{"title":"All Products","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"international-treasure","title":"International Treasure","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1351691431%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-9BszNeWE7Sc\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"The Utopia Strong - International Treasure\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/the-utopia-strong-international-treasure\/s-9BszNeWE7Sc\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Utopia Strong - International Treasure\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\nCall it synchronicity, call it happenstance, call it no more than three friends getting together to give their speakers a workout. Yet The Utopia Strong’s formidable conflagration of psychedelic radiance and beatific harmony has evolved way beyond all or any expectations since the band’s inception at the start of 2018. The following year’s Rocket debut was a powerful document of kosmische transcendence fit to banish all or any talk of its originators’ collective histories firmly into the background. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYet it’s clear now that this triumvirate were barely getting started. ‘International Treasure’ chronicles the collaborative collision of Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Mike York heading into unchartered psychic territory, seemingly with nothing but their instincts as co-ordinates. What’s resulted is a step beyond anything either band or audience might have expected - a deeply rewarding voyage into inner space which moves into darker and still more evocative sound-worlds whilst remaining fundamentally off the map. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe aural epiphanies herein traverse on a hallucinatory trajectory from blissed out (the incantatory spiral of Persephone Sleeps and the arcadian lilt of Shepherdess) to ominous and unearthly (as in the case of the overcast ambience of Disaster 2 and the non\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Euclidean geometry of album centrepiece Revelations) before arriving at a rapturous conclusion with the gloriously balearic end-credit euphoria of Castalia. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhilst their debut essentially marked the first results of the chemistry between these three, the partnership has further crystallised over a number of self-released records, their improvisatory approach being honed and perfected in various intensive hive-mind sessions at each others houses and home studios. All three musicians here found themselves operating outside of their comfort zones - Torabi’s purchase of a guzheng (a Chinese plucked zither) led to Shepherdess’s lambent allure and York’s spectacular and evolving array of pipes and wind instruments contributed \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ejust as much as his ruthless editing. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavis meanwhile, whose speciality lies in rich tapestries of modular electronics, sums up their relationship in characteristically self-effacing fashion: “I see myself as a strong midfielder, or a centre back. Kavus and Mike are like the Lionel Messi or Ronaldo of the equation, and I’m setting situations up for them” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInfluences know no bounds in this context, and the listener would be forgiven for locating the atmospheres and soundscapes of this album on some sonic promontory above and between the potent abstractions of Tim Hecker, the improvisatory excursions of The Necks, and the gothic allure of Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore. ’International Treasure’ took shape initially in 2020 just as world affairs were changing drastically, and it’s open to debate to what extent this influenced the occasionally sombre and melancholic tones therein. However, this album is ultimately possessed of a vibrant life way beyond the circumstances in which it was wrought. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘International Treasure’’ is the next chapter in a story which only grows more rewarding with every stop along the way - one in which three heads travel together deeper into their own musical journeys, and the resulting alchemical power transmutes its origins into gold. As no less a sage than Andrew Weatherall proclaimed, The Utopia Strong are “gnostic sonics in a nutshell”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Utopia Strong","offers":[{"title":"LTD 'Garnet Pink' Rocket Edition Vinyl","offer_id":47827030147410,"sku":"LAUNCH265 RLP","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LTD International Treasure 'Citrine Yellow' Rocket Edition Vinyl","offer_id":48561152393554,"sku":"LAUNCH265 S","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"'Onyx Black' Standard Edition Vinyl","offer_id":47827030180178,"sku":"LAUNCH265 LP","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mini Gatefold CD (Limited Edition)","offer_id":47827030212946,"sku":"LAUNCH265 CD","price":5.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48342298952018,"sku":"LAUNCH263","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48342298984786,"sku":"LAUNCH263","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/internationaltreasure.jpg?v=1710517022"},{"product_id":"engelchen","title":"Engelchen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1680440499\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Alison Cotton – Engelchen\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/alison-cotton-engelchen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAlison Cotton – Engelchen\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEngelchen literally translates as ‘little angels,' and for many in the febrile, dangerous era of the 1930s in Nazi-occupied Europe, as they wrote letters to arrange their paths out of danger as refugees, these were Ida and Louise Cook\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIda and Louise spent much of their early years in Sunderland, and in adulthood lived in a suburb of London with their parents. They were enormous fans of opera, and led relatively quiet and unfussy lives, Ida working for the civil service as a secretary and Louise as a writer of Mills and Boon romances under a pseudonym. Yet secretly these resourceful and eccentric women were using their musical obsessions as a means to help dozens of refugees escape with their lives.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir secretive heroics now almost beggar belief, and when Alison Cotton, herself from Sunderland, first discovered their story, she couldn’t understand why it wasn’t more widely known. Furthermore, she was inspired by their courage, fortitude and derring-do to compose Engelchen, a musical tribute to the duo’s lives and work, first performed at Seventeen Ninteeten Holy Church in Sunderland and now a full-length release by Rocket Recordings.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusic was always central to the lives of Ida and Louise, not just in their imaginations and passions but in the way they used their pursuit of it to facilitate the work that has become their legacy. Ceaselessly travelling around Europe and particularly Germany to see their favourite sopranos and conductors, sending bouquets of roses to dressing rooms, taking photos and requesting autographs, they built both a pretext and a means to piece together the network of associations which helped them to save the lives of the Jewish people they worked with. This in itself has influenced Engelchen, a work which builds a bridge between the emotional intensity of the music that inspired the Cook sisters and the bravery and jeopardy of their lives.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIda Cook sums up their utilitarian attitudes, which took them not only to Europe but on scarcely conceivable journeys to the US in the 1920s, here; “you never know what you can do until you refuse to take no for an answer. In this very amateur way, we did manage to rescue 29 people and set them on new lives. The same mentality that had made us reckon the expenses of our first American adventure to the final penny now enabled us to think in terms of adding shilling to shilling, week to week and effort to effort\"\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first track ‘We Were Smuggling People’s Lives’ - a melancholic threnody rich with elegiac atmosphere and palpable danger - serves as a travelogue of sorts of the journeys that Ida and Louise would embark on. The title itself comes from the words of the sisters, relating to the fact that the refugees whose journeys they were arranging were unable to take any of their assets or money out of Germany, meaning Ida and Louise would themselves transport their possessions by stealth.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We came into Croydon Airport each Friday evening with practically empty suitcases, shivering in our tweed suits and we went across the Dutch border on Sunday wearing furs, sparkling with jewellery and scarcely able to drag our bags. We were smuggling people's lives.\"\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, the tracks of Engelchen equally dwell in the worlds of the Cook sisters and those that they rescued. Reflecting the way the sisters took succour from the music they loved whilst engaging in such demanding and tense work, ‘Crépsucule' is a version by Alison of one of their favourite arias from Jules Massenet, as sung by one of the sisters’s favourite sopranos, Amelita Galli Cuci, ‘Dolphin Square’ meanwhile is a psychogeographical piece that locates itself at the London flat that was put aside as the refugees’ destination in London.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA particularly emotive and powerful moment elsewhere is ‘The Letter Burning’, which reflects the fact that much of the correspondence related to the sisters work was burned by Louise. This was for reasons unclear, yet many have interpreted it as a gesture of remorse, haunted by memories of the past and beset by angst at all those she couldn’t do more for.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout, this story is relayed by Alison Cotton, whether acapella or by means of richly emotive string arrangements, with a deftness of touch, sensitivity and intensity that matches the feverish nature of the experiences and the unforgiving environs in which they took place. Summoning foley work to sum up the atmospheres of the sister’s journeys (from train noises to the sound of gulls on the English coast, to the ominous military drumbeat) Engelchen is a transporting work whose spirit is situated in a very specific time and place.\n\nNontheless, the story of Ida and Louise Cook reflects themes that extends beyond history in the here and now, In putting together Engelchen, Alison met up with refugees living in the UK today via the charity North East Rise to discover the challenges they’ve faced on their journey, and those experiences ultimately found their way into a new version of the piece’s eponymous track, connecting the Cook sisters story to 2024.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is more than merely an inspirational tribute to two mavericks who beat the odds in an unforgettable feat of altruism. It’s a celebration of the human spirit, one that reflects a universality in its narrative which transcends the boundaries of history and impacts very urgently on our daily lives. Whatever attempts may be made to tell this story, it’s hard to imagine one that resonates deeper than Engelchen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alison Cotton","offers":[{"title":"Ltd Purple \u0026 Black Swirl 'Engelchen' Vinyl","offer_id":47843383968082,"sku":"LAUNCH 339 RLP","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ltd Clear 'Engelchen' Vinyl","offer_id":49221355209042,"sku":"LAUNCH339 LP","price":11.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD Digi Pack","offer_id":48597979890002,"sku":"LAUNCH339 CD","price":5.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47860452458834,"sku":"","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47860454752594,"sku":"","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/a1184233593_10.jpg?v=1710786051"},{"product_id":"norther","title":"Norther","description":"\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1714719048\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/ex-easter-island-head-norther\" title=\"Ex Easter Island Head – Norther\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eEx Easter Island Head – Norther\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn meteorology, the word Norther refers to a cold wind that blows down from the North. For Ex-Easter Island Head, it’s also an apt title for the strange and multi-faceted sound of their new album, their first since 2016, which drifts from billowing clouds of melancholy to propulsive hypnotic headwinds. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYears in the making and crafted in their home studio housed within the former Brazilian consulate in Liverpool, the music is an ever shifting thrum of sounds, both acoustic and electronic, which appears to teem and squirm, yet which moves as part of one mighty breeze. