COSMIC PSYCHOS - 'DOWN ON THE FARM / COSMIC PSYCHOS'

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• AARGHT027CD - CD

  5060174956959

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*BACK IN*Forte is proud to present these fantastic reissues on the Aarght label from one of Australia's greatest rock & roll bands, the Cosmic Psychos. The band debuted on wax almost 30 years ago and since then have become an Aussie punk/pub rock institution, touring the globe and influencing a generation of Seattle musicians (Mudhoney, the Melvins and Pearl Jam among them) in the process. On top of that there's the recently released full-length documentary on the band, Blokes You Can Trust, which is doing the rounds in cinemas around Australia and the US, a US tour in September and now these! 2013 is the Year Of The Cosmic Psycho. Let's start with 1985's Down On The Farm mini-LP. This is the record which made the original splash back in the day and hasn't been in print on vinyl anywhere since that time. Featuring original guitarist Peter 'Dirty' Jones on wah-wah guitar, it's an absolute classic of heavy-duty punk/grunge. The vinyl edition comes with a download card. The self-titled LP from 1987 is another classic with the original line-up. The download card for the vinyl edition comes with two bonus tracks - outtakes from the same recording session - and the CD also contains the two bonus tracks PLUS the entire Down On The Farm mini-LP. 19 songs in total. 1989's Go The Hack was Dirty's last foray with the band and featured the killer single, 'Lost Cause'. The LP edition comes with a download card. All of these classic '80s recordings by the Psychos have been out of print since the 20th century. With the band's fortunes and notoriety in the upswing this year, expect some big interest in these long-unavailable quality reissues. Blokes you can trust, indeed.

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COSMIC PSYCHOS - 'DOWN ON THE FARM'

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• AARGHT026 - LP

  655035029610

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*BACK IN STOCK* Forte is proud to present these fantastic reissues on the Aarght label from one of Australia's greatest rock & roll bands, the Cosmic Psychos. The band debuted on wax almost 30 years ago and since then have become an Aussie punk/pub rock institution, touring the globe and influencing a generation of Seattle musicians (Mudhoney, the Melvins and Pearl Jam among them) in the process. On top of that there's the recently released full-length documentary on the band, Blokes You Can Trust, which is doing the rounds in cinemas around Australia and the US, a US tour in September and now these! 2013 is the Year Of The Cosmic Psycho. Let's start with 1985's Down On The Farm mini-LP. This is the record which made the original splash back in the day and hasn't been in print on vinyl anywhere since that time. Featuring original guitarist Peter 'Dirty' Jones on wah-wah guitar, it's an absolute classic of heavy-duty punk/grunge. The vinyl edition comes with a download card. The self-titled LP from 1987 is another classic with the original line-up. The download card for the vinyl edition comes with two bonus tracks - outtakes from the same recording session - and the CD also contains the two bonus tracks PLUS the entire Down On The Farm mini-LP. 19 songs in total. 1989's Go The Hack was Dirty's last foray with the band and featured the killer single, 'Lost Cause'. The LP edition comes with a download card. All of these classic '80s recordings by the Psychos have been out of print since the 20th century. With the band's fortunes and notoriety in the upswing this year, expect some big interest in these long-unavailable quality reissues. Blokes you can trust, indeed.

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COSMIC PSYCHOS - 'COSMIC PSYCHOS'

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• AARGHT027 - LP

  655035029719

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Forte is proud to present these fantastic reissues on the Aarght label from one of Australia's greatest rock & roll bands, the Cosmic Psychos. The band debuted on wax almost 30 years ago and since then have become an Aussie punk/pub rock institution, touring the globe and influencing a generation of Seattle musicians (Mudhoney, the Melvins and Pearl Jam among them) in the process. On top of that there's the recently released full-length documentary on the band, Blokes You Can Trust, which is doing the rounds in cinemas around Australia and the US, a US tour in September and now these! 2013 is the Year Of The Cosmic Psycho. Let's start with 1985's Down On The Farm mini-LP. This is the record which made the original splash back in the day and hasn't been in print on vinyl anywhere since that time. Featuring original guitarist Peter 'Dirty' Jones on wah-wah guitar, it's an absolute classic of heavy-duty punk/grunge. The vinyl edition comes with a download card. The self-titled LP from 1987 is another classic with the original line-up. The download card for the vinyl edition comes with two bonus tracks - outtakes from the same recording session - and the CD also contains the two bonus tracks PLUS the entire Down On The Farm mini-LP. 19 songs in total. 1989's Go The Hack was Dirty's last foray with the band and featured the killer single, 'Lost Cause'. The LP edition comes with a download card. All of these classic '80s recordings by the Psychos have been out of print since the 20th century. With the band's fortunes and notoriety in the upswing this year, expect some big interest in these long-unavailable quality reissues. Blokes you can trust, indeed.

