Welcome to Song, by Toad's MAGIC BEANZ! This is a wee sampler of six new band's we'll be working with this year - a complete rejuvenation of the label, in many ways.

We'll be releasing stuff by our more established collaborators of course, but 2015 will be dominated by the new people.

In February we have Le Thug's six-song vinyl EP 'Place Is' - electronic-infused shoegaze with gorgeous, dreamy vocals. 

Then in April the debut album by Garden of Elks, called 'A Distorted Sigh', which is all short, sharp, punchy as fuck indie rock songs. Picking the singles from this was a bit of a challenge as they're pretty much all singles.

Ian Turnbull from Broken Records has his own album coming out too - a beautiful collection of instrumental drone and detail, out as limited run vinyl under the name of digitalanalogue in March.

Then in May we have Greco-Portuguese newcomers Numbers Are Futile, whose hypnotic, percussive album of thrumming electronica is called 'Sunlight on Black Horizon'.

We're still waiting on a final mix, so we don't have a release date, but either early Summer or mid-Autumn will see Edinburgh's sludgey, shoegazey indie rockers Plastic Animals release their debut album 'Pictures From the Blackout'.

And finally, in February we'll be recording some more stuff with Passion Pusher, whose Couch King EP we released in November 2014 on cassette.

So 2015 will be all about the new kids at Song, by Toad, but don't worry, Adam Stafford has a new record on the way, we have a Split 10" with Rob St. John and Woodpigeon and Meursault have disintegrated and been re-born again as Supermoon, and Jonnie Common has all sorts of ideas too, so we won't be unrecognisable, just with a youthful spring in our collective step. 

Enjoy, and have a fantastic New Year yourselves.

Cheers,
    Matthew

Numbers Are Futile - Vice Over Reason

Swift Metropolis

Country Pales

The Evil Usses second album Amateur Pro Wrestling is finally with us and we couldnt be happier to be releasing it. Having released their Self Titled debut album in 2015 we couldn't wait to get some more music out. Since then the band have been busy working in several other projects as well as playing extensively homing in their unique blend of psychedelic jazz.

Amateur Pro Wrestling was produced by John Dieterich (Deerhoof) and engineered by Oscar Rowe in the band's home studio.

The record is a true collaboration, with each member contributing equally to the writing process. 'Amateur Pro Wrestling' is an album of mutual appreciation of sound as art, working with pastiche, subversion and humour, yet not without sincerity. It is the combined effort of artists who seek not to fit into prescribed boxes but rather to explore the indefinable gaps between genres.

Track List:

Amateur Pro Wrestling
Buzz Gots Beef
Gambino
Pre-Op Pop
Somebody Loves Beastie
Freya
Bonus Time
Zimmer
Ipso
Septopode

Amateur Pro Wrestling

The Evil Usses - Gambino

'Galaxilympics' is the title track of Pikacyu-Makoto's forthcoming album, out August 4th through Upset The Rhythm.

www.upsettherhythm.co.uk

Galaxilympics

Pikacyu-Makoto - 'Galaxilympics'

One way (Electronica / Experimental)

Dream Lions

Some more funny medieval music! Might try and start a band to play this music who knows

T.S. Lancelot - Green Benny

Salome Koridze local music enthusiast shares an hour of music featuring some Experimental, Lo-Fi, Psychedelic Rock, and Avant-Prog, along with Modern, Neo-Classical music & more.

Salome Koridze [Selectors Block] [29.04.2020]

SLOTH METROPOLIS is a musical mythology & ongoing sloth-themed rock opera told in prog, psych, folk and paper mache.

Swift Metropolis

Sloth Metropolis

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