EARTH TONGUE - 'DUNGEON VISION'

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• ITR411CD - CD

  657628456629

• ITR411SP - LP (COLOURED)

  657628456612

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**REPRESSED. NOW ON YELLOW AND BLUE SPLATTER VINYL!!!** Ushering in a new era, Berlin based, New Zealand heavy psych duo Earth Tongue lower the castle gates on their third album Dungeon Vision, a trove of fuzz-drenched anthems produced by garage rock luminary Ty Segall in Los Angeles. Guitarist Gussie Larkin and drummer Ezra Simons spent the Berlin winter of 2025 refining the album’s twelve tracks in their self-described “windowless cave” rehearsal space, crafting a record that channels both isolation and the duo’s live intensity. With the songs finally taking shape and a studio deadline looming, they flew to Los Angeles to turn their hard-won ideas into the real thing. Once there, the band and Ty captured lightning in a bottle, recording and mixing Dungeon Vision in just ten days at Altamira Sound. Tracked live to tape, Dungeon Vision pulses with human energy, fuzz guitars, bone-battering drums, and hauntingly tuneful vocals. Ty Segall’s influence is all over the record with Ty choosing the best takes based on feel rather than technical perfection. The “king of fuzzy guitar tones” pushed the duo to find new sonic textures while championing their raw chemistry. “Ty’s been a big driving force,” says Ezra. “We supported him in New Zealand back in 2023, and he’s backed us ever since even bringing us on tour through Europe and the UK in 2024.” Since their emergence in 2016, Earth Tongue’s world-building, visuals, and relentless touring have earned them global attention and a cult-like following. Their 2024 album Great Haunting, also released on In The Red Records, received a Taite Music Prize nomination and saw them win Best Group at the 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards. They’ve toured extensively, sharing stages with the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, IDLES, Acid King, Brant Bjork and Kikagaku Moyo. With Dungeon Vision, Earth Tongue deliver their most immersive work yet, a richly human, fuzz-soaked journey that bottles the magic of their live show and cements their reputation as one of the most exciting psych rock acts on the planet.

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THE CRAMPS - 'STAY SICK'

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• VEN672 - LP (COLOURED)

  655035167213

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**CLEAR W/ BLACK HI-MELT VINYL** Sex-classic Stay Sick! was originally released in 1990 and features more of the dark side of rockabilly in a jugular vein. The opener, a hopped-up cover of obscure Sun Records tune “Bop Pills,” proves that rumors of amphetamine usage by the original Memphis rockabilly cats was not exaggerated, and sets the pace for the rest of the album. Hog-wild covers of “Shortninʼ Bread” and “Muleskinner Blues” probably have the original writers dancing on their graves, and The Cramps’ version of the perverse rarity “Her Love Rubbed Offʼ” shines a lurid spotlight on the only song that Carl Perkins was admittedly ashamed of writing. Plus, Stay Sick! delivers loads of action-packed originals celebrating kamikaze thrill-seeking and scary sexy she-creatures. This is pure jungle music—one half hillbilly and one half punk. If you canʼt dig this then you must have “Daisys Up Your Butterfly”! Still a favorite among rock ʼnʼ roll sickos worldwide.

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Tracklist:
#1 Bop Pills #2 God Damn Rock 'N' Roll #3 Bikini Girls With Machine Guns #4 All Women Are Bad #5 The Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon #6 Shortnin' Bread #7 Daisys Up Your Butterfly #8 Everything Goes #9 Journey To The Center Of A Girl #10 Mama Oo Pow Pow #11 Saddle Up A Buzz Buzz #12 Muleskinner Blues #13 Her Love Rubbed Off #14 Her Love Rubbed Off (Live) #15 Bikini Girls With Machine Guns (Live) #16 Beat Out My Love #17 Jailhouse Rock #18 Jackyard Backoff

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Brand new USA pressings on the revitalized VENGEANCE RECORDS label

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THE CRAMPS - 'BIG BEAT FROM BADSVILLE'

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• VEN674 - LP (COLOURED)

