trails of delay; the deep and body-numbing sub-bass; the uncompromising palette of blacks and blues.

Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Bloom
3. Grit
4. Spirals
5. Glued ft. Loop Faction
6. War Cry
7. Peter Hitchens
8. No Matter What ft. Overlook
9. Through The Fog
10. Outro

Release Date: 07/07/2017

Sivu looks faith, mortality and self doubt squarely in the eye…sensational - SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE

A singular talent...A feast of ideas - Q

Irresistible - NME

Like a one man Wild Beasts - GUARDIAN

After two years out of the spotlight Sivu returns with his new album Sweet Sweet Silent, a loud and clear demonstration of the considerable talents of singer James Page.

This is a record of extraordinary beauty driven by a sense of experimentation, inspired by the likes of Radiohead’s ‘Amnesiac’, Wild Beasts ‘Smother’ and lifelong hero Richard Hawley. After the release of 2014’s ‘Something on High’ James began struggling with Meniere’s syndrome. His hearing deteriorating, this new album faces up to those challenges and fears.

Together with trusted collaborator Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Marika Hackman) Sweet Sweet Silent gives room for slightly detuned instrumentation, restlessness breaks from pattern and romantic imagery. It’s what makes the music feel more human, built from the ground up. Sivu may not be seeking approval with this record, but it’s likely he’ll be flooded with praise once it comes out. 

Live : Sivu played extensively in support of the debut record, playing with acts including London Grammar, The Staves, Bombay Bicycle Club, Marika Hackman and Stornoway. He performed throughout the UK and across Europe at festivals including Latitude, Reading, Les Inrocks, Blue Balls and Reeperbahn.

Tracklisting:
1. Submersible
2. Lonesome
3. Kin and Chrome
4. Sweet Sweet Silent
5. Blood Clots and Pheromones
6. Flies
7. Childhood House
8. Drastic Change
9. My Moon River
10. Wonder In me

Oakland’s mysterious Phantom Limbs inflicted their psychotic art-goth-punk debut on the world back in 2001 - and to celebrate their reunion Alternative Tentacles is proud to reissue “Applied Ignorance” with brand new art by singer Hopeless and the addition of 2 previously unreleased tracks recorded live on KALX Berkeley in 2001!

Prodded by pitchforks to see them, Jello Biafra thought they were the strangest band he had EVER seen at Gilman St. that the crowd went stark raving nuts for. A cross between the Screamers and Gilbert & Sullivan gone terribly wrong. Eerie, grinding keyboards mixed with driving bass, thundering drums, wall-of-sound guitar and frantic, desperate vocals.

The Phantom Limbs subjected West Coast punk, goth, metal, and indie audiences alike to their psychosis with equal appreciation from the late 90’s thru the mid-00’s. Like a carnival sideshow, The Phantom Limbs thrived equally on the awe and anxiety of the crowd.

Their music is a swirling amalgamation of old school punk, deathrock, and no wave mixed with the theatre songs of, say, Kurt Weil. Like so many of the great Alternative Tentacles’ bands, they were a must-see live. Their live shows became stuff of legend with singer Hopeless invariably naked or covered in grease paint, duct tape, wrapping paper or substances of unknown origin.

Crowd interaction was mandatory, with Hopeless sometimes going so far as to handcuff himself to unsuspecting fans. The members of The Phantom Limbs had previously lent their talents to such cult faves as The Boyscouts of Annihilation, Anal Kitties, Scurvy Dogs and Black Ice, and since splitting in the 2000s have created new musical madness with (among others) the Loto Ball Show, Altar De Fey, and Malditos.

Tracklisting:
1. Piss On Them Lightly
2. Shut Up Old Man
3. Unhinged Face
4. Minutes Collector
5. Shake A Baby
6. Hot Knives And Hornets
7. Jointly Stranded
8. Somebody Twisted Your Arm
9. Shut Them Out
10. How Calm You Are
11. Murder Us Windpipes (Live on KALX 2001)
12. Romance (Live on KALX 2001)

“It seemed like a good idea at the time…,” begins the explanation of Wire’s original motivation for ‘Change Becomes Us’. Not only was it a good idea, it actually turned into a superlative one. In spring 2012, Wire’s plan had been to review the rudimentary blueprints of songs that had never made it beyond a few live performances in 1979 and 1980 – a time when the band-members were in creative overdrive yet the band itself was disintegrating.

