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  • Poison Point 'Wandering Echoes'

    Avant! Records

    Poison Point 'Wandering Echoes'

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    Avant! Records

    Poison Point 'Wandering Echoes'

    £23.99

    Poison Point is the trancey body music solo project operated by Paris-based producer and live artist, Timothée Gainet. Started off in 2016, he shared the stage with bands such as Drab Majesty, Xeno & Oakland, Adult, Rendez-Vous and Silent Servant, shared remixes with Qual, Sydney Valette, Blind Delon, all this while running his other industrial techno outfit IV Horsemen.

    You can tell Timothée is a busy guy and yet he managed to grow Poison Point since his debut album on Third Coming, getting releases out on Aufnahme + Wiedergabe and Young And Cold. Over the years, his sound gradually shifted from the motorik post-punk of the early recordings to one much more dancefloor-oriented dark electronics with some sort of nice military pop Je ne sais quoi. 

    If one could see this coming with 2022’s album Poisoned Gloves, his new full-length is a major step-up in Poison Point game. Skilfully produced by Gainet himself and mastered once again by Mr Baggio for the best groove, Wandering Echoes drops nine new floor fillers for the romantic and the nostalgic at heart. 

    Just click Play on the first track Blue Idol and you will be hurled into a crystal world of imaginary memories while floating on the scales drawn by the synth arpeggios. Rude awake to the lead single Mysteries In Fire and his intoxicating body music and start wandering the room around you. Keep up the pace with further bangers loaded with electricity, romance and angularity like Flowers & Surrender, Echoes Of Dreams, Slow Kill, Fast Love.

    Get sweaty as you reach the end of this music journey: final track Les Meurtrières de LʼAube, properly sung in Timothée's native tongue French, will show you the way to the rest of the just. If your favourite vibes dwell somewhere between Phase Fatale and Lust For Youth, Wandering Echoes is the record for you.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Blue Idol
    2. Mysteries In Fire
    3. Flowers & Surrender
    4. Echoes Of Dreams
    5. Slow Kill, Fast Love
    6. The Naked Sun
    7. The Wanderer
    8. A Thousands Birds
    9. Les Meurtrières de LʼAube
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  • Dancing Plague 'Elogium'

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    Dancing Plague 'Elogium'

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    Dancing Plague 'Elogium'

    £23.99

    Portland based act Dancing Plague has been a steady presence in the dark/cold electronic music scene for quite a few years now. Since 2016 Conor Knowles’ solo project has been putting out one constant flow of independent releases on multiple formats such as vinyl LPs, EPs, tapes and CDs, creating one sonic palette rich with Ebm, goth, industrial and synth influences.

    On their 5th studio album, Dancing Plague continues to flesh out and perfect their unique brand of crushing darkwave. Elogium explores themes of loss, regret, rebirth and growth coupled with throbbing basslines, rave synths, and pounding drums.

    Knowles balances aggressive waves of electronics with enough pop sensibilities and catchy hooks to be inviting to those new to the genre. His skills can be clearly appreciated on tracks like the first single Fading Forms which explores the somber feeling of the years passing you by.

    Knowles’ emotive baritone crooning paints a melancholic picture of the slow fading of time as you feel like you’re fading with it. The words fall like snow onto cold fields of pulsing 80s synths and pounding drum machine rhythms that bring forth nostalgic familiarity but feel fresh at the same time.

    Fans of classic icons such as Depeche Mode, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails as well as contemporary torchbearers Cold Cave and Kontravoid do not sleep on this.

    Plenty of disturbing beauty to be found in the depths of the underground.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Dreamless
    2. Fading Forms
    3. Shadow Self
    4. Rot With Me
    5. Elogium
    6. Suffer the Senses
    7. Cold Fire
    8. Echoes of the Void
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  • Shellac 'To All Trains' PRE-ORDER

    Touch And Go Records

    Shellac 'To All Trains' PRE-ORDER

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    Touch And Go Records

    Shellac 'To All Trains' PRE-ORDER

    £30.49

    Release Date: 17/05/2024

    THE BAND

    It’s still: Steve Albini - Guitar. Todd Trainer - Drums. Bob Weston - Bass.

    DATA
    This is Shellac’s sixth studio LP. Recording & Mixing took place at Electrical Audio in Chicago over a bunch of long weekends in November, 2017; October, 2019; September, 2021; and March, 2022. The record was mas-tered by Bob & Steve at Chicago Mastering Service.

    PACKAGING
    LP and CD packaging and artwork are identical (the CD is just smaller). Bob took all the photos; some with a fancy camera and some with a telephone.

