OLAFUR ARNALDS - '...AND THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE WEIGHT OF DARKNESS (RSD 24 REISSUE)'

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• ERATP022LE - LP (COLOURED)

  3700551785421

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RSD 2024 brings a special re-release of Ólafur Arnalds second full-length album “...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness”. Notably it’s available for the first time on clear vinyl and limited to 1000 copies worldwide. This edition comes in a gatefold sleeve, featuring a concertina booklet, and also includes WAV / MP3 download. With this album, Ólafur Arnalds continues his mission to entice an indie-generation of pop and rock fans into an emotive world of beguiling electronic chamber music and delicate classical arrangements.

Tracks

1. ?? ert s?lin
2. ?? ert j?r?in
3. Tungli?
4. Lofti? ver?ur skyndilega kalt
5. Kjurrt
6. Gleypa okkur
7. H?gt, kemur lj?si?
8. Undan hulu
9. ?au hafa sloppi?
undan ?unga myrkursins

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APRIL MARCH / KELLEY STOLTZ - 'APRIL MARCH SINGS KELLEY STOLTZ'

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• AGIT070 - 12"

  5061041820038

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4 special tracks recorded by April March and Kelley Stoltz, whereby April sings Kelley Stoltz songs in french, and also in english; Music by kelley, vocals by April! A one off meeting of undrground pop legends, and overground garage rock royalty. Mixed / Masterd by Warren DeFever at Third Man. Red colour vinyl version. Ooh La La! C'est Magnifique April March: I was in Nashville with Olivia Jean on a little break from shooting our "Allons Y" video at Third Man. I got in her car and she cranked up her playlist. Out jumped "Double Exposure". I went bananas right there in the passenger seat. "Kelley Stokes!", she smiled wide. It reminded me of something I'd heard in a dream. I went around singing songs from "Double Exposure" for a few weeks zeroing in on "Are You My Love" and "Your Face". I thought to myself cover-wise there's nothing to add here, they're perfect as is but maybe some French versions would be a kick so I asked for an intro. A few months later I was in San Francisco kicking out the Bonne Mamans with Kelley in his studio. Lucky me and thanks to Agitated Records lucky you too. Kelley Stoltz: “Like almost everyone in the world I was dazzled by April March's take on "Chick Habit" back in the late 90s. It was such an up feeling and joyful sound in the music and vocals. At odds with the manly wails and bleak outlooks that were standard song fare of those days. You can develop a crush on the voice in your speakers, you know! I did anyway. I was so pleased to hear from her in person and out of the blue, years later, and find out she wanted to do her own versions of my songs. I soon got to re-recording the music bits, and as she asked, stayed pretty true to their original form… maybe even improving on them just a tad. She appeared at my door one day and we instantly hit it off and laughed and sang and climbed on an elliptical machine. We did some recording and then took a walk and ate tacos. She even gave my daughter her first book. We're just friends, but I'll always have that crush when I hear her voice! I hope you enjoy April March Sings Kelley Stoltz as much as I did working on them.”

Tracks

Side A
1: Are You My Love
2: Your Face
Side B
3: Es-Tu Mon Amour
4: Ton Visage

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SORROW - 'SLEEP NOW FOREVER'

