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"One day, people will wake up to the Hank Dogs, a gem from the heyday of my Hannibal Records label. It's so great that they're back!” Joe Boyd
Hank Dogs – Andy Allan, his partner Piano and Lily, Andy’s daughter from a previous relationship - started out at folk clubs in London in the early 1990s before going worldwide in 1998 when legendary producer and late 60s Folk Rock guru, Joe Boyd declared them the first British act he'd loved in 30 years.
Their debut album ‘Bareback’ saw them touring the US with Joan Baez and winning fans with their quiet, haunting sound featuring ethereal vocal harmonies, strong traces of blues and Celtic music and Allan’s fluid acoustic finger-picking recalling UK folk guitarists such as John Renbourn.
Another part of their appeal, particularly in the States, was their ‘Carter Family’ image but then, when Andy and Piano split-up in real life, so did the band. A follow up album ‘Half Smile’ appeared in 2002 but this turned out to be their swansong.
However, the story was not quite over yet.. a third unreleased album ‘Fiveways’ had been recorded before they went their separate ways and now it’s finally seeing the light of day on South London label Scratchy Records, plus the band are re-uniting for some long overdue gigs to celebrate the release.
‘Fiveways’ contains much of the Hank Dogs’ trademark English folk/US country-straddling sound. Piano’s voice bounces between early Suzanne Vega, Tracey Thorn and Mary Margaret O’Hara with occasional hints of Dolores Cranberry and Bridget St. John, while underneath the acoustic guitars run freeform tangled and Lily’s backing vocals add sky.
Stand out track ‘Logic’ with it’s pensive lyrics and haunting guitar line recalls the way Suzanne Vega (her again) could sometimes make songs stand still in their tracks but it’s the dreamy ‘Nut’ that really captures the mood “You had me when I was sweet as a nut.. Not sweet enough” sings Piano. This is the sound of two ex-lovers still able to work together but unable to hide the odd dig here and there.. like a follow up album a couple of years later on from ‘Blood On The Tracks’.
Andy sings a few songs too including the raggedy, shwashbuckling ‘Gazetteer’ revolving around a ‘Pre-CBS Maple neck Sunburst bought off The Pretty Things’ and hinting at a whole lifetime of music biz escapades from watching his dad Elkan Allan produce 60s TV show ‘Ready Steady Go’ to a stint on bass in The Professionals along with Steve Jones and Paul Cook.
Next year the story carries on with his long-running South East London ‘Easycome’ club night featuring in US TV queen Lena Dunham’s new Netflix series ‘Too Much’. Towards the end of the album an angelic setting of Dylan Thomas’s ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ in the song ‘Nod’ recalls Christmas TOTP number ones from days gone by and captures Hank Dogs ability to transport the listener. This album is definitely one for the dreamers.
FFO Pentangle, The Innocence Mission and William Blake.
Tracklisting:
1. Arrows
2. Logic
3. Fiveways
4. Luki Icin
5. Nut
6. Dipper
7. Margaret Finch
8. Good Bits
9. Gazetteer
10. Well
11. Nod
12. Daddy
13. Buttered
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'3rd album from Manc indie-rockers is a twin-guitared lockdown diary tunefest'Visit product page →
Produced by Simon ‘Ding’ Archer (PJ Harvey, The Pixies, The Fall) at 6db studios in Salford, the album title seems to refer to the lockdown period in one sense, a document of that time, but as frontman Tom Long elaborates: “It also harks back to pre-lockdown, when there was actually a possibility of some change on offer. Unfortunately we’re forbidden from talking about that. There were solutions to many of the problems we face now, but that dream was crushed, never to be spoken of again”. Manchester indie-rockers Easter have built a reputation as one of the city’s best-kept secrets. Spurred along by singer/songwriter/guitarist Tom Long with a rotating cast of Manc-underground shredders, they’re a formidable live act who’ve toured the UK repeatedly and provided support for post-rock behemoths Mono, avant-rockers Ranga and Mugstar but also poppier acts such as Canadian shoe-gazers Tallies.
