art hard again

Produced by The Death Of Pop.

Artwork by George Abram.

Released 15 August 2013.

Tell Me My Name

Video: http://youtu.be/flUIzM-AJj4

Produced by The Death of Pop

Artwork by George Abram

Tasteless

"Silent Picture Show" is from the first Unquiet Nights album - "21st Century Redemption Songs".  Since the album's release, the band have been appearing on Absolute Radio, Amazing Radio, BBC Radio 1,  RTE (Ireland) &amp; RAI 1 (Italy).  As a live act they've supported Bloc Party (Scala London), Toploader (Kasbah) as well as touring Italy.  Major US magazines like Under The Radar &amp; Music Now have featured "21st Century Redemption Songs".
  
http://www.unquietnights.com
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Silent Picture Show

Track 5 from The Black Tambourines third EP 'Chica' - their first new material in almost a year. Released on December 19th on Art is Hard Records on cassette. Our Soundcloud downloads have run out but you can still get it for free from here http://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/track/27-25-blues

The Black Tambourines - 27 - 25 Blues

For any not aware of the prolific output of Gorgeous Bully aka Plymouth’s Thomas Crang, he crafts heart-on-sleeve bedroom grunge pop at a prolific rate. As well as featuring on our latest compilation back in 2011, he has also made frequent appearances on the super-spot-on music blogger collective Lostx3 and featured on TLOBF’s track of the day.

Lo-fi is a term bandied around far too often, but in ‘The Young Obese’ each minuscule of fuzz does nothing but add to the warmness of the recordings. From the opener ‘Never Cry’ to the shoegaze’esque outro of ‘Adjusting to Change’ the EP is full of tumultuous grunge pop tales of misery, heartbreak and hating your hometown.

The 5 track EP is set to be released on ltd edition cassette (Feb 20th), packaged in a custom designed cigarette packet and is available to preorder from our <a href="http://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-young-obese" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>

DOWNLOADS EXPIRED BUT STILL AVAILABLE FREE FROM OUR BANDCAMP



Gorgeous Bully - Never Cry

HAZY DAYZ

Perfect Hair Forever are a band located as far away from our hometown of Plymouth as you can possibly get; Auckland, NZ. 'My Teen Idol' invokes a bedroom Buddy Holly, particularly appropriate given that today marks the 50th anniversary of his death. Perfect pop that despite its candid lofi nature conjures up a colourful kaleidoscope of ice cream vans, water sprinklers and listening to beat-up Beat Happening cassettes on lazy evenings.
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We asked Perfect Hair Forever what they thought this weeks pizza should be, their answer "a burrito, except a pizza". At least if the whole band thing doesn't work out they've got a future in pizza development labatories. We've heard Buddy Holly loved pizza, so in tribute to the late great we have named this weeks pizza Burrito Holly. The one physical copy of the release will (as ever) go up for grabs at 1pm.

Perfect Hair Forever - My Teen Idol

Ice White

As ever we are extremely honoured to announce our latest release. Best Friends are a Sheffield four piece that we’ve been fans of since their very first demos started getting posted around. Their debut EP was 7 tracks of garage surf pop that perfectly embodied hazy summer days and we’re pleased to say their second EP ‘Throwing Up’ is much more of the same.

Being suckers for non conventional packaging we have worked with the band to put together a 21cm square 12 page photo booklet of halloween parties, crowdsurfing at house shows and other rad photos. The CD is encased within the booklet itself. At the risk of sounding terribly middle class, its a bit like one of those coffee table books but with a CD inside - we will hopefully get some pictures up soon! You can listen to the full EP and preorder the EP from our Bandcamp - http://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/throwing-up

Best Friends - Wasting Time

From the Family Portrait split 7" also featuring Joanna Gruesome, Playlounge and KEEL HER. Full details and pre order link for the record/tshirt bundle available from our Bandcamp page http://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/family-portrait

"Cherryade is a bonafide piece of grunge pop, deserving to be filed somewhere between My Bloody Valentine and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. If you think you've heard this before, I can assure you that you haven't heard it done as effortlessly and expertly as this."

Gum - Cherryade

From the Family Portrait split 7" also featuring Gum, Playlounge and KEEL HER. Full details and pre order link for the record/tshirt bundle available from our Bandcamp page http://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/family-portrait

"Joanna Gruesome are 5 piece from Cardiff who seem to be indebted to the boy/girl vocals, 90's grunge and Sarah Records (this song mentions at least one of their bands) . To cite the ever correct Jake May, they're twee but with a huge helping of FUCK YEAH! This particular track seems to be directed at kids who pretend to like bands, we're looking at you annoying ginger man on the BT adverts."

Joanna Gruesome - Sweater

Battles (Demo)

Ribbons

The Death Of Pop are Angus James & Oliver James.

Drums by Thom James.

Produced by The Death Of Pop.

Artwork by George Abram.

Released 17th March 2013.

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