OCTOPUS BROTHERS - Roland Sex Howard

AUSMUTEANTS - Kicked In The Head By A Horse
Amusements LP

US release on Goner Records coming April 1st!
CD released by Agitated Records, UK

www.aarghtrecords.com
www.agitatedrecords.com
www.goner-records.com

Ausmuteants are four twenty-nothings from Geelong, Victoria raised on a diet of seminal avant punk like Chrome, the Screamers, and let’s not mention Devo. As a two-piece, Jake (synth, guitar) and Billy (drums) flushed that obsession with the release of the Split Personalities tape/CD in 2012.

They've since added Marc and Shaun on bass and guitar respectively and worked '60s songwriting ideas, disco rhythms and a subtler brand of theft into finely crafted pop songs, recording twenty two earlier this year. We picked the best twelve for Amusements.

Ausmuteants are liked by Vice and Dangerfield despite or because of their synthesizers, their swearing and their youthful good looks. For what it's worth, Ausmuteants do not like Vice or Dangerfield.

"They sound like some dumb kids who think they know how to play songs because they have heard a couple of KBD comps and have seen the Screamers target footage. Big deal." - eventfinder.com


AUSMUTEANTS - Kicked In The Head By A Horse

AUSMUTEANTS - Tinnitus
Amusements LP

US release on Goner Records coming in April!
CD released by Agitated Records, UK

www.aarghtrecords.com
www.agitatedrecords.com
www.goner-records.com

Ausmuteants are four twenty-nothings from Geelong, Victoria raised on a diet of seminal avant punk like Chrome, the Screamers, and let’s not mention Devo. As a two-piece, Jake (synth, guitar) and Billy (drums) flushed that obsession with the release of the Split Personalities tape/CD in 2012.

They've since added Marc and Shaun on bass and guitar respectively and worked '60s songwriting ideas, disco rhythms and a subtler brand of theft into finely crafted pop songs, recording twenty two earlier this year. We picked the best twelve for Amusements.

Ausmuteants are liked by Vice and Dangerfield despite or because of their synthesizers, their swearing and their youthful good looks. For what it's worth, Ausmuteants do not like Vice or Dangerfield.

"They sound like some dumb kids who think they know how to play songs because they have heard a couple of KBD comps and have seen the Screamers target footage. Big deal." - eventfinder.com


AUSMUTEANTS - Tinnitus

Cosmic Psychos - Custom Credit
Down On The Farm 12"EP
AARGHT026, 2013

Also appears on Down On The Farm / Cosmic Psychos CD 

(AARGHT027CD)

Split release with Goner Records, Memphis
www.goner-records.com

COSMIC PSYCHOS - Custom Credit

AUSMUTEANTS - Hate This Town
Amusements LP


US release on Goner Records coming in April!
CD released by Agitated Records, UK

www.aarghtrecords.com
www.agitatedrecords.com
www.goner-records.com

Ausmuteants are four twenty-nothings from Geelong, Victoria raised on a diet of seminal avant punk like Chrome, the Screamers, and let’s not mention Devo. As a two-piece, Jake (synth, guitar) and Billy (drums) flushed that obsession with the release of the Split Personalities tape/CD in 2012.

They've since added Marc and Shaun on bass and guitar respectively and worked '60s songwriting ideas, disco rhythms and a subtler brand of theft into finely crafted pop songs, recording twenty two earlier this year. We picked the best twelve for Amusements.

Ausmuteants are liked by Vice and Dangerfield despite or because of their synthesizers, their swearing and their youthful good looks. For what it's worth, Ausmuteants do not like Vice or Dangerfield.

"They sound like some dumb kids who think they know how to play songs because they have heard a couple of KBD comps and have seen the Screamers target footage. Big deal." - eventfinder.com


AUSMUTEANTS - Hate This Town

NUN - Kino (unmastered)
Nun LP/CD
AARGHT030, due 11 April 2014

Debut album from synthetic Melbourne quartet due April 2014

aarghtrecords.com

NUN - Kino (unmastered)

AUSMUTEANTS - Bad Day
Amusements LP

US release on Goner Records coming April 1st!
CD released by Agitated Records, UK

www.aarghtrecords.com
www.agitatedrecords.com
www.goner-records.com

Ausmuteants are four twenty-nothings from Geelong, Victoria raised on a diet of seminal avant punk like Chrome, the Screamers, and let’s not mention Devo. As a two-piece, Jake (synth, guitar) and Billy (drums) flushed that obsession with the release of the Split Personalities tape/CD in 2012.

