{"title":"Latest New Releases","description":"","products":[{"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":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD Digi Pack","offer_id":48597979890002,"sku":"LAUNCH339 CD","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47860452458834,"sku":"","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47860454752594,"sku":"","price":6.99,"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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Having a member of the band handling recording and mixing has helped the band push further into their own language, moving beyond simple documentation, as on previous albums, into a lush, technicolor vision all of their own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\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\"\u003ereleases May 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ex-Easter Island Head","offers":[{"title":"'Purple' Vinyl (2nd Pressing)","offer_id":50147435643218,"sku":"LAUNCH342 LP B","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD Digi Pack","offer_id":48597982478674,"sku":"LAUNCH 342 CD","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47890861326674,"sku":"LAUNCH342","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47890861359442,"sku":"LAUNCH342","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"'Classic Black' Vinyl","offer_id":47890861293906,"sku":"LAUNCH342 LP","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/LAUNCH342EEIH_Norther_Sleeve_dba47f09-979b-4aaf-b0e8-2158f1bae6f8.jpg?v=1711991137"},{"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. Like the music, really.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GNOD","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":47891695173970,"sku":"LAUNCH347 LP","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47891695206738,"sku":"LAUNCH347","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47891695239506,"sku":"LAUNCH347","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch347GNOD-SpotLandAlbumSleeve.jpg?v=1711564966"},{"product_id":"mwg-drwg","title":"Mwg Drwg","description":"\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1710572166%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-RXRVtx1ujZ9\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=\"Obey Cobra – Mwg Drwg\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/obey-cobra-mwg-drwg\/s-RXRVtx1ujZ9\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eObey Cobra – Mwg Drwg\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“We could go so far as to say that it is the human condition to be grotesque, since the human animal is the one that does not fit in, the freak of nature who has no place in the natural order and is capable of re-combining nature’s products into hideous new forms.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo reckoned Mark Fisher in ‘The Weird And The Eerie’, which chronicled the means by which the uncanny can enter the everyday. 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. It’s an aural exorcism of William Friedkin proportions that demands your immediate attention.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Obey Cobra","offers":[{"title":"'Blue Hour' Colour Vinyl","offer_id":47918567850322,"sku":"LAUNCH336 LP","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (MP3)","offer_id":47918567883090,"sku":"LAUNCH336","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":47918567915858,"sku":"LAUNCH336","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7872\/0594\/files\/Launch336ObeyCobra-MwgDrwg_AlbumSleeve.jpg?v=1712057224"},{"product_id":"an-error-has-occured","title":"An Error Has Occured","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1737729774\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 Janitors – An Error Has Occurred\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rocket-recordings\/sets\/the-janitors-an-error-has-occurred\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Janitors – An Error Has Occurred\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Everything’s been fucked since David Bowie died or they started up the Hadron Collider,” say The Janitors. This feeling is epitomised in the title of their riveting new album: An Error Has Occurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarking over two decades of activity for the Swedish psych-rockers, the recording is informed by heartbreak and loss as well as the dismal state of the entire planet. For The Janitors, these two polarities intertwine constantly: “What’s personal is political and vice versa.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo channel their frustration and anger, the band revived certain songs they’d shelved during the pandemic when working on the acclaimed Noisolation Sessions. They added others, written since, that suited the mood of sticking a middle finger up to the oppressive world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhereas previous recordings were often layered up gradually, this time the full band (Henric Herlenius, Jonas Eriksson, Anders Thorell and Wilhelm Tengdahl) rehearsed intensely together before laying down everything live, over two days and nights, in a converted missionary church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe songs on Side A have the menace of Melvins, the swagger of The Stooges and the cosmic heft of The Heads. These are the more simply constructed and poppier pieces... or so the band believe. (One friend of theirs did consider this “delusional”.