Order on limited white vinyl 12" from Tough Love - http://toughloverecords.bigcartel.com/product/tlv067-girls-names-the-next-life-12-limited-edition-white-vinyl

Order on limited transparent vinyl 12" from Rough Trade - www.roughtrade.com/albums/76774

Belfast four-piece Girls Names released their critically acclaimed second album, The New Life, in February and it marked a new direction for the band altogether. That directional shift is emphasized even further by a new EP , entitled The Next Life. Released on 4th November through Tough Love/Slumberland, it will be available in two different formats: a 3 track 12", and as a 7 track download (28th October).

The 12" features a Brain Eno cover version, as above, and two remixes by David Holmes and Factory Floor, is now available to pre-order on exclusive white vinyl through the Tough Love store. A transparent version will be available to buy exclusively via Rough Trade, and a black version at all other stores. The digital EP contains original track 'Visions', and three other remixes: Optimo, Mark Van Hoen, and The Soft Walls.

12" tracklising
A1. Third Uncle (w/ locked groove)
B1. The New Life (David Holmes Remix)
B2. Projektion (Gabe Gurnsey Factory Floor Remix)

Digital EP tracklisting
1. Visions
2. Third Uncle
3. The New Life (David Holmes Remix)
4. The New Life (JD Twitch Optimo Remix)
5. Projektion (Gabe Gurnsey Factory Floor Remix)
6. Drawing Lines (Mark Van Hoen Remix)
7. Occultation (The Soft Walls Remix)

Buy The New Life - itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-new-life/id582840781

29th - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds - www.ssdconcerts.co.uk
30th - Start The Bus, Bristol - www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
31st - Roundhouse, London w/ The Cult - www.kililive.com
November
1st - Roundhouse, London w/ The Cult - www.kililive.com
2nd - The Green Door Store, Brighton - www.wegottickets.com
9th - Whelans, Dublin

Girls Names - The New Life (David Holmes Remix)

AUSTRA "American Science" (July 15th, 2014; MODERN)taken from the upcoming LP 'Making Patterns Rhyme: a tribute to Duran Duran' (August 12th, 2014; MODERN) curated by MANIMAL for the benefit of AMNESTY. Limited Edition CD coming via RANDM RECORDS.

AUSTRA - "American Science"

https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/vents-contraires-ep/id998531547

Perpète

Dozer

The second music to be shared from the forthcoming debut album by Cavern Of Anti-Matter, void beats/invocation trex, released on Duophonic as 3LP, CD & DL on 19 February 2016.

This is their first album proper following limited edition vinyl releases on Grautag, Deep Distance, Peripheral Conserve and Associated Electronic Recordings.

Features contributions from Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) & Jan St. Werner (Mouse On Mars).

"Cavern Of Anti-Matter are spectrum addicts, setting up tiny rhythmic cells and expanding on them in certain ways, splitting the melody and stretching out. The melodic movement is much slower due to the lack of words. At the moment, the Cavern sound is more what I want to do." – Tim Gane

www.cavernofantimatter.com

Tardis Cymbals

MAYA – SYNTHEZOID HEARTBREAK / DISTANT VISIONS
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR005

A late night voicemail from Cherrystones: “Phone me! I’ve got something killer! It might not make sense at first but it’ll suck you in...”
After hearing the outsider psych of ‘Distant Visions’ we are suitably hooked and the wheels are in motion to reissue the music of Maya from 1975.

It’s at this point we realise we ain’t even heard the A-side yet! Turns out it’s the heaviest heartbreak jam going…

Following on from 2015’s acclaimed Critical Mass compilation, Cherrystones and Touch Sensitive come together again to proudly present a lost masterpiece from the U.S. hard rock and psychedelic underground.

Fully remastered and faithfully reproduced on limited 7inch vinyl with additional insert featuring lyrics and notes from Burk Skyhorse Price (Maya) and Cherrystones.

Two tracks of timeless, heartfelt outsider music.

“In the drying up world of unknown homemade underground rock sounds, there never fails to be at least one scurrying rodent running for cover; bug-eyed under the flashlight of the modern-day sonic adventure seeker. Nearly all the LPs have been brought to the surface. More recently rabid fuzz and loner sound explorers are rubbing elbows with Northern Soul speed-freaks in the deep cold, hour-eating world of coverless 45s to seek out what could be seen as the final frontier of no budget, big dream and no fan base homemade local vulnerable Rock ’n’ Roll.

