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  • Sekel 'Sekel' Vinyl LP - 180g Clear + Download Card - Cargo Records UK

    Fuzz Club Records

    Sekel 'Sekel' Vinyl LP - 180g Clear + Download Card

    £18.99

    Available on 180g Clear vinyl.

    SEKEL are a punk/kraut band hailing from Malmo, Sweden. In their short two-year existence, they've picked up a fast-growing reputation within the dark and murky Scandinavian underground, sharing the stage with the likes of Ringo Deathstarr, The KVB, Follakzoid, Dungen and many more - all with just a three-track 7' behind them.

    Now ready to take their motorik post-punk croons to an international audience, the four-piece are teaming up with Fuzz Club for the release of their debut self-titled LP - due for release December 15th.

    Citing influences from the likes of CAN and Neu! through to Gang Of Four and Wire, SEKEL blur the line between 70s kraut, crushing psych and biting post-punk noir, creating a remarkable debut album that marks the band as one of the most exciting new exports from the European scene.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Bergamot
    2. Crayons
    3. Heliopolis
    4. Detektiv
    5. Ivery Fiz
    6. Next To Nothing
    7. Spirit Gum
    8. Vortex
    9. Stick
    10. No Star
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  • Grave Lines 'Fed Into The Nihilist Engine' PRE-ORDER - Cargo Records UK

    New Heavy Sounds

    Grave Lines 'Fed Into The Nihilist Engine

    £8.99

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    New Heavy Sounds

    Grave Lines 'Fed Into The Nihilist Engine

    £8.99

    First vinyl pressing is double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. Limited to 300 copies only. 150 in 3 colour Cream/Green, and 150 in Black vinyl. With free download included.

    Vinyl and exclusive design T-Shirt bundles are available from Cargodirect.

    CD is a 4 panel digipack with lyric booklet.

    The second album by London/Brighton heavy contingent GRAVE LINES follows on from their 2016  debut 'Welcome To Nothing' and sees the band expand their sound across nine weighty, yet darkly melodic tracks.

    Coming in at just shy of an hour. FED INTO THE NIHILIST ENGINE is a must listen for fans of all things heavy, however anybody seeking music that delves into the darker and more introspective aspects of the human condition will find much to love within its expansive tracks.

    At times quiet and melancholy, at times an oppressive and miserable onslaught of crushing riffs and filth-laden grooves.

    Fans of Yob to Neurosis, even Bauhaus or Dead Can Dance, take heed, FITNE reaches out to encompass elements of them all.

    Lyrically introspective, dark and challenging, vocalist Jake Harding states - ¦
    'The album is an exploration into our relationship with negativity. The Nihilist Engine is symbolic of our greatest flaw and the self-defeating nature of our species. This machine represents both the inner turmoil of the human spirit and our struggle to understand the darkness spreading from external forces. Self-perpetuating and infectious, these feelings contaminate and spread. A relentless machine drawing us in and chewing up our poisoned remains.'

    Grave Lines are back with a record which promises to take you on an exploratory journey deep within the inner realms of your own psyche.

     " - ¦a fine introduction to a band who will undoubtedly soon be one of the brightest stars in the London underground." Noisey

    "Their debut is certainly more than the sum of its parts, taking in huge Neurosis-esque riffs, and a gloomy, gothic melodicism that is all their own " Terrorizer

    Tracklisting Vinyl:
    Side A:
    1. Failed Skin

    Side B:
    2. Shame/Retreat
    3. Self Mutilation By Fire And Stone
    4. Loss/Betrayal

    Side C:
    5. Silent Salt
    6. Loathe/Displace
    7. The Greae

    Side D:
    8. Guilt/Regret
    9. The Nihilist Engine

    Tracklisting CD:
    1. Failed Skin
    2. Shame/Retreat
    3. Self Mutilation By Fire And Stone
    4. Loss/Betrayal
    5. Silent Salt
    6. Loathe/Displace
    7. The Greae
    8. Guilt/Regret
    9. The Nihilist Engine

    Release Date: 04/05/2018

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  • Death And Vanilla 'The Tenant' Vinyl LP - Magenta - Cargo Records UK

