Underexposed tracks we've tweeted over the past few months.

Underexposed 20170421

Order LP/CD: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/307
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"Wordless Wonder" is the long awaited full length from Real Numbers.  It follows up a pair of 12" EPs on Three Dimensional Records, a single on Florida's Dying, and recent appearances on cassettes from Forged Artifacts and No Problem.  Tenderly crafted by Matt Castore at his St. Paul, MN studio A Harder Commune from late 2015 to early 2016, it is presented here on Slumberland Records for your enjoyment.

Wordless Wonder

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Real Numbers - New Boy

DOMINO is the lead single from Animal House's debut EP, "SORRY", out 18th November.

Engineered by Josh @ Brighton Electric
Mixed by Steve Schram

Sorry

Domino

PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS:

Album: FEED THE RATS
Cat no: Launch103
Release date: 20 January

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”, as a sage wiser and more debauched than most of us once remarked. Such is the headspace of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, whose animalistic headspace is set out by their very moniker, yet who have wasted little time in creating an almighty psychic charge that has blown minds and summoned bedlam in sweat-drenched venues across the UK’s underground and beyond.

“It’s a pretty perfect balance of obnoxiousness, ridiculousness, intensity and theatrics, and somewhere within that spectrum is where our music sits too.” reckons Matthew Baty, whose vein-popping onstage performances and cathartic bellow form a primary ingredient of the Newcastle five-piece’s devastating live shows. “We truly love the emotionally dark bands that we are in (Ommadon, Blown Out, Khunnt). Pigs however provided an opportunity to do something different, something that is fun with a different kind of intensity.”

Playing their first gig supporting Goat at what was only the latter’s second ever show, the band have gigged relentlessly with kindred spirits including The Cosmic Dead and Luminous Bodies, not to mention gracing festivals like Supernormal and Portugal’s Reverence with their feral attack. Yet the time has come for this band to transcend the realm of word-of-mouth phenomenon and be judged on their feverish and demented collision of psych-drone dementia and riff-driven salvation alone. 

The inarguable proof is Feed The Rats, the overwhelming first album the band have created for Rocket Recordings - equal parts righteous repetition, bludgeoning brute force and Sabbathian squalor, its alchemical charge has the power to transform bleary-eyed abandon into small-hours revelation. This three-track, forty-minute monument of chaotic catharsis captures the everything-on-eleven spirit of the band’s live manifestation whilst adding a level of finesse and texture often less easily accessible in a dangerous haze of flying hair, discarded clothes and spilt premium lager. Channeling the grimy trip hazards of Monster Magnet’s ‘Spine Of God’ through a prism of kraut-derived repetition and Part Chimp style bloodymindedness, the resulting hallucinatory vortex appears constantly on the realm of breaking point. 

Yet for Baty, the porcine realm is less about a nihilistic quest for fiery oblivion than one might imagine. “You know, I think we’ve experienced it, many times. It’s those gigs where we can almost sense that everyone in the room is engaged. The energy created is so thick you can almost bite down on it and it feels like there’s no longer any barrier between band and audience. Those are the special shows, where there’s a solidarity and a very visceral bond. That, and being able to smell our amps melting”.

Amps and brains alike, as these psychic omnivores bring seven times the joy, seven times the pain, seven times the dementia and deliverance. 

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Feed the Rats

Sweet Relief

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Sweet Relief

Plná Krvy

GNOOMES
TSCHAK!

http://hyperurl.co/GnoomesTschak

From adversity can come triumph, and from catharsis inspiration. Such has been the case for Gnoomes, the threesome hailing from Perm, Russia, whose second release for Rocket Recordings, ‘Tschak!’ arrives in the wake of considerable turbulence and tumult within their city and lives, all of which has only been fuel for a creative epiphany that has seen them create a deeply evocative work rich with vibrant experimentation and saturated in a widescreen sense of wonder. 

It may only have been eighteen months since ‘Ngan!’, the band’s first release for Rocket, whose self-styled ‘stargaze’ approach marked a glorious collision between melodic sweetness, skysurfing guitar experimentation and motorik magnificence, yet the band have already moved on to a sonic landscape still more adventurous and ethereal on ‘Tschak!’, not to mention an emotionally resonant approach that’s bewitching to witness. Taking in torrents of guitar noise and electronic extrapolations both blissfully kosmische and aggressively abrasive, it exists outside of all or any convenient genres, a vivid and singular work by three dreamers-at-heart forced to manifest their vision into a psychic defence to the circumstances surrounding them. 

Working in splendid isolation thanks to a studio space provided by their work for a local radio station, the band had time and space for the alchemical process of creating ‘Tschak!’ entirely on their own terms. Central to the this were a collection of Russian synths that they gathered, whose eccentric arpeggios and analogue textures form crucial ingredients on songs like ‘Severokamsk’ and the title track, arriving at a sound that forms a star-crossed and timeless marriage between the experimentation of krautrock and the lineage of Warp Records.

