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LP version. Tripe. It's what graces the cover of Cassels' third album, A Gut Feeling. It looks gross. And Cassels are a rock band who've often sounded gross. You know the adjectives. "Discordant". "Angular". "Cynical". Shellac quickly mentioned. Listening to A Gut Feeling, though, Cassels sound different. Not too different -- the molten riff of advance single "Mr Henderson Coughs" puts paid to the idea that the London-based duo have taken a hard 180. But instead of writing as quickly as possible, the Covid-19 pandemic gave the brothers Beck (Jim, guitar/vocals, and Loz, drums/BVs) some time to mull things over. Instead of sticking with the stripped-back recording approach of previous LPs, Jim and Loz spent time at Tom Hill's Bookhouse Studios in South London, considering tone, layering tracks, and bringing new instruments into the fold. Lyrically, the approach has changed too. Rather than presented as personal experience, Jim notes that his words this time around "are an intentionally muddy mix of experience, opinion, red herrings and fiction." The result is the most satisfying and unexpected collection of songs in the Cassels catalog. Instruments at turns razor-sharp and bludgeon-blunt provide the backing track to a savage, hilarious, and tender collection of short stories. Jim notes that "writing can be a great way of unearthing hang-ups and becoming acquainted with your own anxieties." Hardly new ground for a rock band, but presented in this third person format -- unbiased and filled to the brim with human warmth -- these songs are more empathetic than anything the band have written before. It's clear that the band still aren't afraid to tackle weighty subjects too, with A Gut Feeling picking up where their previous album, The Perfect Ending (2019), left off. "Charlie Goes Skiing" pulls a similar trick to Future of the Left's "Goals in Slow Motion" -- setting a screed against consumerism to one of the most propulsive, catchy tracks on the record. It's followed by "Dog Drops Bone", a rustling loop overlaid with sad, simple chords reminiscent of a Sparklehorse tune, which uses the internal monologue of a beloved canine companion to question the true depth and sincerity of human relationships. This kicks into the breakneck "Beth's Recurring Dream" -- a track exploring a sexual identity crisis which owes as much to early Los Campesinos! as it does Steve Albini. Of "Your Humble Narrator", the album's punishing, pulsing opener and A Gut Feeling's thematic frame.
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Tripe. It's what graces the cover of Cassels' third album, A Gut Feeling. It looks gross. And Cassels are a rock band who've often sounded gross. You know the adjectives. "Discordant". "Angular". "Cynical". Shellac quickly mentioned. Listening to A Gut Feeling, though, Cassels sound different. Not too different -- the molten riff of advance single "Mr Henderson Coughs" puts paid to the idea that the London-based duo have taken a hard 180. But instead of writing as quickly as possible, the Covid-19 pandemic gave the brothers Beck (Jim, guitar/vocals, and Loz, drums/BVs) some time to mull things over. Instead of sticking with the stripped-back recording approach of previous LPs, Jim and Loz spent time at Tom Hill's Bookhouse Studios in South London, considering tone, layering tracks, and bringing new instruments into the fold. Lyrically, the approach has changed too. Rather than presented as personal experience, Jim notes that his words this time around "are an intentionally muddy mix of experience, opinion, red herrings and fiction." The result is the most satisfying and unexpected collection of songs in the Cassels catalog. Instruments at turns razor-sharp and bludgeon-blunt provide the backing track to a savage, hilarious, and tender collection of short stories. Jim notes that "writing can be a great way of unearthing hang-ups and becoming acquainted with your own anxieties." Hardly new ground for a rock band, but presented in this third person format -- unbiased and filled to the brim with human warmth -- these songs are more empathetic than anything the band have written before. It's clear that the band still aren't afraid to tackle weighty subjects too, with A Gut Feeling picking up where their previous album, The Perfect Ending (2019), left off. "Charlie Goes Skiing" pulls a similar trick to Future of the Left's "Goals in Slow Motion" -- setting a screed against consumerism to one of the most propulsive, catchy tracks on the record. It's followed by "Dog Drops Bone", a rustling loop overlaid with sad, simple chords reminiscent of a Sparklehorse tune, which uses the internal monologue of a beloved canine companion to question the true depth and sincerity of human relationships. This kicks into the breakneck "Beth's Recurring Dream" -- a track exploring a sexual identity crisis which owes as much to early Los Campesinos! as it does Steve Albini. Of "Your Humble Narrator", the album's punishing, pulsing opener and A Gut Feeling's thematic frame.
