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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." A modern-day revenge tragedy in four parts. Symmetrical, finespun, almost courtly; but quick-tempered with it, and far from blood-shy.

A picture emerges: domestic disturbance, pissing on the compost heap, noise complaints from hateful neighbours. Sulking, pouting, goading. Cold leaves and Christmas. Body-clocks betrayed, seasonal adjustment disorders. Collecting bottles to smash in the carpark across the road. Marijuana and make-believe. A flaming bower of unbliss.

Recommended for fans of AC Marias, Brenda Ray, General Strike, The Poems, Robert Storey and other master purveyors of shut-in, fitfully serene dub dysfunction.

Created by C. dal Forno and T. Manek. Mastered by Dan Elleson and cut by Matt Colton. Edition of 300.

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Game Is Up
2. Visions Of The Night
3. Emboldened

Side B:
1. Loathing And Fear In December
2. Refugees
3. Fireball

On A Business Trip To London is an album of curious electronics and sissy dance conceived under the shadow of Big Ben by Vivid Extreme. Initial research carried out at Ibis City Hotel, London; purple nail polish applied in Berlin and New York City.

The result is the perfect and perhaps overdue meeting of emasculated P.E, limp-wristed ornamental industrial, sickly minimal synth and cheap suntanned trollop techno. What's more, its tinny rhythmic ringtone cycles of humiliation and debasement evince an unlikely humanity: there is yearning behind the red ballgag and loud make-up cake; Duck's piggy eyes betray an implacable melancholy.

Indeed, despite the sexually explicit nature of its content, On A Business Trip To London is a highly accessible and often disarmingly pretty work which will appeal to the belissima ballerina in all working men.

Required listening for all who admire those qualities most fascinating in a woman: allure, magnetism, power and dominance. Exploring Jezebel has been active since 2008's Locking Up The Husband's Penis Is Not Slavery, But Rather The Greatest Act Of Kindness Given To A Man and Attending UCLA Lecture On Forced Feminization, and notable releases since include the 12-hour, 8-cassette set Penis Torture Chamber (2010) and 2014's Performs For Her And Her Bulls (all Hospital Productions).

On A Business Trip To London is Exploring Jezebel's first vinyl offering, and is presented in a full colour gatefold sleeve with two printed inserts; the album will also be issued on CD and digital formats.

This release is for ADULTS ONLY. It contains uncensored sexually explicit material unsuitable for minors. You must be at least 18 to purchase this item. Access and/or ownership may be prohibited in certain states/countries.

Tracklisting:
1. Luckily I was allowed to get dressed when I left the house
2. I am made to greet each guest with a limp-wristed handshake
3. Only Carla
4. She is pretty strange, the way she dresses, that punky hair. God knows what she gets up to
5. Jack The Damned
6. Since I am on a strict 500 calorie a day diet with extensive exercise and no alcohol, I have the shape of a petite little woman, and my wife has paid for breast implants and facial surgery to make me more acceptable
7. Duck shall not have the audacity to request release himself. Duck shall not gripe or complain about the duration of his confinement, the length of which will be solely determined by mistress
8. He might be able to earn a meal of slop if he does dangerous work (for instance: crash test dummy). THUNDERSKINS
9. To compensate, while the average lifespan of a male will be about 70 years, medical advancements will make the average lifespan of a woman to be about 750 years
10. When Thanksgiving approaches, I'm usually in my third week without release
11. My breasts were pierced, so red ball ornaments were placed through each nipple. Additionally, each ear was pierced, so a red ball ornament was placed in each earring hole. My nipples were protruding through a hole for each in the silk red top of the ensemble. It had red and green fur around it, and I was tied from head to toe with beautiful tinsel garland. Bows were placed all over my body, and a giant bow was placed in my femininely prepared hair. Of course, I had bright Christmas-type make-up on and the bright red ball gag ornament in my mouth. And don't forget the jingle bells, which were sewed all over my outfit. This was a sort of security system to keep me still and in position. Don't forget the lights either, which were very, very hot against my skin - she used outdoor lights, which were sheer torture (CD Only)
12. Thunderskins London Dungeon
13. The grad student turned her eyes toward the closet where she had made him hide. THUNDERSKINS
14. Drugs. Alan, I don't believe it but somebody saw her shooting up in the restroom
15. Only Tease
16. Tennis has always been my life since I was a small boy in Mexico City. My father was the head gardener at an estate owned by a very important man and he used to take me with him so I could hit the balls on the court
17. Wild Spectrum
18. Credits