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘In A Bliss’ acts as the album’s radiant centrepiece. A palette-cleansing love song which recalls The Jesus And Mary Chain at their most starry eyed, it finds The Janitors searching for solace and strength in straightforward companionship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter this come the dronier numbers, drawn out with soundscapes and textures influenced by The Velvet Underground’s sonic experiments and the equally immersive atmospheres of electronic acts like Massive Attack. Hence, ‘Operator’ swings threateningly like a space-rock Swans, while the approach on ‘Farewell Spacegirl’ is jazzier and more meditative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It can be hard to muster up some, or even any, positive energy at this point in time,” says Henric. “We are eternally grateful to have the creative output that this constellation gives us. Neither me or Jonas would probably be here, or be the same people we are, if it wasn’t for The Janitors. 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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. 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That can be applied to a lot of things in life”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHence came the title of the fourth Smote album proper, one largely recorded in this same farmhouse - A Grand Stream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s an album that’s the truest incarnation thus far of his vision for this band - a full-scale psychic voyage into the ether and a drone-and-repetition-fuelled series of incantations that takes simple, primal ingredients and utilises them for the purposes of aural sorcery, summoning spectres and revelations aplenty in its wake. What has emerged from Foggin’s sojourn in the Borders may be imbued with a rich rural intensity but it’s also perhaps the darkest and more foreboding work that Smote have made to date. As he notes himself, the rawness of this record occurred in tandem with its recording process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’ve done this pretty DIY, and done stuff that will give most sound engineers nightmares” he laughs, “I’ve got 4 microphones and an interface, and had a whacky set up of my sound city 120 and a 4x12, some synths and basic percussion stuff like tambourines and shakers all in a tiny living room. Then drums, bass and all the other glue was added in my practice room at later dates. I’m really happy with the production on this one; it feels like one sonic journey”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarely a truer word could be spoken on this 70-minute-plus opus, which embarks on the most intrepid dive imaginable into the audial Deep End. Whilst the folk-tinged, ceremonial ambience that Smote have made their trademark is present and correct here, as on the ominous rhythms of ‘Coming Out Of A Hedge Backwards’ and the uplifting cadences of opener ‘Sitting Stone Part 1’, Foggin and his cohorts also waste little time exploring new more eerie and ethereal textures and dimensions. The meditative ‘Chantry’ in particular sees them gravitate towards a headspace akin to the drone-based epiphanies of Kali Malone’s ‘Does Spring Hide Its Joy’ filtered through the transcendent amplifier worship of ‘Earth 2’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In terms of influences, I was listening to a lot of Anna Von Hausswolf, Maria W. Horn, and ØXN” reckons Foggin. “I think this is pretty significant in the fact that all of these artists combine traditional instrumentation with contemporary instrumentation, and it’s all fucking heavy. Not so much in the way of playing ridiculous mega riffs, but in terms of using the simple sound of instruments to create atmosphere. For example I think a violin playing double stops can be just as heavy as a cranked no-master volume guitar amp, just like an organ can be just as heavy as tuned oscillators and filtered synthesis”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaid heaviness manifests itself most powerfully in the mammoth two-parter ‘The Opinion Of The Lamb’ – a near thirty-minute ritualistic voyage into the heart of darkness that melds Swans-style intensity, Trad Gras Och Stenar earthtones and Sunn O))) monomania to devastating effect. This marks the culmination of an album that takes this band – one who’ve always eschewed the cliches and stumbling blocks of all contemporary psych rock in favour of their own unique and wyrd vision - into a realm in which they transcend through willpower and skill alike into something preternaturally thrilling and intimidating, mapping out their own crepuscular new territory in the paranormal. 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Marlene Ribeiro’s debut for Rocket Recordings and first album under her own name is all of this and much more. Toquei No Sol is a fresh new chapter for this unique artist, by far the most melodic and transcendent outing yet for her hypnotic dreampop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is only the latest release in a long history of sonic experimentation for Marlene, which includes her previous work as Negra Branca across a series of releases on labels such as Tesla Tapes and Zamzam and a long period as a member of audial iconoclasts and Rocket mainstays GNOD, not to mention collaborations with the like of Valentina Magaletti and Thurston Moore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToquei No Sol is also a record with a very distinctive and potent sense of place, paradoxically despite having been woven together from recordings made in Ireland, Wales, Portugal, Madeira and Salford. 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The ritualistic “Sangue De Lua de Lobo” (first released on a Sofia records compilation Songs Of The Lunar Eclipse) contains random objects from Marlene’s then-garden in Ireland, whereas on the drifting, beatific ‘Forever’ the percussion tracks are constructed from the sounds of pots and pans in her own Salford kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet at all times her fleet-footed approach to melody rings through even as the tracks conjure visions of heat-hazes, meditative spaces and late-night epiphanies. Although listeners may hear echoes of the loop-driven psychedelia of Panda Bear’s Person Pitch or the incantatory ululations of Pocahaunted in these beguiling soundscapes and magick-strewn mantras, the truth is that the aesthetic here is very much Marlene’s alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s all a big misty haze of nostalgia, playfulness, self-reflection and hopefulness” is what Marlene reckons herself. 