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Beat The Radar : 'To The City, From The Sea' CD Album
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“Fuck looking like a fashionista: this is indie music as it’s meant to be.. they mean every word.” The Fly
If you’re starting to feel that indie music has lost its heart, then Beat The Radar may be the antidote to your malaise. BTR’s debut album, To The City, From The Sea, is packed with heart-on-their-sleeve lyrics, raw vocals, chunky guitars and big, pop choruses. “I know that mountains of other bands also say they have the above,” says singer Jonny Swift, “But I just think they don’t do it as well as us.”
The four Cumbrian exiles moved to Manchester to launch their band, reasoning that they’d be best placed in the home of their idols The Smiths, New Order, The Fall and The Stone Roses. But there’s more in Beat The Radar’s mix – a rich seam of US indie influences from Sonic Youth to early REM, Mission Of Burma and Sebadoh. It’s a rag-tag sound, but they’re a rag-tag bunch – this is not your over-styled, too-cool-for-school indie band. “We actually spend time focusing on writing some proper tunes rather than our haircuts,” says Jonny.
Named for their move from the wilds of the far northwest coast to inner city Manchester, To The City, From The Sea was recorded with producer Tom Knott (Micah P Hinson, King Creosote, The Courteeners, Emmy The Great, The Ting Tings) at Airtight Studios in Chorlton.
The finished result is a proper, old fashioned debut album: plenty of upbeat songs, a couple of downbeat ones, and a brilliantly raw distillation of Beat The Radar’s raucous live shows. In keeping with the title, some songs are inspired by nights out in Manchester – Stars came from a night looking up in a city centre beer garden, Pretend You Play Guitar from watching a guy playing air guitar in a club – others come from those Lake District days, such as early composition By The Sea. Of those, there’s often a sense of escapism and frustration – 18,19, 20, 21, 22 reflects on lyricist Jonny’s formative years, and Passenger provides a contemplative counterpart to the album’s freewheeling spirit.
Preview tracks & check out the videos @ myspace.com/beattheradar
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OR AS A SPECIAL OFFER GET THE ALBUM & A TICKET FOR THE ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY ON NOVEMBER 9TH FOR ONLY £9!
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Sam And Me : 'The Battle Of Hemsby' CD Album
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After 5 years of perfecting their harmonious pop, Sam and Me have recorded a debut album to cherish, a bed sit Flaming Lips if you like with echoes of Harpers Bizarre, Heatmiser (Elliot Smith's band), Kings Of Convenience, early Lemonheads filtered through 90's arcade and games consoles.
A swirl of soundscapes and textures fill 'The Battle of Hemsby' to the brim in tales of the seaside (they hail from Brighton), tube rides and holidays. Their trademark, intricate vocal harmonies are matched by lush production and frequency-filling arrangements - it's a feast of the senses. These guys have been part of aA for as long as we can remember and we're chuffed to bits to be putting their record out.
Preview tracks & check out the videos @ www.samandme.com
CD - £7 + P&P [ Download - ]
Album comes with Sam and Me 'Sonic Boomerang' 7", Sam and Me-branded chip fork & a seasidetastic polaroid print!
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Beat The Radar : 'Telephone Conversation' CDR Single
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“Fuck looking like a fashionista: this is indie music as it’s meant to be.. they mean every word.” The Fly
Telephone Conversation is the debut single from adopted Mancunians Beat The Radar. Built on spiky guitars and superfast drums, it speaks of something we’ve all experienced – the strange sensation of receiving too much information about a stranger’s life via an unavoidably overheard phone call. “The idea for the song came one day when I was making the daily tedious train journey from Lancaster to Manchester,” says singer Jonny Swift. “There was a girl sat in front of me, she was on the phone telling the whole train about her entire life story. Talk about annoying…”
You know the fuckers, those annoying students on the forty bus route into town every morning which make your jounrney to work even worse. If you were so fucked - how come you can remember exactly how many units of alcohol you drank last nite and exactly what you did!? Go and pay some taxes.
Plus it's a top tune (& you get a free poster when you buy it from here!)
CDR - £2.00 +P&P (with free poster!) [ Download - ]
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its a buffalo : 'Don't Be Scared' LP
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Following a groundswell of support in their home city of Manchester, its a buffalo (all lower case, no apostrophe please) are set to release their barnstorming debut album Don’t Be Scared.
its a buffalo are four best mates who also happen to be in a band. Together, they’ve forged their own distinctive sound - Million Dollar Bash Rock n Roll kids - built on drums hit hard – really hard – plus chiming riffs and the perfectly contrasted voices of lead singers Ben and Steve (Ben’s the one with the rasp; Steve has the cleaner tone).
