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When Darren Hayman (Hefner) and Emma Kupa (Standard Fare/Mammoth Penguins) decided to make a duets record, we knew the results would be great, but we didn't expect them to be THIS great.
Gathering together a rhythm section consisting of Michael Wood (Whoa Melodic/Singing Adams) on bass and Cat Loye (Fever Dream) on drums, The Hayman Kupa Band create brash, bold and effortlessly melodic power pop. Sharing writing duties and sometimes singing each others words, lines are blurred and creativity explored in a wonderfully exuberant collection of songs. The album, recorded in 3 days, is an exploration of relationships and, at its heart, it's the sound of a friendship being made.
Darren explains further: It's only happened a few times but just once or twice I have seen someone on stage and thought, 'I want to be in a band with them.' But I thought it the first time I saw Emma playing with her magnificent and under-rated band Standard Fare. I met her properly a little later in Sheffield when we played together. Before the gig I said I was suspicious of bands that wore hats. She wore a hat on stage.
They say imitation is a form of flattery and I was glad that I noticed when I wrote the song 'Boy, Look at What you Can't Have Now' that it sounded like the sort of thing Emma might write. I covered up my theft by asking her to sing on it. When we were recording the song I suggested that we should write a whole album of duets. Musicians suggest things like this all the time because they are stupid or drunk. A few months later Emma told me she had started writing the album.
This is what Emma does; she says something then does it. I race to play catch up. The songs were written over 3 weekends at her house and mine. Co-writing is something I'm not used to. It's very intimate and me and Emma became friends through the process. Emma's lyrics are sharp and precise whereas mine are more metaphoric. We talked about relationships and that's what the album is about. It's about our fears and paranoias and the search for trust and love. We deliberately swapped lines and genders so the narrative is never truly that of traditional duets.
We wanted a band to make the album and chose Michael Wood and Cat Loye. We never considered anyone else. They brought a brash, bold sound to the songs and we rehearsed twice and then recorded. I was thinking about the Beatles and very early 1960s pop records.
We recorded everything live including the vocals with only a handful of overdubs. We recorded it two and a half years ago and it has remind locked like a time capsule whilst me and Emma released five other albums. I like this album a lot. It's the sound of a friendship being made.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Let's Do Nothing
2. No More Bombs
3. Red Petal
4. Over's Now Overdue
5. We Can Get By
6. Do You Know
Side B:
7. A Tent of Blankets
8. Draw the Line
9. My Right Arm
10. Pretty Waste of Time
11. Reach Out
12. Then We Kissed -
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.Visit product page →
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 -
Sivu looks faith, mortality and self doubt squarely in the eye - ¦sensational - SUNDAY TIMES CULTUREVisit product page →
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 -
A monumental career in pop music isn't easy when the system is built against you. But South African songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist "Om" Alec Khaoli managed to do just that with his band Umoja. As apartheid reached its violent peak, Khaoli pursued an escapist form of dance music that resonated across his complicated country, influencing countless legends and releasing recordings across the world.Visit product page →
Umoja, which means oneness or unity in Swahili, was clear in its message to the public. "Oriented towards society, advocating uniting of people. Race was the big thing," Khaoli says. "We wanted people to come together and unite and just form a oneness." Indeed the band's fanbase was mixed among black, colored and white fans. However, their lyrics were not overtly political. "If you wrote songs about apartheid, we would disguise them.
If we used language as it was, we would get arrested." The band helped refine a commercially powerful emergent style, bubblegum, with the album 707 in 1988. "Bubblegum music was about escape," according to Khaoli. "If you had grown up in South Africa at the time, there was nothing more in your life than oppression. It was even in your dreams. Anything that was a way out was welcome... When this music was playing everyone just wanted to dance, just have a good time."
Tracklisting:
1. Money Money (Bananas)
2. 707
3. Take Me High
4. Special Night -
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.Visit product page →
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 -
Finding People' is the newest recording from Croatian Amor, the morphing alias of Loke Rahbek.Visit product page →
With last year's Croatian Amor album, 'Love Means Taking Action,' we witnessed a transformation in the project, its wide-eyed gaze having stared deep into the news feed, reengineering its heartstrings. 'Finding People' takes this even further.An assembly of choral traces and transmissions, these four new tracks are the project's clearest move towards pop.
At the same time, this is perhaps the weirdest record yet from Croatian Amor, introducing a complexity that we have not previously seen. From the cut-up, granulated rhythm section and auto-tuned choir of the opener 'Sky Walkers', to the duetting ballad of 'Finding People''featuring additional vocals from new name Khalil'the record never rests for long.