They've since added Marc and Shaun on bass and guitar respectively and worked '60s songwriting ideas, disco rhythms and a subtler brand of theft into finely crafted pop songs, recording twenty two earlier this year. We picked the best twelve for Amusements.

Ausmuteants are liked by Vice and Dangerfield despite or because of their synthesizers, their swearing and their youthful good looks. For what it's worth, Ausmuteants do not like Vice or Dangerfield.

"They sound like some dumb kids who think they know how to play songs because they have heard a couple of KBD comps and have seen the Screamers target footage. Big deal." - eventfinder.com


AUSMUTEANTS - Bad Day

NUN - Evoke The Sleep
Nun LP/CD

LP split release with Avant! Records, Italy
Coming soon on HoZac Records, USA

First single taken from the self-titled debut album.
Video directed by Tim Hiller and Jason James.

www.aarghtrecords.com
www.avantrecords.bigcartel.com
www.hozacrecords.com

NUN - one of the most powerful bands Melbourne has ever produced, presents their dark-yet-somehow-vibrant vision of electronic pop with their debut self-titled album. 

Employing the weight of gnarling basslines, shimmering analogue synthesiser, punishing drum machine and the scathing lyrical vision of Jenny Branagan, Nun’s sound flows from sinister drone-orgy and hyperkinetic synth-punk to saturated new wave worship.

An unrelenting aesthetic sense penetrates every aspect of this record, resulting in a remarkably cohesive work of art. Song structures are simple, considered and direct - everything is fine-tuned to ensure maximum sonic devastation. The music is danceable and poppy, it’s sad and incisive, it’s fun, aggressive and heavy as hell. Most impressive of all is its immense force; the effortless delivery belying an overwhelming sense of something very heavy and unpleasant looming just beneath the scintillating pop surface.


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NUN - Evoke The Sleep

NUN - Uri Geller
Nun LP/CD

LP split release with Avant! Records, Italy

Second single taken from the self-titled debut album.
Video directed by Thomas Hardisty coming soon!

www.aarghtrecords.com
www.avantrecords.bigcartel.com

NUN - one of the most powerful bands Melbourne has ever produced, presents their dark-yet-somehow-vibrant vision of electronic pop with their debut self-titled album. 

Employing the weight of gnarling basslines, shimmering analogue synthesiser, punishing drum machine and the scathing lyrical vision of Jenny Branagan, Nun’s sound flows from sinister drone-orgy and hyperkinetic synth-punk to saturated new wave worship.

An unrelenting aesthetic sense penetrates every aspect of this record, resulting in a remarkably cohesive work of art. Song structures are simple, considered and direct - everything is fine-tuned to ensure maximum sonic devastation. The music is danceable and poppy, it’s sad and incisive, it’s fun, aggressive and heavy as hell. Most impressive of all is its immense force; the effortless delivery belying an overwhelming sense of something very heavy and unpleasant looming just beneath the scintillating pop surface.

NUN - Uri Geller

AUSMUTEANTS - Freedom Of Information
Order Of Operation LP
AARGHT032
Release Date: 10 October 2014

AUSMUTEANTS started life in late 2011 in Geelong by Jake Robertson and Billy Gardner. Both had been playing since teenagers in trad garage bands The Frowning Clouds (Jake) and The Living Eyes (Billy). Being good looking rebels who play by their own rules, they cracked the shits, broke loose with just a synth and drums and in early 2012, knocked out the 'Split Personalities' tape. By the time that was out they'd added Melbourne loose-unit Marc Dean on bass, and soon after, ex-Canberran hardcore non-guitarist Shaun Connor on guitar.

Their second album 'Amusements' (note: not self-titled) came from this fledgling time as a full band, with a heavy dose of the duo’s songs. Since the runaway international success of that record and playing every second weekend in Melbourne, they’re rocked-out full-tilt with all four members writing and singing new songs. 23 of these were recorded live with vocal overdubs in the basement of an old Geelong ice cream factory by Mikey Young, then mixed and mastered in his idyllic coastal abode. Again the band and their Australian label Aarght Records strained the friendship with song picks, agreeing on 13 to make up 'Order of Operation'.

