JAILCELL RECIPES - 'ARTIFACTS FOR AN EMPTY TANK WORLD'

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• FST022CV - LP (COLOURED)

  5061041820434

• FST022 - LP

  5061041820731

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200 COPIES MARBLE & BLACK COLOURED VINYL Jailcell Recipes: Perhaps the last untold chapter in the story of the rapidly-detonating, late 80’s UK Hardcore scene. Often overlooked in favour of their contemporaries, this re-mastered/re-modelled retrospective collection of songs finally puts the record straight, giving them the recognition they deserve. It showcases the band’s importance within that scene and throws light on their unique standpoint and their growth over a 4 year period. This release is not intended as a discography, rather a selected ‘strongest hand’ from between the years 1988 to 1992. It features the definitive line up of Robbie Reid (vocals), Jamie Owen (guitar), Dave Arnold (bass) and Ian Barwick (drums). It's a game of two halves; the faster, straight ahead hardcore stylings make up Side One (practically the entire first album recorded in 1988), whilst the more melodic, mid-tempo material completes the set on the flipside - Robbie's unmistakable vocals being the constant throughout that makes it all work, he provided the band with a unique identity. Side Two closes with previously unreleased studio tracks from 1992 - virtually unheard until now, we believe these final three tracks to be amongst their best. The songs now sound as the band intended all the way back in 1988. Largely down to a relentless run of gigs back in their heyday, Jailcell Recipes gained a strong reputation for being an exciting and energetic ‘live’ hardcore band, playing with Bad Brains, All, Gorilla Biscuits and including tours with Youth Of Today (1989), Green Day (1991), Naked Raygun (1988). It’s the 35th Anniversary of the release of their debut album “Energy In An Empty Tank World” and after all these years, we finally have the recorded output to match the ‘live’ performance!

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Tracklist:
Side One
1. Our Recipes
2. John Is God
3. Kick Yourself
4. Dreaming
5. Wide Open Eyes
6. Part of Me
7. Endless Grind
8. Screams of Blood
9. Drown
Side Two
1. Forced (Poulton Rd EP)
2. Arm-Twister (Poulton Rd EP)
3. Those Long Days ( Poulton Rd EP)
4. Such is life (Two Years Of Toothache)
5. Smiles (Two Years Of Toothache)
6. Fight Night (Two Years Of Toothache)
7. Down on Luck (previously unreleased)
8. Carefree (previously unreleased)
9. Take the Long Walk (previously unreleased)

Press

Includes large format, 40 page booklet containing unpublished photos, liner notes, flyers, lyrics, Offset litho-printed on an original Heidelburg press.

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CISTERN - 'NEW STANDARD'

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• MM014 - LP

  5061041820670

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Cistern is a rock band from Squamish, BC on the unceded land of the Squamish Nation. The restless souls that make up Cistern, a tight-knit gang of four, are comprised of Noah Varley, Noah Wilson, McKinley Languedoc, and Chris Boys. Cistern play rock music like the best bands formed at the periphery: raw, scrappy, intuitive – a group of friends forging awe and anguish into song. As Ursula Le Guin wrote in her Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, “it’s a strange realism for a strange reality.” Following debut album Head Full Of Questions earlier this year, Cistern's most recent release is New Standard. Languedoc stumbled upon a different tuning, jokingly rebranding it as “new standard tuning", and somehow, the gag stuck. On “Crisis”, the band tries to make sense of the tangle of personalities. “Metal Detector” unravels as a hymn for those who have chosen to march to their own peculiar beat. “Pendulum” is high-wire, jittery and tense, a song about seeking balance in a world that won’t let you achieve it. The record is a 5 track display of DIY-rock anthem recorded on an 8 track tape machine. Cistern is a band defined by tight musicianship, harmonious and dissonant instrumentation, do-it-yourself recording and experimentation. With the band already wading knee-deep into the musical chapter that will follow, expect more saturated, tape-warmth dance riffs to come.

