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Taken from "Monkey Banana Kitchen" CD/LP/DL.

"Family Fodder exude an exhilarating sense that everything was possible, that there weren't any limits to imagination and humour.  The scope of their musical range remains as dizzying and exciting as it once was." (Time Out New York)

Staubgold proudly presents the legendary first album from 1980 by UK underground heroes Family Fodder, for the first time reissued on CD and vinyl. The CD version comes as a lovingly assembled compilation (total running time: 79:52 min !). It features the complete "Monkey Banana Kitchen" LP, the 12" EP "Schizophrenia Party" (1981) and the 7" singles "Film Music" (1981) and "The Big Dig" (1982), all originally released on Fresh Records. Guest musicians include This Heat's Charles Bullen on drums, guitar, vocals, percussion and viola.

The Wire magazine listed "Monkey Banana Kitchen" among their "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)" and wrote: "A loose collection of friends and, more often than not, wanderers, Family Fodder reached their apex (or at least one of them) with Monkey Banana Kitchen. The music took the ferocity of contemporaneous British punk and scaled it way back. They also eschewed the giant pop hook, replacing it with the hoop jumping of songs in three languages, instruments played for only four seconds, harmonic call-and-response motifs and opaque but symbolic political lyrics. Multiple reprises of phrases and fragments result in a much more subtle and effective memory-tickle. I can't count how many instruments finally made it onto the album, though piano (providing much of the rhythm), melodica, sax, synth and cowbell dominate. Their integrated eclecticism is actually layer after thin layer of dub, jazz and New Wave - peering down into this multi-ply music, you detect traces of structural complexity, and the pop that's there blurs. Lesson No 537 from Fodder members: participate only when absolutely necessary - knowing when to pare down makes it easier to transcend."

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'Below a Massive Dark Land' (Release Date: September 27, 2024)
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"THE NEW DISSENT"
(Single • 2025)

Following the breakthrough success of their 2024 debut album, Ravens and Roses return more enigmatic and irreverent than ever.
"When the clocks stop, you'll know which side you chose."

A corrosive blend of post-punk urgency and new wave seduction, "The New Dissent" arrives as both warning and rebellion—wrapped in a dissonant melody that lingers like smoke after a revolution.

Lyrics:
They stitch the truth with plastic thread,
A hollow vote, a script they’ve fed.
The streets are clean, the protests neat
"Repeat the lie until it’s creed."

This is the sound—the fractured chant,
A throat cut dry by the absent hand.
They trade our teeth for muted cheers,
But the cracks still spread… year by year.

The new dissent won’t march, won’t break,
It’s in the dust that storms the gate.
A fist unclenched, a numbered name
Their peace is just a debt we pay.

The courts are built with falling bricks,
The law’s a dog that licks its chain.
They auction time in pixeled strips,
"Sign here—your soul’s already framed."

The new dissent won’t march, won’t break,
It’s in the dust that storms the gate.
A fist unclenched, a numbered name
Their peace is just a debt we pay.

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