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COSMIC PSYCHOS - 'GO THE HACK'

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• AARGHT028CD - CD

  5060174956966

• AARGHT028 - LP

  655035029818

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Forte is proud to present these fantastic reissues on the Aarght label from one of Australia's greatest rock & roll bands, the Cosmic Psychos. The band debuted on wax almost 30 years ago and since then have become an Aussie punk/pub rock institution, touring the globe and influencing a generation of Seattle musicians (Mudhoney, the Melvins and Pearl Jam among them) in the process. On top of that there's the recently released full-length documentary on the band, Blokes You Can Trust, which is doing the rounds in cinemas around Australia and the US, a US tour in September and now these! 2013 is the Year Of The Cosmic Psycho. Let's start with 1985's Down On The Farm mini-LP. This is the record which made the original splash back in the day and hasn't been in print on vinyl anywhere since that time. Featuring original guitarist Peter 'Dirty' Jones on wah-wah guitar, it's an absolute classic of heavy-duty punk/grunge. The vinyl edition comes with a download card. The self-titled LP from 1987 is another classic with the original line-up. The download card for the vinyl edition comes with two bonus tracks - outtakes from the same recording session - and the CD also contains the two bonus tracks PLUS the entire Down On The Farm mini-LP. 19 songs in total. 1989's Go The Hack was Dirty's last foray with the band and featured the killer single, 'Lost Cause'. The LP edition comes with a download card. All of these classic '80s recordings by the Psychos have been out of print since the 20th century. With the band's fortunes and notoriety in the upswing this year, expect some big interest in these long-unavailable quality reissues. Blokes you can trust, indeed.

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YASMIN WILLIAMS - 'URBAN DRIFTWOOD'

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• SIS0006 - LP

  733102719739

• SIS006CD - CD

  733102718961

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*NOW AVAILABLE ON CD/ LP REPRESS IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE*After getting a handful a couple of weeks back, we now have a good supply of this wonderful album coming in: in for 14th May release date. With her ambidextrous and pedidextrous, multi-instrumental techniques of her own making and influences ranging from video games to West African griots subverting the predominantly white male canon of fingerstyle guitar, Yasmin Williams is truly a guitarist for the new century. So too is her stunning sophomore release, Urban Driftwood, an album for and of these times. Though the record is instrumental, its songs follow a narrative arc of 2020, illustrating both a personal journey and a national reckoning, through Williams’ evocative, lyrical compositions. Williams, 24, began playing electric guitar in eighth grade, after she beat the video game Guitar Hero 2 on expert level. Initially inspired by Jimi Hendrix and other shredders she was familiar with through the game, she quickly moved on to acoustic guitar, finding that it allowed her to combine fingerstyle techniques with the lap-tapping she had developed, as well as perform as a solo artist. Deriving no lineage from “American primitive” and rejecting the problematic connotations of the term, Williams’ influences include the smooth jazz and R&B she listened to growing up, Hendrix and Nirvana, go-go and hip-hop. On Urban Driftwood, Williams references the music of West African griots through the inclusion of kora and hand drumming of 150th generation djeli Amadou Kouyate, on the title track. Yasmin Williams is virtuosic in her mastery of the guitar and in the techniques of her own invention, but her playing never sacrifices lyricism, melody, and rhythm for pure demonstration of skill. Storytelling through sound is important to her too. As detailed in the liner notes, the songs on Urban Driftwood were completed during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, in the midst of a national uprising of Black Lives Matter protests in response to the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. But while Urban Driftwood illustrates current struggle, can’t help but open-heartedly offer a timeless solace.

Tracks

1. Sunshowers
2. I Wonder
3. Juvenescence
4. Dragonfly
5. Swift Breeze
6. Adrift
7. Through The Woods
8. Jarabi
9. Urban Driftwood
10. After The Storm

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Has received criticial acclaim, including
an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork
? For fans of fingerstyle guitar, instrumental,
and new-age, such as Kaki King, Michael
Hedges, Robbie Basho, and Elizabeth
Cotton

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JOHN DWYER, RYAN SAWYER, WILDER ZOBY & ANDRES RENTERIA - 'GONG SPLAT'

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• CF144 - LP (COLOURED)

  733102720919

• CF144CD - CD

  733102720926

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**600 SPLATTED GONG VINYL VERSION FOR THE UK (Gold with blue, yellow and purple splatter) What’s this? Today’s holiday gift? One final transmission from the core of the planet! Cresting slabs of concrete and powdered bone, rich soil—improvisation freak flag flitters atop a gutted highrise: Gong Splat. Featuring Ryan Sawyer on drums, Greg Coates on upright bass, Wilder Zoby on synth and mellotron, Andres Renteria on conga, bongos and hand percussion, and John Dwyer on guitar, synths, pan flute, cuíca, hand percussion, space drum and effects. This one is spitting fat and neon night-light city drives, white in the corner of the pilot’s mouth. Furry, fuzzy and frenetic, motorik and full of blood-rich ticks…maggots unite! There’s a show tonight! Welcome back humans.

