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Wire – 154
154 from 1979 finds Wire moving away from its punk roots toward darker, more experimental horizons. There is less overt anger and insolence than in the past, and in its place is plenty of dark weirdness. truly disturbing at certain points, this album is a challenging listen. Beginning with the sinister I...
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Wire - Chairs Missing
"1978's Chairs Missing represented perhaps the biggest conceptual leap made during this period of Wire and was widely misunderstood at the time yet it remains, to the band and production crew Wire's favorite '70s album. If Pink Flag proposed an almost cut and paste approach to deconstructing rock history, Chairs Missing proposed something more radical, a...
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Simon Reynolds - Totally Wired
From Simon Reynolds, the author of the bestselling post-punk history Rip It Up and Start Again comes a formidable companion book of conversations.Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews features 32 interviews with the post-punk era's most innovative musicians and colourful personalities including Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne and Edwyn Collins,...
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XTC - Drums And Wires (Steven Wilson Mix)
Presenting Steven Wilson’s celebrated mix of Drums And Wires, XTC’s classic third album, on vinyl for the first time and as a new CD+Blu-ray edition. One of the gems of the post-punk era, replete with the sort of musical diversity that would have been unimaginable two years earlier, Swindon’s finest, XTC,...
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MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
MJ Lenderman is a songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin’ a cold one with some buds; a voice reminiscent of the high-lonesome warble of a choirboy. Songs snake their way...
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Dropper - Be A Little Kinder (CD)
Be A Little Kinder draws on the feeling of hopelessness, confusion and being stuck in unhealthy thought patterns, “It's angry and frustrated, masked behind happier melodies”, says guitarist and lead vocalist Jude Savage. Across the album’s eleven tracks, Dropper showcases their ability to take pop melodies and polished songwriting and...
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The Pixies - Bossanova
This classic album is available on vinyl for the first time in years. Pressed on audiophile quality 180-gram vinyl. “Bossanova” has scanned over 253K RTD. Track Listing: SIDE A: Cecilia Ann Rock Music Velouria Allison Is She Weird Ana All Over The World Dig For Fire Down To The Well The...
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Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material (2025 Remaster - Expanded Edition)
Stiff Little Fingers iconic debut ‘Inflammable Material’ was one of the most important records of its era. Originally released in 1979 at the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the album depicted volatile life in Belfast at the time and was met with critical acclaim.2xLP Black Vinyl 2xCD Softpak...
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Sarah Davachi - Let Night Come On Bells End the Day
Sarah Davachi’s fifth album, originally released in 2018 was Number 6 in The Wire magazine's Top 50 releases of that year. Comprising a collection of hours for the evening with mellotron, electric organ, piano, and synthesizer. O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. Electric green and red tears.LIMITED...
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The Fall - A Part Of America Therein 1981
"From the riot torn streets of Manchester, England to the scenic sewers of Chicago" begins the hoarse American MC introducing The Fall to an audience of appreciative, but probably confused, stateside audience. Of the early live albums, A Part of America Therein 1981 might be one of their best. The...
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Skeptics - Amalgam (CD)
FN146 Skeptics - Amalgam (1990) The Skeptics were a post-punk noise band from Palmerston North, New Zealand active from 1979-1990. During their existence as a band they released 4 albums, an EP and 10" single before the band disbanded in 1990. While working on Amalgam in 1989, David D'Ath learned that he...
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Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking
Manic Street Preachers have released details of their fifteenth studio album ‘Critical Thinking’. Initially inspired by a line from the poet Anne Sexton ("I am a collection of dismantled almosts"), ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ contrasts a fearful midlife nostalgia - one in which the writer longs to “keep the curtains drawn all...
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Autechre - Draft 7.30
Draft 7.30 is the latest of two new Autechre reissues from Warp Records alongside Confield. Draft 7.30 was originally released on April 7, 2003 and here's what The Wire magazine thought......"A feast of buried treasure, a flickerframe parade which continually offers up magical fragments of sound, revelatory and transitory in...
