Proto-rock weirdness, club textures, seething rage and dream pop magnificence.
The New Eve Is Rising is the debut LP from Brighton quartet The New Eves, a head mix of droning rock and roll, spooky folk traditionalism and some punk energy too. It is pretty out there, with weird and culty pops of humour and intensity, very much following its own path. It also sounds fantastic, a vintage and raw rendering of people in a room. The live quality to it is just fantastic, actually. One to easily get lost in and find all sorts of magic amongst the howls and yelps on repeated plays. Bloody good and our Record of the Week.
+ Pressed on Light Pink colour vinyl.
+ We have a test pressing too so we’ll pick one of you lucky folks who pre-orders it.
Genre-hopping Bristol duo Getdown Services release Your Medal's In The Post / Primordial Slot Machine and it really is cracking stuff. A warped blur of pop and disco and all sorts else, with a sort of low slung, deadpan, spoken-word croon. The humour is really good, genuinely darkly funny and so wry and biting without descending into a rant. A shapeshifter of an album and super good fun too.
+ Pressed on limited double Brown vinyl.
The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life is the second LP from Nigerian-Canadian polymath Debby Friday. Underground electropop drives, with gestures towards the darker and more psychedelic too. Club-centric for sure, but not without the weird timbres and her vocals are super strong.
+ Available on Light Blue Bio vinyl.
Brixton-born artist Mansur Brown releases Rihla on his own AMAI label, a fugged-out space in dimly-lit R&B and grinding alt-rock influences. Rihla – which means “journey” in Arabic – is really focused, a little like a sci-fi soundtrack, as the different tracks ebb and flow. 
Detroit experimental hardcore collective The Armed return with THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED and it really is quite the assault. Less overtly political - well, without a direct manifesto - but also totally and utterly consumed with rage and disaffection. Proper ‘strap in’ vibes, but those willing to take the trip are gonna love this, it is wild.
+ Available on limited ‘Cloudy Clear With Pink, Green and Yellow Splatter’ vinyl.
Lastly for today, the esteemed Tough Love label brings to vinyl for the first time April Magazine’s Sunday Music For An Overpass, a nine track collection originally issued on cassette in vanishingly small number by San Francisco’s Paisley Shirt Records in 2021. Full of quiet power and subtle builds, this really is just the most gorgeous space in lo-fi dream pop. Highly recommended.
