{"title":"GNOD","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"spot-land","title":"Spot Land","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\/1710908232\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\/gnod-spot-land\" title=\"GNOD – Spot Land\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eGNOD – Spot Land\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGNOD, the ever-transient psychedelic musical unit from northern England with over 15 years and dozens of releases under their belt, return in 2024 with a recalibrated sound and a new sense of freedom. 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 limited edition CD digi-pack (Launch054) will be available on the 25th of February.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collective that is Gnod has risen out of the DIY ethic of Manchester’s Islington Mill. Central to the ethic is alternative approach to musical creativity and freedom of expression with no regard to established opinions. Gnod is a state of mind. Those who seek Gnod, will find Gnod, the universe is centred on neither the earth nor the sun. It is centred on Gnod.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded in Studio Chaudelande, France, ‘Chaudelande’ takes Gnod’s convulsive vision, straps on electrodes, charges the amps, then overstimulates the vital organs as a torrent of contorted sounds akin to the likes of Pil, Hawkwind, and the Butthole Surfers lignite like an arc-flash repetitive blaze.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe epic pilgrimage that is Chaudelande will take the listener on a ride through the narrow chinks of the cavernous mind in the frenzied spirit of This Heat, Sunburned Hand of Man and the repetitive beats of Krautrock via Wax Trax.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo come join the cult that is Gnod’s ‘Chaudelande’ as once again the band deliver another jolt to the unsound mind.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5TH SUN CHAUDELANDE (Download only)\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD and Download on Rocket Recordings and Ltd LPs on Tamed Records (tamedrecords.com)  \n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereleased February 25, 2013 \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GNOD","offers":[{"title":"Digipack Compact Disc","offer_id":48015802237266,"sku":"LAUNCH 054 CD","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48015802270034,"sku":"LAUNCH 055","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48015802302802,"sku":"LAUNCH 055","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/chaudlande.jpg?v=1713354773"},{"product_id":"infinity-machines","title":"Infinity Machines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/73884931\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=\"Gnod - Infinity Machines\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/gnod-infinity-machines\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGnod - Infinity Machines\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlaves to no-one but their own psychic co-ordinates, Gnod continue their fearless voyages down pathways unknown. Operating from their base camp and spiritual home, the legendary Islington Mill - a venue, art-space and liminal zone in Salford: A space that has allowed the band the freedom to stubbornly pursue their own free-flowing aesthetic in a judgement free environment. ‘Infinity Machines’, their fifth release for Rocket Recordings, and the latest for this prolific outfit in a vibrant and diverse history, is no less than a pinnacle of achievement for a band who exist beyond all or any reductive genre pigeonholes, not to mention beyond the constraints of the everyday. A triple-album, it explores a unique vision informed by experimental élan and metaphysical intensity.\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts in Gnod’s nature to forge forth in search of new and expanded sonic terrain, at first this led them to pursue a purely electronic sound in the \nlive arena, yet as they knuckled down to chronicle this expansion and experimentation for posterity, it became clear that a mixture of live instrumentation and binary audial research would be the path that would prove most fruitful. Thus began the process that would ultimately produce these recordings, and a far-reaching mission which would result in uncanny crepuscular atmosphere locking horns with sinister electronic intensity.\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Infinity Machines’ traverses between and beyond a variety of different headspaces from the bleak to the beatific – yet whilst touching on nocturnal jazz, soothing yet unsettling ambience, menacing aggro-industrial battery and opiated bliss-out alike, it’s shot through with an undercurrent of fiery countercultural zeal and small-hours revelation, as if the hive-mind of their home collective had manifested itself on six sides of wax.