    QC
    Audio quality is paramount, as always, with Shellac. The LPs are being manufactured by Green Vinyl Records using an injection molding process. This new process uses 100% recyclable PET (like soda bottles) and is environmentally friendly, containing no PVC or Phthalates. The process also uses 79% less CO2 than conventional hydraulic PVC vinyl presses. The records weigh 180 grams.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A
    1. WSOD
    2. Girl From Outside
    3. Chick New Wave
    4. Tattoos
    5. Wednesday

    Side B
    1. Scrappers
    2. Days Are Dogs
    3. How I Wrote How I Wrote Elastic Man (cock & bull)
    4. Scabby the Rat
    5. I Don’t Fear Hell
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  • Yur Mum 'Duality' PRE-ORDER

    Tropical Fuzz Records

    Yur Mum 'Duality' PRE-ORDER

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    Tropical Fuzz Records

    Yur Mum 'Duality' PRE-ORDER

    £19.99

    Release Date: 26/04/2024

    London-based rock duo, Yur Mum, is set to release their highly anticipated album, "Duality," on April 30, 2024.

    "Duality" serves as the sequel to their 2021 LP, "Tropical Fuzz," and encapsulates the band's essence as a fusion of contrasts – Female meets male, Europe meets South America, and rock meets Brazilian music.

    Anelise, the bassist and vocalist, expresses, "It's a total yin and yang. We're embracing our differences and blending them together to create something unique." The album features recent singles 'Say Say' and 'New Beginnings,' which gained recognition on BBC's 6 Music and Radio 1, along with Spotify editorial playlists.

    The duo's Brazilian roots are exposed in tracks like 'Hands To The Sky', 'Anhangá', ‘Café’, and ‘Snakes Don’t Fly’, featuring Myura Amara from PollyPikPocketz. In a bold move, Yur Mum has opted for an independent release, expressing pride in creating the album they envisioned.

    Collaborating with producer Alex Gordon, known for his work with bands like Tigercub and CLT DRP. "Duality" promises a wild mix of beats and melodies, rocking out with fuzzed-up riffs. Yur Mum's iconic bass and drums have levelled up, bringing an even bigger sound. Beyond the high-energy tunes, the band explores themes like faith, guilt, existentialism, mental health, toxic people, classism, and immigrant catharsis.

    The album cover, designed by Fabio Couto, portrays a fusion of the duo in an androgynous and striking composition. Fabio says it was captured “DIY style” with an old smartphone camera.

    Yur Mum, consisting of Anelise Kunz and Fabio Couto, stands out in the two-piece band scene with their distinctive Fuzz Punk Rock sound and South American influences.

    Tracklisting:
    1. New Beginnings
    2. Say It
    3. Anhanga
    4. Hands To The Sky
    5. Snakes Don’t Fly
    6. Guilty
    7. Guilt
    8. Obnoxious
    9. Immigrant
    10. Same Igual
    11. Café
    12. Go Back
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  • Fu Manchu 'The Return Of Tomorrow' PRE-ORDER

    At the Dojo

    Fu Manchu 'The Return Of Tomorrow' PRE-ORDER

    £12.99

    Release Date: 14/06/2024

    The Return Of Tomorrow is Fu Manchu’s first new album in 6 years, and they made sure that it was worth the wait. Their 14th album is their 1st double LP of new material and it was conceived of as a vinyl listening experience.

    The first LP features 7 songs in their iconic heavy fuzz sound including the first single, “Hands Of The Zodiac” and the relentlessly catchy “Loch Ness Wrecking Machine.” The second LP sees the band mellowing out with 6 slower tempo jams including the synth inflected “Solar Baptized” and the title track.

    Both LPs are 45RPM for the thickest possible sound.

    CD listeners need not worry, as this version of the album was mastered specifically for the format.

    Like the band’s most recent album, Clone Of The Universe, and the band’s 3 part Fu30 EP series, The Return Of Tomorrow was recorded at The Racket Room in Santa Ana, California by Jim Monroe (Adolescents, Ignite) and co-produced with Fu Manchu.

    This limited edition release of 4,000 units is packaged in a glossy gatefold jacket with printed sleeves featuring live photos of the band and includes one “Space” colored LP and one “Sky” colored LP.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Dehumanize
    2. Loch Ness Wrecking Machine
    3. Hands Of The Zodiac
    4. Haze The Hides
    5. Roads Of The Lowly
    6. (Time Is) Pulling You Under
    7. Destroyin’ Light
    8. Lifetime Waiting
    9. Solar Baptized
    10. What I Need
    11. The Return Of Tomorrow
    12. Liquify
    13. High Tide


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  • Consumer Electronics 'Surge' CD PRE-ORDER

    Dirter

    Consumer Electronics 'Surge' CD PRE-ORDER

    £11.99

    Release Date: 26/04/2024

    Consumer Electronics return with “Surge” — a brand new album containing 7 tracks and with a run-time of 42 minutes. The duo of Philip Best and album producer Russell Haswell deliver a hallucinatory vision of the world — as it appears in 2024 e.g.

    Noticeably noisier and more aggressive than previous releases, CE dive even further into the chaos of sonic manipulation and mind-bending frequencies. Best’s lyrics are among his most demented yet, written in the shadow of intimate distress, global conflict, and resigned disintegration.

