PICTISH TRAIL THUMB WORLD
★★★★★ The Vinyl District ★★★★ MOJO ★★★★ Paste
★★★★ Uncut ★★★★ Norman Records
JANE WEAVER LOOPS IN THE SECRET SOCIETY
★★★★★ The Line Of Best Fit ★★★★ Pitchfork ★★★★ Loud and Quiet ★★★★
Uncut ★★★★ Record Collector ★★★★★ Pop Matters ★★★★ Shindig
★★★★ Record Collector ★★★★ Norman Records ★★★★★ Vinyl District
★★★★ Sydney Morning Herald
VANISHING TWIN THE AGE OF IMMUNOLOGY
STAFF PICKS
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Pictish Trail – Thumb WorldBold, weird, wild, wired, sonically luxurious yet never losing touch with its DIY-‘til-I-die roots, Thumb World is a voyage to the outer rings of Pictish Trail’s mind at its darkest, funniest and most inventive – a plugged-in, fuzzed-out, fucked-up contemplation on, as he puts it, “life repeating an... -
Josephine Foster and the Supposed - All The Leaves Are GoneCould it be that the world is finally ready for the tempestuous folk-rock opera that is "All the Leaves are Gone?" In 2004, only the truly informed and forward-thinking heads "got" this mini-masterpiece. Critics scratched their heads and usually resorted to comparisons of past artists, like ol Gr... -
Jane Weaver - Loops In The Secret Society LPWhen science fiction turns science fact the effect can be truly momentous. The state demands that no-one wants an unlicensed machine-hum from an outbuilding; no-one wants clever prose mapping the future, no-one wants “music” that is attention-seeking, soul-defining, beneficial, Biblical, baroque... -
Fenella - Fenella LP‘Fenella’ is the latest project from Jane Weaver - musical polymath and one of the most respected electronic composers of recent times. Having already released three critically-acclaimed LP’s within the last five years Weaver’s creativity continues to expand ever further into the (modern) kosmos wit... -
Giant Sand - Glum (25th Anniversary Edition 2XLP)‘Glum’ is an inadvertent conceptual masterpiece, a ramble through the tumbleweeds of the mind touching on love, loss, belief and fulfilment. It’s an attitudinal thought provoker, a heady, life-affirming adventure (as all Giant Sand albums are). With Howe Gelb at the helm, ‘Glum’ is a rollercoaste... -
Hater - Four Tries Down / It's A MessMalmo’s much-praised quartet of Caroline Landahl, Måns Leonartsson, Adam Agace and Lukas Thomasson release two glorious new tracks hot on the heels of ‘Siesta’, their excellent second album of last year on Fire Records. “Swoony Swedish indie-pop.” Record Collector “Too noisy to be indie pop, t... -
HTRK - Nostalgia LP (Reissue)*Orders ship September 27th 2019 - White Vinyl HTRK’s seminal debut 'Nostalgia' (2007) gets a new cut to white vinyl with white sleeve and gloss cover. An abrasive record shrouded in sonorous pulses, deafening feedback and tension-soaked reverb that immerses you deep into their ... -
Kristin Hersh - CrookedFollowing a special vinyl release for this year’s Record Store Day celebrating its tenth anniversary, ‘Crooked’ will be reissued on black vinyl and CD on 27th September. ‘A figurehead for feminist indie rock’ (Classic Rock), Kristin Hersh achieved a music and publishing first when her eighth ... -
Bardo Pond - Big Laughing Jym LP (RSD 2019)Purple vinyl edition. First time on vinyl since initial press in 1995. ‘Big Laughing Jym’ follows 1994’s ‘Bufo Alvarius’ and between 1996’s ‘Amanita’, inducing tenebral states with their sludgy yet beguiling psychedelic rock. On "Dispersion" and "Clearhead" whirlpools of bass, feedback-clogge... -
Giant Sand - Recounting The Ballads Of Thin Line MenPre-Order: Out 20th September 2019 It’s 33 and a third years since the seminal Giant Sand and its country cousin The Band Of… Blacky Ranchette entered the studio to lay down their second albums. Yes. Both bands had recorded their second albums each. Two sides of the multi-faceted hyper-produc... -
Modern Studies and Tommy Perman - Emergent Slow ArcsPre-Order: Out 26th July 2019 (Limited Edition Hand Crafted Bespoke Sleeve, Black Vinyl) Modern Studies’ much praised ‘Welcome Strangers’ album from 2018 re-imagined by designer/musician Tommy Perman. “A heady compendium of haunted disco lullabies for foggy urban woodland raves and psyc... -
Vanishing Twin - The Age Of ImmunologyPre-Order: Out 7th June 2019 The anthropologist A. David Napier took aim at one of the most fundamental beliefs of modern times when he wrote his book The Age Of Immunology in 2003. He said the assumption that we can only survive by the elimination of ‘the non-self’ was a central idea which h... -
Sebadoh - Act SurprisedPre-Order: Out 24th May 2019 (Pre-Order Dinked Version LP) Indie-rock pioneers Sebadoh return with their first new studio album in more than six years Act Surprised. "The first line of this song: 'I get the feeling you don't feel me' is pretty good. It could be a line in an Ariana Grande ... -
Death and Vanilla - Are You A Dreamer?There’s something about the Swedish city of Malmo that doesn’t add up. Named the “happiest” city in Sweden in 2016 (who gets the job of judging these things?), Malmo’s DNA contains a “none-coding” strain that reveals the city’s penchant for a world more studious, fashioned in a vint... -
Half Japanese - InvinciblePuppet people, vampires and the walking dead frequent the world of Jad Fair’s songwriting - outside of those interruptions he’s besotted. Maybe even in love. He feels invincible and as the closing instrumental cut ‘Indestructible’ floats off into the ether there’s a feeling of job done; we can r...
