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- Record of the Week. Music to be chased to.
- Pre-order: new Goat 7”. Three colours!
- Pre-order: new The Heads collection.
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
It’s bleak here in Holbeck so please bear with us if your order hasn’t shipped as we’re probably in a corner crying. But hark! The sound of new records to get us through the week. Again. Let’s see what bundles of joy have floated up the concrete stairwell.
New:
Stepping forward into the breach….
- Sarah Davachi dares to drone again.
- Local punks Beta-Blockers rouse a rabble.
- A Place to Bury Strangers is called a graveyard.
- This week’s Trump Record comes from Laura Veirs.
- The Damned. Originally named The Darned.
- Who is this Josh T. Person?
- Ashley Paul delivers a new record of spooky soliloquy.
- Wrekmeister Harmonies finally pens his Nick Cave fanfic.
- Light piano drippage from Goldmund.
- Chaines are scary. Stay away.
- A Hawk and a Hacksaw riff on the tradition of hanging out in a forest.
- Field Report yell their pop music at you.
- Slug play quirk pop just like their fellow musos Field Music.
- King Tuff is normally in Ty Segal’s backing band and he’s got a great hat.
- Oly Ralfe of the Ralfe Band makes some crystalline piano stuff.
- D A Stern is good at soft pop and crosswords.
- The Moondoggies do dusty Americana with heart firmly plonked on sleeve.
- Firestations are lovely and play soft kraut pop like Teleman.
- Supergroup MIEN feature a Horror, a Black Angel and an Early.
- Makeness has a temper tantrum. Get him off the dancefloor!
- Nest Egg force Robin to type the word ‘motorik’ just one more time.
- Wrong are a series of noise bands teaming up to make a churn.
- Triptides are still happy enough making 60’s jangle and strum…
- Nice to see ambient lot Hibernate back with this 3” CD by Map165.
Reissues:
Not many this week. But don’t panic! Record Store Day is just around the corner.
- 60s classic Kaleidoscope gets remastered by Sonic Boom.
- Scandal: Metallica were once young.
- David Bowie’s ‘Changes2Bowie’ compilation gets its first issue since the 80s.
- Actual good music alert. A Diana Ross and the Supremes box set of rarities on Third Man.
Ant’s Electronic Round-up:
Spending half-term educating his kids about the history of Kompakt.
- Good, new/old ‘Royal Astronomy’ vibes µ-Ziq album possibly rescued from lost DAT lurking in the bottom of his undies drawer for the last 20 years.
- Opal Tapes action with a CD from Bálint Szabó aka Gosheven delving further into non-standard tunings. Plus class tapes from Acre - pushing the Grime template forward via sci-fi sound design and the AnD boys bring the pain as Shadows.
- mmph channels heartbreak and loss into a promising debut EP on Tri Angle.
- Thembi Soddell creates intense, abyss-like soundworlds on Room40.
- Edition of 300 copies LP on Collapsing Market from Ssaliva. Check if you dig Arca, Lorenzo Senni, Ash Koosha etc.
- The Caretaker's chronology reaches stage 4 and things are getting bluuuury.
- Legendary dutch electro producer Frank De Groodt aka Sonar Base gets his ‘Dark Matter’ mini album vinylized.
- Re-recorded, re-mixed at EMS and expanded edition of John Duncan's 1984 face shredder 'Riot'.
- Cinematic electronica from Rival Consoles on Erased Tapes.
- Worth risking a ram-raid on your local Happy Shopper to fund the incredible batch of vinyl reissues on États-Unis from Jean Dubuffet, John Duncan, Warner Jepson, Remko Scha, Annea Lockwood.
- Psychedelic Dungeon Disco from Sordid Sound System on Invisible Inc.
- Noise tinged doomsday electronics from African Ghost Valley conjuring images of corroded future-scapes.
- Baffling, cryptic, oddball avant-pop from Élg with an LP of musique concrète and chanson mutations.
- Ben Galyas, Terre Thaemlitz and Robin Rimbaud EP on Premature Recordings.
- Neil Scrivin aka Phono Ghosts and Meatbingo get his 2007 'Geek Umanship' digital release dubbed onto tape.
- Eleventh album from German sound messers Mouse On Mars - roping in the like of Spank Rock, Beirut and that fella from The National.
- SCB aka Scuba’s future dystopia record.
- Peacefrog repress Moodymann's Silence In The Secret Garden 2LP.
- Hypnotic 'drum & drone’ from Arikon on Portals Editions.
More stuff:
- Everything New In so far.
- All our recent Re-stocks.
- All our Staff Reviews in one place for you to yell at.
Epilogue:
We’re finally getting a proper internet connection.
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Words: Clint, Robin and Ant. Work: Kim, Jamie, Benn, Daoud, Phil, Nathon and Ol’ Cardigan Punk.
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