Post-Punk
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Some bands find their groove and stick to it; others reinvent themselves constantly. Sextile belongs to the latter camp, embracing the thrill of an ever-changing road map. The LA duo of Melissa Scaduto and Brady Keehn craft music with a lust for life, drawing inspiration from no wave to hardstyle....
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Molchat Doma are releasing their first official live album, performed and recorded at the iconic Panorama Hotel, the striking architectural monument featured on the cover of their breakthrough album Etazhi. Celebrated for channeling a distinct Soviet-era darkwave aesthetic, Molchat Doma bring their haunting sound to life with three fan-favorite tracks:...
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With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist...
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With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist...
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With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist...
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Another mixtape reissued by Death Is Not The Enc in partnership with Philadelphia's punk archivists World Gone Mad, a 90 minute overview of rare material from the annals of Poland's dark wave scene, 1982 to 1989....
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Collating hard-to-find punk and new wave pop from end of ‘80s France (and french-speaking Belgium & Luxembourg), the 3rd and final of DINTE & World Gone Mad’s gallic mixtape series is puckered with particularly ripe examples of the sound that edge into the peripheries of indie pop’s turns toward dream-pop...
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Triangulating ‘French Post-Punk & New Wave: 1984-1987’ to mean tunes from France and gallic-tongue bits of Belgium and Luxembourg in the mid ‘80s, the vibes on this one are truly of a ripe vintage that feels like tapping into a station at the end of the radio dial, piping in...
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The London/Philly-split series triangulates French Post-Punk & New Wave as coming from francophone countries France, Belgium, and Luxembourg in the ’80s, and kicks off with a 1980-1983 set running down from Talking Heads imitators to cosmic-angled experiments via wiry minimal and cold wave. As to be expected with french music,...
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Come Away With ESG - This is the 35-year anniversary release of the classic genre-busting debut album by the Bronx sisters ESG. The sample-friendly opus that’s the inspiration for hip-hop, house and post punk. Music that falls outside of the no wave, new wave and post punk library, it’s for...
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PARADE GROUND has always been the duo of brothers JEAN-MARC and PIERRE PAULY from Brussels, Belgium formed in 1981. Taking cues from Post-Punk, Coldwave, Dada and Surrealism, Parade Ground channeled suffering, tension and rage through pulsing synthesizers, skeletal guitar, severe bass and Jean-Marc’s expressive vocals as the most melodic and...
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If it's been five years of failure for Discreet, who mark their first half-decade with a ten track compilation of new or unreleased music by label alumni Facit, Eftergift, Demeters Döttrar, Sewer Election, Juho Toivonen, Leda, Shadow Pattern, Livskraft, Arv & Miljö and Franciska, then they've certainly been failing upwards....
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Bag People were Chicagoans who outgrew their home in the maelstrom of the early 80s NYC post-punk/ no-wave scene. They weren’t around long, but their compulsive noise-rock sound, unearthed from tapes lost for 40 years, looms large and stands tall next to the efforts of better-known contemporaries like Sonic Youth...
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The debut album from New Order, originally produced by Martin Hannett, who had previously collaborated with Joy Division, features eight original tracks all written after the sudden death of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, including ‘Dreams Never End’ and ‘Truth’ which were both penned very shortly in a writing session in...
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The debut-album by UK post-punk band Essential Logic, fronted by X-Ray Spex co-founder Lora Logic, was originally released in December 1979. This deluxe 45th Anniversary reissue offers the original studio album together with a bonus album containing the complete Essential Logic studio recordings from 1978-1983, including the iconic debut single...
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Parade Ground march back to Dark Entries with The Hidden Side, a compilation of B-sides and unreleased material. Brothers Jean-Marc and Pierre Pauly started Parade Ground in Brussels in 1981. Their Dada-laced brand of post-punk fuses propulsive drum machines and icy synths with skeletal guitar riffs and Jean-Marc’s distinct and...
