You got it turned up right? This week you need to really turn it all up.
The Collective is the new solo LP from Sonic Youth founder, experimental pioneer and absolute icon Kim Gordon. It’s our Record of the Week and it is absolutely fantastic. The album was created in partnership with producer Justin Raisen and it is so darkly enthralling, a sort of decayed rap aesthetic like a storm swirling around Gordon’s voice. She is hypnotic and, well, fiercely cool right in the middle of the fever. The swaggering confidence of someone who has spent the last forty years expanding the parameters of musical exploration. Really highly recommended.
+ Available on limited Coke Bottle Green colour vinyl.
+ All orders this week (and pre orders) go into a draw to win a poster that Kim has signed for us!
Holy sheeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiit guys! up next we have two thirds of Fuzz putting out new albums on In The Red!
Firstly, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom is the latest album from the Chad Ubovich-led Meatbodies. The album sounds massive, huge humming guitars with shoegaze hues and nineties alternative rock euphoria. Hugely nostalgic without directly sounding like anything else. They really captured the vibe.
+ This limited first pressing is on double Clear vinyl.
Black Holes Don’t Choke is the debut under his own name from Charles Moothart, although his three CFM are absolute ballers, we should point out. The warm production is fantastic, it enables him to trove through rich psychedelia, woody-sounding acoustics and plenty of metal riffs without ever sounding discordant or jumpy. There is so much going on it’s totally one to hit a few times, the repeat plays bring out the nuance and those earworms will grab you! Great stuff.
+ The vinyl format is pressed on random, weird, wild and utterly bonkers colour vinyl. A total lottery… but they all look amazing!
The Foreign Department is the second album by Astrel K, the solo project helmed by Stockholm-based Rhys Edwards (also of the brilliant Ulrika Spacek). We’re really falling for this one, the writing is so smart; an inventive and provoking sort of outsider pop with bags of melancholy.
+ LP copies include a signed print.
Letter To Yu is the solo debut from Belgian pop supremo Bolis Pupul. The album pays homage to both his Chinese roots and his late mother, giving a strong sense of the extrinsic with swirling and glimmering pop maximalism. Some lovely woozy moments of introspection too, this is one we’ll be playing quite a bit over here.
The next one is just so easy to hype because it’s just such good fun. BRSB is the latest album from German funk outfit, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, with Steel Drum covers of Drake, Snoop Dogg & Dr Dre, Claudja Barry, The Game & 50 Cent, A$AP Rocky, the Stranger Things theme and more. The production is really great, it’s all very dynamic and quickly becomes more than just the timbre of the drum(s). Fun, but no jokes.
+ Available on exclusive Yellow colour vinyl.
Also this week. Duo The Rhythm Method release the Bill Ryder-Jones-produced Peachy on Moshi Moshi. A discombobulating mixture of smart, silly and funny. Folk royalty Marry Waterson and Adrian Crowley collaborate on Cuckoo Storm and their voices are pretty magical together. The Pheromoans’ Wyrd Psearch was released last week on Upset The Rhythm and we just took stock. Way more interesting than all of the sprechgesang about lately, this one is well worth checking out. We have a super limited 7” of Gomp from Rochdale trio Prangers, we also have a limited cassette tape EP called Lakes from Voijcek.
A very strong week for the not-new too, with; Dry Cleaning, Pixies, Looper, Buzzcocks and a couple of bangers on Numero. We’ll be sure to talk about them, the month of March and more early next week.