    Fire Records

    Death And Vanilla 'The Tenant' Vinyl LP - Magenta

    £18.99

    Magenta coloured vinyl LP, includes DL card. 'The retro leaning Scandi duo fire up their Moogs and mellotrons, sonic archaeologists with a hauntological bent.. there is an alluring sexiness to their avant-Kraut Moog-pop excursions.' Uncut

    'Recalling the eerie, haunted ambience of Angelo Badalamenti/Julee Cruise's Twin Peaks soundtrack, Stereolab/Broadcast's experimental vision of 50s lounge muzak/exotica and French 60s pop, or the narcotic country-noir of Mazzy Star.' The Guardian

    Following on from the deluxe reissue Vampyr'last year, comes Death And Vanilla's unreleased live score of The Tenant'on limited edition magenta vinyl. Originally scored by Philippe Sarde, this release sees Death And Vanilla reimagine the film's soundtrack four decades on for a new audience.

    The haunting instrumental is a foreboding piece of dark and cinematic avant-garde music that's alienated, lonely and melancholic. Moments of hallucination and delusion mirror the lead character Trelovsky.

    Recorded in 2015 at Cinemascore festival in Spain alongside a two-hour performance and screening of psychological thriller The Tenant'(1976). With the band at their most minimal, the accomplished musicians once again bring the dark narrative to life with their expansive and ethereal noir sound.

    The recording features them as a trio - Marleen Nilsson (Farfisa Compact), Anders Hansson (Hagstrom Kent, Roland SP-404 and Technics SL-1200) and Magnus Bodin (Moog Prodigy and Musser M55).

    Directed by Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski and based on the novel Le Locataire by Roland Topor, The Tenant'is the finale in his acclaimed apartment triology which included 'Repulsion' (1965) and 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968).

    Tracklisting:
    1. Loctaire - intro
    2. Zy And Choule
    3. Church Music
    4. Walls Have Teeth
    5. Labyrinthe
    6. Mouvement Panique
    7. Free Design Kung-Fu
    8. 'Do You Have Any Trouble With Your Neighbours?'
    9. 'If You Cut Off My Head, What Do I Say? Me And My Head Or Me And My Body?'
    10. Dioz Delirium
    11. Everything Is Always Happening
    12. Solitaire
    13. The Bouncing Head
    14. Music Box - outro

    Release Date: 23/02/2018
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  • Various Artists 'The Reverb Conspiracy Volume 5' - Cargo Records UK

    Fuzz Club Records

    Various Artists 'The Reverb Conspiracy Volume 5'

    £9.99

    Available on double 180g coloured vinyl. Likened to a modern-day Nuggets series and hailed by The Vinyl Factory as 'a time-capsule-like documentation of modern psych', the previous four volumes of The Reverb Conspiracy have included the likes of GOAT, Anton Newcombe, The KVB, Dead Skeletons, Josefin Ohrn & The Liberation and Ulrika Spacek to name a few.

    Be it psych, garage-rock, post-punk, shoegaze, krautrock or just straight up rock'n'roll, whatever your shtick underground music has never been better than it is right now.

    The aim of these annual Reverb Conspiracy compilations has been an attempt to try and document the ridiculously good music out there at the minute.

    Joining a number of Fuzz Club artists - including 10,000 Russos, The Gluts and JuJu - will be physical exclusives from TRAAMS and their biting motorik post-punk, cult Italian psych-rockers Julie's Haircut and the harrowing psychedelic snarl of Portsmouth upstarts Melt Dunes and many, many more.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Dead Vibrations - Swirl
    2. Melt Dunes - Flesh
    3. JuJu - Bring Em War
    4. Helicon - The Bold Yin
    5. 10 000 Russos - ISM
    6. Dreamweapon - Monte da Virgem
    7. NONN - Time
    8. Julie's Haircut - Burning Tree
    9. Sekel - Bergamot
    10. TRAAMS - A House On Fire
    11. Psychedelic Trips To Death - The Flesh
    12. The Gluts - Squirrel
    13. Avenue Z - ZeÃŒtron Libre
    14. Black Heart Death Cult - Black Rainbow
    15. You Said Strange - Yuri's Night
    16. Spirit Valley - TNNLVSSN

    Release Date: 23/02/2018
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  • Mamuthones 'Fear On The Corner' - Cargo Records UK

    Rocket Recordings

    Mamuthones 'Fear On The Corner'

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    Rocket Recordings

    Mamuthones 'Fear On The Corner'

    £20.49

    Mamuthones may have originally taken their name from the death-masks used in rituals in their native Sardinia, and initially emerged from the Italian occult psychedelic movement alongside the likes of Father Murphy, Mai Mai Mai and their labelmates Lay Llamas.