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Instead, this vinyl edition contains three ‘unused\/unreleased’ tracks: ‘Goat Witch’, ‘Timeless Awareness’ and ‘Kampsång (Instrumental)’. These tracks have not, up-to-now, been heard by anyone apart from Shane Meadows himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe themes and imagery of Benjamin Myers’ source novel are the perfect fit for Goat’s mystical, pagan aesthetic. The story, based in rural 18th century Yorkshire, tells a fictionalised, psychedelic tale based on the true story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners, which became the biggest fraud in British history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than 'writing to picture' in the traditional way, Goat approached the creative process differently, explaining: “In the beginning, we would get inspiration just through reading the book, trying to get a sense of its vibration and then translate that into music, with passages from the book as a springboard for the initial jams.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoat were already fans of Meadows’ work, in particular ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’ and the various iterations of ‘This Is England’, and understood the importance of music to him, noting that: “Music is a central part to everything Shane has created” and describing the opportunity as a “blessing” when they were approached about the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking on the score for ‘The Gallows Pole’ also provided an ongoing inspiration for Goat, resulting in the germs of music that formed the bands most recent album, the critically acclaimed ‘Medicine’. “Although it may seem an abstract or unorthodox way to work with film, a lot of interesting new ideas and music came out of those sessions that went beyond just the score.” said the band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes, the results of musical exploration are best heard (and seen). 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Testimony, indeed to the kind of spectacular mental vistas and towering, intimidating sound-worlds which are made manifest on Genog.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I love world building and folk tales” adds Foggin, who cites the 2013 film ‘Hard To Be A God’ as the single biggest influence on Smote’s aesthetic - “An incredible example of mood and atmosphere throughout, an absolute masterpiece.” True to form, perhaps the centrepiece of Genog is the mighty ‘Lof’. Driven by an ominous and bewitching central riff, this totem of monomania transcends its post-Velvets, folk and ‘70s Swedish Psych influences to thunder forth singularly akin to a ceremonial procession from a place as enigmatic and daunting as the the quasi-medieval pandemonium of the same film.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInhabiting a landscape where pursuit of the psychedelic is so often hampered by cliche, mannerism and the canonical rulebook. 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However, the pathway to this new record involved a more organic approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJamming, writing and recording together as a five-piece band for the first time, Holy Scum began to operate as a hive-mind that would produce their most focused work yet amidst the tranquil surroundings. “There is this big window in the live room and as we would be playing you would just see the bay and a parade of sheep walking by all day long” notes Mike. “Surrounded by each other with no distractions, our only real option was to create or go for a fucking frigid swim.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, tighter punchier songs were made manifest which hone down the band’s fearsome invective into lean,vicious blasts of sound and fury. 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It was a sound too powerful to be left undocumented – it was something that needed to be clasped for future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn January 22, 2025 – the day before their thunderous performance at London’s ICA alongside labelmates Teeth Of The Sea – the four members of Smote entered Bear Bites Horse studio. With producer Wayne Adams at the controls, they laid down a live set brimming with raw, elemental power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat emerged is ‘Clyppan’ – four drone-and-repetition driven incantations, distilled from the primal essence of Smote’s sound. These tracks channel something ancient and urgent, summoning spirits and revelations in their wake. It’s music as ritual, as invocation – pure aural sorcery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo gather together. Form a circle. Join hands. 