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B-Sides & Rarities - Vol. 1 serves as both an expanded edition of Ethan P. Flynn’s Bandcamp-released debut compilation and a handy career summary to date. Having recently worked with prestigious names such as FKA twigs and David Byrne, it’s a great time to reflect on Flynn’s output, and includes four unreleased tracks.

TNSrecords and 5FeetUnder Records are delighted to announce the release of the debut Follow Your Dreams album, The Half-Life of Teaspoons, available from Friday the 13th of March 2020. This ten track album, available on CD and vinyl from 17th April, showcases the raw, genre-blurring songwriting of one of the Manchester punk scene’s newest bands.

Recorded and mastered by Ant Booth at Kesbri studios, The Half-Life of Teaspoons combines the fury and urgency of DIY punk and hardcore with a restless experimental edge drawn from post-punk and mathcore, utilising effects pedals, varied time signatures and dissonance. The effect is a varied and at times deliberately weird musical experience with shades of light and dark, from the spiky intricacy of ‘Fake Fake Fur’ to pop/muzak interludes in ‘Rinse and Repeat’ and ‘Pushing Buttons’ to the thrashy onslaught of songs like ‘Not Your Meat’. Manchester DIY legend Kaz’s furious punk vocals hold the whole thing together, giving voice to the frustration and outrage that comes from living in racist, misogynist, dysfunctional late capitalism.

Incorporating a diverse range of influences, from samba to no wave, Handle, a three-piece from Manchester (now based between Manchester / London / Brussels) made up of Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire former members of D.U.D.S (the first British band to sign to Castle Face) and Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist, renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work on the city’s arts and literary scenes. The group mesh politics with a trans experience of time and a vibrant, avant-garde freedom of approach.

Handle make a uniquely minimal sound, buoyed by poetic, urgent vocals. Each instrument (bass, drums, keyboard and voice) is permitted its own space, yet somehow the result is a brilliantly unified yet understated sonic experience that demands then commands your attention.

Incorporating a diverse range of influences, from samba to no wave, Handle, a three-piece from Manchester (now based between Manchester / London / Brussels) made up of Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire former members of D.U.D.S (the first British band to sign to Castle Face) and Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist, renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work on the city’s arts and literary scenes. The group mesh politics with a trans experience of time and a vibrant, avant-garde freedom of approach.

Handle make a uniquely minimal sound, buoyed by poetic, urgent vocals. Each instrument (bass, drums, keyboard and voice) is permitted its own space, yet somehow the result is a brilliantly unified yet understated sonic experience that demands then commands your attention.

Soul Jazz Records are releasing a collection of lost recordings by French mutant experimental synth group Kas Product, all originally recorded in the period 1980 – 83.

Kas Product formed in 1980 in Nancy, France, as an electronic duo comprising ex-psychiatric nurse Spatsz on electronics and rhythm machines and Mona Soyoc on vocals and guitars.

Kas Product feature on Soul Jazz Records’ recent 'Punk 45 – Les Punks: The French Connection'. Mainly recorded on early tape, synth and drum machines Kas Product’s mixture of Spatsz’ hypnotic, electronic and angular hard-edged beats matched to the spiky vocals and guitar work of Soyoc led to comparisons with Suicide, Liliput/Kleenex, Cabaret Voltaire as well as to the group being forerunners of the cold wave/ synth wave movement. Perhaps closer still is the Industrial sound of bands such as Throbbing Gristle and Einsturzende Neubaten. At the start of the decade Kas Product's 'So Young But So Cold' was also the title track of a defining collection of rare underground electronic French coldwave/synthwave bands on the Tigersushi label.

Sleaford Mods have been a firm favourite with Norman staff and customers over the last seven or so years. Their popularity outside of the Norman bubble has risen incredibly in that time too. All That Glue sticks together (get it?) the best bits of those years with fan favourites, b-sides, rarities and some unheard stuff. Go on...you know you want it.

Imagine if Jeffery Lee Pierce from The Gun Club was trapped in purgatory and forced to watch everything ITV had ever produced for eternity, then you'd be somewhere near the nightmarish sounds of Swedish Magazines.