However, for all of Manchester’s illustrious musical history, it’s hard to bring to mind a local act that they compare or aspire to. Instead Easter’s binoculars are fixed on the fuzzy indie-rock of Dinosaur Jr , Guided By Voices and Teenage Fanclub with added twin-guitar weaving recalling the articulate jams of Television, Chris Forsyth and even Wishbone Ash. Only in Tom’s vocals are there occasional hints of their surroundings with echoes of the Mozza and a few junctions away across the M62, Dave Gedge.
They’ve found admirers in Huw Stephens and Tom Ravenscroft at 6Music and garnered praise from Uncut, Record Collector and NYC’s The Big Takeover while building a loyal fanbase across the UK.
“A welcome throwback to the wry, self-lacerating alt.rock of the early 90s” Uncut
“Astonishing” Record Collector
“Lovely bit of noise” Tom Ravenscroft BBC 6 Music
“It devilishly combines a banged acoustic with spiky electric, like Bevis Frond covering A Catholic Education by Teenage Fanclub. If this is “Hell,” give us more!” Big Takeover
Easter are:
Tom Long - Vocals/Guitar
Gavin Clarke Guitar
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Visit product page →Debut album from US indie rock-influenced uber-tunesmiths
Old school friends and long-time collaborators, Mark Rowland and Paul Webber formed The Volunteered at the tail end of 2019 when they started working on new songs channeling old indie rock heroes such as Built to Spill, Guided By Voices, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Belle and Sebastian.
They put out the 'We Fall Apart' EP in 2020 as a modest self-release and now, what started as a way to keep busy during lockdown has been expanded into a full-length vinyl and digital album, out on Scratchy Records this February.
It's a varied listen, from the pounding, tuneful fuzz of lead single Going to Amsterdam to the atmospheric heart-string puller The Lights. Everywhere you look there are hooks waiting to pull you in and some great pop songwriting recalling everyone from Sparklehorse, GBV and Buddy Holly to The Triffids and Pearl Jam.
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Going to Amsterdam
2. Win is Easy
3. Bless the News
4. The Lights
Side B
1. Fall Back
2. Old Life
3. Bottleneck
4. Tell Them What They Want
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Visit product page →New solo album from Bromide frontman Simon Berridge
"From the first sparkling chords, this draws you into Simon Bromide's world where the ghosts of Johnny Marr, Peter Perrett and XTC joust with the psychedelic sounds and neo-folk herein." Vive Le Rock 9/10
“Byrdsian lustre, psychedelic haze, far-flung exotica, gritty northern soul and Kinksy visions of London life on this wide-ranging debut solo album.. it’s quite the trip” Classic Rock 8/10
"Hits the sonic sweet spot.. blending the literate pop-rock craftsmanship of beloved British icons The Kinks with the propulsive punch and fuzzy crunch of classic American power-pop" Tinnitist
The album features drummer Fells Guilherme (Children of The Pope), bassist Ed 'Cosmo' Wright, multi-instrumentalists Dave Hale, Dimitri Ntontis and Stephen Elwell as well as folk-pop chanteuse Katy Carr on piano and Terry Edwards (Nick Cave, Tom Waits, P.J.Harvey) on trumpet. Scottish singer Julie Anne McCambridge joins Simon on the closing track, the William Blake penned 'Earth's Answer'.
Tracklisting:
1. The Waiting Room
2. Chinua Achebe
3. The Skehans Song
4. Not That Type
5. The Argument
6. Slow Release Love
7. Following The Moon
8. Reflections of Seating
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That Will Be Lunch 'Play That Funky Music / Discarded Things' Vinyl 7" - Green
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Maverick Spetz - not his real name, his real name's Alvin (ha!) - has released two albums as Full English Breakfast - 'a highly eccentric but thoroughly engaging electronic pop debut that aligns him with the Fall and Frank Zappa' (Uncut) - and another as TWBL on Scratchy Records and has been compared to everyone from Yello to Frank Zappa and Stereolab. Play That Funky Music is an inspired and outlandish Year Zero reimagining of that 1970s disco classic that firmly places itself alongside The Fall's unorthodox cover of Sister Sledge's Lost In Music - but with added cuckoo clocks.