The aim wasn’t simply to resuscitate and record old songs; in fact, many of them hadn’t become proper songs in the first place, existing only as basic ideas or undeveloped parts. Rather, the objective was to approach that unrealized work as an oblique strategy, a potential springboard for Wire’s contemporary, forward-looking processes – a possible point of departure for new compositions.

This took place with Wire firing on all cylinders, as a four-piece studio entity again, the core line-up of Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey now enhanced by guitarist Matthew Simms. Out of those sessions and subsequent extensive development and production, the ostensible source material became, in the classic Wire tradition, something quite other than what it may have once been – or what it might have become if it had been pursued in 1980. ‘Love Bends’ is a case in point.

Its roots lie in a raucous, octave-hopping number performed in February 1980 at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, but it’s now morphed, improbably, into an irresistible, totally modern pop song. Just as improbably, the gently lilting ‘Re-invent Your Second Wheel’ is tangentially connected to a performance piece  that was mostly shouting and banging, executed by a stageful of Wire cronies in funny hats. Similarly transformed, ‘& Much Besides’ is a six-minute oneiric-melodic interlude that gives no hint of its putative origins in ‘Eastern Standard’ – a dreary, obtuse three-minute track from the Electric Ballroom concert.

Colin Newman’s songwriting and production on ‘Change Becomes Us’ reimagines the past in ways that ultimately break any substantive connection with it, making entirely new pieces – and these songs themselves enact Wire’s restless drive to become other, often thriving on a fundamental tension between opposing sonic characteristics. With its stop-start, soft-hard, quiet-loud structure, ‘Adore Your Island’ veers between prog and unhinged punk rock, never quite resolving itself; the drama of ‘Attractive Space’ hinges on a progressive splitting of the song’s personality, between its calm, expansive, anthemic orientation and an increasing sense of intensity and claustrophobia.

‘Change Becomes Us’ encapsulates the paradoxical essence of Wire’s creativity. The tendency of these new songs to refuse a single, settled identity is emblematic of the band’s ever-evolving aesthetic – one that’s always hinged on sustained tensions and oppositions: between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the comfortable and the unsettling, the melodic and the brutal, the cerebral and the visceral, the smart and the moronic, the obvious and the inscrutable, the rational and the absurd.

This intrinsic, core ambivalence generates the essential otherness that has characterized Wire’s most memorable and distinctive work – from the epochal innovations of ‘Chairs’Missing’ and ‘154’ to the electronic-pop deconstructions of ‘A Bell Is A Cup…’ to the postmodern-punk expressionism of ‘Send’ and the widescreen lyricism of ‘Red Barked Tree’. ‘Change Becomes Us’ is an undeniable part of that illustrious lineage. Definitely more than just a good idea at the time.

Tracklisting:
1. Doubles & Trebles
2. Keep Exhaling
3. Adore Your Island
4. Re-invent Your Second Wheel
5. Stealth Of A Stork
6. B/W Silence
7. Time Lock Fog
8. Magic Bullet
9. Eels Sang
10. Love Bends
11. As We Go
12. & Much Besides
13. Attractive Space

Release Date: 14/07/2017

"There’s a playfulness at work in their jagged guitar lines, a free style that hides the purpose defining every move. This is pop pure and simple". DIY

"A slice of guitar pop excellence that can't help but look on the sunny side". Clash

"A glorious grunge pop art noise". MTV

"We think this is fantastic Lauren Lavern". 6 Music

Distorted and mischievous, Francobollo are a childlike celebration of everything you find fun in life. Produced by Mercury and Brit award winning producer Charlie Andrew, Long Live Life is a debut album that finds joy in sadness, a kid running around amongst the bins waving a stick.

A live show honed at North London warehouse parties led to support tours with The Big Moon and Marika Hackman, now a busy festival summer beckons before a headline tour of Europe this autumn. Capturing their raucous energy, the album sessions were recorded as guerilla gigs in Andrew’s Brixton studio. Singles Good Times, Kinky Lola & Worried Times all championed by Lauren Laverne and Tom Ravenscroft at BBC 6Music.

An innocent and excitable celebration of all existence summoning the spirit of Weezer, Pavement & Grandaddy, Francobollo are the riot you can take home to meet your Mum. 

