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Beach Beach have spent two years swimming, front crawl style. Fast and forceful, these Majorcans fled the island they were born in and squeezed every song in their debut album Tasteless Peace (La Castanya, 2012), a record that dares you to go underwater and see how long you can go without breathing, to the last drop. Now they are back with a brand new recipe in their hands and an expanded set of cooks. In The Sea Pau Riutort and Tomeu Mulet have benefited from the participation of Àngel Garau on drums and Lluís Cabot on guitar.

Is there anything shinier than a guitar through a chorus effect, a 12-string and an acoustic guitar playing in unison Probably, you would only be able to get the same feeling by staring at the sun without your valued shades. Fast paced rhythms, overdriven basses and beautiful background vocals. They have dared to do it all: percussion arrangements, guitar solos, instrumental parts, harmony vocals... Maybe the bands from the C-86 movement will come to mind, something that the wonderful 'Just Like Before' corroborates. Crystal-clear guitar lines may remind you of The Smiths as well. But let's not forget The Feelies, or New Zealand's kiwi-pop, or Postcard Records, or American power pop à la early The Last.

The Sea greets you and then says goodbye, leaving the gift of 12 cuts with a distinct radio jingle feel, as fresh as taking a bath by the seashore rocks in the afternoon o having a glass of lemonade with lots of ice. As it was the case with Tasteless Peace, this is a feeling that contrasts with a set of lyrics that comes across as less summery, more metaphorical, inspired by Blai Bonet and his novel El Mar ('The Sea', hence the album title) or Llorenç Villalonga. Lost opportunities and growing up in a world full of cowards seem to leave no other option than running away towards some uncertain location, but always forward.

Beach Beach will rather face anguish by lying in the sun, pouring water on their wrists and the back of their necks, like moms do. They couldn't do it any other way; they've thrown the fishing line again and have taken enough fish out of the water to make us all enjoy a delicious seafood paella. It might lack the shellfish, but The Sea is a brilliant record.

Right from their inception in 1976, back in the first stirrings of punk, Wire went about making music in a subversive, conceptual way, setting themselves apart from both their peers and their influences.

'I had this idea that I wanted to avoid things that had a particular kind of tradition,' explains singer and guitarist Colin Newman. 'I thought the three-chord trick was too simplistic and that the one-chord trick would be better. Or the two chord trick where the second chord is definitely not the right chord.'

Bass guitarist and vocalist Graham Lewis identifies another trait that has run throughout the group's lifetime. ' People said, we were mysterious, arch and dark. But the only way of doing that successfully, is by also having a sense of humour. You have to have that balance. With Wire there's a peculiarity, a contrariness and that can be funny." This questing approach has served them well in guarding against repetition and cliché. In context, Wire's last album, 2013's aptly titled Change Becomes Us was another case of 'Expect the unexpected' as it found them extensively reworking a rich cache of material abandoned amid a temporary

break-up in the early 80s.



Their 13th studio album - simply titled Wire - comprises material that was written with the album in mind, but toured extensively first, as well as songs that Newman introduced to the group in the studio just prior to recording. The idea was to get the most spontaneous reaction possible from the musicians, and far from the rough and ready results one might expect from such a tack, Wire is full of swooning pop melodies with a 60s tinge and an irresistible, near motorik rhythmic momentum. One can recognise certain melodic inflections, guitar and bass motifs, and drum rhythms from Wire's idiosyncratic vocabulary but it has a remarkable freshness. The basic tracks were recorded at Rockfield Studios with overdubs added at Brighton Electric. The 11 tracks selected for release were the ones that came together most naturally.



From the outset Wire was an alliance between four very different characters and continues today with the addition, in 2012, of It Hugs Back guitarist Matthew Simms, who is around thirty years younger than the other group members. 'With Matt there was a really new dynamic that had appeared in the group's sound and that was something we wanted to capture, utilise and be creative with,' says Lewis.

Wire is the first album where Simms has been involved in formulating the material from the ground up, but when the group's particular chemistry starts working he is now very much part of the process.