\n  \n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracks were put together from an initial blank canvas, and as the band themselves emphasize, “We got pretty tactical in the approach. We have certainly noticed that the emphasis has shifted from full on ‘throw everything at it’ Gnod vibes to a more stripped spacious sound which was not fully intentional but more of a natural progression” Spoken word contributions, many from Islington Mill inhabitants and seers, vie for attention with gridlike and vicious beats, synapse-shifting modular synthesis, field recordings. and even the hitherto unheard appearance of saxophone and electric piano textures. As Gnod put it. “We really like the idea of a Rhodes and sax on a Gnod record, because to most people those instruments are pure cheese, but we think they are pure soul”. \n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 110-minute opus, fearless in spirit and limitless in scope, documents the unstoppable motion of an iconoclastic force beyond the comprehension of the unenlightened. A transmission from a collective consciousness that touches on universal truths and dark powers alike, and a bold new chapter in this mercurial collective’s glorious passage into the unknown. \n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet now as ever, In Gnod We Trust.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GNOD","offers":[{"title":"Mini Gatefold CD on grey board","offer_id":48561042817362,"sku":"LAUNCH072 CD","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48015938683218,"sku":"LAUNCH 072","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48015938715986,"sku":"LAUNCH 072","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/gnodinfinity.jpg?v=1713356381"},{"product_id":"dropout-with-white-hills-ii","title":"GNOD Dropout with White Hills II","description":"\u003cp\u003e  \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/448034670\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=\"White Hills\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/whitehillsofficial\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWhite Hills\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Gnod Drop Out With White Hills II\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/whitehillsofficial\/sets\/gnod-drop-out-with-white-hills\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGnod Drop Out With White Hills II\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the meeting of future minds, welcome to oceans far divide, welcome to flashing hypnotic travels, welcome to suspended grooves unraveled, welcome to the new Rocket Recordings release to drop out of the sky..........\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Gnod Drop Out with White Hills II’ is the first official collaboration between two of the most colossal cosmic manglers on the planet, that of astral rejecters Gnod (Manchester) and former Rocket, now Thrill Jockey’s spacerock juggernauts White Hills (New York).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHot on the heels from their Not Not Fun sold out release, as well as countless self unleashed CDRs \u0026amp; various indie label alliances, Gnod have been stirring their galactic soup of flashbacked rituals with unpredictable incendiary results, both on record and as a live experience. Having them join forces with White Hills for this record is akin to having the aural equivalent of those 3D magic eye stereograms, looked at in one way, they just don’t make sense, but seen through the repetition of the music, the result is out of this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince White Hills last outing with Rocket Recordings on the ‘Collisions’ split with The Heads, the band have successfully released their debut album for the US label Thrill Jockey and now have notched up an impressive back catalogue of releases. Their fiery brand of heavy spacerock has seen them burning up live appearances over the years as they continue on the path towards uncharted territories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo celebrate this thundering union, Rocket Recordings have embarked upon the release of a double vinyl LP expanding into four phases of pulsating mantras, awash with all the hypno propulsion both bands motor skills can pilot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s brimming with surrendered NEU like patterns, like both bands driving through ‘Dingerland’ with „LA Woman… blasting from the rushing air. We have 16 minute elegant ‘Bel Air’ suites, it’s ebbed \u0026amp; flowing mesmerizing grooves burst with swooping grandiose synths, like gentle waves, hanging in time. Interjections of oscillating guitars and keyboards, designed to propel the captured listener into a trance-inducing sunroof of kosmische blur, rupturing out through the expansive blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 8 tracks contained over 4 sides are embedded with 4 long 10 minute plus pieces \u0026amp; these anchor the whole experience firmly into an exciting haze of echoing psychedelia, electronic \u0026amp; experimental Krautrock trippo-nova. 