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Today we are delighted to announce details of the new EP from the ever prolific, irresistibly charming and admirably talented Gorgeous Bully.

For those who haven’t been with us an awfully long time, Gorgeous Bully (the moniker of musician Thomas Crang) has been a mainstay of the AIH family. Whilst based in Cornwall he first cropped up on AIH05 (a compilation of bands from the SW). He then moved to Plymouth and January 2012 saw us releasing his debut EP 'The Young Obese'. Fast forward to November 2013 and with a 7" EP under his belt, Thomas is now based in Manchester.

Whereas earlier material saw Thomas playing everything himself, 'Nobody Hates You As Much As You Hate Yourself' marks the first outing from Gorgeous Bully as a full band. Having spent the last 12 months playing up and down the country with the likes of Joanna Gruesome, Cymbals and Throwing Up some recorded output from the full band was long overdue.

The addition of a full band has certainly aided Thomas's ability to craft self aware, self inflicted ditties. Across the EP's further four tracks, expect a celebration of misery, loneliness and self-loathing, perfectly molded into three minute grungey pop songs that celebrate the freedom of not doing what is expected of you

2012's Gorgeous Bully EP was released in a cigarette style package that sold out on pre-order alone, for 'NHYAMAYHY' we have tried to come up with something just as visually appealing. The EP is set to be released on February 17th on cassette, in a hand-stamped box that contains a lyric sheet, badges, a bottle opener/lighter, a download code for an MP3 version as well as a further secret EP.

If you would prefer just to have the MP3 version then you can purchase it from our Bandcamp and receive a download of the full EP straight away ahead of the February 17th release date.

Gorgeous Bully - Sinking Feeling

"Everything's Bigger" is the first single from Speedy Ortiz's new EP "Real Hair".

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Speedy Ortiz - Everything's Bigger

I Can Dream The Rest Away

No Offense

Walking

Forming in Belfast in January 2009 initially as a two-piece, Cathal Cully and Neil Brogan booked their first gig as Girls Names before they'd even played together. Expanding to a three piece some months later with the addition of Claire Miskimmin on bass, the band have effortlessly refined their own personal take on the early/mid eighties shadow world of Black Tambourine, Felt and the Sound of Young Scotland. Although still in their infancy, Girls Names have traced their development through a series of releases, having already issued a 12" (Captured Tracks), an 8 track mini album (Tough Love) and a split 7" with San Francisco's Brilliant Colors (Slumberland). From humble beginnings there live show has also been dramatically improved, helped in part by sharing stages with Times New Viking, Dum Dum Girls and Abe Vigoda, amongst others. 

With their identity firmly established, debut album "Dead To Me" is the next step forward that delivers on the promise shown on previous releases. The song writing is more defined and the production values have been sharpened, representing a definitive break from the nonsensical lo-fi tag that has lazily followed them around by association. 

Recording for "Dead To Me" began in the last half of 2010, the band entering the studio with the conscious desire to make an old-fashioned style pop album, albeit one with a perverse haunted feel. As intended, the haunted aspect is brought to the fore. The ten tracks that comprise "Dead To Me" are possessed with a warm, classic quality derived second hand from the 60s influenced bands of the 80s. Songs such as "When You Cry", "Bury Me" and "I Lose" are characterized by a timeless melodicism that's long been the reserve of pop classicists from the Walker Brothers to Orange Juice, while other elements of the record, such as "Séance on a Wet Afternoon," reveal a perverse undercurrent.

And in an oblique manner, ghosts are also integral to the lyrical themes of the record. Whoever the inferred protagonist in the album title is, their specter lingers throughout "Dead To Me," hiding in the narrative arcs that run consistently throughout. Masked under the gloom of reverb-heavy guitars are subdued bittersweet vignettes charged on bloody nostalgia, bad romance and a fascination with the occult.

Despite their influences and immaculate taste, "Dead To Me"	 remains a distinctive listen precisely because of where it was conceived. The grey contours of Belfast streets indelibly shade the mellifluous guitar tones and spooked vocals. As such, for all the band's backwards gazing, there's a feeling that this album couldn't have been made anywhere but Belfast right now.


Girls Names - I Could Die

Slutever - "Pussycat" 7.14.12

Fuck You Or Fuck Yeah (live @ blackwire 16/11/12)

lyrics: 
it doesn't make much sense to me 
why we must all live 
try not to let that affect 
the beauty I'm seeing 
you know I love this world 
with my heart and soul 
can't carry burdens on our back 
gotta let em go 
life is short and so is sex 
we wonder what happens next 
sipping a drink and lighting up a grit 
take a seat down by the wall and rest 
it's such a heavy load 
going down the road 
looking around and hearing sound 
there must be something going on 
you know it's true 
all the things I wanna do 
cause there ain't all that much time 
so I try to free my mind 
you know it's true 
all the things I'm gonna do 
cause I was born right into time 
so I'll try ways to be fine 
oh so fine 
sucks to have a heart attack 
the lovely little heart of gold 
I don't care if I ever come back 
but a story told 
you know I love this world 
with my heart and soul 
can't carry burdens on our back 
gotta let em go

Oh So Fine

this is a track about bitchez n bongz

recorded @ home
masterd by mikEy young


Mary (Buges)

Taken off of 'Spacehopper'. Released through Frenchkiss Records June 17th (UK), June 18th (US).

Shimmer

Brisbane surf-rock quartet Go Violets have revealed the second single from their upcoming debut EP.  Recorded and produced by Sean Cook, ‘Josie’ takes the band in a new direction, expanding their sound to encompass a darker mood. The wry, distorted guitars, thumping rhythm, and ballad-like vocals carry any kind of melancholy away fast and hard.

Go Violets will launch Josie in June playing Thursday 13 June in Brisbane at the Black Bear Lodge, Saturday 15 June in Sydney at Brighton Up Bar and Thursday 20 June in Melbourne at the John Curtin Hotel.

Josie

Go Violets

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