Alvin Spetz (aka That Will Be Lunch) has already been compared to the likes of The Fall, Edwyn Collins, Devo and Wire (by the Sunday Times) and with the release of the superb art-pop cover of Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music' he's likely to add both The Residents and (an albeit dancified) Denim to that illustrious list. Released together with B-side Discarded Things (which was presumably too weirdly contemporary to release on NME's C86 cassette compilation), the single will be made available on 7'green vinyl on Scratchy Records on Record Store Day, Saturday 29th August and then from Friday 4th September in the digiverse for download / streaming.
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Visit product page →One friend. Two bands. And so it was that Manchester's 'Easter' and London's 'Bromide' met in their mutual pal Dave Armes's address book (he of Last Harbour, LCR Records and A-Sun Amissa sidekick repute). Soon after Easter were on their way down t'smoke to play at Bromide's place, namely the Birds Nest in Deptford. And verily did they smash it! So much so that Bromide singer Simon immediately thought about putting something out on his Scratchy Records label.. and why not keep the threads twisting and make it a joint release!
And there's more..! Easter had a whole EP ready to go so punters who buy the vinyl will get a free download code for the extra tracks. Then early next year both bands will be heading out fora few gigs to plug the single, joined by Southend's own fabulous guitar reverb-drenched 'Dark Globes' - who've also got wares to plug in the shape of newly released album 'Somewhere To Land'.
Especially as both bands share a love of alt. sounds from across the pond back in dem 90s days. Easter feasting on Buffalo Tom's heavier riffs, Yo La Tengo and San Francisco's 'Swell', while Bromide reminded Easter's mainman Tom of 'Nada Surf and Big Star and that New Zealand power pop stuff..' So the split-single was born.. Easter taking the A with 'Doubt Rings', a propulsive guitar-lashed gallop thru the relationship forest with Bromide on the AA offering 'I'll Never Learn' from last year's 'I Woke Up' album on Scratchy, an up/downbeat reflective tale that dries solid on the choruses when the fuzz kicks in. Easter - 'A welcome throwback to the wry, self-lacerating alt.rock of the early 90s'Uncut Bromide -if you like Dinosaur Jr and The Replacements, you'll love this'MusicOMH
Release Date: 31/01/2020 -
Magic Coins'is an unexpected rhythm track that is seemingly drum and bass-inspired, written collectively by all three band members. Bromide are Simon Berridge on vocals and guitar, Ed Lush on drums, and Hugo Wilkinson on bass.Visit product page →
These songbirds worship at the altars of Husker Du, Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements, Guided By Voices, Dinosaur Jr., The Only Ones, Buffalo Tom and other melodic rockers equally obsessed by songs, songwriting and the euphoria associated with playing music through amplified electronic equipment.
Hailing from London, their sound has been described as "Grant Hart fronting Sebadoh" and "Elvis Costello fronting Dinosaur Jr."
Vive Le Rock noted that they mix 'the best bits of The Lemonheads and Dinosaur Jr. replete with melancholic melodies and J Mascis-ish guitar lines".
"Bromide haven't just woken up, they're alert and more keenly ambitious than ever" **** Record Collector
"Stunning.. if no one discovers this album now it will be claimed as one of the great lost albums of the era" 8/10 Louder than War
"I Woke Up catches the London-based three-piece punching a rather large and splendid hole in the modern alt-rock landscape" 8/10 God Is In The TV
"If you like Dinosaur Jr and The Replacements, you'll love this" 4/5 musicOMH
"A mighty fine tune from Bromide" Gideon Coe, BBC 6 Music
"Joyously scrappy punkgaze tune" The 405
Track List Side A - Magic Coins Side B - Always Now Live: Saturday 23rd March - Scratchstock at The Birds Nest, Deptford Saturday 13th April - Records Store Day alldayer at Sister Midnight Records, Deptford Thursday 18th April - The Islington (London) as support for UT Saurday 25th May - Scratchstock at The Birds Nest, Deptford
Release Date: 26/04/2019 -
In 2015 London-based Bromide got their electric shoes back on with new bass player Hugo Wilkinson joining long-term collaborators, singer-guitarist Simon Berridge and drummer Ed Lush.Visit product page →
The resulting album I Remember'was described by Vive Le Rock as mixing 'the best bits of The Lemonheads and Dinosaur Jr replete with melancholic melodies and J Mascis-ish guitar lines" and won news fans including Gideon Coe on BBC6 who dubbed their single Mr. Ciccone's Daughter''Fantastic !' and played it for several months at the end of 2016.
