CLAMM - 'SERIOUS ACT'

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• MM12LPX - LP (COLOURED)

  5061041820861

• MM12 - LP

  5061041820854

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Hailing from Naarm/Melbourne, punk trio CLAMM—comprising Jack Summers, Miles Harding, and Stella Rennex—delve into the tumultuous experience of youth striving to lead an authentic and principled life in an increasingly chaotic world. Their music confronts the challenges of navigating entrenched systems of power and oppression while striving to preserve mental well-being and a strong sense of self. Through their raw and visceral sound, CLAMM aspires to foster community, ignite creativity, and provide a channel for catharsis. CLAMM’s 2020 debut album, Beseech Me, quickly established their presence in the punk scene, becoming a feature album on Triple R and FBI Radio while its initial cassette pressing sold out almost instantly. Reissued on vinyl in 2021 by UK label Meat Machine—known for championing Canadian art-punk innovators Crack Cloud—the album earned CLAMM a cover feature in Rolling Stone France and airplay on BBC 6 Music, further cementing their rising reputation on the global stage. In August 2022, CLAMM released their second album, Care, through Australian indie stalwart Chapter Music and UK label Meat Machine. Bursting with raw, dystopian punk energy, Care garnered widespread acclaim, earning rotation on Double J and feature album status on 3RRR, PBS, and 4ZZZ. The band was spotlighted as a Featured Artist on BBC 6 Music by Steve Lamacq, while the album climbed to #4 on the AIR Charts and #19 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart. Praised by outlets such as Chicago Reader, NME, Paste, Music Feeds, DIY Mag, and Dusted, Care solidified CLAMM’s position as a force in contemporary punk. Last year, CLAMM unveiled Disembodiment, a powerful EP featuring four explosive tracks, including standout singles ‘Change Enough’ and ‘Define Me’. The release solidified their status as one of Melbourne’s premier punk bands, selling out their Melbourne EP launch, and propelling them onto a 16-date Europe tour including an appearance at the iconic Binic Folk & Blues Festival. Disembodiment received praise from the likes of triple j, Double J, Triple J Unearthed (Feature Artist), Rolling Stone ANZ, and Music Feeds. Locally, CLAMM has shared stages with iconic acts such as Wolf Alice, Ty Segall, King Gizzard, Amyl & the Sniffers, The Chats, and The Murlocs, and has graced renowned festivals including Meredith Music Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Tentpole, and Do the Pop. Their international presence grew with a UK/Europe tour in August 2022, followed by another in February 2023, supporting A Place To Bury Strangers and Preoccupations. In May 2023, the band returned for a series of summer festival performances, including Wide Awake, Levitation, and Badd Bonn. Late in 2022, bassist Maisie Everett departed, and Stella Rennex (Parsnip, Thibault, The Toads) joined the band, bringing fresh energy to the lineup. In 2025, CLAMM will release their highly anticipated new album, Serious Acts, following the debut of their new single, ‘And I Try’. The track exemplifies the band’s signature, no-nonsense lyricism, while also pushing into new sonic territory with the inclusion of synths and horns. This marks an exciting new chapter for the trio, expanding their musical boundaries while staying true to their raw and powerful core. 

Tracks

1. And I Try 2. No Idea 3. Problem Is 4. Bag I'm In 5. Blinded 6. More Serious Acts 7. Heavy Fines, Loss Of Licenses 8. Bear The Brunt 9. Time 10. Pigs Don't Read

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RIVAL CONSOLES - 'LANDSCAPE FROM MEMORY'