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBuilding on over a decade of activity, Ex-Easter Island Head have long been a cherished part of the UK underground. Functioning variously as a kind of deconstructed rock band, ambient chamber ensemble and minimalist compositional workshop, on 'Norther' we find the group combining their wide musical experience into something singular and coherent with a deeply emotional core. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLargely orbiting around their extended use of the electric guitar, their approach might at times recall the experiments of Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca, but across the album we see a band whose musical vision extends well beyond the iconoclasm of 80's New York. Drawing on hypnotic musics from across the spectrum, they\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e bring a compositional approach to sounds often associated with freeform sprawl or more academic settings, never letting pathos be lost to process. Equally reminiscent of the gentle rolling momentum of The Necks as they are the coiled precision of an act on Kompakt; this is a music which ebbs and flows, lives and breathes. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe record consists of six pieces, each of which demonstrates an entirely different creative process. On blossoming opener ‘Weather’, whirring motors are made to dance fairy-like atop guitar strings and drums before being overwhelmed by great thrusts of bass; on the dizzying ‘Magnetic Language’ the band’s voices are played back through their phones and amplified with guitar pickups, magnets wrapped in copper wire, a conversation between technology old and new. The title of penultimate piece ‘Golden Bridges’ refers to the brass rods the band shift beneath the strings of their guitars to create its glowing cascade of harmonics. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll, however, tap to one degree or another into that abiding theme of the weather, not least the title track for which the band erected a ramshackle aeolian harp –an instrument played by the wind – on the roof of a former meteorological observatory on The Wirral. With it they captured an actual norther, bottling its elemental power for their own devices. When examining their specimen they found a deep resonance between the sounds it made, which are eerily akin to guitar feedback, and the quest to extract rich overtones from the instrument that has remained a constant through their career as experimental outliers. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDespite the long wait since their last full length, the band’s creative drive has been ceaseless in that time. Those eight years away were defined by collaborations, solo excursions and one-off performances – whether external projects like Dialect, The Aleph and Land Trance, their part in the Salford Large Ensemble of Northern underground musicians or Whistling Arrow, with Laura Cannell and Charles Hayward, a site-specific series of shows in Odense, Denmark, work with classical musicians like the BBC Philharmonic and Immix Ensemble, or ambitious educational projects with schoolchildren in Liverpool and Newcastle. “Nearly all of these have played into the direction the material on Norther has taken,” says the band’s Benjamin D. Duvall. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“All of the projects we were involved in between 2016 and 2024 have expanded the boundaries of what we do by exposing us to a huge variety of instruments, personalities and ways of working. 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Spot Land’s five songs are tender and detailed, unfolding slowly with wistful guitar textures, brushed drums and interjections of lap steel, piano and kalimba.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs founder member Paddy Shine says, the results sound like old GNOD and new GNOD at the same time. On the face of it, Spot Land is a big step away from the intense, loud, sludgy offerings found on the group’s more recent studio albums, such as 2022’s Hexen Valley – nevertheless, these too are heady fogs to lose yourself in, with on-record personnel starting at different points and meeting on the same wavelength. Its exploratory sense might make seasoned GNOD heads think of 2014 triple LP Infinity Machines, or really early oddities like The Somnambulist’s Tale from 2008, but you can also jump in right here if needs be because Spot Land has its own unique vibe too.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album was recorded in a Rochdale mill over four days in August 2023, with Paddy handling all the production and mixing – the first time he’s been fully in the hot seat for any GNOD release. He’s also the only member to feature on each of the five tracks, with others coming and going in suitably informal manner. Everyone – Paddy, fellow GNOD founder Chris Haslam, Alex Macarte, Raikes Parade and Al Wilson – plays at least two instruments over these 40 minutes. There are no vocal credits among them, but Spot Land is embellished beautifully by sampled voices, notably on the album’s opening and closing pieces. Benedictine monks intone hymnally on ‘Peace At Home’, gliding over the top of jazzy, graceful desert music, while during quarter-hour ambient rock frazzler ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ we hear – yes – Christian pilgrims chanting in a church in Azores.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese songs are unquestionably the product of jamming, improvisation and an open mind, with little of any of what you hear having much in the way of a preconceived structure, but don’t imagine this to be self-indulgent or bloated, thanks especially to Paddy’s judicious editing process. ‘Luz Natural’ is a beatific beatless wonder crafted from synth, piano and lap steel, a soundtrack for a rainforest located somewhere along the Pennines. ‘Dream On’ is Spot Land’s most rhythm-forward moment, alien-sounding synths snaking through sharply shuffling bass and drums, whereas ‘Kapal Bhati’ is its height of abstraction: thumb piano, bizarro dub treatment and distant voices that could be anyone, from anywhere.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough GNOD’s shift in sound from album to album is rarely planned too far ahead, there’s been a quiet desire among the band to do something of this nature for a while. The results might confound the expectations of some listeners, but in the longer view Spot Land is liquid GNOD. The arresting cover artwork is a showcase for Chris Haslam’s illustrative skills; his process here, he says, was “starting on something, never knowing when it’s complete, just when it feels finished. 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The simple pleasures and vices endure, even as time warps and future dystopias loom large. Yet fresh horizons beckon even with the most trustworthy ingredients, and Thee Alcoholics are here to hammer the point home. Feedback, the debut from this London-based outfit is where riffage, rancour and revelation do battle, a bleary-eyed treatise from the edge of sanity with a life-affirming afterglow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThee Alcoholics are the brainchild of Rhys Llewellyn, a longtime Rocket alumnus whose background leans as heavily into the bassbin-shaking realms of electronic music as it does the tinnitus-inducing world of the cranked amp. Not content with hammering drumskins for numerous floor-shaking records on the Rocket discography from the likes of Hey Colossus and The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, he’s also been responsible for brain-rearranging electronic works under the Drmcnt and Acidliner monikers. Thee Alcoholics, however - which initially gestated as a result of Rhys himself wanting to pursue the somewhat hostile sound in his own head during lockdown - maps out a collision course between all of the above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I wanted to capture something visceral and more intense and essentially make music that I loved and missed playing. I was doing a lot of home recording while lockdown was happening and going in my local studio in Peckham on my own just trying to get ideas out and record stuff to take home and carve in to something while stuck in the house” From this, Thee Alcoholics’ name arrived from the ether (“a gnarly name for a gnarly sound” Rhys reflects) and soon the ensuing racket was captured on two cassette releases for Wrong Speed Records. Ultimately, this path has led to various incarnations of a bruising live band, and hence to Feedback, where all the malice, indignation and inspiration of the decade so far coalesced into a brain-frying salvo of ornery catharsis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCranky and cantankerous yet lysergically aligned, Feedback is mesmeric rock with swagger, warped into sci-fi shapes by the spirit and sonics of bass and soundsystem culture. The psychedelic shapes here are redolent of the ur-klang of The Fall and the monolithic lurch of The Heads, the motorik malevolence less an uplifting trip to the heavens than a drill down to the earth’s core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscernible in these jackhammer beats, grimly murmured vocals and delirious dirges to certain heads may be the trash futurism of Chrome, the decomposed stomp of unsung legends Earl Brutus and the electro-punk attack of Six Finger Satellite, yet all of the above co-ordinates are waylaid effortlessly by a balls-out intensity and a fearsome intent on aural oblivion at all costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeedback may be elemental and primal, yet this is no psych comfort-blanket nor retro-fetishism, rather a repetition-driven journey headlong into intimidating territory unknown. 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Enter Bonnacons Of Doom, progenitors of Trans Pennine hypnotic music. This mirror masked collective, amassed from across the North of England, have stepped up their mission accordingly on Signs – their second album for Rocket Recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigns takes the band’s engagement with tradition and ritual on a new trajectory, tracking forward into our digital lives and exploring how our actions are shaped by the post-human environment. New rituals and behavioural patterning evolve in response to the dominance of digital flows and interactions. The desire to reconnect to the ancient and the mystic grows stronger as our daily lives become ever more enmeshed within waves of information and disinformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe accelerated course into the post-digital begs pause for thought on this new realm’s impact on human and ecological development. Building on the intimidating intensity of Bonnacons Of Doom’s self-titled 2018 debut, Signs offers a sonic response to the tension between the urge to pursue continuity with our past and to adapt to our changing present. Hypnotic grooves and the monomaniacal intensity of the riff are fractured by digital interplay, electronics and the incantatory vocals of ceremonial leader Kate Smith, coalescing into a metaphysical force which stands defiant of easy categorisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The past five years has really accelerated a sense of confusion\" states the band's Rob Strachan. \"I think we’re in a period of post-digital decay and in a sense the album is naturally a response to that. I think everyone feels out of control and we’re all trying to make sense of a period where it feels like everything is falling apart. So I think culturally and politically there’s a tendency to look for emergent signs to explain things that are essentially chaotic. 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Standing when there are multiple obstacles in the way.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSigns marks both a portent of things to come, and a roadmap of the psychic pathways to survival. 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Paddy Shine, of psychedelic powerhouse GNOD, and Phil Masterson, of cult groups Los Langeros, Damp Howl and Bisect, chose this as base camp for their latest expedition into a new form of psychedelic Irish folk music.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGetting lost in liminal zones, at thresholds, where boundaries merge is key to the Moundabout sound. The Galtees is an Irish mountain range where the counties Tipperary, Cork and Limerick amalgamate, Shine adds: “We seem to have found ourselves recording and finishing\nalbums in places where the boundaries have become blurry.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe set up of Shine on acoustic guitar, Masterson on electric guitar, both on vocals and sparse electronic accompaniment from antique Hammond drum machine Shine found in his auntie’s attic and old\nanalogue synth, plus field recordings, remains the same as their debut but this time the pair push further out on tracks such as ‘Step In Out Of That’ which calls to mind Egypt-based free psych trio The Dwarfs Of East Agouza and reaches its apogee on the glorious, sunburst of New Weird Éirana ‘Instinct, Eye And Mind’ which treads in the footsteps of Michael Chapman at his most ragged and echoes the borderless fourth world guitar peregrinations of Mike Cooper.