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DUSTED	III (Marble Vinyl)	LP	TOTAL DUST	TOTALD 001X-LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/25/2022 LP version. Marble vinyl. Brian Borcherdt (aka Dusted) is the founding member of Holy Fuck as well as LIDS which includes members of Metz and Constantines. The new album is the follow up to the acclaimed 2018 release BlackOut Summer and will provide a welcome musical shot in the arm for fans who have anxiously waited three years for new music from Dusted. "The album's process began with Borcherdt finding a long forgotten favorite song, coming back to him in a dream. That same morning, I found a demo of it, along with countless others, on an old laptop," said Borcherdt. "It was a joyful moment, hearing long lost songs as if I was never part of them. I was a third-party listener thus allowing them to be innocent and unjudged. I added a handful of the favorites to a current set list, which became the inspiration to go into the studio, to lay everything down, live off the floor, simply to preserve them, to keep them from being forgotten again." Dusted's 2012 album Total Dust was selected for the Polaris Prize Long List in 2013. The support from filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee earned Dusted two songs in his most recent film Demolition and a cameo role in Wild. With Holy Fuck, Borcherdt has been making music for 15 years and has released five albums. Holy Fuck has seen their music played on major TV shows like Breaking Bad and Mr Robot as well accumulating over five million career streams to date. Borcherdt has been releasing solo music since 2002. Previously to Holy Fuck, he was part of By Divine Right whose past band members count Feist and Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning.

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DUSTED	III	LP	TOTAL DUST	TOTALD 001LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/25/2022 LP version. Brian Borcherdt (aka Dusted) is the founding member of Holy Fuck as well as LIDS which includes members of Metz and Constantines. The new album is the follow up to the acclaimed 2018 release BlackOut Summer and will provide a welcome musical shot in the arm for fans who have anxiously waited three years for new music from Dusted. "The album's process began with Borcherdt finding a long forgotten favorite song, coming back to him in a dream. That same morning, I found a demo of it, along with countless others, on an old laptop," said Borcherdt. "It was a joyful moment, hearing long lost songs as if I was never part of them. I was a third-party listener thus allowing them to be innocent and unjudged. I added a handful of the favorites to a current set list, which became the inspiration to go into the studio, to lay everything down, live off the floor, simply to preserve them, to keep them from being forgotten again." Dusted's 2012 album Total Dust was selected for the Polaris Prize Long List in 2013. The support from filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee earned Dusted two songs in his most recent film Demolition and a cameo role in Wild. With Holy Fuck, Borcherdt has been making music for 15 years and has released five albums. Holy Fuck has seen their music played on major TV shows like Breaking Bad and Mr Robot as well accumulating over five million career streams to date. Borcherdt has been releasing solo music since 2002. Previously to Holy Fuck, he was part of By Divine Right whose past band members count Feist and Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning.

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VA	Strain Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume Two (Germany)	2LP	FINDERS KEEPERS	FKR 108LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/18/2022 With his ongoing commitment to like-minded archivist label Finders Keepers Records, industrial music pioneer Steven Stapleton further entrusts the label to lift the veil and expose "the right tracks" from his uber-legendary and oft misinterpreted psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list known as The Nurse With Wound List. Following the critically lauded first instalment and it's exclusively French tracklisting both parties now combine their vinyl-vulturous penchants to bring you the next Strain Crack & Break edition which consists of twelve lesser-known German records that played a hugely important part in the initial foundations of the list which began to unfold when Stapleton was just thirteen-years-old. From the perspective of a schoolboy Amon Düül (ONE) victim, at the start of a journey that commenced before phrases like kosmische and the xeno-ignant krautrock tag had become mag hack currency, this compendium is devoid of the tropes that united what many would accurately argue to be the greatest progressive pop bands in Europe (namely CAN, Neu! and Kraftwerk) and rather shatters the ingredients across a ground zero landscape. This record includes the music that skulked behind krautrock and perhaps refused to polish its backhanded name belt. Including lesser-known artists like the late Wolfgang Dauner whose career proceeded and outlived the kosmische movement while consistently informing and outsmarting 'em whenever they got stuck in their metronomic ruts, or Fritz Müller, the man who was to Kraftwerk what Stuart Sutcliffe was to The Beatles but had more in common with Yoko and quite rightly couldn't give a shit about the Fab Four's Hamburg roots. Elsewhere there's a plethora of German bands made for German audiences as they try and shed second hand flower power Americanisms and feel the benefits of much harder drugs and the realizations of difficult second album budgets. Bonzo Cockettes show off their Big Muffs and drummers ask for extra mics while Conny Plank goes for parliamentary office and gives babies good firm handshakes for the camera. Tracks by Mr. and Mrs. Fuchs (aka Anima-Sound) who played their instruments completely naked throughout their anti-career alongside previously unpressed tracks by the scene's leading Detroit-born African American drummer Fred Braceful (Exmagma). Finders Keepers and Nurse With Wound continue to sing from the same hymnal with this ongoing collaborative attempt to officially, authentically and legally compile the best tracks from Steve's list, where many overzealous nerds have faltered (or simply, got the wrong end of the stick). Volume Two focuses exclusively on individual tracks of German origin -- the country whose music forged the prototype of the NWW inventory in the form of his secondary school vinyl want-list in the early 1970s. Features Wolfgang Dauner, My Solid Ground, Association PC, Fritz Müller, Exmagma, Anima-Sound, Tomorrow's Gift, Out Of Focus, Brainstorm, Thirsty Moon, Gomorrha, and Brainticket.