The exploration is soothing, its search a tonic to the swarm of emotion it provokes.And while the four tracks on Finding People barely reach 20 minutes it still manages to present the sharpest vision of the project so far. Though filtered through cascading app windows, the amorous scenery at the project's core has not changed since its inception, even if there is a lot more green screen in the sequel.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1:Sky Walkers
2:Keepers
Side B:
1:Breathe Into Me
2:Finding People -
Aktuel Musik' is the second release from Kyo, a duet of Hannes Norrvide and Frederik Valentin.Visit product page →
Norrvide is best known as the protagonist of synth trio Lust For Youth, though his recent solo techno productions under the guise of Norin have also been met with critical praise.
Together with Danish music's enfant terrible, Valentin, whose musical history is as difficult to trace as it is to comprehend, Kyo is a project nourished by the orbit of two individuals around impassioned collectives.
Following on from their Posh Isolation debut, 'Potentiel Musik,' 'Aktuel Musik' presents eight pieces of emotive and luminesced experimentation. Utilising electronics, acoustic motifs, and aching instrumentation for'most prominently'woodwind and piano, Kyo softly unfold the structures that bind their work to the many genres being addressed.
Romantic synth lines submerge free jazz drumming, playfully scattering an appeal to the cerebral in the sensuous. The most brilliant aspect of this lies in one of the record's most pointed qualities: the incredibly subtle use of dissonance, which compresses the enveloping sense of introspection in 'Aktuel Musik' into diamond form. The whispered field recordings corral the moments of listless instrumentation into snapshots of a cosmic metropolis.
This is most keenly felt in the orchestral swells that fall away to reveal a soloist on a decaying pedestal, improvising their fate. These acts are invariably swept into dazzling marches that propel 'Aktuel Musik' with the gentle force of wide-eyed exploration.
Kyo's 'Aktuel Musik' carries the listener away with finesse, but always with the wit to withhold the destination. If 'aktuel music' is 'current music,' then what one may behold in Kyo's work is a new future. The present is beautiful.
Tracklisting:
1. Untitled
2. Untitled
3. Untitled
4. Untitled
5. Untitled
6. Untitled
7. Untitled
8. Untitled -
After "Star Alliance"'s initial release as a limited six tape-box set late last year, it was apparent that there was a need for a reissue, which now comes in the form of this remastered double LP set with a selection of the best work and even a few new tracks added.Visit product page →
The story is the same but the narrative has been sharpened. Over the last few years, Varg has manifested himself, not only as one of the most productive new voices in European electronic and techno music - with countless releases and projects - but also as one of the most interesting of the lot.
Completely free from any concern of genre notions towards his music, he moves freely between fields and does this in such a fluent way that it is hard to think of anyone that can match him. With the music that makes up "Star Alliance", it is clearer than ever before that Varg - while being an extremely talented techno producer, at the same time is much more than that.
"Star Alliance" has tracks of spacious acid standing next to heavy industrial rhythms, piercing abstract modular synth work, beautiful soundscapes, piano pieces and field recordings. And while the techniques, qualities and styles differ with almost every track, they stand perfectly together and shape a beautiful narrative.
Thematically "Star Alliance" deals with movement. The heavy melancholia that is present throughout the entire release, reminds us that when traveling to any destination, we will have to leave somewhere else behind. "Star Alliance" that takes its name from a point system between airline companies has a sort of sad restlessness about it.
Wherever we are traveling to, it is clear that we won't be there for long; the people are faceless and the cities nameless, The airports, night clubs and company blur, but Hilton always looks like Hilton and Ecstasy is called Ecstasy everywhere. -
I Musik' is the third piece from Kyo, a duet of Hannes Norrvide and Frederik Valentin.Visit product page →
With each release the pair make a shift in the project's aesthetic equilibrium, forcing a new constellation of resonances, handing us a new beauty. 'I Musik' presents another wondrous movement in the narrative, like discovering a secret escalator that passes everything you want from a new angle.
The melodramatic pause that their previous album circled with enthusiasm is now considered from a greater distance. Perhaps it is because we have now arrived somewhere? There is a hopeful melancholia that has come with this distance, and it is put to use to describe a scene that feels as human as it is synthetic, as if the world you know is now behind glass. Futures imagined are being recalled, futures undiscovered are being explored'Norrvide and Valentin manage to encode a sense of endlessness to such processes quite casually.
