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At first, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly what makes Our Girl so special, or why the Brighton-formed, London-based trio's music stands out within a busy crowd of fellow guitar-wielding-types. But if an explanation didn't jump out when they first emerged with a debut EP of mighty fuzz-soaked songs in November 2016, it surfaces with 'Stranger Today', a debut album of personal, emotional juggernauts that could have only been made by these three people: Guitarist / vocalist Soph Nathan, bassist Josh Tyler and drummer Lauren Wilson.

Since forming in Nathan and Tyler's Brighton home four years ago - Wilson joining as a late recruit when she was wowed by a demo of their self-titled debut track, and 'Stranger Today''s opener - Our Girl's members have only had pockets of time to work together. A day booked in a local studio here, a soundcheck there, full-time jobs and other projects meant the three rarely had a concentrated, collective patch. This changed in September 2017, when they stayed in Eve Studios in Stockport for a week, recording with Bill Ryder-Jones. Their week in Stockport became a crucial catalyst for what would follow. Ryder-Jones is a guitar virtuoso himself ('He did stuff neither me or Soph had ever seen anyone do before,' Tyler remarks), and he became an unofficial fourth member of the group.

'Stranger Today' is a special debut for several reasons: First, because it's the sound of a band beginning to grasp their own value and place in the world. Secondly, because you can hear the trio's hunger to finally get in the same room and put to tape years' worth of scrapbooks, half-finished ideas, and a slowly-forming feel for how their first album would actually sound. 'What band isn't itching to make their debut But it's quite frightening, knowing you're about to do it,' Wilson remembers.

The real clincher, however, is Our Girl's dynamic, and how it plays out across 'Stranger Today'. Best friends in person, the trio share the same close kinship and chemistry on record. On one side is Nathan's visceral lyricism, which has a habit of detailing and chipping away at precise moments; the first heart-flutter of a new crush; the moment a long-term friendship begins to ebb away. Around her, Tyler and Wilson's rhythm section carefully mirrors each feeling Nathan conveys. When she sings pointedly about love ('I Really Like It'), she's backed by a major-key afterglow. When the subject turns on its head ('Josephine'), out steps a wall of taut, earth-shaking noise. They each 'serve the song,' in Wilson's words, moving in sync but with their own personal slant. Not least on the closer 'Boring', where all restraint is thrown aside and the trio let out one final, violent thrash. They inhabit a space bigger than the first loves, sleepless nights and growing pains that define this record.

Nathan remembers being in Brighton four years ago, shortly after Our Girl formed, and realising, 'I was finally in the band I wanted to be in.' Almost half a decade later, and this eureka moment is sewn up on 'Stranger Today'. It's the sound of three friends totally at ease in their own space, discontent with being anywhere else; a vibrant document of what it's like to be young, invigorated and amongst people who feel the same.

For all Slim's off-kilter aims, Thank You for Stickin' With Twigfits right into any number

of very timely pop cultural concerns. His desire to emulate and kill his idols—audibly

Zappa, Beefheart, the Zombies—paired with an abiding love of classic melodies

and psychedelic murk aligns him with self-conscious, costumed

rock'n'roll stylists like Father John Misty and Ariel Pink.

The Amity Affliction have unveiled details of their widely anticipated new album, MISERY which arrives worldwide Friday, August 24th.

The Amity Affliction will celebrate MISERY with an epic tour schedule, beginning this week with a North American run as part of the milestone final Vans Warped Tour 2018. Those dates begin tomorrow, June 21st at Pomona, CA's Fairplex and continue through early August. From there, The Amity Affliction will head to Europe for a headline tour slated for stops in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Norway, and Belgium.

Recorded earlier this year in Baltimore, MD with producer Matt Squire (Panic! At The Disco, Ariana Grande, Underoath), MISERY is the long-awaited follow-up to The Amity Affliction's acclaimed fifth studio album, THIS COULD BE HEARTBREAK. That LP made a spectacular chart debut upon its 2016 arrival, entering among the top 30 on the U.S. SoundScan/Billboard 200 while also charting at #1 in their native Australia - The Amity Affliction's third consecutive time topping the ARIA Album Chart.