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HUTCH, WILLIE	Season For Love	LP	BE WITH RECORDS	BEWITH 019LP
$29.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/14/2022 2022 repress. Be With Records present a reissue of Willie Hutch's Season For Love, originally released in 1970. A monumental force firmly rooted in the soul canon, Willie Hutch is most notable for recording two of the best Blaxploitation soundtracks, The Mack and Foxy Brown. Yet his legacy is much greater. Outside of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson, Hutch was arguably Motown's top male solo artist of the '70s. Prior to his association with Gordy et al, Hutch crafted his opening statements for RCA, two vital LPs. Often-overlooked, his second album Season For Love is a must for all deep soul fans and has been sought-after by collectors of different stripes for decades. Whereas his debut featured thundering, gritty numbers, Hutch treats you to a mellower soul here -- sumptuous, warm and string-led. He compared his approach to that of Otis Redding and there are definite parallels; from the raspy, rough-hewn vocals that tend to roam between sweet and deeply impassioned to the horn-heavy, emphatic sonic backdrops. With flawless originals presented alongside a few well-chosen classics (his stunning cover of "Wichita Lineman" arguably bests the original's splendor), it's easy to see why sample-based musicians have been falling over themselves to plunder from this album. Witness the sweeping strings that grace "The Magic Of Love" and the heartbreaking "Walking On My Love"; the mellifluous guitar work on the contemplative instrumental "The Shortest Distance" and gorgeous single "When A Boy Falls In Love". Whilst the arrangements and playing are subtly jaw-dropping throughout, Hutch's uncontrived voice has a certain warmth to match a Nat "King" Cole and a purity of tone that even recalls the great Sam Cooke. Indeed, a few numbers are almost in a jazz vocal territory reminiscent of artists Lou Rawls. That's not to say that others lack the righteous energy and undeniable groove of Willie's later sound. Remarkably consistent throughout -- a rare commodity for many '70s soul albums -- the lack of one signature song likely hindered its progress. Mastered for vinyl by Simon Francis. Original artwork. 180 gram vinyl.

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MOUNT LIBERATION UNLIMITED	Welcome To The Jungle	LP	SOUNDWAY	SNDW 12043LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/7/2022 Mount Liberation Unlimited mini-album touches upon a variety of moods, tones, beats and grooves that eschew genre and definition -- seamlessly blending acid disco, thumping techno, rock, dub, acoustic instrumentation and more. The pair have already amassed an impressive body of work, releasing on labels such as Tim Sweeney's Beats in Space, fellow Stockholmers Studio Barnhus, and CC:DISCO's compilation First Light Vol II (SS 151LP), as well as remixes for Khruangbin, Maribou State, and Mildlife. "The album is deeply rooted in a feeling of liminality," say Mount Liberation Unlimited duo Tom and Niklas. "It's music stuck in the liminal space between beach parties and worldwide isolation. A feeling of having your physical body in one place, with your mind still left on dancefloors on the other side of the now inaccessible world." A sense of duality has always been key to the Swedes' work. Since their first release in 2014, they have married a very physical rhythmic presence with their distinct take on electronic music that has also touched upon soul, jazz and disco. This exploration of organic dance music is, the pair say, "that sweet-spot interaction of human rhythm and electronic pulse." Welcome To The Jungle is no different in its quest to marry a deeply rhythmic essence with hypnotic and pulsating electronics, although it explores more beat-heavy terrain this time around. Recorded during a period when they had nothing else to do, the duo threw themselves into the studio and disappeared inside a record that they describe as like "a lingering psychedelic dream of waking up alone in a mossy Swedish forest wondering where the warm breeze went." For fans of: Leon Vynehall, Maribou State, Beats In Space, Studio Barnhus, Axel Boman, Laurence Guy, O'Flynn, Logic100, Seb Wildblood, Mildlife.