Antigravity is a new trio album from legendary trumpeter Jac Berrocal and two fellow travellers in the French avant-garde, David Fenech and Vincent Epplay. A lugubrious mise-en-scène in which ice-cold outlaw jazz meets musique concrète, DIY whimsy and dubwise studio science, all watched over by the lost souls and hungry ghosts of rock n roll The Berrocal/Fenech/Epplay trio's first album together, Antigravity is a richly imagined universe combining original compositions and détourned standards.

Berrocal revisits his own signature piece Rock 'n Roll Station', which first appeared on his '77 LP Paralleles with chain-wielding, leather-clad wildman of British rock n roll, Vince Taylor, singing the lead, and Berrocal on mic'd up bicycle; here, the Frenchman takes the vocal reins.

A barely recognisable interpretation of Talking Heads'The Overload'pushes beyond the bush of ghosts into a fourth world dread-zone of stalking drum machine rhythms, humid electronics and jagged guitar phrasing, while Where Flamingos Fly'reroutes the Gil Evans Orchestra's classic rendition through the seamiest back-streets of the 13th arrondissement; there, as on the trio's reading of Kinder Lieder', the mood is romantic, but stark, isolationist: imagine Chet Baker falling through the glacial sound-world of early PiL or Scott Walker's Climate of Hunter.

Originals include the agitated Iberian psychedelia of Spain', and Panic In Bali', which begins in seemingly trad-jazz fashion only to swell into a cacophony of a gurgling electronics and fevered Lonely Woman'quotations. Solaris'is a swirling, suspenseful arabesque of whiplash guitars and Black Ark FX, Berrocal's trumpet hitting deep blue notes while his vocals are sliced and diced and tossed into a yawning void of tape-delay - like Antigravity at large, the result is oblique, dissolving, forever out of reach.

Despite the chilly, sometimes austere mood of the album, it is, ultimately, a deeply human and welcoming work, with a playfulness and sly humour pervading: see the anarchic cross-hatch of Ife Layo', or L'essai des Suintes ou le bal des Futaies', Berrocal's poetic disquisition on the infinite variety of female genitalia.

Mischief and misdirection are rife here, and fans of Officer!, Henry Cow and the ReR axis will find much to chew on. Play, as we know, is a serious business. Put another way, and to quote Berrocal entirely out of context, Antigravity is completely crazy, completely timeless, completely out.

As its title suggests, the objective is nothing less than lift-off, weightlessness, a total unshackling from earth. Sunglasses on, collar up, let's go.

Tracklisting:
Vinyl LP:
Side A:
1. Nanook
2. The Overload
3. Panic In Bali
4. Rock n Roll Station
5. Where Flamingoes Fly

Side B:
1. Kinder Lieder
2. Tsouking Chant
3. La Valse des Lilas
4. Nanooks
5. Solaris
6. Ife L'ayo
7. Spain
8. Riga Centraal

CD:
1. Nanook
2. The Overload
3. Panic In Bali
4. Rock n Roll Station
5. Where Flamingoes Fly
6. Kinder Lieder
7. Tsouking Chant
8. La Valse des Lilas
9. Nanooks
10. Solaris
11. Ife L'ayo
12. Spain
13. Riga Centraal
14. L'essai des suintes ou le bal des futaies (CD only)

"A new long-form offering of poignant, isolationist machine music from Secret Boyfriend.

