PETE BENTHAM & THE DINNER LADIES - 'WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE HAS TO COME OUT'

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• NXN011LP - LP (COLOURED)

  5065012641004

• NXN011CD - CD

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The Liverpool ‘Kitchencore’ band follow up their critically received album England’s Up For Sale in 2020 with their most commercial and musically ambitious album to date. Full of razor-sharp lyrics and musical twist and turns, What’s On The Inside Has To Come Out is briming with energy and ideas. Whereas the previous album was an observational, sparse, post-punk style snap-shot of a Brexit Britain, the new record has a more personal style with witty tales of northern, working class life in songs like I’m Shy, Mum & Dad, Money & Art and the title track What’s On The Inside Has To Come Out, that you can easily relate to. Through the bands constant gigging and riotous theatrical live shows, they have gained a big reputation as a great live act with festivalflyer.com including them in their list of the top festival bands in the UK. However, behind the fun and theatrics, the band have always had something serious to say. The album has their usual garage punk and artrock sound fused with post-punk, folk and even gospel elements for a more eclectic record that should please their hardcore fans and those new to their lo-fi but accessible sound. This is a joyous, life-affirming record for the post-Covid era, by the ultimate people’s band... This is Kitchencore!

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(1) What?s On The Inside Has To Come Out (2) Mum & Dad (3) I?m Shy
(4) Money & Art (5) In Toxteth (6) Elvis In My Dreams
(7) Life Is Beautiful (8) Kind (9) Happy Birthday Syd
(10) Jarg Bizzie (11) Badges (12) Everybody Has A Song

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"...One of the best albums of the Year" Bruce Turnbull, VLR 'Combining humorous but pointed lyrics with gloriously off-kilter pop-art garage rock,
this is one of the most entertaining groups around at the moment'
Gus Ironside, Vive le Rock Magazine

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SIMON JULIFF - 'STARS'

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• DOG082 - LP

  5060446128497

• DOG082CD - CD

  5060446128480

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First solo release from Melbourne pop-rock singer/songwriter SIMON JULIFF Produced by Joel Silbersher (GOD / Hoss) and released on the newly revived Australian label Dog Meat Records Much-loved Melbourne rock 'n' roll label Dog Meat Records returns with first solo release from former singer/guitarist/songwriter of The Roys and God / Hoss / Powder Monkeys associate, Simon Juliff The first new Dog Meat release in over a quarter of a century is the new single “Stars”, taken from the forthcoming album of the same name, from reticent Melbourne pop-rock singer/songwriter Simon Juliff. Juliff, who was singer/guitarist/songwriter for Melbourne band The Roys in the ‘00s, was a friend of many of the ‘90s Melbourne bands on Dog Meat and nearly a Dog Meat signing with his first band The Evil Dead. Produced by long-time friend Joel Silbersher (God, Hoss, Tendrils etc) and featuring backing from members of Hoss and Kim Salmon & the Surrealists, “Stars” – both the new single and the forthcoming album - combines brightly dappled glimmers of classic pop-rock melodicism with a darkened, frazzled vibe.

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01. Stars
02. The Mission
03. Green Papaya
04. Private Party
05. Salad Days
06. What Would You Say
07. Sal
08. Charlie
09. Shot Across The Bow
10. Till Next Time
11. Nice Eye

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GAVIN BRYARS - 'THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC'

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• SV161 - LP

  857661008971

• SV161CD - CD

  855985006048

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**VINYL AND CD INSTOCK AND SHIPPING** Gavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire, England in 1943. His first musical forays were as a jazz bassist working in the early 1960s with improvisors Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. Bryars later worked with composers John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, founded the Portsmouth Sinfonia and collaborated with Brian Eno on his famed Obscure imprint. The Sinking of the Titanic, Bryars’ first major composition, was inspired by the tragic event of the British passenger liner’s cross-Atlantic maiden voyage. Bryars eloquently reconstructs the passengers’ experience – at once forlorn and eerily calming – through assemblages of understated strings and indeterminate elements. A core principle of the piece is that the ship’s band continued to play as the vessel went down. One of the most sublime works in the modern classical canon, Titanic remains Bryars’ magnum opus. Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, the album’s second sidelong track, is based on a tape loop of a London street singer captured in the early 1970s. Featuring Derek Bailey, Michael Nyman and John White, Bryars’ composition gradually builds around the cripplingly poignant voice until its emotional force is almost too much to bare. It’s no surprise that Jesus’ Blood is known as Tom Waits’ all-time favorite piece of music. Produced by Brian Eno in 1975 as the inaugural release on Obscure, The Sinking of the Titanic draws the listener in to a majestic world. While these exquisite, hymn-like recordings have not changed in nearly 50 years, their deeply personal nature and the audience’s attention to their subtlety have only strengthened over time.