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JACOBS, LENNERT	Enthusiasm	LP	LES ALBUMS CLAUS	LAC 023LP
$22.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/17/2021 Lennert Jacobs's music is an echo of his imagination, inevitably reflecting and reinforcing a natural philosophy of enlightenment. L. Jacobs employs modern and classical instruments to enhance and distill a spirit of humanity through his aesthetic currency of sound. Surveying his debut album Enthusiasm and its instinctive impulses delivers a sublime sonic experience. Specifics of musical styles fade obliquely in service of resonance on a deeper level -- sound speaking on a universal language with innately humorous wonkiness whirling you into a state of pure delight. Kaleidoscopic keyboards shape a celebration of freedom and spontaneity. With warped beats, the songs clatter in crafted structures to create obscure alternative atmospheres. 'Enthusiasm' is a sonic lens that lands right from the first moment you hear it, a showcase of musical talent and intuitive expression. Lennert Jacobs does an excellent job of investing and producing mainly instrumental compositions which manage to touch on a wide variety of emotions over the course of their unfolding. The works on Enthusiasm are synthetic creatures, living and growing autonomously. The duality of the composer is on full holistic display: the lighter side -- relaxing, ethereal, and dreamy, and the darker -- disturbing and uncanny. This is a sonic transportation and cerebral massage. Stick a needle in it to activate. Silkscreened cover art; edition of 350.

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BIGA RANX	1988	CD	X-RAY PRODUCTION	XRP 1704CD
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021 1988 is the fourth studio album of French artist Biga Ranx with which he made his mark on the international dub scene. He now counts tens of millions of streams on his titles, more than 1000 concerts and has created a very a unique and personal universe. 1988 features: Blundetto, LEJ, Akhenaton, Ruffian Rugged, Prendy, Art-X, Atili Bandalero, Biffty, and Big Red.

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SAD LOVERS AND GIANTS	Feeding The Flame	LP	SPITTLE RECORDS	SPITTLE 114LP
$24.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021 Spittle Records present a reissue of Sad Lovers And Giants' Feeding The Flame, originally released in 1983. Sad Lovers And Giants second album, a brilliant atmospheric post punk record with several elements akin to Joy Division and The Chameleons. You can definitely apply the term "ethereal" to these compositions, certainly the sound is very oceanic and otherworldly melancholic, typical trademarks of the new wave renaissance. Recorded in 1983 -- and released on their own label Midnight Music -- Feeding The Flame showcases the original line up at its very best.

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MILLENNIUM, THE	Original Sound Sessions 1967-1968	LP	MUNSTER RECORDS	MR 424LP
$27.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021 The Millennium stands as one of the most remarkable psychedelic bands from '60s California despite the sales of their only LP, Begin, did not match the big expectations created by the great critical acclaim received and the huge financial costs of its recording. Although conceived as a studio group by Curt Boettcher (The Ballroom, Sagittarius...), The Millennium was a real band despite never performed publicly. Following a carte blanche deal with Columbia, he assembled a group of talented Californian singers and musicians (Lee Mallory, Sandy Salisbury, Joey Stec, Doug Rhodes, Michael Fennelly and Music Machine drummer Ron Edgar) to record an album, resulting in a sublime pop masterpiece, combining sunny melodies, outstanding vocal harmonies, and psychedelic touches. Apart from the tracks that appeared on Begin (which also includes several songs that Curt Boettcher composed for previous projects such as The Ballroom) in the many studio hours the band recorded a host of extra songs, as well as numerous demos. This record includes some of the extra tracks that were recorded in the sessions for The Millennium's one and only album and they are proof of the immense versatility of the band and of the extraordinary ability of a group of composers who created timeless gems that we are delighted to recover and present for intergenerational enjoyment. Some of these tracks are reissued here on vinyl for the first time.

