'Said Bernie' is taken from Buffet Lunch's debut album 'The Power of Rocks' out May 7th on Upset The Rhythm.

‘The Power of Rocks’ is available to pre-order now through our online shop on limited 180g orange vinyl: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com

Buffet Lunch - 'Said Bernie'

'Small Island' is the first single from our new 'Automatic Tendencies' series. We're releasing an album split into three parts over a period of six months - https://firestations.bandcamp.com/album/automatic-tendencies.

Here are the lyrics:

An ideal dream 
A rogue state 
A small island 
And a blank slate 
Show me an infinite dark sea 
Take me out on a limb to an extremity 
And let me be myself 
Just let me be myself 

Letting go 
It’s like we’re floating underwater 
Getting out 
Cos we were promised tomorrow sooner 
But the past is taking over 
The future so familiar 
Is coming round again 

Problems here all left behind 
In grains of sand 
Deep ocean time 
And we can be ourselves

Letting go 
It’s like we’re floating underwater 
Getting out 
Cos we were promised tomorrow sooner 
Letting go 
It’s like we’re floating underwater 
Getting out 
Cos we were promised tomorrow sooner 
But the past is taking over
The future so familiar 
Is coming round again

Automatic Tendencies

Small Island

Blue / The Veil

Blue

Golden Soul

Liminal

Feel

01 - Feel

Following their acclaimed debut Gweler Ein Gofid last year, Sheffield's Sister Wives return into the light with new Crags AA single on 10" vinyl, featuring two new songs - "Crags" and "I Fyny Af / Rise".

The single's title track is a nod to local prehistoric gorge, Creswell Crags, where witches marks were discovered in 2019. The marks, also known as protective marks, were found around dark holes and crevices in the caves and are thought to have been used as part of rituals to warn off evil forces.

The notions of protection and ancient ritual tie in with the songs the band were working on at the time. They explain, "Both “I Fyny Af / Rise” and "Crags" are about summoning the consciousness of the land in times of despair; calling upon the ancient gods that live in the rocks, woods, lakes, seas and trees, and exploring spiritual suspicions and witchcraft. We wanted to explore both sides: the fear of witches, and also defend these long vilified women."
 

Analogue evocations to Cymru’s sentient landscapes, from before the fall and after The Fall. Deep time and shallow graves. A coven dances around a burning holiday home to the strains of Hawkwind, Eno and Siouxsie. Astral projecting over the Green Desert. You are as far away as you will ever be from the world's madness.

Sister Wives have previously been invited to support The International Teachers of Pop, Crack Cloud, The Eccentronic Research Council, Current Affairs, Kaputt, Flasher, Porridge Radio, as well as featuring on Warp Records’ new music picks and regular play on BBC Wales and BBC Cymru. 

Out on the 26th of February on Delicious Clam

https://deliciousclamrecords.bandcamp.com/album/crags

Yn dilyn eu ymddangosiad cyntaf ‘Gweler Ein Gofid’ y llynedd, a sengl hollt gyda Tacsidermi ar Libertino Records (5ed Chwefror), mae Sister Wives o Sheffield yn dychwelyd i'r goleuni gyda dwy gân newydd - "Crags" ac "I Fyny Af / Rise ". 

  Mae teitl yr EP yn nod i geunant cynhanesyddol lleol i Sheffield, Creswell Crags, lle darganfuwyd marciau gwrachod yn 2019. Darganfuwyd y marciau, a elwir hefyd yn farciau amddiffynnol, o amgylch tyllau tywyll ac agennau yn yr ogofâu a chredir eu bod wedi'u defnyddio fel rhan o ddefodau i rybuddio grymoedd drwg.   