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1. The Sinking of the Titanic
2. Jesus? Blood Never Failed Me Yet

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Produced by Brian Eno in 1975 as the inaugural release on Obscure. Jesus' Blood is known as Tom Waits' all-time favorite piece of music.

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STRAIGHT ARROWS - 'LIVE AT THE LANSDOWNE 21'

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• CONVOLUTED003 - LP

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100 COPIES ONLY FOR SALE! RED VINYL PRESENTING the Straight Arrows LIVE and ON RECORD with 'Live at Lansdowne '21' In a short gap between spirit-crushing lockdowns Straight Arrows played an irresponsibly INCENDIARY performance at Sydney's Lansdowne Hotel, captured magnificently to tape, and now presented in the most stunning form of live album: a 70s style bootleg LP! WITNESS mislabelled song titles, HEAR real life tape dropouts over a 'live' audience, SMELL the floury glue pasting on the photocopied covers, CLUTCH the precious moments of a magnificent band in motion, immortalised in a limited run of 300 numbered, translucent red vinyl discs. Don't wait to find it at the op shop, the time to purchase is NOW! And stay tuned for a BRAND NEW STRAIGHT ARROWS LP out 2023! Random cover allocation, all numbered to 300.. literally 5 diff covers..20-25 of each in the Forte copies

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Bad Temper
Can't Stand it
Don't Shit
Petrifide
See Your Face?
Something Happens
Gunman
Out & Down
Haunted Out
Make Up Your Mind

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JD EMMANUEL - 'ELECTRONIC MINIMAL MUSIC'

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• BS018 - 3xLP

  769791959743

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The recent rediscovery of J.D. Emmanuel by critics and audience, and his comeback to underground scene from 2010 was crucial to reweave the development of electronic music in the early Eighties. This new publication cast new light on his first activity of composing and performing electronic music during 1979-83, experiments totally unreleased and never before published on vinyl. Certainly seminal minimal works such as Four Organs or Violin Phase by Steve Reich, A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley as well Cluster, Harmonia or Peter Michael Hamel's works of the early Seventies had a decisive impact on the Emmanuel's debut. However, since the beginning he proves to reshape and reformulate the lymph of his sources of inspiration with a consolidated maturity and accurate vision unparalleled. His poetry it's closely tied to the will to expand consciousness and explore his altered states, but more than a "cosmic courier" he rather appear as "courier of soul and heart" and "a student of metaphysical Nature of the Universe". Magician of a incredible variety of analog keyboards JD conceives the sound as dynamic translation of forces and organic fluid expanding flows of energy mass. The cyclicity of patterns and phrases refer to minimalist iteration but his music has little in commune with something purely mathematical; but also using an approach to improvisation filtered by his interest in jazz and in the temporal expansion of rock-jams, harmonic sections are charged with a intimate spontaneity and freedom without boundaries. These 14 "vaporous drawnings", released in a deluxe edition with photos, writings and digital download code donate a primordial state of grace to the listener, in parallel to contemporary ancestral work Wizards in 1982 (containing two tracks that was originally included in Wizards, but replaced by other tracks just before the final master).

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UMILIANA (M.ZALLA) - 'PROBLEMI D'OGGI'