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BIGA RANX	1988	LP	X-RAY PRODUCTION	XRP 2007LP
$34.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021 LP version. 1988 is the fourth studio album of French artist Biga Ranx with which he made his mark on the international dub scene. He now counts tens of millions of streams on his titles, more than 1000 concerts and has created a very a unique and personal universe. 1988 features: Blundetto, LEJ, Akhenaton, Ruffian Rugged, Prendy, Art-X, Atili Bandalero, Biffty, and Big Red.

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LOS POPS	No, No, No EP	7"	MUNSTER RECORDS	MR 7336EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021 Los Pops, from Mallorca, were one of the truly great, indisputable Spanish garage bands. Conclusive proof of this is found in the three amazing EPs that form their short discography, in which the Manacor-based band proved themselves the equals of any of the local stars of the scene. In spite of poor sales, their debut release was a call to arms among Spanish aficionados and included their original "No, No, No" and three cover versions of current hits by The Animals, Herman's Hermits and The Cyrkle. "No, No, No" stands out no just as the best song in Los Pops' repertoire but also as one of the most interesting Spanish nuggets recorded at the time and one of the most sought-after garage records by collectors worldwide. "Te Esperaba" is probably one of the most powerful ever recorded of "CC Rider", one of the greatest songs of the 20th century, and surely it was too wild for the standards required by those six-to-eight hour sets at Palma's Big Apple club where The Pops would play regularly. Reissued on 7" vinyl for the first time.

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BROWN, JAMES	Singles Vol. 3 (1960-61)	LP	HONEY PIE RECORDS	HONEY 045LP
$21.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021 Third installment in James Brown's early singles collections series. Another essential release covering the crucial 1960-1961 time frame, when Brown and his Famous Flames began to define their innovative R&B style especially through the release of the hit album Think! Needless to add that the album includes immortal tracks such as "You've Got The Power", "I'll Go Crazy", "Baby You're Right" and "Think!"

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LA'S, THE	Live! 1986-1987	LP	VIPER	VIPER 147LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021 The La's Live! 1986-87 manages to capture the band's original ethos and attitude. Side one contains Liverpool "live" recordings from 1986 when Mike Badger and Lee Mavers shared material and vocal duties. These recordings have a skiffle like quality that flew in the face of the highly produced trends dominating the mid-eighties and can see the band defining and developing it's sound. Side two shows a band that had evolved, almost at times garage rock which suited certain songs in a better way, eventually selling out the Marquee Club. This album in many ways illustrates the true nature of the La's from its original inception to its eventual place in the hearts and minds of music lovers everywhere. Pure magic and history in the making. Edition of 500.

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96 BACK	Love Letters, Nine Through Six	LP	LOCAL ACTION	LOC 019LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021 Following March's 9696 Dream mixtape (2021) and July's Flex Time EP (2021), this new album sees 96 Back shine the spotlight on his own vocals for the first time, at points (such as on lead single "9 To Find 6") operating fully in the realms of experimental pop. At other times, such as on "Teach Me Tenderness" and "Feel Hard", 96 Back stretches and processes his vocals to almost breaking point, while album closer "Melt You" sees him duet with past collaborator Iceboy Violet, ending Love Letters on a somber but romantic note. That's not to say Love Letters is fully removed from the dancefloor, however: tracks like "Don't Die" and "Love Compact" are precision-tooled for the club, while the likes of "Felzin" and "Vibrant Colours" continue to explore the intricate but emotive electronics that 96 Back has been so successful with in the past. More varied and vivid than any of 96 Back's releases to date, Love Letters feels like a coming-of-age moment. It casts its net incredibly wide at points, and it's an album full of ambition, but it meets every challenge it sets itself -- as affecting in its quieter, tender moments as during its dramatic peaks. In 96 Back's words: "This is a record I feel like I've been trying to write for years, it feels like the most accurate body of work to match the ideas in my mind. Trying to project a lot of the records I hold very dear to me through this lens, interpreting how they sound to me and merging them with ideas of finding the drama and excitement in the full spectrum of emotions on the tip of my tongue, that's what ended up being Love Letters, Nine Through Six."

