THE HEADS - 'RELAXING WITH...'

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• ROOSTER15CD - 2xCDs

  823566501220

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*REPRESS ON 2CD,  FINALLY* Fresh cut by Shawn Joseph, incredible art redux from Johnny O, and with MP3  / FLAC code postcard. A single vinyl album reissue on almost to the day but 16 years later:  "Relaxing With?" is the first Heads album, its reissue, remastered and boosted with extras has been a long time coming: Rooster is mightily proud to announce its release at last.. The Heads had self-released a couple of 7"', and then Cargo Uk's inhouse label Headhunter UK got to release a further 7", and then the Debut album in 1996. Amidst a world suffocating in Britpop smarm, the Heads cut a timely swathe with their unkempt rock psychedelique. The album contained 10 tracks of guitar driven, amp destroying rock, with cues taken straight from the US underground, Stooges, MC5, Mudhoney, Pussy Galore, early Monster Magnet too but with a disitinctly British stamp, some of the drone and fuzz from Loop / Spacemen 3, some of the attitude of the Fall, Pink Fairies and Walking Seeds and overlaid with the spaced rock of early Hawkwind. It was obvious that the four members of the Heads were music obsessives. The debut album was recorded at Foel studios (owned by Dave Anderson from Hawkwind) and engineered by Corin Dingley, it was mastered by John Dent at LOUD. For this reissue, the album has been kept on disc one in its entirety, and remastered by Shawn Joseph,  the 2nd disc contains singles, demo, and radio tracks, including their first JOHN PEEL session.. A 27 track release that confirms the Heads status as " a national treasure". Released on the band's own Rooster imprint, 1000 copies W/W only.

Tracks

Disc One

1. Quad 3:58
2. Don't Know Yet 3:35
3. Chipped 4:25
4. Slow Down 3:05
5. U33 3:46
6. Television 2:16
7. Woke Up 3:18
8. Widowmaker 3:48
9. Taken Too Much 4:28
10. Coogan's Bluff 45:02

Total Running Time: 77:54

Disc Two

1. Spliff Riff 9:01
2. Quad 3:16
3. Woke Up 3:17
4. Looking At You 1:27
5. Coogan's Bluff 4:01
6. Theme 2:04
7. Television 2:21
8. Steamroller 4:24
9. Jellystoned Park 8:44
10. Quad 3:15
11. U33 3:08
12. Television 1:50
13. Chipped 3:45
14. Widowmaker 3:09
15. Theme 2:18
16. Woke Up 3:26
17. Spliff Riff 8:57

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HERE LIES MAN - 'S/T'

Formats

• EZRDR074 - LP

  603111715711

• EZRDR074CD - CD

  603111715728

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**BACK IN ON GOLD COLOURED VINYL**What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat? In short, that’s the underlying vibe to the self-titled debut by Here Lies Man. The L.A. based quintet is founded and conceptualized by Marcos Garcia of Antibalas, bringing his erudite experience of West African rhythms and music to the more riff-based foundations of heavy rock. The results are an incredibly catchy and refreshing twist on classic forms, without sounding forced and trite like some sort of mash-up attempt. Here Lies Man merges and expands musical traditions organically, utilizing the talents of drummer Geoff Mann (son of jazz musician Herbie Mann) and a host of skilled musicians to make Garcia’s vision a reality. “The repetitive guitar figures that happen in Afrobeat music are very close to heavy rock guitar riffs,” Garcia explains. “ This music is based on the clave. It’s the musical algorithm that the rhythms revolve around. It's what gives it integrity and provides the basis for the musical conversation that's happening. I knew I wanted it to be psychedelic and heavy, and I wanted to be expanding on a musical tradition rather than pretending to be creating something new.” And that expansion is the brilliant, hazy, psychedelic, hook-laden 8-song masterwork Here Lies Man, available on LP, CD and download on April 7th, 2017 via RidingEasy Records. (Written by Dave Clifford)

Tracks

?

1. ? When I Come
To

2.? I Stand Alone
3.? Eyes of the
Law
4.? You Ain't
Goin' Nowhere
5.? Letting Go
6.? So Far Away
7.? Belt of The
Sun
8.? Here Lies
Man

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"What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat? What if Goat played those heavier Beastie Boys instrumentals?"

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ALLRED & BRODERICK - 'FIND THE WAYS'

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• ERATP095LP - LP

  4050486113097

• ERATP095CD - CD

  4050486113110

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Peter Broderick returns with Allred & Broderick – a duo project between him and his musical partner David Allred – and their debut album ‘Find The Ways’ out on April 7th 2017. Armed with nothing but their voices, a violin and an upright bass, Allred & Broderick began their journey to create an album as minimal as possible. Recorded in Peter’s studio The Sparkle on the Oregon coast, the pair used this solitude to focus on creating something as raw and honest as possible, particularly in what some might deem unattainable during a time where complexity is sought most. In a world full of noise and the anxieties of every day life, Find The Ways brings us together and reminds us to appreciate and confront the simple and fundamental facts of life, and that we as individuals will eventually find our way. Words from Peter and David, January 2017: “I sensed a truly unique character in David’s own music that is wonderfully heartfelt and sincere. With this recording David and I set out to make something raw which is an honest document of what we are capable of doing together at once, with just two acoustic instruments and our voices. The entire album was recorded live, with no overdubs and no edits. Just two guys playing together in a room. I have always dreamed of doing a project in which I only use my violin and my voice and David just plays upright bass and sings. It truly is a fifty-fifty collaboration.” – Peter Broderick “It is such a pleasure to work with Peter. I feel that we're on the same page in more ways than one, both musically and non-musically. The making of this album was an incredibly fun challenge; writing music to be performed and recorded live with only violin, upright bass, and voices. It still amazes me that we managed to make a whole record with only those three elements. Over the years, I have felt a very strong connection to Peter's music and friendship, and I feel that this collaboration comes from a really good place. I hope this music gives the listeners a feeling of comfort, confusion and understanding.” – David Allred

