THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMY OF THE INFANT JESUS - 'RUMOURS OF ANGELS'

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• NXN034DLP - 2xLPs

  0615625581010

• NXN034CD - CD

  0615625581027

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2025 is the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus. Rumours of Angels is a collection of recorded and live material that spans a period of significant transition for the project. Rumour of Angels was recorded in between the full studio albums Mirror (1990) and Beauty Will Save the World (2015). It includes material from the EP collections, Liturgie Pour La Fin Du Temps (1992) and Paradis (1995), as well as live recordings from Leipzig: reflecting here something of the sense of the immersive multi-media practice, elements of ritual, enigmatic samples and field recordings that were constructed for the live RAIJ live experience. This collection also includes studio material recorded specifically for the release of a 3 CD back catalogue compilation After the End by French label Infrastition in 2013. It tracks a diverse range of recording and performance styles for RAIJ and documents the end of the first active phase of the project and, with the recording of ‘After the End’ and ‘Suspended on a Cross’, the beginning of the new. The collective is much changed and much the same. There are clear connections between the early project and today, and some of these connections are traced here on Rumours of Angels. RAIJ continues to enjoy a certain reclusive status and to confound musical classification with a commitment to a unique form of musical and artistic experimentation.

Tracks

: (A1) Cantata Sacra (A2) Le Monde Du Silence (A3) Dies Irae (B1) Psalm (Live) (C1) Paradis (C2) She Moved Through The Fair (D1) The Parable (Of The Singing Ringing Tree) (D2) Suspended Upon A Cross (D3) Mouvement (D4) After The End

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ALIEN NOSEJOB - 'FORCED COMMUNAL EXISTENCE'

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• AGIT073X - LP

  5061041821066

• AGIT073 - LP

  5061041821059

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**150 COPIES AVAILABLE ON RED VINYL** Howdy punkè rocke fans, welcome to FORCED COMMUNAL EXISTENCE - the wonderful and frightening world of ALIEN NOSEJOB’s EP’s & singles. Anti Fade and Agitated Records are teaming together to bring you a paint stripping, mind altering, rare collection of EP and compilation tracks recorded in various Australian bedrooms and garages between 2017 and 2022. The sound of goofy obnoxiousness will soon be permeating your bedroom airwaves and perforating your eardrums. Kicking off this long player is an EP that was recorded by Billy from Anti Fade in his childhood bedroom in July 2017. The songs came to fruition while AUSMUTEANTS were on tour in Japan 2016. There was a lot of ‘WALLABY BEAT’ / ‘MURDER PUNK’ being played in the background while seeing the sites of Mount Fuji and ‘Bar Fuck Yeah’. In between shows Jake was organising the release of DANNY GRAHAM and PLASTIC AND THE EP’S records on the label he co-ran XEROX MUSIC. Both artists played parts in the sound and ethos of the PANEL BEAT EP. The goal was to make the songs sound unapologetically Australian without pretending to be something they’re not. There’s no fake accents or songs about VB and mullets. Instead, there’s songs about every day struggles, like dealing with fickle fashion followers, having too many fucking records, playing PlayStation, resentment and manipulation. 500 copies were pressed and self released, with a photo slipped inside each copy at random. Next is THE DEATH OF THE VINYL BOOM which was self recorded in a shed in November 2017. This is the only Alien Nosejob release (besides this comp, smartarse) to feature a cover - Flyblown by Adelaidean arty weirdo band JACKSON ZUMDISH. The idea behind this EP was to incorporate the simplicity and scrappiness of the late 70’s DIY Australian sound, but give them the complicated structures of prog songs. Scum stats - 500 copies, self released. Several copies were smeared with Jake’s blood and had smashed pieces of vinyl glued to the front cover. Now we have a cover of the DEAD KENNEDYS. The conspiracy theorist wet dream Government Flu. Recorded September 2020 during lockdown in one-man-band with a tape recorder fashion for a 20 minute unedited ‘live set’ video where all instruments were played one by one, sung and mixed in the space of a couple of hours. The HC45 7” was recorded at the same time as a disco 12” maxi, which I hear were originally meant to come out on the same day. Shit happens I guess? This EP came out in Feb 2020 and sounds somewhere between early GANG GREEN, DIE KREUZEN and the BEASTIE BOYS old bullshit. Self recorded on a 4 track with a broken pinch roller. Lyrically this thing is cynical and choc-a-bloc full of satire and hate. A year later a sequel was recorded the same way, on the same machine. No fucking disco this time though. Cold Bare Facts is the most recent recording on this comp. Self recorded in Jake‘s bedroom 2022 It has the same mid paced tempo as DYS or SSD when they’re at their slowest (pre-Boston Curse, of course!). Both songs take a stinky shit on the Australian state police. 300 copies. Finishing the record is a cover by THE AINTS. Originally written by ED KUEPPER for THE SAINTS Eternally Yours album, but it sounded too similar to Lost and Found. Originally released on ‘ALTA’ cassette compilation during the lockdown. FORCED COMMUNAL EXISTENCE binds this mouthful of releases into one neat package from June 6th, 2025. Catch the ALIEN NOSEJOB band on tour in Europe & UK from June 13 - July 2nd, 2025.