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ALTERNATIVE TV	How Much Longer	7"	MUNSTER RECORDS	MR 7337EP
$13.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/10/2021 First time reissue of the 1977 debut single of London's punk pioneers Alternative TV, originally released on Deptford Fun City Records. The band was founded by Mark Perry (editor of the zine Sniffin' Glue) and Alex Fergusson (member of Psychic TV years later). Early rehearsals took place at Throbbing Gristle's studio with Genesis P-Orridge on drums. The line-up of the band during the recording of this single was completed with drummer John Towe (ex-Generation X) and Tyrone Thomas on bass, sporting a straight-forward-y punk sound that eventually would evolve into a more experimental direction in the following years. "How Much Longer" is a sharp critique of punk style: "How much longer will people wear/ Nazi armbands and dye their hair?/ Talk about anarchy, fascism and boredom/ When you don't know nothing," that anticipated their own boredom towards the punk scene. An absolute must have!

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CHAIN WHIP	Two Step To Hell	LP	DRUNKEN SAILOR RECORDS	DRUNKEN 142LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 "You ever wonder what Keith Morris does at the end of the day? Does he maintain that wide-eyed stare, the one that pins audiences to the floor with its very intensity, while he's putting on his pyjamas? Does he continue spitting venom from that heroically ragged throat of his while he's making his cocoa? Does he lay his head on his pillow with the same righteous fury that launched thousands upon thousands of moshpits? Hey, I'm just wondering. Y'see, all that intensity and venom and fury? it has to go somewhere while he's otherwise occupied with mundane tasks like taking off his socks or brushing his teeth, right? And listening to the thrilling racket conjured up by Vancouver's Chain Whip, you'd be forgiven for thinking that they have somehow become vessels for that energy. I mean, they're Morris' spiritual successors -- if their 2019 debut 14 Lashes wasn't enough of a clue, then this six-song blast of blink-and-you'll-miss-it brilliance should leave you in no doubt. This is hardcore punk as it was originally conceived, and it slays. 'But who are Chain Whip?' I hear you ask. Well, they're a bunch of dudes from British Columbia who've also served time in bands like The Jolts, Fashionism and Corner Boys (among others). They're the ones who are gonna have you slashing the seats at your local cinema, or taking potshots at lines of empty bottles on street corners, cuz they make you feel so damn tuff. OK, I'm just goofing around here -- whereas Chain Whip are serious business. No, really. I dare you to listen to the Germs-go-nuclear b(')last of 'Laguna Bleach', or the garage-slop-at-200-mph rush of 'Fresh Paint And Philanthropy', and not want to launch a stink bomb into your teacher's car. Or, failing that, to bring about the extinction of global capitalism. If that fails, you'll just end up wearing out the grooves of this very fine six-song EP while bouncing between walls like the DRI logo guy if he wore jet heels and spring-loaded shoulder pads. Jeez, imagine Keith finishing the night shift and giving these guys a handover. As if they'd even need to be told. Look, Chain Whip are the best straight-up old-skool punk band you'll hear today. You know what to do. Trust your instincts. Dance that two-step to hell with 'em. This. Is. The. Shit." --Will Fitzpatrick

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F.P & THE DOUBLING RIDERS	Doublings & Silences	LP	B.F.E. RECORDS	BFE 068LP
$32.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 The Doubling Riders were born in the middle of the '80s from the ashes of the great experimental/minimal wave project A.T.R.O.X. around the trio of Francesco Paladino, Pier Luigi Andreoni, and Riccardo Sinigaglia (Professor of Electronic composition at Milan's Conservatory). Starting from an electronic music approach and working freely with ethno, folk and wave elements, the sound of the Doubling Riders was extremely original and hard to classify. Mostly quiet meditative stuff, with folk, experimental electronic influences and some unusual vocalizations, some sang in a strange Italian dialect. Even if often compared to the more intellectual electronic experimental bands like Tuxedomoon, Coil or Vox Populi, Doubling Riders can be easily considered a unique project within the Italian new music scene. Remastered from the original files. 180 gram vinyl with insert.