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Trendees - Barmaid
What Lies Beneath announces our second vinyl release for 2023 This time it’s a reissue of sorts … originally released as a cassingle on Melbourne label Alberts Basement in 2017, Oamaru’s Trendees ‘Barmaid’ re-emerges - on vinyl – six years later with a different sleeve and extra track. In Fördämning 14, Matthias Andersson wrote, ‘Blown-out and...
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Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits
2009 UK expanded edition of this classic collection from the acclaimed singer songwriter includes five additional tracks. For four decades, Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose body of work achieves greater depths of mystery and meaning as time...
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PJ Harvey – Let England Shake - Demos
Collection of unreleased demos of tracks written for the eighth PJ Harvey studio album Let England Shake, including demos of ‘The Words That Maketh Murder’, ‘The Glorious Land’ and ‘The Last Living Rose’. Features brand new artwork – the cover is a drawing by Polly, and the package also includes previously unseen...
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WHAT WAS THAT THING? WATCH MACHO MACHO PERFORM 'COMFORT II' LIVE
This week we have a return from Macho Macho, four lads from Te Whanganui-a-Tara specialising in tight spiky post-punk motorik jams. This one continues the theme of classics like Television, Wire and Gang of Four - mixed in with a bit of classic Nun or Parquet Courts. If you like that stuff then this band is for you.
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WHAT WAS THAT THING? WATCH MACHO MACHO PERFORM 'NEW INBETWEEN' LIVE
What Was that Thing is Back for 2023. Now live from the new Flying Nun Records store in Cuba St, Wellington. First up we have Macho Macho, four lads from Te Whanganui-a-Tara specialising in tight spiky post-punk motorik jams. If you like the classics, like Wire, Gang of Four or...
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Kee Avil - Spine
Kee Avil’s music is both adventurous and intimate, intellectually challenging and emotionally resonant. The Montréal guitarist and producer’s 2022 debut LP Crease garnered plaudits from outlets like The Wire, The Quietus, Mojo and Foxy Digitalis, picking up a Canadian Juno Award nomination and Bandcamp Album Of The Day and Albums...
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Zonal – Wrecked (Vinyl)
The latest full-length release for the electronic duo of Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin features a guest appearance from Moor Mother. Sonically and conceptually, Wrecked is a more mature work than Techno Animal's last LP, the rowdy, energetic The Brotherhood Of The Bomb. Most significantly, they have the monolithic voice...
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Cranes - Fuse
The second in a series of archive releases by Cranes, Fuse was recorded in Portsmouth, their home town by siblings Alison and Jim Shaw. It originally appeared as a cassette album in 1986 on the Bite Back! label. With an initial run of only 200 copies, over the years this album,...
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Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe - Lateral
Brian Eno is a legendary musician, producer, visual artist and activist who first came to international prominence in the early '70s as a founding member of the British band Roxy Music, followed by a series of solo albums, collaborations, and production work with artists such as David Bowie, Talking Heads,...
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Tom Lark - Brave Star
BRAVE STAR is the debut full-length album from Tom Lark, marking his return after a seven year hiatus. Shaped in equal parts by the confronting vulnerability of John Lennon, and the troubled braggadocio of spaghetti westerns, the songs on Brave Star are dreamy, well-penned psychedelic folk with a philosophical bent....
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The Story Of This Sporting Life's 1982 Album, 'Show Me To The Bellrope'
Original photo by Carol Tippet This Sporting Life: Show Me To The Bellrope 12" LP | 1982 This Sporting Life had its beginnings as a couple of misfit guys growing up on Auckland’s North Shore in the late 1970s. "Misfit" because they were outsiders disinterested in rugby or other traditional aspects of ‘middle...
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Sonic Youth – Sister
One of Sonic Youth's most beloved albums, 1987's Sister incorporated the dissonance of their earlier releases into more traditional song structures. It's an innovative and thrilling work assuredly delivered by a band at the peak of their powers. Sonic Youth formed in 1981 in New York. Founding members Thurston Moore...
