MELT BANANA - 'FETCH'

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• AZ09 - LP

  655035200910

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BACK IN STOCK ON NEW VIOLET VINYL!! Received a 7.8 rating from Pitchfork. From the whip-like crack of Yako’s signature staccato vocals and impossible- to-memorize lyrics to the relentless overdrive tempo of their oneof- a-kind prog-core, Melt-Banana have long resided in a cybertopia of their own devising where the limits of technology and human capability are old-world concerns as quaint and cumbersome as bartering with a blacksmith. The demos for Fetch, their first studio album since the severely fried pop-punk of 1997’s Bambi’s Dilemma, were completed in March 2011, but the Fukushima earthquake changed everything, including their ability to concentrate on recording. Which stopped completely. Once they felt ready to return to their music, they decided to approach the songs on a sound-by-sound basis, choosing each tone with meticulous attention to detail, affirming their personal connections, being themselves naturally and openly. Fetch scrapes glam shimmers off punk’s outermost fringes and forges them into a rather intensely technical Deanscape packed with fantastical hybrids. Agata’s guitar riffs, seemingly composed in tandem with skipping CD players, are more bad-ass than ever, bright and fractured like the soundtrack for a CC-Hennix-scored biker flick. The album is juiced with electronics and post-rock production, tempering what could easily be a tiresome and predictable frenzy, yielding unexpected associations: Kate Bush climaxing on Walter White’s blue meth; demos of late-period Wire playing metal run through Wasp synthesizers and Autotune; unripe wild lychees keeping time on an Ankgor Wat tin roof during a monsoon. They’ve been performing live as a duo since summer 2012, and will do the same for their “2 do what 2 fetch” tour in support of the album. After nearly 20 years of playing with a live rhythm section, their use of a PC, while opening possibilities for a variety of drum and synth voicings, does not signal a move away from the traditional live band sound, as heard, for example, via the future transmissions from downtown Noiseapolis on 2009’s Lite Live: Ver. 0.0. Yako and Agata say they need to feel real band sounds onstage as much as someone in the audience. This is a group that routinely excels at several kinds of impossible simultaneously, so of course any new challenge they come up with for themselves is sure to blow the doors off your Mini Cooper. • First record as a duo expands the M-B sound into multiple dimensions • LP includes digital download card; first pressing on clear vinyl

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1. Candy Gun
2. The Hive
3. Vertigo Game
4. Left Dog (Run, Caper, Run)
5. Infection Defective
6. My Missing Link
7. Zero+
8. Schemes of the Tails
9. Lie Lied Lies
10. Red Data, Red Stage
11. Then Red Eyed
12. Zero

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KELLEY STOLTZ - 'WRITING THE THREAD'

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• AGIT078X - LP (COLOURED)

  5061041822568

• AGIT078 - LP

  5061041822513

• AGIT078CD - CD

  5061041822520

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**LTD 100 COPIES ONLY ON TURQUOISE COLOURED VINYL**This October, San Francisco songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz returns with Writing the Thread, his 21st album and his second full-length release of 2026, arriving to coincide with a new run of live dates across the UK and Europe. For more than two decades, Stoltz has quietly built one of the most distinctive and prolific catalogs in American independent music. A songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and inveterate home-recording enthusiast, he has followed his own path—moving easily between psychedelic pop, post-punk, garage rock, glam, folk and the melodic pull of classic songwriting, while somehow always sounding unmistakably like himself. Raised in Michigan and based in San Francisco since the late 1990s, Stoltz first attracted attention with his early home recordings, particularly 2001’s Antique Glow, originally self-released in a tiny run of hand-painted LPs. His growing reputation eventually led to a long association with Sub Pop Records. Later releases appeared on Jack White’s Third Man Records, John Dwyer’s Castle Face Records and a succession of independent labels around the world. Throughout it all, Stoltz has continued to operate his own peculiar musical workshop—writing, playing, recording and following ideas wherever they happen to wander. His work has been lauded by MOJO, Uncut, BBC 6 Music, Triple J Australia and The New York Times, while his home studio has become a place to produce and record a long list of fellow travelers. Stoltz also spent several years playing rhythm guitar with his longtime heroes Echo & the Bunnymen and serves as West Coast drummer for Robyn Hitchcock. He is also the host of “Vinelands,” a Bay Area music specialty show on legendary radio station KEXP. Coming just months after May’s If You Don't Know Me, Buy Now, Writing the Thread captures Stoltz in an especially prolific stretch, still chasing songs, sounds and unexpected turns more than twenty albums into his career. “I got the title from asking my wife, when she was typing away into her phone, ‘What are you doing?’ and she’d often reply, ‘Oh, just writing the thread’—her friends’ group about stuff. It seemed like a poetic title, and it tied into the way us small-fry artists are essentially writing the songs as communications with our small group of followers.” Writing the Thread finds the melodic immediacy of Stoltz’s earliest recordings meeting the sharper edges, strange textures and restless experimentation that have increasingly colored his work. Writing the Thread arrives in October 2026, released in the UK and Europe by Agitated Records and in the USA by Dandy Boy Records, to coincide with a month-long UK and European tour.