Forging forth into unknown realms both physical and metaphysical, the band recently completed a UK tour - including an appearance at Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia. Yet with the dreamlike radiance of the potent and otherworldly ‘Tschak!’ on their side, this adventure is already well on its way.

Gnoomes - Cascais

Released on 04/11/2016.
All words by Kyle Charles James Burgess.
All music by WE CAME FROM WOLVES.
Produced, engineered & mixed by Bruce Rintoul at 45-a side studios.
Mastered by Ed Woods of Ed Woods Mastering.

Places Unfamiliar

Wecamefromwolves - Places Unfamiliar

Taken from our debut album, Nothing Gives, released on 2nd December everywhere!
Pre-order now - 
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LP & CD: slowcoaches.bandcamp.com

Drag

"Fighting Myself" by Husky Loops:

Written and Played by Husky Loops;
Produced by Pier Danio Forni;
Recorded at Hackney Road Studios, Tiny Factory Studios and Mushroom Studios, 2016;
Engineered by Enrico Berto;
Mixed by Enrico Berto at Mushroom Studios, 2016;
Mastered by Pete Maher;
Cover art by Pietro Garrone;
Photography by Magdalena Siwicka.

Pre Order our 12" EP here, containing "Tempo" and other 4 tracks: ilovealcopop.awesomedistro.com/products/…-preorder

Fighting Myself

'Death to the Lads' from our fourth LP, to be released early 2017 on Pool House Records (Aus), SideOneDummy Records (Nth America), Specialist Subject Records (UK) and Uncle M (Euro)

Death to the Lads

Nothin' Left To Do In This Dead End Town
The first single off the upcoming cassette, Dead Beats - due May 16, 2017
Written and recorded by Heat Wave
Mixed and Mastered by Mikey Young

Dead Beats

Dead End Town

First single from Vancouver's The Courtneys sophomore album 'II'

Out Feb 17th on Flying Nun Records.

The Courtneys - Silver Velvet

Taken from 'All Of Them Naturals', out December 2016.

Sharpen your pencils, pseudo intellectuals, the Minneapolis Uranium Club Band have returned with a new LP! All Of Them Naturals brings you a collection of new songs that sound exactly like Wire and exactly like Devo and exactly like the Randoms and exactly like Total Control and exactly like the Shitty Limits and exactly like Eddy Current and exactly like The Fall without Mark E. Smith's languidness. It's like the Sex Pistols misfiring. All eight tracks come fully approved by The Sunbelt Chemical Corporation.

Uranium Club - Opus

1st single off the Rainbrother debut album 'Tales From the Drought'
Vinyl & downloads available at Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2t6Hhuu
Spotify: http://sptfy.com/1TDD
iTunes: https://apple.co/2F0DLmV

Tales From the Drought

Break Out

From their "s/t" debut album, out March 31st, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

(Trouble In Mind Records) RAYS "Drop Dead"

Menace Beach - Suck It Out

From the album Lemon Memory out 20 January.  Order on CD / yellow LP with scratch n sniff sleeve from : http://smarturl.it/lemonMBSite 

Or digitally here: http://smarturl.it/lemonMBSite

Menace Beach on tour in the UK as follows:

20 Jan, Leeds, Jumbo Records Instore 
23 Jan, London, Rough Trade East Instore 
24 Jan, Bristol, Rise Instore 
25 Jan, Nottingham, Rough Trade Instore
31 Jan, Sheffield, The Picture House
01 Feb, Leicester, The Cookie  
02 Feb, Birmingham, Hare & Hounds  
03 Feb, Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach 
04 Feb, Southampton, The Joiners  
06 Feb, Oxford, Bullingdon Arms 
07 Feb, Brighton, The Hope & Ruin  
08 Feb, London, Moth Club  
09 Feb, Cambridge, The Portland Arms
10 Feb, Liverpool, The Magnet  
11 Feb, Manchester, Deaf Institute  
14 Feb, Glasgow, Broadcast  
15 Feb, Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete's 
16 Feb, Newcastle, The Cluny 
17 Feb, Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

Menace Beach - Suck It Out

L.A. Witch
"Brian" 7"
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NEW ALBUM COMING IN 2017 on SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS
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Brian by L.A. Witch

It Changes is written by Annelotte De Graaf
Produced and recorded by Ben Greenberg
Mixed by Jez Williams

Guitars by Manuel van den Berg
Bass by Ronald Straetemans
Drums by Jaap Bontekoe
Synths and keys by Ella van der Woude

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman

www.amberarcades.net

It Changes

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