So what do we have here? A UK discovered and repressed Ohio private nuclear soul bomb by Burk Skyhorse Price with his Maya unit from the shadows of Cincinnati Ohio, in the music-world turmoil years of 1975.

The single has all the ingredients: songs about heartache, bubbling synths, alien feelings, proto-punk, backwards feedback, isolation.

Two lengthy songs of two different moods: “SYNTHEZOID HEARTBREAK” a "Fuck You!” to all partners that want you to join the Real Estate game and turn in your misfired Envelope pedals for a suit and tie; rendered musically in a raging underground punk damage mode.

But I think the small band of freaks that have heard Maya’s lone 45 agree that its the pro-Alien sad dirge of “DISTANT VISIONS" that gets the pen scratching the history books for another legendary entry. This reflective afternoon delay lurker makes me wonder what happened AFTER the fade out to "Visions”. 
Maybe the homemade air siren blew out the studio?
Regardless, here is a big dreaming band that left quite a brief one-two punch to the face of the industry that had no place for their punk and lonely sound poems. Funny but fitting how they have finally found a home forty years later and many continents away. Solid homemade damage here, touching AND sensitive, albeit crushingly loud.”

John Olson (Wolf Eyes / American Tapes / Third Man Records) Michigan, 2016.
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Tracklisting:

Side One: Synthezoid Heartbreak	
Side Two: Distant Visions

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR005 | 7inch / Digital
Release Date: Friday 26th February 2016
Mastering / Restoration: Stephen Quinn, Analog Heart 
Cut: Mike Grinser, Dubplates & Mastering

Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com


Maya - Synthezoid Heartbreak

The Knife- Got 2 Let U

from forthcoming reissue of 1981 LP+12" "What Is This Thing Called 'Disco'?" by Melbourne post-punk disco project Asphixiation. Check out the original 1981 video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MskgOkBPRiI
Reissue on LP+12" and digital via Chapter Music on June 2, pre-order here:
www.chaptermusic.com/store/asphixiation/what-is-this-called-disco
www.chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/what-is-this-thing-called-disco
Digital stores: http://radi.al/asphixiation

"What Is This Thing Called 'Disco'?"

Asphixiation - Aural Risk

Odyssey - Who

'Traveler' is taken from The Green Child's self-titled debut album out January 12th through Upset The Rhythm.

Available to pre-order here now:
upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Artist: The Green Child
Title: The Green Child

Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number: UTR102
Release Date: Friday 12 January

Track listing:
01. Traveler
02. Her Majesty II
03. Bertha
04. New Years Eve
05. 46 Timelines
06. Walking Distance
07. Marie Elene
08. Destroyer

The Green Child is the long distance musical collaboration of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met in 2013 when their bands, Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on a slow burn since. Their self-titled debut album is the culmination of few years of putting ideas together internationally and periodically recording in Mikey's home studio. Some of the lyrical content and the band's name was inspired by Herbert Read's 1935 utopian, communist, sci-fi novel called The Green Child.

With such a choice name, it’s no surprise that The Green Child draw their sound from an illusory past as much as they stalk into pastures new. Broadly retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy drum machines underpin most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs. Raven’s calmly scenic and measured vocal flits like a will-o’-the-wisp throughout the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie, electronic concoctions.

‘Traveler’ opens the album all redolent, beat-minded and labyrinthine. Twisting melody lines swirl and envelop like a sandstorm, whilst Raven coolly projects on a “solitary man” lost to “green oblivion”. Similarly, ‘Her Majesty II’ glistens with its playful yet plaintive vocal and iridescent arpeggios, whilst ‘Bertha’ slows things down with tumbling chimes and stately use of space.

The Green Child are adept at atmosphere, their songs are refined from gently unfolding ideas that never fail to realise and build to their potential. Tracks like ‘Walking Distance’ (featuring Al Montfort on saxophone) and ‘New Years Eve’ are exercises in evolved composition with ideas budding off and blossoming into truly resonant dimensions. The band’s cover of ‘Marie Elene’ (by Keith Pearson) and closing track ‘Destroyer’ are further crowning achievements, both pieces subtly handled with poise and ample melancholic grandeur. The Green Child fix their sights on the heights they want to reach within their songs and much like the project itself don’t want to rush to the finish line. When it becomes more about the unfurling journey, why not take the time to enjoy the trip and burn slower?

‘The Green Child’ is due for release on January 12th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra.

The Green Child

The Green Child - Traveler

Taken from the Falling / Running 12" - out 6/11 on Mexican Summer

Tardis Cymbals

Duophonic UHF Disks