Solo single from Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean & Britta). Out now as a digital download and limited-edition clear vinyl 7".

Dean Wareham 'Love Is Colder Than Death'

"Horseshoe" is the first single from Withered Hand's album "New Gods," and features a guest appearance from Pam Berry (Black Tambourine) on backing vocals.

Fortuna POP! (UK/Europe) and Slumberland Records (US/Canada) are proud to announce the new album by the Edinburgh based folk-rock troubadour Dan Willson who records as WITHERED HAND. “New Gods” is his stunning second album, following his critically acclaimed debut “Good News”.

Active in the world of visual art and dabbling in music for many years, Withered Hand’s Dan Willson came late to singing and songwriting at age 30, in a period of reflection between the death of a close friend and the birth of his first child. The resultant material, much of which went on to become the album “Good News,” has been praised for its depth and startling honesty.

Withered Hand has been embraced by Fife-based musical powerhouse the Fence Collective (whose sovereign King Creosote guests on the new album), seen his songs picked up on MTV and cult series Skins, and gained a legion of fans including Jarvis Cocker and Rolling Stone Magazine USA (who decreed him “Artist to Watch”).

A prolific live performer, recent Withered Hand shows have included collaborations with Pam Berry of seminal 90's US noise-pop band Black Tambourine and a rotating cast of musical friends embellishing Dan's exuberant and original songwriting alongside fragile and uplifting solo performances.

The long-awaited second album (produced by Tony Doogan – Mountain Goats/Belle & Sebastian etc - and part-funded by arts council body Creative Scotland) features guest appearances from the likes of Pam Berry, Eugene Kelly of The Vaselines and members of Belle & Sebastian and Frightened Rabbit.

The five years since “Good News” was recorded has seen Willson honing his songcraft, building his audience and gaining critical momentum. “New Gods” is a beautifully executed collection of songs from one of Scotland’s most gifted songwriters.

“Beautifully constructed lyrical frameworks ... on this banjo-tinged brand of Caledonian gospel” – **** MOJO

“the UK’s best lyricist” – King Creosote, in The Independent

“Killer melodies ... wobbly folk grooves ... tunes full of warm, woozy sing-song charm” – 'Artist to Watch', Rolling Stone

Withered Hand - Horseshoe

Produced and mixed by Hugh Worskett

http://www.screamingpeaches.com


You've got your long hair,
I've got my toupée. 
I'm just a fake Liberace in a coupe.
You've got some dollar,
I've got my 2p.
You fed me cake to get me fat then you outgrew me

Mr. Fist straight to your nose.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.
Mr. Fist, that's how it goes.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.

You livin' healthy?
I bought this smoothie,
And got my aspidistra glidin', getting droopy.
I'm getting girthy 
Under my duvet.
I wanna spend the afternoon like in that movie.

Mr. Fist straight to your nose.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.
Mr. Fist, that's how it goes.
Got a ride on the bruise cruise,
When all you thought you deserved was a rose.

Here I am with lust applied,
Man to man, our cocks entwined. 
You shut the door on my wrinkled pride.
I've butcher's spirt but no knife.
Carve my meat with gravied eyes.
Comfort me, I swig from Mummy.
Comfort me and think I'm funny.

Mr Fist

Track 4 from our debut EP, available on blue vinyl/download here:  http://crosskeysrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dr-mtorp-ep
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/dr-mtorp-ep/id824749135

Window Display

Coming out November 4th on "Flux" via Nevado Records

Close Talker - Burnstick

After spending two years living on opposite coasts and pursuing their own creative projects, Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp returned last spring to set to work on the sixth full-length album from the Rosebuds. Joining up with Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon (a friend and former bandmate who, in a 2011 interview, noted that the Rosebuds make “some of the most important music in the world”), the North Carolina-bred duo spent a week in Vernon’s studio teasing out a batch of songs that effortlessly weave the hooky songcraft of classic jangle-pop, the cagey romanticism of new wave, and a refined yet full-hearted sensibility all their own. Featuring Vernon on guitar and synths—as well as Bon Iver drummer Matt McCaughan and Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn on bass, both longtime pals and cohorts of the Rosebuds—the resulting Sand + Silence radiates both a graceful intensity and the loose, joyful energy that comes from making music with friends.

The Rosebuds - Esse Quam Videri

I Wanna Be Inside  (0204)

From the album
Nap Eyes - Thought Rock Fish Scale (YC-024)
February 5, 2016
LP/CD/Digital
www.youvechangedrecords.com

Nap Eyes - Mixer

Horse Thief - Little One

Is this all that there is?

Debut Single by No Middle Name

Coming out July 8th Mollusc Records 

http://nomiddlenamemusic.tumblr.com

No Middle Name - Another Season

Slumberland began operations in 1989, inspired by such musical happenings as C-86, early Creation, Sarah, Postcard, and the UK post-punk indie label scene. Since then we've covered a lot of territory, from punk to lofi noise to shoegaze and of course pop, releasing records from bands like The Aislers Set, Boyracer, Stereolab, Rocketship, Lorelei, The Ropers, The Saturday People and Black Tambourine.

By the mid 2000s we were starting to see a resurgence of interest in guitar pop and the start of the ongoing vinyl revival: the perfect environment for Slumberland! We launched into our latest phase of activity with as string of classic releases from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose, Veronica Falls, Allo Darlin', Joanna Gruesome and so many more.

2018 is our twenty-ninth year we are still going strong, ploughing our own furrow and bringing you unique, genre-defining (and genre-defying!) releases from bands like Smokescreens, Tony Molina, Papercuts, Business of Dreams, Peel Dream Magazine, D.A. Stern, The Spook School, Frankie Rose, Young Guv, Terry Malts and many, many more. As always, we operate entirely outside of the echo chamber of trends, fashion and phoney hipness. Slumberland bands are independent in the best way possible -- making music devoid of bullshit and true to their own voices, regardless of current popular taste.