Lewis provides most of the lyrics for the album, their subject matter encompassing love songs, cryptic narratives and coded messages. One time, Newman asked Lewis to send over some unfinished, unformatted text so he wouldn't be bound by what to use for the chorus. This material spawned two songs written on the same day, 'Split Your Ends' and the droll 'In Manchester'. The latter has the disorientating and rather absurd situation of having 'In Manchester' as a soaring chorus, when the song is not about Manchester beyond a single line in the lyric.

As the album progresses, some of the sunlit pop tunes become more shadowy and it ultimately plunges into the musical black hole of 'Harpooned', eight churning minutes of the group's darkest, most abrasive music to date, and a favourite in live performances since 2013.



'The point where our personal narratives meet is all about change - moving on and keeping it interesting for ourselves,' says Newman. 'We're in it for the long haul and this is a one-way trip.'
live dates outside the UK will be announced soon.

Limited edition of 300 12' heart shaped black vinyl only.
This limited edition vinyl contains two of the highlights from the hotly anticipated Nadine Shah album 'Fast Food' out April 2015.

Caul is the new album from Last Harbour. Based in the northern English city of Manchester, Last Harbour play music with a dark, gothic heart yet their songs are always beautiful and transcendent. After working with producer Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Spacemen 3, Ghostpoet) on two previous albums, the band took time out after touring to build their own studio in 2013. This new album was recorded in that self-created space over a year between 2013-4 and bears testament to a patient and detailed recording process that allowed time for experimentation and careful arrangement.

You've Never Been Alone', the first single from the WALLS EP, was co-produced by Rob McAndrews aka Airhead, recently acclaimed by Pitchfork for his debut album 'For Years' (R&S, 2013), and mixed by the stellar French sound engineer Stephane 'Alf" Briat (Air, Phoenix, Sebastien Tellier, Francoise Hardy, etc.). The song gives an original, continental answer to the UK based 'twisted R&B-sung-by-cutely-breathy females scene" (The Guardian) that has been much-trumpeted lately. With its interrupted, intricately detailed and effects-washed sound, 'You've Never Been Alone' is an idiosyncratic yet fiercely melodic, groove-based pop hit. Throughout her EP, Andrea explores relationships, restlessness and dislocation, using a smorgasbord of sounds to dig down into the heart of her nomadic upbringing.

File Andrea's ethereal deep soul dubstep sounds and her fairy-like unique voice next to FKA Twigs, Little Dragon, The XX & SBTRKT, add some Cocteau Twins and Kate Bush reminiscence and you will not regret it. Currently writing her first album, Andrea Balency is a hauntingly beautiful singer you don't want to mess with.

Caul is the new album from Last Harbour. Based in the northern English city of Manchester, Last Harbour play music with a dark, gothic heart yet their songs are always beautiful and transcendent. After working with producer Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Spacemen 3, Ghostpoet) on two previous albums, the band took time out after touring to build their own studio in 2013. This new album was recorded in that self-created space over a year between 2013-4 and bears testament to a patient and detailed recording process that allowed time for experimentation and careful arrangement.

The online sensation taking MJ accapellas and ska/reggae music re-arranged by THE DRASTICS available on CD for the first time. Inc the two new cuts from the 7", dub versions of those two, plus the 6 songs from the original 2009 vinyl LP. New artwork, limited to 250 in full color wallet. MJ lives

For his Carpark debut, Saint Pepsi takes a step away from the more genre-shuffling styles of his Internet releases to focus his skills on high-power pop. The title track of the "Fiona Coyne" 7-inch is an uplifting tribute to fantastical romance and the joyous dreams pop culture can provide

It's been exciting twelve months for Swedish trio DNKL. Emerging from their Gothenburg basement studio at the end of 2013, the band have featured on some of the most influential music websites around, played at some of Europe's biggest festivals and won over a legion of fans around the world with their mesmerizing, dark electronic pop.

Their debut song "Hunt", hailed as a bleary eyed, 4am triumph' by DIY, would go on to feature everywhere from The Guardian to influential blogs such as Discobelle and Indie Shuffle and would eventually find itself at #35 in The Line Of Best Fit's 'Fifty Best Tracks of 2013'.