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Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe - Luminal
Brian Eno is a legendary musician, producer, visual artist and activist who first came to international prominence in the early '70s as a founding member of the British band Roxy Music, followed by a series of solo albums, collaborations, and production work with artists such as David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo,...
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ALBUM REVIEW | WU-LU - LOGGERHEAD
Original photo by Machine Operated. To be honest, I had some real problems writing this review. How do you encapsulate an album that traverses ultra-marathon levels of ground? An album that refuses convention and is highly individual... Wu-Lu, real name Miles Roman-Hopcraft, says it himself when speaking about the album...
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BEAUTIFUL THINGS SELECTIONS: TOM LARK, ROBERT SCOTT, EARTHEATER, KÉDU CARLÖ, BLEEDING STAR AND MORE!
TOM LARK — PHOTO SUPPLIED / WORDS BY CARLA CAMILLERI / LOGO BY ZOE HANNAY TOM LARK — 'LIVE WIRES' I am absolutely loving Tom Lark’s return — his songwriting chops never seem to falter, delivering sweet melodies that always hit the spot. ‘Live Wires’ is the latest reveal from...
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Tall Dwarfs - Weeville (CD)
FN166 Tall Dwarfs - Weeville (1990) As the opening liner notes proclaim, Weeville is "the first straightforward LP by Tall Dwarfs - uh...in terms of having the same number of tracks on each side -- both of which play at the same speed and which ain't a compilation." Nonetheless, their 1990...
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Adam Hattaway & The Haunters — Hot Variety LP
Hot Variety is the seventh full-length release from Adam Hattaway & The Haunters and it might be their most immediate, unfiltered record yet. Recorded entirely to tape across three sessions over three years, Hot Variety is a fully analog affair. The arrangements are lean, the sonics dry and intimate, and...
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Egyptian Blue - A Living Commodity
Every element of Egyptian Blue’s fierce, uncompromising sound feels like hypnotism fuelled by psychosis. Their grinding riffs achieve a mesmeric power through brute repetition, while their rhythm section produces taut, nervous energy and intense post-punk grooves in equal measure.Following on from their incendiary debut E.P.’s; 2019’s ‘Collateral Damage’ & 2020’s...
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Bill Kopp - Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave
In the late ‘70s and early to mid 1980s, San Francisco was a creative incubator, bringing forth all manner of new music acts. Ground zero for the scene was the Mabuhay Gardens, home to huge barrels of popcorn, once-a-week spaghetti nights, colorful emcee Dirk Dirksen, and punk/new wave bands from...
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FEATURES REISSUE LP AND 'CITY SCENES' VIDEO
Flying Nun are very pleased to announce the release of the Features X-Features on LP. There is also a great video for lead track 'City Scenes' which features plenty of great old footage from around Auckland in the early 1980s. The Features, perhaps more than anybody, were the band that...
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Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit (10th Anniversary Ed)
May 19 marks 10 years of Sleaford Mods seminal album, Divide And Exit.Allying strong words and minimal electronics, Sleaford Mods’ second ‘proper’ album (or sixth if you go back through the early CD-R efforts) the self-released Divide And Exit was not only Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s most effective artistic...
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Tom Waits – Franks Wild Years
Originally released in 1987 on Island Records, Franks Wild Years is Tom Waits’ 10th studio album. Titled for a play of the same name and authored by Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, Franks Wild Years was performed by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1986. Franks Wild Years is an...
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Lifeguard - Ripped and Torn
Chicago's Lifeguard release their debut album, Ripped and Torn. The youthful trio of Asher Case, Isaac Lowenstein, and Kai Slater have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a quarter of their lives. Noisy and immediate, cryptic but heartfelt, they draw inspiration from punk, dub, power-pop...
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Water From Your Eyes - It’s a Beautiful Place
In the time since 2023’s Everyone’s Crushed, Water From Your Eyes' Matador debut and critical breakout – which appeared in end of year lists by The New York Times, The Guardian, Pitchfork, NME, Vogue, Wired and Rolling Stone – Rachel Brown and Nate Amos have become a pillar of the...
