The debut release from Leeds based Eighty Six. A confident debut, Raining & Falling originally contained 5 tracks that flowed from breezy indie-rock to a heavier punk sound effortlessly. 

Finally given a little polish (the tracks have been gently given some extra volume by the lovely Paul Yeadon of Bivouac/The Wireless Stores/Mikro Spiti fame), the songs stand up with the rest of the band's output. As an added bonus we've now included a couple of unreleased songs with the download - the bass-driven "Shortcut" and an early version of "Fear of Drowning" which would later be re-recorded for the bands debut album.

While the band's sound moved in a harder direction after this release you can't help thinking that the likes of Belloch offered a hint of what was to come. 

In addition to the debut 7"s from Joe Ninety and Dugong, this record helped lay the foundation for what some still consider the Bombed Out "sound". It was also our first ever CD release. Good times...

Members of Eighty Six of course went on to play in That Fucking Tank, Buzzkill, The Magnificent and many other bands over the years.

Eighty Six - Distance

Saturday's Kids - Take A Minute And Step Inside My Head And See How Fucked Up It Is In Here

Abergavenny post-punks, Saturday's Kids, return with their blinding debut and, sadly, final album.

Out July 28th on Bombed Out Records/Reeks of Effort.

Aptly titled The Lunatic, the new album from these Welsh lads is a joyously aggressive and spiteful affair.

Via a slew of releases (two 7"s, a split 10" with Kids Return and their own, self-titled, 10"), Saturday's Kids have meandered from abrasive post-punk to 90s art-rock to pensive slow-core and back again - not only across the breadth of an EP but often in the same song - garnering them comparisons to the likes of Codeine, Sonic Youth and ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.

Not so much a band finding their feet, their recorded output thus far highlights a band willing to take risks and experiment in sound and texture. Despite that, The Lunatic remains an incredibly deliberate, mature and focused affair, surprising not least because of the bands' other commitments (members of Saturday's Kids also play in the bands Joanna Gruesome and Nudes).

Taken as a cohesive whole or perhaps as two distinctive and noisy EPs, held together by the epic, 8 minute plus, shoe-gazer-influenced post-rock of "Love Breeding" - a mesmerizing track which takes time to build and provides a respite from the more urgent tracks on the album - The Lunatic is an exhilarating listen. The album showcases brilliantly a lineage in sound that flows from the early 80s SST bands, via the 90s art-rock and alternative scene, all the way to current bands like Pissed Jeans or METZ.

Sadly, the band, who have toured the UK and Europe with the likes of Wooderson and Future Of The Left over the last few years, will play their last ever gig in Cardiff on the 12th July.

Saturday's Kids - Destroyer

Stay Clean Jolene - Concrete Block

The brilliant Peachfuzz return with their 4th studio album

Titled Raise High Your Bright Halo Of Stars, Adam Jones and company have put together a magnificent selection of songs that deliberately and consistently bridge the genres of solid power-pop, 90s alternative and classic rock and roll, all the while balancing the finest of melodies with Adam's gravelly vocals.

After their solid debut album, 2010's Everything Takes Forever and 2012's more aggressive We Are Solid State album, Peachfuzz settle into a groove on Raise High... which highlights a band at their absolute best. Adam still cites Teenage Fanclub (and, transitively, Big Star) as a major influence but there's no mistaking the fact that Peachfuzz have now been at this game long enough to ensure that they no longer feel shackled to the sounds of their heroes.

Of course, the backing vocals are present and correct while the guitars chime out in style. Lyrically, the band continue to explore themes of love and loss, of broken relationships, nights that got out of hand and the mornings that followed. There is a narrative that runs through all of Peachfuzz's albums and here we pick up where We Are Solid State left off... The deliberate pacing of the album matching the maturity of our protagonists as each song bleeds into the next, chapters to a greater story. From opener "Something's Wrong" to the final chords of the laid back "Giving Up", Raise High... doesn't waste time basking in its own cleverness, it doesn't offer variety for variety's sake and it doesn't give a shit about current musical trends. Because of this it might just be one of the most cohesive, solid and, dare we say, timeless guitar-based records you'll hear all year.

Raise High Your Bright Halo of Stars will be released by Bombed Out Records on 6th July 2015, available on CD and digital download.

Peachfuzz - Giving Up

Giantnormous

Zapiain - Sunrise

Zapiain - Mislaid Eyes

Zapiain - Without Warning

Zapiain - Sulk and Beg

Zapiain - Zapplecross

Zapiain - Shotgun

Zapiain - Antimatter

Zapiain - Survivor

Zapiain - My New Home

Bombed Out Records is a non-profit, DIY record label, born in Leeds, now all grown up and living a few miles further North in Harrogate. Our first record was released in 1998 which seems like donkeys ago.

Current squeezes:

The Amistad
The Brown Hound James Band
The Dauntless Elite
Homebrew
Peachfuzz
Saturday's Kids
Slow Science
Wooderson
Zapiain

Ex's:

Dropnose
Dugong
Eighty Six
Fig. 4.0
Joe Ninety
Kelly 8
The Leif Ericsson
The Mercy Suite
Remainderfour
The Take

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