Taken from Androgynous Mind's 'Nightstalker' EP released by Faux Discx on 9th December 2013, available on 7" (limited to 300) and digital download.

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Androgynous Mind is a new project from former Women guitarist-vocalist Patrick Flegel, and whilst only five songs are on the Nightstalker EP, just hearing him with a guitar should be enough to get fans of his former work excited. 

Flegel is joined by Morgan Cook, who plays things straight and primal against his dissonance and squall, that is when she isn't wailing along with him, like on the opening pair of tantrums that sound like some lost Harry Pussy recording session. It's over in a blink before segueing into “Knock On My Door,” a spectrally understated pop gem worth playing bleary-eyed at four in the morning. “Knock” revels in Flegel’s distinctive guitar presence, working shapely lattices of notes into descending sheets of melody in a manner both lulling and forceful, but you remember that from 'Public Strain', right?

Post-punk guitar intricacies rarely mesh with pop hooks so masterfully, yet Flegel has proven himself many times to be staggeringly adept at both. With Androgynous Mind he and Cook have striped their ideas to the bone, revealing   a thing both harsh and beautiful, direct and engaging.

ANDROGYNOUS MIND – Knock On My Door

Taken from Housewives' self titled debut release, released December 9th on limited edition tape cassette and digital download via Faux Discx.

Stream the whole EP, or pre-order now and get an immediate download of the whole thing here: http://fauxdiscx.bandcamp.com/album/housewives

HOUSEWIVES – Medicine Bottle

Taken from Tense Men's 'Where Dull Care Is Forgotten' mini LP released by Faux Discx on 10th March 2014, available on 12" (limited to 300) and digital download.

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The claustrophobic, miasmic world of Tense Men is a world of scuttling shapes, deformed shadows and rigid, repetitive rhythms. The world of Tense Men has a low ceiling, the walls are wooden, rotting in places and badly varnished. The world of Tense Men is clammy to the touch. Eyes twitch, ears ring. Ears burn, eyes sting. The world of Tense Men is dripping all over your mouldy living room carpet. Reptilian tongues darting in and out tasting the dank air. Human forms jerking awkwardly to a record skipping in a locked, sweaty room. Shrieking voices. Murmuring whispers. Telling you things you don’t want to know over and over again, you listen because you aren’t sure if you’re really hearing it or not. You are! Aren't you?

Tense Men was two and is now three men, varying in tension, height and origination. These men also exist within other entities, namely Sauna Youth, Cold Pumas and Omi Palone, amongst others. It began in the bleak Autumn of 2010 and has henceforth been peddling its suspect wares back and forth, here and there. Prior to Where Dull Care is Forgotten, there was an unnamed cassette on Casenove Tapes.

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TENSE MEN – RNRFON

Taken from Faux Fur's forthcoming S/T album released on cassette tape and digital download via Faux Discx on April 28.

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Disparate expressions between the hands and face. The hands mingling excitedly, traipsing about the neck. The face practically falling off itself. A combusting bough of fingertips and the lips, listless, drooping like a string of rosary beads.

This full-length debut from Calgary’s next-gen guitar pop wizards is built on a highly-effective, single-minded tension. Achieved by piling thousands of tiny, intricate working parts upon each other, the listener is left staring at the teetering heap. It stands tall and glints in the sun. It casts a shadow.

The mood is set impeccably time and again by engaging musicianship and antithetical vocal apathy. Similar to Montreal’s Each Other and Victoria’s Freak Heat Waves, the beauty of Faux Fur is found in the degree to which their songs are stirring and evocative despite being incredibly reserved.

FAUX FUR – Rough Palms

Taken from Teardrop Factory's debut album 'Thrash in the Heart', released via Faux Discx on September 15, 2014.

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Teardrop Factory's debut album 'Thrash in the Heart' falls into existence in a swirling haze of broken sleep, streams of consciousness and teen despondency.

They pick up from where they left last year's excellent 'Topshop EP' but expand their alternative 90s worshiping earworms with an added layer of noise. Grit and scuzz consume 13 pop songs about mermaids, electric ghosts, car crashes, geometry, surfing, eating insects, video games and lucid dreams.

Made at home by the band and recorded in their bathroom, then mixed with Julian Tardo (Church Rd Studios / Bowlegs) and finally, mastered with MJ (Hookworms) at Suburban Home.

TEARDROP FACTORY – 3AM Coke Dream

Taken from Primitive Parts' 'TV Wheels / The Bench' single, released on November 24 by Faux Discx on 7" (limited to 300 copies) and digital download.