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• ERATP174LP - 2xLPs

  3700551786237

• ERATP174CD - CD

  3700551786220

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Rival Consoles has been concurrently in the foreground and background of electronic music since the late-‘00s; conjuring tense melancholia for Black Mirror soundtracks, playing in front of 10,000 dance fans at Drumsheds, selling out London’s Barbican Hall, and logging an expansive, wandering collection of synth-sculpted albums that explore a myriad of different styles and aesthetics—but always with human emotion as their lodestar. Landscape from Memory, the ninth studio LP from the UK producer and musician born Ryan Lee West, finally blossomed following a frustrating fallow year away from the production desk. For West, having spent the past decade producing and writing in a habitual way, falling out of love with creativity meant a slowing of the clock that makes him tick, a sense of being swallowed whole by some elementary force. Partly stitched together from a scrapbook of discarded audio snippets, Landscape from Memory demanded a degree of openness and vulnerability in its assembly. “There is a kind of strange beauty to it because it involves the past, present and future in a very strong way.” He set to work massaging melodic kernels into full tracks, like the skippy, haunted club shuffle of memory-jogging lead single ‘Catherine’, which is dedicated to his partner. “It’s extremely open, just like a naked melody on drums, so exposed as an idea… I think because she was so excited by it, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I'm excited too, actually, I just didn't realise,” he reflects. Appropriately, the title track became the first piece of music that made West “feel an emotional reaction after a long time of having zero reaction”—closing the record transcendently in a fever dream of euphoric synthwave—although ‘Catherine’ can be understood as the spark that lit the fuse, bristling with energetic joy. “I like music that has a sense of momentum, really pushing forward,” he adds of the ‘Landscape from Memory’ icebreaker. “And it just instantly has that from the first breath. So I kind of like moments like that when they appear.” These climatic productions are characterised by their propulsive quality, and driven by West’s own push to step outside his comfort zone, having found inspiration flowing from new and unfamiliar sources. After his self-built Hackney studio suddenly felt too controlled of an environment, West altered course, mapping out tracks away from his desk. To that end, Landscape from Memory is a travelogue of creativity on the move, a collection of postcards from everywhere, and an album defined by its restlessness. As Rival Consoles, West’s calling card is his ability to channel hope, pain, sadness, and euphoria all at once, twisting the key in the lock of his internal world and telling stories without words. Crucially, Landscape from Memory is as much about zooming in on the details as it is about seeing past the horizon. Like a saturated photograph or an abstract painting daubed with bright splotches, Landscape from Memory is a riot of colour, an album blazing with a sound-shaper’s renewed love for his craft.

Tracks

1. In Reverse 2. Catherine 3. Drum Song 4. Soft Gradient Beckons 5. Gaivotas 6. Coda 7. Known Shape 8. Nocturne 9. Jupiter 10. In a Trance 11. If Not Now 12. 2 Forms 13. Tape Loop 14. Landscape from Memory

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ALL MEN UNTO ME - 'REQUIEM'

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• LAR002LP - 2xLPs

  5070003421565

• LAR002CD - CD

  5070003421558

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All Men Unto Me is a project led by Rylan Gleave, composer and vocalist (most notably in Ashenspire and various Paraorchestra projects). Today, All Men Unto Me announces their second album Requiem, an album which re-imagines an ancient mourning in a real, contemporary setting. Taking the broad emotional arcs of the Missa pro Defunctis, these structures pave way for new songs, ruminating on patriarchal power systems and the conditions of transmasculinity within these, through the haze of Queer reverence and forgiveness. In Rylan's words, the Missa pro Defunctis "translates to ‘Mass for the dead’, and refers to the Catholic text taken from the Roman Missal. When set to music, it is called a ‘Requiem’. Requiem masses are usually performed at funerals. I’ve sung in a few Requiems — Mozart, Fauré, Duruflé — when I’ve been in choirs, and felt those dramatic arcs of the structure in my own voice. Writing a Requiem felt like processing my own complex feelings about the Church, patriarchal power within it (and more broadly), and the death of a part of me in a framework that allowed for mourning. The contours of sorrow, light, forgiveness, and reverence made space for these songs to speak to my own identity as a survivor, and use that structure in a way that let me direct an ancient narrative myself." Marrying traditional Anglican soundworlds of electro-pneumatic church organ and stacked choral vocals with heavier sounds, closer to experimental/noise rock and doom metal, Requiem sits at times near Swans, Kayo Dot, Lingua Ignota, Greet Death, and Scott Walker.

Tracks

1 - INTROIT

2 - SANCTUS

3 - KYRIE ELEISON

4 - PIE JESU

5 - SEQUENTIA [video]

6 - AGNUS DEI

7 - LUX ?TERNA

8 - IN PARADISUM

Press

"rapturous... one of the brightest lights in Scotland's new music scene"
- One To Watch , The Scotsman

"a brave, fascinating, and triumphant view of transition"
- The Wire (review of debut album, In Chemical Transit)

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