THIS COULD BE HEARTBREAK - which includes the singles/videos, 'This Could Be Heartbreak,' 'I Bring The Weather With Me' and 'Fight My Regret' - earned ecstatic acclaim and press attention along with its popular success, including a cover feature in Rolling Stone Australia. Kerrang! awarded the album four Ks, hailing it as the band's 'personal-best' while noting, 'This is heartbreak, and The Amity Affliction have rendered it more magnificently than ever.' '(The Amity Affliction's) ear for an unstoppable melody demands respect,' declared Metal Hammer, while Blunt noted, '(THIS COULD BE HEARTBREAK) strikes from a darker angle...its melancholy burns fervent.'

THIS COULD BE HEARTBREAK followed The Amity Affliction's ARIA platinum-certified #1 album, LET THE OCEAN TAKE ME, which proved an international breakthrough for the group. LET THE OCEAN TAKE ME marked The Amity Affliction's second consecutive time topping the ARIA Album Chart following 2012's gold certified CHASING GHOSTS. More recently, the band released SEEMS LIKE FOREVER, the #1 ARIA gold certified documentary chronicling The Amity Affliction's history up through their epic 'Let The Ocean Take Me World Tour,' which saw the band performing in front of sold-out crowds around the globe, including shows at New York City's Irving Plaza and London's Roundhouse.

2006: A year that should change a lot in the life of three Icelandic schoolboys. The year that gave birth to a future classic rock trio named THE VINTAGE CARAVAN. Their self-released debut album 'The Vintage Caravan' (2011), and especially their sophomore record 'Voyage' (2012; re-released in early 2014) caused an earthquake in the heavy music scene, and brought them a new record deal with Nuclear Blast in 2013. Also their reputation as a powerful live band soon got around and gave them numerous possibilities to open up for acts such as BLUES PILLS and GRAND MAGUS.
Their 3rd trick followed in May 2015 in the form of 'Arrival'. The ensuing campaign for this release was full of highlights: Their very first, 2-month European headline tour, a Latin American headline tour, 2 UK headline tours, supporting the legendary EUROPE in the European mainland & Scandinavia, performing at 60+ festivals (Summer Breeze, Graspop Metal Meeting, Wacken Open Air, and Hellfest to name but a few)... Events the band never had dared to dream of when they originally formed. Anyway, whoever thought that 'Arrival' would be the end of the story, will be proved wrong by the band's 4th studio album entitled 'Gateways'. 'We really pushed ourselves to make this album sound as great as possible,' states vocalist/guitarist Óskar. Recorded in the legendary Sundlaugin Studios in Iceland (Sigur Rós), and produced by Ian Davenport (BAND OF SKULLS, »The Twilight Saga: New Moon«), the record's cover photo art was crafted by Julian Haas (Through The Haze).
DEEP PURPLE, LED ZEPPELIN, JIMI HENDRIX, RAINBOW - the list of bands that influence THE VINTAGE CARAVAN's creative work is undeniable , but the band still puts their very own stamp on every single track. So they do on 'Gateways': The 48-minute ride kicks off with almost threatening guitar weeping, before it converts into 'Gateways'' stomping opening track 'Set Your Sights' (cowbell alert!), which is followed by the groovy 'The Way'. Via the first single, an indomitable beast called 'Reflections', the listener lands at the swinging 'On The Run', the perfect soundtrack for an extensive, regardless open-top drive in the summer time with its simple and light, but enormously catchy, lead melodies. 'All This Time' takes a similar line and culminates in a melancholic chorus as well as a soulful guitar solo. Restless shredding introduces 'Hidden Streams', another banger led by haunting guitar lines and pounding drums. 'Reset' surprises with an emphatic riff attack which takes hold in everyone's brain instantly and should be a fixture of the band's future set list with its memorable chorus. These guys simply can't fail in delivering intense tunes that come together once again in this classic rock cocktail titled 'Gateways', on which the band cements and also refines their own style. The final question is: How can THE VINTAGE CARAVAN top this addictive masterpiece But first go and check out the band's high-energy live shows...! Key Tracks:'Reflections', 'Set Your Sights', 'Reset'.

