Luc Besson’s sophomore feature is a stylish urban odyssey which helped to consolidate Besson’s reputation for unique, visually creative cinema. After stealing sensitive documents from a mob boss, Fred (Christopher Lambert) takes refuge in the Paris Metro. Whilst hiding in this labyrinthine and surreal world beneath the city, Fred attempts to blackmail the mob boss’s […]
December 2001, Maida Vale: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” perform with demonstrative zeal for their British witness at the BBC, shimmering and hissing with a Lynchian vibe of U.S. darkness in the invariable shadows of the fallen towers. Callahan & band (Jessica Billey, Mike Saenz and Jim White) cover Stevie Nicks, Lou Reed and Smog with grey, […]
The reinterpreted traditional folk songs that make up Cold Blows The Rain are shaped by the land and the weather. Wrapped in mist and drizzle, the crawling drone of low heavy clouds on flat-top moors. The sound of the dark Calder Valley floor and sun starved hills in West Yorkshire in the North of England. […]
Side A 1. Dont Stand So Close to Me / 2. Driven to Tears / 3. When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of Whats Still Around / 4. Canary in a Coalmine / 5. Voices Inside My Head / 6. Bombs Away Side B 1. De Do Do Do, De Da […]
2 LP The second instalment of Matador’s 2022 “Revisionist History” Catalog Series, including albums from Pavement, Interpol and Spoon. “A stone cold classic.” – Rolling Stone “The greatest band in the universe.” – Pitchfork “I Can Hear The Heart helped teach people how to listen to music.” – Stereogum Tracklisting 1. Return to Hot Chicken […]
t’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering […]
Saint Etienne take us gently by the hand, to sink deep down through the layers of the after-hours and pull tired minds back from the brink of despair. With The Night all anxieties abate, the wickedness of a quickening mind is slowed to a soft-focus smear, and everything takes on a lofty and agreeable appeal […]
Thomas Walsh is the founder and frontperson in critically endorsed Irish cult-pop band Pugwash – His classic pop songwriting has garnered him an impressive collection of celebrity recognition from artists like Brian Wilson, Jeff Lynne and Joe Elliot Guest contributions on the album comes from Dave Gregory (XTC, Dukes Of Stratosphere), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), […]
This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order.Available to buy in-store from 8am on Saturday, 12/04/2025 (Record Store Day).Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday 14/04/2025. First time availabe on vinyl, previously only a limited CD release in 1996. Following the departure of Wire’s drummer Robert […]
Tracklist 1 Stay With Me 2 In the Shadows 3 Truth 4 Stain of Pain 5 Spiderweb 6 Burnt Paper 7 Holding on to Nothing 8 Animal Magnetism 9 Numb 10 To Cross or To Burn The second release of soulful dark pop from legendary drummer Dave Lombardo and singer-songwriter Paula Lombardo The courtship of […]