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The opening title-cut of ‘Mirror’ seethes with lithe energy and dubbed-out vitality, whilst elsewhere the eighteen-minute closing track ‘Sodom \u0026amp; Gomorrah’ may be the most dystopian piece of music the band have yet created; a harrowing yet fiercely compelling colossus of bleak abjection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The tracks were pretty much written on the road in May 2015” elaborates Gnod’s Paddy Shine. “The final versions of the tracks on the album are a reaction to the results of the re-cent UK election and also some shit that was happening to us and our friends during that period. Lyrically it deals with mental health issues and how things like social media are a vehicle for our split personalities and egos - that and being under the thumb of forces and power structures we can't really fully understand, or even if we understand them we feel helpless to change the situation. This album won't change the situation or start any revolu-tions but it felt good for us to write some music to let the rage out\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReflecting and refracting the uncertainty of a darkening era, ‘Mirror’ is a work of bold rein-vention and raw renewal, sculpting chaos and discord into a formidable statement of in-tent. Only one thing is certain - wherever Gnod choose to go next, their ire and inspiration blaze as brightly as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ereleased April 1, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GNOD","offers":[{"title":"Silver Mirrorboard Mini Gatefold CD","offer_id":48016338125138,"sku":"LAUNCH090CD","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48016338157906,"sku":"LAUNCH090","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48016338190674,"sku":"LAUNCH090","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/mirror.jpg?v=1713360102"},{"product_id":"just-say-no-to-the-psycho-right-wing-capitalist-fascist-industrial-death-machine","title":"JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/279356862\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=\"GNOD - JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/gnod-just-say-no-to-the-psycho\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGNOD - JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs we embark on a new year more characterised by fear and uncertainty than hope and optimism, a chronic shortage of dissent can be detected in the artistic community amidst a harrowing socio-political climate. Yet the Salford-based collective Gnod have wasted little time in kicking against the doom and disquiet with everything at their disposal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It seems like we are heading towards even more unsettling times in the near future than we are in at present.” reckons Chris Haslam of Gnod. “2016 is just the beginning of what I see as the establishment’s systematic destruction of liberalism and equality as a reaction to the general public’s loss of faith in their system”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharged by this outlook, Gnod's new album, ' Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’ represents a hitherto uncharted level of antagonism and adversarial force for the band - an artistic statement as righteous, fervent and direct as its title. which far from being an echo of an anarcho spirit of yore, denotes a record firmly entrenched in the psychic terrain of 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“On the surface it could almost seem like there's no political art movement out there to oppose what's happening, but there is - we know there is” adds the band’s Paddy Shine. “Maybe that movement is struggling to find its voice as a cohesive whole right now but that will change. It has to change.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFuelled by their militant drive and unyielding ardour, ‘Just Say No…’ refracts Gnod’s harsh and repetitive riff-driven rancour through a psychotropic haze of dubbed-out abstraction, with Paddy’s incendiary vocal delivery to the fore. ,‘Just SayNo… sounds like a record only Gnod could make - a band fiercely independent, never comfortable in one place artistically for any duration of time, always with their co-ordinates set on uncharted territory and the next challenge ahead, and delivering a monument of ire and iconoclasm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ereleased March 31, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GNOD","offers":[{"title":"Red Vinyl (Damaged Inner)","offer_id":52521602482514,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Defiant Stroke (Damaged Inner)","offer_id":52521605103954,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Compact Disc","offer_id":49657414058322,"sku":"LAUNCH109CD","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48016446325074,"sku":"LAUNCH 109","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48016446357842,"sku":"LAUNCH 109","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch109_GNOD_JSNTTPRWCFIDM_Front.jpg?v=1719496677"},{"product_id":"gnod-just-say-no-t-shirt","title":"JUST SAY NO T-shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eReprint of 'JUST SAY NO' T-shirts:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs well as being able to buy our Rocket logo T-shirts, we are equally thrilled to share with you that we are finally reprinting (after lots of email requests) some more GNOD 'Just Say No' T-Shirts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn these very jittery times, why not own yourself a classic GNOD T-shirt, in either GNOD 'Classic Album Red' or in 'Monochrome Black \u0026amp; 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Robert Anton Wilson may have laid claim to the modern use of this phrase - as in his 1977 tome ‘Cosmic Trigger’ - yet there can be few musical outfits in the here and now more worthy of carrying on its tradition than Gnod. In more than a decade on the planet this singular Salford-birthed entity have married intrepid musical