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I've too much on. New job, too many side projects. So I'm streamlining this and my other music outlet into one.
I'm doing this now.

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13 August 2018

Only 13 tracks this week as there's quite a few long ones.

Slime City - Less Jools More Top Of The Pops
Existential nerd rock, they call it. They're from Glasgow and this single came out on Friday.

Gnod - Uncle Frank Says Turn It Down
The Salford collective return with the new LP Chapel Perilous.

Boobs Of Doom - Thor's Womb
This is the radio edit as the full version of the single lasts for 41 (forty-one) minutes.

Art Brut - Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out!
The joyous return of Art Brut. Their first album in seven years is due out in autumn and this is the first track taken from it.

The Shakers - Get Me Down
Taking the DIY ethic to extremes, this is the first track the South Londoners have done entirely on their own - recording, producing and releasing.

The Nightingales - Chaff
A track taken from the forthcoming album Perish The Thought.

Fat Earthers - Life's Political
This dates back from January. They're from the Isle of Wight and this is off their self-titled EP.

The Jjohns - Sewn
The first track for their new label, Modern Sky.

Silent Forum - How I Faked The Moon Landing
From Cardiff, this came out on Friday as part of Libertino Records' singles club.

Marbled Eye - New Crease
These are from Oakland in California and this is off the EP Promo Tape 2018 that came out in April.

Nervous Twitch - You Promised Me The World
Leeds punk trio. Flippin' love 'em. This is the second single off the LP I Won't Hide.

Mokri - Labyrinth
The third single taken from the LP Total Love.

Föllakzoid - Feuerzeug
And to finish, 9 minutes of Chilean krautrock off the 2015 album III.

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6 August 2018

Now then

Not Of - The 2016 Idiot Blues (The Don Lands It)
Noisy pair from Toronto, this is off Hypocritic Oath which came out last month.

Drenge - Before The War Begins
A new EP from les freres Loveless. Autonomy is out soon.

Swine Tax - Thorns
The latest single from the Newcastle purveyors of '90s inspired indie chaos'.

Phobophobes - Child Star
The latest single from the frankly brilliant album Miniature World.

Ultra Beauty - Get Pure
From Washington DC and off their self-titled EP.

Idles - Colossus
The first track from the Bristolians since their acclaimed debut LP Brutalism. Picking up where they left off.

Dream Nails - DIY
'DIY punk witches', they say. This is their single from spring 2016.

Rat Scabies - My Wrists Hurt
Yes, he of The Damned with his first solo album. PHD (Prison, Hospital, Debt) came out in May.

Loobs - Dandelion
From Melbourne, this is off Bubblewrap.

The Wolfhounds - Disgusted, E7
Originally from the 1987 LP Unseen Ripples From A Pebble, this is also on the new compilation Hands In The Till - The Complete Peel Sessions which is out now.

The Babe Rainbow - Eureka
These are from Byron Bay, NSW in Australia and the LP Double Rainbow came out in July.

Teleman - Song For A Seagull
Another track from the forthcoming Family Of Aliens which sounds like it's going to be a belter.

Vukovar ft Equinox - Tryst Of Emanations
Two of my favourite bands around at the moment combining on a new single.

ESP - Gigerish
Newport's Jamie Howells is ESP and this is off the album Meet The Planets.

Gabe Gurnsey - Harder Rhythm
The solo album from half of Factory Floor is called Physical and came out last Friday.

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30 July 2018

Some old ones this week because why not

The Immediate - Sever
Off the new album More Sheep Than Humans which came out last month.

Kagoule - Egg Hunt
The lead track from the new LP Strange Entertainment.

Jon Spencer - Do the Trash Can
Without his Blues Explosion these days, this is off Spencer Sings The Hits.

Deux Furieuses - Silenced By The Roar
A track from this time last year that I'd not heard before. Worth catching up on.

Menace Beach - Crawl In Love
A new album from the Leeds band is out on September 7, titled Black Rainbow Sound.

Blam Blam Blam - No Depression In New Zealand
Going back to 1981 here and some Antipodean post-punk. Because why not.

Concretism - Magnox
Off the Essex band's 2015 EP EP06. Suitably apocalyptic.

Optiganally Yours - How Do You Feel?
From San Diego, this is off the LP O Y In Hi-Fi which is quirkily affecting.

Cornershop - Double Denim
Always a pleasure to bring new stuff from Cornershop to the table. This is half of a double A single with Sugar Sugar.

Darto - Brotherhood
From Seattle, this is off Fundamental Slime. Terrific title.

Dead Bambies - Meltdown Of Love
Japanese rock off a compilation from Thomas Impostor records. Tokyo Chikatetsu vol 1 is out now. Bloody brilliant.

Digital Shades - Blue
A new project from John Kunkel from The New Division and James Meays from Missing Words. An EP is due soon.

Beach Skulls - Ain't Easy
A second album from the Mancunians, Las Dunas is out now.