This record is better than Amusements any way you cut it: songs, lyrics, delivery and sound. The album opens up with Shaun’s forehead- and thigh-slapping musical and lyrical debut, "Freedom of Information". His girlfriend is suffering the indignity with panache. From there, songs range from balls-to-the-wall punkers ("Felix Tried to Kill Himself"; "Boiling Point"), well-considered workouts ("Family Time"; "Tunnel Vision") and unguarded tenderness ("Wrong"; "Looney Bin").

It's not just the band and label singing the album’s praises; it's the people who couldn't stand their juvenile bullshit before. They’ve ditched the toilet humour, got nasty and written songs about other people’s problems, terrible bands, fighting crime and trading sex for porn. Mikey after a vocal take: “You deserve to be bashed for that” (the song’s on the record; you guess which one).

'Order of Operation' is now their defining moment. If you don't like this record, you pretty much won't ever like Ausmuteants.

Order Of Operation Tracklist
1. Freedom Of Information
2. We're Cops
3. Family Time
4. Stadiums
5. Publicity Stunts
6. Wrong
7. Felix Tried To Kill Himself
8. Tunnel Vision
9. Looney Bin
10. 1982
11. Not Whole
12. Boiling Point
13. Depersonalisation

US TOUR DATES
Sat 9/20 - Tempe, AZ @ 51west w/ Detached Objects, Womb Tomb, Blanche Beach
Tues 9/23 - Austin, TX @ Beerland
Wed 9/24 - New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar w/ Buck Biloxi and the Fucks
Thurs 9/25 - Memphis, TN @ GONERFEST 11 w/ Grifters, Radioactivity, So Cow, Golden Pelicans, Ross Johnson's 'Like Flies On Sherbert' Revue
Fri 9/26 - Louisville, KY @ Cropped Out Fest
Mon 9/29 - Durham, NC @ Duke Coffeehouse
Tues 9/30 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's w/ Dan'l Boone, Lantern
Wed 10/1 - Boston, MA @ Midway Cafe
Thurs 10/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Death By Audio
Sat 10/4 - Detroit, MI @ PJ's Lager House w/ Odonis Odonis
Sun 10/5 - Chicago, IL @ The Owl
Mon 10/6 - St. Louis, MO @ Melt w/ Lumpy & the Dumpers
Tues 10/7 - Minneapolis, MN @ Hexagon w/ Real Numbers
Fri 10/10 - Portland, OR @ Dante's w/ King Khan & BBQ Show
Sat 10/11 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile w/ King Khan & BBQ Show
Wed 10/15 - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
Fri 10/17 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell

AUSMUTEANTS - Freedom Of Information

Ausmuteants - Order of Operation LP
Aarght Records AARGHT032
Release date: Friday 10 October 2014
aarghtrecords.com

Preorder

AUSMUTEANTS - Felix Tried To Kill Himself

Mean Girls
from upcoming 'Leather Towel' IV LP
AARGHT029
due early 2015

LEATHER TOWEL - Nacho Chips

HIEROPHANTS - Fagg Hopp
taken from Parallax Error LP (due September 2015)

Hierophants are not an oldies group, they are not a glitter group, they don’t play boogie music and they don’t play the blues. Hierophants are an original Rock and Roll group of 2015, and their songs are brief, to the point and every one a potential hit single.

The quartette consists of Zak, Daff, Paris and Jake. They started in 2010 when Jake moved from the coast north of Sydney down to Geelong and found himself hanging out with a bunch of teenage paisley clad skaters who swapped their Vans for boots at night, snuck into the pubs and started a dozen bands. Zak and Jake did some recordings one weekend, asked the two best looking people they know to join them live and the four of them have been writing songs altogether ever since.

Zak, the guitarist, plays with such free-spirited freedom that his sound has been compared to Lou Reed donking Mark Mothersbaugh over the head with his guitar.

Paris, the keyboardist, is an arch villain whose diminutive frame stands aloof left (or right) of stage.

Daff is bass guitar and the acknowledged handsome one of the group, and Jake is the drummer who's chimp-like playing underpins the simian sound of the band.

