Name: Kaleidoscope - Elephant by Katorga Works in carpete
Duration: 1 min 49 s
Description: A track off of the upcoming Kaleidoscope 7"

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Ajax's "Oppress Me" off of their "Bleach for Breakfast" CS.

Ajax - Oppress Me

Vanity - Bit 'n Turned Rabid

A track from their self-released Mutant Reich 7"

Gowanus Mutant Komandos - Mutant Reich

A track off of KW-042, the Sheer Mag - S/T 7"

Sheer Mag - Button Up

A track off of the upcoming Kaleidoscope 7"

Kaleidoscope - Elephant

JJ Doll - You Come First

Recorded live at the BBC's 6Music studios in June of 2016.
Originally written and recorded by Crass for their 1979 album Stations of the Crass.

Shaved Women (Crass Cover)

Death by Unga Bunga!!

The Mummies - Stronger Than Dirt

third single from forthcoming Beaches double album Second Of Spring.
Pre-order Second Of Spring on 2LP, CD or digital via:
www.chaptermusic.com/store/beaches/second-of-spring
www.chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/second-of-spring
digital stores: http://radi.al/SecondOfSpring

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Second Of Spring

Beaches - Arrow

SONIC BOOMERANG is finally back! Long-awaited SECOND PRESSING for the SECOND Bee Bee Sea record! https://beebeesea.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-boomerang-2

Sonic Boomerang

Bee Bee Sea - Sonic Boomerang

Taken from the album, Stains on Silence, out 15th June on Tough Love. Pre-order here - smarturl.it/StainsOnSilence

Formats:
LP - black vinyl, with cream sleeve
LPX - orange vinyl, with black sleeve (indie stores-only - 300 copies)
LPXX - ultra clear vinyl, with black sleeve, poster and hand-numbered (Bandcamp only - 200 copies)
CD & digital

Biog

It stands to reason that many vital albums come critically close to never being made. The eight-track upshot of doubt, upheaval and financial strain, Stains on Silence by Girls Names is one such release.

Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, the Belfast band suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void. “There was a finished – and then aborted – mix of the album, which was shelved for six months,” reveals Girls Names frontman Cathal Cully. “We then took a break from all music and went back to full-time work. We chilled out from the stress of rushing the record and not being happy with it, as well as being skint with no impending touring on the cards and constantly having to worry about rent.”

The stumbling blocks that proved a strain became the album’s defining breakthrough. Recorded in various locations including Belfast’s Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley, Cully’s home and the band’s practice space, spontaneous creation, cut-up techniques and self-editing took centre-stage for the first time. "We started tearing the material apart and rebuilding, re-editing and re-recording different parts in my home in early Autumn last year,” says Cully. “When we got them to a place we were happier with we went back into Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley to finalise the mixes to what they are now."

Where AAAV proved a brazen statement of intent, Stains on Silence bounds forth as its feature-length comedown. What could have seen the band buckle became an opportunity for approaching things tabula rasa. During its two-year transmutation, Cully, bassist Claire Miskimmin and guitarist Philip Quinn had a single aim for their fourth album: to make an old-fashioned record clocking in around 30 to 35 minutes in length that made the listener reach straight for repeat. From the Bang Bang bar-summoning swoon of opener '25’ and the submerged disco doom of ‘Haus Proud’ to the rapt, dub-leaning ‘Fragments of a Portrait’, Girls Names have excelled in their goal by forging an LP of synchronous nuance and defiance.

Marked by the presence of drum machines and programming throughout, these eight masterfully-woven tales are once again commandeered by founder Cully, whose words, understated yet defiant, mine purpose and meaning from the mire ("I want to bathe again, I want to swim again / In a pool of twisting bodies, blackened gold." — ‘25’). But while Stains on Silence came critically close to never being made, having lived with it, reconfigured it, and guided its metamorphosis from flickers of inspiration and half-formed schemes, it’s both a statement of pure perseverance, and a head-on confrontation with ambivalence that couldn’t be more assured. (Brian Coney, March 2018)

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twitter.com/Girls_Names
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girlsnamesbelfast.bandcamp.com

Girls Names - The Impaled Mystique

Dazzle Paint

'Replacement Bus' is taken from Hygiene's forthcoming album 'Private Sector', out May 24th through Upset The Rhythm.

HYGIENE released a slew of singles and an LP on various DIY labels in the US and the UK at the turn of the decade, now the London post-punk stalwarts return from hiatus with their sophomore effort, ‘Private Sector’. Where their debut LP ‘Public Sector’ (2011, La Vida Es Un Mus) reflected a nostalgic longing for an unrealised socialist modernist utopia, ‘Private Sector’ finds them confronting the grim realities of the present. Hygiene rail against the neoliberal madness of utility cartels, tax havens and privatised railways, seizing the moment as the current period of interregnum sees the old ideological certainties come into question. Proving nostalgia to be an inescapable trap, the band continue to hearken back to the kind of post-punk that existed before anybody knew to affix the ‘post’ prefix. ‘Private Sector’ (out May 24th through Upset The Rhythm) has the signature Hygiene sound, mixing brooding melodies with a choppy, aggressive approach and a restricted pop sensibility. However, this ever-so-slightly-more mature record finds the band taking advantage of the musicianship of their friends, mixing in the odd viola, glockenspiel, piano and keyboard.  Recommended for fans of Real Ale, British Rail Class 55 Deltics, Euston station and Jeremy Corbyn.

Available to pre-order here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/product/hygiene-private-sector-lp-pre-order

Private Sector

Hygiene - 'Replacement Bus'

'M.E.' (Release date: August 20, 2019)

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/2YPGc51
Apple: https://u.subpop.com/2ThVz54
Order Now - Sub Pop Mega Mart https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/metz/m_e

METZ: http://www.metzztem.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/METZtheband
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/metz_theband
On Tour: http://www.subpop.com/tours/metz

Sub Pop Records: http://www.subpop.com
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Mega Mart: https://megamart.subpop.com/

METZ - M.E.

Single from the Man Or Astroman? upcoming album release, "Defcon 5...4...3...2...1". 

PRE-ORDER DIGITAL
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/defcon-5...4...3...2...1/id638929353

PRE-ORDER CD w/ Autographed Limited Edition DEFCON Poster
http://communicatingvessels.net/products-page/music/man-or-astroman-defcon-5-4-3-2-1/

PRE ORDER VINYL
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PRE ORDER

Disintegrate - Man Or Astroman?

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