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the voyage that Flowers Rot took us on was one out of modernity into a vibrant megalithic antiquity, it feels like An Cnoc Mór is taking us even further back. 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Mwg Drwg, the second album from South Wales psychic seers Obey Cobra, is an album that dwells in exactly this kind of headspace. It’s not only a bracing delivery of heavily-amplified and vituperative intensity, but a richly atmospheric journey to a liminal zone where the otherworldly meets the kitchen sink.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlways a band who’ve sought out new dimensions to explore via their trademark warped post-punk, electronic and industrial influences, Obey Cobra have crafted surreal new shapes on Mwg Drwg. What’s more, the title itself - mostly used as slang for marijuana but translating literally as ‘bad drug’ or ‘bad smoke’ - forms an analogue for an overarching ambience of psychotropic dread that permeates these ten tracks in spectral and captivating fashion.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflective of a band operating by nobody’s rules but their own, Obey Cobra here are just as adept with bracing noise as sinister disquiet. Taking influences as diverse as Diane Arbus, David Lynch and Sonic Youth, they balance out heaviosity and grace on the likes of the majestically discordant ‘Ten Of Wands’ and the glacial yet pulverising ‘Blue Hour’. Meanwhile; on the title track, the band excel themselves by sculpting a Jesus Lizard-esque rhythmic pulse, eerie vocal abstraction and the crepuscular downtempo atmosphere of Massive Attack’s ‘Mezzanine’ into a uniquely haunting dreamscape.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentral to the beguiling psychic web weaved here are the vocals of K Wood, whether dispensing eldritch torch songs, surreal spoken word or caustic intensity - the last named on the feverishly abrasive ‘Home Wrecca’, the heaviest track on show here. Yet their elan of approach forms a lodestar for a band whose imagination is only matched by their intensity.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced by London’s Wayne Adams, Mwg Drwg is where the weird and eerie are amplified to intimidating proportions. It’s where grotesquely and beauty happily cohabit. It’s the eldritch chill of ‘Ghostwatch’ in which strange dimensions lurk in the suburbs. 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Land Of Sleeper, their fourth record in a decade of riot and rancour, is testimony to this: the sound of a band not so much reinvigorated as channelling a furious energy, which only appears to gather momentum as the band’s surroundings spin on their axis.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shouting about themes of existential dread comes very naturally to me, and I think because I’m aware of that in the past I’ve tried to rein that in a little” reckons Matt. “There’s definitely moments on this album where I took my gloves off and surrendered to that urge.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether this means Pigs, a band once associated with reckless excess, have taken a darker turn to match the dystopian realm of the 2022 everyday, is open to debate. The band themselves aren’t necessarily convinced; “Sobriety does funny things to a man” reckons guitarist Adam Ian Sykes wryly.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I know from my perspective, I was trying to write some much heavier and darker music” says guitarist and producer Sam Grant. “But this was an aim more as a counterpoint to earlier material, as opposed to any sort of political or social commentary. I still very much see these heavier moments as musically euphoric, and emotionally cut loose or liberating.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For obvious reasons, the anticipation for the writing of Land of Sleeper was unlike anything we’d felt before” Adam adds. “These sessions were an almost religious experience for me. It felt like we were working in unison, connected to some unknowable hive mind.”\n\nThe intensity of feeling is writ large right from the pulverising drive of opener ‘Ultimate Hammer’, and its rallying cry “I keep spinning out, what a time to be alive”. Yet, whilst ‘Terror’s Pillow’ and ‘Big Rig’ are rich with the band’s trademark Sabbathian power, there’s scope this time around that supercedes anything they’ve previously attempted. Matt’s duet with the traditional folk vocals of Cath Tyler on the closing lament ‘Ball Lightning’, for example, is one particularly potent illustration of their expanded horizons.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn terms of emotional impact, a pinnacle on Land Of Sleeper is ‘The Weatherman’. Replete with devotional rapture and radiant intensity, the band’s attack slowed down to a mantric and mesmeric crawl, it marks a collaboration with the ululatory tones of Bonnacons Of Doom vocalist Kate Smith and a choir including Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington. The resulting tumult constitutes a sound not unlike The Stooges ‘We Will Fall’, reinvented and adrenalised as an invigorating sermon for the zeitgeist.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This one presented an opportunity for me to do something completely unbridled. 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In the seven years since this band’s inception, the powerful primal charge at their heart has been amplified far beyond the realms of their original imagination. What’s more, no one has been more taken aback by this transformation than the band themselves.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis culminated recently at a sold-out show at London’s renowned former fleapit Scala “That was the first gig where we were properly smacked with a feeling that something had shifted” reflects vocalist Matt Baty. “Something big and bold and positive. I felt quite overwhelmed with emotion at one point during that show. 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Incisive in its riff-driven attack, infectiously catchy in its songcraft and more intrepid than ever in its experimental approach, ‘Viscerals’ is the sound of a leaner, more vicious Pigs, and one with their controls set way beyond the pulverising one-riff workouts of their early days.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst the fearsome opener ‘Reducer’s battle cry “ego kills everything” brings a philosophical bent to its Sabbathian abjection, elsewhere ‘Rubbernecker’ may be the most melodious ditty this band has yet attempted, redolent of the debauched swagger of Jane’s Addiction. Meanwhile the sinister sound-collage of ‘Blood And Butter’ delves into jarring abstraction anew, ‘New Body’ countenances a bracing Melvins-and-Sonic-Youth demolition derby and - perhaps most memorably of all - the perverse banger ‘Crazy In Blood’ marries MBV-ish guitar curlicues in its verses to a raise-your-fists chorus worthy of Twisted Sister or Turbonegro.\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet Pigsx7 have effortlessly broadened their horizons and dealt with all these new avenues without sacrificing one iota of their trademark eccentricity, and the personality of this band has never been stronger. “We’re a peculiar bunch of people - a precarious balance of passion, intensity and the absurd” notes Baty. Indeed, locked into a tight deadline in the studio, the band were forced to rally forces and to throw everything they had into created as concise and powerful a statement as could be summoned forth. “We booked dates in Sam’s studio before we’d written 80% of the album” reveals guitarist Adam Ian Sykes “We definitely thrive under pressure. 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What’s more, this is about more than the number of days in the week or continents in the world - psychologists have theorised that the human memory’s ability to calibrate information on a short term basis is mostly limited to a sequence of this length. Thus, it seems strangely fitting that Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - the Newcastle-based maximalists whose riffs, raw power and rancour have blazed a trail across the darker quarters of the underground in the last five years, have made a second album in King Of Cowards which does its damnedest to take consciousness to its very limits.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoreover, another notable seven is dealt with here - that of the deadly sins. As vocalist and synth player Matt Baty notes “In terms of how the theme came together I’d relate it to throwing paint at a canvas in a really physical and subconscious way, then stepping back to analyse it and seeing it all as one piece. 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Perhaps the most relentlessly head-caving outfit of an alarmingly fertile scene operating in Newcastle at present, the band have all been busying themselves in a variety of activities, with Baty running Box Records (home of underground luminaries like Lower Slaughter, Casual Nun and Terminal Cheesecake) and both himself and bassist John-Michael Hedley playing in Richard Dawson’s band - indeed Dawson himself guests on King Of Cowards, both on synth and as part of a vocal ensemble on the opening “GNT” - moreover, guitarist Sam Grant has been working hard on a new incarnation of Blank Studios, which began its life with the recording of this very album.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis opus sees the band entering a new phase as a sleeker yet still more dangerous swineherd, with ex-Gnod and Queer’d Science drummer Chris Morley joining the ranks and a new approach being taken to its creation. The Iggy-esque drive to dementia, Sabbath-esque squalor and Motörhead-style dirt may still be present and correct yet the songs are leaner, the longdrawn-out riff-fests sharpened into addictive hammer blows and the nihilistic dirges of yore alchemically transformed into an uplifting and inviting barrage of hedonistic abandon.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst all odds, the writing of this record entailed encounters with actual pigs. “We hired a remote, converted barn in the Italian countryside and spent a week there writing the bulk of the album and trying to make friends with wild boar.” notes Adam Ian Sykes. “The results are shorter, more concise songs with, I guess, a little more focus, especially thematically. We wanted to shift slightly from our old jam-based way of working. 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Therein, he oversees a subterranean order of 50,000 insect-human hybrid life-forms. Ultimately his plan being for the inhabitants of the Hive to usurp humanity and take over the world.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe decade thus far may not have seen anything quite so daunting, but it’s provided more than its fair share of challenges. Yet in such dystopian environments, Teeth Of The Sea flourish. This band has created a kaleidoscopic inner world all its own in Hive, their sixth and most outlandish album.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFundamental to Teeth Of The Sea’s mission thus far is that this band can go anywhere and make short work of any obstacles in their path. Unfettered by genre distinctions or expectations, the only limits of this trio - comprising Sam Barton, Mike Bourne and Jimmy Martin - are those of its imagination. It therefore follows that inspiration flowed into Hive from all dimensions, with the band’s sphere of influence - the science fiction, trash culture and cinematic atmospherics by which they’ve fuelled their mission thus far - expanding to take in everything from Italo-disco to minimal techno, from dubbed-out studio madness to their most brazen forays thus far into pop songwriting. Here is a headspace where the psychic charges from records by Labradford, Nurse With Wound, Vangelis, The Knife, Nine Inch Nails and John Barry can happily co-exist.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese disparate pathways cohere and coalesce to create a vivid experience rich with emotion and intrigue. A commission to create a live soundtrack at London’s Science Museum for a documentary on the Apollo moon landings gave flight to the trilogy of tracks - Artemis, Æther and Apollo which are summarily imbued with the dreamlike wonder and existential peril of the mission itself. 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Now, two years on we are extremely happy to be able to share with you the live recording of this memorable event.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor those who are unfamiliar with The Holy Family – they are a collective of five musicians who conjure a sound that exhibits an affinity with great experimental totems down the ages, in a manner that is avowedly forward-facing and stamped with their own unique identity. All involved boast a pre Holy Family CV to turn clued-in heads: frontman and brainchild behind the project David J. Smith (vocals, percussion), Kavus Torabi (guitar, harmonium), Sam Warren (bass, backing vocals), Joe Lazarus (drums), and on this recording Craig Fortnam, of North Sea Radio Orchestra fame (piano and wem copicats), who was recruited to grace Emmett Elvin’s piano throne in his absence.