Superb compilation of modern ambient/minimal electronics featuring exclusive tracks from a wealth of current talent inc. H. Takahashi, David Edren (aka DSR Lines), Miaux (Ultra Eczema) , Kuupuu (Em Records) Nuslux (Keijut) & Olli Aarni. Finnish Label collab between LAL LAL & IKUISUUS. Tip!
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Neptunalia, a festival of Neptune, celebrated at Rome, of which very little is known. The day on which it was held, was probably the 23rd of July. The festival was celebrated with games. Respecting the ceremonies of this festival nothing is known, except that the people used to build huts of branches and foliage, in which they probably feasted, drank, and amused themselves

Over the last several years, the Zappa Family Trust and UMC have lovingly been restoring Frank Zappa's iconic catalog together by reissuing his classic albums on CD and pressing long-out-of-print records back on vinyl. Next up in the ongoing vinyl initiative, coming on the heels of the reissue of his enigmatic Burnt Weeny Sandwich, is Zappa's 1970 stylistically diverse and subversive album, Chunga's Revenge, which will receive a 180-gram audiophile repressing on black vinyl on July 20. Supervised by the ZFT, the record, which has been unavailable on vinyl for more than three decades, will be press pressed at Pallas In Germany and feature reproductions of the original artwork. Chunga's Revenge, although released under Frank Zappa's own name, introduced a new Mothers lineup that included former Turtles members Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, aka Flo and Eddie, as well as keyboardist George Duke, drummer Aynsley Dunbar and multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood. The album is one of Zappa's most eclectic efforts, encompassing the improvisational title track, the raucous guitar jam "Transylvania Boogie," the bluesy "Road Ladies" and the jazzy "Twenty Small Cigars," along with more conventional rock numbers like "Tell Me You Love Me," "Would You Go All the Way" and "Sharleena."

American Woman is the sixth and most succesfull studio album by Canadian rock band The Guess Who. It is the last album which features lead guitarist Randy Bachman. He brings some of the best guitar riffs the band has ever record, especially on the hit single 'American Woman', later successfully covered by Lenny Kravitz. The times of war (Vietnam) are prominent on the album and their anger can be heard in songs like 'No Time' and 'No Sugar Tonight'. The blues and rhythms are mixed with their hard rocking guitar riffs and drum rolls, but a song like 'Talisman' is pure folk in the traditional English style. All by all, it's their best work and it showed their development in the variety of music.

The Canadian rock band The Guess Who found international success during the late 1960s until the mid-1970s. They were formed as a garage rock band and changed during the years to a more psychedelic and pop rock approach.

Stunning & incredibly Limited Jethro Tull LP

Das neue Album ist wahrscheinlich sein bislang vielseitigstes Album. Es ist sein Erstes, das er außerhalb Amerika aufgenommen hat. In Norditalien arbeitet er mit seinem Co-Autor Don Antonio Gramentieri und einer Band aus Italienischen Musikern.
Es ist Alejandros erstes Konzeptalbum, das die Geschichte zweier junger Immigranten in den USA erzählt, die sich über ihre gemeinsame Liebe zum Punk Rock näher kommen, während sie täglich Rassismus und Diskriminierung erleben und erdulden müssen.
Zu den Special Guests auf diesem Album zählen Wayne Kramer (MC5), James Williamson (The Stooges) und Joe Ely. Selbst Peter Perrett und John Perry (The Only Ones) waren erstmals seit 1980
wieder gemeinsam an Aufnahmen beteiligt. Freddy Trujillo ist bei einem exklusiven Spoken Word Track von Willy Vlautin (Richmond Fontaine, The Delines) zu hören.
Der Sound reicht von straighten Rocksongs a la Sonica USA bis zu dem Klassiker Silver City, der von Joe Ely geschrieben wurde.