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Alastair Galbraith - Talisman
"Talisman" is Alastair Galbraith's seminal work, originally released on CD in 1995 on his own label, 'Next Best Way.' Otic proudly presents the first-ever vinyl reissue, featuring guest appearances by Nigel Bunn, Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits, The Weeds, Bored Games, The Doublehappys), and David Mitchell (Goblin Mix, Plagal Grind, 3Ds).Alastair...
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REB FOUNTAIN RELEASES NEW SINGLE 'LACUNA' & ANNOUNCES NEW ZEALAND 'IRIS' TOUR
Reb Fountain’s 'Lacuna' is anthemic, poetic and rocking. "Less musician more a force of nature,” (Ambient Light), Reb’s single 'Lacuna' is sound evidence that IRIS captures the qualities of Reb’s enigmatic live performance and songwriting prowess in album form. Her rhythm section - Karin Canzek & Earl Robertson - form the backbone of of the song's landscape, illuminated by the expert production of Dave Khan & Simon Gooding,...
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FLYING NUN RECORDS YEAR IN REVIEW 2015
The end of the year is nigh, and it is the time where we get all reflective on what has happened. We thought it best to document these reflections, and to start us off we reflected back on the year for our good friends and label buddies - Flying Nun Records. It's like...
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VA - In The Light Of Time: UK Post-Rock & Leftfield Pop
In the early 90s, a number of bands exploring the daring side of guitar pop and rock started to emerge in the UK. Most were new, some included members of 80s groups looking for new directions. They were supported by established independent labels such as Rough Trade and 4AD/Guernica and...
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ROUGH PEEL MUSIC: RISING FROM THE RUBBLE
Photo: Ben Howe. When Paul Huggins first started out in music retail in 2006, managing Christchurch’s Real Groovy store, vinyl was not yet his main source of income. In those days, the sale of CDs was much more lucrative. Nonetheless, things were going well, and Paul bought the Real Groovy...
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Kurt Vile - (watch my moves)
Since his earliest self-produced CD-Rs, the psych-pop master Kurt Vile has referred to himself as "Philly's Constant Hitmaker"—and while he gave himself that name with a sly wink, he was also nodding toward the songwriting prowess that would result in him becoming one of his home city's most celebrated rock...
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Sonic Youth - Hold That Tiger
In October 1987, four months after the release of their critically acclaimed Sister LP, Sonic Youth showcased their latest work in a blistering set at Cabaret Metro, Chicago. The concert was introduced by Big Black’s Steve Albini and subsequently released as a semi-official bootleg under the title Hold That Tiger on...
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Nocturnal Projections – Complete Studio Recordings
Formed in Stratford, near New Plymouth, New Zealand in 1981, Nocturnal Projections was the explosive project of legendary and prolific brothers Graeme and Peter Jefferies (who would later form This Kind of Punishment before launching their solo careers), who along with friends Brett Jones and Gordon Rutherford, created some of...
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THE STORY OF THE BIRD NEST ROYS
Liner notes for Me Want Me Get Me Need Me Have Me Love by Bird Nest Roys' Big Ross. We got together for the first time after many years for my wedding. As soon as we began to play I remembered something I had forgot about - we had a sound, a...
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Misha Marks, Gustavo Nandayapa & Jeff Henderson - Campechanos
iiii Records is excited to release the first volume of a series of collaborations between musicians from Aotearoa New Zealand and Cuidad de Mexico. Campechanos features the first time musical collaboration of Mexico City dwellers Gustavo Nandayapa and Misha Marks with Auckland, NZ based Jeff Henderson in live performance at...
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JAY CLARKSON: PRESENT, PAST AND ARCHIVAL PHOTOS
What musical things have you been up to lately? I hear you have quite a few releases planned for this year? That’s right, we’ve been recording - Jay Clarkson & The Containers, that is. What with the whole Covid thing there weren’t many gigs last year and in Levels 4...