Another vital piece of the puzzle had also fallen into place as they'd found producer Brian O'Shaughnessy at Bark Studios who seamlessly welded their pop onto their rock and last year the band returned to Bark to record their sixth album I Woke Up'.
Again stuffed full of pop delights struggling to reach the 3 minute mark such as Two Song Slot', the story of a disastrous open-mic encounter turning into a last minute victory and Tale To Tell'a conscience-pricked near perfect example of the Bromide sound written in the studio while recording, the album also sees the band begin to stretch their wings a bit.
Magic Coins'has an unexpected almost drum and bass inspired rhythm track while album closer and title track I Woke Up'is a 6 minute Doorsian odyssey. The song began life as a response to the biopic Mr. Turner'and in particular the scene in the film where the painter is tied to a mast in order to experience the full force of a nocturnal storm.
Starting with Berridge's Glenn Branca inspired intro Lush and Wilkinson then latch on a full-on krautrock groove to build the track through to an epic conclusion complete with thunder, rain and anything else lying round the studio.
Elsewhere Patti Smith's Dancing Barefoot'is given a thorough work out plus there are contributions from the rhythm section with Lush writing the music for both I'll Never Learn'and Always Now'while Wilkinson provides a breath of fresh air in proceedings with the instrumental Futurist Shore Leave'.
With I Woke Up'Bromide have firmly fixed the songwriter onto the band and vice-a-versa. As one recent twitter live review summed up 'They rock hard but the tunes come first: like Elvis Costello fronting Dinosaur Jr' Ain't gonna argue with that.
Tracklisting:
1. Tale to Tell
2. 'll Never Learn
3. Two Song Slot
4. The Guide
5. Magic Coins
6. Ancient Rome
7. Futurist Shore Leave
8. Postcard From Leipzig
9. Dancing Barefoot
10. Always Now
11. Woke Up
Release Date: 25/05/2018 -
Visit product page →First 'Scratchy Singles Club' release on limited edition pink vinyl for Record Store Day
'I like Taylor Swift too and I don't care what you think.. bit of an instant classic' John Kennedy, Radio X
'A chunk of pop-rock with a dash of humour.. Reminds me of Fountains of Wayne" Gary Crowley, BBC London'A golden voice' - Consequence Of Sound
I Like Taylor Swift is a sub-3-minute powerpop rock'n'roll anthem channelling the licks of Fountains Of Wayne and Weezer which tells of Coach Hop brainchild Charlie Laurence's fondness'for the Country Queen Pop Music Maven, Taylor Swift, using a tongue-in-cheek humour that's more disarming than it is distracting.
On the surface, I LikeTaylor Swift is a lovesong to the titular popstar but upon closer inspection, is an observation on the state of the modern music industry, 'In the song I admit I haven't really listened to much of her music but I'm inundated with images and stories about her' says Charlie. Throughout the song it verges on an admission that it's not cool to like Taylor Swift but in his trademark style, Charlie doesn't care what anyone else thinks, as he sings 'I like Taylor Swift and I don't care who knows it, it's not a guilty pleasure, it's just a normal pleasure.'The accompanying video is a state of the art'animated affair using techniques that are an industry first, produced by Charlie's brother, and BBC Creative's Head of Design Lawrence Honderick and Sam Humphries.
The release's B-side; Everything's Fine is a subversive and evocative social commentary that expresses Charlie's acerbic wit and lookon life with the lyric: 'They say every cloud has a silver lining but I'm not a believer. I'm not gonna be bitter about it, but I don't have to be happy about it either. Everything's fine, and nothing's gonna be alright.'