  655035167411

• VEN674CD - CD

  655035167428

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**METALLIC RED VINYL** Dangerous, bizarre, but most of all cool, The Cramps one again prove themselves as leaders in skull-fracturing rock ʼnʼ roll, delving even deeper into a wicked netherworld where few have dared to tread. They are the architects of a sound that has spawned an entire subversive subculture. Originally released in 1997, Big Beat From Badsville is a haul-ass, careening monster of a record featuring more songs of mutilation, shape-shifting, psycho frenzies and she-devil-worship. The four rare bonus tracks on the CD include the nutty psycho-delic audio inkblot “Confessions of a Psycho Cat” and Poison Ivy’s chilling instrumental assault-weapon blast “Peter Gunn.

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Tracklist: #1 Cramp Stomp #2 God Monster #3 It Thing Hard-On #4 Like a Bad Girl Should #5 Sheena's in a Goth Gang #6 Queen of Pain #7 Monkey With Your Tail #8 Devil Behind That Bush #9 Super Goo #10 Hypno Sex Ray #11 Burn She-Devil, Burn #12 Wet Nightmare #13 Badass Bug #14 Haulass Hyena #15 Confessions of a Psycho Cat #16 No Club Lone Wolf #17 I Walked All Night #18 Peter Gunn

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THE CRAMPS - 'SMELL OF FEMALE'

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• VEN670 - LP (COLOURED)

  655035167015

• VEN670CD - CD

  655035167022

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**NOW AVAILABLE ON MAROON COLOURED VINYL** **CD OUT OF STOCK** Released in 1983 after a lengthy court battle with IRS Records, Smell of Female originally contained just the first six songs. These, plus out-of-control ad-lib freakouts “Beautiful Gardens” and “She Said” (previously omitted due to legal restrictions) were recorded live at New Yorkʼs famous Peppermint Lounge. There is nothing like the sound of The Cramps, and this set distills that cross of swamp water, moonshine and nitro down to a dangerous and unstable musical substance, captured live like a crazed animal. They rocked like few others could. Additional bonus track “Surfinʼ Dead” was recorded at A&M Studios in Hollywood and originally appeared on the 1984 soundtrack for Return of the Living Dead—when asked to write a “pop song” for the movie, The Cramps (by then a three-piece) threw into their cauldron a mix of Link Wray, Jan & Dean, Davie Allen, The Righteous Brothers, bongos, Phil Spector and eye of newt.

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1. Thee Most Exalted Potentate Of Love
2. You Got Good Taste
3. Call of the Wighat
4. Faster Pussycat
5. I Ain't Nuthin' But a Gorehound
6. Psychotic Reaction
7. Beautiful Gardens
8. She Said
9. Surfin' Dead

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THE CRAMPS - 'ROCKINNREELININAUCKLANDNEWZEALANDXXX'

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• VEN669CD - CD

  655035166926

• VEN669 - LP (COLOURED)

  655035166919

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*AVAILABLE ON CLEAR VINYL* *CD OUT OF STOCK* Featuring an over-the-top live set from Down Under, RockinNReelinInAucklandNewZealandXXX was recorded at the 100th show of The Cramps’ 1986 Date With Elvis Tour. The album was originally released incognito in cahoots with Ace Records in 1987 as a fake “limited-edition import” bootleg LP, and was intended to compete with the glut of unofficial Cramps recordings. The woman you hear screaming throughout the first half actually fainted when she stopped screaming! Included alongside other classic tunes are fractured versions of actual Elvis Presley hits “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Do the Clam” (angora angst written for Elvis by film-maker Ed Wood’s wife Dolores Fuller!). This release is recommended for those who wonder what it would sound like to hear a microphone thrown around and garbled into (Lux Interior was known to destroy a half dozen microphones in one night). Hear The Cramps get dixie-fried!