We reckon it’s the kind of record we’ve been waiting for, for yonks: a heartfelt, rabble rousing debut by a gang to believe in. Mark our words – there’ll be hordes of fans copying Ben’s trademark ‘80s tennis player look by the end of year. Chalk flew up. Don’t be scared.
"In their mind these Manc newbies are a kind of depression-era US
country band. In reality they're a bawdy indie pop group from
Manchester. So it's a winning trick that lets them keep one
convincing foot in each world without their breeches tearing. An
irresistible debut." Uncut
CD - £8.99 +P&P (with free tour CD!)
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its a buffalo : 'Marbles / Belt me in the back'
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Marbles is its a buffalo’s latest single, a live favourite and a total earworm, with its chiming guitar riff and shout along chorus about, well, losing your marbles. Loud, lo-fi and utterly irresistible, it’s the perfect example of its a buffalo’s alt-country tinged take on Mancunian anthemia. Belt Me in the Back - the rambunctious B-side to Marbles is an cock eyed country ramble punctuated with off beat drums. Opening as a slow burner, it comes to life with its shouty, acapella chorus’s mined from the same seam as the local colliery. Rough, ready and sprawling with melody.
Each 7" ordered comes with free signed IAB artwork!
Download the single by clicking here
7" - £3.50 +P&P
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Cats In Paris : 'Courtcase 2000' CD
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This review says it best:
"Cats In Paris are by far and away the best band in Manchester. When I first saw them live I was stunned that something this good could exist so near to me and its only gotten better since. Amidst a vast horde of bad post-rock and tame folk types Cats In Paris stride over England´s cultural second city like… well, that giant cat in the Monty Python sketch or something. Eating cars"
CD - £8.99 +P&P
Cats In Paris : 'Foxes / Terrapins'
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"Berserk soundscapes & a cacophonic onslaught of bonkers percussion and strings, trust me it's an orgy for the senses." THE FLY
Foxes is the debut single by aA's latest signing, 'Cats in Paris' and is a thrilling baroque prog-pop epic, with punky boy girl call and response vocals and a massive arpeggiated synth riff that develops in to a beautifully complex and wonky indie-pop anthem. Expect sweeping strings with chimes and glockenspiel, synth and recorder, chugging bass and acrobatic percussion & sweet instrumental breakdowns. Comparisons have been made to Deerhoof, Los Campesinos, The Apes, Dirty Projectors & Fat Worm of Error, but the fact is they are simply a thoroughly modern band, who, whilst admittedly an urbane savvy & serious ensemble, aren't afraid to be irreverent or complicit with the zietgeist when the mood takes them. Eitherway Cats in Paris are certainly twisting more than a few discerning ears and are surely spearheading the melodic noise scene currently keeping things interesting in Manchester
7" - £2.99 +P&P
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its a buffalo : 'CD EP' EXCLUSIVE TOUR RELEASE CD!
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Brand new EP from its a buffalo featuring the 4 tracks (Climb Climb,
Broken Toy, Divorce Song, Somewhere in Range) from their sell out debut
7” Singles on Akoustik Anarkhy
CD - £3.00 plus £1 P&P
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Neil Burrell : 'White Devil's Day Is Almost Over'
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Towards The Hills / Laughing Child / One Half Asleep
“there’s enough beauty and invention to mark this space cadet out as a genuine talent” Uncut
“Burrell’s music is so pastoral, his world so psychedelic, he could have been raised in a mushroom meadow.” Q
In a world where avant folk graces every mobile phone ad on the telly, Neil Burrell is a refreshing addition to the fray. (Try selling a new tariff with these tracks - we dare you). A major new talent, Burrell follows in the long lineage of weird, wonderful and truly individual artists that includes Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart, Six Organs of Admittance, Roy Harper, Nick Drake, Meic Stevens, The North Sea and Devandra Banhart. But Neil is in a far out English pasture of his own.
White Devil's Day Is Almost Over , Burrell's debut album, offers a frosted window into his beguiling world. Recorded on a micro-budget in locations ranging from a basement in Leeds to a junkyard, the distinct lo-fi aesthetic gives White Devil's Day the feeling of a long-lost classic.
“On some songs, when I had no money to buy stands and stuff, I had to wrap the microphone cord around the main light bulb,” says Neil. “I liked the echo in that room. It had no carpet and only two chairs, and the heat from the light bulb's tag created a little buzz on one or two tracks.”
