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Beach Fossils - "Daydream"

Chris Garneau - "Dirty Night Clowns"

Million Dreams

The Wall

Hollow

Locked Room

Label press release:

"We at Owd Scrat are very proud to present our first full length LP, which is also the first by musician/artist/writer Paul Rooney under his own (full) name. In beautiful frosted transparent vinyl and CD digipack. An album of revenant songs, in which various dead people return from beyond the grave to visit their lover, play poker or haunt a toilet seat. The record features many collaborators including actor Gregory Cox, mesmerizing ethereal harmonisers Lutine, and has a cover image by artist Leo Fitzmaurice.

We at Owd Scrat are very proud to present our first full length LP, in beautiful transparent ectoplasm coloured vinyl and CD digipack, which is also the first by Liverpool UK based musician/artist/writer Paul Rooney under his own (full) name. Following on (though ten years later) from his acclaimed 2007 single Lucy Over Lancashire – a dub folklore epic narrated by a Satanic Lancastrian sprite – this long awaited album delves even further into the demonically possessed everyday. It is an album of revenant songs, in which various dead people return from beyond the grave to visit their lover, play poker or haunt a toilet seat. The record features many collaborators including actor Gregory Cox, mesmerizing ethereal harmonisers Lutine, and artist Leo Fitzmaurice, whose image graces the cover.
The narrative song lyrics range from unjustly wronged music hall ghosts (Sunday Best, Father’s Grave), or lost souls stranded on tour buses (Lost High Street), or stuck inside trumpets (Spit Valve), to a child’s voice from a film soundtrack come to restless, spectral life (Black Ear). The album’s stories recall darkly comic absurdist writers like Barthelme, Beckett or O’Brien (Flann), married to a kind of post-punk dub synth-folk. The result is gloriously unique. How about Ivor Cutler collaborating with Xiu Xiu on the soundtrack to a low budget folk-horror about stoats? Robert Ashley creating a music hall song-cycle about breath condensation with This Heat? As these comparisons reveal, this album is both hard to describe, absolutely distinct, and bloody great. And thank the undead for that."

Wire Magazine online preview of the record here: https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/46200/multimedia-artist-paul-rooney-releases-new-album

Buy here: http://owdscrat.com/futile-exorcise/

Futile Exorcise

Sunday Best

From the mini-album The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog.

Tomb-dwelling 66 year-old autodidact 'poly-myth-storian' Emma Florence Bausor uploaded these seven enigmatic sound recordings to her website in late 2014, claiming they were gifted to her anonymously. This mini-album, accredited at Bausor's insistence to 'The Seven Heads of Gog Magog', is the first time the tracks have been released officially. 

In the course of her website blog Bausor refers to these recordings as ‘oracles’, and claims they are "premonitory or prophetic emanations that have issued from – or through – seven objects [the seven heads] from museums in Cambridge". In her blog Bausor attempts to comprehend what this idea could mean, primarily by engaging with the enigmatic lyrics of the oracles themselves, which can best be described as psychogeographic animal-peopled shamanic spirit-journey childrens story rock songs. 

EF Bausor's blog is here: https://sevenheadsofgogmagog.org

The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog

Seven

The Seven Heads of Gog Magog – Seven

From the mini-album The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog.

Tomb-dwelling 66 year-old autodidact 'poly-myth-storian' Emma Florence Bausor uploaded these seven enigmatic sound recordings to her website in late 2014, claiming they were gifted to her anonymously. This mini-album, accredited at Bausor's insistence to 'The Seven Heads of Gog Magog', is the first time the tracks have been released officially. 

In the course of her website blog Bausor refers to these recordings as ‘oracles’, and claims they are "premonitory or prophetic emanations that have issued from – or through – seven objects [the seven heads] from museums in Cambridge". In her blog Bausor attempts to comprehend what this idea could mean, primarily by engaging with the enigmatic lyrics of the oracles themselves, which can best be described as psychogeographic animal-peopled shamanic spirit-journey childrens story rock songs.

EF Bausor's blog is here: https://sevenheadsofgogmagog.org

The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog.

Five

The Seven Heads of Gog Magog – Five

From the mini-album The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog.

Tomb-dwelling 66 year-old autodidact 'poly-myth-storian' Emma Florence Bausor uploaded these seven enigmatic sound recordings to her website in late 2014, claiming they were gifted to her anonymously. This mini-album, accredited at Bausor's insistence to 'The Seven Heads of Gog Magog', is the first time the tracks have been released officially.

In the course of her website blog Bausor refers to these recordings as ‘oracles’, and claims they are "premonitory or prophetic emanations that have issued from – or through – seven objects [the seven heads] from museums in Cambridge". In her blog Bausor attempts to comprehend what this idea could mean, primarily by engaging with the enigmatic lyrics of the oracles themselves, which can best be described as psychogeographic animal-peopled shamanic spirit-journey childrens story rock songs.

EF Bausor's blog is here: https://sevenheadsofgogmagog.org

The Seven Heads of Gog Magog – Two

UTOPIA

Spectres - Strange Weather

From 'Tadius' Album out now on Hema Records.

Stream / Buy Album here
http://smarturl.it/CotswoldsTadius

SPECTRUM OF OUR TIME

We just wanna dance
Surronded with frixitas
Skip the beat, sleepy eyes
Conscousness slowly gone
We just wanna dance
And looking for something fun
So i choose ativan
To glorify the world
Driving on motorway
Lights luminating around
Going out of the town
Accelerating down the road
Sunflower bloom in the dark
Grey sky remind me of ark
This evening we&#39;re just fine
The spectrum of our time

Artist profile
www.hemarecords.com/artists/cotswolds

Cotswolds - Spectrum of Our Time

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We are really honored to have UK journalist, producer, and musician, Steve Hillier, create his GGGGHOST version of our track 'Give In' from our recent EP Pop Girls. Check out this really chill, dreamy spin on it!!! Thank you, Steve!!!
http://www.gggghost.info/

Give In- GGGGHOST Version

Junkyard alchemists Pulgas plumb the depths for elusive alkalis. A two-person brain trust from Philadelphia, Pulgas veer gleefully into the muck of things, discount headlamps shining brightly into one another's eyes. 