Eschewing the cryptic and compact song-sketches that characterised his 2013 Blackest Ever Black LP, This Is Always Where You've Lived, Ryan Martin instead guides us through vast interior topographies and nerve-damaged ambiences that comfort and deceive like memory itself. Beginning with The Singing Bile' - minimal synth submerged and subjected to an almost oceanic pressure - the tracks are mostly crude, extended live improvisations, recorded straight to tape.

Martin's loose intention was to subtract himself from proceedings and 'let the music play itself', but the erasure is not quite complete: on the contrary, each piece feels distinctly authored, and charged with personal significance.

The atrophying loops of Memorize Them Well'broach the elegiac grandeur of Gas and William Basinski, while Paean Delle Palme'summons E.A.R., Af Ursin, and the clammy, opioid exoticism of :zoviet*france:*'s Just An Illusion.

The album is largely instrumental, but there are two weighty exceptions: the sprawling, drumbox-driven space blues of Little Jammy Centre'and the guileless yearning of Stripping At The Nail'.

This is electronic pop undressed, unravelled and mapped onto the infinite wave."

Tracklisting:
1. The Singing Bile
2. Little Jammy Center
3. They're Playing Themselves
4. Paean Delle Palme
5. Stripping At The Nail
6. Memorize Them Well

House Number 44 is the first volume of The Composite Moods Collection, a new cycle of Dalhous recordings that examines the relationship between two individuals co-habiting in the same confined space - their interactions, their sense of self and of each other, and the pregnant space between.

The title of The Composite Moods Collection nods to the world of film and library cues, riffing on the utilitarian idea of music 'to suit the mood' and the appealing if archaic notion that a 'mood' can be a discrete or fixed thing, a unit of feeling.

Longtime followers of Dalhous will observe that House Number 44 contains some of their sparsest, most malevolent-sounding electronic music to date (see especially the brooding synthesizer throb of Response To Stimuli'and End Of Each Analysis') but some of their most disarmingly beautiful too, with indelible melodies and atmospheres as deep as thought: Methods of ðlan', On A Level', the elegiac Lines To Border'.

Marc Dall's enduring affection for neo-noir film scores of the 80s and early 90s, with their gleaming electronics and submerged existential torment, is more palpable here than ever, and you may hear echoes too of Klaus Schulze, Pete Namlook, or Eno's The Shutov Assembly - but Dalhous continue to plot their own course, obsessively and meticulously, oblivious to contemporary trends and unconstrained by historical influence; driven, indeed, by their own demons.

Blackest Ever Black presents a new vinyl edition, and the first CD and digital editions, of Af Ursin's 2005 masterpiece Aura Legato. Af Ursin is the alter ego of Finnish autodidact composer/improviser Timo van Luijk.

His work is rooted in the use of acoustic instruments (wind, percussion, strings), but his special sensitivity to the timbral qualities of each instrument, and his deft blurring of them, results in a sound-world that is mysterious, amorphous and hallucinatory, full of suggestive shadows, creaks and whispers.

Informed by years of intensive listening to various types of free music, exploratory drug use and especially the 'irregular organic forms' of the Belgian countryside where he resides, van Luijk's process begins always with pure improvisation: music played in an intuitive, sensual way, without the employment of conscious technique.

He performs and overdubs each instrumental component himself, and out of this process micro-structures and loose arrangements emerge: the piece becomes an improvised composition. Over time he has evolved his own richly poetic musical language, full of allusions to drone, acid folk, classical, Musique concrète and jazz, but beholden to none.

Aura Legato is one of van Luijk's darker and more acutely psychedelic offerings: a work of profound interiority, but one that also conjures images of old Europe and fin-de-siècle decadence - dabblings in Thelema, the fog of the opium-den - and has earned comparisons to Third Ear Band, Nurse With Wound, Mirror and HNAS.