Pre-order here:
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Primitive Parts are three friends, Lindsay Corstorphine (Sauna Youth / Monotony / Cold Pumas), and Male Bonding's Kevin Hendrick and Robin Christian. They have previously released a single 'Open Heads / Signal' on the SEXBEAT label and contributed a cover of The Yummy Fur's ‘Chinese Bookie’ to last year’s 'Collective Hiss' compilation (Faux Discx).

'TV Wheels / The Bench', the band's second engagement with the Faux Discx label (Soft Walls / Omi Palone / Sex Hands / Hookworms) was written in a narrow room in Homerton, between two churches on a Thursday evening in the summer of 2014. It was recorded to tape by Mark 'Knuckles' Jasper at Soundsavers.

Primitive Parts have recently played with The Homosexuals, Ultimate Painting and Juan Wauters and are touring the UK early next year.

PRIMITIVE PARTS – The Bench

Taken from Monotony's S/T 6-song EP, released on August 14 by Faux Discx on 12" vinyl (limited to 300 copies) and digital download.

Pre-order here:
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Faux Discx is FINALLY putting out the first 6 songs written by the band Monotony on vinyl. Previously only available as a download and fleetingly as a limited cassette on Comfortable On A Tightrope, these six rough, instant and infectious songs were created without any intentions but soon took on a life of their own. The 12” repeats on both sides for a fully monotonous experience with hand screen-printed artwork by The Positive Press and limited to 300.

Monotony, known for their simplistic dirge punk, formed in the summer of 2014 when they wrote 5 songs in an hour, recorded them on a Sunday with Mark Jasper at Sound Savers in Homerton, put them on the internet and thought nothing more of it. BBC 6 DJ Marc Riley heard them, started playing them and refuses to stop, ruining dinner time for many people across the UK.

Since then they have made various attempts at being a real band by playing the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, DRILL festival on personal invitation from Wire, a 6 Music session for Marc Riley, a BBC Television performance (also for Marc Riley, on his All Shook Up program) and a UK tour. They’ve also played at Power Lunches.

Monotony is comprised of Lindsay Corstorphine (vocals), Christopher Murphy (guitar), Richard Phoenix (bass) and Jen Calleja (drums).

“Why do the dick heads on twitter bother to judge music they don't like sad people with nothing better to do get your arse out and watch bands or don't listen to music you don't like. Favourite track: Wrong.” – Simon Spry, Bandcamp user

MONOTONY – Back To The Castle

Taken from the forthcoming album 'I'm a Bastard' released 18 September 2015, Co-released with Italian Beach Babes. Available on 180g grey vinyl and digital download.

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Sealings are a three-piece based in the dilapidated seaside resort of Brighton. Their debut LP 'I'm a Bastard' follows numerous releases on UK independent lynchpins such as Italian Beach Babes, Tie Dye Tapes and Clan Destine Records. I’m A Bastard marks their first release proper on Brighton-based label Faux Discx, who have once again joined forces with the aforementioned Italian Beach Babes (as they did on Cold Pumas’ much celebrated 2012 release Persistent Malaise) to release the long-player.

Sealings are a band whose live show has been described as both “based more on confrontation than anything else” and “willfully abrasive”. To attempt to capture this mindset of total sonic annihilation Sealings recorded at home and in windowless ex-toilets, before handing over to like-minded peers MJ (Hookworms, Suburban Home Studio) and Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddy Current Suppression Ring) who mixed, and mastered the record respectively to both temper and bolster the group’s caustic tendencies.

'I'm a Bastard' is an LP that showcases the multitude of tricks that Sealings have mastered. Whether careering three-chord punk, industrial instrumental passages or fervent noise-rock, Sealings are beginning to carve their own individual place that owes much to each genre they mine from, whilst never being reductive of them.

SEALINGS – White Devil

Taken from the forthcoming album 'I'm a Bastard' released 18 September 2015, Co-released with Italian Beach Babes. Available on 180g grey vinyl and digital download.

PRE-ORDER HERE: www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/sealings-im-a-bastard

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Sealings are a three-piece based in the dilapidated seaside resort of Brighton. Their debut LP 'I'm a Bastard' follows numerous releases on UK independent lynchpins such as Italian Beach Babes, Tie Dye Tapes and Clan Destine Records. I’m A Bastard marks their first release proper on Brighton-based label Faux Discx, who have once again joined forces with the aforementioned Italian Beach Babes (as they did on Cold Pumas’ much celebrated 2012 release Persistent Malaise) to release the long-player.