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• LSSN091 - 2xLPs

  5061041820137

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First time to be released on vinyl, this long out of print CD only album is remastered by Mikey Young for a deluxe 2LP version on Black Vinyl with an exclusive etching on SIDE 4 A total Underground classic.  Sleep Now Forever is the second and final album released by Sorrow, the post-Strawberry Switchblade group fronted by singer Rose McDowall. Originally released in 1999 and long since deleted it is a cornucopia of pastoral, elegiac folk music, swirling atmospherics, hymnal compositions and above it all the alternating towering and fragile vocal performances of McDowall. Recorded in the late 90s with fellow band member and co-songwriter Robert Lee, Sleep Now Forever is the definitive statement by the now defunct group and Rose McDowall’s most complete long-form work to date. Released through the group’s own Piski Disk Records, Sleep Now Forever was distributed by World Serpent which struggled through the early 2000s with financial woes, eventually folding due to bankruptcy in 2004. Due to the company’s troubles, Sleep Now Forever was never distributed widely and was a victim of the company’s failure. Released on CD only, original copies are now rare and only traded on second hand channels. Remastered by Mikey Young for a limited vinyl release, Sleep Now Forever will be released on April 20th on double vinyl format, with one side an exclusive etching by Glasgow artist Holly Allan. Despite its rarity, Sleep Now Forever enjoys a firm cult following. The album’s textures are expansive, lush, deliciously detailed and celestial. Recorded in home study Velvet Hole by Rose McDowall and then-husband Robert Lee, the album enlists an array of players from the underground Neo-folk / industrial scene: Nigel McKernaghan (Uilleann pipes, Whistles), Susan Franknel (Bassoon), John Contreras (Cello) and Lawrence Frankel (Oboe, Cor Anglais). The eleven songs here revolve around McDowall’s instantly recognisable voice. Brought up singing in the Catholic Church, McDowall’s vocals are impeccable and angelic, particularly on tracks like Turn Off The Light where her experiences with religion are canted over soaring oboe and guitar backing. By far the most evolved and realised version of Sorrow’s vision, it feels somewhat criminal that music this beautiful could be lost to time until now. McDowall’s lyrics throughout Sleep Now Forever deal frankly with mental health, depression, altered states, death and redemption. Wave upon wave of harmony drench each song, McDowal’s vocal multi-tracked and imperious. Opener Soldier benefits from Robert Lee’s use of the studio as instrument, summoning forth a lilting group performance of sparkling guitar and percussion that recalls the Velvet Underground. Mikey Love’s master treats the compositions to brand new frequency dynamics and space. Harmonium and string drones form the counter to McDowall’s vocal on Love Dies, a slow, lurching lament that feels transcendent. On Haunting, the arrangement is orchestral and aching, bleeding into Fear Becomes You, with chord and harmony structure that recalls the baroque sixties pop of West Coast Pop Experimental Art Band or the 60s psychedelic folk movement. A towering, beautiful statement, this elegy for times lost and moonlit-illumination is finally resurfacing from the darkness.

Tracks

1. Soldier
2. Love Dies
3. Turn Off The Light
4. Haunting
5. Fear Becomes You
6. October Faul
7. Wishing Stone
8. Nomadic Man
9. Epiphany
10. Angel
11. Sleep Now Forever

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THE SPACE LADY - 'THE SPACE LADY'S OTHER HITS'

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• LSSN090 - MLP

  5061041820168

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Originally released as a bonus compact disc to the original The Space Lady's Greatest Hits CD, "Other Hits" is a 6 track E.P. of music never released on vinyl. Culled from the same original 1990 recording sessions that were the source of the original "Greatest Hits," which has gone on to multiple pressings and licenses. First time on limited Clear vinyl, the tracks are amazingly remastered for release by Mikey Young. The Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of Boston in the late 70s, then San Francisco ten years later, playing versions of contemporary pop music with an accordion and dressed flamboyantly. Following the theft and destruction of her accordion , The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, complete with a phase shifter, delay pedal and headset mic, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that has captured the imaginations of the underground and its leading exponents ever since. The Space Lady’s Other Hits were recorded as they were played on the street, live, one-take, with Schneider playing, singing and simultaneously manipulating the various effects. Beginning with Elvis Presley’s iconic All Shook Up, the walking bassline underpinning the vocal, phasing in and out of this dimension, providing a fragile, extraterrestrial shadow to Presley’s original lust-driven performance. Slapback Boomerang is an original composition, written by Schneider’s then-husband Joel Dunsany a Rock ’n’ Roll pounder that could have been performed by The Cramps, its tale of relationship turmoil changed into a meditation on the nature of echo and feedback. There are moments where Schneider performs vocal caesuras, swimming in delay and phase for the pleasure of it, a pantomime drama performance that rings out. Closing Side B, Puttin’ On The Ritz is Irving Berlin’s 20s smash hit manipulated into a sombre ballad with its latent class struggle narrative brought to the fore. A staple of The Space Lady’s performances to this day, Golden Earring’s 70s global hit Radar Love retains something of the original’s driving gallop but in The Space Lady’s telling it is shorn of the tight-trousered, taut machismo. The Space Lady coos and reaches up into the heavens away from the road, the phaser waves drenching the composition with transcendence. Schneider’s falsetto performances in the choruses do nothing but lift the spirits ever-arching upwards. Next, The Space Lady emasculated Jim Morrison’s performance in The Doors’ 20th Century Fox. Faithfully playing Ray Manzarek’s keyboard parts on her Casio, Schneider disintegrates Morrison’s lust into waves of echo and delay, creating a Dubbed out version of the song, sounding eroded and decayed in all its ghostly glory. Pioneering Rock ’n’ Roll outfit Pete & The Pirates’ 1960 hot Shakin’ All Over, something of a response to Elvis’ All Shook Up, is blown out in warm fuzz and the celestial hug of The Space Lady’s spirit.