Mr Airplane Man - I'm In Love
This is off Jacaranda Blue which came out in March.

Vital Idles - Rising Damp
Nothing to do with Leonard Rossiter. This is off Left Hand, which the Glasgow band put out early this month.

Alone - Our National Shame
Still putting out tracks every month, always a pleasure.

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16 July 2018

Here we go again.

Walter Lure & The The Waldos - Crazy Kids
The last surviving member of The Heartbreakers, Lure and The Waldos have a new LP out, this being the title track.

Sarandon - Mustn't Grumble
Sarandon's Age Of Reason LP, released in 2011, is quite the thing. Packed with really short tracks and then this 5-minuter.

UkePunk - Life And The World
Sex, Pies & Austerity is the forthcoming album from our favourite Ramsbottom-based ukulele punk act.

BEAK> - Brean Down
New stuff from Geoff Barrow and his BEAK> project. Their third LP is titled >>> and who knows how that's pronounced. 'Greater than, greater than, greater than'?

Okay Champ - William Tell
From Newcastle, there's quite the buzz about these. Easy to see why.

Vukovar - Dead Pressed Flowers
Makers of two of my favourite albums of last year, here's one from the new one Infinitum.

Linda Em - Wild Fire
The first of three tracks with a very country vibe. In fact, why don't I play them all back-to-back?
First, London-based Irish singer Linda Em with a track from the EP London Irish which is out in autumn.

Jessica's Brother - Humdinger
Also from London, though featuring Jonny Huddersfield Helm on drums, come Jessica's Brother with a track from the self-titled debut.

Milk Kan - Brixton Hill Revisited
Also from London, south London, come Milk Kan and what they're calling 'drill country'. The EP The Glitch Country is available now.

Therapy? - Callow
And now for something completely different. A new track from the veteran rockers addressing the new age of anxiety taken from the forthcoming LP Cleave.

The Salient Braves - Slob
Barnsley's premier pop act with a new track, available from today.

BOO - Bella
That's the Battery Operated Orchestra to you. New single, out now.

Teleman - Cactus (Boxed In remix)
A terrific track in it's own right - that I played a few weeks back - now mixed up by Boxed In - another band I have a lot of time for - in a terrific stylee.

The Senior Service - The Contender
Off the second album King Cobra - out now on Damaged Goods - this is quite brilliantly uncategorisable.

Afghan Sand Gang - Mantra
As is this, to the ends that they themselves have coined the term 'kraut dance'. They're from Mossley and the EP Machine Music is both out now and highly recommended.

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9 July 2018

Evenin'

The Cavemen - Lust For Evil
A new one from the New Zealanders off the LP Nuke Earth.

Yassassin - Citizen
The new single from the ever-evolving London-based collective.

Moderate Rebels - Beyond Hidden Words
The London anti-music collective with what they call an un-song.

Seasurfer - Sad Song
I don't know where I found this. The Internet tells me they're from Hamburg, but that's about it.

The Vega Bodegas - Monkey Ate The Monkey
Taken from the new album A Complete History of Witchcraft which is out on Friday.

Klammer - Spiral Girl
Another one taken from the third LP You Have Been Processed out next month.

Silverbacks - Dunkirk
New single from the Dublin art-punks describing the site of the famous retreat as a built-up holiday destination.

Sunstack Jones - Say Something
From the self-titled album by the Liverpudlians which came out at the back end of last month.

Four Candles - Strange Things Are Happening
Clearly it was the name that caught my eye. These are from Salford and comes from the EP Spiritual Rapture, out now.

Pellethead - Hear Me Now
I don't know why this has cropped up now. It came out in 2007 on the LP Sleepwank. Still fucking good though.

Wooden Shjips - Staring At The Sun
A fifth LP from the band with the rogue J and following in kind. Tremendous. V is out now.

Funky Bijou - Karate Break
Funky and French, off the EP Yasuke.

Roisin Murphy - Plaything
The former Moloko singer with the second of four 12" singles that make up a series. Bloody excellent.

Fonda 500 - Golden Digits Of Devilry
New stuff from the Hull veterans of the acid scene. I Heart Fonda 500 is out now.

Orbital - PHUK
'Please help UK', it stands for. Taken from the new LP Monsters Exist.

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25 June 2018

Evenin'

Dentist - Corked
From the forthcoming album Night Swimming, out on July 20. This is New Jersey surf-indie fused pop.

Lauren Lakis - Lead Us On
A track from Baltimore's Lakis's debut LP Ferocious which came out last week.

Feral Five - Man Cat Doll Machine
Taking inspiration from Picasso for this and making it for Martyn Ware's Everything you Can Imagine Is Real exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, this is the title track to the new EP. Nicely Siouxsie-esque.

David Byrne - Doing The Right Thing
Still going, American Utopia is his tenth studio album as a solo artist.

Deer - Alive
From Mexico but based in Hong Kong, this is the new single, out last week.