Last 50 copies of the Limited Edition 300 only black vinyl LP housed in a glossy full colour sleeve with download code.

Explorative Glaswegian space-heads Dead Otter are here to take you to worlds unknown via their first full length LP 'Bridge of Weird' following up on their heavy riffing debut 'Pathfinder EP'
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The band have been operating since the heady days of 1994 and take inspiration from Black Sabbath, Hillage, Groundhogs and Hawkwind. Their music is led by a twin guitar attack from John Riddell and Omar Aborida (The Cosmic Dead) and grounded by the electric rumblings of a rhythm section featuring Gavin Riddell on Bass and Scott Falconer (ex-Los Destructos) on drums. Their sound warps blissfully from drifting improvisation to full on space noise oblivion.

Das Erste Neue Album Des Legendären Heartbreaker Gitarristen Und Sängers Walter Lure
Seit 24 Jahren!
- Dieses Album Enthält Sowohl Brillante Neue Songs Wie "damn Your Soul", Sowie Neue Versionen
Der Heartbreaker Klassiker "london Boys" Und "take A Chance On Me".
- Der Track "crazy Kids" Wird In Dem Film "thunders - Room 37" Zu Hören Sein, Der Die Letzten
Tage Von Lures Ehemaligem Bandkollegen Johnny Thunders Darstellt!

Mother`s Cake gehören zum Feinsten was die Alpenrepublik derzeit musikalisch zu bieten hat!
- SLAM -
Nicht zuletzt wegen der Stimme Yves Krismers ein beeindruckendes Beispiel für pure Energie!
- VISIONS -
- Das neue Live-Album der Amadaus-Award 2018 nominierten Band, in der Kategorie
Hard & Heavy
- Ausgedehnte GSA Tour mit über 36 Terminen!
- Aufgenommen an der Bergisel Skisprungschanze in Innsbruck
- Print- & Online PR via Oktober Promotion in GSA
- TV-PR via Public Image in GSA
- Große Social Media Kampagne zum Release über Facebook und Instagram
Das neue Album der österreichischen Prog-Rock Institution, Live aufgenommen an der Bergisel
Skisprungschanze in Innsbruck. Ein Live-Album im Stile von Pink Floyds - Live At Pompeii' zu
machen - ganz ohne Publikum, dafür mit den Vorteilen der Moderne, das schwebte dem Powertrio
Mother's Cake für ihr zweites Live-Album vor.

Der Londoner Gitarrist, Sänger und Komponist Richard Thompson präsentiert mit 13 Rivers sein neues Studioalbum, das im September auf Proper Records erscheinen wird
Nach dem letzten Release - Still' in 2015 ist es das erste Album von Richard Thompson mit neuem Material. Zudem ist - 13 Rivers' sein erstes selbst produziertes Album seit über einem Jahrzehnt und ist daher als ein sehr emotionales Album zu bewerten, das dem etablierten Folk-Rock-Musiker direkt aus
dem Herzen spricht.
Das 13-Track starke Album wurde in Los Angeles aufgenommen. Mit dabei sind Richards ständige Begleiter Michael Jerome und Taras Prodaniuk sowie sein Gitarrentechniker Bobby Eichorn an der zweiten Gitarre. Die Songs wurden analog aufgenommen mit einem minimalen Einsatz von Overdubs.

Diorama is the fourth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. The album won an ARIA Music Award for Best Rock Album in 2002. With the release of Diorama they were growing more into their own sound, with a fine mix of orchestral pop and rock. Their alternative rock sound has changed to a more melodic one. With the sounds of the harpsichord, organ and orchestra they created their own rock opera. Leadsinger Daniel Johns is bringing the best of rock and opera together in his high and impressive vocal parts. But there's still a tough of their alternative rock sound in songs like 'Without You' and 'Too Much Is Not Enough'. All in all, Silverchair released an ambitious and gorgeously produced album.

