“I have seen the madness in my area” sings Mr Smith on track 4 of this record.That sentence sums up a lot of The Fall’s appeal to me: they looked at The North, the place I was brought up in, and saw something alien and inexplicable in it.Not “Gritty Northern Realism” but rather “Snotty Northern […]
Last summer, after living across the country from each other for several years, the four members of Anamanaguchi decided to try something new.Their label Polyvinyl had rescued the famed American Football house from potential destruction, so the band took the opportunity to move in and write together.Over the course of a month, Anamanaguchi – pioneers […]
A Certain Ratio’s classic and highly sought-after live album gets an official release with new artwork.ACR continue their ongoing reissue campaign with Live in America — an essential artefact from the band’s career, capturing their summer ’85 US tour supporting labelmates New Order— then fellow Factory artists, now as part of the Mute family — […]
LP – Indies Exclusive Limited Edition ‘Red Dusk’ Colour Vinyl.Includes a deluxe 4-panel insert with bonus artwork, lyrics, and credits. Teethe re-emerges with Magic Of The Sale, a soft but steely full-length album where the Texas band’s four distinct songwriters, singers, and artists ask a series of interlocked questions about what it means to build […]
LP – Limited Edition Black Vinyl, 200 Available To Indies Only Impala, the fabled second Songs: Ohia full-length, originally released in 1998 and long out-of-print, will enjoy a vinyl reissue by Secretly Canadian this August.This release includes the addition of a remastered demo of Tess, originally captured during recording sessions for Impala. “Lorain, Ohio; it’s […]
LP – Indies Exclusive Limited Edition ‘ Another Blue Sky Coloured’ Vinyl Dreamed up in the basement of his Bronzeville harem/headquarters, Arrow Brown’s peerless The Magic of The Majestic Arrows album was the by-product of years operating at the fringe of Chicago’s storied Record Row.Issued on his own Bandit imprint, the LP is a string-laden […]
Tracklist: A1. Anthracite A2. Willys Headache A3. Genevieve A4. Trevorgus A5. To You B1. For Baby Ooh B2. FUG B3. Crawshay B4. Bird B5. Them And Us In 1973, with the release of ‘Second Time Round,’ Cymande solidified their place in music history. As children of the Windrush Generation, they were part of the first […]
This Homespun live remastered radio broadcast double feature captures two explosive sets from Sly and the Family Stone,.The VPRO Radio broadcast from 1970 Kasteel Groeneveld, Baarn, Netherlands on September 10th and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert TV Show from the Palace Theatre, New York, NY October 9th, 1973 from Syndicated US TV. Two pivotal moments, 1970, […]
Released originally as a 2 vinyl set by Capitol Records in 1973, prior to the band delivering their last album, ‘Solid Silver’, for the label.Chronologically compiled with tracks from ‘Quicksilver Messenger Service’, ‘Happy Trails’, ‘Shady Grove’, ‘Just For Love’, ‘What About Me’ and ‘Quicksilver’, plus a rare b-side, ‘Bears’.The band called it a day in […]
Step into the firestorm.Captured live in the intimate confines of Buffalo’s Century Theatre at the height of their creative powers, this 1973 performance from the King Biscuit Flower Hour is a full-throttle immersion into the explosive soundworld of the Mahavishnu Orchestra.What unfolds is not just a concert, but a spiritual experience–where jazz, rock, Indian classical, […]