Tracks

1. Family Dinner 2. Clear The Clutter 3. Tired 4. Guilt And Blame 5. Caffeine OD 6. Flyblown 7. Sydney Sizzles 8. Over The Bridge 9. Government Flu 10. I Still Call This Punk Scene My Home 11. Bond Clean 12. Explosives In The Headlights 13. Chemical Solution 14. Cabanossi 15. The Scene Expands 16. Opinionated Fuck 17. Nothing Ever Goes Your Way 18. 4 Fatal Collision 19. Circular Motion 20. Beyond The Pale 21. The Executioner 22. West Side Story 23. S-O-S 75

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RETEP FOLO & DOROTHY MOSKOWITZ - 'THE AFTERLIFE'

Formats

• BUTR105LP - LP (COLOURED)

  5061041821318

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**Transparent pink edition vinyl** A new LP version of a modern classic 12" album on translucent pink vinyl including 3 previously unreleased tracks plus alternative album mixes, resequenced & remastered in a matt finish sleeve with a foldout lyric insert + A5 art card. The Afterlife was first released as a CD on Buried Treasure in early 2024. Utilising an array of vintage instruments, Swedish producer and multi-instrumentalist, Retep Polo a.k.a. Peter Olof Fransson, conjures layered, avant-garde yet deceptively melodic chorales & dream-like mantras soaked in waves of 1960's psychedelia with fuzz guitars, pastoral acoustics, buzzing synths & hypnotic percussion. Featuring the magisterial, sage-like presence of Dorothy Moskowitz (The United States Of America) who contributes voices, words & additional music, plus Emily Brown Soldberg, Svante Sjostedt & Dorothy's grandson, Hudson "Boom" Persson, together they create an album rich in arcane sound, eery mysticism & urgent prophecy. Fans of late 1960's psychedelia, early 1970's experimental rock & eco-conceptual electronics will find much to savour amongst the 11 tracks on this new & finely crafted, vinyl edition. Dorothy has explored similar themes throughout her remarkable career, notably on the 1968 The United States of America album - an enduring psych classic & major influence on artists such as Broadcast, Stereolab & Portishead. With Peter's meticulous production bringing things full-circle yet sharply up to date, the album inhabits a sonic world comparable to White Noise, Mort Garson, Alessandro Alessandroni, Alain Goraguer, Franco Battiato, Maria Monti & Francois de Roubaix. The Afterlife is a profound, moving paean to nature's self-regulating cycles and our fragile planet. Listen to the promo & watch the animation below to judge for yourself.

Tracks

Tracklist:
1. Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz & Hudson "Boom" Persson - Ants
2. Retep Folo & Hudson "Boom" Persson - The Beast
3. Retep Folo & Dorothy Moskowitz - Chaos Is Come
4. Retep Folo - The Awakening Of Love In The Spring (Instrumental)
5. Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz & Svante Sjostedt - Foxes & Magpies
6. Retep Folo & Dorothy Moskowitz - Running Time
7. Retep Folo & Emily Brown Solberg - Sun
8. Retep Folo & Svante Sjostedt - The Enchanted People
9. Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz & Svante Sjostedt - River River
10. Retep Folo & Dorothy Moskowitz - Falling Skies
11. Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz & Svante Sjostedt - The Afterlife

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'Featuring the magisterial, sage-like presence of Dorothy Moskowitz (The United States Of America)'

#16 in Electronic Sound's Best 100 Albums of 2024

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LAKE RUTH - 'HAWKING RADIATION'