Silverchair were an Australian rock band formed in 1992 and have sold over 9 millions albums worldwide. Their sounds evolved during the years from the grunge and alternative rock to pop and art rock. In 2011 they announced their 'indefinite hibernation' and it is still unknown to date if they ever going to return on stage.

Diorama is available as a limited edition of 2.000 individually numbered copies on solid yellow & transparent green mixed vinyl.

Tonefloat veröffentlichen zeitgleich mit der CD-Ausgabe (DY 029) am 07.09.18 das erste Studioalbum seit 37 Jahren der legendären Soft Machine.
Das Studioalbum - Hidden Details' ist das erste Soft Machine Album (mit Ausnahme von Soft Machine Legacy) seit 37 Jahren. Mit John Etheridge, Roy Babbington und John Marshall sind noch
drei von vier Mitgliedern aus der damaligen Besetzung der 1970er Jahre dabei, die seinerzeit mehr als gefeiert wurden. Die legendäre Jazzrock Band wird vervollständigt durch den außergewöhnlichen Saxophon Star Theo Travis (Robert Fripp/David Gilmour/Gong).
Die Musik rangiert zwischen psychedelischen Sounds, Jazzrock bis hin zu freien Improvisationen, Pop sowie hypnotischer Klänge. Die Band spielt Material aus der Ära (Kompositionen von Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge und Karl Jenkins) sowie viele zeitgemäße Stücke. - Hidden Details' erscheint genau 50 Jahre nach ihrem Debütalbum - The Soft Machine' von 1968, welches im späteren Jon Hiseman's Studio in Surrey aufgenommen wurde.

Bongo Joe's 45s series continues, presenting for the first time music from the past. This fifth single focusses on legendary Algerian kabyle rock band Abranis founded in 1967.The band pioneered the fusion of chaabi (traditional) music with 60s-70s western rock, proudly singing in their own berber kabyle language while wearing hippy rockers outfits. Their shows - in deeply influenced by Pan-Arabism conservative Algeria - were often cancelled by governors and the band once was arrested by the police, generating riots. They kept on playing and recording until mid 90s.This 45 presents two majors tracks from the band:Chenar Le Blues, released in 1977, was a big hit on Algerian national radio. The band's response to The Doors. Avehri, released in 1983, shows the band's obsession with merging different music styles with the North African tradition. This one goes strangely reggae

Mit ihrem vierten Album Borderlands bleiben The Myrrors ihrem staubigen, mystischen
Desert-Drone Sound treu.
Mit Awakening startet das Album zunächst im Stile Albert Aylers, die 20-minütige Exkursion
Note From the Underground macht dann schließlich noch einmal deutlich, wo das Herz von
The Myrrors schlägt.
Borderlands wird vor allem Fans von International Harvester, Taj Mahal Travellers, Trad
Gras och Stenar, Kikagaku Moyo, Amon Duul und Agitation Free ansprechen, um nur
einige zu nennen.

Die Songs auf ihrem Debütalbum "Lykke til i livet" sind der Sound des Erwachsenwerdens und des Erwachsensein. Virkelig sind drei 19 jährige Jungs, die nicht nur die norwegischen Musikfans
begeistern werden. Virkelig sind drei 19 Jahre alte Jungs, die die norwegischen Radio-, Medien- und Musikfans mit
ihren Rocksongs verzaubern. Ihre ersten drei Singles liefen für 48 Wochen im norwegischen Radio und dieses neue Album bringt die Band zu neuen Höhen.
"Balletdanseren" ist die erste Single aus ihrem kommenden Debütalbum und zeigt eine größere,
bessere und reifere Band. Der Vergleich mit der Band "War On Drugs" passt hervorragend, insbesondere bei diesem Lied.
Die Songs auf ihrem neuen Album - Lykke til i livet ' sind der Sound des Erwachsenwerdens und des
Erwachsensein. Zum ersten Mal von zu Hause weggehen und sich dem Unbekannten stellen. Virkelig singt auf Norwegisch, kommt aus Bodø in Nordnorwegen. Der ebenfalls enthaltene Song Perrong wird in dem Film Thelma von Joachim Trier vorgestellt.

