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.

Team Norman
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Words: Clint, Robin and Ant. Work: Kim, Jamie, Benn, Daoud, Phil, Nathon and Ol’ Cardigan Punk.

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