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe band performed tracks from their debut self-titled double album (released on Rocket Recordings in July 2021) at this show. Re-arranging and expanding on the studio recordings, weaving the pagan, kosmiche folk vibes with heavier, darker, acid-fried motorik grooves, all set to the otherworldy psychedelia of Mike Bourne’s (Teeth Of The Sea) commissioned live visuals film.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid J. Smith said “We were over the moon to be performing at Roadburn in 2022 and couldn’t wait to bring The Holy Family’s psych dream logic to Tilburg. 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Drummer Joe Lazarus is new to the band – taking over that role from Smith, who largely concentrates on vocals and synths here – and his versatility is never in doubt, as his rhythms pull in myriad directions, blurring the lines between jazz, prog and psych rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWork began on this album in the summer of 2021, effectively as soon as ‘The Holy Family’ was released, with Smith writing and recording the music for ‘Go Zero’ in his home studio. Torabi, Warren, Elvin and Lazarus were gradually brought into the fold to add their parts, before being subject to alchemical post-production by Uusimaki.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater, in the autumn of 2022, two pieces were laid down with the full band in each other’s company. One, ‘Hell Born Babel’, flies out of the traps with a sinewy post-hardcore bassline: people who know Sam Warren from Thumpermonkey, another band of his, will be forewarned of his way with a stout groove. The multi-layered freakout that follows might have a cattleprod effect for those listeners and others, nevertheless. The other, the second section of the three-part ‘Go Zero Suite’, tops ten minutes and is an improvised colossus with both Lazarus and Smith drumming. Rife with hypnotic repetition and circuit-frying Rhodes, if you dig anything from Can to Boredoms to Oneida to Guapo themselves, step this way. Though The Holy Family’s musical inspirations are multitudinous, and rarely if ever obvious, the lyrics nod to a distinct literary source – namely ‘Vorrh’, the trilogy of fantasy novels by cult British author Brian Catling, who died in 2022 while ‘Go Zero’ was being assembled. This, says Smith, lent a deeper personal meaning to the album as its final touches were put in place. 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Contained within these eight feral exorcisms is a merciless assault of Stoogian\/stygian riffage, gloriously purgatorial abjection and intimidating aggro that takes a garage-rock blueprint and grinds its face in the dirt.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf these grimy dirges and salvos of horror have a precedent, it’s in the menacing audial lineage that connects Fun House through the AmRep label, Brainbombs and Drunk In Hell - the process where relentless negativity is alchemically transformed into profane primal salvation. Yet The Shits worship no heroes, obeying a thanatotic urge that sees no separation between death and glory.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eListen to this album and you will believe once again in catharsis by way of heavy amplification. Psych-rock is dead, and The Shits are the executioners. Assume the position.\n\n...don't take our word for it, this what The Quietus’s John Doran says this about the album:\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Terrible, terrible bastards The Shits are here with all the spiritually uplifting, life affirming, serotonin boosting properties of a dark amber, ammonia stinking, three-day rave piss, in the form of new transmission, You’re A Mess. Starting with a bludgeoning, left of centre, Amphetamine Reptile punk take on The Stooges that laughs in the face of more recent flat white-sipping, pantywaisted post rock and post hardcore innovations and instead concentrates on a caustic, clangorous, bone-cracking assault on all that is right and proper. But steady your nerve, delve into their metallic, acid stripped, pig-fuck grooves and you will find a chaotic world\nof inverted psychedelia and jet black – fucking appalling – enlightenment waiting for you.” John Doran \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Shits","offers":[{"title":"LTD 'Ash Grey' Vinyl","offer_id":47922324767058,"sku":"LAUNCH299 RLP","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Standard Red Vinyl","offer_id":48444669919570,"sku":"LAUNCH299 LP","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47922324799826,"sku":"LAUNCH299","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47922324832594,"sku":"LAUNCH299","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch299_The_Shits_You_re_A_Mess_Sleeve.jpg?v=1712099076"},{"product_id":"the-bbc-sessions","title":"The BBC Sessions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1711659498%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-e3iRp5txvOh\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"The Utopia Strong – The BBC Sessions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/the-utopia-strong-the-bbc-sessions-1\/s-e3iRp5txvOh\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Utopia Strong – The BBC Sessions\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history of BBC Maida Vale Sessions is familiar to The Utopia Strong. As musicians, and lifelong music fans, the legacy - the importance - of such recordings is not lost on them. Space and place influence creativity, as is the case here, and the sleeve is a loving homage to those classic BBC releases, affectionately nodding to Strange Fruit Peel Sessions from days of yore.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese pieces, originally recorded live at Maida Vale for a Marc Riley session on BBC 6 Music in September 2022, capture The Utopia Strong stretching themselves and continuing to develop their aural explorations. The band approached this session differently, as usually pieces are improvised and developed live over a longer period of time. “When we hit a point where all three of us really had something going, we would continue while the proverbial tape was rolling,” says Kavus Torabi, “So, the shorter pieces are the result of about ten or fifteen minutes playing that you wouldn’t have heard.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe five-track album opens with the analogue arpeggios of ‘Minature Citadels’, a title perfectly summing up the imagery provoked by the music; evolving, jagged patterns of skylines and castellations, turrets and towers. The closing outro of squarks and drones could be twice as long and not outstay its welcome.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nagging refrain running through ‘Lamp Of Glory’ is Mike York on the pipes, which he handmakes himself. The overall effect is a sublime, warped concoction of balearic energy and non-Western modes. ‘Disaster 2’ (a piece initially recorded on their second studio album, 2022’s International Treasure) begins with a beautiful synth drone that maintains its position, overpowering the modular patterns pulsating behind it, augmented by yet more glorious, lamenting pipes. The last two tracks both exceed ten minutes and allow the band to extend out further. Release comes as the drums kick in after six minutes of ‘The Tower Is Locked’, emulating the live sets The Utopia Strong have become famed for.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe final track, ‘Weather All’, was also honed across several live performances. Having been booked for Andrew Weatherall’s Conveanza festival pre-lockdown, the band finally performed there in September 2022, following his passing. While performing this piece, the heavens opened and the entire festival, band and audience, were drenched. “It felt absolutely biblical”, says the band. “The title refers to the weather which was giving us its all, as well as Andrew himself.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve Davis - yes, that one, for the remaining six people not already aware - has a rich history with the Beeb, but on this occasion he is wrangling his ever-expanding array of analogue synths, dilating his musical imagination. The heritage of the location and overall experience was not lost on the band either, and may also have influenced the outcome. “It was lovely working with the BBC engineers who, obviously, have their own idea as to how the band should be mixed. We have a fairly specific approach when we record together so I think it was quite liberating to just play and go with their sonic decisions.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo put on the - classic, black - vinyl, sit back and go through all the other bands listed on the sleeve that have also recorded BBC Sessions. You will surely be familiar with them, if you are music aficionados like the band.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Utopia Strong","offers":[{"title":"'Classic Black' Vinyl","offer_id":47922361172306,"sku":"LAUNCH 346 LP","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"'Mini Gatefold' CD","offer_id":47922361205074,"sku":"LAUNCH 346 CD","price":5.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47922361237842,"sku":"","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47922361270610,"sku":"","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/TheUtopiaStrong-BBCSessionsFrontSleeve_VINYL.jpg?v=1712100475"},{"product_id":"launch300-rocket-recordings-compilation","title":"Launch300 (Rocket Recordings Compilation)","description":"\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1574574865%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-q45YmJRc3Nj\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Various – Launch300\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/various-launch300\/s-q45YmJRc3Nj\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVarious – Launch300\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are all artefacts for space travel, to paraphrase William Burroughs. Yet how to facilitate such journeys into either inner or outer space? This luckily is where Rocket Recordings come in, 25 years into their continuing mission.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOperating from a 1998 launchpad in Bristol, Rocket's questing vision has made them pathfinders for a particular kind of psychic terrain. The label may have been founded on disparate and dissolute passions - the vital grit and street-level attack of old-skool Hip Hop and Thrash Metal, the power of repetition, the astral awaydays of Hawkwind, the Fuzz and Wah of garage rock and early Sub Pop and the constellational signposts that connect CAN, Funkadelic, Wax Trax Records and Aphex Twin on a map to other dimensions. Yet the stubbornly uncompromising ethos has always been to push beyond boundaries into areas which even the true heads have thus far never ventured.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo celebrate a quarter century on the outer realms of exploration, naturally these voyagers have some special ventures planned, A choice selection of Rocket affiliated artists (including Alison Cotton, Marlene Ribeiro, J Zunz, The Shits, Holy Scum and Teeth Of The Sea) will be descending on Tilburg in the Netherlands for a celebration at Roadburn, Europe's most forward-thinking heavy festival. Haslanded, a project including the electronic talents of founders Chris Reeder and John O'Carroll, has its first release on the starting blocks. A debonair new Rocket 25th anniversary T-shirt chronicles every band that's released records bearing the label's insignia. LAUNCH300, meanwhile, is a vital celebratory compilation collecting together eight of the current Rocket roster, all offering full-throttle salvos of metaphysical salvation.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResplendent in third-eye-cleansing sleeve art referencing French comic artist Philippe Caza, it's a travelogue that traverses from the amp-damaging repetitive thunder of Gnod's 'Nought Sayin'' to the minimal electronic spellcasting of J. Zunz's 'Radix', from the unsettling invective of Shit and Shine's gleefully ornery 'What’d You Mean, What?, What' to the drone-based bliss of Centrum's \"Dü är så värdefull\", from Och's nocturnal revelations to The Utopia Strong's celestial visions, and from the potent rural vibrations of Smote's 'Coal Tongue' to Goat's dancefloor-ready 'Goatsnake' without losing coherence or focus.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLAUNCH300 measures out the widescreen horizons of Rocket Recordings as it embarks on the next quarter century - a label with its feet on the ground and its head mapping out a defiant course for the unknown. Get on board. