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London's Babyfather are back with the debut full length follow up to the street classic 'Meditation'. "BBF" Hosted By DJ Escrow.

'Without a doubt, I guarantee that it will be in rotation at every club, at every party and coming out the speakers of every car ...this makes me proud to be British ' Idris Elba.

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Stealth Intro
2. Greezebloc
3. Meditation ft Arca
4. Escrow
5. Shook
6. Motivation
7. PROLIFIC DEAMONS

Side B:
1. Platinum Cookies
2. Esco Freestyle
3. Stealth
4. God Hour ft Micachu
5. N.A.Z

Side C:
1. Juice
2. HELLS ANGLES
3. Killuminatti
4. Escrow 2

Side D:
1. Deep ft Arca
2. Escrow 3
3. The Realness
4. Flames
5. Snm ft Arca
6. Stealth Outro

As 2016 dawns , it's a fool who predicts the next move of Gnod, seemingly less a musical collective and more a psychic force fuelled by maverick spirit and fearsome willpower. Their mind-frying 2015 triple-album Infinity Machines'stood proud as a towering work of experimental expansion, acidic invective and nihilistic abrasion.

Yet as an outfit whose restlessly uncompromising nature is matched only by their unflinching anti-establishment drive, Gnod set about creating a diametrically opposed aesthetic. Just as dramatically as their restless disposition morphed their sound to a binary-driven direction for their last work, now Gnod were to strip their electronic setup to a vicious, viscous attack, as redolent of the primal punishment of early Swans as the angular clangour of prime Public Image Ltd, yet shot through with a mercurial power and fiery intensity that could come from no-one else.

The opening title-cut of Mirror'seethes with lithe energy and dubbed-out vitality, whilst elsewhere the eighteen-minute closing track Sodom & Gomorrah'may be the most dystopian piece of music the band have yet created; a harrowing yet fiercely compelling colossus of bleak abjection. 'The tracks were pretty much written on the road in May 2015' elaborates Gnod's Paddy Shine. 'The final versions of the tracks on the album are a reaction to the results of the recent UK election and also some shit that was happening to us and our friends during that period.

Lyrically it deals with mental health issues and how things like social media are a vehicle for our split personalities and egos - that and being under the thumb of forces and power structures we can't really fully understand, or even if we understand them we feel helpless to change the situation.

This album won't change the situation or start any revolutions but it felt good for us to write some music to let the rage out' Reflecting and refracting the uncertainty of a darkening era, Mirror'is a work of bold reinvention and raw renewal, sculpting chaos and discord into a formidable statement of intent. Only one thing is certain - wherever Gnod choose to go next, their ire and inspiration blaze as brightly as ever.

Tracklisting:
1. The Mirror
2. Learn To Forgive
3. Sodom & Gomorrah
4. The Mirror (RAIKES PARADE REMIX)

CD version contains a bonus track.

Vinyl is limited to 1000 copies worldwide - white and transparent yellow vinyl.

Born in 1981 from industrial music behemoth Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV is fronted by Throbbing Gristle's founder: anti-hero, artist, and Pandrogenist, Genesis P-Orridge. ' Psychic TV is particularly known for its intense and visceral live performances and for a creative lineage that includes cultural luminaries such as William S. Burroughs, Derek Jarman, and Timothy Leary, among others.In 2003, New York artist and musician Edley O'Dowd gently persuaded Genesis to rekindle her desire to perform and create music as Psychic TV. The result has been a 12 year run of concerts and releases as Psychic TV / PTV3.

On January 22, 2016, this catalog was made available digitally through Dais Records. Many for the first time ever in digital format outside of the bands USB stick, a self-released edition of 300 which came out December, 2014.

To commemorate the release of this catalogue, the band has put together an exclusive release entitled 'Fishscales Falling: A Smorgasbord Ov Delights,' a compilation featuring live recordings, demos, outtakes and new material from 2003 to the present.

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Is It Acid?
2. Thank You Part I (Live At Festal Kruezberg
3. Berlin
4. Thee Political Ghost
5. Germany2013)
6. BB (Demo)
7. Thee Political Ghost
8. Space Jam (Live At Sa Baneira, Porto, Portugal 2004)

Side B:
9. Limboland
10. Roman P. (Live At Thee Coral Room, New York City 2004)
11. Pinocchio C
12. Maximum Swing (Demo)
13. I Don't Think So (Demo, no vocals)
14. Snakes (Bunsen Drone Remix) 

CD Only Bonus Track: Slow Roman (Rehearsal)

CD / digipak (blue foil) + poster insert.
Standard black vinyl LP is jacket (blue foil) + full album download coupon.

