CONSTANT MONGREL - Heavy Breathing LP. Out late July on Siltbreese Records. R.I.P Society is handling distro in Australia plus releasing a CD edition that pairs both their LPs on one disc! “Beginning with the jarringly great “Complete,” this is this post-punk art damage that spares no one, not even themselves. With eight tracks that smolder, crackle and snap, Heavy Breathing is yet another plumed feather in Constant Mongrel’s cap, sitting them—in terms of magnitude and diversity—alongside fellow Aussie gristle slingers such as X, Babeez and Seems Twice. Heavy Breathing is sure to be another top corker for 2013. And beyond.”

Constant Mongrel - Complete

RIP040 Red Red Krovvy 7"
Red Red Krovvy went through puberty together. They separated as young adults. Separated by state lines, they can't play often. Songs are created around necessity. Red Red Krovvy have fit 8 songs on this 7" and it still plays at 45rpm

Red Red Krovvy - EZ Video

Love Chants - Untitled II

RIP015: Golden Staph - Self Titled LP. Out April 19 in Australia for Record Store Day and soon after in other regions. 

Golden Staph - Last Caesar

RIP042 Rat Columns - Leaf LP (Out early May 2014)
'Leaf' is the second full-length LP by Rat Columns, released on Sydney imprint RIP Society. It follows the 'Sceptre Hole' LP and a four-song 7" on San Francisco label Smartguy Records. David West started the band in Perth and took it to San Francisco for a couple of years and now totes it between San Francisco and Melbourne. The band includes Alex and Callum from Australia and Jon, Matt and Robert from America. Rat Columns is inspired by frosted jangle, sad pop, post-punk and soft fuzz. 'Leaf' was recorded in San Francisco, in a beautiful studio belonging to the beautiful man and musical artist Kelley Stoltz, on the Residents' old tape machine. It weaves into a rather pop slipstream at times with diversions into grey clang and bedroom disco dreams. It was mixed in San Francisco and on a farm in rural Western Australia. Along with the regular RC crew the record features contributions from Australian underground starlets Mikey Young and James Vinciguerra. David's Lace Curtain buddy Mikey co-wrote the Leaf track 'Fooling Around'. You can catch the mutating RC ensemble in various venues in Australia and North America this year.

Rat Columns - Another Day

RIP043 / DIS008 Low Life Dogging LP
The Curb Your Enthusiasm of Death Rock. 
Out Now.  

Low Life - Dogging

M.O.B. - 88 Miles

RIP043 / DIS008 Low Life Dogging LP
Out now. 

Low Life - Friends

RIP046 Constant Mongrel - DCM 7" EP
Out January 20-ish, 2015. 

Constant Mongrel - The Law

RIP048. Ghastly Spats - Spinozism Exorcism LP 
Out August 7, 2015


Ghastly Spats - Obsessed

RIP049. Cured Pink - As A Four Piece Band LP
Out August 7, 2015. 

Cured Pink - (I'm) Swimming

Destiny 3000 - 380D

RIP046 Woollen Kits - Girl With Heart 7” 
Out August 28. One time edition of 300. 

Woollen Kits - Girl With Heart

RIP051: Miss Destiny - Self Titled LP
Out June 2016. USA tour in July. 

Miss Destiny - Law And Order

RIP051 Miss Destiny LP 
Out July 12, 2016. Touring the USA July/August, spread the word: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1055318007836751/

MISS DESTINY (Australia) USA Tour, Summer 2016
Friday 15th July - Cake Shop, NYC
Saturday 16th July - Max Fish, NYC
Monday 18th July - Sit n' Spin Records, Philadelphia
Tuesday 19th July - Everybody Hits, Philadelphia
Thursday 21st July - House show*, Pittsburgh
Friday 22nd July - Now That's Class, Cleveland
Saturday 23rd July - Double Happiness, Columbus
Sunday 24th July - The Empty Bottle, Chicago
Monday 25th July - Instore @ Permanent records, Chicago
Tuesday 26th July - The Lost Well, Austin
Wednesday 27th July - Hotel Vegas, Austin
Friday 29th July - The Whistle Stop, San Diego
Saturday 30th July - Instore @ Permanent Records, LA
Sunday 31st July - The Smell, LA
Monday 1st August - All Star Lanes, Eagle Rock
Tuesday 2nd August - Gigi's, Ventura
Wednesday 3rd August, The Metro, Oakland

Miss Destiny -  Killers (LP out July 12)

 Constant Mongrel - Everything Goes Wrong LP. Due out around April, it's say, most likely.Split release between R.I.P Society and 80/81 Records. Giving you a sneak peak cause these guys are coming to Sydney for the Woollen Kits LP launch.... http://www.facebook.com/events/112114872241092/ 





Constant Mongrel - Reflex

RIP053: The Native Cats - John Sharp Toro
Out February 2, 2018.