Release Date: 21st April 2018 -
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Third helping from One-man art-pop prankster'Alvin Spetz. Alvin Spetz is also the maverick singer-songwiter responsible for two of the most eccentric and original albums of the last 6 or 7 years.
Released under the moniker of Full English Breakfast, his self-titled debut and follow up Candy In Weightlessness'earned rave reviews from broadsheets to blogs. Now album No.3 The Mixtape of Things'is ready and Spetz likewise is moving on up through the daily nutritional cycle and this time will be known as That Will Be Lunch'.
Alvin's new mixtape is full of songs, some only just scraping past 30 seconds, that one moment remind you of children's TV theme tunes and the next sound like they might be playing in an industrial discotheque from the future. In this unsettling but always playful landscape you're almost half-expecting the whimsical paen to the snacks marketing division at Waitrose when it arrives in the shape of The Campaign for Plain Nuts'.
Nestled amongst all the strangeness is an inspired cover of Talking Heads classic One in a Lifetime'. Spetz has delved deep into the DNA of this ground-breaking track and extracted what can only be described as previously unseen footage'. Like an inquisitive kid he's taken the engine apart without a hope in hell of ever putting it back together again in the correct order. But this hasn't stopped him re-assembling it.
Spetz discovered music while studying at Aberdeen university in the 80s. Inspired by the fledgling indie sounds of Edwyn Collins, The Fall, Josef K and The Pop Group, he embarked on a journey that's included nascent recordings with members of The Shamen, dabbling with Sufism and the tabloids hounding him as a result, burning everything he's ever recorded (several times) and playing one gig. Ever. In Belgium. -
Darkly comic and melodic little songs for your horror and amusement'In 2010, after 5 years writhing and screaming in cabaret/rock band Hooverville, Joey Herzfeld strapped on an accordion and gathered together an impressive array of so-called friends to deliver his nasty but melodic little ditties with a more acoustic lineup. ..Are Watching You'is their debut album, a collection of dark and funny tales of hangings, heartbreak, stalkers and lechers all interspersed with foot-stomping instrumentals.Visit product page →
Highlights include "Great Again", the story of a failed writer with lofty intentions stalking a famous novelist, "Maggie Dickson", where a woman somehow survives hanging, then sets up a thriving pub overlooking the gallows, and "Cracks", a surprisingly swinging take on modern hermitism whose apocalyptic finale gives the band full licence to let rip.
Joey has long been something of an anomaly in the North London music scene, honing traditional song-craft while playing with more experimental musicians. So here amidst the rye banjo licks and folk fiddle we find the best and brightest of the Stoke Newington / Walthamstow avant garde.
There are cheery clarinet tootlings from Alex Ward, best known for his boundary shredding free improv and noise rock, anchored double bass and keys from Santiago Horro and Luke Barlow, both members of ear-melting math rock band Nought, and springy drums from Jem Doulton of the Thurston Moore Band and Roisin Murphy.
All of the above have been playing challenging and unpredictable music together for years in every conceivable combination, but here rub shoulders with players from more grounded folk traditions. So, if pithy twisted storytelling accompanied by a circus of wheezing accordion, twanging banjo, gypsy fiddle, wailing clarinet plus an occasional smattering of surf guitar, toy piano, spooky organ, musical saw, glockenspiel, mandolin, ukulele, scronking sax, scrap metal and cutlery (breathe..) intrigues your musical palate, please take a seat at the ringside..
Their extraordinarily different sound, great musicianship and stage presence alienated half the crowd and transfixed the rest. Were they mental or brave musical pioneers?'The Londonist
Circus sideshow malarkey'Drowned in Sound
Intriguing fare'NME
Tracklisting:
1. Great Again
2. Tightrope
3. Elsewhere
4. Half -Hanged Maggie Dickson
5. Girl Won't You Dance?
6. Charge of the Centipedes
7. Life in the city
8. Secret Admirer
9. Ugliness
10. Seedy
11. Mayfly
12. Cracks
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Visit product page →New single Limited edition cassette on Scratchy.
Music. What is it good for ? Maybe music starts where words finish.We spend our lives absorbed by thoughts, experiences, emotions. Sometimes we can translate these into words, sometimes we need something more. Something.. other. We need sound.
