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Mark Vodka Group - ST LP
Debut LP from The Mark Vodka Group, Nova Scotia delivers again. FFO Coneheads, DLIMC, Buzzcocks and sunshine in the city.
More effortlessly catchy brilliance from Nova Scotia, Canada, that your ears, speakers and shelves simply cannot live without. You want a quality guarantee? Well, howsabout if I told you that The Mark Vodka Group includes members of the Booji Boys? Their 2019 opus ‘Tube Reducer’ should still be rattling the walls of your house and making your neighbours question the wisdom of moving next door to one of those ‘punk rockers’ the newspapers warned them about.
This is a different prospect to the Boojis, of course. While that group buries deceptively tasteful hooks in clouds of ear-lacerating distortion, The Mark Vodka Group opt for a more immediately accessible level of audibility, while still keeping things firmly in the box marked ‘lo-fi’. They sound like a bare-bones Descendants at their most irritably bratty, stealing the Oblivians’ homework and doodling stupid faces all over the most insightful parts. Or maybe the other way around. Point is, they do smart and stoopid simultaneously and they’ll make you wanna dive onto a dancefloor to revel in both sides.
As they’re not ashamed to tell you, however, the band have been around this music long enough to grow pissed off with… well, what have you got? Scenester elitism (‘Big Time Rocker’), the sudden trendiness of punk among previously sceptical normies (‘Everybody’s Punk Now’, which also boasts a killer Buzzcocks homage at its peak) and everyone dumb enough to cross them. Truth be told, punk rock doesn’t come out of these lyrical screes too well, but the Mark Vodka Group are too in love with the stuff to truly let go. Besides, as ‘Mark’s Blues’ laments at the album’s close, even when the rest gets you down, there’s always booze to keep us going: “The drinking hasn’t let me down yet.” Hey, Mark Vodka ain’t just a clever name. This is a damn fine record, though.
Will Fitzpatrick.
First 100 on Gold Vinyl
 
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Ditches - ST LP
 
Meet Ditches, from Stockholm coming straight out the gutter and speeding into the part of your brain where all the catchiest melodies lurk for the rest of time. This is their debut LP, a frantic collision of powerpop, garage rock and the most addictive of yer favourite punk classics. Think the snot of the Adolescents with JJ O’Neill’s natural way around a melody, or simply recall Jeff Burke of The Marked Men/Radioactivity’s knack for invoking the tartrazine high and the sugar crash at exactly the same time. All these things can be found here, and plenty more besides.
Burke actually shows up on production duties, lending backing vocals where necessary, although while it’s evident that Ditches’ approach shares a certain something with his outfits, they also very clearly sculpt their own universe.
Songs like Stitch Me Up owe as much to high speed pub rockers like The Boys as to the Denton, Texas sound, while there’s a gentle nod to the endlessly memorable hooks of Pete Shelley in their plaintive melodies, as well as a whole lotta stuff that’s fundamentally their own. Mainly though, this is just a thrill ride from start to finish. Get it on your stereo, start pogo-ing and accept you’ll be repeating this for the rest of forever. The best band to come out of Sweden since… ooh, I don’t know. Ebba Grön? Yep, probably.
Will Fitzpatrick.
All songs written and performed by . Produced by Ditches and Jeff Burke. Recorded and mixed by Jeff Burke. Additional backing vocals on tracks 1 and 9 by Jeff Burke. Mastered by Dave Williams.
First 100 on Blue Vinyl

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Still hot. Erik Nervous & The Beta Blockers LP, Alien Nosejob LP, Dark Thoughts LP, The Cowboy 7"
 

Originally released on Rugger Bugger Records in 1998 and long out of print.
Re-released to coincide with a forthcoming Japanese tour, we couldn't be more excited to be able to release this classic record. Re-Mastered by North London Bomb Factory Mastering with the first 100 on Clear Vinyl. Comes with instant download.
Formed out of Pondlife in the early 90s, the then Scottish outfit embedded itself firmly into the DIY scene, joining the likes of Jawbreaker and The Get Up Kids here and there, as well as scene regulars Chopper, Hooton 3 Car, Crocodile God, Leatherface and Snuff. Their sound was drawn out of their various interests from hardcore punk to Sonic Youth. ‘Home’, built the bridge between those and late-90’s emo icons and contemporaries at the time such as Texas Is The Reason and Sunny Day Real Estate.
Nearly 20 years on, it still sounds dark, desperate, urgent and essential. Quite simply a seminal record.
Buy it
http://www.drunkensailorrecords.co.uk/products/574106-broccoli-home-lp-drunken-sailor-records-drunkensailor-055
Stream it
http://www.punktastic.com/radar/stream-broccolis-remastered-home-lp-as-they-make-their-return/
Distro has had loads added, Vacation, Sievehead, Sperma, Heavy Metal, Diat, Iron Chic, Chandeliers, Witches With Dicks, Piss, Life Fucker, Soviettes, Institute, Sheer Mag, Jackhammers, Nachthexen, Dan Padilla, Prince, Strutter etc etc etc
Grab our recent releases from Spokenest, No Ditching/ Baby Ghosts, Downtown Boys, Marvelous Mark, Malos Modales
 

