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Turn your back on gold

‘Houston Morphine’ is taken from Laddermen’s debut album Special Kind of Violence out 2021 on Waterfall of Colours.

self-medicated at your funeral
apparently I spoke I did well
that's good
apparently I shook the hand of everybody that knew you 

blood count low morphine high
understand this is goodbye
blood count low morphine high
did you understand that this was goodbye

self medicated at your funeral
apparently I spoke I did well
that's good
apparently I shook the hand of everybody that knew you 

blood count low morphine high
understand this is goodbye
blood count low morphine high
did you understand that this was goodbye

good bye
good bye
good bye
good bye

Houston Morphine

We’ve got one last banger before the rekkid drops this Friday. In case you still haven’t been acquainted yet, the cowboy futurist of Oz, Cong Josie, is back to make darn sure you know his name and his game with ‘Cong the Singer’ the final single from his eponymous album Cong! It’s 4 minutes of Cong madness and malarky after which we think you’ll count yourself a co-conspirator, partner in crime or just need a cold shower. 

This thrusting synth-punk stomper is a timely manifesto announcing the imminent release of his debut LP, Cong!  Crooning, yelping and cooly fantasising in spoken word, Cong serves up his most blistering joy-ride yet. Imagery is invoked of a speeding Eastern Freeway drive in a crowded clown-car/Ford Laser with Giorgio Moroder in the back seat squeezed in with a strong-man chanting choir and a lush disco chanteuse whose voice floats crystal clear with hope. Cong is at the wheel of course, all hopped up on 7/11 one dollar coffees singing Roy Orbison too fast at 78rpm while Johnny Cayn is the front passenger playing a hillbilly slide guitar with complete abandon - wind flowing through his curly locks.

The origin story told in ‘Cong The Singer’ of Cong coming good as a gun-for-hire singer who becomes infamous at the parma-night mega pubs of the suburban sprawl doing a sort of Elvis-does-pub-rock karaoke show may have only a thin veneer of irony about it though. Cong’s daylighting alter-ego Nic Oogjes (NO ZU) grew up driving daily on the freeway mentioned, and it could be said that his own insecurities as a singer, and that of perpetually feeling like an outsider who (fruitlessly) seeks acceptance via creative output, of which will never actually align with broad definitions of 'good' in the ‘burbs, could be fuelling this trip. This is just a theory though. For now, let’s just thrust along to Cong, the “stiletto singer, moonlighting in the dead of night”.

GENRE : No Wave, New Wave, Post-Punk, Synthwave, 
RIYL: Alan Vega, The Cramps, Chrome, The Birthday Party 

‘Cong the Singer’ single releases October 15th on all digital platforms. Cong!  the debut LP is out October 22nd 2021. On digital CD and ultra-limited hot pink vinyl through It Records
Contact: Kate Reid itrekkids@gmail.com

Pre-order now at itrecordsmelb@bandcamp.com

Cong Josie -  Cong The Singer

THE SILENT YEAR

A Thousand Tears

Peripheral Minimal unleashes another great record, this time with the legendary Doric (Stathis Leontiadis). The release is called "Sleep Of Reason EP" and will be released on 10¨ vinyl, featuring six brand new songs, including collaborative efforts with like-minded artists; Pascal and Valisia Odell. 

In collaboration with Peripheral Minimal, we on Repartiseraren can give you access to two songs exclusively until the Bandcamp-release. You can stream "Sleep Of Reason" from the A-Side and "Poets Land" from the B-Side. Enjoy. 

Doric: https://www.facebook.com/Doric.music/
Peripheral Minimal: https://www.facebook.com/PeripheralMinimal/
Repartiseraren: https://www.facebook.com/repartiseraren/

Sleep Of Reason EP

Exclusive Premiere: Doric & Valisia Odell - Poets Land

The second single released from The Frisbys upcoming E.P 'My Wicked Mind'. My Wicked Mind is released on 26th June 2020 via Dantbaccus Records.

Lyrics:
Bright lights, inner city
Your mouth tastes sweet
I get so alone now
I just don't know what I

Feel your getting closer
Feel you inside my head
So scared I could drop this
I just don't know what I like
Know what I like...

Heart aches, lungs are burning
Room seeps sweat and smoke
Whispered I know what's better
I just don't know what I,
know what I, know what I

Woah lead me to the water
Lead me  back to you
Woah lead me to the water
Lead me back to you

Embrace this night for sinners
Know the devils out
Guarded I let him take me
I just don't know what I
Know what I, know what I


Woah Lead me to the water
Lead me  back to you
Woah Lead me to the water
Lead me back to you

Hold me down to the river
Let me lay my head
Hold me down to the river 
Let me lay my head

My Wicked Mind

Lead Me To The Water

Should we just carry on
Our fire's dance around
The creature looming in the river's bed

A spell beneath the ground
Threw the hill upside down
If we're all leaving, where do we run to?