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EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC'S EARLY DAYS: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF FLYING NUN, XPRESSWAY AND MORE
Growing up in small town Ngaruawahia in the 1980s, the radio was my closest ally. From about the age of five I would leave my little radio running all night, tuned low. I’m sure these subliminal frequencies have played a significant part in the way my ears are tuned and...
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FLYING NUN'S STORY 40 YEARS ON: UNDERGROUND LABEL, NEARLY BANDS, OR SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY
At the dawn of the 1990s, Flying Nun seemed to be poised on the cusp of a worldwide breakthrough. The UK’s music press - NME and Sounds in particular - ran fawning reviews about these odd little bands from the far outskirts of New Zealand that made the most amazing...
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The Story Of Doug Hood
Simon Grigg, Roger Shepherd and Doug Hood. Photo by Murray Cammick. Today I am writing about a key behind-the-scenes Flying Nun-associated personality, rather than a record release by an artist. There have been a few important people associated with the label over the years helping to keep the thing alive...
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Little Dragon - New Me, Same Us
Little Dragon—the pioneering Swedish four-piece fronted by enigmatic vocalist Yukimi Nagano, with multi-instrumentalists Håkan Wirenstarnd and Fredrik Wallin on keyboards and bass respectively and Erik Bodin on drums and percussion — present their sixth album, New Me, Same Us repressed on blue curaçao vinyl for the first time since its...
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Wire - Pink Flag
Pink Flag is the debut studio album by English band Wire. It was released in November 1977, through Harvest Records. Though the album failed to chart on it's initial release, it has been widely acclaimed and is considered by critics and other commentators to have been highly influential on many...
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Wire - On Returning (1977-1979) (SECONDHAND CD)
Wire - On Returning (1977-1979) (SECONDHAND CD)
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Calexico - Feast of Wire (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Calexico's Feast Of Wire includes a bonus disc More Cowboys In Sweden (Live).Opener “Sunken Waltz” is a classic Calexico song, that has become one of the band’s most iconic fan favorites for a reason: every second of it feels like craftsman-level quality, to the...
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Calexico - Feast of Wire (2 x LP Bonus Track Version)
Opener “Sunken Waltz” is a classic Calexico song, that has become one of the band’s most iconic fan favorites for a reason: every second of it feels like craftsman-level quality, to the point where it doesn’t even seem like it’s under two-and-a-half minutes long, and many of these songs feel...
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XTC – Drums And Wires
If you aren’t familiar with the album called Drums and Wires by England’s XTC, you really should take the time to get to know it. If you like British rock, you need to know this. If you like progressive rock, you need to know this. If you like so called...
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The Jesus And Mary Chain - Barbed Wire Kisses (B-Sides And More) (SECOND HAND)
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Barbed Wire Kisses (B-Sides And More) (SECOND HAND)
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Paul Gorman - Totally Wired: The Rise & Fall of the Music Press
Totally Wired is the definitive story of the music press on both sides of the Atlantic, tracing its rise and fall from humble beginnings nearly 100 years ago. Along the way, this potent creative breeding ground for scores of writers, publishers, photographers, designers and music-makers tested the very limits of journalistic...
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Wilson Neate - Wire's Pink Flag
In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Wilson Neate's Wire's Pink Flag explores how, although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-commentary on the punk scene and was far more revolutionary...
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Kanye West - The College Dropout
The week this debut album came out, Kanye Wests' name was all over the Top 20s for his hit singles "Through the Wire," "Jesus Walks," "All Falls Down" and "Slow Jamz." What's even more remarkable is that this breakthrough came during his recovery from a car wreck that nearly took his...
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The Clean - Getaway
15th Anniversary Remastered Reissue. First-Ever Vinyl Pressing. Originally released in August of 2001, the double-LP reissue marks Getaway's first appearance on vinyl and includes an 18-song bonus CD that compiles the hard-to-find, tour-only releases Syd's Pink Wiring System and Slush Fund. Getaway maybe best illustrates whatever mercurial, inexplicable musical power animates...