    Yet now, in the wake of their Rocket Recordings debut album Fear On The Corner', the band find themselves undergoing a metamorphosis from mystical and ceremonial realms into a direct connection with the everyday, the personal and the political.

    This vibrant reinvention also sees Mamuthones transcending their roots in Italian prog and soundtrack work and shifting their modus operandi firmly in the direction of a distinctly New York-based headspace - a realm of mirrorballs and black-clad basements both As the band's Alessio Gastaldello tells it, this is a groove-based. eclectic style that finds its metier in the realm of two albums which are paid direct homage in the record's very title - the bleak and kinetic Fear Of Music'by Talking Heads and the iconoclastic, heat-haze repetition of Miles Davis'On The Corner'.

    'The songs deal with fear.' he clarifies. 'Fear of the present, of human situations, fear of the new political situation, but also fear of relationship breakdown, fear of not finding 'a place in the world', fear of fear itself' Yet this is principally an aural landscape whereby the eclectic mischief of ZE Records, the sonic brinksmanship of Tago Mago'era Can and the post-punk songwriting flair of LCD Soundystem can happily form communion in a post-2AM reverie.

    'it is a big dance party for very sad events' clarifies Alessio, on the disparity between the serious nature of this record's subject matter and its distinctly hedonistic atmosphere. 'We are a kind of Titanic orchestra playing and dancing while the ship goes down. The party must go on'.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Cars
    2. Show Me
    3. Fear On The Corner
    4. The Wrong Side
    5. Alone
    6. Simon Choule
    7. Here We Are

    Release Date: 23/02/2018
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  • East Man 'Red, White & Zero' - Cargo Records UK

    Planet Mu Records

    East Man 'Red, White & Zero'

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    Planet Mu Records

    East Man 'Red, White & Zero'

    £11.99

    East Man is a new project from Anthoney Hart and its material predates his previous work as Basic Rhythm.

    His unique take on grime reduces the sound to its steely fundamentals, bringing in influences from dancehall, drum and bass and techno to gird the voices of the MCs he works with.

    His own name for this hardcore continuum mongrel is 'Hi Tek'.Anthoney struck a friendship with the academic and theorist Paul Gilroy, who wrote the album introduction.

    Vinyl LP:
    Side A:
    1. East Man - East Man Theme
    2. East Man & Saint P - Can't Tell Me Bout Nothing
    3. East Man & Darkos Strife - Cruisin'
    4. East Man & Killa P - Mission
    5. East Man - Stratford
    6. East Man & Irah - War

    Side B:
    7. East Man - Drapesing
    8. East Man & Eklipse - Safe
    9. East Man & Lyrical Strally - Mmm
    10. East Man & Kwam - Tear Down
    11. East Man & Darkos Strife - Look & Listen
    12. East Man - And What? (Blood Klaat Version)
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  • Spindrift 'The West' Vinyl LP - Cargo Records UK

    Xemu

    Spindrift 'The West' Vinyl LP

    £18.99

    The first time on vinyl Xemu Records re-masters and re-packages the follow-up to Legend of God's Gun, the classic concept album "The West"... Made with the classic line-up of Brian Jonestown Massacre alumni originally recorded in 2006 is long considered a fan favorite.

    Spaghetti western is usually listed under the heading of band influences, not genres, although Kirkpatrick Thomas, the man behind the B-movie sound of Spindrift and the band's main songwriter and guitarist, might beg to differ.

    He's taken his love of sun blasted landscapes, distorted twangy guitars, and squinty eyed heroes and villains and spun them into a shimmering, mirage-drenched ambience that can only be called psychedelic spaghetti western music.

    The twisted musicality of Ennio Morricone's early work blends with the haunted noirish resonance of Bruno Nicolai (Morricone's arranger) and Thomas' own fevered vision to create expansive cinematic soundscapes made more for dreaming, or even hallucinating, than dancing, not that the music lacks energy or drive.

