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The title song of the forthcoming début album from Candy Says, Oxford's lo-fi chic pop garage recording collective.

Not Kings (the album) will be released on 28 May 2014, and you can see Candy Says live:

28 May - The Waiting Room, London (album launch)
29 May - Truck Store, Oxford
29 May - Midnight live streaming gig from the garage
Tickets available from http://candysays.it


Not Kings

Moon Gangs - I

'Lungs' is the latest free track from <a href="http://www.abadgeoffriendship.com/artists/penguins-kill-polar-bears" target="blank">Penguins Kill Polar Bears</a>, taken from their debut album Building Homes From Broken Bones, out 7th April 2014. 

The album is the follow-up to their 2011 EP Sapling, which raised rock hairs and post-rock eyebrows from the likes of The Line of Best Fit to Rock Sound, This Is Fake DIY to Clash Magazine and everyone in between.

The album is an atmospheric genre bending masterclass that fans of Mogwai, Aereogramme and Explosions In The Sky would happily have in their personal collection. Each song flows effortlessly into the next with the boys taking their songwriting to a new level, smoothing out the rougher edges of their previous EPs and transforming their sound into something more intelligent, thoughtful and esoteric. 

Although they take the music seriously, their influences stretch far, from the aforementioned post-rock greats to Smashing Pumpkins and Limmy’s Show. 

PKPB have already played sold out shows with The Twilight Sad, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Xcerts and British Sea Power, even ‘the curse of the merch stand’ hasn’t put them off playing a blinding live set; every time they’ve set out on tour their merch stand has either been robbed or set on fire!

Now the line-up is complete with Gregor Graham taking on bass and vocal duties, the Linlithgow lads - Ben Proudlock, Fraser Sanaghan and Kieran McGuckian - are ready to represent as one of Scotland’s finest young exports.

Building Homes From Broken Bones is released 7th April via So Say We All.

Lungs

Released 6 March 2014.

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Cruel To Be Kind

Taken from Omi Palone's S/T debut LP co-released by Faux Discx and Negative Space on 14th April 2014, available on vinyl LP (limited to 300) and digital download.

PRE-ORDER NOW:
Via Faux Discx: https://fauxdiscx.bandcamp.com/album/omi-palone
Via Negative Space: http://negativespacemusic.bigcartel.com/product/omi-palone-omi-palone-12

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Following their long sold-out self-released cassette of 2011 and two split 7”’s in 2012, Omi Palone will release their debut self-titled long-player as a joint release between Faux Discx and new label Negative Space. 

The 8-track record is a frenetic fuzz-tinged pop headrush of barely-restrained punk outbursts. Singer-guitarist Philip Serfaty's deep and sleepy baritone reverberates over urgent, rushing chord progressions and incisive rhythmic precision.  Frantic jangling guitar hooks fall away to one-chord motorik chug, hypnotic drone and looming fuzz, giving the tracks a hounded, runaway feel.

Finding strength in brevity, the band explores and experiments with what can be expressed in a 3 minute post-punk song; controlled, complex melodies interweaving in amongst simple (but not simplistic) repetitive structures, interrupted only by stomping middle-eights. Artistic allegiances nod towards an Antipodean influence: the output of 80s New Zealand labels such as Flying Nun & Xpressway, as well as the current Australian punk scene. 

OMI PALONE – Shallow Divide

The Moons - Heart and Soul
Out: 31 March
Schnitzel Records

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The Moons - Heart and Soul

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Penguins Kill Polar Bears return with their debut album Building Homes From Broken Bones, out 7th April 2014. The album is the follow-up to their 2011 EP Sapling, which raised rock hairs and post-rock eyebrows from the likes of The Line of Best Fit to Rock Sound, This Is Fake DIY to Clash Magazine and everyone in between.

“…should get the pulse racing…” - The Line of Best Fit


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