Its follow-up Battles' would meet with similar praise, THE FADER describing it as the best-of-both-worlds bridging M83's earlier synth work and later rock styling' and Notion Magazine as "pop done right".

Since then the band have gone onto perform at the world famous Roskilde Festival, open the Way Out West festival with a live performance on the Boiler Room stage, play at Berlin Music Week and support Com Truise on his European tour.

Now DNKL are set to release their debut official release, the "Wolfhour" EP on US label Sugarcane Recordings (Gazelle Twin, John Foxx, Jori Hulkonnen). A 4 track EP featuring Battles" and "Hunt" alongside two stunning new tracks and live favourites, "Wolfhour" and "Warm Dark Night", that shows just how far the band have come in the past twelve months.

"The last year has been amazing for us. It is an incredible feeling when the music we have been putting our hearts into finally surfaces and people outside of our tiny basement studio get to hear our songs. For us the release of this EP, and these 4 tracks, represents the end of the first chapter for DNKL and the start of something even more exciting.' - DNKL

Alongside the EP there will also be a remix package featuring reworks by...

A nun in Berlin seeking enlightenment. Khan as a male hustler on '1-900 Get-Khan' (Matador) including his own phone sex line. Khan the torch singer Gothic Bunny on 'Who Never Rests' (Tomlab), as the 'Last Standing Disco Band' with Captain Comatose (Playhouse), once around the planet and off into space, and now as the bearded big city nun on Album Label.

Fortuna, the second full length from New Zealand trio Popstrangers, trades the grunge revivalism of the band's previous releases for buoyant hooks and '60s pop. Pairing their minor-key riffs with pervasively melancholic songwriting, the band's refined sense of melody is on full display on Fortuna, which echoes the classic guitar pop of their homeland's Flying Nun Records

TEEN have found their voice: Teeny Lieberson's voice is starkly highlighted, but the whole album is a conversation between minimalist drumming, lithe, sinuous bass lines, and irresistible synth hooks. The music is filled with overlapping countermelodies of vocals and synth lines; even Katherine's drums are hooky, so that the songs become ingenious interlocking sonic mantras. Imagine an integration of playfully off-balance rhythms and orchestrated dissonance, spaciously filtered through TEEN's distinctive musical vision. And listen closely: the tracks are filigreed with all kinds of fascinating events buried deep in the mix.

New single from LA's Wunder Wunder with 2 tracks of the forthcoming album 'Everything Infinite'

Scotland's Claude Speeed first came to our attention via his epic 2012 remix of Kuedo's 'Work Live & Sleep In Collapsing Space'. With a history in various bands such as RUSSIA and American Men, his work draws from Scottish post rock, 90s and 00s electronica, American minimalism, noise & drone. After a significant time travelling abroad he relocated to Berlin and released his debut album for LuckyMe, entitled 'My Skeleton'. Now he is releasing his follow-up EP 'Sun Czar Temple' on Planet Mu - an epic set of songs that distort emotional songwriting with textured synthetic ambience and computer noise. Dreams on hard disk.The EP opens with the epic 'Traumzeuge', a piece for digitally obliterated piano and plugins taking its inspiration from territories of culture shock and insomnia. Starting with monolithic slabs of SOLAR PARALLAX distortion, the layers of intensity build until eventually dropping out, revealing gentle, warm guitar harmonics and tender vocals. 'Dr. Liz Wilson' begins with twinkling, bleeping arrays of electronics: implied interstellar communication. Warm sinewaves and rising tone clusters build up into a rushing wind tunnel of s ESCAPE TIME FRACTAL ound. Hidden drums, ghost choirs, and geometric cryptophasia arpeggios disappear into chaos. An Adrián Villar Rojas memory of terraforming and futuristic DMT ruins.'VIN', serves as an interlude, built on field recordings from a short trip into an empty forest, made with looped tape noises and crushed oneiric chords.'Fret' draws from a story about an abandoned palace, far away from anything. Initially composed entirely visually in Logic, sound muted, without any timing grid. Dense pitch shifted chords and multiple random effects building into strangely unearthly pop with Ryuichi Sakamoto 80s drums and obscured vocalvocalvocal loops.