    Tracklisting:
    1. The Isle Of Lost Souls
    2. The New Wind
    3. Ace Coletrane
    4. The Wind
    5. Excrete From The Collective Subconscious
    6. Frozen Memories
    7. The Klezmer Song
    8. La Noche Mas Oscura
    9. If You Don't Like It
    10. Goin'Down
    11. A Celebration Of The Human Body
    12. The West
    13. Colt's Theme

    Release Date: 16/02/2018
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  • Primitive Motion 'House in the Wave' Vinyl LP - Cargo Records UK

    Bedroom Suck

    Primitive Motion 'House in the Wave' Vinyl LP

    £16.99

    Brisbane duo Primitive Motion drop their third full-length for the Bedroom Suck label, this time leaving the studio door ajar to let sound flow between worlds internal and beyond.

    The result is a meditative suite of dreamy piano-based songs, captured live at the point of conception and teeming with the incidental sounds of both the studio and garden.

    Following the extended cosmic forays and short-form pop studies of 2015's acclaimed Pulsating Time Fibre, the duo of Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig have steered the ship to an interior sea, exploring the quiet reverie of Sunday afternoons spent in Selig's home studio in Brisbane.

    With the record'button pressed, the days drift through the microphone, documenting the process of composition: the rustle of lyric sheets and unintended room sounds is accompanied by birdsong and an approaching storm.

    The studio space itself becomes a palpable presence as Selig moves between rooms while playing her saxophone, the improvised melodies floating out of the studio, lilting and melancholic, a familiar whisper dreamt into existence.

    In the process of reducing their sound world to the barest of instrumentation (at times just voice and piano), PM revels in the beauty of the unadorned song, creating the purest distillation of their dream-float'music to date. House in the Wave is a beautiful and intimate work by a band constantly evolving their sound.

    'The Brisbane duo of Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig occupy an alternative pop continuum in common with archaic futurists like Silver Apples and Joe Meek circa I Hear a New World, sonic explorers whose music is founded on the hope that the sound of tomorrow is what the fantasy of yesterday would make of it.' - David Keenan, The Wire

    Release Date: 23/02/2018
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  • Postcards 'I'll Be Here In The Morning' - Cargo Records UK

    Ruptured

    Postcards 'I'll Be Here In The Morning'

    £7.99

    Postcards is a dream pop/indie rock band formed in Beirut (Lebanon) by four friends in the summer of 2012. After a series of EPs, they will be releasing their first full-length album on the 26th of January 2018, teaming up once again with producer Fadi Tabbal of Tunefork Studios.

    I'll be here in the morning'is defined by hushed, introspective vocals floating over expansive sonic spaces that shift between harsh noise and dreamy soundscapes. The constant oscillation between the opposite states of mind that the band deals with in Lebanon runs deep within the album both musically and lyrically. The music alternates between repeated cycles of calm and unrest, anger and surrender, simplicity and intricacy as Julia Sabra - the band's singer and lyricist - tackles this recurrent theme of duality.

    The songs see her struggle with feelings of sadness, indifference, deception, femininity and empowerment. The end result is the most sincere and personal project the quartet has produced so far. Since 2013, Postcards have released three well-received EPs (Lakehouse in 2013, What Lies So Still in 2015, and Here Before in 2017) and have been regularly touring Europe, the UK and the Middle East. They also opened for Beirut (2014) and Angus and Julia Stone (2015).

    'A patient album of understated beauty - thoughtful and deliberate' PROJECT REVOLVER LEBANON

    'None of the tracks is simply a gap-filler ( - ¦) The songs constantly surprise the audience and charm them from the first listen.' LIE IN THE SOUND GERMANY

    'The feelings Postcards project live are a true representation of life here, a city of youth, love and life, with an underlying, unspoken sense of dejection and gloom ' GET OUT BLOG LEBANON

    'La voix aerienne et onirique de Julia Sabra, d'une sensibilite extreme, donne la chair de poule. Un album prometteur que nous attendons avec impatience' L'OFFICIEL LEVANT LEBANON

    'One can let oneself be absorbed in Postcards and let oneself go into meditativeness or follow the well-made melodic and rhythmic subtleties ofthe music.' KULTUR PEGEL GERMANY