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: 1. To Use Your Mind Is To Lose Your Mind 2. Writing The Thread 3. In December 4. No Reply 5. Suspend Belief 6. Permanent Impermanence 7. I Can't Wait 8. Stay In Touch 9. Plants (Revisited) 10. The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Commuter 11. Been There Done That 12. Walking Around

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ERASER - 'OPERATOR!'

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• SB210 - LP

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Eraser followup the devastating lunge that was their debut LP (Hideout) w/a furious new riposte entitled, Operator! The Panic Wave jams they kick out as their own have roots in the spirited days of Soho/TriBeCa, pre trust fund infestation. C'mon you remember; those days of ZE & 99 Records, Tier 3, Mudd Club, the "good" cocaine? And yet that's just foundation in the overall sonic spectrum; the driving backline of Juliette & Kat's rhythm tremors, Pier's rapier sharp guitar lines that will cut you, while over this is Sonam's vox harbingering while pivoting effortlessly to on point synth twitchery. It's past, present AND future. Hey man, the Marvel Universe can eat a bag of AI dicks, Eraser are the REAL superheroes ruling the blood & guts scene. 'Operator' is all about your blood, and their guts. West Coast tour starts 9/18. Go open up & bleed.

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ERASER - 'HIDEOUT'

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• SB199 - LP

  655030119910

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NOW AVAILABLE "The quartet of Sonam Parikh, Pier Harrison, Juliette Rando & Kat Bean are the glorious blood & guts behind Eraser. Much can be said of their paths to this apex, how these sounds coalesced , but who has the time? We are here, now, to speak of Eraser's debut release, Hideout, on Siltbreeze Records." "First, let me ask that you are familiar with the golden age of Rough Trade? Then if so, you would immediately connect with the sound of Eraser, which twitches & gyrates in a mashup of Pere Ubu & Kleenex. And yet there is a distinct New York-meets-Berlin No Wave tension underlying the fun. Think The Static meets Mania D. Are you in or out?" "And yet all of these are just luscious trajectories to lead you into the lair of Eraser's infective polygot of sound. There was a saying in the old days, 'The person who can't dance says the band can't play'. But in current times that is a bygone sentiment & both burn feverishly in the bloodstream of Eraser. They are here to spread their beguiling contagion upon all who will it. And no vaccine can deny them. FFO; ZE Records, 99 Records, Lust/Unlust, Zickzack."—Gundred Klette (Siltbreeze publicist, Stuttgart, Germany)

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CELER + FOREST MANAGEMENT - 'LANDMARKS'

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• CTATSU005 - LP

  5061041822735

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***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Collaborating for the first time, Will Long and John Daniel combine their methods using tape machines, loops, and computers to score a reimagining of Peter Weir's film and Paul Theroux's novel "The Mosquito Coast". Sourcing inspiration from a view of the film and book as a historical pendulum, the musicians found that these reinterpretations left them nostalgic for a different time, something that's only partly imagined, and without the defined predictions about the life cycles of mass culture based on our limited understanding of current events.

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1. 7? 10? 77? 83? 2. The First Steps Onto Their Souls 3. Hotel Mona Lisa 4. Indistinguishable Magic 5. A Big And Strange Place 6. Volcanic Institutions 7. From Fire, Ice 8. Embera 9. 5,000 Feet Under The Surface 10. Blending All Of The Above 11. S-shape Isthmus 12. Magnified Pieces Of Thermodynamics 13. The Signs Are Everywhere 14. Rights Of The Idea Or A Machine

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ANDY BOAY - 'DOOMED'

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• DooYCD - CD

  769152441924

• DooY - LP

  769152441917

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A lifetime of inordinate fear and sadness leaves one feeling doomed. The first one-to-one remedy I found for this ailment was writing music. Take something unbearable, painful, ugly, and make it beautiful. Smooth, melancholy, abstract art-pop. Not exactly “lo-fi” but, nonetheless, lovingly and painstakingly recorded to cassette tape. Stacked vocals. Homemade, carefully tuned internal feedback rigs. Galloping tremolo-delay guitar that shimmers and pulses along its journey. Beach Boys counterpoint voices, slammed piano chords, drifting lonesome shuffles. Melancholic disharmony finds its equilibrium in the sweet ecstatic arc of pop music.

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Child
Riddle
Runnin' Off
Fear
Strangers In A Town
Around The Eyes
Why Now?
Strangest Days
Old Heaven

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