    For his part, Haswell conjures crunching landscapes of sound and fiery rhythmic propulsions. The pair use state of the art technology allied with cracked and fractured primitive electronics. Exquisitely crafted to give the listener a disquieting look into the abyss.
    "I want to tell you / in this music / you hear / the sound / of plane after plane / taking off / amphetamine surge / Mahler’s pain / Wagner’s decline / what good are expectations? / what good are explanations? / get up / get up / children / it’s time.”

    Featuring a guest appearance by long time cohort Gary Mundy of RAMLEH, this should be considered the definitive CE album.

    Tracklisting:
    Michael.
    Kitten.
    Launch Code.
    Dirt And Dust.
    Side Blaster.
    Contaminant.
    Surge.

    Full colour artwork by Philip Best. Packaged in heavy board mini gatefold sleeve, with inner and insert.
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  • Sea Dramas 'Escape Scenes' CD PRE-ORDER

    Royal Oakie

    Sea Dramas 'Escape Scenes' CD PRE-ORDER

    £11.99

    Release Date: 12/04/2024

    Escape Scenes is the new album by Sea Dramas, the San Francisco Bay Area based music project led by Scott Pettersen. Produced by Pettersen and mixed & mastered by David
    Glasebrook (Sugar Candy Mountain, Sam Burton, Sandy’s), the album explores the liminal space of 2020-2021, reflecting Pettersen’s experience as life turned inward and time blurred.

    Influenced by library music, dream pop, folk, and 60’s pop, Pettersen took the opportunity to start fresh and experiment with a new palette of sounds, recalling Scott Walker, John Cale, Echo & the Bunnymen, and The Teardrop Explodes.

    “There’s darkness, there’s sadness, there’s light and there’s joy. All bound together in the realm of that unique time. The making of the album was my
    particular escape scene” says Pettersen.

    “…jangly folk meets orchestral-pop…early contender for the 2024 “best-ofs” - Jangle Pop Hub

    “…infused with a sense of nostalgia...” - Start Track

    “…perfect blend of dreamy and surfy sounds…” - Start Track

    “…feels like that hidden shared indie film that no one else has seen.” - American Pancake

    Tracklisting:
    1. Daybreak
    2. Long Goodbye
    3. Nite Passengers
    4. Running Thoughts
    5. These Days
    6. Moon Breaks
    7. No Poetry
    8. Less Than Useless
    9. Sundown
    10. Turn the Tide
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  • Consumer Electronics 'Surge' CD

    Dirter

    Consumer Electronics 'Surge' CD

    £11.99

    Release Date: 26/04/2024

    Consumer Electronics return with “Surge” — a brand new album containing 7 tracks and with a run-time of 42 minutes. The duo of Philip Best and album producer Russell Haswell deliver a hallucinatory vision of the world — as it appears in 2024 e.g.

    Noticeably noisier and more aggressive than previous releases, CE dive even further into the chaos of sonic manipulation and mind-bending frequencies. Best’s lyrics are among his most demented yet, written in the shadow of intimate distress, global conflict, and resigned disintegration.

    For his part, Haswell conjures crunching landscapes of sound and fiery rhythmic propulsions. The pair use state of the art technology allied with cracked and fractured primitive electronics. Exquisitely crafted to give the listener a disquieting look into the abyss.

    “I want to tell you / in this music / you hear / the sound / of plane after plane / taking off / amphetamine surge / Mahler’s pain / Wagner’s decline / what good are expectations? / what good are explanations? / get up / get up / children / it’s time.”

    Featuring a guest appearance by long time cohort Gary Mundy of RAMLEH, this should be considered the definitive CE album.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Michael
    2. Kitten
    3. Launch Code
    4. Dirt And Dust
    5. Side Blaster
    6. Contaminant
    7. Surge

    Full colour artwork by Philip Best.
    Packaged in heavy board mini gatefold sleeve, with inner and insert.

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  • Crumbs 'You’re Just Jealous' PRE-ORDER

    Skep Wax Records

    Crumbs 'You’re Just Jealous' PRE-ORDER

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    Skep Wax Records

    Crumbs 'You’re Just Jealous' PRE-ORDER

    £21.99

    Release Date: 10/05/2024

    New Album From The Most Danceable Post-Punk Pop Band In The UK.

    It’s like something has exploded!

    CRUMBS have been incubating this, their second album, for a few years now.  Who knows how they kept all the energy in check.  It must have been like sitting on a volcano.  The songs burst out with pure pop fire, sending splinters of guitar, sharp lyrics and snatches of the catchiest backing vocals.

    The rhythm section (Jamie and Gem): it’s like Delta 5 meeting Le Tigre in a dark alley in Leeds, fusing blindly and completely, and then forcing its way into the back entrance of a venue, sending volts through the limbs of the unwitting punters, forcing them to dance. This is TIGHT.

    And as the lights come on and the indie kids throw themselves around, Ruth’s vocals sweetly assault their ears with anger, joy, political intelligence - and all around, Stuart’s guitar, sometimes twangly-melodic like the B52s, sometimes sweet and ringing like a memory of Scars, sometimes furious and feeding back, keeps you alert and thirsty for more.