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• BS017 - LP

  769791909151

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Don't let the name mislead you! The enigmatic M. Zalla is one of the numerous aliases of the italian maestro Piero Umiliani who, during his period of fascination for psychedelic and electronic atmospheres, started to compose a good number of musical portraits dedicated, as the title reveals, to the problems of his time. We are at the beginning of '70 and italians are worried by mafia, terrorism and social conflicts: so it has sense that the music choosen to represent this anxious problems has a sperimental nature; dark and disturbing, a sort of unicum in the long and extremly productive Umiliani career. And if, in 2015, titlesas “Mondo in Crisi”, “Problemi Sociali”, “Azione Sindacale”and “Mafia Oggi” sounds still sadly actual, it's even more surprising find that the music of “Problemi d'Oggi” (Today Problems) is projected on the future, sounding still alien and uniques. The record presents a various styles: Pink Floyd atmospheres (or Braen's Machine if you prefer...) and compositions characterized by a wide use of drum machines and synthetizer (MOOG and Sinthy). We just have to listen to the opening track “Produzione” to give sense to the words of Sean Canty (Demdike Stare) that defines it the first techno/trance track of the history; but between the grooves of this vinyl it's easy to find intuitions that many other artist and musicians – from Residents to Aphex Twin and Four Tet – will be able to catch during their carrers.

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EVEREST MAGMA - 'ALTO/PIANO'

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• BS074 - LP

  5053760097600

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Everest Magma rediscovers the folk roots of his dreamy alter ego Woodcutter. Once again he appears as a minstrel crossing moonstruck woods inhabited by gnomes, butterflies and crawling creatures. Nature is sublimated into a personal alien vision in which a lysergic approach triumphs in the arrangement of sound material and immersive musique concrète. Pure acid-folk fingerpicking communicates directly with the forest’s humus, steeped in wild and ethereal moods. Between schizoid or more lyrical moments, a persistent taste for subtle subterranean noises, electric flashes, radio and ufological interferences, deviant scents and psychological drifts permeates the flow. The abstracting structure of voices and singing expresses the cyclical beingness of living, a decontextualizing dimension of space and time. It's the pantheistic feeling of a parallel naturalistic universe, which also takes cues from the psychedelic eccentricity of Claudio Rocchi’s ‘Suoni di Frontiera’, the Incredible String Band or Holy Modal Rounders. Co-produced with Maple Death Records

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16 TAMBOURINES - 'ALL MEN ARE FOOLS'

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• NXN012LP - LP

  5065012641011

• NXN012CD - CD

  0615625727203

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**LP's INCLUDE SIGNED ARTPRINT by Steve Roberts**Formed in the mid 80’s, signed to Arista/BMG, releasing one record and playing their last show for 30 years in 1990, 16 Tambourines burnt bright in a short period of time. Fans and the band themselves have longed for a follow up to the glorious ‘How Green Is Your Valley?’ for over 3 decades, and it is finally upon us. ‘All Men Are Fools’ is the sophomore release 32 years in the making. Created in parts through lockdown, recorded, mixed and mastered post lockdown by original members Steve Roberts, Tony Elliott, Tony McGuigan, David Oliver and Susan Bailey, along with some musician friends. The album is upbeat, sharp, witty and at points scathing. A defiance embodied in the seemingly eternal, joyous struggle to create this body of work. It is described by Steve as Mod, New Wave, Pop & Soul with a couple of jazz chords, just how the band wanted it. The title of the album, ‘All Men Are Fools’ was the first song Steve wrote specifically for the retooled, remodelled 16 Tambourines, reflecting on a talk with his daughter about boyfriends and why men are as they are

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Side One
(1) All Men Are Fools (2) Sky High (3) Celebrate
(4) Sweet Libra (5) Sorry
Side Two
(1) Don?t Throw It Away (2) Jennifer (3) Closed For Business
(4) Sun Valley (5) Dark High Land

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'We honestly think it's a better album than our first one'
Steve Roberts

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ROY MONTGOMERY - 'CAMERA MELANCHOLIA'

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• GY12-6 - 2xLPs

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Camera Melancholia is a double album of instrumental music inspired by and dedicated to Kerry McCarthy (1967-2021) who was Montgomery's partner for twenty years and the mother of two children they had together. She died from cancer in early 2021 after first being diagnosed in 2014. McCarthy was a professional curator in the area of pictorial collections, particularly around photographic material, and her PhD used the work of Roland Barthes to theorize about the legacies of images associated with Antarctic exploration in the early 20th Century. The cover art for Camera Melancholia was provided by Ronnie van Hout, an Aotearoa New Zealand artist associated with the earliest graphic design work for Flying Nun Records. Van Hout was also a very close and long standing friend of McCarthy. The gatefold album includes the text for ten poems written for and about McCarthy.

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Interview with Stevie Chick in The Guardian Music.

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