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FREEEZ	Keep In Touch	12"	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	PINKY 001EP
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 Far Out Recordings present reissues of Brit funk classics. Keep In Touch and Stay (PINKY 002EP) were the first two 12" singles by the iconic Freeez, both self-funded passion projects of its founding member John Rocca, for his own Pink Rhythm imprint. It all started over the counter at Derek's Records on Petticoat Lane, London in the mid-70s. Rocca -- at the time a budding teenage percussionist -- met the prolific guitarist, composer, producer and all round brit funk fixer Jean Paul "Bluey" Maunick (also the father of Far Out producer Daniel Maunick). Best known as the founding member of Light of the World, Incognito, and more recently Str4ta, Bluey's involvement in the origins of Freeez are lesser known, but no less crucial. Bluey invited Rocca to a weekly jam session in an East London basement, where they would develop their craft, form their first band Freeez and develop the idea for "Keep In Touch": "Back in the basement there was this one particular track we were playing that I really loved. It had a groove that I thought I could sell" Rocca reminisces. Going against the advice of all the musicians involved, who thought he was mad and set to lose all his money, John decided to go full DIY, hire out a high-end studio in the West End to record "Keep In Touch" and release it as a private press, birthing his now famed Pink Rhythm label. Featuring Bluey on guitar, Peter Maas on bass, Paul Morgan on drums, Jason Wright on keyboards, and John Rocca on percussion, Keep In Touch was a surprise underground hit selling over 5000 copies and reaching #49 in the UK, leading Freeez into a record deal with Pye / Calibre.

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STRAW MAN ARMY	Age Of Exile	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	DM4T 001LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 "I've lost track of how many times I've listened to Age Of Exile in the past few weeks. I got a preview before it came out and on the first listen, I was hooked. My first impression was that it sounded like Kaleidoscope (with whom Straw Man Army shares members), but it's reaching toward something more like the song-oriented anarcho punk of Zounds and Crisis. I've been playing this record into the ground in the subsequent weeks, though, and there's so much more to hear than a simple 'this kinda sounds like this' comparison. One thing Straw Man Army shares with Kaleidoscope is a sense of rhythmic sophistication and inventiveness. We expect that a neo-anarcho band will have some interesting marching band snare patterns, but there's so much more to the tracks on Age Of Exile. Every song has a unique groove (or rather several of them, frequently overlapping), giving the album a sense of scope and breadth far beyond most contemporary punk records. And then there's the sense of melody, which is equally sophisticated. While the interwoven rhythms make each song seem like a dense tapestry, the guitar melodies have a sense of sweetness and directness that makes Straw Man Army seem approachable and human. And then there are the lyrics, which I haven't been able to dig into thoroughly, but are as dense, poetic, and vibrant as the music, focusing on how to live in the rubble of empire. Age Of Exile is a striking album no matter which aspect of it you focus on, and it's so distinctive and consuming that I can already tell it's going to be a big part of the soundtrack to this part of my life." --Sorry State

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YOVA	Nine Lives	CD	QUARTERTONE RECORDINGS	YOVA 001CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 YOVA comprises Macedonian vocalist and lyricist Jova Radevska and multi-instrumentalist Mark Vernon. Debut album Nine Lives features nine shapeshifting songs, the album features contributions from Daniel O'Sullivan (Grumbling Fur, Tim Burgess) bass, viola and keyboards; Terry Edwards (Nick Cave, Tom Waits) baritone sax; David Rhodes (Kate Bush, Scott Walker) guitars; Anna Phoebe violin; Nick Holland (Balanescu Quartet) cello; Alex Thomas (John Cale, UNKLE) drums; and legendary pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole; along with Ian Olliver (PJ Harvey) on bass, and multi-instrumentalist Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey), who also plays drums and writes YOVA's string arrangements. The album features an array of unusual and exotic instruments including the Ondes Martenot, the Marxophone and the medieval Sackbut. Jova was born and raised in Macedonia. "A sunny and warm country, with a rich history," she says. "I came to the UK out of curiosity as an eighteen-year-old. I very much like the diversity. The UK is bursting with music history and one meets many like-minded people. I met Mark at a gig I was doing in London. We never know where our collaboration will take us. This way or that, it is always different." Mark has both managed and recorded with John Cale amongst others, and also co-produced tracks on PJ Harvey's debut album Dry (1992), including the iconic debut single "Dress". On Nine Lives, Mark reunites Rob Ellis and Ian Olliver -- the original rhythm section from those recordings. Mark Vernon: "Once the structure of the nine songs had been written, each song then developed naturally with the musicians, initially Rob Ellis and Daniel O'Sullivan, reacting intuitively in terms of their playing and the instrumentation. In terms of genre, the music of each track is allowed to inhabit its own universe. So there are no pre-ordained or fixed common denominators, other than the voice, the personnel and the song structure. The musicians had the freedom to shape-shift the songs playfully throughout the album. I think of it as nine different rides on a trip to a sonic adventure park."