Tracks

1. Living On A Wire
2. The Wise One
3. Two Otters
4. Hey Stranger
5. Four Aspens
6. The Ways
7. Hesitation
8. I?m Not Crazy
9. Ode To Angelica
10. Robert, Please

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JOHN DWYER - 'EXPLODED GLOBES: AN ANOTATED COLLECTION OF POSTERS 1999-2016'

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• CF056 - BOOK

  9781532333217

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**New book from THEE OH SEES main man ships for Apr 7th**For the very first Castle Face book — a selection from the dusty vaults of John Dwyer’s prodigious poster output! Bold, brash, lovingly imperfect prints embellished with some stories of the nights in question as told by the man himself…don’t miss out on this or your coffee table will never forgive you. From the introduction: “In this book, in no particular order, are the handbills, fliers and posters I’ve made since 1999 or so to present. The style doesn’t vary all that much…similar content…but I think I’ve gotten slowly better over all these years…I’m still a bit too impatient of a person to make “perfect” prints…but I think part of that is my style: a mess sometimes. Nothing wrong with that. I’m really not a huge fan of the typical rock poster. It can be a tedious format to look at, especially after years of playing shows and a million posters, so I try to make something from a bit of a different place. Thanks, and I hope you enjoy, maybe you were at one of these shows? Maybe you thought, who made this shit poster? It was me.” —John Dwyer

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In hardcover, casewrapped in crimson
cloth with gold foil lettering, so it looks
nice on your shelf

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GUIDED BY VOICES - 'AUGUST BY CAKE'

Formats

• GBVI71 - 2xLPs

  655035087115

• GBVI71CD - CD

  655035087122

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Guided By Voices’ August By Cake is the one hundredth studio album that Robert Pollard has released since 1986’s Forever Since Breakfast. To put that in perspective, Bob Dylan has released roughly thirty nine studio albums since 1959. And that includes the Traveling Wilburys. This is a highly anticipated record, which includes the new line-up (returning GBV veterans Doug Gillard and Kevin March, virgins Bobby Bare Jr and Mark Shue) that has been wowing audience in clubs and festivals throughout 2016. It’s the most musically adept and versatile line-up Pollard has ever assembled. With thirty two songs, this album is also GBV’s first ever doublealbum, and song contributions from all five band members is additional icing on the cake, setting album #100 apart from the previous ninetynine. The double album is an important format in Pollard’s own musical iconography, and he doesn’t take the form lightly — one reason he’s planned and abandoned several would-be GBV double albums in the past is his high regard for foundational works like Quadrophenia, the White Album, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Daydream Nation, Zen Arcade, Double Nickels On the Dime — “defining records for these bands,” says Pollard. It’s important to him that August By Cake not just be a double album but that it be a great one.

Tracks

1. 5? On The Inside 2. Generox Gray ?
3. When We All Hold Hands
At The End Of The World
4. Goodbye Note 5. We Liken The Sun
6. Fever Pitch 7. Absent The Man
8. Packing The Dead Zone
9. What Begins On New Year?s Day
10. Overloaded 11. Keep Me Down
12. West Coast Company Man
13. Warm Up To Religion
14. High Five Hall Of Famers
15. Sudden Fiction 16. Hiking Skin
17. It?s Food 18. Cheap Buttons
19. Substitute 11 20. Chew The Sand
21. Dr. Feelgood Falls Off The Ocean
22. The Laughing Closet 23. Deflect Project
24. Upon The Circus Bus
25. Try It Out (It?s Nothing)
26. Sentimental Wars 27. Circus Day Holdout
28. Whole Tomatoes
29. Amusement Park Is Over
30. Golden Doors 31. The Possible Edge
32. Escape To Phoenix

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FEEDTIME - 'GAS'

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• ITR305 - LP

  759718530513

• ITR305CD - CD

  759718530520

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Sydney, 1978-79: against the backdrop of the burgeoning I Inner-city music scene, feedtime was formed. Taking notes from the incendiary live shows of X and Rose Tattoo, they created their own interpretation of the events unfolding before them, a blues-noise that was equal parts abstract minimalism and working class roots-rock. Post-punk, yet right in the thick of it; miles ahead of the pack and not many seemed to notice. The classic line-up (reunited here on Gas) released four albums in the 1980s before their initial dissolution in 1989. All four albums generated an international cult following, often cited as influential in the US regional band explosion of the early ’90s. Fitting then, that in 2012 the band’s classic albums were reissued as a box set by SUB POP Records . Gas presents all the elements that make feedtime one of the great Australian pub rock bands. The staggering, woozy slide guitar, the thundering drums, and the relentless thrum of the bass create the atmosphere of urban panic, finding ways to smile amongst the bitter, harsh reality of life. Some make it through, some don’t.• Classic line-up of influential cult Australian blues-noise band of the ‘80s returns for this new album • Older albums recently reissued as box set by SUB POP

Tracks

1. Any Good Thing
2. Thought
3. Box N Burn
4. Skilled Enuf
5. Hopeful Blues
6. Gutter Roll
7. You Don?t Mind
8. Fifty Eight
9. Sister
10. Grass
11. Lies
12. Keep Goin
13. Highway Cruisin
14. Shovelhead

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