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"A devilish and hallucinatory march into the depths of human bleakness, odes to spirituality and guilt. Playing a southern gothic swampland voodoo" --The Wire.
Sneers. is the female-fronted music project formed by Italian singer and guitarist M.Greta Blaankart and drummer Leonardo O. Stefenelli. Started in Berlin and relocated to Rome, Sneers.' music is a devilish and hallucinatory march into the depths of human bleakness, characterized by the emotionally overpowering narrative of Blaankart's lyrics. The band's poetry is blood-filled and their music is luminously melancholic. Sneers.' musical exploration of heaven and hell was best documented on the band's 2018's studio album, Heaven Will Rescue Us, We're The Scum, We're In The Sun (GODUNK 042LP), with the studio collaboration of Kristof Hahn of Swans at the lap-steel guitar and released by God Unknown Records. Since its release, Sneers. have been extensively touring Europe and UK and received praise for their live performances, bringing them to be premiered on BBC Radio 6 and hit stages such as Rough Trade East in London, with Révista Marvin defining Blaankart's voice close to living legend Diamanda Galás. Their new work, Tales For Violent Days, is released on God Unknown Records. The record was produced by Freddie Murphy (Father Murphy) and Sneers. Engineered and recorded by Paul Beauchamp at OFF Studio, in Turin, and mixed by Francesco Donadello at Vox-Ton Studio, Berlin.
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$27.00
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RELEASE DATE: 4/29/2022
"... Acid blues punk meets freeform drone raag transcendentalism" Jonny Halifax is an untutored aleatoric free blues outsider. His new collection of sound is an instrumental departure into godless raag brut improvisations, layered, manipulated and sculpted into heavily immersive feral sonic collages. Invocations of a hallucinatory apocalyptic near future. Previously the creator of junkshop blues skronk one man band Honkeyfinger, which then mutated into the gospel fuzz psych of Julian Cope endorsed Jonny Halifax & The Howling Truth with their "slitherin' electro -programmed slide guitar driven mung worship", alongside the ambient drone metal noisescapes of Deathenteredinerror, now The Jonny Halifax Invocation channel heavy meditations on the present into an uncompromising free blues transcendentalism that burn raga-shaped holes into your chakra with searing psychedelic intensity. Inspired by Henry Flynt's avant bluegrass experiments fusing country blues with eastern acoustic musical stylings, Spacemen 3's contemporary sitar music, and the monolithic drone doom immersion of Sunn 0))), The Jonny Halifax Invocation build hypnotic instrumental soundscapes using lap steel and homemade slide guitars, harmonica, and alto sax. Underpinned by layers of acoustic and electronic drone instruments and fed through an arsenal of pedalboard electronics that would make Dave Gilmour weep. The blues are transmogrified, unhinged, reduced and re-imagined as intoxicating, trance-inducing, feedback-drenched noise paintings. Açid Blüüs Räägs: Vol. 1 plays like a psychedelic western movie soundtrack, frenzied electric lap steel guitar suites play to melting cowboy minds. Flaming tumbleweeds blow in slow motion across wide open concrete vistas. Jodorowsky's El Topo meets Ballard's High Rise in an apocalyptic knife edge disintegrating urban landscape. Shut your eyes and conjure the best nightmares you've never had. The Jonny Halifax musical CV also includes studio contributions to releases by Andrew Weatherall's Two Lone Swordsmen, UK metal behemoths Orange Goblin, hardcore thrash upstarts Heck (formerly Baby Godzilla), and pan European psych noise titans Melting Hand.
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James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey) and Steve Gullick (renowned music photographer) announce their new album, We Travel Time. It's a dark but beautiful trip. After working together on an art show in late 2019, the idea of making music again immediately resurfaced. Without any firm strategy, Johnston and Gullick began recording, unprompted, drawing upon a shared love of noise, folk, and classical. After the first tracks began to evolve, however, they knew they'd unearthed something compelling and fresh, not to mention unexpectedly mysterious. This became We Travel Time. The result is a deceptively crafted album that slowly reveals -- and, more importantly, embraces -- beauty in its cracks. Piano, voice, violin, and guitar create a drifting haze, with the focus on these acoustic elements forging an imagined soundtrack which offers echoes of Big Star, Nico, Lee Hazlewood, and Palace Brothers, as well as the gentle, haunting influence of contemporary minimal classical. Ambient sounds -- birds, rain, cars, clocks, distant voices -- also drift in and out, melting into the music's fabric via windows left open during the early 2020 heatwave. We Travel Time, nonetheless, resists definition, remaining enigmatically timeless.