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DURUTTI COLUMN	A Paean to Wilson (Deluxe Edition)	3LP	DURUTTI	LOTTA 004LP
$54.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 A Paean to Wilson is still arguably Vini Reilly and the Durutti Column's most important and consistent piece of work since the demise of the original and seminal Factory Records in the early 1990s. On this release the F4 "Heaven Sent" tracks released on vinyl for the first time. They first appeared in 2005 via Tony Wilson's project F4, as being the fourth version of Factory Records. Originally it was download-only release, Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital, It Was Heaven Sent). A six-track CD of personal dedications by Vini ironically the last piece is titled "Anthony". Originally this was commissioned for the MIF (Manchester International Festival) where it was premiered in July 2009. Vin had already composed pieces for Tony to listen to whilst he was ill in hospital and it was from here that the project developed. Triple-LP vinyl with one clear disc, one gold disc, and one black disc. Originally released in 2010. "Near the beginning of the final night of the Durutti Column's 70-minute international festival tribute to Tony Wilson, A Paean to Wilson, guitarist Vini Reilly announced that he wouldn't be singing: 'So you won't have to put up with my awful voice and schoolboy lyrics.' If Wilson was with us, he would have chuckled. The Granada presenter-turned-Factory Records boss spent years urging his first signing to stop singing, and concentrate on the virtuosity that led Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante to call Reilly 'the greatest guitarist in the world'. Two years after his death, Wilson got his way, one of many lovely touches in a very personal, emotional and often warmly funny musical tribute. Wilson signed Joy Division and Happy Mondays, yet never gave up on this cult band he adored, working with them even after his legendary label went bankrupt. A complex man, Wilson was an academic thinker who reveled in Steve Coogan's affectionate, Alan Partridge-style send-up of him. And this tribute was no different. At one point, Reilly known for melancholy launched into something resembling an Irish jig. 'Tony loved to laugh,' he explained. 'He loved absurdities.' After the humor came exquisitely mournful music. With Reilly and drummer Bruce Mitchell augmented by bass, keyboard, violin, electric piano, drum machine and trumpet, the band's beautiful pieces reflected Wilson's love of rock and classical. Reilly's plangent guitar work showed grief's emotional spectrum, from sadness to overdriven anger..." --Dave Simpson, The Guardian

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FREEEZ	Stay/Hot Footing It	12"	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	PINKY 002EP
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 Far Out Recordings present reissues of Brit funk classics. Keep In Touch (PINKY 001EP) and Stay were the first two 12" singles by the iconic Freeez, both self-funded passion projects of its founding member John Rocca, for his own Pink Rhythm imprint. It all started over the counter at Derek's Records on Petticoat Lane, London in the mid-70s. Rocca -- at the time a budding teenage percussionist -- met the prolific guitarist, composer, producer and all round brit funk fixer Jean Paul "Bluey" Maunick (also the father of Far Out producer Daniel Maunick). Best known as the founding member of Light of the World, Incognito, and more recently Str4ta, Bluey's involvement in the origins of Freeez are lesser known, but no less crucial. Bluey invited Rocca to a weekly jam session in an East London basement, where they would develop their craft, form their first band Freeez and develop the idea for "Keep In Touch". Still giddy from the experience of having produced and pressed his first record Keep In Touch at the age of just 19, John set out to do it all again with "Stay" and "Hot Footing", enlisting Bluey & co. once again. This time Rocca attempted to take things to the next level by adding vocals into the mix. Though this new arrangement initially backfired and cost John the deal with Pye / Calibre who weren't feeling the slight change of vibe, original copies of the Stay 12" have become one of the most in demand from the brit funk canon.