Tracklisting:
1. Worried Times
2. Good Times
3. Wonderful
4. Trees
5. USO
6. Kinky Lola
7. Future Lover
8. Radio
9. Sense
10. Waiting
11. You Know This
12. Now

Release Date: 14/07/2017

“High On Station Yellow Moon” is a new solo album by Edward Ka-spel of The Legendary Pink Dots, and marks the beginning of his collaboration with longtime friend and fellow traveller Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls. It doesn’t get more conceptual than this.

Tracklisting:
Part 1:
(a) OMG 666
(b) The Flick Of A Switch
(c) The Visitors’ Lounge
(d) The Leary Cloud
(e) Nowhere To Float To

Part 2:
(a) Provisional
(b) Layer Cake
(c) Trespass
(e) Eight Mile Bride
(f) Good Book

BONUS TRACKS (CD only)
1. The Leary Cloud (Slight Return)
2. No-one To Hear You Squeak

Release Date: 14/04/2017

Claude Speeed returns to Planet Mu, two years after the 'Sun Czar Temple' EP, with his second album 'Infinity Ultra'. He describes the record he's been creating since he started making computer music as one "conceiving an interior territory: an abstract space to process the oppression, confusion and insanity of the contemporary age; and to formulate an honest emotional and artistic response - a psychic jumping off point into an uncertain future."

'Infinity Ultra' takes inspiration from sleep paralysis, monumental artworks, children’s anime, abandoned places, ghostly rave pasts and terrifying silicon valley futures, and the limitless anger of the digital present.

These influences have been channelled into an impressionistic burst of varied creativity: Shimmering VSTs; monolithic noise; euphoric blocks of colourful sound; trance stabs and the citrus rush of hardcore; towering drones, and skynet math rock – all rendered against cold, sinister space and nostalgic synth melodies.

The album reveals the artist’s Scottish roots, viewed at a hazy distance from his Berlin home - a series of memories of Glasgow’s experimental psychedelic underground, its DIY rock scene and defiant club hedonism.

These genre relationships are blurred and at times they contrast with audible brutality; the result is a hybrid, sculptured way of rendering music – minimal specifics, maximum emotions.

Tracklisting:
2LP:
Side A:
1. BCCCC
2. Serra
3. Windows 95
4. Ambien Rave

Side B:
1. Alternate Histories (ft. Kuedo)
2. Moonchord Supermagic
3. 800 Super NYC
4. XY Autostream

Side C:
1. Fifth Fortress
2. VZJD
3. Entering The Zone
4. Center Tech

Side D:
1. Spirits
2. Contact
3. Dreamdream

CD:
01. BCCCC
02. Serra
03. Windows 95
04. Ambien Rave
05. Alternate Histories (ft. Kuedo)
06. Moonchord Supermagic
07. 800 Super NYC
08. XY Autostream
09. Fifth Fortress
10. VZJD
11. Entering The Zone
12. Center Tech
13. Spirits
14. Contact
15. Dreamdream

Release Date: 14/07/2017

In November 2007 The Wedding Present performed their classic debut album “George Best” live, in its entirety, in Dublin, Ireland. The concert, which took place in front of a thrilled crowd at the city’s ‘Village’ venue to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the LP, was recorded and filmed for posterity is now released for the first time here on DVD and CD.

The NME described George Best as “an unmitigated delight” upon its release and included it in its 2014 list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

Allmusic says “It would be nearly impossible to name the standout tracks, since... every tune is so solid.”

The album has achieved legendary status in the hearts and minds of alternative music fans everywhere. The band returns to Dublin on 17 June to perform George Best live once again... but this time it will be for the final time ever.

Tracklisting:
1. Blonde
2. Brassneck
3. Don’t Take Me Home Until I’m Drunk
4. King’s Cross
5. Convertible
6. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [Extended Version]
7. Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
8. What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?
9. Don't Be So Hard
10. A Million Miles
11. All This And More
12. My Favourite Dress
13. Shatner
14. Something And Nothing
15. It's What You Want That Matters
16. Give My Love To Kevin
17. Anyone Can Make A Mistake
18. You Can't Moan, Can You?
19. Perfect Blue
20. Kennedy
21. Flying Saucer