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Pulling inspiration from the weirdest depths of post punk and krautrock, Klämp inject elements of noise rock and horrific low end into the mix, all while kneeling at the altar of the riff. Hate You is Klämp's second album, and first to feature Lee Vincent on drums. The recording took place in March 2020 in East London as the world went on lock down with Covid-19. Capturing the palpable tension in the air, Hate You would make a fitting soundtrack to the apocalypse. Klämp is: Lee Vincent (Pulled Apart By Horses, Concentration Champ), Jason Stöll (Sex Swing, Twin Sister, Mugstar, God Unknown Records, Bonnacons of Doom), and Greg Wynne (Manatees).
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Splintered Metal Sky, the long-awaited new installment in the ever-vast musical cannon of White Hills. The album takes the listener on a post-punk, psychedelic ride fueled by industrial-strength fuzz and propelled by powerful beats where songs weave in and out of each other to imitate the rhythm of the city the band calls home. Splintered Metal Sky is about oscillation and evolution. It's metamodern music looking at human existence in relation to technology and the hyper-driven architectural reshaping of a city. The music was largely inspired by the drone and roar of machinery pulsing through New York City, which is in a never-ending state of demolition and reconstruction. Dave and Ego took to the streets, gathering field recordings of sounds from the subway, drills, jackhammers, people in parks, traffic, mayhem, and the occasional silence. These recordings were then manipulated and constructed into rhythmic lines that were used as the basis for songs. The music, mixing noise with disciplined beat, embodies the paradoxical nature of the city: the grimy littered dead end alley just steps away from the sleek luxury skyscraper; the half-eaten chicken bone being devoured by a rat on the subway tracks just beneath the glittering facade of the Chrysler building; the endless milling about of the eight million people who call this slab of land home on their way to and from everywhere and nowhere. Informed by industrial innovators Einstürzende Neubauten and SPK, the avant-garde post-punk of Tuxedomoon and the dub-electro of Cabaret Voltaire, the album vibrates with the energy of a sensually feral, raw beast. "CoNSTRUCT" features synth and samples by Jim Coleman and ambient guitar by Jim Jarmusch.
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God Unknown Records announce a campaign of releasing the lost albums of '90s post-rockers Bushpilot in 2020. 23 has been lovingly re-edited and post-produced by studio legend Richard Formby (Ghostpoet, Wild Beasts, Darkstar, and a later member of Bushpilot), together with vocalist Ross Holloway. Bushpilot arrived at the avant-garde of the Leeds's punk and indie scene in 1993 with Holloway, Karl Berlin (bass) and Daren Pickles (guitar), formerly of epic noise architects Purple Eternal, playing alongside the more melodic Adrian Gans (guitar) and bolstered by the power of Phil Leigh on drums (previously of Spectral Alice, now founder and owner of Norman Records). 23 is Bushpilot's magnum opus beautifully crafted and totally way ahead of its time. Influenced by Can, Slint, and Talk Talk, Bushpilot signed to Cherry Red in the mid-nineties and recorded two albums before disbanding and heading off in different directions. The album was recorded back in 1994 but left in the archives without seeing the light of day until now. "... these raw and distinctly krautrock and Fall-inspired sounds of Bushpilot feel like a hidden history of what could have been for the era and the direct influence of Malcolm Mooney-era Can is instantly recognisable." --The Quietus
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Continuing the relationship between God Unknown Records and Charles Hayward, the label announces this magical new collaboration between Charles and London based audio-visual duo, Harmergeddon. Driving drumming with electronics weaving through beautiful soundscapes. Charles Hayward is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now. He also played with Mal Dean's Amazing Band, Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun project as well as a short stint with Gong. He was a session musician on The Raincoats' second album, Odyshape (1981), and on one occasion played drums for the anarchist punk band Crass. Since the late 1980s he has concentrated on solo projects and collaborations, including Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith. His first solo record, Survive the Gesture, was released in 1987. Since then, he has released ten more long players, and has been touring with the reformed This is not This Heat. Harmergeddon is Nathan Greywater and Polyphoniefae, Dungeness based a/v performance art duo formed in South London in the autumn of 2010. Their live show blends sound and light in a feedback loop using photophonics (sound carried on light beams), electro-magnetic fields, and consumer electronic junk, taking industrial from its scrap metal past to the electronic fallout of late capitalism with a basis in improvisation and psychedelia. The result verges on sensory overload. Since their inception they have played internationally in venues as diverse as a cave (Grobbia Artist Residency 2017, Italy), a forest (Ambiosonic 2016, France), a moving train (Resting Place, Platform-7 & Dawn Cole) and the legendary MS Stubnitz. They played Splice Festival 2018, streamed live to Montreal for Sight & Sound 2016 and Winnipeg for the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival 2017 (in collaboration with Guillaume Vallée). Hayward Versus Harmergeddon is collaborative encounter, a cooperative sonic wrestling match and the only winner is the listener, a right earful of sound and plenty more for the other one, too. 1, 2, check, 1, 2, testing, 1, 2, are you listening?