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1. The Hot Pearl Snatch 2. People Ainʼt No Good 3. Whatʼs Inside a Girl? 4. Cornfed Dames 5. Sunglasses After Dark 6. Heartbreak Hotel 7. Chicken 8. Do the Clam 9. Aloha From Hell 10. Can Your Pussy Do the Dog? 11. Birdfeed

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THE CRAMPS - 'GRAVEST GRAVY'

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• VEN678CD - CD

  769152437224

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**RESTOCK CD ONLY** (VINYL RESTOCK UPDATE COMING SOON...) With tracks selected and mixed in the late 1980s, Gravest Gravy was designated by Lux and Ivy for release years ago, but for reasons lost to time, remained shelved until now. Completely rippin’ versions of classic early Cramps tracks, two of which feature Alex Chilton on organ. Cut from the analog source tapes, and mastered expertly in Nashville. Stay Sick! Turn Blue! In October 1977, the Cramps, who were at that time, Lux Interior on vocals, Poison Ivy on guitar, Bryan Gregory on guitar, and Nick Knox on drums, ventured into Ardent Studios with the extraordinarily talented musician and producer, Alex Chilton. These sessions were responsible for the first two Vengeance Records releases, both permanently disfiguring the music world in 1978. Surfin’ Bird / The Way I Walk Human Fly / Domino In 1979, young British degenerates were treated to a five track 12” EP by the Cramps called Gravest Hits, which featured all four tracks released in the USA, along with another from the October 1977 sessions, a great channeling of Ricky Nelson’s hit Lonesome Town. From there, the band released their first LP, Songs The Lord Taught Us, again working with Alex Chilton, and went onward, releasing records and touring all over until the sad passing of Lux in 2009. What Cramps fans might not know, was at Ardent, the band had planned to record their song T.V. Set to be their first A side, along with another track or tracks. Alex told them that he liked to have a band play every song they knew and the best of the batch would be committed to vinyl. This was fantastic advice, and luckily for us, that’s what the Cramps did. This is how Lonesome Town found its way to Gravest Hits. But, there was much more to the story. In the late 1980s, Lux and Ivy endeavored to release more recordings from the October 1977 sessions. It was to be titled Gravest Gravy. It was a record for the fans, a journey back to Memphis, back to the first Cramps records, that, try as it might, the world has been unable to heal from. Lux and Ivy mixed several tracks between June 14 and 30, 1989 at Present Time Recorders, in North Hollywood. Alex mixed a few tracks in Memphis. The album had a title, a cover by the great Stephanie Chernikowski, who passed away recently, but for reasons lost to time, Gravest Gravy was shelved. In 2026, we sought to change that. It was apparent that this record absolutely needed to be with the fans. A team, still severely cramped from initial contact with the band, began to form and got to work. Greetings. Henry Rollins here. I am beyond stoked to announce the formation of The Cramps Inc. that will restart the Cramps’ label Vengeance Records, create official merchandise, and venture into the vaults to unleash unheard recordings of this amazing band. The Cramps Inc. is the artist formerly known as Poison Ivy Rorschach, Larry Hardy, owner and operator of In The Red Records, and Jimmy Maslon, a former Rollin’ Rock recording artist, film producer, and owner of the Herschel Gordon Lewis, and Doris Wishman film catalogs. Both have deep ties to Lux and Ivy, forged over decades. Ivy is the major beneficiary. Larry and Jimmy are handling all the logistics. They are perfect for this. Ian MacKaye and I, operating as RAM Prod. (Rollins and MacKaye), are working on behalf of The Cramps Inc., coming up with release ideas, handling tape maintenance, editing, mixing, mastering and lacquer cutting responsibilities. We are aligned with Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA and Infrasonic Sound in Nashville, TN. Many Cramps records and items, such as t-shirts you see on the Internet—are bootlegs. The Cramps Inc. is striving to right that wrong and recently made a deal with the merchandising company Easy Partners. Cool designs for official merch are well underway. The tracks on Gravest Gravy were contained on seven 1/4 inch reels. Six were generated by Lux and Ivy, one by Alex. The tapes were carefully transferred by Brian Kehew. He was happy to report that all seven reels had withstood the test of time, and the tracks were in pristine condition. Many