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Less a metaphysical journey into inner space, more a physical journey into the ground itself, converging with its roots and vibrations. What’s more, a journey right to the heart of its principal architect’s daily experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel Foggin has spent the majority of his adult life working as a landscape gardener, frequently pursuing his trade in conditions of either baking heat or freezing cold and, as he puts it “more often covered in mud than not”. Yet the primal, meditative aspects of this work, the act of communing with nature, its histories and its depths have fuelled his art on a profound level. As Daniel himself relates; \"I think the music is a direct reflection of this feeling that I haven't quite managed to define yet, it is dirty and hard but there is an overwhelming comfort to it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmote’s fifth release for Rocket Recordings, and their deepest, most fully realised to date, Songs From The Free House is testimony to this. Forged from repetition and mantric intensity and possessed of formidable psychic fortitude, this album prove that the only retro-chic Smote indulge in is liable to go back several centuries. The megalithic monomania of last year's A Grand Stream set a formidable precedent, and Smote's live shows in its wake have gradually built a reputation as visionary seers building audial monuments by cranked amplification and atmospheric intensity alike. Yet these five gnostic serenades offer portals and paradigms anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContinuing Smote's exploratory mission into heaviness in all its forms. 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To celebrate the one-year anniversary of their monumental release, the band handed over all the original stems to their good friend, the enigmatic producer ‘human language’, and gave him complete freedom to remix the album however he saw fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut let’s be clear right from the outset, this is no ordinary remix album – 'human language' was invited to inhabit inside of Goat’s sonic temple. With a copy of J Dilla’s Donuts in one hand he was encouraged to burn new incense into their music – reshaping the 8 tracks from the inside out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tape opens with 'One More Shadow', where Goat's original’s fuzzed guitars are filtered through warped vinyl crackle, and the drums land with golden-era hip-hop swagger – chopped, pitched and looped until they sound like a ghost trapped in its own groove.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 'Goatnoggin', 'human language' transforms 'Goatbrain' into a head-nodding, dubbed-out slow-burner. The funk remains, but it’s now filtered through a murky, weed-soaked Dilla prism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The Buck Stops Here' takes Goat into a cough-syrup head zone, a swampy place between meditation and menace, where the ghosts of Funkadelic dwell – never quite relaxing, never quite erupting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 'Jörmugandr' the tapes closer, ‘human language’ transforms 'Ouroborus' into a reverb-heavy percussion driven, haunted sermon deep from within the Scandinavian forest – part Madlib, part Midsommar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes ‘The Human Language Tape’ so compelling is that it doesn’t sanitise Goat's rawness – it embraces it. This lo-fi aesthetic feels intentional rather than incidental – resulting in eight Goat tracks refracted through cracked drum pads and whirling incense smoke, where heavy drum loops meet the cosmic energy of Sweden's finest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album is released digitally on 10 October. 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Collecting rarities from across band’s celebrated career, including standalone singles, B-sides and digital edits and two enormous brand new tracks. It’s a globetrotting acid trip of a record that’s even bigger in its scope than their acclaimed studio LPs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the incendiary heavy psych of their earliest work, like debut B-side ‘The Sun And Moon’, to the serene Requiem’-era alternate take ‘Union Of Mind And Soul’, to the simmering menace of their latest material, it’s a record as multifaceted as Goat themselves, packed with detours in every conceivable direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking in jazz-flute solos, pounding Afrobeat rhythms, ferocious desert blues, drifting Ethio-jazz, this is, as the name of Goat’s first album made clear, ‘World Music’ in its most complete form, a sound unrestrained by genre boundaries. Yet the band are anything but lazy appropriators. 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And whilst this band has flourished via dauntless conviction, hive-mind magic and a fierce and uncompromising spirit, one ingredient has served as a crucial fuel for the fire – the monolithic singularity of the riff. \u2028\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis second chapter of Gnod’s sort-of-anniversary trilogy also originates in the same six day sessions as the first, at Hellfire Studios near Dublin with producer Spud Murphy (Lankum, Black Midi etc). Yet the focus this time is on the transcendental heaviness and repetition that the band have often used as a primary fulcrum of their approach. This volume captures the sound of strings flayed, throats shredded, skins punished by the organic chemistry of this formidably powerful band in a room. \n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOperating as ever stubbornly adrift of all or any genre restrictions, the coruscating workouts chronicled here evolved on the road in the last two years before being honed and perfected in the studio setup by Murphy. “Spud was masterful – recording live, pushing us to do more takes and then when the right take was done, by the time we got to the desk from the live room he already had it sounding great for playback” relates the band’s Paddy Shine. \n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe results are amongst the most fearsome and kinetic material that Gnod have summoned to date. The opening ‘The Witness’ takes a The Ex-ish groove and sets it in motion before driving a wall of incandescent guitar scree through it. ‘Ice Man’ redlines an animalistic Melvins-style framework into the realms of dystopian burnout. ‘Old Gold’ meanwhile centres on three-guitar interplay snaking around a muscular, taut groove, with Paddy’s feverish declamations acting as master of ceremonies. \n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs has often been the case for a band heavily driven by serendipity and intuition, the best plan is no plan at all. “We find quite regularly that spontaneity and the no thought approach works better than over analysis and detailed planning” clarifies Chris Haslam “Paddy's stream of consciousness lyrical approach is another example of how when we remove our own will from the process, something purer, more real \u0026amp; more connected fills the void.”