PERENNIAL - 'MODERNISM'

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• SSH067 - LP

  600064804219

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Whatever they do, whenever they do it, Perennial is quick, kinetic, sharp. Their bruising, bombastic sets have come and gone before you know it: all over but thesweating. A 20-minute marathon, on stage and in wax. On Modernism, the NewEngland mod trio’s newest full-length album, that lightning-strike chic is devoted to apocket-symphony rave-up — a 10-song parquet session built from all the keenest bitsof The Who, The Blood Brothers, Otis Redding, Stereolab, MC5, Wilson Pickett. Op artto dance to. Mellotron loops bracket electric feedback squalls; freakbeat riffs tangle upbeneath Stax/Volt hooks. The band’s deep, eccentric record collections, turned into a1,200 second action painting. Formed in 2015 in Connecticut, Perennial is Chad Jewett (electric guitar and vocals),Chelsey Hahn (electric organ and vocals), and Ceej Wolf (drums). Focusing on bothunforgettable live shows — frenetic, joyful dance-punk rites of spring — and studio-as-instrument modernist recordings, the band has built a cult of dedicated internationalaficionados, one sticky-humid basement show at a time. Touring tirelessly, they honedtheir Motown-via-Dischord sound to a keen, glossy point. With their longtime producerChris Teti (The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die), Perennialhas added layer after layer to their sharp mod collage: free jazz, ambient electronica,big beat, dub, Musique concrète, all within explosive 90-second sprints. Modernism is their best yet. The hooks pile high and stick fast atop dance floor strataof fuzz bass, tambourine, and Vox Continental organ jabs. Taking its cue from the tight yet-expansive examples of The Who’s A Quick One and The Jam’s Sound Affects, Modernism marries the experimental to the ecstatic, the impressionistic to the incendiary. Available September 18th via Ernest Jenning Record Co. (US and International) and Safe Suburban Home (UK), Modernism is a new benchmark for one of punk music’s most intrepid aesthetic explorers.

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CARLTON MELTON - 'REASON BEINGS'

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• AGIT076 - LP (COLOURED)

  5061041822445

• AGIT076CD - CD

  5061041822452

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**LTD 500 ONLY COPIES ON CRYSTAL CLEAR VINYL** **LTD 500 ONLY COPIES CD DIGIPAK** Time to turn on and turn it up, theres a brand new Carlton Melton in the offing… its been a good couple of years since the West Coast space/sike travellers have dropped new music. ‘Phantomize beyond the window, into the portal, the panes of eternal returns, wooden spirals, roots into the realms of everything and nothing, the reason beings’ With Anthony Taibi fully ensconsed in the metaphorical Melton Dome, this four piece is ready to soar, go deeper and wider into the sike psyche than on previous recordings, now fully recording live with drums, bass, guitars and keys...recorded at 3D Light in Freshwater, CA by Anthony Tiabi in 2025, and mastered by the inimitable John Mcbain in 2026. We have a single LP of 40+ minutes spanning 4 tracks, that have textures, and waves and patterns to lull you into some fever dream of motorik psych! Touchstones like Träd, Gräs Och Stenar / Kandodo / Guru Guru / Eno & Fripp / Birds of Maya / Parson Sound come into view. There are moments of gentle ambience bordered by speaker shredding guitar soloing, whole passages of Krautrock inspired jams that have form and focus.. you blink and your live flashes before you, the record ends, you want more.. There are moments of gentle ambience bordered by speaker shredding guitar soloing, whole passages of Krautrock inspired jams that have form and focus.. you blink and your live flashes before you, the record ends, you want more.. Carlton Melton masterfully blend hypnotic, long-form psychedelic jams with drone and Krautrock influences. Band: Rich Millman Andy Duvall Clint Golden Anthony Taibi Announced to celebrate summers solstice.. released on the Autumn equinox.. with a full UK tour to boot.. Come fly / fry with us…

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FRANKIE ROSE - 'HILA'