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1. Crisis / 2. Grief / 3. Pendulum / 4. Metal Detector / 5. New Standard

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PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SYNDICATE - 'TALES OF THE GOLDEN SKULL'

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• CFUL0324 - LP

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Plastic Crimewave Syndicate returns with one collective foot in overdriven space-biker scuzz rock, but the other bigfoot kicking upward into new galaxies of synth punk, no-prog, and freek funk. Yes, dare we say it, the new PCWS LP, Tales From the Golden Skull, GROOVES--but from the perspective of the Japan n' Kraut/Eurorock undergrounds, coated in some nasty Windy City grime. Aided by the Chicago Cosmonaut Couriers Crew, ala famed renaissance man Mac Blackout (synths/horns/electronics), Przemyslaw Krys Drazek (trumpet) of longtime zone-jammers Drazek Fuscaldo/Mako Sica, Will MacLean on Moog keytar (!-- of local Silver vocoder-ed Apples lovin' treasures Protovulcan), plus the oldest-school synthlord Bil Vermette, who's been modulating since the 70s. We'll call Tales From the Golden Skull a near-concept lp (aren't they always?) that looks back at fallen friends and collaborators, and then into the unwritten golden future (as PCW himself hit the golden 50). The sonic journey dips into dark textural valleys, and chugging riffs rising to thee fiery heavens, as the thundering-but-subtle rhythm section of Jose "Beast but Best" Bernal and Rob "Dead Feathers" Rodak know when to crash and when to burn (one). Sir PCW lays down his trademark big muff-blastage and echo-cries, to channel the despair and feral bark of the mighty Vega/Hammill/Iggy/Dickie P/Haino/Mojo-Risin/Mizutani, but also knows when to shut up for some layered instrumental Embryo/Harvester/Fausty trance rock and dabbed/dubbed out "not-quite-shoegazin" calmness in the eye of the Ur-storm. This might be the most expansive, detailed yet furious PCWS LP yet, recorded at Rec Room studios with Eric Block, who has done all from a band with Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley to recorded Rhys Chatham 100+-peeps guitar orchestras. So strap the headphones on and absorb the tales of this spaced ritual-rock opus. Artwork - Steve Krakow

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JAKE BLANCHARD - 'FERMENTATION'

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• CFUL0317 - LP

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Cardinal Fuzz and Eiderdown Records have the privilege of releasing the propane-lit, fiery ragas of Jake Blanchard’s latest LP - ‘Fermentation’. Jake is well known for his striking art/print work having designed many sleeves for the likes of Pelt, Mike Gangloff and Richard Dawson (his artwork for Dawson’s 'The Ruby Cord' was awarded third place in the Art Vinyl album cover of the year award 2022). Along with Sophie Cooper he is one half of ‘TOR’, an umbrella term for a variety of projects including Tor Bookings, Tor Festival, Tor Press, Tor Beers and Tor FM that has made Todmorden synonymous with bringing diverse/creative and the best experimental music to the North of England. Fermentation came together over the last couple of years, during this time Jake started struggling with a hip problem and chronic pain. This forced him to change his approach to recording music. He was no longer able to play for any significant length of time so the album was recorded in short bursts and gradually pieced together. Due to this Jake had to move away from the extended improvised jams of previous albums and take a more structured route. Jake plays an electric shahi baaja (similar to the Indian bulbul tarang and Japanese taishōgoto, types of zither using typewriter like keys to change the pitch of some of the strings), this plays a central role on ‘Fermentation’ - buzzing and plucking with a wild abandon to create rolling ecstatic riffs of improvisational flow. The drones give way to a barrage of effects that find Jake manipulating the instrument in drifts of virtuosic shred, but the way he toggles back and forth between known and unknown tongues demonstrates a conceptual mastery that matches his technique. There are bits of this you might think were Michael Flower, Sandy Bull or even The Byrds if they decamped to India with a bag of narcotics before recording a night-long improv session. Fermentation’s tangled fusion of East/West, traditional/post-modern seamlessly shifts between tumultuous intensity and blissed-out serenity perhaps reflecting Jake’s struggles with pain and brief moments of reprieve. As a prism separates white light into many colours or many colours are joined into one white beam, so music often works. one chord in many colours, and many colours in one chord - Fermentation is a blistering document that taps into the ecstatic impulse, a monolithic free flowing abandon leading a tonal assault of heavy fiery ether or plunging into pure liquid haze. Released with Jake's own artwork - Reverse Board Outer Sleeve.

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