Sealings are a band whose live show has been described as both “based more on confrontation than anything else” and “willfully abrasive”. To attempt to capture this mindset of total sonic annihilation Sealings recorded at home and in windowless ex-toilets, before handing over to like-minded peers MJ (Hookworms, Suburban Home Studio) and Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddy Current Suppression Ring) who mixed, and mastered the record respectively to both temper and bolster the group’s caustic tendencies.

'I'm a Bastard' is an LP that showcases the multitude of tricks that Sealings have mastered. Whether careering three-chord punk, industrial instrumental passages or fervent noise-rock, Sealings are beginning to carve their own individual place that owes much to each genre they mine from, whilst never being reductive of them.

SEALINGS – I'm A Bastard

Taken from 'Fall Seattle', Fall Seattle's debut album, released via Faux Discx (previous releases include Hookworms, Monotony, Sauna Youth, Cold Pumas and many more) on 5th February and is available on limited edition tape cassette (just 100 worldwide) and digital download.

PRE ORDER HERE:
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Fall Seattle is a four-piece rock band formed in 2012 in Reston, Virginia, USA.

After spending over two years recording at friends' houses and family basements, the band is finally releasing their self-titled debut album. Expressing a love for krautrock bands such as Can, Faust, and Kraftwerk, as well as pop, post-hardcore, post-punk and noise acts, ‘Fall Seattle’ is a kaleidoscope of influences and tries on an array of genres for size.

From the one-two snap of snare-in-to-wash of shoegaze-y melody that kicks off ‘Wanda Johnson’, to the dark jangle of the Cure-esque ‘Nothing You Can Hold On To’, via the Deerhunter meets Roy Orbison, aching balladry of ‘Boyhood’, Fall Seattle drink in some high watermarks of contemporary guitar music.

There’s a youthful longing underpinning much of this debut album, with the instrumentation sometimes smashing up against, but more often complementing, Orsy Campos’ delicate, melodic vocal lines. The guitar playing recalls the twists and turns of modern jangle-heroes Real Estate, albeit processed via some kind of space-rock filter, not content with the suburban backyards of America, looking upwards and outwards in to the void for sonic resolution.

FALL SEATTLE – Wanda Johnson

Gringo and Faux Discx are set to release an expanded version of HOOKWORMS debut EP on CD and digitally on March 4th 2016

Pre-order: http://gringorecords.limitedrun.com/products/566096-hookworms-hookworms-ep-bonus-tracks-cd

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A reissue of a 7 track expanded version of Hookworms 2011 self-titled debut EP off the back of two critically acclaimed albums - 2013's Pearl Mystic on Gringo and 2014's The Hum released worldwide on Domino arm Weird World – is both a marker from where Leeds five-piece have subsequently hurtled forwards from, but also a document and proof of the undeniable character that they've never allowed to waver even as all around them has changed.

The EP contains the first tracks the group ever recorded in vocalist and producer MJ's original Suburban Home Studio, with the group just a handful of local shows into their existence – one such show, supporting Sun Araw lead to its original release.  "It was a very exciting time for us," bassist MB recalls. "MJ having his first studio meant we'd gone from practicing in a tiny basement and receiving noise complaints to having a place where we could do what we wanted. We played with Sun Araw just as we were finishing the EP and Cameron Stallones enjoyed our set and asked to hear any recordings - then subsequently released it on cassette."

Hookworms have long since evolved into a mighty beast, live able to fill cavernous warehouses with a vitriolic form of kosmiche, as when headlining Liverpool Psych Fest, or when supporting fuzzy legends Slowdive during their 2014 comeback. Hookworms as a listen though already has in place several of the traits that have helped elevate them – the strutting bass and four note repetition of Teen Dreams is pure Modern Lovers, mining the group's 60's garage and proto-punk influences and mixing them with a caustic modernity. It's the only track that still makes an occasional appearance live; another highlight is the rolling bass thunder of I Have Some Business Out West crackles with the energy of an approaching storm: "Our gear wasn't as good back then so we did quite a bit of re-amping and post-production," MB comments. "The EP was basically a playground for experimentation with a bunch of new guitar pedals we'd recently acquired."