Fully remastered and housed in die-cut sleeve with gold detailing and individually hand-glued labels.

Tracklisting:
1. Rêverie en mineur
2. Capsule détachée
3. Tableau fluide
4. Aphanes

Blackest Ever Black presents To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First, the latest - and, for us, greatest - full-length entry in Ashtray Navigations'uniquely important, uniquely sprawling - possibly sentient and self-multiplying - discography.

It picks up where the nerve-damaged exotica of 2015's A Shimmering Replica left off - ¦acerbic 'surf' guitar and synthetic salt-breeze fit for the Tropic of Yorkshire. Instant immersion in a potent, pungent psychedelia that feels equal parts cosmic and aquatic.

What Todd wrenches out of his instrument these days is a language unto itself (perhaps it always was) - ¦ a helical, ecstatic, grieving howl - ¦a (super)natural efflorescence, beyond earthly description or transcription - ¦ur-rock and post-everything. But equal emphasis is given here to pulsating machine rhythms and lush keyboard textures, with killer contributions from longtime fellow traveller Mel O'Dubhshlaine.

There were pre-echoes of all this in the recent(ish) Fluctuants and Aero Infinite: but To Make A Fool feels like the culmination, or the fullest expression, of something which was only glimpsed in those earlier works.

The side-long Spray Two' - gently eddying string-pads gradually slashed to all f***k with fraught piano improvisations - is a masterpiece in its own right. At its delirious peak, the whole thing boils over into brooding, arpeggiated noir-techno - Michael Mann's steadicam roaming Leeds'B-roads, some kind of tangerine nightmare - before finally cooling into a bleary starfield of pure and sumptuous hypno-tone.

This LP is a trip, in the most skull-splitting, soul-crinkling sense of the word, but it soothes and heals as well. A circular and transformative journey to the other side of the underneath and a landmark recording from one of the most adept and visionary nodes in Britain's freakout underground.

Tracklisting:
1. (Another) Hour Of The Grubber
2. A Crimson Coin
3. Bellow Organs Spine
4. Spray Two

Five tracks of darkside slither from somewhere under London. Sidereal downers for all hardcore ravers. The dread energy of grime and bleep techno distilled into pungent electro-acoustic ooze.

Paranoid street music meets the cosmic disturbances of musique concrete, the spine-freeze of isolationism and England's Hidden Reverse.

Staccato string stabs, murmured voices, black holes of reverb and pulverising, body-numbing bass. Drums optional. Unwanted side-effects include nosebleeds, earaches, stomach cramps, and nausea. Just say naaahhh.

Tracklisting:
1. Blooz
2. Empty Rituals
3. My Theme
4. Neck Devour
5. Theme 2

500 only 2LP, black and white marbled vinyl, printed inners, gatefold sleeve, download card included is for Cargo Collective Stores Only. A Standard LP and CD release will follow later.

Now re-issued as a double vinyl package, Vampyr'is full of 'eerie haunted ambience' (©The Guardian), an atmospheric and spaced out 78 minutes that galvanizes Moog, glockenspiel, zither and vibraphonette in a beautiful piece of claustrophobia, a timeless slice of suitably scary sound filled with an unnerving sonic vibe that sticks in the psyche.

'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

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Vampyr pt.1

Side B:
1. Vampyr pt.2

Side C:
1. Vampyr pt.3

Side D:
1. Vampyr pt.4
2. Vampyr rehearsals

Released in 1984, The Painted Word is TVP's fourth studio album is 'one of the most wanton and willful cases of self-immolation you're ever likely to hear' (Melody Maker).

Breaking up two year's prior, TVP's returned with this stunning dark comeback shares the same name as the Tom Wolfe novel.

With the formidable Daniel Treacy at its core, Television Personalities remain one of new wave's longest serving and seminal artists with a career spanning over three decades.

The indie pop visionaries influenced many people across the industry including Battles, Black Dice, Crystal Stilts, MGMT and Creation Records'Alan McGee. 

