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Taken from the self-titled debut 12", out on 27th October. Released on limited edition 12" (100 ruby tuesday, 200 black) and digital formats.

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Biography
Starting out as a recording project between Angus Lord, Claudia Serfaty and Stephanie Hughes, the germ of what would eventually become the Stroppies was formed around a kitchen table in Melbourne's inner west early 2016. The initial idea was to create open ended music, collaged quickly and haphazardly together on a Tascam 4 track Portastudio that drew on stream of consciousness creativity and a DIY attitude a la Guided By Voices and The Great Unwashed. The desire to move beyond the pre programmed drum patterns available on their Casio Keyboard led to the addition of Rory Heane on drums and a more conventional band dynamic.

In Late 2016, Alex Macfarlane recorded the band in their lounge room direct to 4 track, capturing 7 songs that would become their 2017 self titled cassette tape debut. The songs were bounced back and forth from tape machine to computer to tape machine to computer again. In keeping with the bands initial aesthetic, dubs were laid over a 4 month period incrementally on different devices as members had babies, explored intercontinental love affairs and set up homes together. Since the release of the tape, Adam Hewwit has joined the group on third guitar as they settle down into exploring the new band dynamic and focus on their next recording project.

The Stroppies is composed of members of many Melbourne and UK bands (Claudia is originally from London) including Dick Diver, Primetime, Possible Humans, White Walls, Boomgates, The Stevens, See/Saw to name a few. They make modest, idiosyncratic pop songs that reward with repeated listening.

The Stroppies (MP3)

The Stroppies - Go Ahead

Mangled Records 018 12" 180g Vinyl
Release Date : 29th January 2018
Distribution : Juno

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation
Rushing Through My Mind (The Mang Dynasty Versions)

A.   Mang Dynasty Extended Version 8.08
Bi.  Mang Dynasty Instrumental Version 7.00
Bii. Mang Dynasty Radio Edit 3.53

Original version: -
Music and lyrics by Josefin Öhrn & Fredrik Joelson.
Josefin Öhrn: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Percussion.
Fredrik Joelson: Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals, Percussion.
Calle Olsson: Synths, Vocals.
Patric Thorman: Bass, Vocals, Guitars.
Victor Hvidfeldt: Guitars, Vocals, Bass, Keyboards, Persussion.
Dennis Egberth: Drums and Percussion.
Stefan Brändström: Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards, Bass.
Produced By Fredrik Joelson and Stefan Brändström.
Recorded and mixed at the Dustward by Stefan Brändström.
Additional Recording:
Invada Studios/Stu Matthews, Studio Cobra/Martin Ehrencrona,
Svenska Grammofonstudion/Oskar Lindberg and White Cell/Calle Olsson.

Mang Dynasty Versions: -
All Additional Instruments (Keyboards, Bass, Drums, Percussion) Programming and Mix by Ray Mang. Produced and arranged by Mang Dynasty (Bill Brewster and Ray Mang).

Published by King Plush (Cargo Germany).
℗ + © Mangled Records 2016
Licensed from Rocket Recordings (UK)

We gave it to them straight: “Let us remix your song or weʼre taking all the meatballs.”

Having heard the baggy psychedelic beauty that is ʻRushing Through My Mindʼ on Lauren Laverneʼs 6Music show, we thought we could do a number on it. Turn it into a psychedelic disco record (with added meatballs). We think we managed it, reliving the rushy highs from indie-danceʼs finest moments of 1991.

For those of you unaware of the splendid Swedish rockersʼ groovy workings, they have already released two albums, debut Horse Dance in 2015 and last yearʼs excellent Mirage, from which the ecstatic ʻRushing...ʼ comes.

The release comes on Joe Bugner-style heavyweight vinyl (180g) complete with Instrumental and Radio Edit. Mang Dynasty is Ray Mang and Bill Brewster.

Josefin And The Liberation - Rushing Through My Mind - Mang Dynasty Extended Version

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Manchester’s The Slow Readers Club are probably the biggest band you’ve never heard of. But that’s all about to change.

The Slow Readers Club are Aaron Starkie (vocals), Kurtis Starkie (guitar and vocals), James Ryan (bass) and David Whitworth (drums). They are a Manchester based four piece who specialise in dark and brooding indie electro that has drawn comparisons with Interpol, The Killers and The National and which feels equally at home in big arenas and festival fields as it does in intimate surroundings.