of the songs had multiple mixes. We had to determine which ones were the keepers. Over several nights of concentrated listening, and copious notetaking, I was able to get an understanding of the changes made from mix to mix. Within a few nights, I was able to determine that the last mix of each song was the keeper. Not only did the tracks sound to be at their fullest potential, it made sense. I sent the mixes and my notes to Ian MacKaye, whose ears I trust more than anyone I know. I asked him to take his time, go through the tracks and form an opinion of my selections. Days later, he reported back that he agreed with me on all of them. He then volunteered to do some EQ and level adjustment on two of the tracks with Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios, in Arlington, Virginia. Days later, all the tracks were at Infrasonic Sound, an excellent studio in Nashville, Tennessee for mastering under the careful watch of engineer Pete Lyman. I sat for hours and listened as Pete coaxed the frequencies to be at their best. The results were two six song sides of the Cramps, extracted from a 1977 amber block, de-fossilized and ready to be inflicted upon the ears of those who would rather Stay Sick and Turn Blue than hope for sunny weather. Gravest Gravy is an absolute treasure. You get a performance of Hungry by Paul Revere and the Raiders, released in 1966, which found itself in the band’s early set lists, but soon dropped out. To make it even more interesting, Alex Chilton jumps in on organ. Another early Cramps cover, Problem Child, written by Sam Phillips, is on the record. The band used to do an absolutely rippin’ version of the 1958 Jimmy Lloyd track, Rocket In My Pocket at some of their early shows. There’s a great version of it on Gravest Gravy. Also really cool are the songs that found official release on the band’s second album, Psychedelic Jungle, with Kid Congo Powers taking over the spot vacated by Bryan. These tracks would be Jungle Hop (also with Alex Chilton on organ) by Kip Tyler, released in 1958, The Natives Are Restless (with different lyrics), Can’t Find My Mind and Rockin’ Bones released in 1959 by the Blond Bomber himself, Ronnie Dawson. The approach to these versions is much different than on Psychedelic, and it’s never a bad thing to have more Bryan Gregory to listen to. We were able to locate the exact photo of Stephanie’s that Lux and Ivy had envisioned for the cover. The back cover photo was taken by David Godlis at CBGB, and is easily one of the coolest Cramps photos ever. We brought in the very talented Jason Willis to make a video for T.V. Set. It could not have turned out better. (Link Below) What you have in Gravest Gravy, is sheer brilliance committed to tape by a band that was plugged in directly to the Rock ‘n Roll mainline, produced by a visionary maniac named Alex Chilton. This new chapter for the band is a combined effort of people whose lives were changed by the music of the Cramps. As I’ve said many times, I first saw the Cramps on April 20, 1979 in a small bar in Washington, DC, and I’ve never recovered. Ian was standing next to me. We still talk about that show. The opportunity to bring this music to fellow Cramps fans is beyond a thrill. It is an absolute honor that we feel so fortunate to be a part of “When I first saw the Cramps at CBGB, I was overjoyed — entertained and inspired! And there was a girl in the band! It all felt so real: a fresh take on a regional American sound, updated in a way that was fun, smart, and exciting. I was screaming!” - Debbie Harry “The first time I saw the Cramps in 1977 at CBGB I was agog at the amazing characters and unearthly sound I was witnessing. The place was packed, although they had only one 45 out, and the crowd was going absolutely nuts. I was entranced. Funny, sexy, and dangerous, I was not sure if the concert would end in an orgy or a riot. Either would do. Imagine my surprise being invited into the band a few years later. Sometimes I still find it hard to believe it ever happened. But it did! And it was a real humdinger!” - Kid Congo Powers “The Cramps created an occult sound world that you could escape into, full of rockabilly voodoo guitar damage from Poison Ivy Rorschach, with bug eyed psychotic wailings and swampsnake utterances from Lux Interior, driven into a backwoods frenzy by the pounding of Nick Knox’s zombie death drums and Bryan Gregory’s barbed wire feral guitar scrapings. It only took me one hit of witnessing them play live in Glasgow aged 17 in 1979 opening for The Police and I’ve been hooked ever since. Stay Sick / Turn Blue.” - Bobby Gillespie