The Hierophants mostly originate from Geelong and kids who grew up there either became musicians, uni students or surfers. Hierophants are a little of each. Their sound is not unlike throwing your calculator in the ocean.
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Track list:

Stress
Change
Bain Marie
Conspiracy Theory
Fagg Hopp
321
Think
Nothing Neu
Hail Stones
White Bread
Nervous Tic
Taste
Fall
Eighty-Zer0
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HIEROPHANTS - Fagg Hop

EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - Which Way to Go?
Primary Colours LP
AARGHT005
2008

EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - Which Way To Go?

WHIPPER - Shit Love
taken from Shit Love 7"
AARGHT034 | due March 2016

WHIPPER - Shit Love

WHIPPER - Chase the Rainbow
taken from Shit Love 7"
AARGHT034 | due March 2016

WHIPPER - Chase The Rainbow

LEATHER TOWEL - Siding With Yoko
from Leather Towel IV LP/CD/CS
AARGHT029, May 2016

LEATHER TOWEL - Siding With Yoko

AUSMUTEANTS - Mr Right

AUSMUTEANTS - Music Writers

AUSMUTEANTS - New Planet

Amusements (320 mp3)

AUSMUTEANTS - Daylight Robbery

“Can’t Chain” is the first single from NUN’s new album THE DOME. The album is named after a social theory by vocalist Jenny Branagan, in a wave of aesthetic inspiration that she derived from R. Buckminster Fuller’s architectural concept of the geodesic dome.
 
“It’s a personal record, all very close stories within each song. Can’t Chain is a song about desire. Desire is fundamental to The Dome - I see it as the life force that drives human connection, not just to other humans, but also to the will to live. It is both cruel and necessary. This song is about the struggle to maintain desire. It’s drain disco music.” 

NUN will be playing in the dome reading room at the Vctorian State Library on Saturday 12 November, with Severed Heads, Lucy Cliche, Harvey Sutherland & Bermuda, Young Magic, Krakatau, Terry, Drug Sweat, Ela Stiles, Sweet Whirl, friendships (DJ set) and more.

NUN - Can't Chain (from The Dome, Nov 2018)

DRUG SWEAT - Six Song EP
Aarght Records, AARGHT041, March 2017

1. Daca Rava
2. Sandy Man
3. Fingers
4. Kravezit
5. Hectic Whipper
6. Pingu

DRUG SWEAT - Pingu (from Six Song EP 7"EP)

DRUG SWEAT - Hectic Whipper

DRUG SWEAT - Daca Rava

NUN
The Dome LP/CD/DL
AARGHT040

1. Wake in Fright
2. Can't Chain
3. Pick up the Phone
4. Immersion III
5. Another Year
6. Fairhaven
7. Turning Out
8. On the Floor (So Long)
9. Two Worlds
10. Debris

NUN - On The Floor (So Long)

RABID DOGS - Hangin' Around
from Rabid Dogs 7"EP
(AARGHT045)
Due Jan 2018

Rabid Dogs EP

RABID DOGS - Hangin' Around

RABID DOGS - No Fun
from Rabid Dogs 7"EP
(AARGHT045)
Due Jan 2018

RABID DOGS - No Fun (from self-titled 7"EP)

AUSMUTEANTS - Horny World
Taken from Ausmuteants / Puff split 7"
(AARGHT042) due Jan 2018

AUSMUTEANTS - Horny World

UBIK - self-titled 7"EP
Aarght Records, AARGHT044
Released 20 January 2018

1. Sleep
2. Andrew Bolt's Twitter Account
3. Piece of Mind
4. The Fly

UBIK - The Fly (from self-titled 7"EP)

UBIK - Piece Of Mind

ALIEN NOSEJOB - Buffet of Love 12"EP
AARGHT047, due Friday 15 March 2019

1. Buffet of Love
2. Message to Earth
3. Deep Blue Hue
4. Shifting Gears

ALIEN NOSEJOB - Buffet Of Love

THE UV RACE - Made in China LP
AARGHT048, due Friday 12 April 2019

1. Tread on Me
2. True Blue
3. Act Like Them
4. Inane Brain
5. Riding Country
6. Irish Girl
7. Murder
8. Mr Blame
9. Why Die
10. Fairly Free

THE UV RACE - Mr Blame

Alien Nosejob - Buffet Of Love

Taken from Suddenly Everything is Twice as Loud LP (Anti Fade Records, 2019

Suddenly Everything is twice as loud MP3

Alien Nosejob - Television Sets

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