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LTD Silver Galaxy Vinyl Compilation Album","offer_id":47927411147090,"sku":"LAUNCH300 LP","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47927411179858,"sku":"LAUNCH300","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47927411212626,"sku":"LAUNCH300","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Various_Launch300_Sleeve.jpg?v=1712182223"},{"product_id":"omegaville","title":"OMEGAVILLE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/375606488\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Anthroprophh - OMEGAVILLE\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/anthroprophh-omegaville-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAnthroprophh - OMEGAVILLE\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the near-twenty year period of Rocket Recordings’ existence, its ethos has expanded in untold directions, yet always with the destruction of boundaries and the expansion of consciousness high on the agenda. Nonetheless, the original spirit of the label remains a universe that revolves around the twin planets of Fuzz and Wah - the mind-frying six-string duality that warps sound spectrums and overheats speaker cones in pursuit of reckless sensory overload. \n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat’s more, few guitarists have been richer exponents of just these two ingredients than Paul Allen, who not only appeared on the very first Rocket 7” of 1998 with The Heads, but who also fronts Anthroprophh, an outfit who take both garage-bound filth and wayward, abstract artistry to zones beyond comprehension. ‘Omegaville’ - the third release on Rocket for his power trio alongside bassist Gareth Turner (who appeared on the other side of said debut Rocket 7” with his then-band Lilydamwhite) and drummer Jesse Webb - lives up to its name in driving just such demented predilections into head-spinning chaos. A feverish tirade of maximalism battling with a no-holds-barred approach to structure, ‘Omegaville’ finds equal space for everything-on-11 riffage of a distinctly Stoogian\/stygian stripe, bracing musique concrete, Butthole Surfers-esque bedlam, Chrome-style sci-fi noise-pop, surreal British humour, and what sounds essentially like a ‘60s NASA HQ going up in flames. \n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured by Allen’s admission akin to Can’s ‘Tago Mago’ as a double album which places the more conventional tracks at its start and the more explicitly experimental and outré adventures on the second disc, this is a cliff-edge into sanity-risking overload which has much in common with the glory days of 1971 - the Nurse-With-Wound-list realm of record-collector gold where heavy rock, nascent prog and wilfully art-damaged netherscapes thrived - a harmonious and thrilling marriage between transgressive over-amplification and the avant-garde. “With a double LP you can usually get away with some form of experimentation on the second disc and ‘Tago Mago’ is a prime example” notes Allen “‘Echo’ by AR Vs Machines (Achim Reichel) being another example, with its zonked-out a cappella ending. It was nice to cover all aspects of what the band are all about, It kind of happened by accident really. I’m amazed we had that much material” \n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the forefront of much of this, however, is Allen’s guitar playing itself, globally renowned amongst freaks and connoisseurs alike from his contributions to The Heads. Taking Hendrix and Asheton-esque shapes and warping them beyond recognition into new paradigms, he also cites guitarists like Michael Karoli “with this spindly thin fuzz sound and use of the whammy”, early-‘70s Robert Fripp, Giles Buchan of Human Beast, Fred Frith and Geinrich of Guru Guru (“with his love of sonic mulch”) as influences, yet this ear-splitting treble-heavy scree and these heavenly FX-driven cacophonies could be the work of no-one else but this particular six-string iconoclast, who drives his trademark sound beyond anything he’s previously attempted in any incarnation. \n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho’s to say exactly where Anthroprophh move on from this guileless aural endtime mission. ‘Omegaville’ - in the tradition of most great out-rock and psych-noise - feels very much like a foot placed firmly on the accelerator in search of dimensions unknown - a liminal zone where fuzz and wah transcend space and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthroprophh","offers":[{"title":"White \u0026 Black Explosive Splatter Double Gatefold Vinyl","offer_id":47941875794258,"sku":"LAUNCH 127 LP","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Mini Gatefold Replica CD","offer_id":47941875827026,"sku":"LAUNCH 127 CD","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47941875859794,"sku":"","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47941875892562,"sku":"","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch127Anthroprophh_OMEGAVILLE_Sleeve.jpg?v=1712405461"},{"product_id":"toilet-circuit-ep","title":"Toilet Circuit (EP)","description":"\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1058123533\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Anthroprophh - Toilet Circuit EP\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/anthroprophh-toilet-circuit-ep\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAnthroprophh - Toilet Circuit EP\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1998 Rocket Recordings launched with a debut split 7” between Bristol bands The Heads and Lillydamwhite. So it is fitting that the labels 200th release is a 7” by the band Anthroprophh – the Bristol three piece that features Paul Allen from The Heads and Gareth Turner the former bass player from Lillydamwhite.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Toilet Circuit EP’ is the bands first release since their mammoth double album Omegaville which was released to high acclaim in 2018. The three tracks that make up this EP follow on perfectly from the dense and psychedelic sounds of Omegaville – a feverish tirade of maximalism. Anthroprophh manage to find equal space for everything-on-11 riffage of The Stooges, kraut rock repetitions, Butthole Surfers-esque bedlam, and surreal British humour.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA frustrated social commentary of todays paranoid world dictate the subject matter of the three songs on the EP. Six Six Sigma is named after a truly awful corporate training company, Too Old lists the frustrations of age and growing old, and Toilet Circuit is a song about the ‘fun’ and tribulations of touring the ‘toilet circuits’ of the UK.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike previous Anthroprophh releases it is Allen’s guitar playing itself, that transcends the band to ‘higher’ limits. Globally renowned amongst freaks and connoisseurs alike from his untouchable contributions to The Heads. Taking Hendrix and Asheton-esque shapes and warping them beyond recognition into new paradigms, he also cites guitarists like Michael Karoli, early-‘70s Robert Fripp, Giles Buchan of Human Beast, Fred Frith and Geinrich of Guru Guru as influences, yet this ear-splitting treble-heavy scree and these heavenly FX-driven cacophonies could be the work of no-one else but this particular six-string iconoclast, who drives his trademark sound beyond anything he’s previously attempted in any incarnation.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Toilet Circuit EP’ are the first Anthroprophh tracks to feature a new sticksman – the drumming skills of Bristol legend Steve Dew, who cut his rhythmic teeth with Cup of Tea Records band Spaceways and the Bristol psych-jazz supergroup Fuzz Against Junk who released music via Geoff Barrow’s Invada Records.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of most great out-rock and psych-noise - ‘Toilet Circuit EP’ feels very much like a foot placed firmly on the accelerator in search of dimensions unknown - a liminal zone where fuzz and wah transcend space and time. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthroprophh","offers":[{"title":"1st Press LTD PINK vinyl EP","offer_id":47941942837586,"sku":"LAUNCH 200","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"2nd Press LTD YELLOW vinyl EP","offer_id":47941942804818,"sku":"LAUNCH 200 YEL","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47941942870354,"sku":"","price":1.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47941942903122,"sku":"","price":1.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch200_Anthroprophh_7_Sleeve_repress.jpg?v=1712407024"},{"product_id":"i","title":"I","description":"\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/961186384\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Autotelia - I\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/autotelia-i\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAutotelia - I\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAutotelia - as originally coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - describes a process by which someone has a purpose in, rather than outside of themselves. Those who are autotelic depend less on external rewards for their satisfaction, being driven instead simply by purpose or curiosity. \n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch was the genesis of a new project put together by The Oscillation’s Demian Castellanos and Tomaga’s Tom Relleen. Started purely as an exploratory audial voyage with no expectations, no boundaries and no context. Autotelia’s sound - as chronicled on ‘1’, their debut release for Rocket Recordings - evolved purely of its own volition, as its makers were happy to allow their own chemistry and interplay to take its course. This zen-like simplicity of approach has been more than rewarded, as the impulses and intentions blossomed into meditative extrapolations both sonically rich and spiritually captivating (bewitching). \n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This project was started as an opportunity to play more freely, with less of the process, consideration and production we both associated with our main projects” relates Tom. Yet although all the tracks on ‘1’ follow similar neural pathways to their destination, there’s in fact a ten year gap between the guitar-scorched heat-haze of ‘Thinking Makes It So’ and the extra-terrestrial soundscape of ‘Storm At Tucanae’. The former track was recorded “completely live - just bass and guitar and effects - and lots of booze - in a rehearsal room in Stoke newington” says Tom. “That’s totally where we are at back then. The other tracks are from sessions in the last two years and obviously we have a load more gear now, so drum machines, mellotron, vibraphone and various synths are where we are now, but the emphasis is still on more textural and less song based ideas, and a shared love of kosmische, drone and ambient.” \n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet although some observers may be able to detect parallels with the blissful drift of Cluster’s ‘II’, the overheated ampstacks of prime Spacemen 3 or the becalmed modernism of Eno in these radiant trance states, the core sound of Autotelia remains in splendid isolation, an unearthly tapestry of echoes and vibrations channeled direct from the id and the ether. “Personally for me I don’t think anything from my personal life or current events were an influence for Autotelia, unlike The Oscillation which is very intertwined with my personal dramas, reality and life” reckons Demian “Autotelia is more been about allowing emotions, feelings and sonic spaces to do their own thing with a sense of freedom, and not wanting to impose myself or my ego on them too much”. \n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These tracks are pure escapism - zoning out and not worrying about anything” adds Tom. “I think that when playing music for a completely new project it can be really liberating since there is no expectation and no baggage associated with that you might have already released. the slate is blank. 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Yet tempting through it may be to place ‘För Meditation’ amidst the uniquely Swedish lineage of primal and arcadian Psychedelia that began with artists like Arbete Och Fritid, Träd, Gras och Stenar and International Harvester, the band are keen to emphasise that inspiration arrives at Centrum from all quarters. “From Pandit Pran Nath to Trees, from Velvet Underground to Popol Vuh, anything and everything. 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Yet as we traverse through new and intimidating terrain unfamiliar a short while ago, two collaborators have come together to unwittingly create a record curiously suited to an intimidating and unpredictable new era, in which both its vibrant spirit of collaboration and the uncompromising intensity of its aural assault render it life-affirming against all adversity that surrounds. ‘Deafbrick’, the multiplication sum of Säo Paulo’s sonic warriors Deafkids and London’s pulverising duo Petbrick is less a polite meeting of minds than a fiery collision whose impact and incandescence extend beyond the horizon.