    These songs do NOT outstay their welcome.  Starts and ends are cut hard: no pre-echo, no wistful, drawn-out regretful fade-outs. CRUMBS have imbibed the key lessons taught by The Gang Of Four and The Au Pairs: never let the energy dissipate.  But there is more than anger here. The band have smuggled a pop sweetness into the disciplined shapes of their angular songs. You’re Just Jealous has sharp edges, but it’s generous too.

    CRUMBS - a brief history.  They are based in Leeds, where they are active movers in the DIY scene that currently thrives in the North of England. They recorded a Marc Riley session in 2016, released their first album (on Everything Sucks) in 2017, toured extensively in 2018 and 2019, playing at the Brudenell Social Club with Swearin’ and Jeffrey Lewis, and at plenty of fests such as LaDIYfest and Specialist Subject’s birthday all dayer in Bristol, A Real Cool Fest in Bradford, Mousetival in Stockton and the Cambridge Indiepop Alldayer.

    They spent the pandemic creating these new, tightly-wound, irresistible pop songs.

    Tracklisting:
    1. You’re Just Jealous
    2. Stab Alley
    3. Dear Deirdre
    4. Diy Sos
    5. Rest In Pieces
    6. Let’s Not
    7. 4291
    8. Call Now
    9. What’s It Means
    10. Sad Snoopy
    11. Mambo No.6
    12. Too Many Creeps

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  • Swell Maps 'Mayday Signals'

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    Swell Maps 'Mayday Signals'

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    Swell Maps 'Mayday Signals'

    £20.49

    An album crammed full of rare & unreleased tracks from the vaults of Swell Maps founder Jowe Head.

    Swell Maps formed out of various bedrooms in the mid -70s and became the pioneers of DIY punk.

    Includes demo versions of
    two of the bands singles, “Dresden Style” & “Read about Seymour”.

    Exclusive liner notes by Jowe Head

    Exclusive artwork originally designed by Epic Soundtracks &
    Jowe Head in 1977.

    Tracklisting
    Side 1:
    1976-77
    1. Intro/Sweet and Sour extract
    2. Almost Grown
    3. City Boys (Dresden Style)
    4. Sahara
    5. One of the Crowd
    6. Wireless
    7. Ripped and Torn
    8. God Save the Queen
    9. Platinum Blind
    10. Harvist
    11. Gramofonica

    Side 2:
    1977
    12. Read About Seymour
    13. Shubunkin
    14. Trade Kingdom
    15. Pets’ Corner
    16. Fashion Cult (Opaque)
    17. Plankton
    18. Johnny Seven
    19. Below Number One
    20. Plumbing/Radio Ten/Here’s the Cupboard
    21. Organism
    22. Sweet and Sour reprise

    Side 3:
    1978-79
    23. Vertical Slum
    24. Avalanche prelude
    25. International Rescue
    26. Deliferous Mistail
    27. Armadillo
    28. Avalanche part 2
    29. Off The Beach

    Side 4:
    30. Drop in the Ocean
    31. Whatever Happens Next (acoustic)
    32. Elegia pt.2
    33. Bandits 1-5
    34. Secret Choir
    35. Big Cake Over America
    36. Tibetan Bedsprings
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  • Kilbey Kennedy 'Premonition ‘K’

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    Kilbey Kennedy 'Premonition ‘K’

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    Kilbey Kennedy 'Premonition ‘K’

    £23.99

    Release date: 26/04/2024

    New album by the successful duo Steve Kilbey (The Church) and Martin Kennedy Interest and profile of Steve Kilbey has been raised considerably over the past year due to the church re-forming touring and issuing 2 new albums Steve’s solo albums are all getting a complete make over  and the fan clubs are ablaze with rumours and gossips regarding forthcoming releases.

    Reviews & Advertising  in vive le rock  record collector classic rock R2 The Big Takeover. Embark on a mesmerising journey with the third and culminating chapter of the highly acclaimed trilogy by Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy. Building on the success of Jupiter 13 (2021) and The Strange Life of Persephone Nimbus (2022), their latest epic, 'Premonition K,' unveils a sumptuous and organic

    sonic landscape, delving into the dark and enigmatic realms that exist between the boundaries of life and death. This album, a testament to their musical synergy, encapsulates a darkly beautiful soundscape, drawing inspiration from diverse sources, ranging from the haunting tones of Roger Waters' Final Cut to the shadowy depths explored by early 1970s Black Sabbath. Steve Kilbey, best known as frontman of legendary Aussie post-prog rockers The Church, infuses each track with an emotional resonance and sense of mystery.