Formed in 2010, they’ve taken the long road to recognition. Their self-titled debut album featured live favourites like One More Minute, Feet On Fire, Sirens and Block Out The Sun, but despite rave reviews, they remained firmly under the radar. Many bands would have called it a day, but their self-belief, coupled with a growing band of influential bloggers and radio presenters, kept them going. 

The phrase “underground phenomenon” doesn’t do justice to what this four-piece have achieved to date. Self-funded and self-managed with no more than word of mouth and an album called Cavalcade at their disposal, they sold out The Ritz in Manchester two months in advance last year and have just repeated the trick with The Albert Hall. Not only that they went to London and sold out Oslo and The Borderline with their army of fans and their ubiquitous “READERS” chant as well as playing to growing crowds around the rest of the country.

You can catch them on tour at the following dates: 

21st October - The Button Factory, Dublin 

4th November - Academy 2, Birmingham 

10th November - The Garage, London

17th November - Thekla, Bristol 

23rd November - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 

24th November - The Albert Hall, Manchester [SOLD OUT]

9th December - King Tuts, Glasgow [SOLD OUT]

Lunatic - The Slow Readers Club

i just wanna buy you flowers (and also i wanna die a little bit)
cover art drawn by https://www.twitter.com/phiIotechnicaI

lyrics:
i wanna work at a flower store
and steal you all the roses that i couldn't afford
i don't know if i wanna live anymore
it all feels the same as it did before

i wanna feel like an open door
a shattered window on your bedroom floor
i don't know who i really am anymore
it all feels the same, but i'm never quite sure

i wanna wait here with bated breath
and cry in the corner while you lay and rest
i can be your shoulder when you feel upset
just lay your head down, honey, please don't fret

i wanna sleep in a stranger's bed
just to overanalyze every word you said
i don't really know if there's anything left
but i don't wanna fall in love, i wanna fall to my death

flower store

download <3

Written by Headclouds. Recorded at Blank Studios with Chris McManus.

'Seen It Before' released Friday 27th October.

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I was drowning, 
Running around like a mad man, Chasing the ghost of you and 
I found it.    
Crumpled up and Tucked away in my jacket and it’s so astounding. 
We Went from living in love to being lovers that lost their lives 
now I’m surrounded.  
In a haze of flashing lights.  
Now, I can’t hide it.  
The bottom of all these drinks just reflect your face. 
II’ve been trying. 
to figure out how we got this way,  
But I’m not psychic 
Cause I can’t keep up with this charade. 
I got high and you supplied it. 
I played my cards while you played your game.  

And i know I know I know I know 
That you blinded me in ecstasy  
But you got control when I’m so low  
I’m addicted to your weaponry 
I know I know I know I know 
That you're drowning me in ecstasy 
But you got control when I'm so low 
That all I know is.. 

You and I both know. 
We were a toxic combination. 
Messing around now we’re just a wasteland 
But it’s okay. 
You and I both know. 
We were kids just chasing a heartbeat. 
Lost in Stereo in the front seat 
Its ok  


I was broken 
From the moment that we met 
Scarred and frozen 
From promises unkept 
As deep as oceans 
filled with your regret 
That’s why you’re closed in, 
It’s a love you can’t accept   

And i know I know I know I know 
That you're drowning me in ecstasy  
But you got control when I’m so low  
I’m addicted to your weaponry 
I know I know I know I know 
That you're drowning me in ecstasy 
But you got control when I'm so low 
When i'm so low 

You and I both know. 
We were a toxic combination. 
Messing around now we’re just a wasteland 
But it’s okay. 
(But its okay) 
You and I both know. 
We were kids just chasing a heartbeat. 
Lost in Stereo in the front seat 
Its okay 
(And its okay)

You And I ft. Grayson Gibson

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Tara Clerkin Trio - Hellenica

Taken from the album, Agitprop Alterna, out on April 3rd via Tough Love and Slumberland. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/agitpropalterna

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Peel Dream Magazine - Emotional Devotion Creator

Taken from the record, Look Alive, out 1st May 2020 via Tough Love. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/StroppiesLookAlive

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The Stroppies - Holes in Everything

Taken from the album, Agitprop Alterna, out on April 3rd via Tough Love and Slumberland. Pre-order here - smarturl.it/agitpropalterna

Peel Dream Magazine - It's My Body

Taken from the Day By Day 12", out 8th May. Pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/DayByDay12 

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"Day by Day was actually written a few years ago but has taken on an eerie relevance in light of current events. As the title suggests, the song explores living in the present moment as a way of overcoming difficulties and growing stronger. Written during a dark time in our lives the song is about the struggle of carrying on, taking each day at a time in hope that things will eventually get better"

Co-produced by Doves’ guitarist, Jez Williams, Day By Day picks up where debut Night Drive left off, fragile, and amorphous, driven by a Kevin Shields-esque drone and underpinned by Katie Drew’s beautiful and delicate vocal.