Tracks

1. All Shook Up
2. Slapback Boomerang
3. Puttin' On The Ritz
4. Radar Love
5.20th Century Fox
6. Shakin' All Over

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VARIOUS - 'CRAWLING THE WALLS / MEETS....'

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• AGIT013CD - CD

  5061041820014

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CHEAP PRICE COMPILATION CD of rare, unreleased, forthcoming, and brilliant tracks from the Agitated Label,and friends.. Like a massive bag of pick and mix to have a party with.. features Straight Arrows, Kelley Stoltz, Carlton Melton, oldboy, Headland, Laurel Canyon, Catatonic Suns, Last of Easy Riders, Icarus Line, Blamers, and much more besides.. 500 CD ...cheap...and tasty.. some tracks first time on CD, some exclusive to this release.. its fun! But whats that?..its not just a single CD label comp, its been double bagged with a extra CD, put together as a collection of “Radio Shows” by good friends of Agitated, The Hawk and KBCD radio!!! Heres what they had to say about DISC 2!!!! “CD2: The Agitated Radio Show on KBCD Radio - The Hawk presents a chemical hit of underground medicine all the way from Nixon County... "a repeat of CD1?" you may unreasonably ask - no, friends, it most certainly isn't.” Only 500/.. grab it on RSD 24..

Tracks

Straight Arrows - Fast Product (first time on CD)
Kelley Stoltz - Reni's Car (upcoming June 2024 release)
Laurel Canyon - Madame Hits the Wire (from S/T LP)
Old Boy - Sho Caller (first time on CD)
Catatonic Suns - Fell Off (from S/T 2024 LP)
Blamers - Apple (LP only release in march 2024)
Hoss - Also, Just for You (unreleased remaster, reissued later 2024)
Koolaid (Global Tyranny) - The Process (early Agitated classic! First time on CD)
Icarus Line - Slow Death (first/only time on CD)
Laurel Canyon - M (Unreleased Cover version)
Joel Silbersher - Half a Mind (prev 7" only release)
Kings of the F>>> Sea - I Walk Alone (Live) (from 2021 Live release)
Carlton Melton - Vanquished (from the 2023 release)
Headland - Ode To Death Trip (from the 2019 release)
Old Boy -Proper Sons (from the 2022 LP)
Last of the Easy Riders - Woodland Echoes (from the 2019 album release)
Kelley Stoltz - Plants (prev only on a bonus 7")
Straight Arrows - Carpe Diem (exclusive cover for this comp)

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MOTORPSYCHO - 'SMALL BOATS'