    Martin Kennedy co-pilots this sonic odyssey with Steve Kilbey, weaving an intricate musical bed for Kilbey's lyrical dreamings. Drawing from his twenty years of soundscaping with All India Radio, Kennedy adds layers of sonic complexity, at once warmly familiar and mysteriously strange, creating an immersive experience for the listener. Together, Kilbey and Kennedy invite you to break out the ouija board, turn off the lights, and immerse yourself in the mysteries of 'Premonition K'.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A
    1. Breaking the Fourth Wall
    2. NDE
    3. The Doctor
    4. Nowhere
    5. My Better Half
    6. That's Gotta Hurt

    Side B
    7. Whispered Voices On Tape
    8. The King
    9. The Contender
    10. The Ouija Board
    11. Menace In The Past
    12. The Song That Wrote Itself
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  • The Wedding Present 'Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two'

    Scopitones

    The Wedding Present 'Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two'

    £5.49

    Release Date: 05/04/2024

    Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two features home recordings of Wedding Present classics along with a previously unreleased song: ‘That Would Only Happen In A Movie’.

    The first volume in the series came about when David Gedge’s annual festival At The Edge Of The Sea went ‘virtual’ in 2020 and the band recorded semi-acoustic versions of songs to be streamed. An album of the tracks was compiled and released due to popular demand.

    The same thing happened the following year and so Volume Two features tracks initially recorded for 2021’s online festival. There’s a bevy of guest stars on this second album! Jon Stewart [of Platinum-album-selling Sleeper fame] reprises his new role as Wedding Present guitarist but is joined here by some Wedding Present members of old.

    Peter Solowka, from the band’s first line-up appears on ‘Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm’ playing his second instrument, the accordion, while Hit Parade guitarist Paul Dorrington contributes to a re-working of the Top 30 single ‘Blue Eyes’. Long-time Wedding Present bass player Terry de Castro returns to infuse the album with her own unique style, while current Wedding Present bass player Melanie Howard takes over the lead vocal duties on a beautiful version of 1986’s ‘At The Edge Of The Sea’. Last, but certainly not least, Amelia Fletcher – backing vocalist on George Best and Bizarro – also returns to the party!

    Tracklisting:
    1. Brassneck
    2. No
    3. Careless
    4. Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm
    5. What Have I Said Now?
    6. Perfect Blue
    7. Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
    8. That Would Only Happen In A Movie
    9. At The Edge Of The Sea
    10. Blue Eyes
    11. Dare
    12. Octopuss
    As on the first volume, each musician recorded and filmed their parts at home and, as before, it is fascinating to see how stripped-back arrangements bring out different aspects of these brilliant songs.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Brassneck
    2. No
    3. Careless
    4. Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm
    5. What Have I Said Now?
    6. Perfect Blue
    7. Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
    8. That Would Only Happen In A Movie
    9. At The Edge Of The Sea
    10. Blue Eyes
    11. Dare
    12. Octopuss
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  • Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea 'Reveries' PRE-ORDER

    Sonic Cathedral

    Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea 'Reveries' PRE-ORDER

    £10.99

    Release Date: 26/04/2024

    Reveries is Zach Frizzell, Marc Ertel and Damien Duque’s first album for over three years, and follows the success of their debut Liberamente. Together, the trio craft delicately textured and slowly unfurling sonic vistas, occupying a unique aural domain that lies between guitar-driven drone music and modern classical compositions.

    With their individual projects they are incredibly prolific, but Dawn Chorus releases are few and far between and Reveries represents a refined evolution, leaning more heavily toward string-based arrangements and compositional virtuosity. It is the very essence of what they are calling “dronegaze”, pushing the boundaries of the ambient genre while embracing a profound auditory expression.

    According to the trio, the six, long tracks on Reveries are “heavily reliant on improvisation, intuition, and allowing the compositions to exist in their own moment; the aim was a feeling of fluidity and a sense that every instrument has its place and purpose”.

    And they’re right. The opening title track emerges quietly in a swirl of strings; lead single ‘Deus’ eases its fittingly reverent grain into a glorious minor-key immensity; ‘Cadere’ pulls together a cast of orchestral instruments into a comforting devotional; ‘Somnium’ plays out in diffuse, shimmering melodic rounds; ‘Vale’ blossoms from a pair of sparse, alternating chord swells; and ‘Aufero’ is the perfect coda that reprises the low-end rumble of the album’s overture before being swept away on a sea of dissonance.

    “We live in an era of infinite distraction,” says Zach Frizzell, “where often the most valuable thing you can find is a respite for the soul.” How right he is. This, truly, is music from a higher place.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Reveries
    2. Deus
    3. Cadere
    4. Somnium
    5. Vale
    6. Aufero
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  • Trampolene 'Swansea To Hornsey' (Anniversary Edition)

    Strap Originals

    Trampolene 'Swansea To Hornsey' (Anniversary Edition)

    £12.99

    ULTRA LIMITED SIGNED COPIES

    Due to unprecedented demand TRAMPOLENE (the Welsh group, not the bouncy thing spelled with an ‘
    i’!) will re-release their classic debut album ‘Swansea To Hornsey’ (Anniversary Edition) on Friday November 17th through Strap Originals.

