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Day At The Beach

'Cinnamon' from Marika Hackman's 'Sugar Blind' EP.
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Marika Hackman - Cinnamon

'81 from Marika Hackman's "Sugar Blind" EP.

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Marika Hackman - '81 (Joanna Newsom cover)

Light Shines

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Biggy

Lead track from Forced Fun EP, released 31st March 2014 with Flatpack Recordings

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Dan Beesley

Cover artwork by Sam Huddleston

Temper Temper

Week three of the pizza club and we’re already returning back to Falmouth where we kicked things off with Goddam Nobody. 

Pastel Colours burst through the 1’s and 0’s of the internet earlier this year with their debut track ‘Hands Like Silk’. We always get excited when we hear about a new band from Cornwall and it only took the opening notes of ‘HLS’ to hook us in. There was something about the melodies and the structure that made the garage-psych five piece feel fresh and different to many of the other acts currently snapping up their parents prog collections.

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She Can’t Decide is their second track and we’re delighted to be releasing it as part of the Pizza Club. Woozy melodies and weaving riffs mix with a distant tambourine to make for a rather dreamlike listen. It’s only when when the instruments drop out and the flange kicks in that you realise you’ve spent the last three minutes totally entranced. Remember that dope Ty Segall & White Fence album from 2012? Take that throw in a couple of hallucinogenics and this would be what you’d have.

As always the track is available for free download above. Why not subscribe and get it sent to your inbox every Friday. The three physical pizza versions of this release will go on sale at 1pm (UK time) from our shop. 

Alternatively pledge your pizza allegiance with a tshirt, pizza club patch or bottle opener. 

Pastel Colours - She Can't Decide

Slow Knife

Having already released 2 of the best albums of 2014 (Gin on Fika Recordings, and Boom Biddy Boom on wiaiwya) Stanley Brinks and Freschard are releasing Pizza Espresso - an album of duets, and a collaboration between both labels – at the end of August. 

Pizza Espresso is an album of love songs about drinking and drinking songs about love. Picture Emmylou and Gram relocated to Berlin with a guitar, a pennywhistle and a washboard and writing ten gorgeous duets to be sung on lazy summer evenings. 

“if you have time, and nothing on your mind, why, i’m free, for you and me” 

Stanley Brinks began performing officially as André Herman Düne in 1999, sharing lead vocals, guitar playing and songwriting with his brother David in the band Herman Düne for a number of years. They released several albums and toured extensively in UK, gaining and owing a lot to great support from John Peel. He has used many monikers for various side-projects, but since leaving Herman Düne in 2006, he has been known solely as Stanley Brinks. 
Born in Paris, Stan has been living between New York, San Francisco, Malta and Berlin for about a decade, always on the move. He has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures. 

Freschard grew up in a farm in French Burgundy. Aged 18 she moved to Paris, where she baked pies and cakes in a cafe. There, a local musician and regular customer called Stanley Brinks wrote a few songs for her to sing. Homeless in Paris, she saved up just enough money to get herself a ticket to New York. There she found an old electric guitar and started writing her own songs. In 2004 she moved to Berlin, where she recorded her first LP, "Alien Duck". Her second album, "Click Click", recorded in 2006, features electric guitar by Stanley Brinks. On her third album, she plays the drums herself. On her fourth “Shh...” she also plays the flute. For this year’s “Boom Biddy Boom” she also plays the washboard. 

Stanley Brinks and Freschard will be touring the UK for 2 weeks in August (joined by The Wave Pictures as their backing band), including appearances at the Green Man Festival in Wales.

Stanley Brinks & Freschard - If You Have Time

  STANDING IN THE PISSING RAIN MUST BE A DRAG: Recorded in a secularized Lutheran temple off the banks of the Hudson River, Ukiah Drag's new LP In the Reaper's Quarters (produced by the almighty Ben Greenberg) is fine projection of basement rumination finding temptation in the halls of an ex-God. Straddling the church balcony, licking the scum off stained glass, crooked steeples refracting moonlight and blood…There is no erasure of the Satanic ego as it the Drag moves onto new spiritual drippings. While the band's Dirt Trip single was hard but not necessarily unforgiving, In the Reaper's Quarters is a hellish maw that chews up tired rock and post punk tropes only to reanimate them in other austere and lonely offices. You may chew on its bones and swallow its scales but they'll cling to your pockmarked soul indeed. 
     Pulsating organs strobe their way through flattening riffs and creep beats; on many tracks the listener will hear a sex-crazed baby grand slinking sinfully into the reaper's pit. Their rendition of Lee Hazlewood's "Wait and See" will break the emotional turnstiles of many a troglodyte. This is a widow-making full length that marks and culminates every player's previous efforts to a blunt and remorseless tee. For fans of the violent prose of Harry Crews, Bobby Beausoleil's score of LUCIFER RISING, and the hallowed walls of Chateau Marmont. 