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God Unknown Records announce a campaign of releasing the lost recordings of '90s post-rockers Bushpilot in 2020. "these raw and distinctly krautrock and Fall-inspired sounds of Bushpilot feel like a hidden history of what could have been for the era and the direct influence of Malcolm Mooney-era Can is instantly recognisable." --The Quietus. "21st Century Breakdown" is journey through a krautrock inspired, taut and rhythmic landscape influenced and shaped by Can, Talk Talk, Neu!, Slint, and Talking Heads. The tracks have been lovingly re-edited and post-produced by studio legend Richard Formby (Ghostpoet, Wild Beasts, Darkstar, and a later member of Bushpilot), together with vocalist Ross Holloway. Bushpilot arrived at the avant-garde of the Leeds' punk and indie scene in 1993 with Holloway, Karl Berlin (bass), and Daren Pickles (guitar), formerly of epic noise architects Purple Eternal, playing alongside the more melodic Adrian Gans (guitar) and bolstered by the power of Phil Leigh on drums (previously of Spectral Alice, now founder and owner of Norman Records).
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Whistling Arrow is the debut collaboration between critically acclaimed composer and performer Laura Cannell, This Heat/Camberwell Now founder and seasoned composer/improviser Charles Hayward, multi-disciplinary musician Andre Bosman, and prepared guitar minimalists Ex-Easter Island Head. Brought together by a shared bill on Cannell's Arts Council-funded Modern Ritual tour, the six musicians convened for a single session in Liverpool's Parr Street Studios in 2017. Recording live in the room with few preconceptions and an appreciation of each other's work, the sextet improvised on violins, recorders, drums, piano, electronics, prepared guitars, percussion, and voice. The music of Whistling Arrow represents a deeply empathic meeting of unique musical voices: evoking a musical territory of the ancient and the modern, earthen, and concrete. Laura Cannell's over bow violins wring melodic fragments and modes into groaning chordal shapes, gut-strung, and rapturous; scraping the ground and circling treetops, birdcall double-recorders chirruping in concert. The mallet-struck guitars of Ex-Easter Island Head surge and drift against clouds of overtone-rich amplified strings, excited with motors, Allen keys, and bows, emerging like sun rays through the foliage. Andre Bosman's marshland electronics permeate with humid unease -- glinting metal half-buried, clandestine cabling in wild country. Charles Hayward's expressive command of rhythm and intricate percussive color moves the music forward in swung leaps and nimble left turns, rolling resonances pushing and pulling the formal anchor of Jonathan Hering's piano into tumultuous terrain and gleaming chord shapes. With sleeve notes by writer and comedian Stewart Lee name-checking Faust, Arvo Pärt, the Velvet Underground, and Hildegard Von Bingen as sonic touchstones, the music of Whistling Arrow draws upon the decades-worth of compositional/improvisational practice of the sextet.
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Wellwater Conspiracy were a mid-1990s supergroup featuring Monster Magnet and Soundgarden members who wanted to live out their psychedelic rock needs that their other bands didn't provide. From their 1997 classic Declaration of Conformity, this 7" is a cover of the Syd Barrett penned early Pink Floyd track, "Lucy Leave". It's awesome, it's limited. Edition of 300.
