CODEX SERAFINI 'THE IMPRECATION OF ANIMA' LP OUT JUNE 23RD

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Delighted to announce, the debut album from Codex Serafini is on the horizon. The limited vinyl LP will be released on June 23rd. 300 copies, all pressed on black vinyl and comes with a double sided card lyric insert.

"The Imprecation Of Anima" brings to the surface our shadows and what we're most afraid of. It talks about our inner thoughts that we're uncomfortable talking about, that makes the ego and our all existence crumble like sand. It also talks about courage and confronting your shadows and becoming a better version of yourself! It is indeed, a very unique journey that we all hope that you will enjoy as much as us when we made this record!"

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 'I AM SORROW, I AM LUST' BELOW

 

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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO UFO 'ACID MOTHERLY LOVE' 2LP OUT NOW

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At last, the final release in the first time on vinyl trilogy is ready to go!

'Acid Motherly Love' has taken WAY longer to get out than planned. I reckon i approved the test pressings a year ago, but we had a complete headache doing the artwork. The original CD artwork just wasn't scaleable up to the size/quality required for a vinyl edition so we eventually had to give up trying and come up with something new, which we're all happy with.

There are two variants of the album, there's a label exclusive 300 only transparent magneta coloured one, this also comes with a numbered OBI (wrap around spine style, provided cut and folded) There's also an independent record shops version, which is pressed on transparent orange vinyl. That one will be in shops/distros around May 26th. I will only have a small handful of that one for my own sales.

And lastly, as talked about many times over the past year, there is also a label exclusive two piece custom box set, made to house this release and the previous two 'Pink Lady Lemonade You're From Outer Space' & 'Myth Of The Love Electrique' inside ... however, they are NOT included of course!

PLEASE NOTE THE BOX SET IS NOW COMPLETELY SOLD OUT. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

The box set is only available with the label exclusive magenta edition of the album, and is only available to pre order for a limited period.

 

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MODOKI 'ATOM SPHERE' LP OUT NOW

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Power Trio featuring Mitsuru Tabata, Japanese underground rock guitarist, vocalist and composer (Zena Geva, Leningrad Blues Machine, Boredoms, 20 Guilders, Acid Mothers Temple), Mike Vest (Blown Out, Bong, Artifacts & Uranium, 11Paranoias, Drunk In Hell) & Dave Sneddon. Recorded, engineered and mixed Spring 2022 around Newcastle (UK) & Kodaira (Japan).

Power Trio to the Max.

Fluid bass and drums carries the wall of guitar delays from Tabata. Crushing improvised sonic leads.

Thanks Junzo Suzuki for his influence. https://weloveyoujunzo.bandcamp.com

'Free form one take instrumental rock, total power trio, improvised sonic lead guitars from the mind of Tabata'

'Hints of MC5, Stooges, Funkadelic.'

'Blistering oblivion guitars leads from Mitsuru,'

'Totally unapologetically lo-fi, scuzz fuzz rock, yet textured and nicely balanced under all the chaos and dirt.'

 

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ARTIFACTS & URANIUM 'THE GATELESS GATE' LP OUT NOW

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Following on from Artifacts & Uranium (2021) & Panscosmology (2022), 'The Gateless Gate' completes this trilogy of remote experimentation.

Two side long compositions, composed of Organs, Synths, Bass, Guitars, Drums, H-Delays and the Behringer Wasp.

Side A is laid back repetition, layered guitar ascending, tremolo organs and gated synths. That descends in to horror show choir and waster feedback guitars.

Side B starts a pastoral, Popol Vuh harmonic structure of accession. Viola drones balance assist the climb courtesy of Martin Ash. Transitions in to a later period AshRa, bass lines and higher stereo delayed guitar freak-outs.

Fred Laird - Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussive Guitars, Drums, Sun Gong, Mix and Production. Mike Vest - Bass, Synth, Lead Guitars and H- Delays. Martin Ash - Viola

Previous words ...

'Heavily involved in the underground experimental, psychedelic and lo-fi, kosmische and krautrock scenes. Their projects have produced music that is heavy dark, avant-garde with intense guitar solos but they also have explored ambient music with deep space chill sounds and meditative intention' (ThePsychRock.com)

'Adding a thick wall of sound approach with guitars washing across the Mix punctuated by electronics and grooving bass riffs. There are also a few ambient influenced tracks here where heavy use of echo and delay create a dense flowing landscape.' (The Ominous Drone)

 

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MAHTI 'MUSIIKKI 1' LP OUT NOW

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Delighted to announce the release of 'Musiikki 1', the debut by Finnish band MAHTI You'll know from the names involved, including CIRCLE pair Jussi Lehtisalo & Tomi Leppänen that we're in for some quality stuff, and we certainly are.