exploration with psychic fearlessness - not to mention a tendency to leave any tag or bracket one attempts to place on them utterly redundant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a sense, the latest adventure bearing this title evolved both from the lengthy European tour that the band embarked upon in the wake of their stripped-down and paint-stripping 2017 opus Just Say No The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine. Yet recording in Supernova studio in Eindhoven under the auspices of Bob De Wit, the band found themselves free not only to lay down two tumultuous tracks that they had been honing and hammering into shape on the road - the pulverising fifteen-minute opener ‘Donovan’s Daughters’ and the bracingly brutal ‘Uncle Frank Says Turn It Down’ - but to sculpt more abstract material, utilising dubbed-out repetition, furious riff-driven rancour, bleak soundscapes and off-the-map experimentation to create an intimidating and invigorating tableau of dystopian dread and unflinching intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlways working purely on their own instincts and co-ordinates, Gnod’s pathway into unchartered territory continues to move firmly on with nary a care for the sanity of anyone in their surroundings. Chapel Perilous is a still more indomitable chapter in a transcendental travelogue from an iconoclastic institution that only gathers momentum with the passing of time. Wherever Gnod go in 2018 and beyond, expect reality to be reinvented anew, whatever the consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ereleased May 4, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GNOD","offers":[{"title":"LTD Clear \u0026 Black Splatter Vinyl","offer_id":48016625271122,"sku":"LAUNCH132 LP","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Mini Gatefold CD","offer_id":48016625303890,"sku":"LAUNCH132 CD","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48016625336658,"sku":"LAUNCH132","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48016625369426,"sku":"LAUNCH132","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/chapelperil.jpg?v=1713362611"},{"product_id":"aquarian-downer","title":"Aquarian Downer","description":"","brand":"White Hills and GNOD","offers":[{"title":"Limited Yellow \u0026 Black Splatter Vinyl","offer_id":48017558307154,"sku":"LAUNCH131 RLP","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Record Store Day Blue \u0026 Black Swirl Vinyl","offer_id":48017558339922,"sku":"LAUNCH131 LP","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/AcquarianDowner.jpg?v=1713371456"},{"product_id":"faca-de-fogo","title":"Faca De Fogo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1010404642\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=\"GNOD \u0026amp; João Pais Filipe – Faca De Fogo\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/gnod-joao-pais-filipe-faca-de-fogo\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGNOD \u0026amp; João Pais Filipe – Faca De Fogo\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result of a predestined collision course between two modern day forces of iconoclasm, ‘Faca De Fogo’ is a rhythmically driven journey into soundscapes mercurial, savage and disquieting. Here a Mancunian-birthed counter cultural sound collective and a Porto-based master of percussive divination join forces, resulting in mystical trance states and elemental epiphanies aplenty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGNOD first met up with João Pais Filipe at the Milhoes De Festa event in Barcelos, initially intrigued by a gong he’d made in the shape of a skateboard which formed part of an exhibition. They were soon introduced, and a plan was formulated apparently of its own volition to work together, subsequently co-ordinated by the Porto-based label and promoters Lovers \u0026amp; Lollypops around a week spent by GNOD in Porto. Three days of rehearsals led to the basic structures that were explored at an incendiary show in the city, which were in turn subsequently recorded over four days in João’s metal workshop with minimal overdubbing, forming a powerful portrait of the sparks that flew and the fire they created.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForged in a spirit of spontaneity and intuition, ‘Faca De Fogo’ wastes precisely zero time in manifesting this incendiary chemistry between these two explorers of mantras and repetitive revelation. Themed around the elements in thematic unity with the alchemical nature of João’s practice, it runs a gamut of improvisatory exploration from the eerie atmospherics that introduce ‘Faca De Terra’ via the polyrhythmic kraut-damaged mania of ‘Face De Ar’ to the shamanic and bleak Swans-esque clangour of the title track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Faca De Fogo’ is a soundworld without barriers, a meeting of minds and mallets in which the duality at its core is subsumed into a singular force as primal as it is metaphysical. ‘Faca De Fogo’ was to have its live debut at this years Supersonic Festival but that was obviously cancelled. 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Fifty-one years on, in 2016, this act formed an inspiration for a meeting of mind and matter on an entirely different level, as Salford’s imperious collective Gnod locked horns for a collaboration with Dutch psychedelic and experimental force Radar Men From The Moon, also originally set to take place in the Netherlands, at Eindhoven Psych Lab.