    On the same day singer, guitar slinger and lead Tramp, Jack Jones, will publish his first novel, also entitled ‘Swansea
    To Hornsey’. Says Jack Jones: “The album and the book is ‘Swansea To Hornsey’ as it should have been. We couldn’t find anyone to publish the book the first time round. I always wanted to give fans the ultimate experience of listening to the album & reading my book. I was gob smacked when Peter (Doherty) said he loved the book so much he was gonna start a publishing company and put my book into the world…not something you hear every day. We edited it together as we drove across Europe…getting to know each other even deeper.

    It was a magical time, and now this all feels like a surreal dream. The album has been going for silly money on eBay & fans are always asking for it to be re-pressed…so we thought f**k it,
    let’s make it happen.” To celebrate the release TRAMPOLENE will be performing three special commemorative shows where they will be playing the album in its entirety.

    ‘Swansea To Hornsey’ comes in a new sleeve, or should that be old sleeve, as it was planned as the original sleeve before drummer Mr Williams went a wandering on the eve of the release, only to return to the band two years ago.  

    ‘Swansea To Hornsey’ was recorded at Ray Davies
    Konk Studios in London’s Muswell Hill (the ‘Hornsey’ of the title) and produced by Jack Jones & engineer Josh Green and mixed by Cenzo Townshend (Jamie T / Everything Everything). The album includes the singles ‘Alcohol Kiss’.

    TRAMPOLENE have released four albums - ‘Swansea
    To Hornsey’ (2017); ’Pick A Pocket or Two’ (2018); and two Official Independent Album Breakers No. 1’s and top 10 Independent Chart albums ’Love No Less Than A Queen’ (2021) and ‘Rules of Love & War’ (2023).

    Band personnel:
    Jack Jones - vocals/guitar, Wayne Thomas - bass/vocals and Mr Williams - drums/Keyboards/Violin/vocals.

    What the press said on the original release of ‘Swansea
    To Hornsey’ in October 2017:

    "Intersperses poetry with rock in a way few artists dare to do today…their reference points are as versatile as any release this year - Patti Smith, Oasis, Dylan Thomas, Peter Doherty…Jones bleeds on these songs." The Independent (’10 Best Albums of 2017’)

    " A swaggering debut that demands to be played loud.” GQ // “Beautifully crafted songwriting." **** The Sun

    "Brilliant debut from indie gutter poets…these passionate postcards from the edge demand attention."  **** Q Magazine

    LPs all 140g vinyl. CD is a Card Digi sleeve.


    Tracklisting:
    1. Artwork Of Youth
    2.Imagine Something Yesterday
    3. Alcohol Kiss
    4. Dreams So Rich, Life So Poor
    5. The Gangway
    6. Ketamine
    7. You Do Nothing For Me
    8. Primrose Hill (CD/Digital Not On Vinyl Edition)
    9. The Boy That Life Forgot
    10. Beautiful Pain
    11. Already Older Than I Dreamed I’d Be
    12. Blue Balls & A Broken Heart
    13. Storm Heaven
    14. Pound Land
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  • The Lovely Eggs 'Eggsistentialism' PRE-ORDER

    Egg Records

    The Lovely Eggs 'Eggsistentialism' PRE-ORDER

    £12.99

    Release Date: 17/05/2024

    The Lovely Eggs will release their seventh new album “Eggsistentialism” on Friday May 17th on Egg Records. Their third collaboration with Grammy Award winning producer Dave Fridmann, “Eggsistentialism” will be released on ltd edition “mind green” green 12” vinyl with more breath taking mind boggling art-work by illustrator Casey Raymond.

    “Eggsistentialism” sees The Lovely Eggs return after a 4 year break since their Number One Independent Selling Album “I am Moron”. During that time they have made their own TV show Eggs TV (featuring Ian McKaye, Stewart LeeKatie Puckrik, Maxine Peake, David Shrigley and more), dueted with Iggy Pop, played a load of sold-out gigs and festivals and fought a campaign to save Lancaster Music Co-op (a community rehearsal rooms and recording studio where they live).

    Recorded at home in Lancaster, with production advice from Dave Fridmann, the album was mixed at Tarbox Road Studios, NY with Dave Fridmann and the band.

    As the title suggests, “Eggsistentialism” explores a much more personal, introspective, and reflective side to The Lovely Eggs world and sees the Eggs explore new sounds and experiment in unventured musical territories.

    “The new album is really a reflection on what has been happening to us these last couple of years, stewing up in Eggland in our own juices,” explains Holly. “It’s about loss and strength. On this album you’ll hear us at our lowest and most vulnerable. Daily life is hard. Realising everything you grew up with and loved is never coming back, alongside the responsibilities of caring for others is sometimes hard to take. The album is about life and death. Eggsistentialism. It’s about dragging yourself through all the shit to get to the other side.”

    “It’s a bit of a ‘wilderness years’ album,” continues Holly. “We haven’t released a new record since 2020 and in the meantime, we’ve been here fighting shit and trying to defend a right to a lifestyle that we’ve enjoyed here in this town for the last 30+ years as working musicians who refuse to get a “normal” job and tow the line. It’s about believing in something and not letting go. But that unwillingness to give in ultimately takes its toll. It does start to destroy you and the album is kind of a documentation of that destruction and collapse as well as the strength we’ve got to get through it all. Ultimately, this is a hopeful record about survival.”