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LP version. Featuring Nicholas Bullen (founder member of Napalm Death and Scorn) and John Pickering (founder member of Doom and Sore Throat), Birmingham-based Rainbow Grave channel the blank despair of negative punk through layers of distorted psychedelic damage: dirty guitars, freeform pedal abuse, and effected vocals coagulate around cyclic bass and drum rhythms in repetitive and minimal structures. After a performance at Fat Out Fest in Salford in April 2017, God Unknown Records approached the group to record a split 7" single (GODUNK 043EP). Released in July 2018 as part of volume three of the God Unknown Singles Series, Rainbow Grave's Death Pyramid is a crawling mantric blend of heavy bass, psychedelic guitars, robotic vocals, and hard drums described as "deeply hewn heaviness" (Shindig) and "congruent with the great scum rock purveyors of the late '80s" (The Wire). Following the reception of the single, God Unknown invited Rainbow Grave to continue the relationship with the release of the "Sex Threat/You Are Nowhere" 7" single in November 2018. This was given Single of the Week by John Doran at The Quietus.
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Featuring Nicholas Bullen (founder member of Napalm Death and Scorn) and John Pickering (founder member of Doom and Sore Throat), Birmingham-based Rainbow Grave channel the blank despair of negative punk through layers of distorted psychedelic damage: dirty guitars, freeform pedal abuse, and effected vocals coagulate around cyclic bass and drum rhythms in repetitive and minimal structures. After a performance at Fat Out Fest in Salford in April 2017, God Unknown Records approached the group to record a split 7" single (GODUNK 043EP). Released in July 2018 as part of volume three of the God Unknown Singles Series, Rainbow Grave's Death Pyramid is a crawling mantric blend of heavy bass, psychedelic guitars, robotic vocals, and hard drums described as "deeply hewn heaviness" (Shindig) and "congruent with the great scum rock purveyors of the late '80s" (The Wire). Following the reception of the single, God Unknown invited Rainbow Grave to continue the relationship with the release of the "Sex Threat/You Are Nowhere" 7" single in November 2018. This was given Single of the Week by John Doran at The Quietus.
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Charles Hayward is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now. He also played with Mal Dean's Amazing Band, Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun as well as a short stint with Gong. He was a session musician on The Raincoats' second album, Odyshape (1981), and on one occasion played drums for the anarchist punk band Crass. Since the late 1980s he has concentrated on solo projects and collaborations, including Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith. His first solo record, Survive the Gesture, was released in 1987. Since then, he has released ten more long players, and has been touring with the reformed This is not This Heat. Begin Anywhere is his brand-new solo album and shows a different side to the Charles Hayward we know. The drum set is left in the corner, and instead, Hayward offers a fragile yet powerful songs on piano and voice. A very personal Hayward album, let yourself be surprised. ECO-color vinyl; includes download; edition of 300.
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London-based Henge have been frying brains for the last four years with their psychedelic doom, coming on like an acid-fried freight train straight to the cerebral core. Think Black Sabbath through an Amphetamine Reptile filter. Their first LP, Henge (GODUNK 011LP, 2016) gained rave reviews and Nothing Head builds on their debut's oppressive groove. The album opener, "Compressor" feels like staggering through a Californian desert with the heat beating down, bewildered and lost but knowing full well when reaching the destination that's when things will start to get really weird. "The Sea" continues the desert stagger until a white light beams down opening up a portal to the subconscious and bad deeds spring forth. "Beginners" makes a feeling of claustrophobia tingle with a forlorn wail following one's every move. The light finally begins to raise again with "Human Beings" although briefly until darkness descends with "Teddy Bear". Desperately trapped but once letting oneself go, movement flows freely. This is it. At just over eight minutes long, "Dracila" is the one that stretches time and builds on everything gone before. "Nike" ebbs and flows with a worldly understanding and rounding the LP off in an enlightened state. RIYL: Pigsx7, Black Sabbath, Jesus Lizard
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Rainbow Grave play primitive sludge punk: ugly guitars, distortion, echo, feedback. Low rent caveman hate music, they are the UK's answer to Drunks With Guns. Featuring Nic Bullen (Napalm Death/Scorn), Johnny Doom (Doom), Nathan Warner (Bee Stung Lips) and James Commander. Nic played on one of the most influential albums ever produced: Napalm Death's seminal 1987 Scum.
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Mésange is a collaboration between composer/violinist Agathe Max and composer/musician Luke Mawdsley (Cavalier Song). Their second release, Gypsy Moth, anticipates the forces of nature, creation and rebirth. Mordant musical tapestries (minimalism, drone, and ambient) are washed in dense electric skies, exposing signs that flutter and flare in dark elegance. The listener, like the moth is drawn precariously on a journey towards the light, a parchment moon hovering on tides of vermillion heat, where eager wings beat and pulse abstract sounds.