Me Lost Me - Eyes And Ohs
Electro-folk from Newcastle artist Jayne Dent. Crowdfunding her debut album, it should be out in autumn.

Tim Carr - Take Me There
A new single from LA multi-instrumentalist Carr, out a couple of weeks ago.

Cocoa Futures - Circus
A new single from Greg Sanderson's project which is rather charming.

Engine - And I Say
Leeds band following up the extraordinary album Cucumber Water with this new single.

77:78 - Chilli
A side-project from Aaron Fletcher and Tim Parkin of The Bees. This is off the debut album Jellies.

The Fadeaways - It's A Crying Shame
Good old-fashioned rockabilly from Tokyo. The EP Dirty Water came out at the end of May.

The Wave Pictures - The Burnt Match
The new album, the first of two this year, Brushes With Happiness came out on Friday.

The Last Skeptik - Out Of Mind
The only track off the new album Under The Patio that sees Skeptik on his own. The other 14 all feature other artists in collaboration. It came out last week and is ace.

Night Giants - Resistor
A fourth track from the Leeds techno duo. We need a long player now.

Steve Cobby & Danielle Moore - Lefthanded Books
As the sun is out, a summery track from Cobby and Moore taken from the 2016 compilation Summer Riot V from Futureboogie records. Lush.

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18 June 2018

Let's face it, nobody was listening what with England kicking off at the same time.

Teleman - Cactus
A third album is coming in September, Family Of Aliens, which the band say is the result of a freer and more collaborative writing method. It does show in a way and this band go from strength to strength as a result.

Dave Dark & The Sharks - Spacetime Tours Inc
Welsh electronica, from Newport no less, and a new single.

L/F/D/M - Turning To Lime
A track from the album Death: An Introduction which came out in March.

The Body - Nothing Stirs
Terrific stuff from Portland, Oregon. The album is I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer which came out last month.

Perpacity - Telethon
Ian Harling and Martin Nyrup make up Perpacity despite being based in the UK and Denmark respectively. This is the second track from the forthcoming LP The Order Of Now, out in September.

Astral Skulls - Take It Away
From Melbourne, this is the flip side to the April single This Place.

Mourn - Barcelona City Tour
From Barcelona, this is off Sorpresa Familia which came out last Friday.

Flasher - Pressure
A trio from Washington DC with this taken from the LP Constant Image.

Mishka Shubaly - Animals
A terrific new LP from the New Yorker, two years in the making. When We Were Animals came out last month.

Geniuser - Epiphany
Danish, but now based in London, Geniuser's new album I Am has been crowdfunded and is out on the 22nd.

Vacances - Hearts
New Yorkers shifted to Europe for this, absorbing as much as possible on the way to create a new sound.

Los Blancos - Cadi
Welsh language stuff from Camarthen, this is off the new double-A which has Clarach on the other side. Out on Friday.

STNNNG - New National Anthem
Out in 2005 on the LP Dignified Sissy, this gets a shove from the band re NFL protests and Trumpian didacticism about it all.

Papernut Cambridge - New Forever
Off the new LP Outstairs Instairs which is out a week on Friday.

Castlebeat - Video Tape
More from New York, DIY goth-pop from Josh Hwang. The LP VHS came out in March.

Spray - Singing For England 2010
And as England are playing right now, here's Spray's wonderful record from the South African edition. Brilliant.

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4 June 2018

A packed show, so no messing. Let's get into it.

Alien Nosejob - Caffeine OD
These are from Clunes in Victoria, Australia and this comes off the 7" Death Of The Vinyl Boom. Superb.

Vulgarians - Of Humdrum Consumption
To Hull, and another band to make use of the production talents of Hookworms' MJ.

Lithics - Excuse Generator
Portland, Oregon, next. This is the lead track from the LP Mating Surfaces.

Swine Tax - Tory Water
Angry young people - and that's fair enough, I mean you've seen the state of things, right? - from Newcastle. This is off the EP This Is Not A Band.

Drahla - Twelve Divisions Of The Day
From the Come Play With Me stable, this is the Leeds outfit's new single, out on the 20th.

The Golden Age Of TV - Television
Also from Leeds and also from the CPWM stable.

Star Rover - Method Actor
The fourth single taken from the self-titled LP from the Edinburgh art-rockers. Far too good to ignore.

The Autumn Stones - Mandatory Love
A new single from the Toronto band which came out last week.

Vast Asteroid - Drown
An LA band, this is off the self-titled LP that came out at the back end of last year.

Glassmaps - My Heart, My Head
New single from Joel Stein, from Brighton and recorded in Eastern Germany.

Roy - Paranoid Feeling
Another one from Toronto and yet another self-titled LP.

Ora Iso - Wicked Gain
An utterly incredible cover of the Chris Isaak record Wicked Game which is a digital only bonus track from the LP Image Certifies that came out in April. They're from New York, albeit singer Kathleen Malay arrives via Indonesia and Australia.