    Tracklisting:
    1. Open Waters
    2. Bright Lights
    3. Before We Sleep
    4. A Broken Record
    5. Wrinkles
    6. Waves
    7. Flying Saucers
    8. Revolvers
    9. Wide Awake
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  • The Bunny Tylers 'Chance Meetings' - Cargo Records UK

    Ruptured

    The Bunny Tylers 'Chance Meetings'

    £7.99

    The Bunny Tylers is a duo from Lebanon whose core consists of two prominent musicians from the Beirut scene: singer-songwriter and guitarist Charbel Haber (Scrambled Eggs, Malayeen, Johnny Kafta's Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra) and multi-instrumentalist and producer Fadi Tabbal (The Incompetents, Under the Carpet, Safar).

    The group is a natural amalgamation of the prolific career of the two long-time collaborators, fusing Haber's songwriting sensibility with Tabbal's technical and instrumental know-how and tying musical loose ends from both musicians'past work.

    Initially formed to score Nadim Tabet and Karine Wehbe's video essay 'Summer '91', they continued working in film scoring, art installations and their own releases.

    Their 2nd album 'Chance Meetings', recorded with the help of Benoit de Villeneuve in Paris, sets Haber's bleak songs and sorrowful voice against a backdrop of beats and textures spawned from the pair's post-punk, ambient and drone roots.

    The result is a drug-hazy polaroid of murder mysteries and misspent youth, the last remnants of a Film Noir set in abandoned Lebanese coastal resorts.

    The album is due for release in January 2018 by Lebanese label Ruptured and Cargo Records.



    Tracklisting:
    1. While We Danced I Dreamt Of Being A Serial Killer
    2. One Of These Days
    3. I'll Make It Up To You
    4. A Sunset Is Another Sunrise
    5. Imaginary Song
    6. Hello Your Grace
    7. Junkie Hideout In Suburbia
    8. Ete 91
    9. Fish Die In Millions
    10. It Seems It All Disappears
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  • Bardo Pond 'Volume 8' - Cargo Records UK

    Fire Records

    Bardo Pond 'Volume 8'

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    Fire Records

    Bardo Pond 'Volume 8'

    £11.99

    Brand new album from Philadelphia's much loved neo-space rock stoner drone outfit. A euphoric transcendental journey to a mountain top nirvana, a psychedelic tapestry that slowly unwinds as they travel onwards into the inner mind. A 40-minute opus delivered from a hail of reverb soulfully caressed by a ceremonial flute, that makes way for a shroud of Weld''era Neil Young fog. Bardo Pond is your rather ruffled tour guide to this far off place, this distant sense of wonderment at the crossroads with bewilderment.

    Loved and lauded by the late Lou Reed and his wife Laurie Anderson, Jesus & Mary Chain, Mogwai and many more and acclaimed in the music press as such:

    'Dinosaur Jr guitar power with the glacial grandiosity of Black Mountain, as if Isobel Sollenberger is conjuring a thunderstorm with the sound of her voice and riding it across the heavens.' Stereogum

    'One of underground rock's most extraordinary enigmas' The Quietus

    'They alter brain chemistry by the alchemical effect of distressed sound alone, aspiring to become engineers of the soul's passage to alternate states of consciousness.' Tony Dale (RIP), Ptolemaic Terrascope, 2001

    'Fugazi on acid.' Noisey

    'Playing fuzzed out stuff of stoner dreams since the mid 90s.' Pitchfork

    Tracklisting:
    1. Kailash
    2. Flayed Wish
    3. Power Children
    4. Cud
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  • Brigid Mae Power 'The Two Worlds' - Cargo Records UK

    Tompkins Square

    Brigid Mae Power 'The Two Worlds'

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    Tompkins Square

    Brigid Mae Power 'The Two Worlds'

    £12.99

    'The Two Worlds' was produced by Peter Broderick and recorded at Analogue Catalogue in County Down, Ireland.

    Q Magazine listed the album as a "Top Tip" for 2018, stating "(The Two Worlds) is full of droning ballads laced with defiance."

    The sadly topical first single, "Don't Shut Me Up (Politely)", seems to express what's on the minds of many women right now.