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Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room (Reissue)
Songs From A Room is the second album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1969. Songs From A Room’s strongest moments convey a naked intimacy and fearless emotional honesty that’s every bit as powerful as the debut, and it left no doubt that Cohen was a major creative force in contemporary songwriting. The album was produced...
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FN142 Bailter Space - Thermos (1989)
TracklistFish EyeZero ReturnFusedThe StateEarth FedHard WiredAd ManSkinPresent
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XTC - White Music
200g vinyl LP The spiky debut album from XTC from 1978 is full of spasmodic rhythms, scuffed guitars, stuttering bass lines and spontaneous blurts of crocheting keyboards. It was both inventive and energetic and along with Wire and Talking Heads the essential art punk albums to own. Tracklist: Side A:1....
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The Fall - The Rough Trade Singles
The Rough Trade Singles collects The Fall's four singles recorded for this influential label in 1980 and 1983 – How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' / City Hobgoblins, Totally Wired / Putta Block, The Man Whose Head Expanded / Ludd Gang and Kicker Conspiracy – none of which appeared on any...
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Haim - Days Are Gone (10th Anniversary Edition)
First time to vinyl reissue treatment of HAIM’s 2013 chart-topping debut album Days Are Gone, in celebration of the 10th anniversary. Featuring the six singles, ‘Forever’, ‘Don’t Save Me’, ‘Falling’, ‘The Wire’, ‘If I Could Change Your Mind’ & ‘My Song 5’, the record hasn’t been reissued since its release...
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Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’ classic 1998 album on vinyl. The album won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.It features the songs “Can’t Let Go” and “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”.Available on limited yellow coloured vinyl. Tracklist:A1. Right In TimeA2. Car Wheels On A Gravel RoadA3. 2 Kool 2...
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Gary Numan - Telekon
Gary Numan's follow-up to the flawless The Pleasure Principle was 1980's Telekon. Although it was another mega-hit back home in England (his third consecutive number one album), Numan could not follow up his massive new wave hit "Cars" in the United States, where he was unjustly slapped with the one-hit-wonder...
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U2 – The Unforgettable Fire
U2's classic fourth album The Unforgettable Fire was produced by Brian Eno and launched their sound into a new very successful direction. Tracklist: 1 A Sort Of Homecoming 5:28 2 Pride (In The Name Of Love) 3:49 3 Wire 4:19 4 The Unforgettable Fire 4:55 5 Promenade 2:34 6 4th...
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Sokabe Keiichi & Inokasira Rangers - Anarchy In The UK / Longing For Andalusia 7"
Inokasira Rangers are known for bringing their own idiosyncratic dub and rootsy take on a whole world of classic source sounds from multiple different genres. Here they look to an iconic tune from The Sex Pistols and completely rework it into a slow and skating digital-dub framework then wire it...
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Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto – Vrioon
Vrioon is the debut collaboration album between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, released in 2002. This is the first album in the Virus Series followed by four other records: Insen (2005), Revep (2006), utp_ (2008), and Summvs (2011). The initial letters of the five albums together form the word "Virus".A...
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Audio-Technica LP60XBT Automatic Bluetooth Turntable
Audio-Technica boasts a long legacy of creating consumer turntables, but its latest models are looking to the future with the inclusion of wireless Bluetooth connectivity for cable-free listening.The AT-LP60XBT combines high-quality record playback with the convenience of wireless operation and is a great example of how turntables are being refreshed...
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Haim – Days Are Gone
Haim's Days Are Gone is great. Not only does it contain a handful of the most radio-friendly songs of the last few years ("Forever," "Falling") it packs in some fantastically crunchy R&B bangers as well. "My Song 5" is the sort of in-your-face female empowerment anthem Beyoncé would go jogging...
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Skeptics - Amalgam (Vinyl)
FN146 Skeptics - Amalgam (1990) The Skeptics were a post-punk noise band from Palmerston North, New Zealand active from 1979-1990. During their existence as a band they released 4 albums, an EP and 10" single before the band disbanded in 1990. While working on Amalgam in 1989, David D'Ath learned that he...