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Started in late 2012 in Berlin, Sneers is a two-piece music project formed by songwriter guitarist M.G. Blaankart and drummer Leonardo O. Stefenelli. This is their third album, recorded in Berlin in January / February 2018 with the studio collaboration of Kristof Hahn from Swans at the lap steel guitar. Songs were composed by M.G. Blaankart on acoustic guitar and she describes the record as an anthropocentric exploration of heaven and hell with the weapons of haunting lyricism, irrationality and intensity. For fans of: Swans, The Birthday Party, Einsturzende Neubauten.
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Mésange is a collaboration between violinist Agathe Max (Kuro) and guitarist Luke Mawdsley (Cavalier Song). Their music is possessed and steered by a solemn power that embraces the elements and careers through dense electric skies; exposing signs that flutter and flare in dark elegance. Respective strings correspond and meander across ancient fields, while layered voices evoke serene pools of tropic sound, soon to be engulfed by inescapable tides of noise. Unfettered, yet critical, Mésange invites the listener to explore a downy and magnetic earth-scape, teetering be-tween lightning and thunderclap. The tracks unfold like magic spells, each evoking chimes of hope, despair, freedom, and oblivion.
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Cavalier Song inscribe modern eulogies to celebrate the terrible beauty of rural dystopias. Their cinematic stares study earthy landscapes and post-industrial wastelands, constructing a range of sonic artworks that meditate on the human condition, stirring memory and desire within definitions of a terrific sublime. The results are a series of lush, yet darkly affective, symphonic abstractions weaving in and around melancholic myths and narratives. Cavalier Song deploy a post-minimalist sensibility, referencing a range of art forms including painting, sculpture, and literature. Musical and poetic influences include Philip Glass, Swans, Ted Hughes, John Coltrane, and King Crimson, each echoing a fascination for melodic repetition, unconventional rhythms and poetic design. Their second album A Deep Well depicts a series of shifting mise-en-scènes -- from Arcadian dysfunction to an omnipresence of troubling signs, unfathomable monoliths, and abandoned fracking sites. The album has an edgier, starker, more intense and urgent feel than their acclaimed debut Blezard (GODUNK 014LP, 2015); the noisier provocations of "Adam's Apple" and "Heathen" vigilantly co-existing with the gentler inventions of landscape, developed in the ambient wanderlusts of "St Christopher" and "Shields". Mysterious, enigmatic choreographies emerge in "Insect Fire Dance", where an oedipal protagonist is confronted with a litany of pagan objects, scattered on an ancient burial ground. "... a touch of The Fall in a brawl with Robert Fripp and the blazing sentinels of King Crimson." --Shindig!
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Cavalier Song present their first full length recording, Blezard. Cavalier Song inscribe modern hymns that celebrate a merging of the imagination and material forms. Their cinematic stares study earthy landscapes and post-industrial wastelands, constructing a range of sonic artworks that meditate on the human condition, stirring memory and desire within definitions of a terrible sublime. The results are a series of lush, yet darkly affective, symphonic abstractions. Cavalier Song deploy a post-minimalist sensibility, referencing a range of art forms including painting, sculpture and literature. Musical influences include Philip Glass, Swans, Grouper, John Coltrane and King Crimson, each echoing a fascination for repetition, duration and modal improvisation. Produced by Stephen Cole. "Creepy and obdurate, spoken un-languages sync with loops of uncertainty and modern dystopian rhetoric." -- Bido Lito!
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Henge, the London based four-piece, present their self-titled debut. Combining Butthole Surfers mayhem and Jesus Lizard precession, this is pure psychedelic noise rock. Their self-titled debut album comes across like a lost Amrep record, psychedelic in its truest sense of altering perception and pushing the listener to the inner depths of the subconsciousness. It's acid fried, heavy and slow. Pulsating and throbbing; the guitar being a washing, white noise counterpoint to the pummeling rhythm section with the vocals pushing everything into the red. Imagine the rush of an acid trip combined with a collapsing sun. That's the intensity of Henge.
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GODUNK 012LP
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Front man of leading psych kraut rock heavyweights Mugstar, Peter J Smyth presents seventeen tracks of finger picked beauty recalling John Fahey and Mount Eerie amongst others. Black Smoke is an intricate album, full of dynamic intensity and stark observations. Lyrically, Smyth shines with a collection of poetic sonnets that translate moments of austere contemplation and urban alienation. Smyth is confounding, ambiguous but sublime, leading the listener through a series of dense pilgrimages, describing a lost prodigal son in search of redemption. Limited to 500 copies on bright red vinyl.
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