Name: Triangles by PURPUR SPYTT
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Description: From the EP "NITPICK" out on February 28th on Le Syndicat des Scorpions, Pouèt Schallplatten, Kakakids Records & 1000 balles

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Cor Blimey! On August 15th Upset The Rhythm will release a split 7” EP by Linda Smith and The Smashing Times. Both based in Baltimore and both best buds, this record celebrates that friendship sharing two new tracks by each act; united by DIY spirit, a bedroom-pop sensibility and now a puddle of black vinyl. Today you can witness their tea-based, umbrella-powered advertisement, listen to Linda’s track ‘So Long Ago’ (streaming through the digital ether) and even choose to pre-order the coveted disc yourself from our Bandcamp or UTR webshop: https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/
 
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Songwriter Linda Smith has a gentle but unconventional experimental style that continues to evolve as she adds new entries to her storied catalogue. Smith’s pioneering work with four-track production in the '80s found her at the beginning of a home-recording movement that would set the pace for the decades of indie rock that followed. During this most active period, Smith's music was limited mostly to obscure cassette and 7" releases. This trailblazing time was recently revisited on Captured Tracks’ compilation ‘Till Another Time: 1988-1996’. Shortly after Smith’s retrospective, she teamed up with like-mind and collaborator Nancy Andrews to release an album of beguiling pop entitled ‘A Passing Cloud’ (2023). The duo performed songs from that record at Upset The Rhythm’s 20th anniversary party at Café OTO that same year. 2024 saw further reissues of Smith’s music including Nothing Else Matters (1995) and I So Liked Spring (1996).
 
The Smashing Times are a premier East Coast Pop Experimental Group. They have also gleefully performed in London for Upset The Rhythm twice in quick succession. Known for their dogtooth style, waggish mod attitude and tumbledown sound, The Smashing Times have holes in their socks and sit idly between The Kinks and Tori Kudo. Their previous albums on K Records, Perennial and Meritorio are a cherished commodity steeped in Paisley psych and slapdash panache. 
 
This split 7” EP comprises 4 new tracks. Two from Linda Smith in keyboard-warble anthem mode and two low-fidelity daytrips by The Smashing Times. It will be released on 500 black vinyl 7”s by Upset The Rhythm on August 15th 2025.

Linda Smith - 'So Long Ago'

Great to be back, just ignore the "razor blade throat" and listen to new stuff from Burnt Envelope, Eraser, Sun Cousto, Jeanines and Honey Radar, and gems from the library from the likes of Space Dust (pictured), Big Boys, Growth, BPeople and France. 

Track listing:

BURNT ENVELOPE - The Plugs
JEANINES - What’s Lost
WORLD OF POOH - Lock Yr Room
HONEY RADAR - Chelsea Frame
SPACE DUST - Cool Car
PISSED OFF ZOMBIES - Garbage
ERASER - Dinner Roll
BPEOPLE - The Other Thing
MR. SCIENCE - Sociobiology
FAGLAR I BUR - Platt
SMOKE BELLOW - Homecoming
SUN COUSTO - I Don’t Wanna Talk
THE PROLES - Police
THE BIG BOYS - Red Green
GROWTH - Ice Age
FRANCE - Destino Scifosi (Part 1)

Radio Dies Screaming #14

'Where I Come From' is the first single taken from Canadian noise-rock demolition crew EarthBall's new album 'Outside Over There'. 'Where I Come From' is a dizzy sprawl of languid drums, spun-out fx, crushed staggering guitars and freaked saxophone extrapolations. This landscape of unruly sound is then stalked through by Izzy's spontaneous vocal projections, the effect is uncanny to say the least.


https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/



EarthBall - 'Where I Come From'

Teenage Menopause invites label affiliate Luca Retraite, also known as Ventre de Biche.

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'Employee' is taken from Dog Chocolate's forthcoming new album 'So Inspired, So Done In', out February 27th 2026 on Upset The Rhythm.

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Dog Chocolate - 'Employee'

Agony Shorthand #1

Traveling the dark corners of DIY sound, from psych to solo guitar to punk to abstract pop to folk to heavy metalloid music – and other corners besides.

Track listing:

OKAY TEMIZ TRIO - Batum
VIA - 1,000 M.P.H.
PUPPET WIPES - Having Ceremony Over His Wife’s Corpse
EXPLICIT CORPSE - I Gotta Gistol
THE STROKE - He’s Gone
SUBVERSE - Still Friends
TINA FULKER - Midweek Girl
ROWLAND TAYLOR - Roughshod Blues
GWENIFER RAYMOND - Bonfire of the Billionaires
JONATHAN HALPER - I Am a Hermit
ONYON - Stereometrie
VICIOUS VISIONS - Drugs
BURNT ENVELOPE - Dirty Spirits
SHARKEY’S MACHINE - Lear Jet Song
THE 012 - Asbestos Lead Asbestos
TWIN TALK - Keep It Heated

Agony Shorthand #2

Too much adrenaline, junk shop glam, drugs in high school, giant girls in fifth grade, a fulfilled request from our trivia winner - and so, so much more. 

Track listing:

YUASA-EXIDE - A Hundred Bucks
HONEYCOMBAK - Sex Change Sadie
THE ARBORS - Love is a Groovy Game
ANNA ST. CLAIR - L’Amour a Travers et a Tort
FAUST - It’s a Bit of a Pain
TINA HARVEY - I’m Waiting For The Man
THE DICKS - Dicks Hate the Police
THE INFANTS - Giant Girl in the Fifth Grade
THE HUNS - Glad He’s Dead
PLASTIC IDOLS - I.U.D.
BOY PROBLEMS - Participation 
AK-47 - The Badge Means You Suck
LA DRUGS - High School
HALF JAPANESE - Too Much Adrenaline
SALAMANDER JIM - Black Star
AXEL GRINDERS - Apparatus of Love
BUNNYBRAINS - On The Floor Again

Agony Shorthand #3

From the EP "NITPICK" out on February 28th on Le Syndicat des Scorpions, Pouèt Schallplatten, Kakakids Records & 1000 balles

Nitpick

Triangles

Purpur Spytt is Norwegian, but she would love to be American. Purpur Spytt is also the name of a strange and satirical project which takes the shape of a post-punk no wave one-woman band with schizophrenic tendency. A bassline, a few guitar-ish harmonies, an eighties synth, a drum machine hidden in the loop pedals and two voices for the price of one.

purpur.spytt@gmail.com

Triangles

PURPUR SPYTT

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