More Like Us EP, Pulgas' first release on Astro Nautico, shows Simon Martinez and Zane Shields exploring deconstructed decay. Where previous releases highlighted the duo's musicianship and polyglot aural vocabulary, exploding in unfettered and difficult to reproduce "studio mania" (Pulgas' words), the new songs of More Like Us stoke a spark lit by human hands. 

The result is more mundane, of Earth, though like all good chemistry, Pulgas' music remains difficult to categorize. Blurts of digital chaos perforate stark choral cloud beds. Dirtboy soul pockets crash indiscriminately into demon mudbug orgies. Ghosts of shredders past wink suggestively at a drummer with no elbows, hair flapping in the wind. Pulgas are steeped in many waters, making teas with tastes all their own. 

More Like Us EP is available for pre-order now on Astro Nautico, out 9/28 everywhere digital music is sold. A sister EP is due this spring.

https://pulgas.bandcamp.com/album/more-like-us

More Like Us

Pulgas - That's A Big Stain

Junkyard alchemists Pulgas plumb the depths for elusive alkalis. A two-person brain trust from Philadelphia, Pulgas veer gleefully into the muck of things, discount headlamps shining brightly into one another's eyes. 

More Like Us EP, Pulgas' first release on Astro Nautico, shows Simon Martinez and Zane Shields exploring deconstructed decay. Where previous releases highlighted the duo's musicianship and polyglot aural vocabulary, exploding in unfettered and difficult to reproduce "studio mania" (Pulgas' words), the new songs of More Like Us stoke a spark lit by human hands. 

The result is more mundane, of Earth, though like all good chemistry, Pulgas' music remains difficult to categorize. Blurts of digital chaos perforate stark choral cloud beds. Dirtboy soul pockets crash indiscriminately into demon mudbug orgies. Ghosts of shredders past wink suggestively at a drummer with no elbows, hair flapping in the wind. Pulgas are steeped in many waters, making teas with tastes all their own. 

More Like Us EP is available for pre-order now on Astro Nautico, out 9/28 everywhere digital music is sold. A sister EP is due this spring.

Pulgas - World Gym

New Zealand’s Raiza Biza and Melbourne’s hip hop frontrunner REMI today share their new EP Black Hole Sun via their respective imprints Low Key Source and House of Beige Records. With the record’s beat-making in the hands of Detroit’s legendary hip hop and production maestro Black Milk, the 6-track masterpiece flows between infectious grooves and features from the likes of Sampa the Great and Baro. Ahead of their upcoming Australia & New Zealand tour, the collaboration are also treating fans to the wild visuals for debut single “Runner” ft. Baro.

The impeccable release absorbs all the free flowing vocals and dynamic production afforded by the lineup of cross-nation collaborators, making for a melting pot of hip-hop and soul visions in one stunning reel of beats. Recent track “Runner” ft. Baro gave the first taste from the team; a high tempo, beat driven hip hop track electrified by dancing production from Black Milk, slick lyrics and cheeky verses from Melbourne friend Baro. Dropping the knees to a lower body groove, “Jiggy” expels deep bass strums to drive formidable vocals, backed by the smooth rhymes of Sampa the Great for a spine-tingling track and a force to be reckoned with. Stepping behind the mic for the feverous “Freeman”, Black Milk joins Remi and Raiza for a stunning marriage of hip hop vocals atop a slowed down beat, explosive bass hits and spiralling keys.

“Livestock” sees a refrain from special guests for a perfect homage to the chemistry behind the REMI and Raiza partnership, embodied in flowing vocals and blissful harmonies beside Black Milk’s ascending beats you can’t help but shimmy along to. “P.O.M.” continues the killer showcase of collaborative vocals while Black Milk curates yet another undeniable deep groove that slides into the finale in “Genesis”. A thought-provoking and powerful speech sustained by rolling production and defiant rhymes delivered once again by Sampa the Great, the track is a seamless sign-off to the record.

Accompanying the new EP is the video for recent sensation “Runner”, following the late night escapades of Remi, Raiza and Baro, plus a cameo from Remi’s long-time musical collaborator (and half of REMI) Sensible J, who mixed the record at House of Beige Studios.

Remi is firmly placed at the top of Australia’s soul and hip hop spectrum, having performed sold-out headline tours across Europe & Australia as well as shared the stage with the likes of Joey Bada$$, Danny Brown & De La Soul. Hamilton based Kiwi-Rwandan rapper Raiza Biza has also seen global success, taking his captivating storytelling to stages across Europe, Australia and New Zealand. No strangers to collaboration, with Remi backing up on a remix track for Raiza’s “Strong Woman”. Their guest vocalists have also long been part of the family, with Remi and Sampa each featuring on one another’s latest records as well as Sensible J’s debut solo release “Fire Sign”.

Needing little introduction since rising as a young hip hop star, Detroit visionary Black Milk made his first major mark on the industry with his work on Slum Village’s records before going on to work with the likes of J. Dilla, Danny Brown, RZA, Black Thought (The Roots), and Pharoahe Monch. Now signed to Nas’ record label Mass Appeal Records, where his latest multi-genre masterpiece FEVER was released, the prolific producer and rapper continues to expand on his acclaimed and diverse portfolio now with this new collaborative gem that will keep you moving with each and every listen.

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