Tasmanian electronic pub rock iconoclasts the Native Cats have, after ten years, become completely unmoored. Chloe Alison Escott read Nevada, spun out into an unplanned gender crisis, then finally transitioned, changed her name and became one of those true authentic selves you hear about on the news; Julian Teakle read The Big Midweek, stopped writing Peter Hook bass lines and started writing Steve Hanley ones instead. Metamorphosis! Tumult! And a new album: at last, February 2, 2018 on RIP Society, their meticulous masterpiece, John Sharp Toro.

The timeline tells the story. They recorded ten songs in a day at their home studio in South Hobart. They didn't touch any of it for almost a year while Chloe's whole life exploded and reassembled itself. Then Chloe channeled some of that personal transformation into the album, retaining Julian's invigorating bass lines but radically re-recording and rearranging everything else. The end result merges the chaotic urgency of Swell Maps and the Fall with the idiosyncratic production and labyrinthine album concepts of Blood Orange and Kendrick Lamar. There are recurring lyrics, haunting reprises, codes upon codes, foreign voices, personal archive recordings, distorted synths that arrive without warning like floodlights cutting through fog. It's about queer isolation and loneliness, transfiguration, the ways that lives and relationships continue after they've been altered; it's also about digital spaces, the US Republican Party in the second half of the 20th century, and James M. Cain's opera-scene noir Serenade, the origin of the album's title.

But beneath the coils and complications is the most bracing and immediate album the Native Cats have ever recorded. There's life in every corner of every song: guest drummer Sarah Hennies sends the band twisting and turning into new territory with just a kick and a snare; Julian has never been more animated or inventive in his bass playing than he is here, as he makes each song bounce, swing, or stampede as he sees fit; and Chloe sings mightily and without inhibition at last, with a voice that's entirely her own, every word lit up in neon, every line rich with meaning. It's John Sharp Toro, the exhilarating queer post-punk puzzle-box mystery thriller you never knew you needed and you certainly never expected the Native Cats to be the ones to deliver.

The Native Cats - Soft Chambers

From the album John Sharp Toro, available from February 16 in Australia with other continents and maybe planets to follow soon after.

The Native Cats - John Sharp Toro / Nixon Nevada

RIP052 Snake & Friends LP. 
Out soon on R.I.P. Society

Snake & Friends - Men's Shed

RIP026: Whores - Mob Reality 7"
Out late June on R.I.P Society Records.

Whores - Mob Reality

RIP029: Holy Balm - It's You LP
Out July on R.I.P Society Records, distributed by FUSE MUSIC.
Residents of North America (and due to our ridiculous postal rates pretty anywhere else in the world) get it from Not Not Fun.

Holy Balm - Take it

RIP033: RAW PRAWN 7"
Sydney’s Raw Prawn have been spreading themselves around for a little bit now, forming in early 2011. Made up of members from bands as disparate as Holy Balm and Whores - Raw Prawns unique blend of weird rock and endearingly quipped 'yobo punk' recalls The Urinals, strains of Australian ‘murder punk’ such as Razar and The Victims, and even the refracted post-punk of UK band Swell Maps. Raw Prawn have played a slew of shows in Sydney with local bands, have recently supported Home Blitz (US) and will play at this years Maggot Fest in Melbourne. Their debut seven inch is forthcoming on the mighty R.I.P. Society, and a full-length in the works for release mid-late 2013.

Out January 14. Distributed in the US by Easter Bilby. 

Side A. 
None Left

Side B.
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Stitched Me Up




Raw Prawn - None Left

RIP032: Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Ready For Boredom
Out January 14 on LP/CD/Digital.

Ready For Boredom is the debut full length from Sydney’s most aptly named power punk band – a charming mix of the best of the ‘70s punk explosion with the mid-‘80s US independent underground. Their approach is grounded in the UK pre-punk pubs and wild bands like Dr. Feelgood and Slade, who pre-empted the punk resurgence of rock n roll in the pop charts with bold riffing and a no frills approach, much in the same manner The Replacements would do a decade later in the American Midwest. This combination of the industrious post-hardcore US and the song oriented UK punk finds expression in the devout interrogation of ‘Sally’, in the heartbroken longing of ‘Bite My Tongue’, in the tribute to all guitar riffing history of ‘Devotion’.

Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Bite My Tongue

Bed Wettin' Bad Boys - Any Day Now

RIP034: Housewives 7"
Side A: Special Power, Who Am I
Side B: That's Chat, Lick The Pip 

Housewives - Lick The Pip

RIP007: Kitchen's Floor - Regrets 7"
Originally released in 2010 in edition of 300 and selling out within a couple of month.  
Re-issued (and I say re-issued as we had to get new plates made) in July 2013 as it's an important part of the Kitchen's Floor discography. Although some would argue that Still Night is one of the worst Kitchen's Floor songs, the consensus at R.I.P HQ is that it's one of the best.

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