Kamaal Williams - High Roller
Stunning stuff from Londoner Williams plus band. The LP The Return is a rich tapestry of new jazz sounds.

Sabres Of Paradise - Lick Wid Nit Wit
A track sort of rediscovered. Previously only available on a multi-artist compilation in the late '90s, it's now had a proper release. The vinyl has sold out - unsurprising - but still very available digitally. Brilliant.

Tom Dragebo - How Long
The title track to the EP from the Norwegian producer.

PIXSID - The Sea (Boomin' Dub mix)
Australian singer Marie Craven - aka Pixieguts - collaborated with musicians and producers from all over the world in creating the album I Sand which came out in 2011. A new video for this track prompts it's inclusion this week. That and it being a calming way to end the show.

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21 May 2018

Hello again.

Soft Science - I Don't Know Why I Love You
The flip side of the single Undone from the Californian syndicate is a House Of Love cover.

The Golden Dregs - What A Life, What A Waste
This is the project of Falmouth's Ben Woods with the album Lafayette out on Friday on SW label Art Is Hard.

Hearts & Rockets - Psychic Powers
Formerly Heat Wave, the now rebranded Melbournians have a split 7" out with city peers Piss Factory.

Breakfast Muff - Crocodile
The title track to the EP that came out last month from these cheeky Glaswegians.

Acid Dad - Marine
A track from the self-titled LP from the New Yorkers which came out in March.

Baywaves - 1954 Egyptian Drama
From a burgeoning Madrid underground scene come Baywaves with their EP It's Been Like which came out last week.

The Lovely Eggs - Big Sea
Lancaster married couple with another single from the This Is Eggland LP.

UkePunk - Susie Dent
Ramsbottom's premier ukulele-based punk outfit and friends of the show with their new single, out now, in tribute to everyone's favourite lexicographer.

Youth Man - Statuesque
From Birmingham, this is off the EP Five Songs which contains.. err.... five songs.

Drenge - This Dance
The Loveless brothers a back after a small hiatus and after their Grand Reopening tour have put out this new single.

Slowcoaches - Found Down
New single from the London punk trio.

The Jack Cades - Identity Crisis
Old-fashioned garage rock from Elsa and Mike Whittaker from Warwick. The album Music For Children came out last Friday.

Gabe Gurnsey - Ultra Clear Sound
Half of Factory Floor with a solo record that's very different to that. The album Physical is out in August.

InfraGhosts - Phantom Pain
Melbourne's Laura Davis is InfraGhosts and this single came out in March.

The Lucid Dream - SX1000
Something a bit different from Carlisle's Lucid Dream. They've recently completed their 4th album and this is the first single from it.

Istanbul Hippodrome - Atomised
Stunning stuff from the Folkestone band about whom I'd learn more if Facebook wasn't utter turd.

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14 May 2018

A proliferation of exclamation marks this week. Apologies.

Parquet Courts - Almost Had To Start A Fight/In & Out Of Patience
Proper slacker rock off the new one Wide Awake!

Wax Chattels - In My Mouth
'Guitarless guitar rock' from Auckland trio Wax Chattels off their self-titled debut album.

WomenSaid - I Killed My Boy
Glaswegian band featuring alumni of Altered Images. This is off Majick!, out now.

Shriekback - And The Rain
Off their 14th studio album Why Anything? Why This?

RF Shannon - Tooth Ache
One of those bands that sounds like it's a person. These are from Lockhart, Texas, and this is off Trickster Blues.

Emlyn Johnson - Slippin' & Slidin'
One from last autumn that I've only just come across. Johnson is from Fremantle, Western Australia, and this off the mini-album/EP (8 tracks, probably too many for an EP) Contested Mark which came out last September.

Sara Renberg - Roger Miller Baby
Renberg is from Pittsburgh and this is off Night Sands which came out in February.

Nat Lyon - The New Economy
A new one from friend of the show Lyon off his new LP Slant Front Desk. Top stuff.

Featured album: Benjamin Mason - Oi! Rapscallion
Final War Of The Inevitable Barbie
A Residue Of The Great Computer Crash
The word 'rapscallion' is grossly underused. Pembroke singer-songwriter Mason has crafted a varied LP with instrumentals sitting alongside folkish post punk, found sounds and dub. Eclectic to say the least, and all good.

Michael Jablonka - Flump
I don't think this is about either the TV show or the marshmallows, but I like it anyway.

Klammer - Modern God
New track from the Leeds post-punkers ahead of their third LP which is due in June.

Fat Cops - Hands Up! Get Down!
Got nothing on these. Bloody marvellous track.

Eva Schlegel - FOH (Fuck Outta Here)
From St Petersburg, and another one from last autumn that I've only become aware of lately. This is off Demontage Of Heck - great title and a superb album.

Orbital - Tiny Foldable Cities
New Orbital! Huzzah! And a new album, Monsters Exist, to follow. What a time it is to be alive.