Here's the deal. In 2012, people loved Silver Age (to a degree that surprised me, pleasantly), likewise Beauty & Ruin in 2014 (despite the heaviness of the subject matter, which I thought might be a bit alienating... apparently not. Another pleasant surprise.).

But PATCH THE SKY is the darkest one. After the Letterman performance in February 2015 where 'dust fell from the rafters,' it would have seemed logical to go the punk rock route'an entire album of two minute songs'but that wasn't where my soul was at. I withdrew from everyday life. I wrote alone for six months. I love people, but I needed my solitude.

The search for my own truth kept me alive. These songs are my salvation. I've had a solid stretch of hard emotional times, and thanks for the condolences in advance. I don't want to go into the details'more death, relationships ending, life getting shorter'because they're already in the songs. Just listen and see if you can fit yourself into my stories. The words make you remember. The music makes you forget. But PATCH THE SKY is also the catchiest one.

I always aim for the perfect balance of bright melodies and dark stories. I've used this juxtaposition for years. This time, I've tuned it to high contrast. The first side of the album is generally simple and catchy. The second side is heavier in spirit and tone. Opposing forces and properties. I love both sides of PATCH THE SKY.

At the core of these songs is what I call the chemical chorus'you hear it once and your brain starts tingling. The heart rate picks up. It gets worse'you know it's coming again and you can barely stand the anticipation. Then, the beautifully heartbreaking bridge appears, and you're all set up'hooked for life. Music is an incredibly powerful drug. I want to be your drug dealer. I have what you need. --Bob Mould

Tracklisting:
Side A:
Voices in My Head
The End of Things
Hold On
You Say You
Losing Sleep
Pray For Rain

Side B:
Lucifer and God
Daddy's Favorite
Hands Are Tied
Black Confetti
Losing Time
Monument

Big Ups' second LP, Before A Million Universes, is at once a fist in the face of complacency and a sonic affirmation to, in Walt Whitman's words, "let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

Pretty heady subject matter... Joe Galarraga (vocals), Amar Lal (guitar), Carlos Salguero Jr. (bass), and Brendan Finn (drums), met studying music technology at NYU. Five years later, the city's notorious crucible of garbage, money, and humanity has had a profound and delightful impact on their art.

"Tell me what you're worth / Salary, two weeks off work?" Galarraga screams on "Capitalized," as the bassline frantically roams our conscience like a wet-nosed dog. Galarraga's vocals burn with the heat of a thousand day jobs.

Yet all this righteousness is worth as much as a Che t-shirt if it lacks humility, and more than any of the band's previous work, Before A Million Universes plumbs the depths of self-deception in wickedly clever ways. Who doesn't own a coat made of "The Feathers Of Yes"?

"Count the ideas in my head so I can love every one," our protagonist coos before Lal's guitar tosses lightning bolts through his cloud. "And it feels so warm / wrapped in self-righteous truths."

"Yawp" unspools the exercise in futility that is the overexamined life to the tune of a lumbering giant stomping across a field of insecurities. "How many times can you be poured through the still to the point of perfection? / I've dropped myself through the coils so many times but always come out with something missing / And the proof's so high it makes me dizzy."

The album's emotional and musical core lies in "National Parks," a song Galarraga wrote as a tribute to the sacrifices his mother made to raise him.

We're led through the anger and bewilderment'at his mom's solitary walks through their neighborhood and the selfishness inherent to childhood'and into a coda where you can almost see the sun streaming through the trees of Galarraga's park, drums steady and swelling, a transition in tone and mood that this band has nearly perfected. "I think I saw her say to herself / This is everything I've missed."

Before A Million Universes is Big Ups at their most sincere, urgent, and vital' a salty kiss from the wet lips of Brooklyn's bard.

Tracklisting:
1. Contain Myself
2. Capitalized
3. Posture
4. Feathers of Yes
5. Meet Where We Are
6. Negative (intro)
7. Negative
8. Hope For Someone
9. Knight
10. National Parks
11. So Much You
12. Proximity Effect
13. Yawp

CD in 6-panel digipak.

POSSESSION is of the highest order. To be mounted, to be chosen, to be selected - ¦ Heavy psych trio with female vocals and elements of afro-beat and metal.

Catchy vocal melodies backed by heavy riffing and pounding drums. Concept revolves around West African tradition and religion of Vodoun with themes of spiritual possession, slavery and colonialism.

