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HHBTM 221LP
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"HHBTM Records will release Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two by The Wedding Present on 1 July 2022. Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two features home recordings of Wedding Present and Cinerama classics, along with a previously unreleased song: 'That Would Only Happen In A Movie'. There is a bevy of guest stars on the album. Jon Stewart [of Platinum-album-selling Sleeper fame] reprises his new role as Wedding Present guitarist but is joined here by some Wedding Present members of old. Peter Solowka, from the band's first line-up appears on 'Nobody's Twisting Your Arm' playing his second instrument, the accordion, while Hit Parade guitarist Paul Dorrington contributes to a re-working of the Top 30 single 'Blue Eyes'. Long-time Wedding Present and Cinerama bass player Terry de Castro returns to infuse the album with her own unique style, while current Wedding Present bass player Melanie Howard takes over the lead vocal duties on a beautiful version of 'At The Edge Of The Sea'. Last, but certainly not least, Amelia Fletcher - backing vocalist on George Best and Bizarro -- also returns to the party! As on the first volume, each musician recorded and filmed their parts at home and, as before, it is fascinating to see how stripped-back arrangements bring out different aspects of these brilliant songs."
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HHBTM 207LP
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"Denver, Colorado DIY band American Culture blend the sounds of tape warble from that mix-tape your best friend made you way back when, the one who knew all the best music you've never heard before that opened up new worlds to you with traces of dub, Afrobeat, post-punk, college rock, stoner jams with touches of freedom rock, and endless punk sentiments, but not about destruction, but community."
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HHBTM 210LP
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"The Wedding Present recorded a full acoustic and stripped back album during the lock down from COVID-19 featuring classic Wedding Present hits and deep cuts and new tracks like 'We Should Be Together' which is a duet with Louise Wenner of the britpop band Sleeper. 12 tracks in all included 'My Favourite Dress' and 'You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends.'"
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HHBTM 204LP
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"Bristol UK's the Flatmates were only around for three years (1986-1989) releasing a handful of songs with a few of them being UK radio hits before disbanding. The band reformed with a new vocalist in 2013 and are now finally releasing a debut LP nearly 30 years after splitting up. Considered one of the bands that created the fuzzed-out guitar indie pop band formula along with the Wedding Present."
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HHBTM 186LP
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"Wyatt At The Coyote Palace is the tenth solo album from Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses/50 Foot Wave) since her solo debut Hips & Makers in 1994. WATCP is a 24-track double album that was written over the last five years during a turbulent period of her life while also being inspired by her son Wyatt and his fascination with an abandoned apartment building that was inhabited by coyotes."
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HHBTM 192LP
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"His Name Is Alive archive of lost vocals, shadowy choirs, fuzzed upside down, prog melodies flipped & reversed in a 2xLP. Black Wings was originally designed as a collection of outtakes, demos and experiments, combining beautifully layered acapella vocal harmonies with heavy fuzz riffs and sci-fi soundtrack synths, and was included in the Patterns of Light limited edition super set (2016) but quickly grew in stature and attracted attention as a fundamentally unique stand-alone release. Black Wings is 30-song cosmic double album housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve and collages an insane variety of styles including psychedelic rock, new age meditation, medieval choral, and the protometal prog of early Rush and Hawkwind, while lyrically covering heavily researched creation myths, visionary theology, particle physics, dragons and some feelings about the fundamental forces of nature and witchcraft. Black Wings is His Name is Alive's 101th release since their first cassette in 1986. HNIA spent 13 years recording for the legendary British label 4AD and in that time sold 100,000+ records, toured the world, received gold and platinum records for soundtracking Tom Cruise's nervous breakdown in the movie Jerry Maguire and collaborated on two short films with famed animators the Quay Brothers. Described variously by the press as 'Absolutely beautiful' (CMJ), 'A silver thread out of the labyrinth' (NME), 'Moody, ethereal' (Trouser Press), 'Lo-fi freakouts' (XL8R) and 'Haunted, wholly out of time or context' (Plan B), His Name Is Alive continues to mystify with its longstanding tradition of bedroom dream pop experimentation."
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