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AC/DC - High Voltage | Vinyl LP
The band’s international debut album High Voltage included tracks from their first two Australian albums. To honour AC/DC’s 50-year reign as the world’s greatest rock and roll band, the band’s catalogue will be available as gold coloured vinyl LPs. Each of these limited-edition LPs comes with an album-specific 12”x12” print...
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XTC - Skylarking
Single LP reissue with all 15 songs. The first 1980s versions didn’t include Dear God and after it was a hit, Mermaid Smiled was dropped on some later versions to include Dear God. XTC's frothy, beatle-esque concept album about birth, death, and the passing of the seasons is hardly soft-headed: its melodic inventiveness and lush orchestrations supports...
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FN459 The Clean - Getaway (2001)
Originally released in August of 2001, the double-LP reissue marks Getaway’s first appearance on vinyl and includes an 18-song bonus CD that compiles the hard-to-find, tour-only releases Syd’s Pink Wiring System and Slush Fund. A double-CD version includes the full album plus the bonus disc. Getaway maybe best illustrates whatever mercurial, inexplicable musical power...
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William H Meung - This Saint Wont Rot
"Meung is a well-documented member of Dunedin, New Zealand’s subunderground scene ... The main (though far from sole) elements on this tape are electric guitar (with attendant amp blurt) and electronics – sometimes displaying a Game Boyaesthetic, sometimes offering proggy darkwave textures and others of pure insectoid skitter. The best moments are those where both...
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Tall Dwarfs - Weeville (Vinyl)
FN166 Tall Dwarfs - Weeville (1990) As the opening liner notes proclaim, Weeville is "the first straightforward LP by Tall Dwarfs - uh...in terms of having the same number of tracks on each side -- both of which play at the same speed and which ain't a compilation." Nonetheless, their 1990...
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Negative Nancies - Heatwave
Negative Nancies exist in their own universe, sounding unlike anything else happening in Dunedin or in New Zealand past or present. The songs are created organically in the rehearsal room, through an evolution of experimentation. In amongst the art-punk chaos there’s an irrepressible undercurrent of pop melodicism.Negative Nancies don’t play...
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Ed Kuepper – Black Ticket Day
Ed Kuepper's 1992's masterpiece Black Ticket Day is available for the first time on vinyl and out of print for decades. "Kuepper's purple patch of the first half of the 1990s is something extraordinary, and Black Ticket Day (1992) is a jewel in his crown. It's as expansive as its...
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Crime – Murder By Guitar
They were Punk by any definition, yet shunned the label with a guttersnipe sneer. Crime's meticulously cultivated aesthetic of S&M graphics and police uniforms produced some of the era's most indelible imagery. One of their finest moves was playing in the San Quentin prison yard.Formed by guitarists/vocalists Johnny Strike and...
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The National – Cherry Tree
The National's sophomore album, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (2003), found the band emerging onto a larger stage. Uncut called it "a genuine treasure" and named it an album of the year; it was hailed by Rolling Stone and the indie media; and Magnet, La Liberation (Paris), and the Chicago Tribune were only...
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U2 – The Joshua Tree
Using the textured sonics of The Unforgettable Fire as a basis, U2 expanded those innovations by scaling back the songs to a personal setting and adding a grittier attack for its follow-up, The Joshua Tree. The result is a powerful, uncompromising record that became a hit due to its vision...
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Julien Dyne - Modes
Modes continues the forward-thinking percussive jazz and afro-inspired house music soundscapes explored on Dyne's recent album Teal, which garnered acclaim from peers and fans alike - including Late Night Tales, Toddla T, Ransom Note, and BBC6 Music presenters (Mary Anne Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft, Huey Morgan, Jon Hillcock). His trademark slick...
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Deftones – Gore
Long since distanced from their early nu-metal roots, Deftones are these days a far more intriguing proposition: a metal band more than happy to dip their toes into the ambient and experimental genres. Gore is the group’s first album since the death of bassist Chi Cheng in 2013, though those...