Mixed by Tom Dalgety (Royal Blood, Band of Skulls, Killing Joke). Vocalist is Chantal Brown (formerly of Do Me Bad Things), she also performs backing vocals on Turbowolf and Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats'most recent albums.

FOR FANS OF: Royal Blood, Turbowolf.

Tracklisting:
1. Loa's Kingdom
2. Bondye
3. Bloodstones
4. Oya
5. Loko
6. Legba's Feast
7. Possession
8. Mawu
9. Minos Army
10. Divinity
11. Kanpay Rejeté

She effortlessly dissolves barriers between herself and her fellow musicians, between music and listener, between language and expression" The Wire. Josephine Foster's "No More Lamps In the Morning" is a new folk route, a stripped down starsailor vector connecting heller to highwater.

Foster, on nylon string guitar, and husband Victor Herrero, accompanying on Portuguese guitar, together weave intimate readings of songs spanning Foster's songwriting career including selections from recent albums "This Coming Gladness" (2008) and "I'm a Dreamer" (2013) and back to Born Heller (2004).
Foster's new route is a free, chromatic music, a tuneful montana of mind--an expansive harmonic space dominated by Rif mountain on the horizon.

As highwater as the music is, as broad the stylistic palette of the musicians, the music really exists in service of the lyrics. Two of the songs on No More Lamps are poems by Rudyard Kipling and James Joyce given musical settings by Foster. The rest arguably are musical settings of her own poems strengthened in a fiery crucible of guitars (and on 2 tracks Gyða ValtýsdÃ"ttir's cello) in which dissonant notes bend and quaver as wirefork embers, dying without affecting the glowing tonal fire which unites contrary forces in a Moroccan speakeasy. She and Herrero have performed, for an audience of burros, concerts of Federico Garcia Lorca poems set to music. A music of wandering and a music of roots. An impermanent tradition passed down for generations.

Recorded live to tape by Henry Hirsch and Patrick Higgins at Future-Past Studios, Hudson, NY, in February 2014, the record was mixed by Patrick Higgins. No More Lamps In The Morning'features Victor Herrero on Portuguese guitar and Gyða ValtýsdÃ"ttir on cello (tracks 4 and 6).

Tracklisting:
1. Blue Roses (words by Rudyard Kipling)
2. A Thimbleful Of Milk
3. My Dove, My Beautiful One (words by James Joyce)
4. The Garden Of Earthly Delights
5. No More Lamps In The Morning
6. Second Sight
7. Magenta

Indie powerhouse Fortuna POP! is proud to announce the release of Old Magick, the second solo album by Steven James Adams, former songwriter/singer/guitarist from the critically acclaimed Broken Family Band. Old Magick is proof that Adams's gift for marrying exceptional lyrics with inescapable earworms is very much intact. 
 
With minimal instrumentation, Old Magick is, in part, a reaction to Adam's first solo outing House Music (2013), an album recorded in his living room and featuring an array of musical friends, including members of bands as disparate as pop-rockers The Vaccines and folk-idols Lau. 
 
This time around, he relocated to The Premises studios in Hackney with producer Dan Michaelson at the helm. 'The irony of going somewhere a bit more high-tech to make something with less people and instrumentation wasn't lost on me', notes Adams. With Michaelson also adding guitar and piano - lending his distinctive, pared-down style to many of the songs - and drums from Daniel Fordham (The Drink) the recording process was consciously self-contained. 'We worked in a bubble', says Adams, 'Michaelson wanted to make a record that sounded like me, not me trying to do something I don't normally do'and all I wanted was to make a record that sounded like him recording me.'
 
While the album title hints at Adams's interest in the dark arts, the lyrical content of Old Magick covers a lot of ground. Opening track 'Togetherness' is a topical meditation on how our society treats people from other countries, set to a disarmingly pretty tune. On the upbeat 'Kings of The Back of The Bus', Adams contrasts the posturing of youth with the choices we make as we get older ('Now it's just massage music'.) Elsewhere, desperation is in the air, as the deluded protagonist of 'Ideas' tries in vain to rescue a relationship gone wrong, a theme echoed by 'French Drop', an old conjuring term for a trick in which an object appears to disappear without having gone anywhere. The bad, sad trip of 'Sea of Words' pilfers the phrase 'the news from nowhere' from William Morris, former resident of Walthamstow, Adams's adopted home, while 'The Golden Bough' is 'a rock 'n roll song about neuroscience and the "spiritual" choices people make in Western culture.'
 