    Tracklisting:
    1. Death Grip Kids
    2. Nothing/Everything
    3. Meeting Friends at Night
    4. People TV
    5. My Mood Wave
    6. I Don't Fucking Know What I'm Gunna Do
    7. Memory Man
    8. Things
    9. Echo You
    10. I am Gaia

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  • Girls In Synthesis 'Sublimation' PRE-ORDER

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    Release Date: 03/05/2024

    After two critically acclaimed albums (2020’s ‘Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future’ and 2022’s ‘The Rest Is Distraction’), and numerous mini-album, EP and single releases, London-based trio Girls In Synthesis return in May ’24 with their new statement; their third album ‘Sublimation’.

    If you thought you knew GIS, think again… they have moved on and created a dark and intense, yet melodic, collection of songs; their take on an angular pop record. Opening song ‘Lights Out’ is split into two distinct sections; the opening a Barrett-esque vocal and guitar lament to sleep deprived anxiety which morphs, via a ‘Faust Tapes’ influenced freeform noise section, into a stomping, high intensity closing blitz.

    Tracks such as ‘Deceit’, ‘We Are Here’ and ‘Picking Things Out Of The Air’ see the group at their most melodic to date, minimising some of the chaotic noise elements of their signature sound and bringing to the fore impassioned, soaring vocals and keys melodies.

    Their trademark, driving drums and bass foundation is particularly evident on songs ‘I Judge Myself’ and ‘Corrupting Memories’, but is counterbalanced by intense, early goth influenced keyboard lines, bringing influences from late 1970s/early 1980s into focus with the contemporary GIS intensity. Slow-burning tracks ‘I Was Never There’ and ‘The Prefix’ build up tension and atmosphere with sparse arrangements and circular, spiralling outros, while closer ‘A Damning Lesson’ sees the band return to their intense, bludgeoning wall of sound only to send it into a blur of echoing drum machine, reminiscent of the early work of Cabaret Voltaire.

    Lyrically, GIS prove themselves head and shoulders above their contemporaries, leaving the pastiche sloganeering and lecturing to those wishing to preach to the converted, and reach inside to bring forth poetic and challenging analysis of the anxiety and emotional turmoil of self-reflection and human relationships.

    Booked in for extensive UK/EU touring throughout May and June, the band will be adapting their white-heat live show to bring subtlety and clarity to the new songs from ‘Sublimation’, losing none of their unique and intense performance in the process. Be ready…

    Tracklisting:
    1. Lights Out
    2. Deceit
    3. Semblance of Choice
    4. We Are Here
    5. Corrupting Memories
    6. I Was Never There
    7. Picking Things Out Of The Air
    8. I Judge Myself
    9. Subtle Differences
    10. The Prefix
    11. A Damning Lesson
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  • Laura J Martin 'Prepared' PRE-ORDER

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    Release Date: 17/05/2024

    Following the release of her 2016 album On The Never, Never, Martin knew that she wanted to take a break from writing and recording music. She moved back to Liverpool, from London, and began an apprenticeship with world renowned flute maker Willy Simmons.

    “I was now looking at an instrument I’d been playing all my life at a molecular level. The discipline and repetitiveness of learning a craft freed my mind from thinking about songs for a bit and made me focus instead on some of the toxic chemicals and blow torches used to make the flutes,” she says. “I’ve never been a particularly mindful person; I’m usually zipping from one thing to the next and this work had a pace of its own which I had to submit to. As well as making flutes, I was also repairing them, and this was the part I most enjoyed – the process of renewal. In a corny way, I experienced this renewal myself.”

    Following this period, Martin felt inspired to make music again and began setting up her own home studio. “Around this time, I’d started to listen to Joanna Brouk and the I am the Center compilation of early New Age music on Numero Group. This music was nothing like my own but seemed to extend from the Harmonia records I love and exist outside of the album, gig, tour regime. It was so inspiring and freeing, and I tentatively began to experiment in the studio, with the textures of Brouk’s song ‘Maggi’s Flute’ in mind.”

    Working closely with co-producer Iwan Morgan (Euros Childs, Cate Le Bon, Gruff Rhys, Georgia Ruth), the pair found themselves drawn to drum machines that wouldn’t stay in time, and a piano with a tuning mind of its own. “I rediscovered the sense of play which brought me into music in the first place,” says Martin. “The palette was infinite and without boundaries. Where my previous records had always operated within the instinct / lack of budget axis, I now had the possibility to sculpt sound, to remake, blend and remodel it for the first time.”

    Living next to the main 86 bus route into Liverpool City Centre prompted the idea behind ‘Outside at Night’, of parallel lives on different journeys. ’Three Days’ mines a similar theme but focuses on the hidden lives we share with others, the shift workers paradox. “It asks, do we really know what happens to our closest people when they leave the house?” explains Martin.