In addition, the reissue comes with additional early and rare recordings - the drone heavy initial version of Form and Function, which would appear on a split 7" alongside Nottingham-based peers Kogumaza, plus the swaggering rumbles of The Correspondent – which appeared on 2012 Sonic Cathedral compilation Psych For Sore Eyes. The former is a premonition of phase two of the band, foreshadowing the heavier, dense sound around Pearl Mystic; the latter still sounds like a wonderful outlier – which says something for a band whose boundaries have forever stretched towards the horizon.

MJ would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all the support, help and donations he has received after his studio in Leeds was flooded over Christmas. The band had been working on new material at Suburban Home Studios prior to the flood. 

Tracklisting:

Medicine Cabinet
Teen Dreams
I Have Some Business Out West
Resolution
Form and Function (originally released on a split 7" with Kogumaza on Gringo)
Deu (originally released on cassette Spur: Volume One compilation, Magnetic Tapes)
The Correspondent (originally released on Psych For Sore Eyes 7")

HOOKWORMS – Teen Dreams

Taken from Cold Pumas forthcoming LP 'The Hanging Valley', released 19th August 2016 on Faux Discx / Gringo Records.

Available to pre-order NOW from Faux Discx: http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/cold-pumas-the-hanging-valley

COLD PUMAS – Fugue States

'Garden Centre' is released 24th June 2016 on tape cassette and digital download via Faux Discx. PRE-ORDER HERE: http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/garden-centre
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Garden Centre like to think about garden centres. Formed by members of King of Cats, Joanna Gruesome, Towel and Keel Her, they make relatively erratic pop music. Some of that music is based on the experiences and memories of a group of people who used to hang out in an abandoned plant nursery. Garden Centre do not view the lives of these people in an objective or fair way.

GARDEN CENTRE – Riding

Taken from Cold Pumas forthcoming LP 'The Hanging Valley', released 19th August 2016 on Faux Discx / Gringo Records.

Available to pre-order NOW from Faux Discx: http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/cold-pumas-the-hanging-valley

UPCOMING SHOWS:
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19/08/16
BRIGHTON, UK 
THE HOPE & RUIN
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20/08/16
NOTTINGHAM, UK 
THE LOFTHOUSE
w/ Sweet Williams
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02/09/16
LONDON, UK 
MOTH CLUB
w/ Es, R. Elizabeth

COLD PUMAS – Severed Estates

TAPE WILL BE OUT FOR CASSETTE STORE DAY! LTD TO 100! 
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4 extended jams of live-looped motorik psychedelia. Heavy drum-machine repetition, droning keyboards, and extended guitar ragas. All played live (with vocals overdubbed later) by Soft Walls main man Dan Reeves, direct to his beloved MT8X cassette tape machine. Features expanded, re-imagined versions of two songs from 2014’s acclaimed 'No Time', one from 2012’s debut 'The Soft Walls' and a guitar meditation exclusive to this release.

All The Same (LIVE FROM MT8X VERSION)

Taken from Irma Vep's forthcoming LP 'No Handshake Blues', released January 13th 2017 via Faux Discx and Comfortable on a Tightrope.
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Irma Vep is a loner, a joker, a roamer, a ribald construct riddled with both earnest anxiety and mercurial songwriting talent birthed by a young Edwin Stevens in Llanfairfechan, North Wales. Having since fully grown into Irma Vep and now residing in Manchester, Stevens' discography has expanded to document every aspect of his music, from ecstatically free group experiments to bare, sparse songwriting that cuts to the quick, shorn of ornament or pretence. No Handshake Blues is a homage to Llanfairfechan (Transylfechan to the locals).

Having bedded down into Manchester's bourgeoning DIY scene, Stevens moonlights in several other groups (Sex Hands, Klaus Kinski, Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura, Yerba Mansa…), bringing with him an instantly recognisable guitar language. However it's in Irma Vep that his most life-affirming, troubling and thrilling music is made. Much Irma Vep feels like what "classic" music should feel like if it weren't so Classic. Each record, each song and each performance exists as an evolving drama.

Edwin has toured the West Coast of America after being invited by Chris Johanson to play his Quiet Music Festival of Seattle and Portland. BBC 6 Music regularly spin his work. He tours the UK and Europe “butt loads”. Somehow he also finds time to run a tape label and put on gigs in Manchester under the ”Very Bon" moniker. Irma Vep performs solo, and also expands to a full band that includes Manchester legends DBH, Andrew Cheetham, Dave Rowe, Kiran Leonard and Dylan Hughes.