Colin MacIntyre is an award-winning musician, producer, author and playwright. He has released eight acclaimed albums to date, most notably under the name Mull Historical Society, having achieved two UK Top 20 albums and four Top 40 singles, since his Gold-selling debut album, 'Loss'.

'Wakelines' is the new album from Mull Historical Society. Produced by the Mercury Award-winning songwriter and Brit Award-winning Producer Bernard Butler, this is Colin's eighth album and was recorded in London at Butler's studio.

This album is the first time Colin has worked with someone like Bernard Butler. 'I had a feeling about the album that I needed to get somewhere new - it was Bernard who realised what I was saying was I needed to get under my skin, lay myself bare."

This is Colin's first release in over 2 years, but he hasn't been procrastinating in the studio. Following his first novel in 2015 'The Letters of Ivor Punch' - which went on to win the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award - he has now adapted it for the stage and has just released two new books. A memoir about his childhood growing up on the Isle of Mull entitled 'The Boy In The Bubble' which is his contribution to the W&N Books 'Hometown Tales - Highlands & Hebrides' series of original tales by regional writers. There is also his first children's picture book 'The Humdrum Drum' (Little Door Books) about an orchestra drum, promoting togetherness and teamwork, which comes with an accompanying CD of original related songs and audiobook from Colin.

Interpol release their sixth studio album 'Marauder' on Matador
Records, available on CD and black vinyl.
Also available to independent retailers on exclusive cream
coloured vinyl.
For the first time since 2007's 'Our Love To Admire', Interpol
have opened themselves up to the input of a producer. For twoweek spells between December of 2017 to April of 2018, they
travelled to upstate New York to work with Dave Fridmann -
famed for recording with Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, MGMT,
Spoon, Mogwai and countless more.
In the run up to writing and recording, Sam found himself
immersed in soul drummers such as Al Jackson Jr (Otis
Redding's drummer) and 80's funk producers Jimmy Jam and
Terry Lewis. 'How can I make shit swing' was the question
Sam repeatedly asked himself and the answer is in the striding
gallop of opener 'If You Really Love Nothing', the embellished
skip 'n' bounce of 'Stay In Touch' and the R&B swagger of
closer 'It Probably Matters'. Interpol have always been worldbeaters at creating a feeling but 'Marauder' is where the feel is
just as crucial.
Paul may have stepped out of the shadows as a bassist but he's
stepping into an even brighter light as a songwriter. During
Interpol's previous albums, the singer largely kept himself out
of his own work, preferring to fill his lyrics with detached
thoughts, characters and observations, often phrased in
abstract. However, more than 20 years on since forming at
NYU, the frontman is finally allowing himself to play a role in
his own stories. 'This record is where I feel touching on real
things that have happened to me are exciting and evocative to
write about,' he explains. 'I think in the past, I always felt
autobiography was too small a thing for me to reference. I feel
like now, I'm able to romanticize parts of my own life.'
Global dates announced, including Madison Square Garden,
Hollywood Bowl, Royal Albert Hall and Japan.

The album's 12 songs are spectral and sinewy, often defined by the spaces in between the sounds. A ghost's whistle weaves itself around a pulsing single note on 'Lonesome Infidel'; 'Feast To Famine's hard luck story floats above a guitar part so strung out and washed with distortion it's become barely recognisable. It's soul music for anyone who's long since left the crossroads.
Over the last decade, Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood have worked in tangent on 2013's 'Black Pudding' as well as on Lanegan's solo records (Garwood contributed to 2012's 'Blues Funeral' and 2017's 'Gargoyle' after which he toured as part of Lanegan's band). Writing and recording was split between studio collaboration and sharing music between Garwood's home in London and Lanegan's in Los Angeles.
While 'Black Pudding' put Garwood's mercurial guitar centre stage, 'With Animals' is constructed from a different set of tools. Analogue and dust flecked, it sounds like Lanegan and Garwood have been holed up in a 60s recording studio while the apocalypse rages outside. Tracks sit on loops that sounds like they're straight out of 'There's A Riot Goin' On' while sparse melodies nod in the direction of British electronic producers like Burial or Boards Of Canada. Which is not to say it sounds like any of those things - this is a weird world all of their own design.