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The Loungs : 'Googly Moogly'
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Googly Moogly
The third single to be taken from debut album "We Are The Champ", "Googly Moogly" finds the Loungs serving one of the most joyous two and a half minutes of near-nonsense ever laid on wax. Here, surf-pop and close harmonies rub shoulders with country rock guitars and a floaty middle-eight. The outcome: sheer pop perfection.
Ltd 7" - £2.99 +P&P
Limited edition - 300 copies only
Neil Burrell : 'Ooompa Zoompa / Evelyn'
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Oompa Zoompa
“Burrell has made a staggeringly psychadelic bit of oddness'” Mixmag
Even in a musical worlde where avant folk is almost de rigeur & gracing every mobile phone ad on the telly, Neil Burrell is a welcome and somewhat astonishing addition to the fray. This young man's songs follow a long lineage of weird, wonderful and truly individual artists that brings to mind, Six Organs of Admittance, Syd Barrett through Robert Wyatt, Captain Beefheart, James Blackshaw, Roy Harper, Nick Drake, Meic Stevens, The North Sea and even Devandra Banhart. But obvious references to these artistes are futile as Neil Burrell is in a far out English pasture of his own.
Ltd 7" - £2.99 +P&P
Autokat : 'Innocence / Short Circuit'
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Innocence
“A kind of bleak alternative soundtrack to Shameless” Uncut
“just fantastic…they get better and better with each listen” The Guardian
“It’s grim up North – but great – with these new Mancunians” Word
‘Innocence’ is the new single lifted from Autokat’s debut album ‘Late
Night Shopping’ and is backed with a brand new track ‘Short Circuit’
resulting in a double aA side single of the truest sense. ‘Innocence’ is a short, sharp rush of punky guitar driven pop and is perhaps the
most instantly accessible track from the album. It is followed here by a dark
brooding building number ‘Short Circuit’, a brand new recording and perhaps
inclining into the bands next direction, perhaps not.
Ltd 7" - £2.99 +P&P [ Download - ]
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its a buffalo : 'Divorce Song'
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Divorce Song
Last Autumn Its A Buffalo stomped out into the world with a debut single "Broken Toy" / "Climb Climb". Styled somewhere between Animal Collective and "Exile"-era Stones jamming at Bob Dylan's Million Dollar Bash they've picked up some plaudits and chanting fans along the way and since then have been busy honing their sound on the road. This double A-Side follow up demonstrates the progress they have made - with two songs of genuine radio- friendly quality whilst maintaining their trademark 3-man shouty vocals and rough-country groove.
Ltd 7" - £2.99 +P&P [ Download - ]
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The Loungs : 'We Are The Champ' LP
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Im Gonna Take Your Girl / Armageddon Outta Here
We Are The Champ is the debut album from The Loungs. A six piece band-cum-gang, The Loungs produce kaleidoscopic pop in a grey world – music filled with colour and sunshine, peppered with trumpets, time changes, made-up words and catchy, singalong choruses, File next to Super Furry Animals, The Beta Band, ELO and that weird album you bought in the Age Concern shop because you liked the cover...
“The Loungs want to fuck with your head…crazed Beach Boys acid-pop and psychedelic sea shanties” nme
'postively majestic' Word.
"Classy pop melodies…The Loungs lace their love of finger-clicking 50s
rock'n'roll and ‘60s surf-pop with frenzied horns and the odd bit of
acid-fried silliness” Uncut
Vinyl LP - £7.00 +P&P
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Islands Lost At Sea / Soft Priest : 'Way We Played It Yesterday / Study Bunk Breakout'
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ILAS / SP
Islands lost at Sea are 1 Part early Beta Band plus a smattering of the toy town folksy aspects of Eureka period Jim O Rourke,
with a nod to the more adventurous outings of Stereolab, (if Ry Cooder had been in the band, that is),
the Islands lost at Sea have produced a debut 7" that is as genuine as it is original and a fine example
of pure unspoiled Northern lo-fi pop. Sounding as fresh as clutch of minature snow drops, this record signals the early coming of spring,
forget blaming those pesky green house gases, it was the Islands lost at Sea that done it. Soft Priest's ‘Study Bunk Breakout’ starts like some kind of cartoon disturbed national anthem, maybe for a country no-one
has yet or will ever want to go to. If it was a piece of writing it would be a unsolicited insult scrawled
in snot up the back of a seat on the 192 bus. Best consumed after a butty box full of mushies, not
for drones only for spoons.
"each band here is inventive and totally individualist. ILAS mix lo-fi
acid riffs, psychedelic pop harmonies, Stone Roses basslines and what
sound like kazoos. SP go instrumental with rave riffs, mad flutes and
slap bass." Mixmag
Ltd 7" - £2.99 +P&P
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