The Ukiah Drag "In The Reapers Quarters"
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The Ukiah Drag - Her Royal Grip

"Bigger Party" by Speedy Ortiz

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Speedy Ortiz - Bigger Party

The first single from the soon-to-be released Black Stone EP.

The Siren

From 'Follow The Music", the new album by Alice Gerrard.
Available on LP/CD/DL Sept. 30th, 2014 on Tompkins Square
Produced by M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger)
Featuring members of Hiss Golden Messenger and Megafaun

"Alice Gerrard has one of those voices that harkens back to the likes of Sara and Maybelle.  She is the real deal with the right stuff and hasn't forgotten where country music came from."
- Emmylou Harris (June, 2014)


"Boll Weevil" by Alice Gerrard

The legendary band's first album in 13 years, available on Joyful Noise Recordings.

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One of the most influential bands in rock history, Half Japanese was founded in the bedroom of brothers Jad and David Fair in 1974. Ignoring musical conventions like chords, rhythms, melody, and song structure, the brothers pioneered DIY and Lo-Fi punk aesthetics simply by being themselves. Passionate, fearless, and relentlessly unique, they self-recorded and self-released by mailing out cassettes with handmade packaging, pressing their own vinyl, and brazenly marketing their music with bizarre magazine ads. This unbridled enthusiasm for the act of creating rock music led them to record dozens of amazing records (including the classic albums "1/2 Gentleman/Not Beasts" and "Charmed Life"), and to inevitably influence countless artists such as Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Cobain, and many many more.

Their first album in 13 years, "Overjoyed", shows the band's aggressiveness as well as its friendly charisma. Produced by John Dieterich of Deerhoof, the 12 songs on "Overjoyed" are unlike anything in the bands catalog, each unapologetically positive and surprisingly accessible. "Overjoyed" contains a deep purity, exceptionally rare amongst "reunion albums". They neither attempt to recreate their old sound, nor are they aware of current musical trends and conventions.  As a result they sidestep common pitfalls and create something new, interesting, and needed.

The first single and opening track is "In Its Pull". The song struts with confidence and exemplifies the magical in-the-moment glee that Half Japanese exudes. It pumps out a straightforward yet enticingly erratic rock pulse that paves the way for the rest of the album.   


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Half Japanese - In Its Pull

Having already released 2 of the best albums of 2014 (Gin on Fika Recordings, and Boom Biddy Boom on wiaiwya) STANLEY BRINKS & FRESCHARD are releasing PIZZA ESPRESSO - an album of duets, and a collaboration between both labels – at the end of August.

PIZZA ESPRESSO is an album of love songs about drinking and drinking songs about love. Picture Emmylou and Gram relocated to Berlin with a guitar, a pennywhistle and a washboard and writing ten gorgeous duets to be sung on lazy summer evenings.

“if you have time, and nothing on your mind, why, i’m free, for you and me”

STANLEY BRINKS began performing officially as André Herman Düne in 1999, sharing lead vocals, guitar playing and songwriting with his brother David in the band Herman Düne for a number of years. They released several albums and toured extensively in UK, gaining and owing a lot to great support from John Peel. He has used many monikers for various side-projects, but since leaving Herman Düne in 2006, he has been known solely as Stanley Brinks.
Born in Paris, Stan has been living between New York, San Francisco, Malta and Berlin for about a decade, always on the move. He has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures.
FRESCHARD grew up in a farm in French Burgundy. Aged 18 she moved to Paris, where she baked pies and cakes in a cafe. There, a local musician and regular customer called STANLEY BRINKS wrote a few songs for her to sing. Homeless in Paris, she saved up just enough money to get herself a ticket to New York. There she found an old electric guitar and started writing her own songs. In 2004 she moved to Berlin, where she recorded her first LP, "Alien Duck". Her second album, "Click Click", recorded in 2006, features electric guitar by STANLEY BRINKS. On her third album, she plays the drums herself. On her fourth “Shh...” she also plays the flute. For this year’s “Boom Biddy Boom” she also plays the washboard.

Stanley Brinks & Freschard - Before You Go

Stanley Brinks & Freschard - I'm Down

01 Slow Knife

Taken from Forced Fun EP, released 31st March 2014 with Flatpack Recordings

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Dan Beesley

Cover artwork by Sam Huddleston

Stay Toned

Ray Charles - I Got A Woman

Debut single
Released 25th March 2013 with Gravy Records
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Ryan Pinson
Artwork by Sam Huddleston

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