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Formed in 1977, the Cheltenham-based band Hardware drew inspiration from proto-punk, Krautrock, the CBGBs scene, Pere Ubu, and the more adventurous side of the UK punk scene, and released two 7-inch EPs in 1979 on their own record label, N.A.R.C. (Not Another Record Company). They mainly played in Gloucestershire, with...
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Respect and thanks to those we have sampled Recorded at Sam Therapy, Kensal; Island Studios, Hammersmith; Out Of The Blue, Manchester. Engineers: Stephen Street and Nick Garside. Thanks to Sounds Great, Stuart James and Piccadilly Records. The artwork shown here was that originally developed by regular Durutti designers 8vo. However,...
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Channeling the Euro-pop sensibilities of Crepuscule and the ethereal goth of 4AD, Vazz arrived in Glasgow just as the Sound of Young Scotland was taking off. Armed with a drum machine, guitar, bass, and Anna Howson’s icy cooing, the duo offered a darker take to a scene dominated by poptimists...
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Live set by The Fall, captured in 2013 at Clitheroe Grand. By all accounts, Mark E. Smith and his band of merry men and women were in splendid form at this show, even if Mark did do his old ‘sing from the dressing room’ trick for the last...
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Quickly on the heels of their debut, Cuneiform Tabs return with Age, an LP that takes a massive leap forward in both melodic sensibilities and inventiveness. Bathed in late night psychedelia and the looping repetition of a drone sample, the group’s experimental penchants remain, yet this time wrapped around tunes...
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Double red colored vinyl LP pressing. Levitate' is The Fall's 19th album originally released in 1997 on Artful Records. It's the last album to feature two long-time Fall members, drummer Karl Burns and bass player Steve Hanley (whose playing was once described by Smith as the defining element of the...
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Bella Union are delighted to announce the release of The Fall's ‘Grotesque (After The Gramme) Live!’ - the latest release from POPSTOCK records, which builds on the success of the critically acclaimed ‘Slates Live!’. Sourced, mastered and designed by the musicians who played on the original LP, and with insightful...
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***An almost impossible to imagine archive of underground DIY sounds from Japan dating 1979-1981. Inspired by the UK compilation album of the same name released in 1980 by Morgan Fisher, a one time member of Mott The Hoople, which features “miniature” works by an incredibly diverse group of 50...
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Berlin-based romantic post-punk and body musik Musician/DJ riding the next wave acid halo into the sun-shattered dusk. Pressed on hot pink vinyl....
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A special Halloween drop in the form of part one of a two-part Japanese post-punk, goth & new wave mixtape, the first in a tranche of globally-focused mixes reissued in partnership with Philadelphia’s punk archivists World Gone Mad....
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special Halloween drop in the form of part two of a two-part Japanese post-punk, goth & new wave mixtape, the first in a tranche of globally-focused mixes in partnership with Philadelphia’s punk archivists World Gone Mad....
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Compiled by Jason Boardman ( Before I Die Records) Celebrated Manchester club-night/record Label Owner , DJ & digger - supreme. An album of early 1980s Post-Punk era musical bedroom & small studio innovations & DIY Inspirations - Featuring rarely / never heard cuts from that period. Including tracks sampled by...
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"At some point someone is going to have to ante up and get this Living Rainbow stuff on vinyl. While we wait for Christmas, let's make do with this latest nine track cassette, the fourth and absolutely best release yet from the London-based project helmed by Sanctuary of Praise's Tom...
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With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof (German '70s punk club equivalent to CBGB's, where D.A.F....
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With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen," S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the '70s -- as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist...
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‘Kiwi Animals’ is a personal catalog of local oddities; affectionately recasting the 1980’s New Zealand Top 40 in a parallel universe of misfit pop, gonzo-tronics & voodoo-waves. Channeling South Pacific gothic sensibilities and edge of world melancholia, the album highlights unexpected electronic tangents from iconic NZ groups Blam Blam Blam...