The acoustic surfaces brush electronic reflections with an understated sincerity, all of which feels whispered to you by a familiar voice in familiar phrases. There is such a quiet future being invoked on 'I Musik,' yet we don't know what this quiet may come to be defined against, or if it will come to be defined at all. It's a stillness that isn't fully grasped, and it needn't be. This is its beauty.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Universal Audio
2. Azzurra
3. Darkblue / Seagrey
4. Life Digest
5. Adding Patterns
Side B:
1. Johanna
2. Urban Tactical
3. Windbreaker
4. Snap
5. Data Carriers -
Visit product page →"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 MusicDistorted 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 -
In California by name, in California by nature. You'll struggle to find 14 songs more drenched in lazy West Coast sunshine than Compton and Batteau's only album (recorded in 1971 before promptly falling into the abyss of wonderful, overlooked recordings).Visit product page →
Fans of Gene Clark, John Phillips, Fraser & Debolt and the like will be well served here, with many of the tracks leaning towards the cowboy balladry these artists share. Completing the line-up with the likes of Randy Meisner (The Eagles, Poco) and Jim Messina (Loggins and Messina, Buffalo Springfield) In California' understandably has an additional proto-yacht rock feel, evoking Late For The Sky'era Jackson Browne - though it's the more up-tempo offerings that really showcase the duo's ability to write a tune.
Album highlight Homesick Kid'is the perfect example of the addictive, melody-led songwriting which really should have earned them stardom, while Honeysuckle'and Essa Vanessa'bring texture in the form of immaculately orchestrated percussion and additional instrumentation (harpsichord, cowbell).
On these occasions the album veers magnificently towards the psychedelic, bringing to mind The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. Compton And Batteau In California'remains enthused about in quiet corners, by Amazon buyers, on sites like Vinyl History and Small Town Pleasures. It's a forgotten piece of baroque folk caught in time; 47 years after the fact it somehow sounds timeless. Like Cat Stevens with Nick Drake's strings.' - Dave Henderson, MOJO Magazine - ¦..
Tracklisting:
1 Laughter Turns to Blue
2. Silk On Steel
3. Honeysuckle
4. Narration
5. Elevator
6. Narration
7. Homesick Kid
8. Proposition
9. Narration
10. Grotto Farm
11. Essa Vanessa
12. Zephyr
13. Narration
14. California
Release Date: 14/07/2017 -
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."Visit product page →
'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 -
LITTLE BARRIE release their highly anticipated 5th studio album Death Express'on 7th July on Non Delux.Visit product page →
The London based trio whose blend of hard rock, blues, soul and funk evoking classic 60's bands has won them a reputation over the past 10 years as one of the best UK live acts. Guitarist/vocalist Barrie Cadogan has become the go to guitarist for numerous acts including Morrissey, Paul Weller and Primal Scream.
The other 2 members of the band are drummer Virgil Howe, the acclaimed drumming son of rock figurehead Steve Howe, who produces and DJs in the UK and abroad and bassist Lewis Wharton a member since the bands inception who is also a motorcycle enthusiast and illustrator.
2014 saw the band invited to provide the theme tune to the Breaking Bad spin off TV series Better Caul Saul which is included here.
Tracklisting:
1. Rejection
2. I.5.C.A
3. 'Copter
4. Golden Age
5. New Disease
6. You Won't Stop Us
7. Count To Ten
8. Love Or Love
9. Nothing Will Eliminate
10. The Dodge
11. Bill$ House
12. Molotov Cop
13. Vulture Swarm
14. Produkt
15. Compressed Fun
16. Ultraviolet Blues
17. Sonic Lodge
18. Death Express
19. Shoulders Up,Eyes Down
20. Better Call Saul -
Debut 12" by this post punk outfit from Portugal feat. Members of Adorno.Visit product page →
Papaya play noisey guitar driven indie punk. reminds me of Teenage Cool Kids, Drive Like Jehu etc.
Catchy and spastic at the same time. the 12" is ltd to 500 copies on papaya coloured vinyl w/ a screen printed B-Side w/ artwork by Braulio
Tracklisting:
1. The Eternal
2. Bxaxdx
3. Adventurous Minds
4. Chrome
5. Mountain
6. For The Sun
7. Chromatic
8. Burn -
Animal Youth is a band from Brussels.Visit product page →
Formed in 2016 from the ashes of Siamese Queens, the Belgian trio romantically mixes 90s flavoured shoegaze and post-punk, hitting ears with waves of noisy guitars, bass chorus, cold reverbed drums, and a nod to influential bands such as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Cocteau twins and My Bloody Valentine.