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten and recorded in only four days, the result is four uncompromising transmissions, informed equally by stark intensity and hypnotic repetition. ‘Temple Of BBV’ sees both acts spurring the other on to higher peaks of intensity. “Both bands had agreed from the off that we were not just gonna go in there and just jam and play over each other for hours in the hope that something good would happen” elaborates Gnod's Paddy Shine. “We went in with the mindset of creating sound structures which turned out to be a very gratifying process\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePowerful testimony to the expansive and exploratory nature of both bands, ‘Temple Of BBV’ is a radical foray into the unknown that exists firmly outside of genre or classification. Aptly, the set will be performed once again as part of Gnod’s residency at this years Roadburn Festival. The collaboration maps out intimidating psychic landscapes that revel in challenge and confrontation, and appear set to enter the skulls of the uninitiated by any means necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ereleased July 22, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GNOD","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition Die Cut 'Hole in Head' Vinyl","offer_id":48352134857042,"sku":"LAUNCH114 RLP","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ltd 'Black' Vinyl","offer_id":48496112927058,"sku":"LAUNCH114 LP","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":48069357437266,"sku":"LAUNCH114","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":48069357470034,"sku":"LAUNCH114","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/templeovbbv.jpg?v=1713963675"},{"product_id":"easy-to-build-hard-to-destroy","title":"Easy To Build, Hard To Destroy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1161290566\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=\"GNOD - Easy To Build, Hard To Destroy\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/gnod-easy-to-build-hard-to-destroy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGNOD - Easy To Build, Hard To Destroy\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We just wanted to jam really and see what happened” reasons Paddy Shine of GNOD fourteen years on from their inception in Salford, and no keener to court mystique now than he was then. “That led us down the road of constructing a vibe or an atmosphere for playing live. 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It’s the sound of an uncompromising devotion to rapture through noise and repetition, a portrait of a band whose anarchic approach and raw intensity any other outfit would be frankly terrified to follow onstage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaptured in the hypnotic rhythmic drive and intimidating atmospheres of tracks like ‘They Live’ and ‘Inner Z’ (both only previously available on Myspace) is a mantric energy which take a jumping-off point from the Krautrock, Japanese rock and underground American psychedelia the band were hammering at the time, as well as the droogy nihilism of The Stooges debut. Yet these feral experiments reach far beyond into a headspace that acknowledges no boundaries, rock orthodoxy or genre constriction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevelatory drone-dirges of a Swans\/Spacemen 3 stripe here blossomed into dubbed-out abstractions, as on ‘5th Sun’, Shamanic trance-states inspired by the like of Sunburned Hand Of The Man and Sun Araw propelled the band through improvisatory voyages that they themselves frequently couldn’t recall after the event. “I always dug repetition in music” reasons Paddy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Repetition is great for long dance floor jams or subtle head squelchers. Repetition helps with the telepathy we developed when playing.” Indeed, listen to the primal roar of the 2009 live recording ‘Deadbeatdisco!!! Pt 2’ (originally released on cult US label Not Not Fun) and you can hear this approach reaching its apotheosis, as well as the sound of Shine’s guitar being smashed to pieces as violent chaos reigned all around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMisconceptions of a religious agenda apparently followed GNOD around during this period, yet if there was something cult-like about this hive-mind cum pirate-ship, there was nothing more sinister to it than the eternal positive “We’d meet people who were interested in playing with us and we always said yes” reckons founder member Chris Haslam, “If they were serious about it and came to rehearsal, they’d be in. Most weekends from Friday to Sunday we were in the rehearsal room together, experimenting with equipment, setting up mad pedal chains, plugging things into other things and just plain old jamming. 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A sense of an old order in ruins, and nothing lined up to replace it. With societal strife, psychic warfare and sheer boredom assaulting us from all fronts in this still-fresh decade, co-ordinates have been hard to place forging a path forward. Therefore, who better to turn to as a soundtrack for this tumultuous new era than Gnod - longtime chroniclers of discord.