Sound hotwires us direct to the soul. There are no diversions, no double meanings. There is only the purity of sound. Over a lifetime we become a living record of these sounds, a collection of sensory triggers that will transport us back in time to moments of joy, despair and everything in between.
‘I Remember’ is a collage of some of these moments. Of dancing with joy just because, of feeling the clouds draw in on a relationship, of becoming aware of music, of love. And ultimately of the realisation that there is no answer and all the roads are yellow bricked. As the song says..‘we’re just painting the bruises of our heads against the wall’.
The single is the title track from Bromide’s new album ‘I Remember’ produced by legendary producer Brian O’Shaughnessy (Primal Scream, MBV). It comes with two unreleased tracks – ‘Lovely New York’ an acoustic cover of a song by the late Tarka Cordell, former school bandmate of Bromide singer Simon Berridge and ‘Treasure Map’ the demo version of a track from previous Bromide album ‘Some Electric Sometime’.
Tracklisting:
1. I Remember
2. Lovely New York
3. Treasure Map (Demo)
"Bromide mix the best bits of The Lemonheads and Dinosaur Jr replete with melancholic melodies and J Mascis-ish guitar lines" Vive Le Rock"‘I Remember’ is a brisk, snappy affair, which combines super-melodicism with athletic, abrasive guitars. Berridge’s confessional lyrics pull off the double feat of being both refreshingly down-to-earth and also angular at the same time" pennyblackmusic.co.uk
Release date: 14th august 2015 -
Visit product page →First release for the electric band line-up since 1998
London band Bromide's new album I Remember'is a nostalgic rollercoaster ride round the icons of scuffed up fuzzy guitar pop. There's nods to 80s hardcore heroes Husker Du, the yearning melodies of Teenage Fanclub, the gymnastic pop/rock straddling of The Only Ones and even mid-70s Top of the Popster Steve Harley gets a look in on lead track Wheels'.Elsewhere there are encounters with rediscovered jazz legends and whimsical buskers Henry Grimes', the tale of a teenage quest for the seeds of flower power Lion Tamer's Jacket'and in the title track I Remember'an array or early musical memories assembled in a dream sequence show and tell. Magnetic Fields get a good going over as well with a Les Paul friendly re-working of their classic 'I don't want to get over you'.
At the helm is legendary producer Brian O'Shaughnessy (Primal Scream, MBV) dispensing an economy to proceedings that's got Robert Pollard checking his stopwatch.
Bromide are - Simon Berridge (Guitar/Vocals), Ed Lush (Drums) and Hugo Wilkinson (Bass/Backing vocals)
'Romping, indie-pop blast that recalls the heyday of The Only Ones' The Times
'Like an ultra loud cross between Dinosaur Jr and The Lemonheads' Kerrang
"If Husker Du were Neil Young's backing band.." Vis the Spoon (Promoter)Tracklisting:
1. Wheels
2. Gravity Glue
3. Hotwired To My Memories
4. Saddest Thing (That Didn't Matter In The World)
5. Henry Grimes
6. Mr. Ciccone's Daughter
7. I Don't Want To Get Over You
8. 2 Front Teeth
9. Lion Tamer's Jacket
10. I Remember
Release date: 26th January 2015 -
Indie-glam-rocking stormer from Mr Cola and eye-linered cohortsVisit product page →
This is glam pop at its best' - The Quietus
'This was my introduction to Jonny Cola And The A Grades. It's left me intrigued, a little baffled and relieved that there are still young bands out there with the ambition to aim for the stars and the talent to succeed for the most part. Most bands that I love are doomed to die in obscurity and poverty. Just this once people, prove me wrong. They deserve better' louderthanwar
"Thinking man's glam ... the swirling coolness of Bowie teetering on the brink of Queen over-the-top theatrics" Vive le Rock
"With [Spitfire], the A-Grades have effortlessly succeeded in taking everything that makes them such a great band and wrapping it up into 45 minutes of glam-pop bliss" pure rawk