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• NFGS0224 - 2xCDs

  9008798495078

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Motorpsycho has been an ongoing concern for nigh on 35 years, starting out in 1989 just as alternative rock was coming into it’s own, they’ve gone on to expand and evolve organically into a band that over the years has toured most of the world and dabbled in pretty much every musical style you’d care to mention. But also one that never stood still long enough for the general audience to catch up – a mixture of ambition, impatience and lack of commercial nous made sure of that. All of this makes Motorpsycholand an exciting world to visit regularly for the fan, but also a bit of a nightmare to access for the uninitiated. After something like 50 album releases, it’s a huge and a daunting task to take on. To mark the founding of their own label NFGS and its UK distribution with fmd, the band have allowed fmd to create a UK only 2CD release for RSD 2024 to act as a primer /intro. 500 copies only to be made.

Tracks

Disc 1
1. Psychonaut (Trust Us 1998)
2. Uberwagner or A Billion Bubbles in my Mind (It?s A Love Cult 2002)
3. Hotel Daedelus (Yay! 2023)
4. Upstairs-Downstairs (Let Them Eat Cake 2000)
5. The Magpie (The All Is One 2020)
6. The United Debased (Kingdom of Oblivion 2021)
7. The Promise (Behind the Sun 2014)
8. Hell, Pt 1-3 (Still Life With Eggplants 2013)
9. Year Zero [A Damage Report] (Little Lucid Moments 2008)
10. Pills, Powders & Passion Plays w/ Jaga Jazzist Horns (In The Fishtank 2002)
(+ secret track 11 - Hogwash)

Disc 2
1. Psycholab (Neigh! 2024 unreleased)
2. Un Chien d?Espace (Angels and Daemons at Play 1997)
3. Feel (Timothy?s Monster 1994)
4. Sinful, Windborne (Blissard 1996)
5. Sail On (Black Hole/Blank Canvas 2006)
6. Psychotzar (The Crucible 2019)
7. Lacuna/Sunrise (Here Be Monsters 2016)
8. The Bombproof Roll and Beyond (heavy Metal Fruit 2010)
9. For Free (Phanerothyme 2000)
10. The Tower (the Tower 2017)
(+ secret track 11 - Rock Bottom from the recent sold out 7")

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TWO LONE SWORDSMEN - 'STILL MY WORLD'

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• RGCLP024 - LP

  809651402412

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First time ever release on vinyl format. After The Sabres of Paradise split in 1995 Andrew Weatherall underwent one of many reinventions. He began working with Keith Tenniswood as Two Lone Swordsmen which released several records on the Warp label, set up a new electronic imprint under the Rotters Golf Club banner and fully explored new DJ personas departing from his house-based sets into dub, electronica and rockabilly. Renowned for unconventional sets where he’d raise the roof dropping an unexpected but exactly right track into the mix, he’d push the audience to new heights by introducing them to music they’d never even thought of exploring. The experiments went down especially well in Japan where he’d tour playing solo sets as well as performing alongside pioneers like Underworld, Adrian Sherwood and The Orb. In 2003 his new label, Rotters Golf Club, was approached by the Italian fashion house Emigliano Zegna to create some music to help launch their first foray into Japan. Andrew always had a keen eye for quality and agreed to provide some music. At the time it wasn’t envisaged as an album. He’d just grabbed some tracks he and Keith had been working on, polished them up and swapped them for a small advance and a large raid on their Bond Street store. He then let them get on with the release and turned his attention to the next TLS album proper. This was Double Gone Chapel where rock and psychobilly were mixed in with electronica and controversially Andrew added his own vocals. The Zegna album ‘Still My World’ was sidelined by a live band and a whole new direction. Andrew’s untimely death refocused attention on his historical recordings and ‘Still My World’, previously only released on CD in Japan, now sees the light of day in the rest of the world.

Tracks

1. International Girl?s Not Here
2. The Crescents
3. From Behind Bandages
4. Don?t Remember Leaving
5. The Night I Was A Booby Prize
6. Arturo?s Attitude
7. And Then The Walls Fell
8. Compulsion
9. Live From Rotten Towers
10. Still My World

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