Oct 17

Two surprises!
Next Friday we’re releasing a Vintage Crop 7”, woah, secondly it is in praise of spring, OK it’s only just autumn here, but in the other hemisphere the birds are building nests again. Check out the ace video premiered by Raven Sings The Blues, featuring Jack Cherry in three parallel dimensions:
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Vintage Crop’s ‘Springtime’ 7” will be released on September 8th by Upset The Rhythm and Anti Fade, plus the band will have loads of copies on their upcoming US tour too, check out the dates on the poster!

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Vintage Crop - 'Springtime'

Here’s screensaver’s new single ‘Future Trash’, featured on the band’s forthcoming album ‘Decent Shapes’, out October 20th through Upset The Rhythm and Poison City in Australia. 

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screensaver - Future Trash

'Bachelors Theme' is taken from Brontez Purnell's forthcoming album 'Confirmed Bachelor', out on Upset The Rhythm on Nov 10th.

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Brontez Purnell - 'Bachelors Theme'

Brand new single from The Pheromoans, taken from their forthcoming album 'Wyrd Psearch', out March 1st on Upset The Rhythm.

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The Pheromoans - 'Downtown'

'Faith In The Future' is the new single from UK DIY experimentalists The Pheromoans, taken from their forthcoming 'Wyrd Psearch' album, out March 1st on Upset The Rhythm.

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The Pheromoans - 'Faith In The Future'

March comes in like a lion carrying a copy of ‘Wyrd Psearch’ by The Pheromoans! Released today, lucky album 13 from the lo-fi peddlers has been hailed by Uncut magazine as a “sleek return of droll social commentary and DIY invention”, whilst The Quietus urged  “the ghost of Mark E. Smith to crown them the kings of the sprechgesang gang.” Wow! We’re celebrating the release of the album today by sharing the song ‘Twibbon Wife’, a track musing on the legacy of The Stone Roses, Ellis-Bextor and armchair occultists. 

‘Wyrd Psearch’ is available now in all the best shops and our own webstore here: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

The Pheromoans - Twibbon Wife

Arise! It's time to take on Earth Ball! Earth Ball are a wild ride of an ensemble from Nanaimo (Canada); spontaneous, instinctual and eruptive inside out. When Earth Ball fire up the amps in their basement you can hear the voices of ghosts hum through the speakers. Kellan's hued feedback, Izzy's sturdy basslines, Jer's paperbag guitar tone and rumble pack zaps, Liam's sheets of sound and Brennen's multidirectional drums are expansive, restlessly inventive and truly psychedelic. Their debut LP ‘It’s Yours’ will be coming out on May 17th via Upset The Rhythm. Take a first listen to ‘A Need To Cool Down’ and reframe your brain, all is temporary: https://youtu.be/S0sb_ZPWogA 

‘It’s Yours’ is available to pre-order on clear 180g vinyl w/ a hand-painted insert from the band now: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Earth Ball are also touring the UK this May in support of this release with their friend-in-sound Chris Corsano, see you at a show!


EARTH BALL & CHRIS CORSANO - UK TOUR
May 20 - London - Cafe OTO
May 21 - London - Cafe OTO
May 22 - Manchester - Aatma
May 23 - Bristol - Cube Cinema
May 24 - Shrewsbury - English Bridge Workshop
May 25 - Glasgow - Flying Duck
May 26 - Newcastle - Lubber Fiend
May 27 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers
May 28 - Nottingham - The Chapel
May 29 - Lewes - Con Club

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Earth Ball - 'A Need To Cool Down'

Green shoots have burst forth from Parsnip! The Australian group have a super-catchy single out today called ‘Turn to Love’, taken from their sophisticated sophomore album ‘Behold’. Drawing comparisons with Dolly Mixture, Sara Goes Pop and Look Blue Go Purple, Parsnip are an animated ensemble, full of life, emotional complexity and humour. On ‘Behold’ they explore both the inner and outer realms of consciousness with quick wits and some seriously quality jangle and jolt. 

Upset The Rhythm and Anti Fade Records will release ‘Behold’ on April 26th. There’s a limited transparent vinyl edition, available to pre-order (drum roll please)… now: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Parsnip - 'Turn To Love'

‘Your Move’ is the first taster from Nottingham duo RATTLE’s forthcoming third album Encircle (coming Feb 28th 2025, Upset The Rhythm), and sees the duo expand their unique experiments in rhythm, metre and tension. 