\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet the centrepiece of the record is Strangled, a quarter-hour weapons-grade Gnod tour de force on which a hypnotic, concrete heavy structure is wedded to dubbed-out abstraction, and all anchored by the spoken word sermonising of Manchester-based poet and ‘certified legend’ Lauren McLean “We nearly always have a 15 minute banger on an album, we love that thing of a long repetitive groove that we can have some fun in the mix with” Paddy notes. “Strangled finally gave us an opportunity to use an Air Raid Siren and get Lauren in, Lauren is a great wordsmith and great performer, we have been waiting for the right opportunity to work with her. 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Thus the sound that sprang forth took Eastern, Western and Swedish folk influences as ingredients in a heady brew which was then embellished by more guest musicians (including members of Rocket acts Ved and Och before being mixed and edited down in classic Can fashion over a number of years.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs notions of the fabric of time and space warp and weft, the nine year gap between the recordings and their release is rendered meaningless. Relocations to foreign countries, new professional ventures, technical snafus and a global pandemic have all played their part in this delay.  Yet from the freewheeling Amon Duul–damaged blowout of ‘Raka Vägen För Damo’ to the lilting catchiness of ‘Mantra’, and from the riff–driven colossus ‘Ombudsmän’ to the ritualistic motorik mania of the title cut, this is Flowers Must Die at their most fresh vital and iridescent. 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Especially given that Ye Gods, his latest and most monolithic project to date, arrived directly from a dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this dream, Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke took him to task for easing off on his longtime study of hermetic ritual magick and instructed him to atone by making a record under the name Ye Gods. Upon waking, further investigation proved that this was also the name of a fictitious 70s supergroup invented by Peter Cook, in a telling display of cosmic symmetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConvinced this path was the correct one, he was duty bound to comply. And sure enough, the Ye Gods project began to evolve and metamorphosise, until this vehicle for ‘Occult Devotional Electronics’, became a beast capable of delivering ‘Los’ the towering and transformative new album for Rocket Recordings. Although Antoni's musical life has extended across contingents and genres in the last two decades - from the noise world of Bristol to the techno scene in Berlin, and via Italo-disco and soundtrack work to supporting Mogwai on their recent US tour – this album maps out yet more ambitious terrain. Through the widescreen sweep of three expansive tracks, ‘Los’ makes for an epiphanic journey of formidable scope and intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich with texture and cinematic atmosphere, and as confident with spectral tension as emotive songcraft, it’s a work that breaks new ground for this intrepid polymath. Somewhat akin to the creative deep-dive that Scott Walker took into the avant-garde from ‘Tilt’ onwards, Los also conjures a sense of epic scale across tracks like the beat-driven ‘Outlier’ and the fearless soundscape trajectory ‘Handmaiden’ which brings to mind the work of Swans on White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity’, the dark ambience of Lustmord or Justin Broadrick’s Jesu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond these touchstones, inspiration came here not only from the ritual and psychedelic practices of his private life (including magick and LSD experiences) but from a desire to fight back against the prevailing zeitgeist of the mid-2020s. “For this record especially, I wanted to make something that would be antithetical to AI” he reckons. “I wanted each track to be very long as a deliberate 'fuck you' to the obvious musical ideas – the perfect Spotify-ready 3-minute run times and the general neatness I see in most modern music”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn scaling these heights and plumbing these depths, he enlisted a variety of guest musicians from his now hometown in New Haven, Connecticut, whose particular eccentricities as well as the doors opened by his academic life there have bled into his creativity. He also enlisted legendary seer Jarboe to the fray, whose rawness and spiritual intensity had spurred him on, and whose involvement formed another full circle moment for the project. “She was happy to add spoken word and vocal textures, and she sent them remotely” notes Antoni. “On one had this helped finish some of the arrangements and on the other being told by Jarboe your voice sounds great already, is a huge confidence boost”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe character in Blake’s book from which this album takes its name is a prophetic artist and embodiment of creativity and inspiration, a blacksmith whose hammering on his forge mirror those of the human heart. “It seemed to fit well, a hopeful character hidden in a prophetic\/apocalyptic work” says Antoni. 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