Sir Robert Orange Peel - Am I Looking Forward To The World Cup? (Put A Bag On Your Head)
There'll be no official World Cup song for England, so I move that this stands in. Absolutely terrific. An unusual take on the genre by the enigmatic producer, as you would expect.

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That was fun. Let's do it again some time.

30 April 2018

Let's crack straight on

Ye Nuns - Shut Up
I've been aware of these for some time, an all-female tribute to The Monks - the GIs based in Germany who made garage rock back in the early 60s. I don't normally go for tribute acts, but these are exceptional.

Bizarre - Barcode Warrior
Estonian shoegaze, a long-awaited third album made up of tracks recorded in 1997 and '98. Necro is out on June 4.

Kagoule - Bad Saliva
New one from the forthcoming LP Strange Entertainment, their first release for new label Alcopop!

Plaza - In The Know
From Hartlepool, these.

Modern Day Dukes - Tourist
The latest single from the Sheffield/Leeds noisemakers.

The Plainviews - Bladerunner
Featuring two of Idles and one of The St Pierre Snake Invasion, this is terrific. The EP A Million Different Ways Of Saying Nothing was recorded a couple of years ago, but in true DIY fashion, life got in the way and only now have they found time for a release. Worth the wait.

Don Gonzo - Worship The Breeze
Don Gonzo - Quit Ya Job (recorded live at The Parish)
A couple of tracks from our friends Don Gonzo. The former is the new single and they're playing Northern Quarter soon. Check your local listings.

Doe Pickle - Company Man
Also from Huddersfield and also friends of the show, this is off last year's Butty Time EP.

Crooked Teeth - Mountain Song
New single from the electro-poppers from Glasgow but now based in that London.

Ay Wing - Strange
More of that sort of thing by Berlin-based Swede Ay Wing off her forthcoming Ice Cream Dream EP,

Ennor - Wave After Wave
Cornwall folk-rock now.

Those Unfortunates - Hornsey Automatic FC
Following the Two Songs About Buses EP comes Two Songs About Football.

In Her Eye - Closer To Me
From Milan, this is off the album Change out on June 1.

Cup - Magic Planet
Cup is New Yorker Tym Wojcik and this is off the new album Jitter Visions.

I Can, I Can't - Gravity
And finally, a duo from Worcester with a track from the EP Let Me Die which came out 10 days ago.

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23 April 2018

More new songs for you.

The Left Outsides - All That Remains
A husband and wife duo from London, this is the title track to the new LP out on May 21.

Heart Beach - Perfect
From Hobart but now based in Montreal, this is off Haircut which came out last November.

Soft Science - Sooner
From Sacramento in California, this is off their forthcoming double-A single which is out in May.

MNNQNS - If Only They Could
I presume it's pronounced 'mannequins' but given the Only Connect missing vowels treatment. They're a four-piece from Rouen and this is off the EP Advertisement, out now.

Half Man Half Biscuit - Alehouse Futsal
NEW HMHB KLAXON!!! The new album No-one Cares About Your Artistic Hub So Get Your Fucking Hedge Cut. Out on 18 May, age has not withered them. Indeed, they appear to be as sharply acerbic as ever.

La Luz - California Finally
A four-piece from Seattle, this is off Floating Features which is out on May 11.

Andrew Hung - Say What You Want
The other half of Fuck Buttons to Benjamin John Power who has been recording as Blanck Mass. This is very different to Power's solo work which is more in keeping with the Fuck Buttons ethos. The album is Realisationship which came out last autumn.

Teleman - Submarine Life
New track from the acclaimed and innovative band who continue to push abstract digital pop boundaries.

Poptone - Go!
From LA, formed by ex-Bauhaus members Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, this is off their self-titled LP which is out in June.

Black Sedan - Love On Love
Heavily sampling the Charlie Chaplin flick The Great Dictator, this is the new single which will appear on the LP Adventure Lit Their Star which is out in June.

Slug - No Heavy Petting
A new one from Ian Black, ex of Fieldmusic. HiggledyPiggledy is the new LP, out a week ago.

Faithful Johannes - Ghosts In My Attic
Half of barely rap duo Outside Your House with his first non-christmas solo work. A two-track collection, Breakfast Included, is out now.

BBXO - Firestorm
Brilliant second track from Berlin-based Londoner Musa Okwonga and producer Krisz Kreuzer.

Jigsaw Sequence - Beyond The Veil
Scotsman Richard Tracey is Jigsaw Sequence and this is his new single.

Rodney Cromwell - Comrades
Lead track from the brilliant new EP Rodney's English Disco. Indietronica, he call it.

Public Service Broadcasting - People Will Always Need Coal (Vessels Remix)
Saturday was record shop day and PSB's contribution was a series of remixes from their Every Valley album. Vessels are a firm house favourite and theirs is undoubtedly the pick of the bunch.

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16 April 2018

Evenin'

Christian Fitness - Hamsterland
A fifth slab of Andy Falkous's side project. Nuance - The Musical is out now.