Was this part of what you believed?
I couldn't say
I couldn't say
What was that hidden in the ruins?
Left over me
Left over me
This is a heart, and that's what you're beating
Is that enough,
Is that enough?

Cause since you fled the scene
What remains is obscene
I guess the layer left is just for show

And burried in concrete
The proof you swore to keep
Some kind of error shaped the tumor's glow

Why don't you take the whole
Since nothing else is sold
We burnt the rubber, we'll inhale the glue

And since the head won't fall
And there's no road back home
How many parts were we severed into

Is this the game?
Is this the game?
Should I still listen?
What should I blame?

And what's your name again?
What's your name again?
I see you shouting
But I can't hear a thing

///

from Was this part of what you believed?, releases September 17, 2020

///

MOWUKIS is a solo project by Louis-Louise Kay.

Written, composed, performed by Louis-Louise Kay.

Mixed and Produced by Louis-Louise Kay
Mastering by Cem Oral at "Jammin Masters" / Berlin

Recorded at [partial:order] / France
MARE NOSTRUM Records

Was this part of what you believed?

Misaligned

Division LP Out Now: 
https://ffm.to/violentvickiedivision
*Limited Edition* CDs & T-shirt:
https://violentvickie.bandcamp.com/merch
YouTube:
youtube.com/violentvickie?sub_confirmation=1

He wants me to 
He wants me to 
He wants me to 
He wants me to

Get more violent 
Get more violent 
Get more violent 
Get more violent

He wants me to 
He wants me to 
He wants me to 
He wants me to

Get more silent 
Get more silent 
Get more silent
Get more silent

All day every day
All day every day

He wants me to 
He wants me to 
He wants me to 
He wants me to

Get more violent 
Get more violent 
Get more violent 
Get more violent

He wants to take
He wants to take
He wants to take
He wants to take

Take it over
Take it over
Take it over
Take it over

All day every day
All day every day

You play pretty good for a girl
You play pretty good for a girl


Vocals & Synth: Vickie
Guitar & Mix: E
Drums: Tihani Ko

Division

Get Violent

Paul Nagle   -   Tree (1981)

Blood From Tear Ducts

Double Versions by Lights That Chnge

‘End Credits’ is a nihilistic yet optimistic track about slipping into the unknown of the afterlife. Musically joyous, lyrically dower this track perfectly sums up the highs and lows of realising our human condition as we hopelessly and defiantly trudge towards the end.

End Credits

My Life. Your Life. Our Life is released on Friday December 4 2020. From debut album Distance which is now available wherever you listen: https://ffm.to/distancealbum

My Life. Your Life. Our Life - Popcorn Fiend

I'll Never Survive

Wales’ Lights That Change to release single MAY 11. 
 
"A truly beautiful slow burning slice of dreamy bright pop" - Louder Than War

"A brooding intro brings us into a sonic world, suggesting something of classic shoegaze flavour whilst shooting firmly for the mysterious unknown future...a radiosexy reinvigoration of early 4AD spirit" - Joe Foster (Creation Records)
 
" A haunting, shimmering, deceptively simple slice of widescreen shoegaze that knows 100% what it's all about. A winner" - Producer Fran Ashcroft (Damon Albarn, Lords of Acid)
 
"Sublime slice of dream-pop inspired heaven, full of hauntingly beautiful vocal tones, floating progressions & blissfully unassuming guitar lines" -Primal Music Blog
 
"Stunning and haunting…outstanding showmanship and seductive melody" - The Sound of Confusion

FOR FANS OF: Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins,The Cure, This Mortal Coil, Marissa Nadler

Lights That Change is an alternative ethereal dreampop outfit, hailing from North Wales and headed by Marc Joy. After many years producing other artists, he finally turned his attention towards his own creative endeavours. Thus was born Lights That Change, channeling new energies into sculpting horizons of perfect dreamscapes, primarily based on guitars.
 
Lights That Change released their debut EP ‘Rainbow On Your Shoulder’ in 2013, followed by ‘Whispers in February’ and have received support from BBC, Tom Robinson, and Amazing Radio, among others. 

The debut LP ‘Byzantium’, which includes vocals from Rebecca Palin (Golden Fable) and Mandy Clare, some bass from John Bryan, drum programming from Mal Holmes (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)is now available on all online stores.

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Double Versions by Lights That Chnge

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