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• LSSN109 - LP

  5061041822476

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Her sound remains vast and yearning, with gut-punch drums pushing through explosions of colored powder; her voice is a chrome-plated sigh, and her agile melodies soar effortlessly. - Pitchfork *BEST NEW MUSIC* she achieves some serious cinematic grandeur. - Stereogum Simply too sublimely crafted to ignore. - Consequence of Sound A catchy ethereal piece of pop - Brooklyn Vegan Rose’s layered, reverb-laden vocals hit like waves of sunlight, warming her lines almost to the point of wordlessness. - Paste Magazine “Hila. A record about loss. What persists beyond the range of ordinary perception? The place mourning keeps returning to — not quite transcendence, not quite doubt. The edge of what we can see.” Frankie Rose has spent fifteen years building one of the most quietly distinctive bodies of work in American independent music. Bursting out of the shackles of her legacy on 2024’s Love As Projection, 2026’s Hila builds on the muscular, dance-ready songwriting and transcendent melodies to result on Rose’s most exploratory and affecting record of her career. Imbued with yearning melodies and brooding post-punk dynamics, Hila is Frankie Rose at her most impressionistic and expansive. Self-produced at her home studio featuring collaborations with drummer Justin Welch (Elastica/Lush), Hila was recorded following extensive touring with The Jesus & Mary Chain and Swervedriver. The result is the most confident, searching music Rose has produced; muscular in its production yet emotionally vulnerable in its diffracted neon glow. A record informed by loss and the way grief mutates our senses, it’s fitting that Rose channels the nuanced darkness of later Coil, at times the pounding EBM-production of Skinny Puppy and the near-spiritual alien-ness of Cocteau Twins. On Hila, the doors of perception are constantly melting, revealing the porous nature of the seen and unseen. The result is a synesthesia that flips the senses. If Love As Projection was an outward-looking record looking to embrace the world, Hila brings the dark cosmos into inner space. Rose’s love for 80s production and soaring melodies remain, they’re cornerstones to her craft after all, but there’s something more assured and gothic underneath the massive waves of sound. Opener Olo shimmers into a pulsating, cinematic brooder, Rose’s vocal transcending and swan diving between registers in the chorus breakdowns. First single Cant Be Wrong serves as a transition from the optimistic pop of Rose’s previous album, introducing a thumping 80s funk rhythm track under the soaring vocal performance. The ebullient Shadow Twin is that song’s sibling, recalling major label-era Strawberry Switchblade melancholy mixed with Robin Guthrie’s twinkling guitar work. Hila blossoms darkly from here on in, blowing out into a glacial wide-screen sonic dynamic. On Rainman and the title track the listener is transported to a rain-soaked, nocturnal cityscape ridden with desire, moonlight cutting through blinds, intoxicating chasms without bounds. Rose’s use of saxophone and digital synthesis recalls the nightmusic of Hats-era Blue Nile or the more ambient end of Emeralds’ catalog. Indeed, in the towering synthetic cello sounds that climb into the mind on Hila, there’s a distinct flavour of the instrumentals on Bowie’s Low. This is musick to play in the dark, to light the way a little, just enough to trick the senses. Leading into the strobe-filled haze, single Manifest pounds forward with a massive Industrial 4/4 beat and post-punk/goth musicality, an exercise in unlit ecstasy. For Best Of Times, the liberal saxophone passages feel like a suppressed, 80s Michael Mann soundtrack with Frankie Rose’s effortless, melodic vocal performance probing, searching for connection. Navigating through the dry, iced landscape into a rising sun, closer Velvet Refrain flips the melancholy of the preceding passages. With a massive sound dripping with harmony, the clanging guitar and vocal duet feels they’re sound-tracking an unexpected happy ending after bouts of darkness."

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1. Olo 2. Cant Be Wrong 3. Return To Dust 4. Shadow Twin 5. Rainman 6. Hila 7. Manifest 8. Best Of Times 9. TV Star 10. Return To Dust

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Her sound remains vast and yearning, with gut-punch drums pushing through explosions of colored powder; her voice is a chrome-plated sigh, and her agile melodies soar effortlessly. - Pitchfork *BEST NEW MUSIC*

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