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Cluster - Kollektion 06: Cluster 1971-1981
Cluster's influence on the development of electronic music cannot be overstated. The original trio of Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius released two seminal albums as Kluster before Roedelius and Moebius replaced the 'K' with a 'C' and continued as a duo. They produced eight albums in their most innovative period between 1971 and 1981, two...
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Metallica - 72 Seasons
Produced by Greg Fidelman with Hetfield & Ulrich and clocking in at over 77 minutes, the 72 Seasons is Metallica's first full-length collection of new material since 2016’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.Speaking on the concept of the album title, James said: “72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form...
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PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Reissue of the eighth PJ Harvey studio album Let England Shake. The album was produced by PJ Harvey, Flood and John Parish and originally released in Feburary 2011. Let England Shake features the singles ‘The Words That Maketh Murder’ and ‘The Glorious Land’ and was the second album in the catalogue...
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The Virgin Prunes - …If I Die, I Die
…If I Die, I Die was released only weeks before the Heresie box set. The two albums show very different faces of The Virgin Prunes – one that explored mythical worlds and another that showed their surrealistic interest in the creative power of insanity. They also highlight the ways in...
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The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme)
Bursting into the 1980s on a new label (the then-upstart, now-legendary Rough Trade) and with an augmented, audibly panicked lineup, The Fall's Grotesque is the true pure-bred Fall release from the Marc Riley era. Released in the immediate wake of The Fall's most beloved single (Totally Wired), the album carries over that righteously famed...
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Various – Studio One Space Age Dub Special
Studio One Space-Age Dub Special is a brand-new Studio One release on Soul Jazz Records which draws on more rare and classic dubs taken from the mighty vaults of Studio One Records.Most of these tracks are taken from Studio One’s superb long out-of-print series of dub albums released between 1974...
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Cookie Brooklyn and the Crumbs - Singles 2013-19
Compilation of singles, B-sides and unreleased tracks from “stuttering avant pop” New Zealand trio featuring members of Orchestra of Spheres & MarineVille. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Cookie Brooklyn and the Crumbs combine spazz no wave guitar, soaring vocal harmony and a falling-down-the-stairs groove. Singles 2013-19 rounds up ten songs...
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Features - X-Features (2016)
The Features, perhaps more than anybody, were the band that provided the stylistic delineation between punk and post-punk in the Auckland, New Zealand scene. The band formed in late 1979, led by Jed Town (guitar) and James Pinker (drums). Both were members of The Superettes with Paul Kean (later The Bats), and when Kean left to join Toy Love they...
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Battles - La Di Da Di
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Massive Attack V. Mad Professor – Massive Attack V. Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98)
One can confidently assume that the legendary dub engineer Mad Professor was asked to remix Mezzanine, the third Massive Attack album, off the back of the runaway success of 1995's No Protection. That LP, which featured dub versions of tracks from Massive Attack's second full-length, Protection, sold more than a...
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Ringlets - Ringlets
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Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah & Songs From His Albums
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Various - Covid Colab
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Contortions - Buy
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Six Finger Satellite – The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird
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Various Artists - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: The Tears Of Technology
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SJD - Sweetheart
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Steely Dan - Collection / Radio Broadcast
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Nocturnal Projections – Inmates In Images
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Day Breathes Night - Phil Dadson, Simon Allen, Rachel Shearer, Hermione Johnson
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The Audio-Technica AT-LP3XBT is a fully automatic turntable that combines the rich, warm clarity of heritage analogue audio with modern Bluetooth® wireless technology, offering a seamless vinyl experience for today’s digital generation. The AT-LP3XBT is fully automatic with a built-in phono preamp, a removable universal headshell, and a replaceable stylus....
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Little Dragon - Slugs of Love
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VA - Sound System Rockers Kingston Town 1969-1975
The sound system has become part of today's musical/cultural heritage, playing the people's favorite hits or just as important, breaking some new tunes. But perhaps less known are the roots of the sound system, which began way back when... in Kingston... around the late 1940s, the sound system began to...