This is a tripped out, ambient-hypnotic ride. And this is only part one. 'Musiikki 2' is already at the pressing plant and will follow this one in June.

Limited edition one off pressing, 300 copies all pressed on transparent orange vinyl. Housed in a matt laminated full colour outer sleeve (just look at that gorgeous artwork!) with polylined inner bag.

Mahti are a Finnish four-piece group presenting a unique mixture of ambient-rock, electronic music and traditional Finnish-Karelian music. Lengthy semi-improvisational pieces are built on top of complex, hypnotic grooves which are layered with opaque guitars and strangely soothing noise elements. In the heart of it all there's kantele, an ancient Finnish string instrument played by Hannu Saha, who has studied Finnish folk music in theory and practice for nearly five decades.

The other players are Jussi Lehtisalo and Tomi Leppänen, who also form the rhythmic core of avant-rock group Circle, and psychiatrist Teemu Elo.

Strange dreams guaranteed!

 

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BLACK HELIUM 'UM' LP OUT NOW

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Beyond stoked to announce the third Black Helium album 'Um' is coming out on Riot Season (again) on March 3rd 2023

If you head over to the It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine website here, you can read all about it and watch the eye popping video for 'Summer Of Hair', it's a trip maaaaan.

If you liked their first two albums, this one will absolutely, not disappoint. As a fan first and foremost, this is (to my ears at least) their best yet. And that's from someone who absolutely loves their first two. From the moment I got the album sent to me sometime last year, it's not left my stereo. And to finally get it on vinyl and see the artwork full size, and that lovely purple vinyl ... oooo yeah!

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 'SUMMER OF HAIR' BELOW

 

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MACHIAVELLIAN ART ‘INDOCTRINATION SOUNDS’ LP OUT NOW

Check out the new via the Echoes And Dust website here

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At last! After almost 20 years of Riot Season, I finally get to put out a release by a 'local' band. Coming out on a limited black vinyl LP, with a very limited mail order only edition which comes with a bonus CDR featuring the album tracks and the tracks from the bands self titled debut (previously only available on a very limited cassette)

West Midlands five piece MACHIAVELLIAN ART follow up their self released and self titled cassette only album with their first release proper, 'Indoctrination Sounds' released February 24th via Riot Season Records.

A Maximalist blowout of Sax-honking Noise Rock, Doom Metal, Hardcore Punk, and Shoegaze, with Industrial Noise, Howls, Paranoid Rambles, and pure Disdain for oneself and the rest of you layered on top.

Indoctrination Sounds was conceived in various practice spaces in Digbeth throughout 2020 and 2021 and recorded at Ian Boult's Stuck On A Name Studios in Nottingham in the Summer of 2021, despite the best efforts of a global pandemic. Will Killingsworth mastered the record at Dead Air Studios.

MACHIAVELLIAN ART FREE ALBUM LAUNCH GIG SATURDAY 4TH MARCH ... NO SLEEP 'TIL WALSALL

Come and join us as MACHIAVELLIAN ART play a free in-store gig at Walsall's premiere record emporium Eclipse Records on Saturday 4th March to celebrate the release of their ‘Indoctrination Sounds’ album.

It's FREE, it opens at 7pm and it'll all be over by 10pm so plenty time to catch a train or bus back elsewhere (eg: Birmingham/Wolverhampton) Hope some of you can make it. And please do share the event if you can x

The band are also planning more UK shows and i will update as and when they're confirmed. 

March 1st Birmingham Hare & Hounds, with Outlander & Spits Milk (link)

March 3rd Leeds Ask A Punk, with Votiv and Ona Snop (link)

March 4th Walsall Eclipse Records In-store, Free Album Launch (link)

March 17th Nottingham Stuck On A Name, with Sofftness, Bloody Head, and Olanza

WATCH THE (AMAZING!) 'WATCH THEM CRAWL' VIDEO BELOW. DIRECTED BY ANDREW NORTHROP

 

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BRUXA MARIA 'BUILD YOURSELF A SHRINE AND PRAY' LP OUT NOW

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Delighted to be releasing the third BRUXA MARIA album 'Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray' album this month. January 27th to be precise. Limited to 300 copies ALL pressed on 'dread' black vinyl and with three double sided A4 inserts.

'Bruxa Maria are back on their third full length; be grateful. "Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray" is 45 minutes of pummelling, punishing fury as unrelenting and all-consuming as your anger at coming up short for the rent.