Tracklisting:
1. Darkest Place
2. Rainy Day
3. Eat You Alive
4. Feeling
5. Love you when you're Dead
6. To Burn
7. Sunday
8. In Heaven
9. You Don't Know Love -
Dark Blue follow up their debut LP, Pure Reality'(Jade Tree), with Start Of The World'(/ADAGIO830/ 12XU) - a soundtrack of a decaying United States. Each song drips with the realities of atrocities happening all around us. John Sharkey III (Vocals, Guitar) pushes Dark Blue far beyond the post-punk meets oi sound they perfected on their earlier releases, and adds elements of brit-pop and shoegaze.Visit product page →
Recorded by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, Nothing), Start Of The World'is a pop album that makes no apologies. Boot stomping opener 'Union of Buffoons,' sets the political tone for this album with an anthem for workers' rights. Sharkey's biting lyrics: "You can't fight this, you can't win - ¦screw you once, they'll screw you twice," is a reference to human expendability in the face of deregulation and the stagnancy of labor rights. "Never Wanted to Hurt You" is a pop song in the highest order with guts and an undeniable chorus that would make Noel Gallagher jealous even at his most jaded. The 50's doo-woop and surf rock sound of "Bombs on the Beach" initially feels like a left turn for the band, evoking a playful innocence against a sunny backdrop.
But the lyrics prove this is truly a Dark Blue song, tearing through any cheerfulness as jarring and abrupt as words can be to describe the reality of dropping missiles on a beach of unsuspecting Palestinian children. Sharkey's voice is heavy with the despair of survivor's guilt: 'Now I'm holding my baby's hand, as he lies bleeding to death in the sand." This is another pointed song full of sentiment as much as it is an impassioned call for accountability for the crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
While this album shows off new and varying degrees of Sharkey's vocal intensity, Andrew Mackie Nelson (Bass, Ceremony) and Michael Sneeriger (Drums, Strand of Oaks) shine, guiding the songs in ways other releases haven't shown before. Tracks such as "Be Gone Everyone" and "Western Front" underscore just how comfortable the band has gotten.
Start Of The World'is the kind of record that Dark Blue has always promised: a collection of smart, fully realized songs that tell stories. With the world falling apart around us, Dark Blue continues to give voice to neglected perspectives, many unnerving but all necessary to hear. We need a defiant record like this to remind us that just as there was start to all of this destruction, there can also be an end. - Sean Gray
Tracklisting:
1. Union Of Buffoons
2. Be Gone Everyone
3. I Never Wanted To Hurt You
4. Paralyzed By Fear
5. You Know Who
6. Bombs On The Beach
7. Tired Of The Poor
8. Western Front Academy -
Formed in 2010, Ruined Families is a hardcore punk band based in Athens, Greece.Visit product page →
Following two acclaimed LPs and a 7", their new release is called 'Education' and features 10 songs spanning just over 17 minutes.
Drawing elements from their previous work, 'Education' touches on 90s screamo, fast hardcore and post-punk.
Unavoidably marked by the lasting turbulence of the Greek condition, Ruined Families attempt to make the most out of a precarious present by putting frustration into words that speak the mind of contemporary youth.
Tracklisting:
1. The Future Of Electronic Music
2. Image Of An Image
3. Naked Life
4. Underground Resistance
5. Demolition
6. No Rothko
7. Use Your Hands
8. Wholecar
9. Meta-anthem
10. We Want Everything -
Reissue available on 180gm white vinyl with heavy gatefold sleeve.Visit product page →
Black Smoke Rising is the debut album from Swedish psych wanderers The Orange Revival. Originally self-released by the band back in 2011, Fuzz Club Records are reissuing the LP for the first time since it immediately sold out first time around.
With its hypnotic 60s guitars, droning vintage organs and swaggering vocals it's a tripped out, desert-rock ode to the Stones, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Spacemen 3.
Since its release in 2011 the band have toured extensively, playing a run of dates with Spectrum and wooing crowds at Austin Psych Fest along the way, and have ceaselessly confirmed themselves as one of Europe's leading psychedelic outputs - Fuzz Club are delighted to be bringing their majestic debut to light once more.
Tracklisting:
1. Yesterday
2. Ever
3. Set Her Free
4. Medistation
5. Composition 14: 39
6. Bring Your Light
7. Don't Sail Away
8. How Do You Feel