No Handshake Blues

IRMA VEP – Still Sorry

Taken from Great Ytene's forthcoming LP 'Locus', released February 17th 2017 via Faux Discx.
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Great Ytene are a band built upon deconstruction and reassembly. In order to create something that felt truly complete, they had to tear down everything that had come before. From their formative years as 'Colours', to their reemergence as Great Ytene (taking their name from an old term for the New Forest, which is where they all grew up), they replaced sounds, members and even their name before they felt truly comfortable in their collective skin. 

So, it's quite fitting that In 2015 Great Ytene lost a full album's worth of material to a technological worm hole. It was just another clean slate. It was the best thing that could have happened. The band spent six months writing new songs, perfecting their shape, pulling them apart and piecing them back together until Locus was in exactly the right place.

Locus, Great Ytene's first full length LP since their self- titled debut (via Bella Union) in 2014, sees the band moving forward to explore darker themes. The name ‘Locus’ refers to the attempt to pin-point exact moments in time when an event took place. This idea is explored lyrically throughout the album, even as the music loops and pushes back.

If you are looking for like-minded contemporary peers then look no further than the grey and black post-punk of the likes of Disappears and Preoccupations. At times waves of noise are underpinned by tight, rigid rhythms, at others they’re allowed to spill over the edges to create disquiet landscapes.

The album was recorded and mixed in East London at Holy Mountain with producer and long-time collaborator Iggy B, mixed by MJ (Hookworms) at Suburban Home Studios in Leeds & mastered by Joe Caithness of Subsequent Mastering. It's released via Faux Discx on February 17, 2017.

Locus

GREAT YTENE – Locus

Taken from Irma Vep's forthcoming LP 'No Handshake Blues', released January 13th 2017 via Faux Discx and Comfortable on a Tightrope.
PRE-ORDER: www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/irma-vep-no-handshake-blues
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ON TOUR IN THE UK NOW!
Monday 9th January - The Hope and Ruin, Brighton w/Jon Collin
Tuesday 10th January - The Nest, Bath w/Jon Collin
Thursday 12th January - Pilgrims Pit, Stoke w/Jon Collin
Friday 13th January - Foodhall, Sheffield w/Jon Collin
Saturday 14th January - Fuel, Manchester w/Jon Collin & dbh
Saturday 28th January - Soup Kitchen, Manchester w/Duds, The Foetals
Wednesday 8th March - St James Wine Vaults, Bath w/Jon Collin
Friday 10th March - Gullivers, Manchester w/Jon Collin
Friday 14th April - Fat Out Festival, Islington Mill, Salford

IRMA VEP – A Woman's Work is Never Done

Taken from Great Ytene's forthcoming LP 'Locus', released February 17th 2017 via Faux Discx.
PRE-ORDER: www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/great-ytene-locus
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Great Ytene are a band built upon deconstruction and reassembly. In order to create something that felt truly complete, they had to tear down everything that had come before. From their formative years as 'Colours', to their reemergence as Great Ytene (taking their name from an old term for the New Forest, which is where they all grew up), they replaced sounds, members and even their name before they felt truly comfortable in their collective skin.

So, it's quite fitting that In 2015 Great Ytene lost a full album's worth of material to a technological worm hole. It was just another clean slate. It was the best thing that could have happened. The band spent six months writing new songs, perfecting their shape, pulling them apart and piecing them back together until Locus was in exactly the right place.

Locus, Great Ytene's first full length LP since their self- titled debut (via Bella Union) in 2014, sees the band moving forward to explore darker themes. The name ‘Locus’ refers to the attempt to pin-point exact moments in time when an event took place. This idea is explored lyrically throughout the album, even as the music loops and pushes back.

If you are looking for like-minded contemporary peers then look no further than the grey and black post-punk of the likes of Disappears and Preoccupations. At times waves of noise are underpinned by tight, rigid rhythms, at others they’re allowed to spill over the edges to create disquiet landscapes.

The album was recorded and mixed in East London at Holy Mountain with producer and long-time collaborator Iggy B, mixed by MJ (Hookworms) at Suburban Home Studios in Leeds & mastered by Joe Caithness of Subsequent Mastering. It's released via Faux Discx on February 17, 2017.

GREAT YTENE – Fixed Victim

Taken from Rips' forthcoming self-titled debut LP. Released by Faux Discx on June 16. Pre-order here: http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/rips
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Brooklyn based Rips have quickly built a reputation amongst NYC showgoers, winning them over with their virtuous melodies and sheer ferocity amidst an endless flurry of shows. Their songs may channel late '70s New York City bands like Television and The Feelies, but Rips propels these references into something new. Their self-titled debut, produced by Austin Brown of Parquet Courts, is eleven tracks of buzzing guitar riffs driven by a charged rhythm section, all set under lyrics that are actually worth a damn.