The final track, and the EP's most epic, 'RU Sorry' (CITY CASTLE VICTORIES) opens with simple synth 5th interval figures evolving slowly into an enveloping, rippling, cosmic fuzz. building up to near noise, then falling away into blocks of buzzing chords. Distortion appears gently until a smashed out post rock crescendo bursts through. Afterlife / Angels.

Bloc Party will release their new album 'FOUR' on August 20th via Frenchkiss Records.
Produced by Alex Newport (Death Cab For Cutie, The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In), the album was recorded
and mixed in New York, and will mark the bands first full-length since 2008's acclaimed 'Intimacy'^

Special limited edition RAPT 7" on pink etched vinyl in a card that you can personalize for someone you love.

Rapt is taken from Karen O's solo album Crush Songs. This limited edition 7' is being released especially for Valentine's Day. Pressed on pink etched vinyl, the package will feature drawings by Karen O and a die cut heart left blank for a fan to dedicate the single to their true love (aww!). There is an exclusive TRZTN remix of Rapt

Das neue Album von Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, produziert von Mick Jones (The Clash)! Beschrieben als "a gift to those of us who still believe in magic" (The Observer) haben sie die Zeit genutzt, um sich ein 16-Spur Analog-Studio in einem verfallenen indischen Restaurant in Camden Town zu bauen. Eigene Räumlichkeiten und neues Vintage Equipment ermöglichte es ihnen, an der Instrumentierung, Produktion, Sounds und diverser Stile zu arbeiten. Und wieder gelingt es den drei Geschwistern auf faszinierende Weise aus Rockabilly, Blues und Ska ihren einzigartigen Sound zu kreieren. Kitty Daisy & Lewis haben bis dato weltweit mehr als 250.000 Alben verkauft, ihre eigenen Touren waren ausverkauft, und sie spielten bereits als Support für Acts wie Coldplay oder die Stereophonics. Von Beginn an inspirierten und beeindruckten sie eine Vielzahl von Fans, darunter auch Stars und Prominente wie Amy Winehouse, David Lynch und Dustin Hoffman. Als ersten Vorboten ihres im Januar 2015 erscheinenden Albums liefern Kitty Daisy & Lewis die Single "Baby Bye Bye".

Back in 2012 Shinies broke through in a way they never would have imagined was possible. "A long way from the Fun House: Pat Sharp gets 'beaten up and burned alive' for music video" read the headline in the Daily Mail. An attack on nostalgia and childlike innocence, the Manchester based four piece kidnapped and toyed with everyone's favourite mullet sporting early 90s TV idol in their video for 'Ennui', eventually setting him adrift upon a burning raft of fire. Shinies' don't do things by halves.

Anfang Oktober erscheint mit ‚Taiga' das vierte Studioalbum der 25-jährigen Sängerin, Songschreiberin und Produzentin Zola Jesus auf Mute!

Geschrieben in Vashon Island in Washington State und gemischt in Los Angeles von Dean Hurley, folgt ‚Taiga' den gefeierten Alben ‚Versions' (2013) and ‚Conatus' (2011).

In der Gegenwart stehend und doch verbunden mit der Vergangenheit, beschreibt das vorliegende Album einen Wandel. Kompositionen türmen sich auch, baden in ihrer wohlvertrauten Stimme und formulieren ein neues künstlerischen Selbstvertrauen: 'For me, it feels like my true debut, because it is the first time I have felt so open and liberated.'

Limitiertes farbiges Vinyl mit marmoriertem Effekt inklusive Mp3 Download Code, 200 EH für den Pool only!

Ltd Picture Vinyl
Ahead of their biggest ever show at London's Wembley Arena on December 5th, Bring Me The Horizon continue their trail-blazing quest to bring their own unique brand of metal anthems to the masses with the release of their new single, 'Drown', out on December 7th (pre-order now).
Having firmly established themselves as a true British export with the release of their critically acclaimed last LP Sempiternal, which sold over 450k copies and charted at 1#, #3 and #11 in Australia, the UK and America respectively, Oli Sykes (Lead Singer), Lee Malia (Lead Guitarist), Matt Kean (Bassist), Matt Nicholls (Drummer) and Jordan Fish (Keyboards) return with this powerfully melodic rock anthem.

