CLASS IN 2016
We've put together a playlist of independent, unsigned or 'under the radar' bands who we've thought were ace in 2016.
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IT'S FINALLY HERE!!! THE DEBUT CREATION FACTORY SINGLE "TODAY'S SATISFACTION"!!! ONLY STREAMABLE RIGHT HERE ON THE LOLIPOP SOUNDCLOUD!!! RECORDED NEXT DOOR, AT LOLIPOP STUDIOS!!! IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE CREATION FACTORY, IT'S TIME TO LISTEN UP!!! TIP TOP OF THE SHELF, GARAGE-PSYCH SOUL FOOT STOMPERS!!! FEATURING MEMBERS OF MYSTIC BRAVES & FRIENDS!!! 7" & FUTURE LP IN THE WORKS!!!

THE CREATION FACTORY - "Today's Satisfaction"

No One's Little Girl

Taken from the album 'Canada' out 14th April on Fox Food Records. Pre-order: https://foxfoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/canada

HENOHENO - Peas & Carrots

Speed Demon

Taken from NARCS' second album, 'A Thinking Animal', released on 8th July via Clue Records.
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HEAD BOY SONNET
Resting heart rate
Low enough
Set in every bone
Low enough and your hauled off by

Both your broken arms

Resting heart rate
Low enough
Set in every bone
Low enough to pull at teeth and drain you away

Pull the roots purge the plant of pests
Leach my sickness nestled in, never the less
I grow

Both your broken arms

I don’t feel sad at all
I look forward to meeting you and all your friends
I don’t feel sad at all
I’ve been implored into meeting you and all of your friends
And all the very best
The very best schools, and schools, and backgrounds, and cheques, and background checks
The sweaty underneath of the head boys neck
The trickle down effect
The necklace you parade so elegantly, effortly, delicately around said neck
The fact that you’re a speck atop a mound of shit about to be blitzed 
You tried to mould the hole but the end didn’t fit
You tried to mould the hole but the end didn’t fit
You tried to mould the hole but the end didn’t fit
And now the tables have turned, you’re wearing dead mans shoes
Perfect fucking fit

A Thinking Animal

Head Boy Sonnet

Fictional Decision

Taken from our debut album, Nothing Gives, released on 2nd December everywhere!
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Four new tracks released as an EP titled 'Low Slow Needle'. Available as a free download. With special thanks this EP is dedicated to Weo.

released 17 October 2011 

The Underground Youth - Midnight Lust

Daisy Tapes

Mind Dead

(Lyrics)
      I feel the same again, my heart it goes into the wind. don’t know a thing you said, but i feel alright. same clothes, another day, try to dress another way for you, is this a parody i don’t feel alright. drive down the interstate, smoke in the engine flashing light , no car but thats okay, i could use a walk. now I’m a walking man, walking without a plan again, look out across the land, what a pretty sight.
 
these days won’t go, i feel like talkin slow, you talk too fast, no conversations last.
these days won’t go, i feel like getting close, then you’ll see, the light inside of me. 

the week it feels so long, lay down in someone else’s lawn, 20s the life for me, i don’t wanna work. don’t wanna get grey hair, don’t want an office chair no way, ill find another plan they can slap my hand, I’m on the run again, hang out with all my friends oh yeah, I’m not a walking man, now I’m on the run. running to you and them, all the ones who tried to hold my hand, don’t try to slow me down, will someone pick me up.  

By: Judah White

Days Won't Go

Hampshire psychedelic shoegaze trio Is Bliss continue to cause a stir with the release of new EP ‘The Honeycomb Explosion’, released 19th May on celebrated label, Club AC30. 

Having received rave reviews for last year’s debut release ‘Velvet Dreams’, produced by Pat Collier (The House of Love, Primal Scream, Swervedriver), the band’s rise has been swift having formed in late 2015. The band were soon signed by acclaimed London based independent record label Club AC30, a label that has a habit of developing artists from the psych/gaze/electronic & dream-pop genres including such acts as Pinkshiunyultrablast, Ringo Deathstarr and Flyying Colours.

With a shared love of Slowdive, Spacemen 3 and Verve, Is Bliss’s first year has seen the band turn heads with their explosive live shows and have supported the likes of Wolf Alice, Telescopes, Nine Black Alps, Mark Gardener and Robin Guthrie in a whirlwind twelve months. The band have also received radio support from the likes of Lauren Laverne, Tom Ravenscroft and Radcliffe & Maconie at BBC Radio 6 Music along with BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio. 

