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Love that new track.

Nice. Cheers for the heads up... Will be ordering... Which tee though?! Hmm.

Sweet. Early birthday present for me. Cheers for the heads-up!

Metalcore band from Sheffield, England. They're running a PledgeMusic campaign to self-release their album. Some nice vinyl options, as well as plenty of other stuff. "After 10 years of dealing with the ups and downs of the music industry we have decided to continue our journey independently and self release our third full length album, available now for pre-order on PledgeMusic. All money raised goes directly towards funding the the new album, artwork, music videos, touring and everything that keeps our band alive. As well as being able to order the album on a range of formats, you’ll also have access to exclusive merchandise, including one-off items made by us at the Sleeps HQ in Sheffield. Anyone who pre-orders an item will receive an Access Pass & special updates from the band during the recording process and over the course of the coming months watch the music & artwork come to life solely because of your support. Every purchase on the store also comes with a FREE download of our new song ‘CIVIL ISOLATION’."

Really liking the track - thanks for sharing the article. That video made me me get phantom-hand-cramps though.

Music-review-related-comment-of-the-week.

Seriously, wtf was that track? If you hadn't told me it was LP, I'd have thought it was the latest thing from Bieber or Timberlake. FFS guys... Come on... Just come the f*ck on.

Just read this from a UK indie store... Made me laugh, in a depressing sort of way. "...on the week that an astonished world heard that Sleeper had reformed and that Sun Kil Moon had streamed the Worst Album Ever™ we have loads of great releases in that have taken a terrible toll on our reviewing fingers..." Sad, but very true.

White /1000 and standard black. Out 28th April on 52Hz - order here. “All this I do for glory” is a reasoning and exploration of the machinations of ambition and legacy, an examination of the concepts of afterlife, and the first half of a doomed love story in the model of the greek tragedies. As a narrative, it exists temporally somewhere between 2015’s “Never were the way she was” (with Sarah Neufeld) and the 1st volume of the NHW Trilogy. With this, his first solo outing since 2013’s “To See More Light”, Colin Stetson ventures into territory both familiar and strange. Here still, is the dogmatically stripped down approach to performance and capture (all songs recorded live with no overdubs or loops) but there is an immediacy to the album that belies a more invasive and thorough miking of the various instruments being utilized and a seeming influence drawn from the early nineties electronica of artists like Aphex Twin and Autechre, evident in the more pointed role played by the instruments' many percussive elements. There are ancestries, motivic and timbral, woven through these six songs that plainly anchor them within the shared universe of his Trilogy, though the overall experience is one of extreme intimacy, the sounds and imagery more tangible and immersive than previous offerings. The brief and brutal “In the clinches” recalls (or presages) echoes of songs like “Judges”, though now feeling like one has fallen down the bell of Stetson’s ancient bass saxophone itself. “Spindrift”, crystalline and serene, calls to mind the ambient works of Aphex Twin, while “Between Water and Wind” with it’s “Immigrant Song” swagger, relentlessly carves it’s way into the bedrock here, paving the way with an increasing focus on the minute and the minimal, with a deepened sense of patience shared by most of the album’s six tracks. Engineered and mixed by Stetson himself, this album represents a decidedly independent approach across the entire creative process and finds him at the top of his game, both as a composer and instrumentalist as well as a producer.

(Ashamed to say) I'd never heard of these guys until seeing this... Really digging the music. Have pre-ordered the red.

It's still available (due 24th Feb) on some British indie sites (such as Norman Records).

Thanks to wonderful pieces of furniture like this, I managed to convince my fiancee that when we first moved in together my turntable setup wouldn't take up too much valuable space in the apartment.... Needless to say she was really pleased. Then, three months later on move-in day, I turned up with 500 LPs. #didiforgettomentionthose

Do you mean a shelf?

Second pressing - transparent yellow /500 on Clay Pipe Music. The Hardy Tree is the musical project of Clay Pipe Music's founder Frances Castle, her first LP ' The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath' was the initial release on the label over five years ago. Through Passages of Time soundtracks buildings and areas of London that no longer exist. Small places stumbled upon by accident, traced on maps, and illustrated in Georgian prints. Frequently visited pubs that have been rebuilt and renamed, the ship breakers yard decorated with wooden figureheads at Baltic Wharf, or the Thames Watermen living in the shadow of the Hawksmoor designed church at Horselydown. Lost places re-imagined and brought to life using clusters of sequenced Moogs, off Kilter electronics, vibes, and Mellotron - capturing the essence of the dark city and its more bucolic outer suburbs. This is a plaint to an older stranger London that is quickly becoming priced out and forgotten. Look carefully and clues to the ancient past can still be found.

I'd definitely be interested... Feel free to drop me a message, if it's still available. Cheers!

My copy was packed really well... Thick cardboard with a few stiffeners inside.

Hyped for this... Picked up a deluxe. Great tracks so far... Keep 'em coming!

Can't wait!

I was just about to post this! Half LOLing and half screaming throughout the first read of that fairytale. I don't live in the US, so I'm unaware of how the law works with things like this, but is this not fraud (if indeed the records don't ever materialise)? Absolute joke.

IMHO they've been very hit and miss... A few highlights now and then but not an entire solid album for a while, but that said, like aaalethalenforcer, I haven't followed them very intensively since OEP.

Wow, this is turning into an amazing (yet, very expensive) week. Thanks for the heads-up on this one Hope I get a tote!

Indies only red vinyl (UK store) on CT: https://www.normanrecords.com/records/163441

It looked to be gone when I checked earlier... Just looked again and was able to grab one. Nice.

FUUUUUUUUCK I missed it. Damn you work. EDIT: FUUUUUUUUCK I'm an idiot. Totally missed the indie blue version... Got one from Banquet. Awesome.

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I'm going to see these guys in a few weeks time (cannot wait) and wanted to ask whether anyone knows if they're likely to have any tour variants (or some of the original variants) on sale at the show? They sound like they're cool as hell, so I'm hoping maybe they'll hang around after the show (seeing them in a really small venue)... Would make my whole year / decade if I could buy them a beer!