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• FC57 - LP

  5061041821325

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Next up on Feral Child (and in collaboration with Dell’Orso for CD) comes the wonderful new record by LAKE RUTH. Their third album and first since ‘Birds Of America’ in 2018. Vocalist and lyricist Allison Brice puts the gap between releases down to the interruption of the pandemic and the other two of the members making recent interstate jumps! Working with melodies first, Allison knew she wanted a celestial and cinematic narrative to this album, from there threading and interweaving three key strands of influence into the stratosphere. This means that the tracks generate a constellation of tales with many of the lyrics inspired by the voices and tales on the sorrowful podcast about Heaven’s Gate (the cult where the victims fatally believed they would graduate to an alien spacecraft behind the Hale-Bopp Comet). Second and third to this universe in terms of thematic inspiration are the science fiction novel ‘Children Of Time’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky and the 1920 print Angelus Novus by Paul Klee, in particular Walter Benjamin’s interpretation of this ‘angel of history’ regarding the unceasing historical cycle of despair. Of the lyrical laces Allison explains: “A lot of the songs are about the survivors and the bereaved at Heaven’s Gate whose stories really moved me. I wrote about Nancie Brown (who lost her son David Moore) in ‘Potalaka Listening Station’; Terrie Nettles (daughter of cult founder Bonnie Nettles) in ‘Take Me With You’, plus two songs about Frank Lyford and Erika Ernst. They joined the cult as a young couple, and close to the end he got out - but he could not persuade her to leave, and she died in the mass suicide in California. When you listen to Frank speak, it's heartbreaking - the trauma is so evident in his voice. Visually the themes are reflected in the cover of the album also, mirrored especially in the first verse of ‘To Erika’: “I’m looking upward to the sky/ in one direction, on the chance that you are/ posed in Orion overhead/ while I’m here imprisoned on the surface”. The other song – ‘From Erika’ - are essentially her last words to Frank. ‘Hawking Radiation’ meanwhile is a title that Hewson wrote referring to the energy emitted by a black hole after it consumes something. The black hole is a symbol of the cult but those lost to it are not lost forever, living on as memory. It seems apt as the title of the album. Contrary to what might be deemed overwhelming subjects are Allison’s ‘hot-knife-through-butter’ seraphic vocals, her melancholic intonation trading blushes with the guitars’ ripple of baroque pop. There is a lightness of touch in the skittering drums too, some touches more familiar to fans of 60s bossa nova. All three members of Lake Ruth have been in other groups – Allison Brice in Eighteenth Day Of May and The Silver Abduction; Hewson Chen in The New Lines and Matt Schulz in Holy Fuck. It’s an effervescent combination that waltzes and flashes like perplexing trails in the night sky.

Tracks

1) A Diamond On Its Side 2) An Offering 3) Cold Sleep 4) Potalaka Listening Station 5) Astral Voices 6) From Erika 7) The Next Level 8) Promises Made, Promises Kept 9) Take Me With You 10) To Erika 11) Angels Of History 12) Hawking Radiation

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A blend of neo baroque psychedelia, space age pop and retro futuristic electronica that evokes the likes of Broadcast and The Soundcarriers; Lake Ruth's music is blissed out, groovy and soaring in equal measure" - Shindig

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TEMPLE FANG - 'LIFTED FROM THE WIND'

Formats

• PSYCHOBABBLE139 - 2xLP (COLOURED)

  4015698189735

• PSYCHOBABBLE139CD - CD

  4015698181937

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**First vinyl pressing on 180gr. marbled white/blue 2LP including download** Temple Fang is a rare breed of band— one that refuses to compromise in an increasingly cut throat and number obsessed music industry. Formed in 2018 in Amsterdam, the band hit their stride in 2019 with acclaimed Roadburn performances and a reputation for electrifying live shows across Europe, all before releasing a single track. With alternating lead vocalists, dual harmonizing guitars, and a rhythm section powered by pure psychedelic energy, Temple Fang quickly became a phenomenon in the heavy-psych underground. Though always leaving live viewers in awe of their performances, the band struggled against internal fractures and external forces, all stalling efforts to create their vision of a proper studio album. This fueled speculation that Temple Fang’s live sound was too in-the-moment, too whimsical, too untamed to be properly captured in a studio environment, something the band never themselves believed to be true, quite the opposite. It just would require the right set of circumstances. Fast forward to 2025 as Temple Fang is ready to release ‘Lifted from the Wind’ on Stickman Records. A record they themselves consider to be their true debut studio album. On this sprawling double record Temple Fang appears, for the first time in their existence, fully formed: fierce and strong, hard rocking yet elegant, with 20+ minute psych freak-outs and prog ballads side-by-side. Temple Fang truly delivers on the promise they’ve always held, to really stretch the possibilities of what it means to be a rock band in 2025. With spectacular wild-man Daan Wopereis as a full member on the drums, Temple Fang now can deliver on their commitment to really rock, to blow your mind AND tear your heart out.

Tracks

1. The River 2. Once 3. Harvest Angel 4. The Radiant 5. Josephine

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