“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 […]
2LP – Black Vinyl.Includes bonus track only available on the vinyl format.Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician Zach Top is back with his highly anticipated new album Ain’t In It For My Health – available August 29 – following last year’s breakthrough debut album Cold Beer & Country Music and comes on the heels of recently […]
The twelve songs on Blue Reminder walk a kind of emotional tightrope between hope and a kind of quiet anxiety, the record itself batting around the question of what one does when happiness actually comes knocking.At the core of these songs the genuine joy of love and self-actualization are always balanced against the potential fear […]
This re-issue of the Cocteau Twins 1996 album faithfully replicates the original 1996 Fontana Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 140g vinyl. Cocteau Twins – vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Simon Raymonde – formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in the late 70s. The brainchild of Guthrie and original bassist Will […]
This re-issue of the Cocteau Twins 1993 album has been remastered by Robin Guthrie and is pressed onto high quality 140g vinyl Cocteau Twins vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Simon Raymonde formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in the late 70s The brainchild of Guthrie and original bassist Will Heggie, by 1981 they had […]
Synopsis: From Golden Harvest, the legendary Hong Kong studio which had previously delivered classic Bruce Lee flicks The Big Boss, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon comes the fast-paced martial arts fantasy The Iceman Cometh. When 16th-century Ming guard Fong Sau-ching (Yuen Baio) sets out to capture vicious rapist Feng San (Yuen Wah) both […]
Originally released as an edition of 50 lathe-cut LPs housed in silk-screened jackets in 2020 (fast on the heels of What’s Tonight To Eternity), Cat O’ Nine Tails has long intrigued die-hard Cindy Lee fans with its combination of the classic songwriting that would dominate Diamond Jubilee a few years later and an actual suite of classical songs under the title itself. […]
LP – Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl with reimagined artwork, new sleeve notes and a QR code linking to exclusive bonus assets. Beggars Arkive are happy to announce a reissue of The Fall’s 1989 half-studio/half-live album, Seminal Live.Available on yellow vinyl and digitally, the album has been remastered by Kevin Vanbergen.This edition features reimagined artwork, new […]
Legendary postmodern, post punk, post human, past caring collective Mekons return with a brand-new album for 2025. Their first release on Fire Records, ‘Horror’ a collection of songs written in late 2022 but providing a horribly prescient reflection of the world in its current miasma and how we got here. ‘Horror’ looks at history and […]
When Marshall Chess decided to combine a rock group with some of the best voices he could get his hands on he invented a stream of psychedelic rock that was quite different from the one that emerged in Detroit with the help of George Clinton and Norman Whitfield. Partly this was Marshall’s hippy sensibility, but it was one that fused […]