The new record finds the band just as enraged as their 2016 debut, while continuing to evolve artistically. Bruxa Maria's huge bass and guitar, frantic drums, and banshee shrieking vocals build tension with few moments of release, the frenzy sometimes dissolving into feedback, static, and synth drones.

Often the riffs have a swagger that makes you want to dance, and in a few places there are flashes of some genuinely pretty melodies and hooks. Those moments all shine through for just an instant before being shredded by the noise and wrath, torn apart flower petals under a line of razor wire.

This is dark music about and against a darkening world, where anger and art are crucial to how we keep on keeping on. You can call it now, this is going to be the best record of 2023.'

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 'GOD GUN SCRUPLES' BELOW

 

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 'DANCE LIKE VASILI' BELOW

 

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FALLING FLOORS 'FALLING FLOORS' DEBUT LP OUT NOW

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Delighted to announce the self titled debut album from UK trio FALLING FLOORS

Falling Floors is a psych-rock three piece, formed in the pandemic out of a desire for distraction from dark times and an unending stream of shit news (seriously, what the fuck is going on?) There's no master plan, no grand ambition, no product-market fit, just a shared love of 60s psych, 70s rock, and the fearless, genre-less experimentation of Krautrock and early prog to get us through.

Riding the trans-Pennine underground (up the hill and out of the crags, down there, you know?), you can hear magical sounds coming out of the Valley. On a cold and wet Calderdale winter, the band recorded their self-titled first album, DIY, live, in two days in Hebden Bridge. Rawness not perfection and feel over finesse were the aims. This album, a trans-Atlantic joint release by Riot Season (UK) and Echodelick (US), lives by slips, fuck-ups, and simple, joyous expression.

Falling Floors is Rob Herian (ex-feral stoner rockers Early Mammal) on guitar and vocals, Harry Wheeler (no ravers The Family Elan) on bass and keys, and Colin Greenwood (ex-shoegaze folk rockers No Sorrows) on drums. It's no one's project, and no one's in charge. But there's enough in common to keep it honest.

The album, will be co released with US label Echodelick Records once again (as with the recent Mienakunaru LP) so folks over that side of the pond can grab it from Jeff when the pre sale begins (Nov 4th) should you wish to save yourself some postage/shipping costs

I hope you'll take a listen and fingers crossed you'll like what you hear.

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ALBUM TRACK RIDICULOUS MAN BELOW

 

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NEW LABEL SHIRTS AVAILABLE NOW

Happy to say a new version of the 'lumbering mammoth' t-shirt from some years ago is now back in print. The front features a tidied up version of the mammoth logo with the 'moving at 33rpm since fuck knows when' phrase and the back features the classic tanks logo and 'forged in the Black Country, England' below it.

The Black Country being the region of the Midlands that I come from.

The shirt comes in two colour variants, a fancy chocolate brown shirt with cream front and back prints, and a classic black shirt with white front and back prints. Both are pro screen printed here in the UK, it's no cheap transfer tat!

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MIENAKUNARU ‘STRATO ARCOLOGY’ LP OUT NOW!

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Riot Season and Echodelick Records present the third installment from the power trio Mienakunaru. Two compositions of noise rock, psychedelia, improvisation and experimentation. Inspired by strato-scraper arcologies and living within a post-nuclear megalopolis. Mienakunaru create a space punk soundscape that captures the zeitgeist of a future dystopian world!

Junzo Susuki - Guitars , Mike Vest - Bass & Mix & Dave Sneddon - Drums  

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SHIT AND SHINE 'LADYBIRD' 2022 REMASTERED DIRTY WHITE VINYL LP OUT NOW

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17th anniversary remaster. New sleeve artwork with photos by Steve Gullick and pressed on dirty white vinyl.

Ladybird ... one perfect heavy as fuck hypnotic riff played over and over and over and over across 2 sides of an LP.

Back when Shit And Shine formed, the idea was basically to sound like their heroes DRUNKS WITH GUNS and STRANGULATED BEATOFFS, using that same basic formula. A big dumb ass catchy riff played over and over until the joke gets old ... then keep going.

Recorded live at Southern Studios, London (fun fact: the same room where BAUHAUS recorded 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'!) in 2004 with just two basses, a snare drum, a huge cardboard box and a tiny toy Casio sa-1 keyboard (using the "airplane" sound hitting the same key over and over for 41 minutes)

Some still say it's the best thing shit and shine has ever done. I'm not arguing.

Originally released on CD, and super limited vinyl waaay back in 2005. This was Shit And Shine's second release and it sold out REAL quick.

Remastered and beefed the hell up by Craig Clouse at Shit And Shine Ranch 2022.