    Tompkins Square's Josh Rosenthal noted on social media, "I don't usually have the opportunity to say something political about the music I put out, but in the case of Brigid Mae Power's new single, I think this song may resonate with any woman who's been gaslit, mansplained to, paid less, bullied, sexually harassed by a C-List celebrity or famous movie producer, had her birth control systematically taken away, or told she had to go to another country or across state lines to get an abortion."
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  • DJ Taye 'Still Trippin' - Cargo Records UK

    Hyperdub

    DJ Taye 'Still Trippin'

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    Hyperdub

    DJ Taye 'Still Trippin'

    £8.49

    A generation younger than the founders of the Teklife crew, DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, DJ Taye was originally a rapper and beat maker before hooking up with the collective and jumping into the world of footwork production and DJing. However, it was Rashad's untimely passing in 2014 that was the unlikely catalyst for developing the sounds and ideas for this album. He says, "When Rashad passed away I felt inspired to continue evolving the music that I loved so much coming up in this world. So, I had to do something - ¦make something brand new."

    100% committed to pushing further the potential of the footwork template, Still Trippin'is ambitious in its range and scope. Taking two years to formulate, the record broadens the possibilities of the sound, forcing it to adapt to songwriting, and also revives Taye's talent for MCing and producing beats to which he can rap and sing. Furthermore Taye definitely ups the ante with his complex and precise drum programming, never losing sight of footwork's ability to confound.

    The album features a range of guests that span contemporary music; the eccentric, instructive rapping of Chuck Inglish of Detroit duo the Cool Kids is featured on Get It Jukin', Odile Myrtil, a young vocalist from Montreal, lends her smokey soul to Same Sound', Fabi Reyna, the editor of the celebrated women's guitar magazine She Shreds, sings and plays bass and rhythm guitar on I Don't Know'and Jersey club queen UNIIQU3 offers production and rapping on Gimme Some Mo'.Also, Teklife members DJ PayPal and DJ Manny assist on production, and DJ Lucky is a guest MC on Smokeout'.

    Taye is ambitious in his hopes for the album; "I took this as an opportunity to not have boundaries with footwork. Different approaches to our underground'sound to make it broader. It's only underground until it crosses that visible threshold.' This album brings all of this to the forefront.

    Tracklisting:
    1. 2094
    2. Trippin'
    3. Need It (ft DJ Manny)
    4. Smokeout (ft DJ Lucky)
    5. Same Sound (ft Odile Myrtil)
    6. 9090
    7. Anotha4 (ft DJ Manny)
    8. Bonfire (ft DJ Paypal)
    9. The Matrixx (ft DJ Manny)
    10. Get It Jukin'(ft Chuck Inglish)
    11. Pop Drop (ft DJ Paypal)
    12. Gimme Some Mo (ft UNIIQU3)
    13. Truu (ft DJ Paypal)
    14. Closer 15. I'm Trippin'
    16. I Don't Know (ft Fabi Reyna)

    Release Date: 2018-03-02
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  • Total Control 'Laughing At The System' - Cargo Records UK

    Alter

    Total Control 'Laughing At The System'

    £9.99

    "However you might try to find the words for it, Total Control's caustic charm is stunning and oblique. A sensible account of the band typically focuses on its parts'the associated groups, the touring configurations, etc.'as if finding ways by which Total Control is divisible gleans critical information for breaking through their cryptic sheen. With tonic, wry twists, and forever employing aphoristic brevity for the comic/cosmic dynamite that it is best reserved for, the band seems to indulge this with each new release, or tour, or whatever's put on the counter.

    The band's European tour tape from 2015 was a sure reminder of this. Their new 12", 'Laughing At The System,' is a succinct statement, but it feels like the sharpest thing they've ever assembled. Written and recorded over the past couple of years in various lounge rooms, bedrooms, and rehearsal studios, across Melbourne, regional Victoria, and Western Australia, Al Montfort, Daniel Stewart, James Vinciguerra, Mikey Young, and Zephyr Pavey are'for the record'all accounted for in the process. 'Laughing At The System' is bookended by a title track in two parts.