The double A-side single, Day By Day / Katy Song will be released on 12” vinyl on May 8th and is limited to 150 copies.

White Flowers - Day By Day (Extended Edit)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - I Should Have Helped You

Taken from You Might Be Happy Someday, released 2nd October. Pre-order the LP here - https://smarturl.it/redpinksandpurples
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Deep amidst San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood misty air and washed-out pastel blocks, Glenn Donaldson has been diligently creating minor masterpieces with rudimentary home technology for some time now. With The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Donaldson has finally created a vivid reflection of this dreary scene. You Might be Happy Someday is an oblique strand of SF outer-avenue cloud cover that stretches across the Atlantic to the grey docks of Bristol as captured in Sarah Records’ fetishized insert photos.

Despite the deceptively congenial presentation, Happy is often a heavy record. After a litany of Donaldson’s past iterations (from experimental abstraction to post-punk and pop), The Reds, Pinks & Purples is Glenn D’s most personal project. Balanced awkwardly atop almost ironically upbeat jangles and rhythms Mitch Easter might have captured on his reel-to-reel are prime cuts of bummer pop. Almost every track is written in second person, creating a feeling of overheard private inner conversations-on-repeat: soft-lob criticisms, supportive friend advice and embarrassing confessions, You Might be Happy Someday is a smeared window into the (kindly) cynical thoughts of a romantic misanthrope.

Like the work of other U.S. depresso-pop purveyors East River Pipe, The Reds, Pinks & Purples’ mini-album is the kind of record that is both unsettling and comforting. When you’re four drinks deep and you’ve worn your Smiths records out, You Might Be Happy Someday is on deck to have wine spilled on it while you dance alone in the kitchen.

You Might Be Happy Someday is released on Tough Love on 2nd October. Fittingly, the record will be pressed on to 'pastel pink' colour vinyl, with a limited run of 300 copies.

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Last Summer In A Rented Room

Taken from You Might Be Happy Someday, released 2nd October. Pre-order the LP here - smarturl.it/redpinksandpurples
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Ahead of the release of their Tough Love debut in October, Glenn Donaldson's prolific Reds, Pinks and Purples project have released the second track from the record, the poignantly titled 'Your Parents Were Wrong About You'. Lyrically, it's a perfect riposte to the challenges of a n unrelenting year, captured best in the line, "take good care of your friends, they won't always be there". As you read this, Donaldson's city of San Francisco is coated in a thick layer of smoke from nearby wildfires, and these words feel as appropriate as ever.

Reflecting on the track, Donaldson provides a little insight into its inspiration, a moving portrait of a dark situation. 
 
"I once had a girlfriend whose mother took me out to dinner basically to warn me that her daughter was a bad person. The tragedy of that has stuck with me all these years. This song is dedicated to anyone with toxic or undermining parents. They were wrong about you."

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Your Parents Were Wrong About You

Taken from the Within A Dream EP, released 15th January 2020. Pre-order the limited edition 12" here - https://smarturl.it/WithinADream

Further info
Following the release of two 12"s in the past year, White Flowers return with the Within A Dream EP,  a recently recorded four song collection to be released on 15th January 2021. Alongside digital formats, it will be pressed to 12" transparent vinyl in an edition of 300.  

The four tracks on the EP came together earlier this year during various periods of enforced isolation, and somewhat inevitably reflect the conditions of their provenance, exploring themes of dissociation, multiple selves, and the role of the individual in an increasingly strange and fragmented world. Co-produced with Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Perfume Genius, Portishead), Within A Dream combines home and studio recordings in ways that display the duo’s growing ability to switch between grand sonic gestures and subtle sonic abstractions.

Alongside the three originals which explore the outer edges of post-punk, dreampop and shoegaze in increasingly alien ways, is a beguiling cover of Mama Cass’ ‘Didn’t Want to Have to Do It’. As with their version of Red House Painters' 'Katy Song' from their previous 12”, it's provides another example of how defined White Flowers' aesthetic has become, as they’re effortlessly able to shape the music of others to their own vision. Indeed, as with all their videos and records to date, the artwork for the single is again created entirely by the band, another example of their intentions to create a defined White Flowers universe distinctly their own.

Within A Dream EP (master - MP3)

White Flowers - Within a Dream

The Stroppies - Go Ahead

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