Tracklisting:
1. In The Woods
2. Tropical Beach
3. Straight To Video
4. Rain Stopped Play
5. Blow Up
6. Going Over
7. Semaphore
8. Sunset/Sunrise
9. Wronghead
10. Out Of The Woods
Release date: 9th September 2013 -
Second album smorgasbord from artpop eccentric dabbling with electronicaVisit product page →
"Lush, largely instrumental, cut-up music that tweaks memories of everyone from Yello and Stereolab to Denim.. Spetz’s restless imagination wins the day.” Uncut
“It is sweetness and it is light and it is 42 minutes and 37 seconds worth of moon age confectionery for our modern times” godisinthetv
“Breathtakingly brilliant” pennyblackmusic
“Breakbeats, samba, stolen dubstep basslines and crunching rock riffs.. With the colour of music currently a dull beige (Mumford/Adele/ Sande et al), artists who put 2 and 2 together and come up with anything but 4 are needed now more than ever, add spetz to the list of beautiful outsiders.” 8.6/10 withguitars
Tracklisting:
1. Bubbleworks
2. Second Hand Poet
3. Open Your Mind
4. 3 Before A
5. Ivor’s Noodles
6. Bedrooms
7. Music For Giftshops
8. Ice 9
9. Thought Bubbles
Release date: 3rd December 2012 -
Bromide returns to the studio for fourth album with producer Nigel of Bermondsey facilitating.Visit product page →
"Musically upbeat, but lyrically bruised fabulous first studio album in fifteen years from Bromide.. captures the momentary nature of life, and does so magnificently" pennyblackmusic
'Bromide's songs have a relaxed storytelling style, they're not in a hurry to impress, happy to await their election into the hall of fame.. They exist in the margins where all the interesting notes are made.' americana-uk
'Simon Berridge's voice is as strong as ever, with the songwriter only gaining in sound and fury' clashmusic
'An album to cherish.. Small Rewards'has an infectious pop feel to it that radio stations the country over should playlist" amusicalpriority
Tracklisting:
1. Broken Record
2. Hat to the Ride
3. Small Rewards
4. The View in Winter
5. Tightrope Act
6. Nikki Sudden
7. Nothing's Going In
8. Treasure Map
9. Triggers
10. We are Reflective
11. Arrangements for a Wedding
Release date: 9th July 2012 -
Jonny Cola & The A-Grades unleash a pop anthem for the summerVisit product page →
“ ‘All the young dudes’ with the slick rhythms of Blondie.. you’ll be waving a feather boa over your head and grinning like a muppet” Artrocker
"Perfectly crafted POP! complete with falsetto “oo”s in the chorus, like every pop classic should have.. catchy as hell” godisinthetv
“The angular Mr Cola and his A-Grades return with new EP which showcases their refreshing mix of “Oxfam glam” and astute social commentary, imagine if Suede had read Marx(Groucho and Karl)” Von Pip Musical Express
Tracklisting:
1. Postcode Wars
2. Alpha Male
3. Summer Of Hate
4. If I Leave You Sitting In The Dark (Just Let Me Know)
Release date: 27th june 2011 -
Critically acclaimed artpop debut from mysterious curtain twitcher Alvine SpetzVisit product page →
A highly eccentric but thoroughly engaging electronic/art-pop debut that aligns him with The Fall, Denim and Frank Zappa” Uncut
“The fine and unfathomably funky Full English Breakfast.. If Beefheart had a surreal senior moment and reformed his Magic Band to perform S Club 7 covers, it might sound something like this” The Guardian
“One-man art-pop prankster.. this year’s cult model” Mojo
“Pulls together the sound of The Fall, Edwyn Collins, Devo and Wire.. seriously good” **** Sunday Times
“Fall-like panache” Artrocker
Tracklisting:
1. Full English Breakfast
2. Cuban Hotel
3. Song For A Nut
4. Cake Stand
5. Shift Key Noodles
6. Duster
7. The Cord
8. Fish Tank Bubbles[Shining On]
9. Winder Kills The Clock.
10. It's Good/ It's Gone
11. The Cleansing Of Rock And Roll
Release date: 3rd August 2009
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