    The scattered mania of the opener is an unsettling beginning, with cascading madhouse-riffs somehow finding a ricocheting unison. The closing part has the familiar head-charge of Total Control's most gnashing moments, with the guitars balancing the equation between running-too-fast and drinking-too-fast in one queasy commitment. With a brilliantly acerbic wit, we're implored to gather that there's some equivalences here. And it's this kind of impulse that's kept up throughout the 12". Drizzled with Vinciguerra's fraught fills, which have the rare quality of being unmistakably his in both electronic and acoustic form, this punctuation comes in and out of focus between elegiac moments and breezy experimentation, the latter including the elated instrumental 'Cathie and Marg.'

    Throughout, Stewart scripts a tumultuous wake for a flatlining reality, forever nudging the listener to second-guess themselves about the sincerity and intent. Far from cynical, but earnestly neurotic, the potency of the atmosphere that Total Control has mustered across 'Laughing At The System' registers as a deeply commanding, though bleak, psychedelicism for the future."

    Tracklisting:
    1. Laughing At The System 1
    2. Future Crème
    3. Vanity
    4. Vote Cops
    5. Her Majesty, Budgie
    6. Luxury Vacuum
    7. Cathie and Marg
    8. Laughing At The System 2

    Release Date: 08/12/2017
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  • Watter 'History Of The Future' - Cargo Records UK

    Temporary Residence

    Watter 'History Of The Future'

    £11.99

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    Temporary Residence

    Watter 'History Of The Future'

    £18.99

    Sophomore album from acclaimed trio of Zak Riles (GRAILS), Tyler Trotter (STRIKE CITY), and Britt Walford (SLINT). Features guest members of Rachel's, Tortoise, Torres, Shipping News, and more.

    When Watter first appeared fully formed in 2014 as a trio featuring founding members of Grails and Slint, most assumed the mercurial group would vanish into the ether just like the foggy echoes of sound they crafted on their debut album, This World. Instead, they toured the US with their longtime friends in Om, and returned home to begin work on an ambitious new recording studio, from which their new album, History of the Future was born.

    Located on the same tiny rural Kentucky road as the old Rove Studio, where many Will Oldham records were made, multi-instrumentalist Zak Riles'new studio - dubbed Earthwave - was literally built from the ground up on the rolling hills of his picturesque farm. It has quickly become a place of great inspiration and tireless creation.

    Loaded with vintage analog gear and stunning views of deep sunsets reflecting across a serene lake, the studio has drawn many of Kentucky's most talented musicians in the spirit of collaboration, the fruits of which are on stunning display across the ten songs that make up History of the Future.

    As with their first album, the songs on History of the Future evolved from many long days and nights of improvisation, experimentation, and collaboration. In many ways, the guests - which include, among others, Britt Walford (Slint), Dominic Cipolla (Phantom Family Halo, Torres), Rachel Grimes (Rachel's), Bundy K. Brown (Tortoise), and Todd Cook (Shipping News, The For Carnation) - and the gear were as vital to the creative process as the core duo of Riles and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Trotter. It is this exploratory nature that breathes life into Watter, and turns ephemeral into eternal.

    RIYL: John Carpenter, Slint, Grails, John Fahey, Goblin.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Telos
    2. Shadow Chase
    3. Death Knock
    4. Sacrificial Leaf
    5. Depth Charge
    6. Liquid of Life
    7. The Cloud Sanctuary
    8. Macho Milano
    9. History of the Future
    10. Final Sunrise
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  • Various Artists 'The Lobster OST' - Cargo Records UK

    Fire Soundtracks / Lakeshore Records

    Various Artists 'The Lobster OST'

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    Fire Soundtracks / Lakeshore Records

    Various Artists 'The Lobster OST'

    £11.99

    Featuring Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue and Sophia Loren with Tonis Maroudas Academy award nominated film and winner of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Jury prize (among many others), The Lobster'is a dystopian comedy-drama directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogstooth, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) and co-written by Efthymis Filippou that stars Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman.

    Love is a crazy thing that's as perverse as the relationships that come with it, living in the digital age of love-matching and profiling, The Lobster'tackles humanity's struggle with love, the fear of loneliness and societal issues.

    Forced by the government to find a partner in forty-five days under their watchful eye and extreme training program or you'll be turned into an animal to survive in the woods. The absurdist sci-fi horror movie sees residents out hunting for Loners'who once caught are sent off to face their fate in return for extra time to find love that keeps them alive. Out in the woods alongside them are celibate freedom fighters that have joined the resistance, it is here a love story unfolds.