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01. T.V. Set 02. Weekend On Mars 03. Twist & Shout 04. Jungle Hop 05. Can?t Hardly Stand It 06. Hungry 07. The Natives Are Restless 08. Domino 09. Can?t Find My Mind 10. Rockin? Bones 11. Problem Child 12. Rocket In My Pocket

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THE CRAMPS - 'LOOK MOM NO HEAD'

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• VEN673CD - CD

  655035167329

• VEN673 - LP (COLOURED)

  655035167312

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**RED METALLIC VINYL** Look Mom No Head! dresses rock ʼnʼ roll in its full regalia, with its many knobs, buttons and doo-dads. Man! The electric guitar sounds like it might launch a rocket! Replete with celebrations of intoxication and sexual prowess, The Cramps’ 1991 album sports “Dames, Booze, Chains and Boots” from the movie Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, a torchy rendition of Jack Nitzscheʼs slow-fuck blues “Hardworkinʼ Man” and the cross-dressing classic “I Wanna Get In Your Pants.” Minutes after Lux Interior ran into Iggy Pop buying beer next door to the recording studio, the two ended up singing “Miniskirt Blues” together. On the epic final track, biker rock ʼnʼ roll meets Screaming Mimi in B-movie trailer hell in “Wilder Wilder Faster Faster.” Stand back for CD bonus cut “Jelly Roll Rock” as Lux emits a fine spray throughout the entire vocal performance. Up your alley and in your face.

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THE CRAMPS - 'A DATE WITH ELVIS'

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• VEN671 - LP (COLOURED)

  655035167114

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**GOLD METALLIC COLOURED VINYL** Originally planned for 1985 to join in the onslaught of Elvisʼs 50th Anniversary commemorative reissues, A Date With Elvis came out in early 1986 in Europe only, where it went on to sell more than 200,000 copies. The only album featuring The Cramps as a three-piece band (Poison Ivy doubled on bass), it careens from the sociopathic advice of “People Ainʼt No Good” (later covered by Nick Cave) to mind-on-vacation odes like “Aloha From Hell” and “Kizmiaz” (where The Cramps prove they were exotic when exotic wasnʼt cool), in the process offing more P.T.P. than you can shake a snake at and fittingly finishing off with a soulful lovesick cover of the Charlie Feathers’s “Itʼs Just That Song.” “Can Your Pussy Do The Dog” was voted single of the year for 1986 in Playboyʼs annual music issue!

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: 1. How Far Can Too Far Go? 2. The Hot Pearl Snatch 3. People Ain't No Good 4. What's Inside A Girl? 5. Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? 6. Kizmiaz 7. Cornfed Dames 8. Chicken 9. (Hot Pool Of) Womanneed 10. Aloha From Hell 11. It's Just That Song

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OSEES - 'OFF COURSE'

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• DG011X - LP (COLOURED)

  769152438733

• DG011LP - LP

  769152438719

• DG011CD - CD

  769152438726

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CD SHIPPING / VINYL SHIPPING EARLY OCT **AVAILABLE ON BLOOD RED VINYL** We went back to an older method of writing for this one. We jammed and jammed and jammed. I took the tapes home and ironed out some mutant tunes. We went back into the studio and burned them to tape live and then I took it home to Stu-Stu-Studio and did the vocals and bought in Tom Dolas & Brigid Dawson to put the finish on. Spice is always nice. Mixed it all up in the cauldron and thus we have a strange brew indeed Floating in the smoke we have: A couple long jams, a couple short jams and a finale that’ll dump a bucket of ear worms on you (reminiscent of “the axis”?) Dip your toe in organ rock and roll So without further ado We present to you “OFF COURSE” An album wondering where the fuck are we and how did we get here A signal dispatched out into the darkness We are here We are alive And we are together CHEERS NO EARS JPD/DG/OSEES

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1. OFF COURSE
2. HECATE'S REFLECTION IS A TRICK
3. THE TRICK
4. SYRINGE
5. THE BRUTE ON HIS KNEES

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J.MADDEN - 'RUM BABA'