His Electro Blue Voice - Scum Rat
Italian noise off the album Mental Hoop which came out in November last year.

Blade Of Grass - Looks So Good
These are from LA and this is their latest single.

Louise Distras - Land Of Dope And Glory
A new track from the forthcoming, crowdfunded second album.

Purple Heart Parade - Painting Pictures
Bit of Manc shoegaze now, a track from the album A Minutes Silence At Weatherfield County.

Wilko Johnson - Marijuana
His first album of new material in 30 years, Blow Your Mind is out in June.

Doc & The Headshrinkers - If There Wasn't Any Sinners, The Saints Wouldn't Look So Good
And ore good old-fashioned rock n roll from West Wales. This came out as a single last summer and features on teh new LP Crashland.

Missile Society - River
Another track from the Watford/New York trans-Atlantic partnership that is Missile Society, taken from the album The Walk Back Home.

The Jjohns - So Alone
You only pronounce one J, I'm told. They're from Liverpool, none of them are called John - or Jjohn - and this is their new single, very much in a La's vein.

John Dredge & The Plinths - Learn To Ignore
Kind of a supergroup, really. This is off the EP The Emergency which came out in January.

Baker Island - Always, 1995
To Newcastle now and a track from the album Restless Legs which came out last summer.

April Towers - Tel Aviv
Nottingham duo with a track from the much-anticipated debut album Certified Freaky.

High Rise Finale - Actions
A new track from the Barnsley synth-pop artists.

Computer Magic - Perfect Game
New Yorker Danielle Johnson - aka Danz - with a track off the LP Danz which came out in February.

Dementio13 - Cortex Fault
Another EP snuck out by friend of the show Paul Foster. 78 is available now.

TVAM - Psychic Data
A new track from Wiganer Joe Oxley's TVAM persona. Top notch.

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9 April 2018

Back refreshed and with the return of the featured album section.

Flies On You - Can You Smell That Burning Noise
But we start on a sad note. I bloody love Flies On You, so it was with tremendous sadness that I read of the death of Andrew Watkins at the age of 50. Along with Doug Aikman, they made some ruddy marvellous music, so by way of tribute here's a track off their second album, etcetera.

Stella Diana - Lurine Rae
Bit of shoegaze from Napoli now from the upcoming sixth studio LP, 57. DIY stuff, this is their second English-language LP.

Cocoa Futures - Sink In The Water
Recorded in the old Granada TV studios in Manchester, Scotsman Greg Sanderson and his band follow up their acclaimed Blue EP with this cracking new single.

The Room In The Wood - Magical Thinking
The title track of the new EP from the Liverpool outfit, out on the 20th.

Featured album: Nervous Twitch - I Won't Hide
Put Me Back Together
Look At You Now
Saw these at Northern Quarter on Saturday and they're chuffing great. Nothing beyond two and a half minutes ("that's prog for us" says lead singer and bassist Erin) for proper punk throwback vibes. I Won't Hide came out late last year on Odd Box. It's terrific. Go buy it.

Wedding - Hands In The Till
From Manchester via Berlin, Wedding are newly signed to Art Is Hard records and this is their first release for them.

Mollusc - Anxiety
So much good stuff coming out of Australia at the moment, and here's another brace. First, a duo from Melbourne with a track from their self-titled debut EP.

The Native Cats - Nixon Nevada
And thence to Hobart and a track from the album John Sharp Toro which came out in February.

The Spook School - I Only Dance When I Want To
Another brilliant track from the outstanding album Could It Be Different?

Featured album: Nervous Twitch - I Won't Hide

Torment Me

She's So Hip

They're from Leeds. They rock. Go seek them out.

Table Scraps - Lyin' Thru Yer Teeth

Trio from Birmingham, this is off the album Autonomy.

Concrete Knives - Gold Digger

From Caen in Normandy, this is from the album Our Hearts which came out in February.

Snapped Ankles - CIA Man (NSA Man Violation)

A reworking of an old Fugs track to reflect the modern threat to your privacy and democracy, the NSA. This came out as a 7" last month.

Giuseppe Leonardi - Jack Of All Trades

The title track of the Balearic styled EP from the young Viennese producer.

The Micronaut - Earlylate

Stefan Streck of Leipzig is The Micronaut and this is off the brilliant EP Contrast. Came out in February.

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26 March 2018

Good evening. Some proper good stuff tonight.

Nosebleed - Scratching Circles
Noisy herberts from Leeds with a track from the new LP Scratching Circles On The Dancefloor, out April 6.

Christian Fitness - Kill The Bored
New one from Andy Falkous's side-project. New album imminent.

Straight Arrows - Out And Down
From Sydney, this came out early in February on a double-A single with Franchisee on the flip.

Mr Shiraz - Step Up
Noisy herberts from Huddersfield with a track off last year's EP Mountains Of Kong.

Teen Creeps - Sidenote
Noisy Ghent herberts with a track from the new album Birthmarks.