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Arthur Russell first visited The Gallery in 1976 with his then boyfriend Louis, who introduced him to Nicky Siano. Arthur became a regular at the space and one night as Siano was playing "Turn the Beat Around", which had just been released, Arthur waved at him from outside the booth...
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THE NEFILIM formed in 1992 and developed after a fragmentation of Fields Of The Nephilim. In 1996, the only Nefilim album, ZOON was released. Carl McCoy spent four years pursuing his vision and created an aural assault on the senses. Created in isolation, it is a deep, dark industrial album...
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Audiopile Review: Portland’s Concentric Circles follow this year’s domestic reissue of the incredible Sternpost LP with a deep find from the cobwebbed closet of 1980’s DIY Olympia. So wildly obscure that barely a whiff of this seems to exist on the internet outside of this specific pressing, which makes all...
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Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad musical genre that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians moved away from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, adopting instead a broader, more experimental approach that included a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Here now...
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Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad musical genre that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians moved away from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, adopting instead a broader, more experimental approach that included a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Here now...
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The Sound burst onto the scene with their thrilling, adrenaline-fuelled 1980 debut,Jeopardy, now reissued on white vinyl. The music press was universally ecstatic heralding apowerful new force, but maybe Brendan Perry of the legendary Dead Can Dance summed itup best when years later he described Jeopardy...
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The final part of this reissue collection is the band’s defiant and expectation defying thirdalbum, All Fall Down. Available now on blue vinyl, it was a record that confounded somecritics but is one that has only grown in stature over time. The band as ever refusing to takethe easy option,...
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Arriving in 1981, slightly over a year after their debut and following a change of personnel on keyboards, From The Lions Mouth was the second studio album from English post-punk outfit The Sound. Monolithically bleak in the same sort of vein as Joy Division’s Closer, it yielded the wonderful single...
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Out of print for 15 years, Soul Jazz Records’ “Do It Yourself” features a host of post-punk, punk, punk funk/dance and electronic experimentation from UK bands in the late 70s and 80s that all arrived in the aftermath of punk. As well as loads of great music, the album also...
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Audiopile Review: During The Fall’s lifespan, Mark E. Smith released countless live CDs on his own Cog Sinister label. In recent years, many (if not most) of these have appeared on vinyl, as have sundry questionable, grey-area releases. To take control of the situation, ex-Fall members Paul Hanley, Steve Hanley,...
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’SONGS OF A LOST WORLD’ is the long awaited new album from The Cure, their 14th studio release and their first in 16 years. 'SONGS OF A LOST WORLD' was written and arranged by Robert Smith, produced and mixed by Robert Smith & Paul Corkett and performed by The Cure...
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’SONGS OF A LOST WORLD’ is the long awaited new album from The Cure, their 14th studio release and their first in 16 years. 'SONGS OF A LOST WORLD' was written and arranged by Robert Smith, produced and mixed by Robert Smith & Paul Corkett and performed by The Cure...
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Audiopile Review: Robert Rental, like his erstwhile collaborator Thomas Leer, is remembered as a pioneer of bedroom synth pop. But Rental and Leer emerged from the post-Throbbing Gristle industrial scene. And as anyone who’s heard side B of their classic duo album ‘The Bridge’ will tell you, they could get...
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Recorded in Los Angeles in 1982, 13.13 exists as document to the pandemonium of specters and potential serial killers who twisted the California Dream into a waking nightmare as they snaked through the boulevards, back yards and basements of a sun stroked paradise turning into a blood soaked inferno of...
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Cult 4AD post-punk legends The Wolfgang Press make an unexpected return with a first studio album in almost three decades, and it's a doozy. Returning to the grim soundscapes and twitchy post-punk mood of their earliest, edgiest material, they sound fully invigorated and at home on Karl O'Connor's Downwards, who...
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