Was für eine unfassbar gute Band, die uns in den nächsten Jahren noch sehr viel Freude bereiten wird.In UK werden sie schon länger als die musikalischen Erben von Bands wieLostprophets und Boy Sets Fire gehandelt.

Mallory Knox sind seit 2009 inUK unterwegs und haben bereits eine EP sowie ein Album veröffentlicht. DasAlbum ist in UK auf #33 gechartet.
Weltweit wollen sie nun mitihrem Zweitwerk"Asymmetry"durch starten, das am 10.10.2014 überSony Music erscheint.
Auf dem Album ist einfach alles.Große Rocknummern, Gänsehaut Balladen, Stimmungsmacher und viele grandioseMelodien die einen packen und lange nicht mehr los lassen.
Der Sänger Mikey hat eineunfassbar klare, wundervolle Stimme mit dem gewissen Etwas, sodass man ihmjedes Wort zu 100% abnimmt.

Definitely ahead of their time, A.T.R.O.X. were one of the first bands to move beyond the new wave styles and introduce strong electronic elements. Not too far from works of contemporary groups such as Tuxedo Moon and Minimal Compact. The Night's Remains was originally released in 1982 on the Trinciato Forte Records label. Back in print on LP for the first time in 30+ years thanks to the fine folks at Spittle.

I'm quite happy with this renewed interest in A.T.R.O.X. It is quite amazing that Mojo Magazine mentioned one of our tracks among the best of the Italian New Wave, and it's incredible that some friends from Sicily wrote to me how important our two albums were for them. And, indeed, they were also important for me and for my travelling companions, nowadays each of us sails on his own route, but those days the sound was made of our common energy. We were discovering the New Wave (Tuxedomoon, The Residents, Chrome) and we ourselves were the New Wave. The sound flowed like water from the tap, and it was nice to walk along the streets of old Piacenza late at night laughing like fools without fear of any challenge.'
- Francesco Paolo Paladino

Definitely ahead of their time, A.T.R.O.X. were one of the first bands to move beyond the new wave styles and introduce strong electronic elements. Not too far from works of contemporary groups such as Tuxedo Moon and Minimal Compact. Water Tales was originally released in 1984 on the Contempo label. Back in print on LP for the first time in 30 years thanks to the fine folks at Spittle.

'When we recorded "Water Tales" I was thinking of the sea as the only escape for mankind. I proposed this idea to the rest of the band and all of them were just thrilled. Probably it is the only New Wave concept-album that was ever released. The sound, compared to the first album, is more influenced by the lessons of Eno and David Byrne, who were enriching their compositions with amazing and intriguing musical phrases and rhythms. Of course, we did not forget the lessons of Neu! and Faust. The Andreoni brothers and Marchini were both brilliantly creative and yielding, and they were responsible for all the musical themes upon which Benvisi carved the acoustics. "Water Tales" is a sincere album, then the season changed and suddendly we were 'every man for himself' almost without realizing it.'
- Francesco Paolo Paladino

Hanni El Khatib was chosen over The Black Keys, Beastie Boys & Red Hot Chili Peppers for Nike's 2011 ''Just Do It'' Campaign as well as landing Converse's new TV Ad Campaign. He has received 20 synchs to date. Everything from MTV's Teen Wolf to Vampire Diaries to Hung to Major League Baseball's All Star Game to Salvation Boulevard Movie Trailer. He also received Buzznet's Artist To Watch at Bonnaroo this summer and toured with Florence & The Machine twice in the past year. He is drawing comparisons to The Black Keys & White Stripes.

"Die Lichter gehen aus, die Träume an" singt Jan Delay auf der ersten Single 'St. Pauli' aus seinem kommenden Rockalbum Hammer & Michel. "St. Pauli" ist nur vordergründig eine Hamburg-Hymne. In ihrem Innersten ist sie eine Liebeserklärung an das Leben und die Macht der Nacht. 'Sie kommen, um Erinnerungen zu löschen - die schönsten aber werden hier geboren.' Und damit ist wirklich alles gesagt, was es in diesem Moment zu sagen gibt.

