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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
rresitble 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.”

CD - £7.00 +P&P [ Download - ]

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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

The Loungs : 'Armageddon Outta Here'
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Armageddon Outta Here

Coming at you ahead of The Loungs' debut 'WE ARE THE CHAMP' LP is "Armageddon Outta Here", a handclapping, head-bobbing slice of pop perfection. An exercise in simplicity, it contains only two lines of lyrics, but in the words of the band, 'still crams in love, death and war'. It's a tight fit, but they also squeeze in trumpets, glockenspiel, guitars and an intentionally incongruous - but wonderful - string arrangement. The deliciously bonkers B-side is another gem from the band that at once recall the best bits of Super Furry Animals, The Beta Band, The Housemartins and the songs off Sesame Street.

Ltd 7" - £2.99 +P&P [ Download - ]

Autokat : 'Late Night Shopping' LP
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Shot / Dish Out / The Driver

‘Late Night Shopping’ is the debut album from Manchester’s Autokat and indeed marks a debut for Manchester’s influential collective/label Akoustik Anarkhy (aA). Having been kicking and screaming their way through nearly a decade of club nights and parties, the driving force of the rejuvenated sound of Manchester’s underground comes to a head with this album. Described by the band as a tense, turbulent album born from the paranoia of urban life and the hangover of too much partying, ‘Late Night Shopping’ is an indie classic in waiting.

“Autokat are already able to realise the kind of intelligent post-Britrock sound that few others seem able to manage.” The Independent

"Mesmirising and thoroughly engrossing” Artrocker

"Fine debut from melodic and moody Mancunians" 4/5 Uncut

CD Digipack Album - £7.00 +P&P [ Download - ]

Vinyl Album - £7.00 +P&P

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Autokat : 'Shot / Seven Years'
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Shot

In advance of their debut album, Autokat's third single wets the appetite for what promises to be one of the most exciting independent records to come out of Manchester for years. "Shot" / "Seven Years" continues the Autokat story following last year's highly rated singles "The Driver" and "Dish Out". In "Shot" the sound is typical Kat - sinister pop with a propelling beat and mantra vocal to soundtrack a dark night or velvet morning.

Ltd 7" - £2.99 +P&P [ Download - ]

its a buffalo : 'Broken Toy / Climb Climb'
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Broken Toy

Still only a handful of gigs old, this is the debut single from its a buffalo. These two country tinged tracks capture their rawness and simplicity perfectly.

Ltd 7" - £2.99 +P&P [ Download - ]

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Autokat : 'Dish Out / Get Off The Bar'
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Dish Out

Another fine slice of upbeat, cranked up, experimental guitar pop from Autokat.

Ltd 7" - £2.99 +P&P [ Download - ]

Thomas Truax : 'Have We Been Left Behind?'
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Have We Been Left Behind?

Limited edition 7" only release from Thomas Traux, a pioneer of New York's anti-folk movement. NME describes him as a, 'New York anti-folk genius who aligns the grizzled psychedelic yawn of Captain Beefheart with the rag'n'bone rock bomp of a tick-addled wino one-man band.'

Ltd 7"- £2.99 + P&P

The Loungs : 'I'm Gonna Take Your Girl'
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Im Gonna Take Your Girl

An unashamedly catchy slice of upbeat psyche-pop from this larger than life six piece band.

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Soft Priest : 'Done It EP'
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Done It

The "Done It!" EP is the debut release from Akoustik Anarkhy's resident DJ Soft Priest. Strictly limited to 500 copies only. described by the man himself as 'rave damaged pop', this left of mainstream creation fits neatly on both dancefloor and headphones.

CD Single - £2.99 +P&P [ Download - ]

Sam And Me : 'Sonic Boomerang'
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Sonic Boomerang
The Path

Sam and Me's debut single "Sonic Boomerang" gives us the first glimpse of their magical world. A sweet Summery pop song with tight vocal harmonies, over a bright melodic backing that's interspersed with loads of odd psychedelic bursts, intricate piano, strings, squelchy synths and electronic squiggles that pop up and disappear just as quickly. There's even a little blast of Flaming Lips who are an obvious influence on the duo. Track two, "The Path" is a live favourite and on record it takes on a new life with a country twist.

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Various Artists : 'Akoustik Anarkhy - Class aA: Beyond Entertainment'
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Autokat - The Driver
Harrisons - Man Of The Hour
Nine Black Alps - Over The Ocean
Longcut - Transition (Live)

Since it's humble beginnings in a tiny front room of a dodgy boozer in Manchester's red light district, Akoustik Anarkhy's empire has expanded to include a label which is now getting on for twenty releases old. This compilation contains music by some of the label's favourite acts, some you should know already, some you may not. All of them have helped to cement aA's reputation as a haven for alternative underground talent. The line-up features eleven tracks from: Autokat, Loose Canon, Harrisons, Soft Priest, Sam & Me, Jack Cooper & The Beep Seals, The Exports, Nine Black Alps, Pierre Hall, The Longcut and Yacht Club.

LP - aA2w/017LP - £9.99 +P&P

CD - aA2w/017CD - £5.99 +P&P

Loose Canon : 'Altercation'
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Altercation
This Empire We've Created

Following on from the excellent "Cruising On The 86" single, Loose Canon return with this new single. Starting off with slow atmospheric guitars before exploding into a pacier, driven guitar blast, topped with their distinctive narrative vocals.

Ltd 7"- £2.49 +P&P

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