Disco Compilation
Serafina Steer
Digital only, the 7" vinyl of this release is available exclusively for Record Store Day
Anti Patterns 1 – ‘Waves On waves/ The Fountainhead’
The European
Digital and limited edition CDR (100 copies) THE EUROPEAN is back for 2013 with a brand new EP series titled ANTI-PATTERNS. The first in the series is "Waves On Waves / The Fountainhead".
The Moths Are Real
Serafina Steer
Produced by Jarvis Cocker, recording took place at The Way Studios, The Square, Konk, Fish Factory and St Leonards Church variously between December 2011 and June 2012.
Line The Wall
Bo Ningen
...10 beautiful, intense drone pop pieces that crash and burn in a cacophony of percussion and grunge guitars...4 Stars Mojo
Furniture
Race Horses
Bright, theatrical pop with a soulful edge.
My Year Abroad
Race Horses
Live At St. Leonard’s Church
Bo Ningen
Recorded live in St Leonard's Church Shoreditch on 24th November 2011. Limited edition silk screen pressed 10" with sleeve designed by Kohhei Matsuda.
Fight Less, Win More
My Sad Captains
Steeped in heartfelt, semi-twee pop that is strikingly well produced...‘Fight Less, Win More’ is a joyous ride through the blessed strain of indie ploughed by US contemporaries like Grandaddy and Atlas Sound...Cherish this one
We Are The Champions
JEFF The Brotherhood
Big and heavy but still quick on its feet....The tune's aw-shucks silliness is as charming as its earworm of a melody is inescapable.
Henkan/ Jinsei Ichido Kiri
Bo Ningen
Devastating noise-rock destruction...You can hear the past in Bo Ningen's wall of sound and massive melodies, but the past re-imagined - from Butoh to Black Sabbath. If Black Sabbath was in Blade Runner.
One Thousand Pictures
Pete And The Pirates
Pop in a tar-pit – black and sticky but wonderfully pure at heart.
Heavy Days
JEFF The Brotherhood
Quite simply, JEFF The Brotherhood are our heros and they should be yours too.
Bo Ningen
Bo Ningen
Almost unprecedented in its fearless fusion of 40 years of guitar noise..filters 1970s metal excess through a hardcore punk mesh..an exhilarating album
Bloody Hell
Serafina Steer
It's just her voice and a harp... there's a freedom and luxuriant beauty, a subtle glory, in the singing out of harp and her voice as they chase each other round and about the songs narratives.
In A Very Real Sense Now
The European
The European's music is at one level simplistic and melancholic, but at another Break's unusual use of instrumentation and software give it a lingering and mesmerising edge.
Koroshitai Kimochi
Bo Ningen
The foursomes feral punk/metal approach and hectic tempo changes nod to Jap freak-out combos such as Acid Mothers Temple, Melt-Banana, Boredoms and Boris.
On My Way
Tap Tap
On My Way suggests that if we keep Sanders unhappy and lonesome for the near future we might have a truly great British songwriter to cherish. It really is that good.
In The Court Of The Wrestling Lets
Let's Wrestle
Savant genius from reckless London-based trio...In the Court Of... sounds both warmly familiar yet dazzlingly fresh...Some might find their ramshackle rhythms as insubstantial as a dream, others will be too swaddled in bliss to care.
Here And Elsewhere
My Sad Captains
The album dances on the edge of beauty and sadness; Never falling into indulgence...it's the kind of record that stills you, changes the light in the room and makes you remember something from long ago you thought you'd forgotten
Power Of The Brain
Artefacts For Space Travel
The six songs mix up psychedelic heavy pulsing rock and fuzzy pop...The song glimmers with hope and Hollywood romance on the surface, only to stick the dagger in with subtle punches of rhythmic violence.
Panda Eyes
Hot Silk Pockets
How is it possible to be giddily miserable? Drenched in echoes of the past, this bounds about like a disco for cynics. Astonishing.
Golden Blue
Screaming Tea Party
'Car Crash Beauties' is like JG Ballard fronting Elastica and 'Today Is The Day' like L7s 'Pretend We Are Dead' ...'Golden Blue' and 'Holy Disaster' are both ethereal rock waltzes which sound like Leonard Cohen on helium...
I’m In Fighting Mode/ Let’s Wrestle
Let's Wrestle
...scrappy, rough-edged, utterly charming and wholly beguiling...
She Doesn’t Belong To Me
Pete And The Pirates
She Doesn't Belong To Me' deserves to be number one until the sun explodes and we all die in a big ball of flaming hell...this song really should be prescribed instead of Prozac.
Little Death
Pete And The Pirates
A winking galaxy of jangled wist, sweet, staggered harmonies and a gawky, yearning sense of wonder...
In Loving Memory
Let's Wrestle
...at the centre of this band beats a heart of pure unadulterated scuzzy art-pop genius kept ticking along by an idealistic,'fuck everything' atttitude to pretty much everything a successful band should be.
Knots
Pete And The Pirates
Knots' ....'another slice of classic heartbroken rock from the Stolen Recordings shipyard
Blue Birds Blood
Mathew Sawyer And The Ghosts
Now this is true core. Absolute heartland
Come On Feet
Pete And The Pirates
This debut single - harmonized indie-punk through a cracked psych filter- will be unavoidable. It's not the most sophisticated sound, perhaps, but its played with conviction and, most importantly, an ear for a tune
Death Egg
Screaming Tea Party
They switch continually between scribbling punkabilly and utterly stripped down lo-fi, with magical results
Lanzafame
Tap Tap
David Bowie lists Tap Tap's '100,000 Thoughts' at number 3 in his top ten songs of the moment
Wait, Stop, Begin
Pete And The Pirates
The fourth release from stolen recordings (after their fantastic label compilation) comes in the form of this second mini cd from pete and the pirates. each song on this ep has one thing in common: it can't decide whether it should be brash or lush, which...
Get Even
Pete And The Pirates
Folk bits, Byrdsy harmony bits, kraut-rock frug-outs, punk blasts of power and superb pop moments all segued and strewn together carelessly but precisely.
Last Night
Candy
The first track 'On Your Face' is like a more fuzzed and blissed out slowdive whilst 'Black And White' has the same calm and tenderness as Low. A beautiful record from start to finish that deserves a place in your heart and record collection