Actors - L'Appel Du Vide
'The call of the void' to you. These herberts are from Vancouver and this is the lead track off the album It Will Come To You which is out now.

Air Formation - A.M.
Shoegazey krautrock from Bristol off the EP Near Miss which came out at the start of March.

Ski Saigon - Moon Enemy
Part of a compilation put together by their label, Bowl Cut records, marking their first anniversary. Dead Trim came out in February.

Mansion Of Snakes - Mating Season
A new one via Come Play With Me, the Leeds label doing so much good work in the area. MoS are from Leeds. Avant-jazz they call it. There aren't many labels would put something like this out. More power to them for it.

Philippe Petit & Friends - Black Dog
I don't really know what I think about this, but it is certainly different. Frenchman Petit seems to be based in Japan nowadays and this is off the second LP in this guise, On Top, which is out in May.

Cup - Cosmic Brain
And on the same Aagoo label as Petit comes this from New York City artist Tim Wojcik, aka CUP.  Taken from the the album Jittervisions.

Brijs - Jasmine
A cover of a Jai Paul demo by London artist Brijs.

Spray - Anthologised By Cherry Red
Due out in May, this is the new single from Ricardo Autobahn and Jenny McLaren of The Cuban Boys. Very clever and knowing.

Laurence Made Me Cry - The Sickness
Jo Whitby is LMMC and this track, out last Friday, is a musical expression of her recent strugles with mental health. It's also bloody gorgeous.

Cobby & Litten - Live Above Lightening
The Hull super-producer and poet from the same city combine once more on the new album £ Shop Communism. No previews. Just pay your 99p.

Night Giants - Here For Me
And finally, northern club smashers with a new cut.

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19 March 2017

Good evening

The Wave Pictures - Jim
The first track from the first of two albums to be released this year. Brushes With Happiness is out in June with Look Inside Your Heart due in October.

Olden Yolk - Cut To The Quick
From New York, this is off their self-titled debut LP which is out now.

Hookworms - Each Time We Pass
Another track from the third album Microshift.

Team Picture - (I Want Your) Life Hack
Off the mini-album from the Leeds six-piece, Recital.

Ennor - Farewell To Atlantis
Folk-rock from Cornwall now, their new single.

The Switching Yard - Get A Head
From Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, this is off their new 7" Johnny Hash.

Dose - Furniture
A debut track from the Newcastle band, recorded at Hookworms front man MJ's Suburban Home studio.

10 O'Clock Chemical - Babylon Is Fallen
Another debut single, this time from Stoke.

Soft Science - Undone
From California, this is off their upcoming double A single with a House Of Love cover on the reverse.

Coralcrown - Between The Lights
Luis Gotor is Coralcrown, and this is from his debut EP in the guise, Birth.

Missile Society - Armageddon
From the debut album The Walk Back Home, out last week. Recorded trans-Atlantically.

The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company
Back to Saskatchewan now for a bit of bluegrass. This originally appeared on the 2014 LP Good Company, but a re-release along with a quirky video late last year put them in the mainstream and the wider consciousness.

Evil Blizzard - Knock Knock Knock
Featured on a 10" single recently, but also making up part of the new album The Worst Show On Earth which is out in June.

Those Unfortunates - John Cronin Is Unwell
London chroniclers of the everyday with a track from the new 7" Two Songs About Buses out at the end of the month.

Bad Knaves - Times New Human
The title track from the EP by the Huddersfield band. Seen them live a couple of times and like them a lot.

Fontaines DC - Chequeless Reckless
A five-piece from Dublin this is off a double A single with Boys In The Better Land.

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12 March 2018

35 years sinec Blue Monday...

Brooders - Lie
New on the Come Play With Me singles club, from Leeds.

The Men That Will Not Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Baby Farmer
London steampunk veterans with a new LP, Double Negative.

Petbrick - Crack Baby
A side-project from one of those noisy buggers from Big Lad (formerly Shitwife).

Youth Man - I Don't Know
Birmingham band recently signed to Alcopop! records this is off their forthcoming EP.

Ms Mohammed - Pandora
A new single taken from her September EP Alibi, a message of female empowerment.

Indoor Pets - So Soon
Formerly Get Inuit, this is their first track from the Kentish band under the new name.

Shame - Friction
Another one from the Leeds band's album Songs Of Praise which will be among the best of 2018.

The Big Pink - Blue Monday
Orkestra Obsolete - Blue Monday
Two covers of the New Order banger which is 35 years old. First, a slower, darker, gloomier version from London electro-rockers then something made entirely on 1930s instruments including autoharps and theremins recorded for BBC Arts a couple of years ago.

Autobahn - The World Around You Is Fractured Somehow
A new single from the Leeds krautrockers following on from the critically acclaimed LP The Moral Crossing.

George the Poet & Maverick Sabre - Follow The Leader
And also featuring the vocals of Jorja Smith, terrific stuff from them all.