Rips (the record) takes cues from the moonlighting era of rock, while delivering a set of songs distinctly fit for the modern age. Once described as a “hyperreal rock n’ roll group”, the phrase “borne forward ceaselessly into the future" is more what they’re going for here.

So break an old habit. Let your hair down (or up). Rips will take you there.

Rips

Rips – Malibu Entropy

Taken from Rips' forthcoming self-titled debut LP. Released by Faux Discx on June 16. Pre-order here: www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/rips
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TOUR DATES:
6/15  Brooklyn, NY - The Glove
7/1    Brooklyn, NY – Baby's All Right (record release) 
7/2    Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMOCA w/ Joy Again
7/3    Richmond, VA - Strange Matter 
7/4    Washington, DC - Hole in the Sky
7/5    Cincinnati, OH - Northside Yacht Club
7/6    Bloomington, IN - Blockhouse Bar
7/7    Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle w/ Palehound, Clearance 
7/8    Minneapolis, MN - House of Lard
7/9    Omaha, NE - Brothers Bar
7/10  Denver, CO - Lost Lake w/ Howling Hex
7/12  Austin, TX - Cheer Up Charlies
7/13  New Orleans, LA - Siberia
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Brooklyn based Rips have quickly built a reputation amongst NYC showgoers, winning them over with their virtuous melodies and sheer ferocity amidst an endless flurry of shows. Their songs may channel late '70s New York City bands like Television and The Feelies, but Rips propels these references into something new. Their self-titled debut, produced by Austin Brown of Parquet Courts, is eleven tracks of buzzing guitar riffs driven by a charged rhythm section, all set under lyrics that are actually worth a damn.

Rips (the record) takes cues from the moonlighting era of rock, while delivering a set of songs distinctly fit for the modern age. Once described as a “hyperreal rock n’ roll group”, the phrase “borne forward ceaselessly into the future" is more what they’re going for here.

So break an old habit. Let your hair down (or up). Rips will take you there.

Rips – Losing II

Taken from Lab Coast's forthcoming self-titled album on Faux Discx. Out 12 May 2017. Available on vinyl, CD and digital download. PRE-ORDER here: www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/lab-coast

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Since 2008, Lab Coast has been delivering hazy bursts of hook-laden guitar pop via a string of critically acclaimed, award-winning albums, EPs, and singles. From their basement studio in Calgary, Alberta, the song writing team of singer David Laing & multi-instrumentalist Chris Dadge (Chad VanGaalen, Bug Incision, Samantha Savage Smith) carve out detailed analogue productions; these recordings draw from the wealth of instruments that friends leave at the Lab Coast practice space, and the ever-evolving recording techniques that they've been honing since day one. Their home-brewed recordings sit in the tradition of DIY-recorders such as Strapping Fieldhands, early Guided By Voices, and R. Stevie Moore, while the songs themselves recall the likes of Teenage Fanclub, Tom Petty, and The La's. Onstage, these richly textured pieces are ably brought to life by Sammie Smith (aka Samantha Savage Smith), Henry Hsieh (Cold Water, Crack Cloud), and Darrell Hartsook (Prenup, Sissys).

'Lab Coast' is a collection of songs cherry-picked from the band’s extensive back catalogue by Faux Discx overseer Dan Reeves (Cold Pumas, Soft Walls) and the band themselves, compiled in to one succinct album and remastered by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control). It acts as an introduction to a highly prolific band and a showcase for their highly refined ability to consistently knock clever, catchy pop songs out of the park.

UK/EU TOUR DATES:
11/05/17 • WREXHAM, UK • Focus Wales Festival	
12/05/17 • WREXHAM, UK • Focus Wales Festival
13/05/17 • SHEFFIELD, UK • The Audacious Art Experiment w/ The Hipshakes	
14/05/17 • LEEDS, UK • Brudenell Social Club
15/05/17 • MANCHESTER, UK • Fuel
16/05/17 • YORK, UK • The Basement
17/05/17 • BRISTOL, UK • Grain Barge
18/05/17 • EXETER, UK • The Phoenix
19/05/17 • BRIGHTON, UK • Family Store w/ Garden Centre
20/05/17 • BRIGHTON, UK • Escape From The Great Escape, The Westhill Hall
22/05/17 • LONDON, UK • The Shacklewell Arms w/ The Molochs
24/05/17 • KORTRIJK, BE • De Kreun w/ Preoccupations
25/05/17 • GRONINGEN, NL • Vera w/ Preoccupations 
26/05/17 • BERLIN, DE • Kultstätte KELLER
27/05/17 • PRAGUE, CZ • Futurum w/ Preoccupations
29/05/17 • LIEGE, BE • La Zone w/ Priests
01/06/17 • BRIGHTON, UK • The Hope & Ruin w/ The Sticks