    Album opener ‘Prepared’ is a hymn to self-reliance but not to perfection, to working your own routes and abandoning the tape measure.  In part it’s about looking back at ways you judged yourself in past encounters and not recognising yourself: “I turned away again, was I even there?”.  Tied in counterpoint to this, closing track ‘Open Door’ works as a prism through which to view the album (copious drum machines, swelling synths).  It’s also as an answer of sorts to Martin’s search - new possibilities rage from cascading melodic and atmospheric structures, reaching some kind of midway between Harmonia’s ‘Deluxe’ and the polyrhythms of Francis Bebey’s Psychedelic Sanza.

    Across the record there are vocal and sonic contributions from co-producer Iwan Morgan. “Iwan maintains he’s not a musician but kept singing in the studio and eventually I managed to persuade him to put it on record,” says Martin.  ’Living on the Wall’ is the clearest example of this, exuberant monster truck beats, insistent pianos and vocals delivered without irony, think Wrong Way Up era John Cale and Brian Eno meets YMOs ‘Firecracker’.

    Collaborative sojourns to Marco Rea's The Barne studio in Clydebank and Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP) in Margate allowed Martin to coax standout contributions from both, shaping the album as both artist and co-producer. The result is a unique fusion of folk, electronic, and experimental pop music that defies expectations and challenges the boundaries of contemporary music.

    “In a twisting but circuitous way, Prepared is my composted scrapbook of the last couple of years. I was prepared to follow where the sounds took me, the sonic train left the station and led me on its merry way,” she says. “It’s not an album about flute repairing but it wouldn’t have happened without learning the discipline of preparedness, the small movement, the tweak and the renewal from Willy Simmons.”

    About Laura J Martin

    Laura J Martin has so far released three solo albums. Her latest, On The Never Never, was recorded in Nashville with members of Lambchop, Silver Jews and Jesus Lizard. A mercurial and bewitching live performer who interweaves layers of vocals, flute, mandolin and electronics; Laura and her band have toured regularly across the UK and Europe and supported acts such as PJ Harvey, Teenage Fanclub, Cate Le Bon and performed and collaborated extensively with Euros Childs. Consistently played and supported by BBC Radio 6 Music DJs such as Marc Riley, Cerys Matthews, Lauren Laverne, Gideon Coe and Stuart Maconie; Laura's most recent release was a collaborative project 'Wyndow' written with Lavinia Blackwall of Trembling Bells and released in 2021.

    “An understated marvel” Uncut

    “Beautiful and intelligent stuff” The Quietus

    "An extremely unique sound, I love the combinations of textures she puts together"
    BBC Radio 6 Music, Lauren Laverne

    Tracklisting:

    1. Prepared
    2. Counting Time
    3. Living on the Wall (feat. Iwan Morgan)
    4. A Better Story
    5. Three Days
    6. Outside at Night
    7. The Dials
    8. Magic Mornings (feat. Iwan Morgan)
    9. Open Door
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  • Sami Yaffa 'Satan’s Helpers War Lazer Eyes & The Money Pig Circus' CD

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    In addition to Hanoi Rocks, Finnish rock legend Sami Yaffa, is known from his work with Michael Monroe’s band, Demolition 23, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts and New York Dolls. Sami released his first solo album, The Innermost Journey To Your Outermost Mind, in autumn 2021. Praised by the music press worldwide, the album also won the Emma ( Finland’s version of Grammys) nomination for the rock album of the year. Yaffa's second solo album, the mysteriously named Satan's Helpers War Lazer Eyes and The Money Pig Circus, will be released on Friday, March 8 by Livewire/Cargo.

    "My first solo album, The Innermost Journey To Your Outermost Mind, was so well received that I simply decided to make another one. The recordings have taken a couple of years and took place in Finland, Sweden and Spain. In addition to myself, I have my touring band playing on this one, which includes guitarist Linde Lindström and keyboardist Burton of the band HIM, and my childhood friend, drum and percussion maestro Janne Haavisto, who also played drums on the previous album as well. Those guys became my permanent band, and with this line-up we got down to business. The songs on the album reflect the chaotic world we live in, my own personal strange experiences, and the sordid true stories of the past," says Yaffa.

    The producer of the album is Yaffa himself, together with Erno Laitinen, who was also was the engineer on the debut record. Yaffa also got several familiar guests to join the recordings.

    "I got some of my good old pals with me again, whose musical talents I admire enormously. I got Michael Monroe, Nasty Suicide, Dregen, Steve Conte, and Rich Jones to kick arse on the album. Rich Jones is also responsible for the album's wonderful cover art. Making this album was just as great a joy to make, as the previous one. I hope it will carry on to the listeners as well," Yaffa continues.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Satan’s Helpers War Lazer Eyes & The Money Pig Circus
    2. Silver Or Lead
    3. Hurricane Hank
    4. Death Squad
    5. Down Home
    6. Shitshow
    7. Crashing Down
    8. Chemical Life
    9. Far Star
    10. Faster Than Time
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