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Death Of Meaning” is the translated rendering of the new Gnod album’s title, and this also reflects its creation. As Paddy Shine of Gnod notes: “I think the title sums it up well because this album was coming together at a time when confusion was king for us all - still is. I think we can all relate to that. This record is a really strange beast because of the big change that happened between mixing and recording. I think the title really does sum up the vibe of ‘What the Fuck’? Maybe we should have called it that!”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWielding the taut, stripped-down and bludgeoning sound that had evolved on 2017’s ‘Just Say No The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’ and 2018’s Chapel Perilous, Gnod initially recorded the tracks for ‘La Mort Du Sens’ with key soundman and collaborator Raikes Parade in ‘an old mill in Manchester’ around the Christmas period of 2019. “It’s the first album in a while where we kept it in-house and DIY, and we wanted it to be as ferocious as our live sets have become” says Paddy, “We banged it all down live - two drummers and a load of cabs in a room pushing each other forward”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNonetheless, the arrival of the pandemic in early 2020 took the record on another course, adding to a turbulent and cathartic vitality that electrifies the likes of the caustic Melvins-in-hell assault of ‘Pink Champagne Blues’, the uncompromising percussive battering ram of the twelve-minute ‘Giro Day’ and the post-punk angularity of ‘The Whip And The Tongue’ with a fearsome elemental charge. “The world changed two months later so we were mixing this old world record in the new world and a lot of the vox got laid down during lockdown” reflects Paddy. “‘Pink Champagne Blues’ is a burst of total nihilist abandon and the lyrics wrote themselves in the midst of a dark wintry night of the soul”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMasters of an approach which manages to be both unmistakable and unpredictable. Gnod are now well established as prophets of the dispossessed. ‘La Mort Du Sens’ is no less than another relentlessly invigorating stop-off on their wild ride to who knows where. “It’s all about the energy” reckons Paddy. “We never really know what’s coming next. 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It’s an area of West Yorkshire that extends roughly between Manchester and Leeds across a landscape rugged in aspect and rich in allure. Todmorden, a town within in, has been home to so many UFO sightings that it’s been dubbed ‘The UK”s Roswell’. Sylvia Plath and Emily Brontë were galvanised by its raw beauty. And it’s where Gnod came together to create Hexen Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe formation of Hexen Valley began in summer 2021 when Gnod’s Paddy Shine moved to Hebden Bridge to join fellow protagonists Chris Haslam and Jesse Webb in a co-op house at the 200-year-old Nutclough Tavern. As has been the case since the formation of Gnod, the line-up of the collective shifted and morphed to fit circumstances - soon they were joined by fellow Nutclough resident Richard Chamberlain on guitar, and in the Hebden Bridge Underground rehearsal studio the four soon began intensive jamming in which certain distinct songs and themes began to emerge. These were eventually captured by Sam Greenwood in the same studio, with the whole project taking place in both this physical location and its companion headspace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspiration struck not only from the chemistry of the four musicians in this confined room but all around - Shine cites the likes of shop noticeboard messages and pub conversations in Hebden as lyrical sparks; channeling by his reckoning the ‘valley fever’ that exists somewhere in the chasms and contrasts between the amazing light and vivacity of the valley summit and the comparative darkness of the towns below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, musical shapes were making themselves known seemingly of their own volition - Haslam shifting back to bass for this setup led to the colossal low-end groove which underpins the monstrous 12-minute album centrepiece ‘Spotlight’. ‘Antidepressants’ in turn sprang from a mantra chanted at Nutclough to a fully-fledged exercise in aural overload. ‘Still Runnin’’ takes shape across a sonic hinterland between Daydream Nation-style kineticism and sludged-out aggression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpener ‘Bad Apple’ was an entirely spontaneous piece of in-studio magic which evolved from a spidery guitar line of Chamberlain into a piece of potent and angular post-punk intensity. And perhaps most surprisingly of all, Lou Reed’s tour-bus favourite ‘Waves Of Fear’ is jammed out with fearsome gusto into a piece of first-take catharsis and alchemy, fit to transcend all or any oppressive atmospheres that surround.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe previous Gnod line-up - minus Chamberlain but including bassist Alex Macarte, drummer John Perry and soundman Raikes Parade - reunited for an overwhelmingly positive and successful UK tour in late 2021, and the journey continues. Yet Hexen Valley marks another distinct chapter in this iconoclastic mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHexen Valley is where a monolithic sonic force - charged by the energy of its surroundings -makes contact with other realms. It’s the sound of a band whose fearsome intensity is only matched by their evolutionary drive. 