Epic Beard Men - Two Different Worlds
B Dolan and Sage Francis are those Epic Beard Men and this is off the new LP Season 1 which was released along with a browser based beat-em-up game where you take one of the guys and punch tiki-torch wielding Nazis. Great fun.

Vessels - PantherTek
Back to Leeds for a new track from the electronica masters.

The Night Programme - We Are Chaos
And also new from friend of the show Paul Foster off his new album Electrodad.

Cuban Boys - Lost Battle Of Brook Green/Rational Dress Society
As it was International Women's Day last week, a track from the album Machines about womens involvement in the industrial revolution and engineering more generally.

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5 March 2018

Good evening

Geowulf - Sunday
Australians in Europe - more of that later - Stark Kendrick and Toma Banjanin are old school friends from the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. Now they make music as Geowulf and their album Great Big Blue came out last month.

The Calls - Lost Art Of Romance
Leeds band kicking off their 2018 with this new single which came out a week and a bit ago.

IDestroy - Lemons
Bristol alt-punks with a track from their EP Pure Joy Of Life which is out this month.

I, Ludicrous - Ladytron
A tribute to Roxy Music who had a 45th anniversary recently.

Vandal Moon - Baby Sounds
Californian duo with the lead single from the new album Wild Insane which is due out soon.

Gang Of Four - Lucky
Leeds post-punk survivors - well, only one original member remains - this is off the EP Complicit which is out on April 13.

Gloria - Heavy feat. Arianna Monteverdi
New on Tjinder Singh's Ample Play label, these are from Lyon and is taken from the LP Oidophon Echorama which is out on Friday.

Dirty Laces - In Time
Mancunian 5-piece with a track from their debut EP The Modern Age which is out now.

The Creature Comfort - Alone By Your Side
A second single from another Manchester band. This is out a week on Friday.

Elegant Slims - Not Human
A debut record from New York City's finest new electro-pop outfit.

Nostalgist - Smoldering Amber
Adding to Seattle's pantheon come post-punkers Nostalgist. This is from the mini-LP Disaffection which is out on Good Friday.

Bonnacons Of Doom - Solus
Astonishing alternative stuff from Liverpool collective Bonnacons Of Doom. This is off their self-titled debut album which is out in May.

BBXO - Hard Road To Travel
Berlin producer Krisz Kreuzer and British-Ugandan poet Musa Okwonga - now based in Berlin - make up BBXO and this is their terrific debut single.

Sir Robert Orange Peel - Europeans In Australia
The enigmatic Sir Robert has a new LP coming soon. Snapchat is it and here's an early taster.

Night Giants - Don't Let It Happen
Brilliant debut single from new electronic dance act. More of this please. Lots more.

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26 February 2018

Good evening.

LA Salami - Jean Is Gone
A new track from the London singer/songwriter ahead of the release of his second LP, The City Of Bootmakers.

CTMF - Something's Missing Inside
The latest single to be taken from the Brand New Cage album.

Liines - Shallow
Onto their second bassist, but losing nothing in the process, here's the new single from the Manchester rockers.

Otherkin - React
Highly rated band from Dublin with a track from last year's album OK.

Catholic Action - Black & White
Also carving themselves a niche, these are from Glasgow and the LP In Memory Of came out in the autumn.

Vinyl Staircase - Cherry
Unashamedly 1960s garage revivalist stuff from Dorking in Surrey.

The Wrong Society - Tell Me You'll Be Mine
More garage rock, this time from Hamburg. This came out three weeks ago.

Mary & The Ram - The Cross
To my home city of York now for the new single from the goth-punk duo with production from the legendary John Fryer.

Autonomads - All Roads Lead To Hulme
Manchester ska-dub-punk from the EP All Quiet On The Western Front which came out a couple of weeks back.

Shame - Concrete
Highly-rated, by us and many others, London five-piece with a track from their debut long-player Songs Of Praise. Get on them now.

Insecure Men - Subaru Nights
Ex-Fat White Family man Saul Adamczewski and Ben Romans-Hopcraft are Insecure Men, but come from the total opposite angle. Their self-titled album came out last Friday.

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert - Cockcrow feat. Siobhan Wilson
Ex-Arab Strapper and Hubbert combine on a new LP, Here Lies The Body, which is due out in May.

MAFF - Hawaii
Some Chilean shoegaze now which a track from the forthcoming EP Melaniña, due out on April 2.

Sonny - The Town & The City feat. Russ Litten
Something that Hull poet Litten posted on his Twitter account. No idea about anything else regarding it.

Mark Pritchard - Come Let Us feat. Gregory Whitehead
British-born, but now based in Australia, Pritchard has taken Whitehead's radio art series Ziggurat - recorded back in 1985 - as the basis for this track from the LP The Four Worlds which is out on March 23.

Soothsayers - Dis & Dat (Steve Cobby remix)
The track Dis & Dat appears on the album Tradition which came out earlier this month, but this remix is available on the digital single.

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