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Chicago Power Poppers 'The Fur Coats are back with this 4 track EP to coincide with their UK tour.
Short-Brain is the latest 7″ by The Fur Coats, the musical vehicle of Chicagoan (recently Brooklynite) Marc Ruvolo. Marc has enjoyed a long and storied career as a musician and promoter, from booking his first DIY punk show in 1984, to fronting a number of long-running bands (No Empathy, Traitors, The Atari Star, Das Kapital), to running the Johann’s Face Records label (since 1989 – recently passed the one-hundred-release mark!).
Wanting to tour more frequently, but finding the original members of the Coats unavailable, Ruvolo has now opted for a revolving cast of characters in terms of live and studio rhythm sections. Joining him for the four songs on Short-Brain are John Polydoros (Off With Their Heads, Vacation Bible School) along with Chris Mattern on bass, with Kyle Manning (Tens/Costanza), handling drum duties. The 7″ also features cover art by the UK’s scribblin’ wunderkind, Wolfmask.
The four songs on Short-Brain fall into the realm of pop-punk/power-pop, and showcase Ruvolo’s love for melody, while still throwing in an odd lyrical turn or two. Recorded in Chicago, if you listen closely you can hear the influences of some of his favorite favorite bands: Naked Raygun, The Smoking Popes, and the Buzzcocks.
Split release with Rad Girlfriend Records (US) and Make That A Take (UK)
300 on Green Vinyl
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Next Up
Marvelous Mark - Bite Me 7", out Friday 26th June
Amazing power pop from Toronto. Originally in the Marvelous Darlings, Now Mark has a solo project, Bite Me is made up of three succinct tracks so infectious they should come with their own NHS advice leaflet. Sound of your summer.
Stream HERE
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/stream-marvelous-marks-new-ep-bite-me
Wonk Unit - Feel The Wonkness LP, out Friday 17th July
Compilation of some some, of what we think (and it is crazy hard when a band has SO many amazing songs) are some of their best. You need to hear this band!
Also doing their first US tour in late October, ending up at FEST!
First 100 on Transparent green vinyl.
Loads of stuff added to the distro every week.
Thanks!

Martha/ Benny The Jet Rodriguez 7"
Two of my favourite bands come together on this amazing split.
Martha are probably the best English pop band of the last 10 years, everything they touch turns to gold.
After last years perfect debut LP 'Courting Strong', here are two brand new songs, 'The Historian' and an amazing Masshysteri cover of 'Dom Kan Inte Höra Musiken'. Currently writing their 2nd LP, world domination awaits.
Benny The Jet Rodriguez from San Pedro follow up their debut LP Home. Run on Recess Records with these new killer songs. I read somewhere that Benny the Jet Rodriguez find a balance between the simple and the complex, between yesterday and today. Lo-fi pop genius, can't get enough of this band.
First 100 on Blue.
Comes with download card and also an instant download of the mp3s.
 
Stream HERE
https://drunkensailorrecords.bandcamp.com/album/split-7-11
 
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The Basement Benders - ST 7" EP
****Co-release with Dead Broke Rekerds*****
 
Tons of bands that I fall in love with seem to either be from or have a link to Chattanooga. I have no idea what they put in the water (Beer) there, but I want some.
The Basement Benders are no exception, fresh from a short European tour and have already written their debut LP. Featuring members of Future Virgins/ This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb/ Hidden Spots/ Dark Rides/ Tulsa/ Stun Guns/ Black Rainbow/ Cleveland Bound Death Sentence/ Sexy.
It's hard to define what kind of genre they fit into, i dunno, but i do know that all the songs have a soul, an optimism and each tell a story. Obviously they rule too. A band to fall in love with.
Comes with download card and instant mp3s download on purchase.
 
Stream HERE
https://drunkensailorrecords.bandcamp.com/album/st-ep-7
 
Buy The 7" HERE
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Loads of records in the pipeline, Marvelous Mark - Bite Me 7" and The Fur Coats - Short Brain 7" out at the end of the month. Wonk Unit - Feel The Wonkness LP now at the plant.
 
Loads of new stuff in the distro, Joyride, Parasol, Nervous Talk, Big Dick, Der Faden, Feral Trash, Brat Farrar, Rats Rest...loads more, check it out.

Cool, so why dont you start your own band and record label and release whatever you want, instead of you know, complaining on an internet message board?