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1. Gong Splat
2. Cultivated Graves
3. Toagut
4. Anther Dust
5. Yuggoth Travel Agency
6. Hypogeum
7. Oneironaut
8. Minor Protocides
9. Giedi Prime

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ROBERT POLLARD - 'FROM A COMPOUND EYE'

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• GBVI105 - 2xLPs

  733102720544

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Double-vinyl gatefold reissue of Guided By Voices frontman’s most celebrated solo album, previously released in 2006 on Merge Records. From A Compound Eye was Robert Pollard’s first solo album after dissolving Guided By Voices in 2004. When things came to an end for GBV, Pollard promised that this would not mean the end of his songwriting and recording career. It actually provided a fresh start. Leaving his band (and Matador Records) behind allowed him to record when he wanted and what he wanted, with whomever he wanted. Chock full of fantastic songs including “Dancing Girls and Dancing Men”, “I’m a Widow”, “Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft”, and “I’m A Strong Lion”. “...in the tradition of deck-clearing double LPs like the Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime and The Beatles’ White Album.” —The AV Club

Tracks

1. Gold 2. Field Jacket Blues
3. Dancing Girls And Dancing Men
4. Flowering Orphan
5. The Right Thing
6. U.S. Mustard Company
7. The Numbered Head
8. I?m A Widow
9. Fresh Threats, Salad Shooters
And Zip Guns
10. Kick Me And Cancel
11. Other Dogs Remain
12. Kensington Cradle
13. Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft
14. Hammer In Your Eyes
15. 50-Year-Old Baby
16. I Surround You Naked
17. Cock Of The Rainbow
18. Conquerer Of The Moon
19. Blessed In An Open Head
20. A Boy In Motion 21. Denied
22. Light Show 23. I?m A Strong Lion
24. Payment For The Babies
25. Kingdom Without 26. Recovering

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BORED! - 'FEED THE DOG'

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• FMR007CD - CD

  5060446128848

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* SHIPS FOR 17TH DEC* Bored! Feed the Dog is the final release in a killer triple run of limited vinyl releases from Melbourne's (via Geelong) heavy guitar hitters BORED! Originally released as a 10 track LP/CD in 1991, 30 years on, this gem in the BORED! armory gets a fresh go on LP/CD/Cassette with two extra tracks! Remastered by Mikey Young & TOUGH as you wanna! A killer album of SONIC SLINGIN’ NEXT LEVEL GARAGE POWER from Dave, Russell & Buzz in a red hot hand screened / hand numbered sleeve with art by GLENNO SMITH (to follow up the two wild 7”s) with colour Insert, lyric sheet, postcard, sticker, photo and more... PLAY LOUD, PLAY PROUD! Limited edition Colour Vinyl runs for the first 300 LP copies! "Any fan of hot Detroit inspired Sonic Rock Action played with abandon and bite will feel like all their Christmas’s have come at once as these records drop from the label in staggered sequence; It also carries with it a tinge of sadness of course as we lost BORED! guitarist/vocalist DAVE THOMAS in 2020, so these releases will be a great way to remember Dave and blast the records loud and proud and appreciate what he, and fellow Band members of this period bassist/singer Russell Baricevic and powerhouse drum ledge Buzz Munday have offered up across the years, both in a studio and live setting. A band loved all across the world, with an incredible catalogue of albums, singles and legendary live shows up their sleeves, it’s time to revisit these great songs, celebrate the band's legacy and explore these exciting vinyl releases, unreleased tracks and wild lovingly crafted packages from the label which is sure to get fans of rowdy, outta control rock’n’roll excited as hell." Scotti - FMR

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Tracklist
01. Feed The Dog
02, Face Full Of You
03. Rocket Ride
04. Motormouth
05.Friday's Child
06. Over The Edge
07. Waiting
08. Comin' Home
09. People Say
10. Out Of Time
11. Diamonds
12. Tricky Babee

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"Much-missed Australian garage-punks BORED! were never boring..."
-Shindig Magazine

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MAN... OR ASTRO-MAN? - 'SPACE 1991'

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• CHK7076 - 7"

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*SHIPS FOR 17TH DEC* The four-piece known as Man…or Astro-Man? have been using the pandemic to conduct more research at Astro Labs and a by-product is a new vinyl single! The B-side features a cover by Solid Space. Space 1991. The year the future finally begins! You now indeed live in the future. The past is so outdated and we all know how fleeting the present is, so seriously... why not live in the future? In fact, the first ever computer “website” was created this very year. Soon enough, everyone will have their own personal “website” or “webspace” that will reside in its own virtual “domain.” Think of it: everyone in the whole world will be now be digitally connected and able to interact in just a matter of a few minutes. Dear citizens of the past and present: we want to welcome you all. Enjoy the future. The future is now.