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Inner Fucking Peace comprises eight tracks for voice and electronics – varied in style but connected in feeling, and recorded as a trio. Chris Haslam and Paddy Shine, the two ever-present members in the Gnod lineup since their first stirrings in mid-2000s Salford, are completed by Portuguese vocalist MC Sissi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInner Fucking Peace is the first time Sissi, or Cecilia de Fatima dos Santos, has recorded with Gnod. Already a known name in Portuguese experimental circles, she and Paddy met in early 2022 on an artists’ residency near the northern Portugal\/Spain border. It was an inspirational experience deep in the mountains, a cavalcade of surrealist occurrences and psychomagic activity worthy of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky (a fave of Paddy and Sissi both, as it happens). At the end of it, the pair got married in Porto, and now live together in Ireland, where they recorded their parts of this album – exchanging ideas digitally with Chris, who recorded the eerie synth frameworks in his Hebden Bridge studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith Paddy building drum patterns on Chris’ tracks, Sissi’s contribution wasn’t even in the script. As these instrumentals were being tweaked one Irish evening, she picked up a mic and started to freestyle some vocals over the top: dramatic narration, mournful crooning, heck a little autotune... one take for the whole lot and a whole new dimension to the album. The lyrics are all in Portuguese, but don’t worry if you don’t know what Sissi’s singing about – neither does she. It’s fully stream-of-consciousness, reacting to the music in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo from the minimalist tuned percussion of ‘Stop’, to the shuffling beats and spaced-out synth on ‘Perde-Te Onde Quiseres’, to ‘Get Out’ and its ominous electronics and crashing industrial drums (combined with Sissi’s irate-sounding vocal, here Gnod are on a tip that compares to great Bristolian duo and recent touring partners Harrga), to the supremely chopped and screwed woodwind that’s central to ‘Flute Theme’, to ‘Reprise’s hypnotic handdrum workout, to ‘Tea and Eggs’ – ten minutes of reggaeton-gone-minimal-synth – to ‘Olivia’, named after Sissi’s niece and the track’s guest vocalist (she’s eleven years old now, but a baby on this recording), to ‘Cannela Crematoria’ closing us out and hitting a zenith of gloominess with some more industrial battery folded in… this is a full on Gnod vibe shift that also makes total sense in their infamously extensive discography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this band enjoying hard-won freedom from release schedule tyranny, they – just like us – don’t know what’s next on the recording agenda, or if there’ll be more Gnod and MC Sissi collab albums, but this is an engrossing introduction to the partnership. 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Driven by relentless curiosity, magpie irreverence and a fierce countercultural imperative, their project has always refused to acknowledge all or any rules and boundaries, internal or external.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe latest adventure of this band may never have been intended to celebrate their two-decade anniversary, but as long-time Gnod member Paddy Shine notes, they don’t always have a lot of say in these matters – “I know that we didn't plan it this way but perhaps it was always in the plan and we just didn't know it” he notes cryptically. “I guess what I'm saying is that the Gnod thing seems to have its own energy now and certain things tend to take care of themselves”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We haven't reflected too heavily on the twenty year mark and maybe we shouldn’t, but I'm glad we are marking it in true Gnod fashion by releasing too many albums” he laughs – indeed, what began as a trip into a residential studio setup in Hellfire Studios with producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum, Black MIDI, Caroline) for six days resulted in more potent material than anyone bargained for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Working with Spud was probably the best studio experience we've had” Paddy notes. “He was open to all our ideas, facilitated them the best he could and always had great suggestions. 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Driven as always by the power of repetition as well as Gnod’s alchemical marriage of the maximal and the minimal, this album is imbued with a vivid focus that’s testimony to the chemistry of the sessions, coupled with a detailed and spacious production from Murphy that brings out the psychedelic sound worlds of the band in vivid colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a travelogue which delves into pastoral tranquillity (as on ‘Three Trees Parts 1\u0026amp;2’) just as adeptly as expansive Earth-tinged riff monoliths (‘All Tunnel No Light’) and just as formidably as the closing epic ‘Ekstasis’ – a hallucinatory vista where kraut-tinged experimentalism meets Swans-style intensity. 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