Cracking moody indie from Chelsea Wolfe. Following on from the awesome 2014 LP Pain Is Beauty this features lots of sullen tracks that call back to post punk as well as elements of (black) metal in parts. This edition is a special black & white splatter vinyl version that was exclusive to Newbury Comics, limited to 400.
A1: Carrion Flowers
A2: Iron Moon
A3: Dragged Out
B1: Maw
B2: Grey Days
B3: After The Fall
C1: Crazy Love
C2: Simple Death
C3: Survive
D1: Color Of Blood
D2: The Abyss
The fourth full lengther from Denver’s Tennis. Another lovely slab of catchy indie pop, this is the white vinyl version exclusive to UK independent retailers. The sleeve has some nice de-bossing with silver foil for the album title. Recommended.
A1: In The Morning I’ll Be Better
A2: My Emotions Are Blinding
A3: Fields Of Blue
A4: Ladies Don’t Play Guitar
A5: Matrimony
B1: Baby Don’t Believe
B2: Please Don’t Ruin This For Me
B3: 10 Minutes 10 Years
B4: Modern Woman
B5: Island Music
Repress of the German thrash legend’s debut LP on “cemetery mist” vinyl via Wax Maniax. This double vinyl release has the original version of the album and the German issue on the second record. Awesome Teutonic thrash excellence.
A1: Deathlike Silence
A2: Brandish The Sceptre
A3: Proselytism Real
A4: Eqinox
A5: Obsessed By Cruelty
B1: Fall Of Majesty Town
B2: Nuctemeron
B3: Pretenders To The Throne
B4: Witchhammer
B5: Volcanic Slut
Third LP from this underrated indie experimentalist. More space-age sounds and another lovely piece of colourful wax. Check 2015’s Into for more excellent tunes and an absolutely beautiful hand-poured vinyl pressing.
A1: Ion
A2: Riddles Of The Sphinx
A3: Feedback Delicates
A4: L’Quasar
A5: Celestial Gold
A6: Evol
B1: Voidless
B2: Mercurial Vestiges
B3: The Presence Of Absence
B4: Emerald Isle
B5: Aboroun
Midnight returns with another slice of raw, sleazy metal. This 4 track EP, a follow up to 2014’s No Mercy For Mayhem, comes on clear / red / black splatter as well as a tri-colour variant for the German market. Another release from Hells Headbangers.
A1: Death Scream
A2: Who Gives A Fuck?
B1: Ready For Destruction
B2: Groin Gripper
Some folky rock (or maybe rocky folk?) from the excellently bearded Strand of Oaks. Lovely looking pink marbled vinyl and top tunes, this also came on pretty snazzy purple and green editions.
A1: Hard Love
A2: Radio Kids
A3: Everything
A4: Salt Brothers
A5: On The Hill
B1: Cry
B2: Quit It
B3: Rest Of It
B4: Taking Acid And Talking To My Brother
Wicked Record Store Day 2017 release from the Reinforced camp. Nice white vinyl release featuring Turn Away Skull originally released on Enforcers 2 and Too Strong For So Long, previously unreleased. I managed to get the very last one from the stall on the day!
Shaped picture disc of one Maiden‘s of the singles from Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Perhaps not the best from that era but a great tune nonetheless. Every single from that album came out on a shaped picture disc.
More soothing, tuneful indie from Real Estate on the follow up to the awesome Atlas. This is the limited UK vinyl release on blue marbled vinyl, the cover has some nice foil embossing as well.
A1: Darling
A2: Serve The Song
A3: Stained Glass
A4: After The Moon
A5: Two Arrows
B1: White Light
B2: Holding Pattern
B3: Time
B4: Diamond Eyes
B5: Same Sun
B6: Saturday