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VARIOUS - 'MAGGOT BRAIN ISSUE #7'

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• MG008 - BOOK

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The Winter 2021/22 issue of Third Man Books & Records’ MAGGOT BRAIN magazine (DEC/ JAN/ FEB) streets on Dec. 10 and is extra packed with killer stuff. • THE FRONT COVER is a gorgeous 1981 backstage photo of LOU REED, subject of a phenomenal feature by former NY Rocker contributor LISA JANE PERSKY INSIDE you will also find: • GRATEFUL DEAD: KURT VILE tries to explain them to none other than TOM SCHARPLING • A special new piece about the making of the Velvet Underground’s LOADED • MYRIAM GENDRON: Track by track guide to her highly anticipated second album • LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY: Reprint of the best feature we ever read about him, by ERIK DAVIS • KINKE KOOI: Recent works on paper • MICHAEL HURLEY: Talks to old friend TARA JANE O'NEIL on Hurley's first studio album in years • DOUG HENNING: The magician’s radical roots in Canada’s thriving 1970s prog/glam scene • SISTER ROSETTA THARPE: Why she rules so hard, but there’s no need to call her the “godmother of rock 'n' roll” again, thanks • GRETCHEN GONZALES DAVIDSON: The mystery and mastery of Detroit’s drone warrior, by Destroy All Monsters’ CARY LOREN • THE GOATS: The 1990s’ most forgotten hip-hop collective? • DEAN WAREHAM: A multi-page comic strip by MARLY BEYER, on drinking coffee with Dean and Britta and why his new solo record is so excellent • PHEW: Japanese experimental artist gets the ANDY BETA treatment • ORCHESTRE TOUT POUISSANT MARCEL DUCHAMP by the great SARA JAFFE

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DES DEMONAS - 'CURE FOR LOVE EP'

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• ITR354 - 12"

  759718535419

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“On Des Demonas’ new seven-track EP Cure For Love there’s a whalloping drum beat driving everything. But the throbbing, pumping bass, clanging, slashing guitar and whirling, swirling Farfisa are no mere passengers in this vehicle! I’m told by the other band members Paul [Vivari], Joe [Halladay], Mark [Cisneros] and Ryan [Hicks] that vocalist Jacky Cougar Abok is the loudest drummer they’ve ever heard. “But here he sings! In motifs. He sings out a beat, he sings minimalist melodic hooks. He half speaks/half shouts his lyrical content in rapid fire that is closer to beat poetry than rap. His voice is insistent and demanding to be heard! And it is! By having it slightly submerged, the listener is forced to strain to hear the words because they won’t wanna miss something important! “The sonic fuel of the band is a blend of post-punk, punk, funk, blues, psych-rock, Afrobeat, even bubblegum— but the noise you hear is pure Des Demonas! “Titles like the ‘Ballad Of Ike & Tina’ and ‘Black Orpheus Blues’ add to the intrigue rather than explain the content. The listener is both confronted and lured by something bigger than themselves! Desire, intrigue, fear and exuberance are the rewards to those unable to resist! But will yout love be cured? “You could look to Shakespeare, or simpler, you could buy this record and find out!” —Kim Salmon

Tracks

1. Immigration Song
2. Cure For Love
3. Forest Fires
4. Black Orpheus Blues
5. Control
6. Ballad Of Ike & Tina
7. Hot Snake

Press

Features guitarist Mark Cisneros (Kid
Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, Deathfix,
Medications, The Make-Up, and Benjy
Ferre)

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VARIOUS - 'OCTOCORALLIA'

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• BUTR050 - CD

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8th birthday label sampler featuring 20 tracks from sold out lockdown lathes, recent albums & forthcoming releases by Howlround, Revbjelde, Drew Mulholland, vert:x, Philippe Petit, Tongues Of Fire, Wolfen, Zyklus, Neil Sparkes, Ubiquitous Meh!, Aum Taeppers, Siedler + Haig Fras. Modular synths, coldwave cassette noise, motorik jazz, library music, psych-rock, industrial rhythms, post-punk electronics, shoegaze, drone & spoken words by several established names, a few new ones & a mysterious alias hiding in plain sight. The digisleeve cd arrives in a beautiful, aquatic design by Gerry Carnelly with a 20 page booklet of artwork by Nick Taylor, Temple Ov Saturn, Jeffrey Seidler, Sun Moth, Neil Whitehead, Joshua Blackwell & Tara Egan.

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Includes 20 page coloured booklet and drinks coaster

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