The Lemon Twigs emerged in 2016 with their
debut album, 'Do Hollywood', which was praised by
Rolling Stone for its 'toting hooky songs that stand
out for their intricate arrangements and delectable
melodies' and NPR Music who mused, 'like
listening to music from a time that never was... a
baroque rock romp.'
Their second album, 'Go To School', is their most
ambitious work yet; a conceptual musical,
conceived by brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario,
which tells a heartbreaking coming of age story of
Shane, a pure of heart chimpanzee raised as a
human boy as he comes to terms with the
obstacles of life. Todd Rundgren and their real-life
mother Susan Hall play Shane's parents. The
album also features contributions from Jody
Stephens (Big Star), Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood)
and their father Ronnie D'Addario.

Superlijm is the band of "the boy next door" Pieter-Jan Delesie whose songs are inspired by Grandaddy, Pavement and other great sounds of the 90's. In his songs Delesie both musically and lyrically takes us back to that wonderful decade, when Belgium's national goalkeeper Michel Preud'homme still had long curly hair and Edwin Van der Sar was only a rookie. Back then it was cool to paint t-shirts, All Stars made yet another comeback and Delesie was already trying to save the world by singing his songs, wearing nothing but Speedo trunks and a towel around his neck.

Fast forward about 14 years later and Delesie feels it's time to save the world from an extra-terrestrial attack by building a supersonic wall of sound. His first EP was released in May 2009 by Collectief Debonair. The first single "Michael Jordan" had its fair share of airplay on the national radio network. Nowadays Superlijm is a five-piece band who have just finished their debut album on which they are reaching back for that 90's guitar sound, with songs to match. It's fuzzy, nostalgic at times, but above all it's damn addictive. STAY TUNED!

London band Average Sex have announced the release of their second EP 'Melodie', released on Tim Burgess' O Genesis Recordings. The EP was produced by Tim Burgess and James Spencer and recorded in Cheshire and is the follow-up to the acclaimed debut EP 'Ice Cream' that was released in December.

With Average Sex it's love at first sight and love at first listen - just depends whether you see them live or hear one of their records first. If you like girls, boys, guitars, melodies and something to dance to then Laetitia, Sam, Louise, Finn and Jamie might well be your new BFFs. Finding love, falling out of love, slashing tyres, eating ice cream - all the major subjects are covered in classic three-minute pop gems that you will still be humming days later. Their songs are gorgeous and their gigs are hectic. And now they have a new EP with four reasons to love them more: 'Ne M'Oublie Pas', 'U Suck', 'Melodie' and 'Sociopath' are future classics.

Average Sex are like the band you've been matched with on a dating site, so be free and go meet them for a drink.

After the successful vinyl reissue series in 2017, UMC are proud to release two brand new Elton John reissues of "Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy" and "Madman Across The Water". Following the deluxe reissues of these two albums last year, these standardised versions feature remastered audio from the original analogue tapes by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine, with vinyl cutting by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios, London. Artwork faithfully reproduced from original archive material. 180g vinyl with download codes.

After the successful vinyl reissue series in 2017, UMC are proud to release two brand new Elton John reissues of "Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy" and "Madman Across The Water". Following the deluxe reissues of these two albums last year, these standardised versions feature remastered audio from the original analogue tapes by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine, with vinyl cutting by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios, London. Artwork faithfully reproduced from original archive material. 180g vinyl with download codes.