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• NXN048LP - LP

  0632556093528

• NXN048CD - CD

  0632556093535

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J. Madden (also of Hooton Tennis Club & Hank Bee) releases Rum Baba; hotly awaited follow up to 2021 homegrown debut record Same Day As Yesterday. This bittersweet collection of songs probes life’s big themes - existential uncertainty, depression and living within an increasingly digitalised world and its consequences - yet delivered with a joyous sound and a sense of humour. "One day I realised I had a record without planning it” explains Madden “For me, these songs capture two turning points in my life; moving from the city to a small seaside town, and shifting from my 20s to my 30s”. Rum Baba is a sonic leap from Madden’s debut, presenting his fullest songs to date. RIYL: Cate Le Bon, Sam Evian, Deerhunter, Sparklehorse, Richard Swift, Aldous Harding

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(A1) Simple Life
(A2) On A Wave
(A3) Take Your Time
(A4) Everyday
(A5) Stressed Out West
(B6) Lexi
(B7) How Soon?
(B8) Full Circle
(B9) Midwinter
(B10) Heavy Silence

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SUSANNE LEWIS - 'S/T'

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• CC015 - LP

  769152440514

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“In a less ridiculous world, Susanne Lewis would need no introduction. For more than 40 years, she has been releasing brilliant, fearless, kaleidoscopic albums with various collaborators and under various names, including Corpses As Bedmates, Thinking Plague, Kissyfur and Hail. No two of them sound alike, none of them sound like anyone else, and all of them have moments that remain startling even after decades of listening. “She’s an offhandedly inventive musician who makes complex, disjunctive song structures sound perfectly natural, as if they couldn’t and shouldn’t have turned out any other way. A volatile singer who can shift from serenity to delirium in the space between two heartbeats, she’s capable of making the most abstruse dream-language feel immediate or, conversely, of making the most mundane experiences seem otherworldly. Her songs do not belong to a genre; they create their own genres as they go, and they typically bristle with more ideas than most of her alleged peers stumble across in an entire career. “All this being the case, the persistent neglect of her work by people who ought to know better has something pathological about it. Interesting yourself to any extent in 20th-century underground music while remaining unfamiliar with Susanne Lewis is like being a geologist who has never heard of volcanoes. Had she gotten the full attention and acclaim her accomplishments deserve, generations of lesser talents might never have managed to emerge from her shadow. If she gets it now—finally!—it will be a welcome and very timely triumph of personal vision and artistic autonomy over their increasingly ugly counterfeits. “Taken collectively, her albums constitute a parallel universe in which the early eighties post-punk avant-garde never ran out of surprises, and this reissue of her eponymous 2000 solo release—lovingly remastered from the original DAT tapes and released on LP for the first time by Concentric Circles—is as inviting a portal to that strange place as any. It’s an accessible and deceptively straightforward album with musical and emotional strata that increase in complexity and depth over repeated listenings.” — Brandan Kearney (author of On Cinema At the Cinema)

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1. Five Shades of White 2. Human Rocket 3. Local To Headtrip 4. Cherry Blossoms 5. Golden Imbued 6. Lucky 7. Sunny/Warmer 8. Sunrise

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STEAK - 'STEAK'

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• PSYCHOBABBLE143 - LP (COLOURED)

  4015698852448

• PSYCHOBABBLE143CD - CD

  4015698888003

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Since forming in 2012, Steak have built a loyal international following through relentless touring, acclaimed releases and an ever-evolving sound that fuses desert rock, psychedelia and progressive heaviness. With their first album written and recorded as a five-piece, Steak continue their upward trajectory with their most ambitious and expansive work to date. Combining crushing riffs, cinematic atmosphere and the band's unmistakable melodic edge, the record marks another bold evolution for a band entering its most exciting chapter yet. Tracks such as the opener "Cometh" showcase an all enveloping, shoegazing riff wash crashing against thundering drums and bass, wrapped in an etherial and hymnal vocal line. It stands as a representative statement for Steak's evolving sound, which borrows freely from a wide palette of heavy psychedelic sounds while still remaining immediately catchy. Steak are continuing to seize the momentum they've built in the past years on the backs of appearances at European festivals such as Desert fest, Freak Valley and Resurrection Fest and are further poised to gain ground with their biggest music work yet. Steak is available on purple 180gr. vinyl (including download) and on CD from Stickman Records.

