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Legends of the Factory Records stable, A Certain Ratio are back with their first new album in twelve years. ACR Loco features three founding members Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson who are supported by a cast of musicians including The Smiths drummer Mike Joyce. This album covers a whole range of feelings and emotions, but mostly it implores you to party.

‘Cavalcade’ is the second album by London experimental/noise/math rock band black midi. It is the follow-up to their hugely acclaimed debut ‘Schlagenheim’. Just like its predecessor, ‘Cavalcade’ draws from a range of influences from King Crimson to 1990's Chicago post-rock and takes a number of exciting musical twists and turns. Another modern rock classic.

One of Britain’s finest indie newcomers of recent years, Dry Cleaning prepare their first full-length studio album for 4AD. ‘New Long Leg’ was produced by PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish over a compressed summer session in 2020, and their wiry, tense post-punk has evolved since their celebrated 2019 EPs, Florence Shaw’s spoken-word artistry exploring contemporary, existential themes.

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.

Taking their time over nearly four years since their debut album Holding Hands With Jamie, Irish quartet Girl Band deliver their long-awaited second effort. The Talkies was inspired by its recording in the uniquely weird building of Ballintubbert - full of winding passages and confusing turns amid the deafening noise.

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.

Long lost and simply breath taking live Ubu classic culled from 1981 recordings in Cleveland, London and Brussels featuring the band’s original line up. An essential pressing for all fans of the the celebrated post-punk innovators.

Translucence is the first solo album from the late Poly Styrene, former lead vocalist with punk legends X-Ray Spex, it was released on United Artists Records in 1980 and was a jazzier more subtle affair than the material of her former band. The critically acclaimed album has been unavailable on vinyl for nearly 30 years, and pressed on crystal clear vinyl, exclusively for Record Store Day 2021.

Bringing together two of Manchester’s most promising and invigorating breakout bands of recent times, the latest offering from our Manchester based micro-label, Icecapades, crams 12 minutes of classic, hook-laden pop precision onto two sides of this 45rpm 7”.

Side A is taken up by Sex Hands, three childhood best friends from North Wales, and one new pal from Manchester via Runcorn, making music inspired by the hit TV series Friends. Taking in members of NW notables Klaus Kinski, Irma Vep and Waiters, they enigmatically straddle the line between uniquely irresistible melodic delights, and unhinged macho-man party anthems. Your curiosity may already have been piqued by their recent, excellent (and free to download) collection ‘Series 1’. This though is proudly their first appearance on vinyl, and sees them flex their muscle through pulse-rasing standouts; ‘Way, No Way’, and ‘Ichiban’.

Side B is occupied by the now-on-an-indefinate-hiatus-Daily Life. A band specialising in perfect slabs of modern post-punk pop songs that crawl resolutely in your ear and burrow wayyy deep in your skull. Sadly scuppered in their plan for pure world dominance by singer Luke’s decision to emigrate to New Zealand in January of this year - we toast the brief, bright existence of our dearly departed friends in the only manner befitting these formidable recordings; cherry picking their two strongest cuts, ‘King of Sports’ and ‘Alabaster’, and commiting them to vinyl.

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.

Debut EP from Manchester's SPILLAGE. "Miserable hardcore for the socially maligned"
Hardcore/Post punk, think Leatherface meets Dag Nasty meets 7 Seconds.

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. 

 

The Colour of Spring was the transition album between the old Talk Talk (sort of like a literate Duran Duran) and the new Talk Talk (jazz inflected post rock innovators). The Colour of Spring had elements of both containing chart-ready hits ('Life Is What You Make It', 'Living In Another World') but being much more organic in nature and innovative than their synth driven early work. Absolutely essential.

Y by The Pop Group was their debut album, originally released in 1979. The post-punk band from Bristol were seen as pioneers of the genre. They mixed jazz, reggae and dub influences with punk to create something quite original. The band claim they were trying to mix Funkadelic with Captain Beefheart to see what happened.