http://www.fauxdiscx.com/lab-coast-tour

Test Masters DIGI

LAB COAST - As Usual

Taken from Garden Centre's forthcoming album 'Monster Energy'. Out 17/03/17 via Faux Discx on tape cassette and digital download.

ORDER HERE: http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/garden-centre-monster-energy

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Garden centre is a band formed out of necessity. The specific function of the band was to tell the story of a group of people who found themselves drawn to an abandoned plant nursery in southern England. The band hoped that their messages were transmitted efficiently, broadcast via audio in the form of their début album 'Garden Centre'.

With their task well and truly complete, the members of Garden Centre have become distracted. Some members still obsess over semi-rural boredom and exploration. Others have the audacity to write love songs. The most cretinous members opt to write about energy drinks exclusively. Their distracted and unfocused efforts come to the fore in their new album 'Monster energy'.

Garden Centre The Band features members of King of Cats, Joanna Gruesome, and Keel Her amongst other rotating visitors. 'Monster Energy' sees chief songwriter Max Levy return to the solitude of his bedroom studio, where he composed and recorded this album with only a hint of help from other members of the band.

Monster Energy

GARDEN CENTRE – Monster Energy

Taken from Lab Coast's forthcoming self-titled album on Faux Discx. Out 12 May 2017. Available on vinyl, CD and digital download. PRE-ORDER here: http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/lab-coast

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Since 2008, Lab Coast has been delivering hazy bursts of hook-laden guitar pop via a string of critically acclaimed, award-winning albums, EPs, and singles. From their basement studio in Calgary, Alberta, the song writing team of singer David Laing & multi-instrumentalist Chris Dadge (Chad VanGaalen, Bug Incision, Samantha Savage Smith) carve out detailed analogue productions; these recordings draw from the wealth of instruments that friends leave at the Lab Coast practice space, and the ever-evolving recording techniques that they've been honing since day one. Their home-brewed recordings sit in the tradition of DIY-recorders such as Strapping Fieldhands, early Guided By Voices, and R. Stevie Moore, while the songs themselves recall the likes of Teenage Fanclub, Tom Petty, and The La's. Onstage, these richly textured pieces are ably brought to life by Sammie Smith (aka Samantha Savage Smith), Henry Hsieh (Cold Water, Crack Cloud), and Darrell Hartsook (Prenup, Sissys).

'Lab Coast' is a collection of songs cherry-picked from the band’s extensive back catalogue by Faux Discx overseer Dan Reeves (Cold Pumas, Soft Walls) and the band themselves, compiled in to one succinct album and remastered by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control). It acts as an introduction to a highly prolific band and a showcase for their highly refined ability to consistently knock clever, catchy pop songs out of the park.

UK/EU TOUR DATES:
11/05/17 • WREXHAM, UK • Focus Wales Festival	
12/05/17 • WREXHAM, UK • Focus Wales Festival
13/05/17 • SHEFFIELD, UK • The Audacious Art Experiment w/ The Hipshakes	
14/05/17 • LEEDS, UK • Brudenell Social Club
15/05/17 • MANCHESTER, UK • Fuel
16/05/17 • YORK, UK • The Basement
17/05/17 • BRISTOL, UK • Grain Barge
18/05/17 • EXETER, UK • The Phoenix
19/05/17 • BRIGHTON, UK • Family Store w/ Garden Centre
20/05/17 • BRIGHTON, UK • Escape From The Great Escape, The Westhill Hall
22/05/17 • LONDON, UK • The Shacklewell Arms w/ The Molochs
24/05/17 • KORTRIJK, BE • De Kreun w/ Preoccupations
25/05/17 • GRONINGEN, NL • Vera w/ Preoccupations		
26/05/17 • BERLIN, DE • Venue TBC	
27/05/17 • PRAGUE, CZ • Futurum w/ Preoccupations
29/05/17 • LIEGE, BE • La Zone w/ Priests
01/06/17 • BRIGHTON, UK • The Hope & Ruin w/ The Sticks

LAB COAST – For Now

Taken from Garden Centre's forthcoming album 'Monster Energy'. Out 17/03/17 via Faux Discx on tape cassette and digital download.