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QUARANTINE	Agony	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 246LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 Breakneck audio level destruction from Quarantine on their first full-length release, Agony. The demo was a glimmer of perfected USHC pastiche but Agony pushes the limits of aggression to some kind of land speed no man's land where United Mutation, Gudon, and My America by FU's are firing live ammunition into each other's boomboxes in a bid for hardcore punk long play supremacy. Instant classic from a group of utterly blue-chip musicians on the label that can't be beat.

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SOTELO, ROBERT	Celebrant	LP	UPSET THE RHYTHM	UTR 139LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 Robert Sotelo is a mercurial melodist building a resplendent world of pristine DIY pop from the ground up. The Glasgow-based artist's songs are meticulously crafted, patchworked together with eclectic arrangements and ardent vocal performances. Each of his albums to date has been accompanied by a growth-spurt, 2017's debut Cusp (UTR 098LP) was packed with miniature psych overtures, whilst 2018's Botanical was more keyboard-minded and playful with a near-absurdist palette of sound. Infinite Sprawling (UTR 122LP) came out towards the end of 2019 and surprised with songs pulled together like a wakeful stretch, brisk with a lightness of touch. This was neatly followed by Leap & Bounce melding a sparse synth-pop minimalism to an emotional undertow. Robert Sotelo's vivid new album Celebrant was intended to be and still is to some extent a joyous wedding album (Sotelo is recently married), but in his own words "the pandemic and the death of my aunt Carmen intersected with the original concept so the album is darker than intended in places." More cinematic and measured than prior albums, Sotelo expounds that "it is purposefully a bigger sounding attempt at my keyboard songs and I felt more ambitious about it in general." That's certainly reflected in these twelve sophisticated loops of song, all curiously affecting and catchy, sprinkled with Sotelo's offbeat musings and keenly accurate observations. Guitars are rarely employed on this record with Sotelo recruiting Iain Mccall, Ross Blake, Celia Morgan and David Maxwell to contribute brass, woodwind, spoken word and acoustic drums respectively. All of these additions blend well with the album's synthetic core, softening and subtly shaping its pop-first nature into something more nuanced, vulnerable and human. Celebrant is a plucky synth-centric collection of unbridled songs at times surefooted at others threatened by disconnect, skillfully steered by Sotelo with typical classy touch. 180 gram vinyl.

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MIGHTY SOULMATES, THE	The Mighty Soulmates	12"	BE WITH RECORDS	BEWITH 016EP
$22.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/3/2021 The Mighty Soulmates is a towering early '90s project from the legitimate super group of André Cymone (bass player with Prince), St. Paul Peterson (keyboard player in The Time and lead singer in Prince's group The Family), Mic Murphy (of Sass and The System fame) and Gardner Cole (writer, producer and musician probably best known for his work with Madonna). The sound is a majestic blend of sophisticated funk, emotional R&B, new jack swing flava and slick deep soul. These should-be legendary sessions have been almost a secret since they were recorded back in 1993. From all the tracks Mic sent over, Be With Records cherry picked the absolute cream for a tight four-track EP. A mixture of beat ballads and up-tempo non-hits, coming on like Al B Sure! or Babyface take on Shalamar or even The Purple One. The feel-good dancefloor dynamite of "I Wanna Be The One" is the explosive opening track. A piano-driven, groove-laden blast of yearning deep-pop, with perfectly delivered soulful vocals and an unmistakable "early '90s" sound. Indeed, fans of Eddie Chacon's old group will dig this for days. "Back In The Day" has a timeless swing and swagger, the lyrics reminiscing about the halcyon street life of the Soulmates' youth, about Curtis, Superfly and innocent days gone by, about hustling with friends. Yet more spine-tingling vocals over yet another perfectly produced musical backdrop. "Blue Tuesday" is the thrilling pinnacle of the EP, at least for us. It's absolute soulful-pop perfection. A soaring beat ballad full of chiming guitars, gorgeous harmonizing, falsetto backing vocals and a real steppers' groove. Dramatic, purple-hued closer "Private Time" seems to predict the Timbaland-dominated sound of the mid-to-late '90s, all synthetic strings and squelchy, acidic-drum-machine soul. This EP represents the sound of four incredibly soulful, talented, and influential (soul)mates jamming together over one long hot summer and weaving pure sonic magic.

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