Releases – November 2023

Indie pop/rockers Ex Norwegian’s 14th album serves up eleven sun‐drenched, irreverent rock anthems perfect for those bright day radio rotations and today’s edgy streaming playlists. Tracks like “Real Bad Bunny” and “Scalers Blues” blend irresistible melodic twists that turn quirky lyrics into clever hooks, epitomizing what great pop music should sound like. While songs such as “Short On The Wire” and “Send Nudes” radiate a full band sound, the album reveals its secret: it’s an impressive solo endeavour via Roger Houdaille. The playful lyric from “Extra” ...

Tony Martin is an English heavy metal vocalist best known for his time fronting Black Sabbath,initially from 1987 to 1991 and again from 1993 to 1996. Martin was the band’s second longest servingvocalist after Ozzy Osbourne. Black Sabbath’s «Eternal Idol» and «Headless Cross» are among the bestknown albums featuring Tony Martin, as well as «Scream», his second solo album from 2005. The newalbum will feature Danny Needham (Venom), Magnus Rosen (HammerFall), Scott McClellan, whohelped co-write the album, Greg Smith, who performed with Alice Cooper, Rainbow, ...

DOOM JAZZ II: Deception continues the epic story of the DOOM JAZZ saga, with Jamie Saft and Bobby Previte trading the slow, sensual lines of DOOM JAZZ I for a more active, muscular sound. Side One, “The New Friend” and “Everyone is Aware” uses a vintage Yamaha organ to create an atmosphere of mystery and space. Side Two, “Deception” moves into different territory, Saft’s distorted Hammond Organ sailing over Previte’s active, commanding tom toms in a blues based jam of wild ferocity and intense foreboding. The plot ...

DOOM JAZZ II: Deception continues the epic story of the DOOM JAZZ saga, with Jamie Saft and Bobby Previte trading the slow, sensual lines of DOOM JAZZ I for a more active, muscular sound. Side One, “The New Friend” and “Everyone is Aware” uses a vintage Yamaha organ to create an atmosphere of mystery and space. Side Two, “Deception” moves into different territory, Saft’s distorted Hammond Organ sailing over Previte’s active, commanding tom toms in a blues based jam of wild ferocity and intense foreboding. The plot ...

Briefcases exchanged against a grey brutalist skyline. A nameless man wiretaps a phone call while tape spools silently whirl. A stolen dossier slides across a pub table.‘The Cortina Protocol’ is the sound of these images. Recorded in three days to tape at The Cowshed Studios in North London in early 2021 the album wiretaps the colder veins of 60s and 70s crime soundtracks, weaving tense cinematic atmospheres, hypnotic kraut-isms, and swirling psychedelic funk. Initially influenced by the widescreen aesthetics of Roy Budd, Heliocentrics, John Cameron, ...

The Kotiomkin band was born from a great passion for 60s-70s-80s Italian genre cinema, a series of movies characterized by aesthetically innovative approach, in complete opposition to the mainstream and to more or less politicized intellectual cinema of the time.The duo devote himself to the creation of instrumental soundtracks for non-existent movies, with invented plots featured in the liner notes, having as a reference the classic soundtracks of the time but revisiting them with the violence of the most modern stoner, pushing the boundaries of ...

The Kotiomkin band was born from a great passion for 60s-70s-80s Italian genre cinema, a series of movies characterized by aesthetically innovative approach, in complete opposition to the mainstream and to more or less politicized intellectual cinema of the time.The duo devote himself to the creation of instrumental soundtracks for non-existent movies, with invented plots featured in the liner notes, having as a reference the classic soundtracks of the time but revisiting them with the violence of the most modern stoner, pushing the boundaries of ...

SOLD OUT Pressing of 250Original Midlands post-punks Cult Figures return with third album Between Us And Heaven, comprising twelve tracks that illustrate the seismic changes both within the band and the world atlarge since 2021’s critically acclaimed Deritend.The album sees original guitarist Jon Hodgson, bassist Lee McFadden and drummer Stuart Hiltonjoined by new members Fraser Gillespie (lead vocals) and Steve May (guitar), as well as contributions from co-founding singer Gary Jones, who tragically lost his life in 2022, and to whose memory ...

SOLD OUT Pressing of 250Original Midlands post-punks Cult Figures return with third album Between Us And Heaven,comprising twelve tracks that illustrate the seismic changes both within the band and the world atlarge since 2021’s critically acclaimed Deritend.The album sees original guitarist Jon Hodgson, bassist Lee McFadden and drummer Stuart Hiltonjoined by new members Fraser Gillespie (lead vocals) and Steve May (guitar), as well ascontributions from co-founding singer Gary Jones, who tragically lost his life in 2022, and to whosememory the ...

SOLD OUT Pressing of 100An album of electronic soundscapes from an imagined score inspired by scenes from the bestsellingnovel ‘Piranesi’ by Susanna Clarke. After reading and re-reading ‘Piranesi’, the album was writtenand recorded in Willie G’s studio in the East Anglian fens – the project was started during the firstCovid lockdown and reflects the deep sense of isolation that prevailed for many people during thatperiod. The eight tracks depict specific locations and events in the novel and were conceived as ...

Ephemeral, a trio formed in Germany in 2019, paints a sonic world based on vivid, heartfelt and timeless progressive dark‐folk, lyrically inspired by English literature from various centuries as well as by reflections on human longing, growth and the cyclical nature of life, in which every ending gives rise to a new beginning.Each song of “Into Being”, the band’s debut full‐length, deals with the shedding of one’s old skin for a new one, following the path toward the unknown and the beauty of letting ...

Teramo, Italy’s Inutili, return with their fifth full-length album, “A Love Supreme.” It’s a departurefrom the band’s last albums. After a long lockdown, Inutili discovered the pure pleasure of playingmusic together. In their own words:The album was made simply and naturally through free and psychedelic jam sessions in the band’srehearsal room. A declaration of love for music, just a holy respect for music without schemes: ALove Supreme!Inutili is Alessandro Antinori (bass, guitar), Pietro Calvarese (guitar, vocals), Giancarlo Di Marco(guitar, bass) ...

Italy-based doom and shoegaze craftsmen SHERPA sign to Subsound Records for the release of their third studio album “Land of Corals” this November !Five years after their sophomore record “Tigris & Euphrates” and an acclaimed performance at Roadburn Festival, the creative duo of Matteo Dossena and Franz Cardone aka SHERPA take us on yet another singular and immersive aural journey with their new album “Land of Corals”. Their hybrid marriage of shoegaze, atmospheric doom/post-metal and electronics blossoms in lush textures and slow but rewarding ...

Italy-based doom and shoegaze craftsmen SHERPA sign to Subsound Records for the release of their third studio album “Land of Corals” this November !Five years after their sophomore record “Tigris & Euphrates” and an acclaimed performance at Roadburn Festival, the creative duo of Matteo Dossena and Franz Cardone aka SHERPA take us on yet another singular and immersive aural journey with their new album “Land of Corals”. Their hybrid marriage of shoegaze, atmospheric doom/post-metal and electronics blossoms in lush textures and slow but rewarding ...

This is quite a unique release , as expected with genre-defying label Subsound Records. From a mystical frontier where the East meets the West comes a psychedelic wonder called The Cyclist Conspiracy. This musical collective consisting of ten men and women creates unique sonic escapism for the soul that embark any listener onto a long-haul voyage without further ado. New album “Mashallah Plan” is a psychedelic tapestry that blends influences from various parts of the world into a seamless unique “desert” rock experience – ...