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe project first came to light by way of a collaboration at Roadburn Festival, which in itself was the result of the friendship between Deafkids and Petbrick’s Iggor Cavalera (also of Sepultura\/Soulwax\/Cavalera Conspiracy) who had met the band in Brazil. “For Roadburn we just did a few versions of our own songs but as a five piece” says Petbrick’s Wayne Adams (also of Big Lad\/Death Pedals). “We had so much fun doing the collab and there was a real chemistry between the five of us, so it seemed like a natural progression to actually get into a studio together and write a record.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“After we saw how cool our connection was, we decided to go for a complete three days of total exchange of ideas in the studio, without limitations or preconceptions. Total freedom.” relates Iggor. Indeed, ‘Deafbrick’ is manifestly both a record audibly alive with the sparks of ideas coalescing in real time, yet also a fierce statement whose confidence and coherence belies its spontaneous origins. “We managed to pull together 80% of the record in three days” notes Wayne. “Deafkids where over for a show so we managed to carve out a bit of time in all our diaries and jumped in. It was an amazing session - everyone was on top form and the creativity was flowing! I think I had done a couple of really basic electronic riffs to give us a starting point but within a couple of hours we were flying.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe results run the gamut through a litany of uniformly invigorating audial landscapes - notably operating blithely unaware of all or any genre trappings or classifications, this is an arena where Deafkids’ appetite for lysergic punk-damaged tumult, Petbrick’s ventures into dystopian synth-driven soundscapes, and both bands’s common fearless drive into in-the-red overload can all happily engage in gladiatorial contest. From the unearthly percussive clangour of ‘Hyperkinetic Mass Disorder’ to the frenetic future-core assault of ‘Máquina Obssessivo-Compulsiva’ and from the eerie cinematic intensity of ‘The Menace Of The Dark Polar Night’ to the DHR-addled chaos of the paint-stripping ‘Mega Ritual’, every second of ‘Deafbrick’ is infused with malevolent charisma and iconoclastic élan.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet perhaps the ultimate destructive moment of this particular demolition derby comes via a thrilling take on Discharge’s ‘Free Speech For The Dumb’, on which Casual Nun’s Matt Ridout and Terminal Cheesecake\/Luminous Bodies’ Gordon Watson join the fray for a fearsome blast of noise-driven monomaniacal nihilism curiously redolent of the early ornery joys of Shit And Shine. 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A mysterious force, their influence - essential between angel and demon - has subsequently extended to mythos, religious belief and folklore far and wide, from the malevolent spirits that originally haunted deserts and inspired poets to the archetypal Western genie in a bottle.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet also, the DJINN’s name has been interpreted as meaning “beings that are concealed from the senses”. This makes the word a fitting moniker for an album which, despite being shrouded in mystery, manifests an unknowable yet intense spiritual force. Their first release - also the first ‘proper’ jazz record to see released on Rocket Recordings - is manifested as equal parts hidden and otherworldly influence.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormed by the talented musicians of Swedish bands Hills and GOAT, DJINN foray into numerous quarters on a far-reaching metaphysical quest lasting the course of this record. It’s a psychic travelogue which frequently encompasses full-throttle free jazz - as in the blistering ‘My Bank Account’, with its echoes of the transcendent extrapolations of Albert Ayler, and the more loose ‘Algäbannem’, which nods to the demolition derby that John Coltrane and drummer Rashied Ali engaged in via ‘Interstellar Space’.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet this is an album of a wild and wilful variety of textures and headspaces - whether entering into astral jazz or new age ambience akin to the later devotional work of Alice Coltrane, as on ‘Le Jardin De La Morte’ ,or entering into Don Cherry-style small-hours auras as on the reflective and hallucinatory thumb-piano-assisted bliss of ‘Fiskehamm Blues’, all excursions into the unknown are marked by potency of delivery and singularity of intent.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTitles such as ‘Djinn and Djuice’ might make the listener suspect that a certain levity is present here, yet such self-deprecating tones are entirely belied by the modus operandi of creators who engage with a rare sensitivity and sensuousness in their playing - nodding to the traditions and stylistics of the records they love whilst using them as a springboard into dimensions unknown. 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Their first release for Rocket Recordings was a portrait of open-minded explorers foraying into the realms of free and cosmic jazz, but never overly reverential or in thrall to their own influences.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the ‘Avant De Servir’ tape which was released on Swedish label Zeon Light last year, ‘Transmission’ is a still more intrepid step into new terrain for DJINN - the mantric rhythms are hypnotic here, the freeform extrapolations hit new peaks of vivid abandon, and the moments of calm are blissfully meditative. Yet their sound palette extends into refreshing collisions of intent and metaphysical intensity that echo across the psychic landscapes of Sunburned Hand Of The Man-style freak-folk, as well as the polylingual fusion of jazz, European and Asian music that Don Cherry essayed on 1969’s ‘Eternal Rhythm’ and 1973’s ‘Organic Music Society’.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmidst these intoxicating and richly eclectic soundworlds, the band are just as comfortable invoking Popol Vuh (as on the mellotron- abetted title track) Art Ensemble Of Chicago and the lineage of Swedish underground music that found epiphanies in the radical folk-psych of Arbete Och Fritid whilst also sounding - crucially - like no-one but themselves.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all the far-reaching explorations of altered states by which DJINN set out their stall, this collection of mystical headspaces - in all its fearless and feral glory - is proof positive that the band’s journey has only just begun. 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Meanwhile, ululatory drone-based rapture (courtesy of NÅR) marries with electronic reinterpretations of Greek rural serenades from Anna vs June.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnified by deep roots in yet branching out fearlessly into the unknown, all these stylings and more cohere and coalesce into an intoxicating patchwork. Yet as much as it may be driven by a DJ’s internal logic, this is primarily a work of border-free serendipity. The same forces that introduced soFa to the violin of Aida Al Hani while walking in Tirana, forging the impetus for this collection, are those that sent both soFa and Rocket Recordings in the direction of NÅR for the album entirely independently of each other. 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A case in point is the Flowers Must Die track “Hey, Shut Up!”, which was on last years ‘Kompost’ album released on Rocket Recordings. It’s old in the sense of how fast the music industry moves nowadays, but also because the original recording session took place in 2013. And it doesn’t stop there, the song is an homage to Bo Diddley ́s “Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut”from 1964, or The Pretty Things version from1965 or The Missing Links or...\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe list could be long so we decided to keep that tradition and asked some friends of Flowers Must Die to do their version of the track. Some from the “Rocket family” like Russian group Gnoomes or long time Rocket collaborator Jamie Paton (Höga Nord\/DFA), Mattias Nihlén from the Malmö-based band VED who earlier this year made their Rocket debut with their brilliant EP DDTT. Mattias is a longtime friend of FMD and they have often collaborated and\/or shared a stage with over the years.\n\nUnderground rave legend NOS and his duo NOS++T++ are another Swedish act with strong ties to the adventurous but somewhat furtive Malmö music scene that we have always felt very much a part of, despite only ever having one member actually living there.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwedish artist Carl Michael Von Hausswolff under the alias CMVH is FMD drummer Lars’ childhood friend from Linköping, and they have collaborated on various art projects every now and then since the 80s. If the name rings a bell for people not familiar with the Swedish art scene it’s probably because of his daughter Anna Von Hausswolff.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA more recent FMD friendship comes from the band Horseface who instead of remixing the track made a cover singing the lyrics in Finnish. Further darker or moodier tracks on the compilation are from the American artist Dorit Chrysler, who is a Theremin genius, and our great Italian friend Mai Mai Mai, one of the leading artists in the Italian Occult Psychedelia scene. Finally, Jonas Höglundfrom FMD added his Manuel Göttsching-inspired remix he created back in 2013.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHey, Shut Up! has always existed in different mixes, the “original” from the record, a slightly longer and rougher version for Rockets’ Rough Trade ́s “Label Of The Month” sampler also the contained Radio Edit. If that wasn’t enough, FMD’s Rickard Daun decided to release the so far unheard ‘full version’ for this remix album. But hey, who doesn’t like all those different versions of Stereolab tracks for example?\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe video to accompany the track’s Radio Edit is again made by Rickard Daunand uses simple images made with crayons as well as images of a deaf and dumb shepherd dancing around in his own creation, The Stone Garden. A symbolic reference to the lyrics of the track which was a reaction to the sad and worrying climate in Sweden and the rest of the world, with more and more right wing parties coming to power. Images of a dancing man with a disability showing he can be happy and appreciate his beautiful garden in the desert, the small and simple things in the world, to go against the grain and live their own way of life. So dig into almost 70 minutes of music which twist and turn the track into Noise,Industrial, Disco Dub, Post Punk, Cosmic Techno and Minimal Drones.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowers Must Die","offers":[{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47977228697938,"sku":"LAUNCH 159","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47977228730706,"sku":"LAUNCH 160","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch159FLowersMustDie_Hey_ShutUpAgain_sleeve.jpg?v=1712849107"},{"product_id":"kompost","title":"Kompost","description":"\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/289198328\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Flowers Must Die - Kompost\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/flowers-must-die-kompost\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eFlowers Must Die - Kompost\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\nAsk many self-styled music aficionados, and they’ll tell you that rock in the early to mid ‘70s descended into a mire of boundless self-indulgence and instrumental virtuosity. Not so in Sweden. For there, the egalitarian spirit that many thought revolutionary to punks in the UK was nothing new for the heads to be found enjoying the cult Swedish psychedelia of bandslike Träd, Gräs och Stenar or Älgarnas Trädgård.\n\nIt’s exactly this lineage forty plus years later where one can find Flowers Must Die, the six-piece Swedish outfit whose ‘Kompost’ - their full-length debut on Rocket Recordings, home of Goat and Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - is a landmark moment for an outfit pursuing an improvisation based approach removed from the codified realm of contemporary psych, and exploring uncanny and unhinged territory fuelled by diverse record collections yet unique to their own collective headspace.\n\nThe band may have taken their name originally from an Ash Ra Tempel song, whilst both the strains of Amon Düül II and the repetition of Can lurk within these overgrown sonic pathways. Yet ‘Kompost’ shows them honing their improvisatory excursions into coherent songcraft amidst spectral techno and cosmic disco shapes, as the angular post-punk pop of The Sugarcubes sits alongside the narcotic clangour of prime Royal Trux, and one-take spontaneity locks horns with nocturnal revelation.\n\nHere the outward-looking spirit of 1971 and the anything-goes mentality of the Scandinavian freaks of yore is transposed elegantly to a modern era in need of new horizons, and in a manner refreshingly bereft of retro chic. What’s more, who’s to say what dimensions this alchemical force have yet to explore.  ","brand":"Flowers Must Die","offers":[{"title":"YELLOW Vinyl","offer_id":47986886443346,"sku":"LAUNCH113 LP","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47986886476114,"sku":"","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47986886508882,"sku":"","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch113_FlowersMustDie_Kompost_sleeve_0677f475-f040-4358-8fab-4ac14cdfe2ec.jpg?v=1712934917"},{"product_id":"tschak","title":"Tschak!","description":"\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/263020428\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Gnoomes – Tschak!\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/gnoomes-tschak-1\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGnoomes – Tschak!\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom adversity can come triumph, and from catharsis inspiration. Such has been the case for Gnoomes, the threesome hailing from Perm, Russia, whose second release for Rocket Recordings, ‘Tschak!’ arrives in the wake of considerable turbulence and tumult within their city and lives, all of which has only been fuel for a creative epiphany that has seen them create a deeply evocative work rich with vibrant experimentation and saturated in a widescreen sense of wonder.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt may only have been eighteen months since ‘Ngan!’, the band’s first release for Rocket, whose self-styled ‘stargaze’ approach marked a glorious collision between melodic sweetness, skysurfing guitar experimentation and motorik magnificence, yet the band have already moved on to a sonic landscape still more adventurous and ethereal on ‘Tschak!’, not to mention an emotionally resonant approach that’s bewitching to witness. Taking in torrents of guitar noise and electronic extrapolations both blissfully kosmische and aggressively abrasive, it exists outside of all or any convenient genres, a vivid and singular work by three dreamers-at-heart forced to manifest their vision into a psychic defence to the circumstances surrounding them.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking in splendid isolation thanks to a studio space provided by their work for a local radio station, the band had time and space for the alchemical process of creating ‘Tschak!’ entirely on their own terms. Central to the this were a collection of Russian synths that they gathered, whose eccentric arpeggios and analogue textures form crucial ingredients on songs like ‘Severokamsk’ and the title track, arriving at a sound that forms a star-crossed and timeless marriage between the experimentation of krautrock and the lineage of Warp Records.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForging forth into unknown realms both physical and metaphysical, the band recently completed a UK tour - including an appearance at Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia. Yet with the dreamlike radiance of the potent and otherworldly ‘Tschak!’ on their side, this adventure is already well on its way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gnoomes","offers":[{"title":"Limited Pale Green Vinyl","offer_id":48003096936786,"sku":"LAUNCH 105 LP","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mini Gatefold CD with Inner Sleeve","offer_id":48003096904018,"sku":"LAUNCH 105 CD","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48003096969554,"sku":"LAUNCH 105","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48003097002322,"sku":"LAUNCH 105","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/ph5QFSdw_86be40f2-6f0e-418d-bf97-60dc94234cfb.jpg?v=1713179826"},{"product_id":"mu","title":"MU!","description":"\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/667234278\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Gnoomes - MU!\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/gnoomes-mu\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGnoomes - MU!\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\nGnoomes, the Russian outfit who blend a potent mix of psychedelic stargaze, kraut techno and kosmiche pop return with a brand new album, MU! their third for Rocket Recordings.\n\nSince the release of their last album Tschak! the three piece has turned into a quartet with synth player Masha Piankova joining the band. And it was the success of their tours in the UK and Europe that subconsciously created a template and tone for where the band would go next with this new album; to capture that surging drive and throbbing assault of their pulverising live shows. “We decided to make this record more live and less electronic,” Sasha, singer and guitarist from Gnoomes said. “We were thinking about how to make it sound more dynamic.” Masha’s introduction was a key one, with her replacing Sasha on synth bass whilst he moved over to second guitar to add a fuller and more impactful sonic crunch.\n\nMU! has been part recorded in the same old soviet radio station where the band recorded Tschak! part in a professional studio and then part at home. This was to ensure the best capture of Gnoomes live assault. The results brim with a magnitude and sense of coherence that belies some of the environment it was created in. Fuzz-driven guitars shift in engulfing waves, resembling shoegaze giants at their most ferocious, whilst elsewhere layered vocals stack on top of one another, weaving between pristine melody and augmented discordance. Whilst the glacial electronics and coldwave tendencies that soaked much of their previous album may be more absent here, this record pulses with an electronic tinge that bubbles more subtly under the surface of immersive guitars.\n\nThe title Mu! has Japanese origins and comes from Zen Buddhism – something Sasha began to practise during past trying times - meaning both “no” and “nothingness” and the understanding that the acceptance of this concept can lead to enlightenment. “For me personally it’s a spiritual record,” he says. Although any sonic warbles of new age blandness couldn’t be further from the end results here. This is a cleansing record, no doubt, but one that washes over you with both brutal force and deft subtleness.\n\nWith the completion of this album, it also wraps up a trio of records all connected via punctuation – Ngan! Tschak! Mu! - but with one each distinct in its own tone and sense of evolution. From Bowie to the Cure to Moderat, musical history is peppered with great musical trilogies and now Gnoomes’ Exclamation Mark Trilogy can be added to that. \n\nreleased May 31, 2019 ","brand":"Gnoomes","offers":[{"title":"LTD Black Vinyl with Inner Sleeve","offer_id":48003159359826,"sku":"LAUNCH160 LP","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD Mini Vinyl Gatefold Replica","offer_id":48003159425362,"sku":"LAUNCH160 CD","price":5.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48003159458130,"sku":"LAUNCH 160","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48003159490898,"sku":"LAUNCH 160","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch160Gnoomes_MU_Sleeve.jpg?v=1713180867"},{"product_id":"ax-ox","title":"Ax Ox","description":"\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1435704202%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-zSJaKoqKA0b\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\" title=\"Rocket Recordings\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRocket Recordings\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/gnoomes-ax-ox\/s-zSJaKoqKA0b\" title=\"Gnoomes – Ax Ox\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGnoomes – Ax Ox\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs musicians across the world have watched the last decade systematically eating away at the infrastructure by which they pursue their art, triumphs against adversity have sometimes entered the realm of cliche .Yet few bands have undergone quite the travails that Perm, Russia’s Gnoomes have on the road to the release of their fourth release on Rocket Recordings, Ax Ox.\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom such traumatic circumstances, with the band having overcome the stress of a pandemic, illness, depression and serious turmoil in their home country to reach a point where they can offer their music to the world, have arrived a kaleidoscopic and questing vision shot through with potent melancholia and strident optimism.\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAx Ox runs through a gamut of vibrant emotion across its eleven tracks, from the elemental blast of kraut-pop that is ‘The Neighbour’ to the crystalline and techno-fied ‘Loops’, and across moments of jarring and skewed ambience such as ‘Mirror’ and ‘The Bridge’. Here the component parts that have always made up Gnoomes’ fresh and wide-eyed aesthetic - dreampop radiance, bold electronic experimentation and the propulsive motorik drive which moves them onward –are rendered still more vivid and transcendent, the product of a band unafraid to cross boundaries in pursuit of catharsis by any means necessary, and one still hopeful in spite of all that fate can throw at them.\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis album also chronicles a fractious relationship which the band have with their home country -on the one hand, this is perhaps their most explicitly Russian album to date, and the first one in which they’ve sung in their native tongue - a decision they made as a means of supporting a rapidly evolving and inspiring scene in Russia. “Feeling yourself as a part of something bigger is a great inspiration. That’s why the intention to sing in Russian was very organic. We saw that our audience is getting older with us and our music could have had more connections with these people, if we sing in Russian” says the band’s Sasha Piankov.\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The last five years before the pandemic are considered to be the golden times for our music community” he adds “It was a beautiful embryo, which could grow into a very interesting creature, but it was simply killed by the stupid plans of the particular people. Many artists have already spoken out, and they’re not supporting this senseless war, but they get quickly shut up by the government.The list of artists who are not allowed to play in Russia anymore is growing up every day. It’s very painful to watch this process unfolding in front of our eyes”.\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with many other Russian artists and musicians, Sasha and his wife Masha Piankova have both been forced to leave the country when mobilisation was announced in pursuit of safety, but this album still bears the hallmarks of an album influenced by the very specific experience of living in Russia in the last three decades. “In our opinion this album could be a psychedelic musical about growing up and living in the Post Soviet Russia” relates Sasha “If you watched(Adam Curtis’ documentary series) Traumazone, it’s not complicated really to imagine the visual part of the musical!”\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAx Ox ultimately reflects something of an odyssey for a complex and inhospitable modern era, and perhaps the centrepiece of the record - the moment which most sums up the continuum reflected inits heartfelt yet pragmatic nature - is the uplifting kosmische travelogue of ‘Eternal Trans Siberian’. As Sasha points out, this has become “Some sort of manifesto, pretty much inspired by Stereolab. It’s a metaphor of what’s going on to our country. It feels like we’re traveling on a rusty and wrecked train through space and time. The epochs change, but the problems stay the same and we don’t know how it’s possible, but the train is still moving”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gnoomes","offers":[{"title":"LTD 'Blue Swirl' Vinyl","offer_id":48004256727378,"sku":"LAUNCH290 RLP","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48004256760146,"sku":"LAUNCH290","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48004256792914,"sku":"LAUNCH290","price":3.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch290_Gnoomes_AXOX_Sleeve.jpg?v=1713186111"},{"product_id":"uletai","title":"Uletai","description":"\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1787393568%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-v3cWLUjazEB\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\nGnoomes have announced some new music, exactly one year on from the March 2023 release of their critically acclaimed album ‘Ax Ox’. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Ax Ox’ reflected something of an odyssey for a complex and inhospitable modern era, an uplifting kosmische travelogue that ran through a gamut of vibrant emotion across its eleven tracks – from kraut-pop, to crystalline techno and skewed ambience. And we are very pleased to say that this new two track EP called ‘Uletai, which is led by the 8 minute+ track ‘Ule’, a track that continues the band’s wide-eyed aesthetic of dreampop radiance, bold electronic experimentation and propulsive motorik drive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “This track is dedicated to our late friend who tragically died in an accident.” says Sasha Painkov from the band, “Although I had recorded the music before his passing, I added vocals a few days after he passed away. Subconsciously, these words appeared before my eyes: ‘Uletai, ‘Tai’,’ which means, “Fly away, vanish.” Fortunately, I had a microphone at home and recorded it right away. Despite the sad background of this track, it remains in a major scale musically. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven as we continue to grieve our loss, we strangely feel our friend’s bright presence shining through the madness that is called reality.” Following ‘Ule’, is the hypnotic sounds of ‘Tai’. “This track was also conceived around the same time as ‘Ule’.” says Sasha. “Masha and I were jamming at my parents’ house in Russia when we stumbled upon a simple idea that we evolved after relocating to Slovenia. Sonically, I believe this track truly complements the first one. It’s repetitive and trippy but carries more mysterious vibes.” Sasha continues “If ‘Ule’ is a track about a journey from this life to another dimension, then ‘Tai’ is about realizing oneself as pure energy. 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Armed with freedom of intent, irreverence\nand sheer hedonistic spirit, they would banish the legions of laptop-tapping timewasters and po-faced noisemongers that habitually blighted their evenings out, forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen they actually had some band practices, and were pleasantly surprised to find that what emerged from the new lineup was a turbulent, fiery and atmospheric instrumental brew that encompassed searing cosmic psychedelia, melodramatic giallo soundscapes, mariachi melancholia and kraut-tinged droning occultism. This band hence metamorphosised into Teeth of the Sea. Two years and more have now passed since that fateful night, and though their sound has blossomed into the expansive, evocative and electrifying elixir you’ll hear on their Rocket Recordings debut Orphaned by the Ocean, their modus operandi remains exactly the same: To forge onward irrespective of genre, fashion and occasionally common sense. 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This work sees London’s most adventurous and intrepid psychedelic adventurers allying motifs and psychic spectres from Jim Williams and Blanck Mass’ music and reinterpreting them to their own ends, arriving at a bold and richly atmospheric transmission that takes the rites and revelations of the original work into pastures new. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally spurred into action by a commission for Cork Film Festival in November 2013, Teeth of the Sea worked on the audio-visual reworking with their long-standing visual collaborator Benjamin Barfoot (who also created the jaw-dropping ‘Reaper’ video last year and worked on the band’s previous ‘Beyond The Transfinite’ piece, which debuted at Bestival in 2012). \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe first performance of A Field In England-Reimagined, in the converted church venue Triskel in Cork in November 2013, was a resounding sell-out success, as was a repeat sold out performance at the enormous screen one at Hackney Picture House, London, in\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateEllipsis\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereleased April 19, 2014 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePREDICTION. 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Yet this band has never lost sight of its original vision - to reconcile a fearless experimental drive with a primal lust for noise. To exist outside of all or any compromise. Yet never to lose sight of the crucial irreverence of their inception. Their fourth album ‘Highly Deadly Black Tarantula’, in all its malevolent glory, may well be the apex of their mission thus far.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing in the wake of the release of their mind-melting third album ‘MASTER’’. 2014 was a bizarre and thrilling year for Teeth Of The Sea, taking them to unexpected territory both physical and metaphysical - a re-imagining of the modern-day midnight movie A Field In England saw performances at both Cork Film Festival and Hackney Picture House, and was released on Rocket Recordings on a limited run for Record Store Day. A new audio-visual piece The Last Man was performed at both Cineglobe Festival in Cern, home of the Large Hadron Particle Collider, and at Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca. What’s more, the band travelled to America for the first time to perform in Austin, Texas for SXSW and to Portugal for Milhoes De Festa, as well as finishing the year off with a comprehensive demolition job of Liverpool Psych Fest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, as 2015 dawned, the band set about reinventing themselves once again - both returning from the ornate and expansive sounds of ‘MASTER’ to their gnarled roots and pushing firmly forward in search of adventure anew. What resulted was ‘Highly Deadly Black Tarantula’, their most focused and aggressive album yet. Machine-driven yet melodically abundant, the widescreen industrial expanses of this album combine the influence of long-time band favourites like Aphex Twin, Angelo Badalamenti and Throbbing Gristle with new inspiration that spans from Chicago footwork to black metal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat’s more, it’s a collection as rich in scope as it is powerful in intent. Whilst the pummelling and incisive ‘Animal Manservant’ and the kinetic dancefloor attack of ‘Field Punishment’ maintain an audial assault both concise and corrosive, the monomaniacal ‘Have You Ever Held A Bird Of Prey’ represents a fearless plunge into the experimental deep end. 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Its plot deals with a reclusive artist who has forsaken all else for a life of solitary creation in her tower. The structure and sound reminiscent of a post-modern approach to lyrical concerns dealt with by folk singers of the British ‘60s, but the actual arrangement is closer to something John Cale might have done with Nico on The Marble Index. The closing track, ‘17th November 1962’, inspired by nearly-forgotten memories of disaster with a fishing boat, a storm and an ill-fated rescue attempt. The song (and album) ends with what sounds like a forlorn foghorn cutting across waves of night with Alison’s voice again evoking the Sirens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs with its predecessors, The Portrait You Painted of Me was recorded at home in London, beautifully produced by Alison’s partner, Mark Nicholas, and it contains all the elements that result in the sombre, exquisite melancholy she creates. 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Life is an Illusion is scattered with fizzing electric guitars and ambient ragas which unfurl with the might of a psychedelic blizzard, fogging the sponges of the brain and eyeballs with a wash of hallucinations where Ash Ra Temple jam for hours on end with Loop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTropical repetitive rhythms drone and drift, guided by a swarm of breezy effects and celestial layered synths that engulf the base of the mountain in hypnotic swirls of colourful head spinning rituals before zipping airborne to glide in a state of tranced euphoria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEscapism is bottled and prescribed with each dose of these 6 entrancing mysteries, Life is an Illusion draws from the same smoke filled breath as fellow explorers Emeralds, Stellar Om Space, Dylan Ettinger as well as those great Kosmische artists, AR Machines, Klaus Schulze and Harmonia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProceed from the dream outward and encounter the Annapurna cinerama in its full illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ereleased August 19, 2011\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Annapurna Illusion","offers":[{"title":"Limited Purple Vinyl","offer_id":48012137005394,"sku":"LAUNCH 043 LP","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48012137038162,"sku":"LAUNCH 043","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48012137070930,"sku":"LAUNCH 043","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/AnnapurnaIllusionalbum.jpg?v=1713287268"},{"product_id":"outside-the-circle","title":"Outside The Circle","description":"\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/330853606\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=false\u0026amp;show_user=false\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=false\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgitation Free\/\/\/Pekka Airaksinen\/\/\/Airway\/\/\/Albrecht\/d\/\/\/Alcatraz\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimes have changed since the days when arcane aural wisdom was passed down from disciple to disciple by word of mouth, in dusty record stores littered with inexpensive stacks of second-hand wax and via late-night post-pub sessions in which eager obscurists would brandish their latest esoteric discoveries through a booze and smoke-addled haze. The 'Nurse With Wound list' may have been replaced in popular consciousness by a binary blizzard of Spotify playlists and MP3 files. Yet the idealistic vision of the true psychedelic obsessive still stands proud, a monolith impervious to all adversity and compromise.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Deep Freeze Mice\/\/\/\/Dharma Quintet\/\/\/Dies Irae\/\/\/Dome\/\/\/Doo-Dooettes\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoreover, in an era where the word 'psych' itself is fast being overused to the point of meaninglessness, there are certain seers who can always be relied upon to brandish an artistic insight into third-eye salvation that departs from its obsessive origins to offer trashed transcendence above and beyond the physical form. One such is Paul 'Prof' Allen, the mastermind of Anthroprophh, whose second album 'Outside The Circle' is a dizzying psychic voyage that exists in, around and at all points of the eternal amplified axe-worship continuum.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeratius\/\/\/Hero\/\/\/Juan Hidalgo\/\/\/Hugh Hopper\/\/\/Horde Catalytique Pour La Fin\/\/\/Horrific Child\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthroprophh began in earnest after 'Prof's departure from Bristolian cult The Heads, in whose auspices he had made a number of head-spinning records that surfed a haphazard psychic spiral from an overflowing ashtray to the stars. Yet 'Outside The Circle', the second album from the trio he formed with the Big Naturals duo of Gareth Turner and Jesse Webb, sees him steadfastly affirming his own wayward path through a vivid aural terrain of garage-birthed gnarl, FX pedal euphoria and inhospitable drone-vortexes. 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From the sci-fi doom-out of the appropriately-titled 'Space Box Zonk Machine' to the unnerving primitive electronica of 'Gottmelt', and from the kraut-fried whirl-y-gig of the title track via the deadpan Deviants-style 'Dead Man On The Scene' to the early-Monster Magnet-damaged finale 'See', no sacred stone is left unturned here. Yet at all times 'Prof''s guitar rages through the ether, all banshee howls and fiery tumult; a kaleidoscopic union between Helios Creed and the Velvet Underground of 'I Heard Her Call My Name'.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecret Oyster\/\/\/Seeselberg\/\/\/Selten Gehörte Musik\/\/\/Semool\/\/\/Sonny Sharrock\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Outside The Circle' resides at a moment whereby fifty years of psychedelic culture and esoteric art messily collide and morph into an ornery and intimidating new elixir. 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Heavy on the the planetary rhythms, laced percussive half man, half machine grooves, Anthroprophh glazes his music with a darker spirit of Michael Karoli and CAN secret rhythms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnthroprophh is concerned with all aspects of musical behavior, past, present, and with an eye to the future like the sonic output you would find on labels such as Blackest Rainbow and Not Not Fun. 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Bonnacons Of Doom’s identities may be shrouded and hidden in the live arena, yet the force of their vibrations - as captured on the unearthly vibrations and unholy revelations of their self-titled Rocket Recordings debut - is gloriously manifest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“From the beginning, we’ve been really interested in the transformative possibilities of music” explains Rob, one such Bonnacon. “How it has the power to make us and the audience at that particular moment into something else. Whether that’s being in a trance-like state, being blissed out or just annoying people, there’s something that’s physical and mental that we want to change in people. In particular, we’ve tried to work with repetition, volume and texture rather than traditional song structures. 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