‘Your Move’ is mesmeric and boundless, hypnotic in its minimalism of double-drums and the often wordless almost tribal vocals of RATTLE’s Katharine Eira Brown.  

“The images in my head for the first half of ‘Your Move’ were water - reflecting in pools, and flowing” explains Katharine. “Then the second half is like it is stuck in an endless slow-moving cycle. The bit in-between is the flitting in-between, we wanted it to feel like a CD getting stuck. The words Your Move might be about moving in an embodied way or freedom / movement / expression, but they are also an emboldening call to action - it's your turn - what are YOU going to do, what's your next move? "


Your Move

Today we’re sharing another soaring single from Quinie’s new album ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ (out May 23rd). ‘Col My Love’ is the very first track on the album, and it’s a powerful song to sing, accompanied by some epic pipes too. Quinie explains that the words “warn of the dangers of being close to the shoreline. I thought it would be a good fit with this footage of me and Maisie trying to navigate one of the challenges on one of our walks. Perhaps not quite as scary as being jailed on a cliff top, but nevertheless an adventure.” 

Enjoy!
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VIDEO: https://youtu.be/-P5lqfcU_eU

Quinie - 'Col My Love'

Remix for the fifth volume of Sacred Bones Record Store Day compilation
series, Todo Muere. 
Remixed and mastered by From the bed
2016

The Holydrug Couple - If I could find you (From the bed remix)

Taken from TERRY's forthcoming album 'Terry HQ' out on Upset The Rhythm on July 1st.

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TERRY - 'Don't Say Sorry'

Taken from Terry's forthcoming album 'Remember Terry', out June 30th on Upset The Rhythm.

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Remember Terry

Terry - 'Take Me To The City'

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

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Galaxilympics

Pikacyu-Makoto - 'Galaxilympics'

'British Warm' is taken from Normil Hawaiians' debut album 'More Wealth Than Money' (1982). Remastered and reissued this December through Upset The Rhythm.

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Normil Hawaiians had a transformative 1982. With two 7” singles and a 12” EP under their belts they suddenly found themselves disillusioned with the increasingly generic sounds surrounding them, so they forced the hand of change and began reaching out with that very hand. The band’s true constant in Guy Smith soon found himself with a new crew of musicians, Simon Marchant, Noel Blanden and Mark Tyler. Normil Hawaiians’ communal take on post punk quickly sprouted leaves from its mouth, and began carving out a new furrow. Greater emphasis was awarded to improvisation within the group and as a result their songs embarked on longer, freer journeys towards the beaten bounds. They wanted these new songs to bear the weight of their new collective spirit so comfort zones had to be left behind. Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild and redolent new dimensions.

With Illuminated Records interested in the band’s new visionary approach, Normil Hawaiians relocated from their South London dystopia to a rural idyll in the Welsh hills, determined to develop further this raw language for themselves. They booked into Foel Studios near Llanfair Caereinion for an extended period of time, set the tapes rolling and didn’t look back. They were somewhere they knew they could experiment; at a studio that understood the results would be uncertain. Dave Anderson, who managed and engineered at Foel was exactly the right person to work with them. Anderson had come from an experimental background himself, having played in Hawkwind and Amon Duul II. Normil Hawaiians were encouraged to explore their ideas beyond limitations with Anderson happy to leave the tape recording to capture their embryonic improvisations taking shape. Anderson even joined in on bass for several of those sessions as the ensemble strove to find its authentic voice, supplemented further when their cellist friend Klaus dropped by to spend a spell with them. 

At this very moment Normil Hawaiians existed solely for the music, living together in a small cottage in the studio’s shadow, sharing everything together and working long days to nurture and then burnish the music they had discovered between them. This is how the band’s debut album ‘More Wealth Than Money’ was formed, through trial and close listening, through cultivation and patient growth. Of course there were significant amounts of mushrooms involved too and several UFO sightings, but when the sheep began to march in time to the music Normil Hawaiians knew they were creating something unique.

On December 1st, 35 years since the album first appeared, Upset The Rhythm will be reissuing the newly re-mastered ‘More Wealth Than Money’ album, alongside a further full-length collection of demos and unreleased tracks from the album’s overlooked corners. Both the 2xCD and DLP versions also come with a booklet contextualizing the release, full of anecdotes and photos from all band members. This release follows on from 2015’s ‘Return Of The Ranters’, Normil Hawaiians’ lost final album from 1985, which ultimately saw the light of day in a different age through Upset The Rhythm too.

More Wealth Than Money

Normil Hawaiians - British Warm

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