Limited Edition (250 only) pink vinyl LP. King of Cats - the project of Brighton-cum-Oxford songwriter Max Levy - will release a debut album, 'Working Out' through Art Reeks, the collaborative label by Art Is Hard and Reeks of Effort Records (ran by members of Joanna Gruesome). Recorded by Johnathan Coddington in a big room with crystals, 'Working Out' is influenced variously by Internet radio, indeterminacy, Reeks of Effort (bands and people), the ability to buy guns from the internet, the muscular form and the village of Eynsham. It is a complex, frustrated and often funny record featuring cameos from members of Joanna Gruesome and Ides, who (along with a revolving cast of DIY musicians) comprise Levy's live band. Lyrical and sonic comparisons can be made to Stephin Merrit, Scout Niblett, Alasdair Roberts or Frankie Cosmos and elements of the D.I.Y indiepop and punk scenes King of Cats inhabits often shine through. But the sound and personality of 'Working Out' lacks a derivative quality, partly due to Max's totally distinctive, powerful singing voice. ''Most of the songs have something to do with the fear of being trapped in a feeble body, dreams of a muscular form and the relationship between one's environment, one's body and one's being an idiot. I don't work out a lot, but I think about it often.

"Space Trash", the fourth album by Austrian band villalog, plays with bending and distorting coordinates of space and time. Whereas their last album, "Cosmic Sister"(2009) was more of a space-disco sci-fi trip, the new album, "Space Trash", looks pointedly towards the earth. As always, villalog's musical starting point is found somewhere between Kraftwerk and Can, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Spacement3. Doesn't work Sure it does! Founded in 1999 as a duo, Michi Duscher (guitar) and Marc Muncke (electronics) were subsequently joined by drummer Bernhard Fleischmann, who also produced this latest album.Live performances by villalog often overflow into controlled drifting. Virtually all tracks have the potential to sink into an endless vortex of sounds that weave into and tumble over one another. This improvisational stream that glides out to the outer limits is at the core of "Space Trash". The album's roving sound was initially sparked during a brilliant concert at the 2010 Klangbad festival in Scheer, which in 2013 led to an invitation from festival and label boss Hans Joachim Irmer to record in his own Faust studio. Irmler also became co-producer of the album, reasonable collaboration as it is sometimes puts the focus on letting space and time oscillate.

White Void is the solo project of Frederik Lind Köppen, who is known from many different projects over the last few years, lately as drummer of the 4 piece band Communions that released their debut Ep through Posh Isolation earlier this year. White Void is a different beast, distorted & unique in its compositions, it is difficult to fit under any genre term. While the production leans towards primitiv punk and metal, the tracks carry with them an underlying pop sensibility, that makes it hard to explain, but proves yet again that Frederik Lind Köppen is (even with his young age) already an incredibly talented song writer and a unique musical mind. Young and unbalanced heart throbbing rock music.

Kasabian, Britain's best and biggest rock band, release new single 'Stevie' November 10th on Columbia Records. 'Stevie' is one of the many highlights on their acclaimed 5th album '48:13'. Written and produced by Sergio Pizzorno,
'Stevie' is a live highlight as witnessed by the tens of thousands who saw them over the summer headline Glastonbury and Leicester's Victoria Park.

Here's what the press are saying about this classic song:
'A rock symphony complete with orchestral sections' - The Times
'Rolling bass, stings of brass, snarled lyrics that hint at Hendrix' - NME
'Re-writes firearm lament Hey Joe' - Mojo
'Urgent, crunching' - The Independent
We say, it's classic Kasabian and we can't wait to hear it on their upcoming UK tour (with support from the Maccabees).

Entrancing debut release on a label run by Charlotte Marionneau from Le Volume Courbe and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields. Minimal, hook-strewn space-folk by Koichi Yamanoha — from cult psych-punks Screaming Tea Party, with contributions from LVC, members of Chrome Hoof, and fellow Japanese ex-pats Bo Ningen — mixing together the harsh, melancholic beauty of Nico, Green World ambience, the tunefulness of classic pop, and the otherworldliness of Joe Meek. Lovely stuff.