Building on the success of the band’s debut, ‘The Honeycomb Explosion’ opens with the soporific ‘Someone’ that echoes The Warlocks before giving way to effervescent guitars and wig-out drums.

‘Alive (Baby Come On)’ hypnotizes and mesmerises in equal measure, providing a heavy dose of visceral sound; a spaced-out sonic groove as Stuart pleads ‘I can’t satisfy your love’, to a backdrop of deafening feedback guitar. 

The dreampop of ‘Into A Dream’ glitters 60s-like with guitars that turn into waterfalls of sitar and full on, psych induced vibrations before the mystical and magical ‘Tomorrow’ is a trip into the unknown conjuring up a drug-induced utopia.

The EP closes with ‘Inner Soul’, a hazy, mind-altering trip with Stuart’s vocals immersed under a wall of reverb and fuzzed-up guitars, his vague poetry only adding to the atmosphere of the EP throughout. 

With a support slot lined up with The Jesus and Mary Chain in April plus more live dates and festivals across the UK and Europe throughout 2017, the band’s heavily anticipated debut long player is pencilled in for release later in the year.

Is Bliss are Jimmy Stuart (vox, guitar), Dean Edwards (bass) and Sam Speakman (drums).

Tour dates:

APRIL
Sat 1st		BOURNEMOUTH		O2 Academy w/Jesus & Mary Chain 
Fri 7th		LONDON		Sebright Arms
Wed 12th	BRIGHTON		Hope & Ruin
Sun 16th		BRISTOL		Crofters Rights (Bristol Psych Festival)
Sat 22nd		SOUTHSEA		Record Store Day
MAY
Wed 17th	LONDON		The Islington w/Flying Colours
Thur 18th	LEICESTER		The Cookie w/Flying Colours
Sat 20th		BRIGHTON		Acid Box, Great Escape Festival w/Flying Colours

The Honeycomb Explosion

Is Bliss - Into A Dream

Taken from the album, Stains on Silence, out 15th June on Tough Love. Pre-order here - smarturl.it/StainsOnSilence

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LP - black vinyl, with cream sleeve
LPX - orange vinyl, with black sleeve (indie stores-only - 300 copies)
LPXX - ultra clear vinyl, with black sleeve, poster and hand-numbered (Bandcamp only - 200 copies)
CD & digital

Biog

It stands to reason that many vital albums come critically close to never being made. The eight-track upshot of doubt, upheaval and financial strain, Stains on Silence by Girls Names is one such release.

Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, the Belfast band suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void. “There was a finished – and then aborted – mix of the album, which was shelved for six months,” reveals Girls Names frontman Cathal Cully. “We then took a break from all music and went back to full-time work. We chilled out from the stress of rushing the record and not being happy with it, as well as being skint with no impending touring on the cards and constantly having to worry about rent.”

The stumbling blocks that proved a strain became the album’s defining breakthrough. Recorded in various locations including Belfast’s Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley, Cully’s home and the band’s practice space, spontaneous creation, cut-up techniques and self-editing took centre-stage for the first time. "We started tearing the material apart and rebuilding, re-editing and re-recording different parts in my home in early Autumn last year,” says Cully. “When we got them to a place we were happier with we went back into Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley to finalise the mixes to what they are now."

Where AAAV proved a brazen statement of intent, Stains on Silence bounds forth as its feature-length comedown. What could have seen the band buckle became an opportunity for approaching things tabula rasa. During its two-year transmutation, Cully, bassist Claire Miskimmin and guitarist Philip Quinn had a single aim for their fourth album: to make an old-fashioned record clocking in around 30 to 35 minutes in length that made the listener reach straight for repeat. From the Bang Bang bar-summoning swoon of opener '25’ and the submerged disco doom of ‘Haus Proud’ to the rapt, dub-leaning ‘Fragments of a Portrait’, Girls Names have excelled in their goal by forging an LP of synchronous nuance and defiance.

Marked by the presence of drum machines and programming throughout, these eight masterfully-woven tales are once again commandeered by founder Cully, whose words, understated yet defiant, mine purpose and meaning from the mire ("I want to bathe again, I want to swim again / In a pool of twisting bodies, blackened gold." — ‘25’). But while Stains on Silence came critically close to never being made, having lived with it, reconfigured it, and guided its metamorphosis from flickers of inspiration and half-formed schemes, it’s both a statement of pure perseverance, and a head-on confrontation with ambivalence that couldn’t be more assured. (Brian Coney, March 2018)

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Girls Names - The Impaled Mystique

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