'a stark, unforgiving look at the despair of a man lost in his own world.' Alan McGee - Creation Records

'There's still no album quite like it' Exclaim

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Stop and Smell the Roses
2. The Painted Word
3. A Life of Her Own
4. Bright Sunny Smiles
5. Mentioned In Dispatches
6. A Sense of Belonging
7. Say You Won't Cry

Side B:
1. Someone to Share my Life With
2. You'll Have to Scream Louder
3. Happy All the Time
4. The Girl Who Had Everything
5. Paradise Estate
6. Back To Vietnam

Limited to 1000 / Blue-Green Splatter vinyl.

Based on the success of 2016's "Fishscales Falling: A Smorgasbord Ov Delights - Mixtape Volume 1', Genesis P-Orridge's Psychic TV bring you the second installment in their 'mixtape' series: "Fishscales Falling: A Smorgasbord Ov Delights - Mixtape Volume 2', a further exploration into current-day PTVs archives.

Expect live tracks, demos and remixes, some never heard before, all whipped together for a psychedelic journey of a listen!

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. No Good Trying
2. Higher And Higher
3. In Thee Body
4. Alien Sky (Orchestral Excerpt)
5. Bass Is The Place For Storytellers
6. Excerpt from Shadow In The Sun'

Side B:
7. Thee Leg Song (Rehearsal)
8. The Invisible Establishment
9. Suspicious - Psychic TV With Cult Of Youth (Excerpt)
10. Godstar
11. Alienist (Applied Sedative) Remix

Double yellow vinyl LP, single sleeve, printed inners, download card included.
2CD Book-back with 24 page book.

Emerging after The Lemonheads disbanded Evan Dando returned to music first with a solo tour and Live At The Brattle Theatre'then came his debut solo album Baby I'm Bored'.

Mature and autobiographical, Baby I'm Bored'is a stellar record that stripped Dando of his grunge label. At the time of recording, he was without the band which saw him lean more towards an achingly melodic alt-country rock sound. Self-deprecating, these are songs of decline and coming back from that.

The record includes 'Hard Drive' and 'All My Life' two tracks penned by Ben Lee and features contributions from producer/composer Jon Brion, producer Bryce Goggin, Tom Morgan, Giant Sand's Howe Gelb, Calexico's John Convertino and Joey Burns, ex-Spacehog frontman Royston Langdon, Come's Chris Brokaw and Arthur Johnson.

'Dando has a flair for bruised melancholy that stands comparison with Gram Parsons and Alex Chilton.' Q Magazine.

'A beautiful album of tender reflections on life, love and drug-induced folly set in soulful, country-tinged guitar pop.' The Independent.

Tracklisting:
Disc 1:
1. Repeat
2. My Idea
3. Rancho Santa Fe
4. Waking Up
5. Hard Drive
6. Shots Is Fired
7. It Looks Like You
8. The Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is The Same Part I Can Live Without
9. Why Do You Do This To Yourself?
10. All My Life
11. Stop My Head
12. In The Grass All Wine Colored

Disc 2:
1. Shots Is Fired (Alternative Version)
2. I Wanna Be Your Mamma Again (Cover - B-Side from 'Stop My Head' Single)
3. Tongue Tied (B-Side from 'Stop My Head' Single)
4. Whoops
5. Sucker Punch
6. The Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is The Same Part I Can Live Without (Alternative Version)
7. Au Bord De La Seine (B-Side From 'Stop My Head')
8. Rancho Santa Fe (Alternative Version) A Walk In The Woods With Lionel Richie
9. Walk In The Woods With Lionel Richie
10. Rudy With A Flashlight (Evan Dando)
11. Hannah & Gabi (Live Version - B-Side to 'It Looks Like You' Single)
12. The Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is The Same Part I Can Live Without (Live Version - B-Side to 'It Looks Like You' Single)