Old Magick sees Adams playing with new sounds and ideas but he has a message for fans of his earlier output: "I've still got the old magic" he says. "I also have some new magic. And some crap jokes".
 
Adams takes Old Magick on the road in the UK this March, with some magic (and magick?) related surprises. His shows are wonderful to behold: funny, intimate and wildly unpredictable. According to a recent Guardian article "you'd struggle to find a British songwriter of the last 15 years who's had such consistently good reviews." A genuine entertainer, a truly gifted songwriter, and perhaps the closest thing there is to a British Bill Callahan, Adams has produced a high watermark of a record in Old Magick, proof that his reputation is deserved. 

Tracklisting:
1. Togetherness
2. Kings of the Back of the Bus
3. Modern Options
4. Ideas
5. French Drop
6. More Togetherness
7. Sea of Words
8. The Golden Bough
9. An Ending
10. Sonny

Darren Hayman suggested to me that The Wave Pictures make an album with one microphone. Everybody together in one room playing live into one microphone. You get the picture right once and you capture it. No mixing later.

The idea appealed to me enormously. It's a really beautiful sound, the one microphone sound. The results tend to be mysterious and lively, and it's a very romantic way to record, too.

It's how Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys did it, after all (and that's how bluegrass music destroyed John Fahey's life). I decided to write some songs as quickly as possible and then to invite a bunch of our friends to make a recording with The Wave Pictures on my birthday, January 28th, 2015.

That's what this is - a one-microphone happy birthday recording.Thanks, then, are due to Darren for the idea and to Giles Barrett and Simon Trought for pulling it off. Thanks also to Paul at the Adelphi. The Wave Pictures always have a good time when we visit Hull. This album is dedicated to the memory of Blind Owl Wilson.

Tracklisting:
1. A Season In Hull
2. Remains
3. The Coaster in Santa Cruz
4. Slick Black River From The Rain
5. Thin Lizzy Live And Dangerous
6. Don't Worry My Friend, Don't Worry At All
7. Tropical Fish
8. Memphis Slim In Paris
9. Flow My Tears, The Musician Said
10. A Letter From Hull (Dom's Song)
11. The Pharmacy Cross
12. Hot Rain Riding On The Salt Lake
13. David In A Field Of Pumpkins

There's something great about a three-piece - think The Cocteau Twins, The Clean, Galaxie 500 - and the way that irreducible nucleus takes its strength from its limitations, making a virtue of its purity. And so it is with London trio Flowers, returning with their second album Everybody's Dying To Meet You in February 2016 via Fortuna Pop! (EU) and Kanine (US). Over the course of ten intensely thrilling pop songs, singer Rachel Kenedy's ethereal vocals and Sam Ayres textured guitar are backed by the powerful, metronomic beat of drummer Jordan Hockley.

Flowers began with Sam's year-long search for a singer, and when he posted one last fateful advert, stating he wanted to make pop songs like "early Madonna through a broken tape machine", this led him to Rachel. Right away the two fell into a deeply creative and romantic partnership. Currently sharing a flat in East London with their adorable dog Batman, they restore vintage musical equipment and feverishly record demos.

The first batch, polished up by none other than Bernard Butler, turned into debut Do What You Want To, It's What You Should Do released in 2013. Created during a period of illness for Ayres, the result is an album that, while exquisite in its own way, is necessarily subdued in tone.

For Everybody's Dying to Meet You the band retreated to Bark Studios in Walthamstow to work with producer Brian O'Shaughnessey (The Clientele, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine), a return home for Sam, who was born and spent most of his life in the area.  It proved to be the perfect fit for Flowers, the sessions enabling them to capture the essence of both their dynamic live sound and their distortion-laden home demos. Effortlessly blending pop songs with noise while leaving space for more stripped back elements, the recordings strike a perfect balance between the sweetness of Rachel's voice and Sam's abrasive guitar stylings. Their musical inspirations, from shoegaze, C86 and New Zealand's Flying Nun label, are now evident.

The infuriatingly catchy first single and opening track 'Pull My Arm' nearly didn't make it onto the album. Written during rehearsals for their tour with Luna after album recording sessions had finished, the band hastily booked another day at Bark and laid it down the day after the tour finished. Band favourite 'Ego Loss' began with Sam playing with a new guitar pedal and writing a punk number - ¦ before the addition of Rachel's words saw it morph into something completely different. Other highlights include the pop rush of 'Bitter Pill' and the mesmeric, slow-burning 'Intrusive Thoughts'.