    Curated by Lanthimos and music supervisor Amy Ashworth, the soundtrack 'brings the film's edgy tension and menace to the fore' (Screen Daily) with orchestral renditions of Beethoven, Stravinsky and Shostakovich alongside Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with Kylie Minogue on Where The Wild Roses Grow'and Sophia Loren with Tonis Maroudas on Ti Ein Afto Pou To Lene Agapi'.

    Fire Soundtracks and Lakeshore Records are set to release The Lobster'soundtrack for the first time on limited edition vinyl on December 1st.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Juilliard String Quartet - String Quartet In F Major, Op.18, No. 1, Adagio Affettuoso Ed Appassionato (Live)
    2. Danae - Apo Mesa Pethamenos
    3. Borodin Quartet Quintet - For Piano And Strings: In Tempo di Valse
    4. Benjamin John Tomlin - Million $ (feat. Milla M.)
    5. Goldner String Quartet - 3 Pieces For String Quartet No. 3
    6. The Tale Quartet - String Quartet No. 2: I Moderato
    7. Johnnie Burn - Hog Shuffle
    8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
    9. Takács Quartet - String Quartet No. 1 In D, Op. 25: Andante Sostenuto
    10. Sophia Loren and Tonis Maroudas - Ti Ein Auto Pou To Lene Agapi
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  • Holy Wave 'Fuzz Club Session' - Cargo Records UK

    Fuzz Club Records

    Holy Wave 'Fuzz Club Session'

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    Fuzz Club Records

    Holy Wave 'Fuzz Club Session'

    £21.99

    Available on 180gm black vinyl.

    Next up in the Fuzz Club Session series is Austin's Holy Wave. Following the release of their 2016 LP Freaks Of Nurture'we invited the band to London to lay down a session.

    Despite still being steeped in a 60s Nuggets nostalgia the material on the session see's HolyWave ditch the Seeds-esque garage for a more washed out, reverberating psych-pop sound.

    The warm analogue recording creating a blissed-out echo chamber of sun-soaked psychedelia - recorded straight to tape and committed to wax.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Buddhist Pete
    2. Magic Landing
    3. She Put A Seed In My Ear
    4. Minstrel's Gallop
    5. Western Playland
    6. California Took My Bobby Away
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  • Display Homes 'Climate Change' - Cargo Records UK

    Tough Love Records

    Display Homes 'Climate Change' Vinyl 7"

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    Tough Love Records

    Display Homes 'Climate Change' Vinyl 7"

    £6.99

    (250 Black Vinyl). 

    Display Homes are an Australian three-piece pop band that formed one night in late 2016 at a pool table in Marrickville - Greg and Darrell met Steph, who'd just come back to Sydney from Germany and reckoned she could play drums.

    Their first practice involved an abysmal attempt at a cover of Thin Lizzy's "Dancin in the Moonlight'", and they soon realised Steph clearly hadn't been in a band before and Greg shouldn't sing. Regardless, the connection between them all was obvious, and the songs began to crop up naturally.

    Just a few months after their first trip to the studio, Display Homes'self-titled debut 7" is being released through London-based record label Tough Love Records on [XXX]. The three songs were recorded in April of this year in David Akerman's studio in Marrickville, and just like all great current Australian music, they were later mastered by Mikey Young.

    As far as debuts go, it's effortlessly perfect. In this brief time together, the band have played a host of short and fast shows across Australia, alongside other great locals such as UV Race, Low Life and Orion. Buoyed by the inherent intensity that informs the Sydney DIY music community and a shared love for a wide range of 80s music, Display Homes play discordant pop-orientated post punk with a refreshing lack of self-awareness and lyrical honesty.

    In fact, Steph's autodidactic approach to music means the lyrics were formed into songs somewhat unknowingly. As each song originates from a foolish nature and a tendency to improvise songs in any day-to-day situation, the end result is a set of direct, slightly jarring but infectious pop songs.

    RIYL: The Au Pairs, Pylon, Priests, XTC, Essential Logic, Bush Tetras, Delta 5.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Climate Change

    Side B:
    2. Men
    3. Bist Du Da
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