ORDER HERE: www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/garden-cent…e-monster-energy

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Garden centre is a band formed out of necessity. The specific function of the band was to tell the story of a group of people who found themselves drawn to an abandoned plant nursery in southern England. The band hoped that their messages were transmitted efficiently, broadcast via audio in the form of their début album 'Garden Centre'.

With their task well and truly complete, the members of Garden Centre have become distracted. Some members still obsess over semi-rural boredom and exploration. Others have the audacity to write love songs. The most cretinous members opt to write about energy drinks exclusively. Their distracted and unfocused efforts come to the fore in their new album 'Monster energy'.

Garden Centre The Band features members of King of Cats, Joanna Gruesome, and Keel Her amongst other rotating visitors. 'Monster Energy' sees chief songwriter Max Levy return to the solitude of his bedroom studio, where he composed and recorded this album with only a hint of help from other members of the band.

Monster Energy is out Friday 17 March 2017 and is available to pre-order now. The band will embark on a short UK tour to coincide with the release!

Garden Centre / Porridge Radio (solo) UK Tour
MARCH 2017

22: Manchester @ Crown and Kettle
23: Glasgow @ 13th Note
24: Leeds @ The Fenton
25: Sheffield @ Picture House Social
26: Oxford @ The Library
27: Cardiff @ Venue TBC
28: London @ The Beehive

Check the Garden Centre Facebook page for updates and event links. https://www.facebook.com/playinginthegardencentre/

GARDEN CENTRE – Elderly Man

Taken from Rips' forthcoming self-titled debut LP. Released by Faux Discx on June 16. Pre-order here: www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/rips
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Brooklyn based Rips have quickly built a reputation amongst NYC showgoers, winning them over with their virtuous melodies and sheer ferocity amidst an endless flurry of shows. Their songs may channel late '70s New York City bands like Television and The Feelies, but Rips propels these references into something new. Their self-titled debut, produced by Austin Brown of Parquet Courts, is eleven tracks of buzzing guitar riffs driven by a charged rhythm section, all set under lyrics that are actually worth a damn.

Rips (the record) takes cues from the moonlighting era of rock, while delivering a set of songs distinctly fit for the modern age. Once described as a “hyperreal rock n’ roll group”, the phrase “borne forward ceaselessly into the future" is more what they’re going for here.

So break an old habit. Let your hair down (or up). Rips will take you there.

Rips – Delay

Taken from The Sticks' forthcoming tape 'Why Bother' out 02/06/17 via Faux Discx. ORDER HERE >>> http://www.fauxdiscx.com/shop/the-sticks-why-bother

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Why Bother is an unearthed, long-forgotten, and previously unreleased album that was due to see the light-of-day some years ago, by The Sticks; a Brighton institution.

A rarely spotted, but much-loved group which shares members with The Pheromoans and King Alfred Man of Leisure. They are a stripped-down garage party band, they bash drums, sway on the bass and claw at guitar - often swapping over instruments between songs live - and yelp with melodic abandon and delight. The Sticks were once dubbed as 'semi-amateur', this may be true. With cheap, unreliable equipment they manage to tease out a cacophony of crashing drums and raucous guitar melodies.

The key elements of the trio's sound are undoubtedly drawn from the rudimentary ideas found in the more inept efforts of mid-sixties teen bands such as The Chimney Sweeps and The Keggs. They then take a touch of The Raincoats, and finally dribble some comparisons with modern (ish) day equivalents The Black Lips, The Coachwhips or The Hospitals.

THE STICKS – Come Back

WOMEN - Bullfight

Taken from Cold Pumas' debut album – Persistent Malaise

Released 05/11/12 on Faux Discx / Gringo Records / Italian Beach Babes

COLD PUMAS – Fog Cutter

COLD PUMAS – Sherry Island

Taken from Vision Fortune's forthcoming debut album 'Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune' released May 13 on 12" vinyl and digital download via Faux Discx / Gringo Records.

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http://fauxdiscx.bandcamp.com/album/mas-fiestas-con-el-grupo-vision-fortune

VISION FORTUNE - XIV

Taken from Teardrop Factory's forthcoming debut release 'Topshop EP' released May 27 on 7" vinyl (limited to 300 copies) and digital download via Faux Discx.

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TEARDROP FACTORY – Vanity Unfair

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