Mae'r syniadau amddiffyn a defod hynafol yn cyd-fynd â'r caneuon yr oedd y band yn gweithio arnynt ar y pryd. Maent yn egluro, mae ‘I Fyny Af / Rise’ a ‘Crags’ yn ymwneud â galw ymwybyddiaeth y tir ar adegau o anobaith; galw ar y duwiau hynafol sy'n byw yn y creigiau, y coed, y llynnoedd, y moroedd a'r coed, ac archwilio amheuon ysbrydol a dewiniaeth. Mae’n rhaid archwilio'r ddwy ochr: ofn gwrachod, ond hefyd amddiffyn y menywod a fy’n cael eu can-drin am fod yn ‘wrachod’.   

Adluniadau analog i dirweddau ymdeimladol Cymru. Mae cildraeth yn dawnsio o amgylch cartref gwyliau sy'n llosgi i straen Hawkwind, Eno a Siouxsie. Taflunio astral dros yr Anialwch Gwyrdd. Rydych chi mor bell i ffwrdd ag y byddwch chi byth o wallgofrwydd y byd. 

  Gwahoddwyd Sister Wives o'r blaen i gefnogi The International Teachers of Pop, Crack Cloud, The Eccentronic Research Council, Current Affairs, Kaputt, Flasher, Porridge Radio, yn ogystal â rhoi sylw i bigiadau cerddoriaeth newydd Warp Records a chwarae rheolaidd ar BBC Radio Cymru.

I Fyny Af / Rise by Sister Wives

The Floor

'Squitter' is out 12th March 2020.

Hideous Sun Demon believe that art can be found in everything. Every sensory impulse, every expression and experience, action, feeling and thought are all intrinsically linked under the common ground of arising from a spark of creation. Indeed, even convoluted systems of the human body can be argued as having a form of artistic merit. Much like the brilliant minds at Cabaret Voltaire reinvented nonsense as a vehicle to create meaning after the First World War, Hideous Sun Demon are reinventing the concept of bodily functions as a means of providing a beautiful and authentic contribution to our broad cultural narrative. ‘Squitter’ shines as a glimmering example of this idea. 

Inspired by a messy ‘incident’ their front-man had one fateful January morning whilst walking by the river, Squitter takes this moment and reimagines it with the vibrancy and immediacy of David Hockey painting. 

What is a squitter? And what gives Hideous Sun Demon the confidence to declare themselves “Lord of the Squits”? Is it a real word or did Vincent just make it up annoy his British friends? All this is explained in this exciting, unrelenting 2 minutes and 30 seconds of tightly wound punk rock. What ever “true art” means to you, Squitter dares to challenge it.

Squitter

‘It is true that Jaque M–– left Lisbon by boat in the winter of 1759, two hundred years to the day before the city opened its first metro system, and that he sailed with intentions of greatness and returned in disgrace, never speaking about why, or why he spent the rest of his life recreating scale-models of the buildings he claimed to have seen on the Arabian coast.’

Ski Saigon -  Burns The Winter Palace

Unoriginal

You're Nowhere

'Development Hell' is out 16th April 2021 via Marthouse Records (Melb)

PREORDER as either a limited blue vinyl 7" & on classic black pressing:
hideous-sun-demon.bandcamp.com/album/dev…ment-hell

'Development Hell' features 4 tracks recorded early February 2020 by Casey Hartnett at Flightless records HQ, Brunswick. The band experimented with modern post-punk and egg punk influences to challenge their sound which has developed over their last 4 releases. Lush synthesizer pads, rhythmic drum samples and a more nuanced attention to dynamics and mood can be heard over the EP.

ON TOUR 2021:
17th April Sat: Tasmania - Altar 
23rd April Fri: Brisbane - The Bearded Lady 
25th April Sun: Gold Coast  - Vinnies Dive Bar
30th April Fri: Adelaide - Jive 
1st May Sat: Melbourne - The Curtin 
7th May Fri: Fremantle - Aardvark 
8th May Sat: Perth - The Bird 
22nd May Sat: Wollongong - Dicey Riley's
23rd May Sun: Sydney - Frankies

Squitter

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