Internationally renowned DJ and radio personality Gilles Peterson has called upon some of the most exciting names across the jazz, electronic and indie worlds to rework Melanie De Biasio's acclaimed album No Deal, including EELS, The Cinematic Orchestra, Hex, and Seven Davis Junior.

EELS haunting, orchestral reworking of opening track I Feel You is the first ever remix by Mark Oliver Everett (AKA E), who fell in love with De Biasio's music when she supported EELS at the Royal Albert Hall in June. The Cinemantic Orchestra give I'm Gonna Leave You an intense reworking, while beat maker C. Crisci, a.k.a Clap! Clap! gives the same track an afro-beat slant. Seven Davis Jr gives title-track No Deal an old school house flavour, while LA's Jonwayne coats With All My Love a lush balm of hip-hop. Japan's Toshio Matsuura (AKA Hex) adds an impressive urgency to The Flow, whilst France's modern classical composer Chassol provides a downtempo and discordant take on Sweet Darling Pain.

2014 has been a breakthrough year for Brussels-based De Biasio, who was recently announced the winner for Belgium of the 2015 European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA), which celebrate the best new pop, rock and dance acts in Europe which have achieved cross-border chart success. Other winners include Hosier (Ireland), MO (Denmark), Milky Chance (Germany), and Todd Terje (Norway).

No Deal received 4 star reviews from The Guardian, Mojo, and Record Collector, with Hi-Fi Plus awarding it 10 out of 10, saying "I think we have the album of the year on our hands." Her most recent single I'm Gonna Leave You was playlisted at BBC 6 Music, and last month De Biasio performed on Later...With Jools Holland, BBC2's flagship music show, becoming the first Belgian artist to be invited on the show since 1995.

01. I Feel You (EELS Remix)
02. Melanie De Biasio "The Flow (Hex Remix)" - Boiler Room Debuts
03. No Deal (Seven Davis Jr Remix)
04. With Love / Sweet Darling Pain (Gilles Peterson & Sinbad Remix)
05. Sweet Darling Pain (Chassol Remix)
06. I'm Gonna Leave You (Clap! Clap! Remix)
07. With All My Love (Jonwayne Remix)
08. i'm Gonna Leave You (The Cinematic Orchestra Remix)

Little introduction should be required here. Let it suffice to say
that Bee Thousand is arguably the best, or at least among the top
Guided By Voices albums in a copious discography. Accordingly,
the album has stacked up accolades over the years, including
being voted #1 on Amazon.com's '100 Greatest Indie Rock
Albums of All Time.' It's a staple such lists, and has also placed
highly on those curated by Spin, Pitchfork, Mojo and Rolling
Stone.
This new LP pressing, the first since the late '90s, honors the
album's 20th anniversary. It features new (and definitely improved)
mastering from John Golden, a substantial gatefold
jacket with a previously unpublished Robert Pollard collage,
and high-quality virgin vinyl from RTI. We've also included a
free download card.

Soul Jazz Records' new 'Punk 45' album Burn, Rubber City, Burn charts the rise of the music scene in the mid-west city of Akron, Ohio, at a time when the city and the rubber industry it was associated with was in deep decline.

Featuring a fantastic collection of Akron groups including Devo, The Bizarros, Rubber City Rebels, Jane Aire, Chi-Pig, The Waitresses and more.

The album comes complete with extensive text as well as exclusive photos and original record artwork. CD comes with outsize large booklet and thick slipcase. Vinyl edition is on deluxe gatefold double-vinyl with free download code.

The album follows on from Soul Jazz Records' earlier Punk 45 albums about USA and British punk (Kill The Hippies! Kill Yourself! and There Is No Such Thing As Society) as well as the cover art book Punk 45. Burn, Rubber City, Burn coincides with the release of as a second album about Ohio's early punk scene, Extermination Nights in the Sixth City - featuring the music scene of nearby Cleveland.

Soul Jazz Records' story of American punk opens up a whole 1970s history that is still underexposed.' The Guardian