NEW RELEASES
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Pictish Trail – Thumb WorldBold, weird, wild, wired, sonically luxurious yet never losing touch with its DIY-‘til-I-die roots, Thumb World is a voyage to the outer rings of Pictish Trail’s mind at its darkest, funniest and most inventive – a plugged-in, fuzzed-out, fucked-up contemplation on, as he puts it, “life repeating an...
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Giant Sand - Recounting The Ballads Of Thin Line MenPre-Order: Out 20th September 2019 It’s 33 and a third years since the seminal Giant Sand and its country cousin The Band Of… Blacky Ranchette entered the studio to lay down their second albums. Yes. Both bands had recorded their second albums each. Two sides of the multi-faceted hyper-produc...
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Vanishing Twin - The Age Of ImmunologyPre-Order: Out 7th June 2019 The anthropologist A. David Napier took aim at one of the most fundamental beliefs of modern times when he wrote his book The Age Of Immunology in 2003. He said the assumption that we can only survive by the elimination of ‘the non-self’ was a central idea which h...
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Sebadoh - Act SurprisedPre-Order: Out 24th May 2019 (Pre-Order Dinked Version LP) Indie-rock pioneers Sebadoh return with their first new studio album in more than six years Act Surprised. "The first line of this song: 'I get the feeling you don't feel me' is pretty good. It could be a line in an Ariana Grande ...
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Death and Vanilla - Are You A Dreamer?There’s something about the Swedish city of Malmo that doesn’t add up. Named the “happiest” city in Sweden in 2016 (who gets the job of judging these things?), Malmo’s DNA contains a “none-coding” strain that reveals the city’s penchant for a world more studious, fashioned in a vint...
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Howe Gelb - GatheredEavesdropping is an art. And on Howe Gelb’s new solo album, ‘Gathered’, it’s been perfected. A chance meeting heard through a door half cracked open, it’s an album of candid romanticism, a footnote to your heart’s history. On ‘Gathered’, it feels like you’re privy to musings on a muse (or tw... -
Half Japanese - InvinciblePuppet people, vampires and the walking dead frequent the world of Jad Fair’s songwriting - outside of those interruptions he’s besotted. Maybe even in love. He feels invincible and as the closing instrumental cut ‘Indestructible’ floats off into the ether there’s a feeling of job done; we can r...
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The Lemonheads - Varshons 2***Green & Yellow LPs come in Banana Scented Scratch & Sniff Sleeve!*** (Limited quantities) The Lemonheads follow up the critically acclaimed ‘Varshons’ from nearly ten years ago with another eclectic collection of covers. Produced by Matthew Cullen and mastered by Howie Weinberg ... -
The Bevis Frond - We're Your Friends, ManDocking alongside the Mothership Frond, with its insignia emblazoned with the legend ‘We’re Your Friends, Man’, you can hear a smattering of Hendrixonian guitar wafting through the cavernous recess of this vessel. You can hear a Love-like strum, a melancholy verse/chorus; you can hear proper son... -
Jane Weaver - The Silver GlobeIn the madrigal-strewn world of neo folk-psychedelia, the queen of drones holds court… In this late teen decade, as green men are burnt, resources dwindle and naturalists plunder for authentic Englishness, the hunt for the grail-like Silver Globe continues. Back in 2014, the story was first wh... -
Orchestra Of Spheres - MirrorOrchestra of Spheres welcomes you on a journey through the looking glass. Mirror, a double LP and the band's 4th release on Fire Records, is an exploration of energies and atmospheres, from intense futuristic funk and sonic tape assemblages to windswept reflections from a far flung corner of ... -
Josephine Foster - Faithful Fairy HarmonyJosephine raises a stained-glass lamp and shepherds us spelunking the depths of spirit in this four-part double album. Following the fame of her voice are choruses of winged entities (and a space shuttle) that ascend and descend a maze of spirituals: ritual prayers, blues laments, vestal hymns a...