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1. Cometh 2. Luxury Junk 3. Dust 4. Two By Two 5. Aether 6. Infinite 7. Knucklehead 8. Short Arms

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JACKSON ALMOND - 'TREMORS IN COPPER'

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• SNDREC007 - LP (COLOURED)

  5061041822605

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Sound Records is proud to present Tremors in Copper, the debut full-length album from producer, composer and sound designer Jackson Almond. Born in Liverpool and formerly based in London, Almond has spent the past decade working across record shops, sound design and hardware instrument development while quietly building a catalogue of releases with Warner, BBE, Slowfoot, WotNot Music, XVI Records, Audio Doughnuts and Sounds of Sumo. His Open Your Head EP, the first released under his own name, received a 9/10 review from DJ Mag, who described it as "stunningly original", while Bandcamp praised his "knack for balancing hooks and earworms with original ideas and creative production." His work has been supported by BBC Radio 1, BBC 1Xtra, NTS, Worldwide FM and Balamii. After releasing a second vinyl EP, Take The Time, and a series of remixes, Almond stepped away from releasing music in 2019, relocating from London to the Gloucestershire countryside. Rather than chasing clout or momentum, he disappeared into the studio. Tremors in Copper is the result of that decision. Drawing together UK club music, folk traditions and contemporary composition, the album refuses easy categorisation. Hardware synthesis, tape processes, field recordings, guitars, clarinets, intricate tuned percussion and string arrangements processed through vintage digital effects create a world that feels simultaneously intimate and expansive. Echoes of trip-hop, broken beat, UK garage, house, IDM and ambient music surface throughout, but always in service of a singular musical voice rather than genre. The result is an album that is as compelling on a powerful sound system as it is through headphones: rhythmic and physical one moment, reflective and cinematic the next, exploring memory, connection and the traces people leave in one another. The release also marks Almond's return to live performance for the first time in over a decade. Alongside hardware-based electronic sets, selected performances will feature a bespoke electroacoustic installation of handmade resonant copper instruments performed with analogue synthesisers, tape machines and drum machines. Each performance is shaped specifically for its environment, from immersive listening experiences to dancefloor-focused shows. Based in Stroud, UK.

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1. From False Love 04:27
2. Move With The Herd 06:11
3. Green Language ft AUNCE 04:55
4. Dualism 04:24
5. When I'm Next To You 04:27
6. Tunnel 03:50
7. Falling 04:18
8. The Shadow Parade 04:53
9. Still Strung To My Ribs ft AUNCE

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?a beautiful and intricate work that draws together myriad genres and mediums; blending acoustic, analogue and digital?- Cosmic Bob

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K.LEIMER - 'AT THE FIRST CLEAR SOUND'

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• POL 17.2026 - CD

  195269424053

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Some more new music made with a system of hand-drawn, modular passages rearranged in coherent and incoherent signatures. The tracks of At the First Clear Sound are stubbornly absent of improvisation, solos, virtuosity, and compositional form while being full of naïveté, a harsh smoothness, an agitated calm, and inharmonic harmonics. Dazzled by the automatic nature of this modular technique Leimer worked quickly, choosing to respect his mistakes and question his choices. “As reliant as the music is on computers, samples, digital processing, and typing, this work is still rather imperfect, rather handmade. And, of course, my compulsion to work with infinitely pliant sound is now clearly bordering on mild psychosis.” Technically, there’s never a final mix. K. Leimer founded Palace of Lights in 1979. Leimer’s work has also been issued by Autumn, First Terrace, Les Giants, Invisible Inc., Origin Peoples, and RVNG. His early cassette work is included in the critically acclaimed VOD box set ‘American Cassette Culture’ and is included in Cherry Red’s ‘Noise Floor’ series. Leimer has been actively producing music since the mid 1970s—his current catalog includes solo albums, soundtracks, installations, and collaborative albums with Savant, Marc Barreca, Tyler Boley, and Three Point Circle. We are told his work is included in the collection of The British Library.

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