Armed with a youthful intensity and determination that shows in their songs, Flowers have succeeded in harnessing their singular magic. Exuberant and electrifying, Everybody's Dying To Meet You crackles with confidence.

Tracklisting:
1. Pull My Arm
2. Bitter Pill
3. Ego Loss
4. All At Once
5. Intrusive Thoughts
6. How Do You Do
7. Tammy
8. Russian Doll
9. My Only Friend
10. Bathroom Sink

LIVE:
Wednesday 6^th January - Fortuna POP! Winter Sprinter @ The Lexington,
London Friday 12^th February  - Album Launch, Rough Trade East,
London Friday 11^th March - Sebright Arms, London

'Binary' is the new single from DIY-punk-pop quartet The Spook School, takenTry To Be Hopeful, out on now via Fortuna POP! A triumphant queer pop song, exploring gender and identity, "Binary" bursts with noisy energy and a maddeningly catchy tune that you just want to sing over and over, blending together influences ranging from Buzzcocks, to T-Rex and the noisier end of C86.

The Spook School are Anna Cory (bass and vocals), Adam Todd (guitar and vocals), Nye Todd (guitar and vocals) and Niall McCamley (drums). A band in the most communal sense of the word, the songwriting is split between all four members, giving a different perspective and energy to each song.  Since forming in 2012 they've become increasingly involved with the DIY queer punk scene, taking inspiration from the passionate, like-minded people they've met along the way, and from bands such as Martha, Joanna Gruesome, Trust Fund and Tuff Love.

The original recording of the track didn't quite match the excitement of their live show, so the band headed back into the studio to record a new version, the one you hear now, which also served to demonstrate the change in Nye's voice during the making of the record. As Nye undertook his own personal journey by embracing his trans identity and starting testosterone therapy his voice had become considerably lower! As he explains: 'It was a bit nerve-wracking and frustrating to not be able to sing things that I'd been able to sing easily before, but it sounds pretty great!'

The song itself about about questioning gender norms, something that singer and guitarist Nye Todd's experience of coming out as being trans has forced him to think about. As he explains, 'I could never understand gender when trying to think about it as a choice between men'and women'. What was it that separates those two types of people? When I discovered the idea of gender as something a lot messier and more nuanced than two categories, something that could be defined according to how people actually wanted to identify and place themselves, things made a lot more sense. I'm so proud and fortunate to know quite a few amazing people who openly identify as non-binary, genderqueer or other non-binary identities.' Celebrating life beyond the false choice between 'bowties or high heels', this song has quickly become a live favourite, prompting massed choruses of the 'I am bigger than a hexadecimal' line.

Try To Be Hopeful follows The Spook School's critically acclaimed debut album Dress Up (2013), which received plaudits from the Guardian, Uncut and Loud and Quiet. The Spook School have since seen their music used on TV, having recorded the theme tune for BBC Three series 'Badults' (Adam, Anna & Niall all have sidelines in the world of comedy), and have also toured the US, where they became the subject of a Rolling Stone documentary and met Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!

Try To Be Hopeful is the sound of a band growing up, embracing their identities, and taking charge at the world. But amidst the fight for a place in society for everyone, there's still time for love, friendship, and fun. With their bold, fizzy and electrifying anthems, The Spook School are the shot of optimism we've been hoping for.

"Edinburgh's Spook School are a band who have to exist... the quartet's bright indie-pop - sometimes breezily cheerful, 

"Emotionally literate and politically conscious... The Spook School deliver the goods with a good-humoured, no frills approach." The New Internationalist 4*s

Ulrika Spacek is a British experimental rock band formed in Berlin by Rhys Edwards and Rhys Williams, relocated to Homerton, London.  

Work on debut album The Album Paranoia'began in the summer of 2014 in the band's shared house KEN, and was finished there last month.

In conjunction to the making of The Album Paranoia', the band has curated a number of nights under the name Oysterland'combining their first live performances with a series of exhibitions.

The band's music has drawn various interpretations, a cross pollination of hypnotic fuzz, Verlain-Malkmus guitar idiosyncrasies and intertwining feelings of both angst and melancholia.

Tracklisting:
1. I Don't Know
2. Porcelain
3. Circa 1954
4. Strawberry Glue
5. Beta Male
6. NK
7. Ultra Vivid
8. She's A Cult
9. There's A Little Passing Cloud in You
10. Airportism