COLD SPRING RELEASES

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN 'Veil The World' Ltd LP / CD
- CD in stock and shipping! LP OUT FRIDAY!
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LP Bone White | CD | Combo Deal | Bandcamp



MASONNA
- out 26th November
Ltd Black LP | Bandcamp



LULL
- out 3rd December
Ltd Brown 2LP | Ltd Black 2LP | Bandcamp



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COLIN POTTER - 'And Then' CD (ICR) - £9

Colin Potter is perhaps best known as a collaborator with Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Ora, Monos, Fovea Hex, and many others. Over the 62 minutes of "And Then", a wide range of sounds pass: languid sway, relentless rhythms, contemplative ambient / noise, rolling drones, mechanical undercurrents - sounds that were never meant to be. Steam engines lost in space, galleons passing in electric fog, static in the flowers. Natural environment sounds give way to strange metallic wire pings and pluckings. This isn't steady state music; it's just had all the edges filed off. The overall feel is very emotional, very strong and the variation helps sustain interest. Indeed, the music's rate of change has been well judged to keep pace with the world outside.

COZ THE SHROOM - 'Bum Henry Adams And Craig Stewart's Prince' LP (Rural Isolation Project) - £16

The first ever full-length vinyl LP release from longtime underground cassette genius and former Austin, TX mainstay Coz The Shroom. The tracks making up this "best of" are taken from cassettes issued between 1986-1989, and were curated by Craig Stewart, planned for release on Emperor Jones initially in the 90's. Finally released, this retrospective of Coz’s early years covers six cassettes: "Rocketship Rolter" (1987), "Destroy All Monsters" (1987), "Bride Of Mars" (1987), "Instant Osmosis" (1988), "Throat Gorge" (1988), "A Ghoul In A Gum Factory" (1989), and "The Blood Gusher" (1989). Lo-fi Psych-Rock / Punk / Avant-Garde. Ltd x 200 hand silk-screened and numbered copies.

GOVERNMENT ALPHA - 'Panta Rhei' CD (Rural Isolation Project) - £11

Brand new studio album from from cult Japanese harsh noiser Government Alpha: "Panta Rhei" ("everything flows"). Ultra psychedelic electronics and howling metal machinery. Mangled scraping, droning junk noise, pitted against walls of insane, stomach-churning noise. The whole of reality is like an ever-flowing stream; nothing is ever at rest for a moment. GA's queasy trademark cut-up artwork and the track titles offer a statement on humanity's relationship with technology; on ecological balance and mental deterioration. Definitely one for those with a love of uneasy listening. A beast of a release spewing out 6 tracks, and racking up 41 mins of essential noise, created at Xerxes Studio. Matte-laminate digipak.

INFINEXHUMA - 'Frontier' 2 x CD (Alchemy Labor Unit) - £12.50

U.S. Dark Ambient unit Infinexhuma collaborated with COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER, BLOOD BOX (Michael Hensley of Yen Pox), and NERATERRÆ for this double set (99 mins) of heavy dark ambient and deep space drones. "Much time has passed during severance. Alone now at this gate. Prepared for a second entry into chaos, but now as one, no longer two. No longer without a purpose, now with aim, now with death hands, life heart. Now solidified, now for genocide of evil, to send ashes back up. To crush all flesh of those who fell from the sky to experiment. Flames grow as I scream, flames resolder the soul. Beware this force, forever thankful to the spiritual loss. For the gain is unblurring the mission, cleaning begins now". Sound beams guiding the hidden ethea, alchemical labor healing. Mastered by Grant Richardson (Gnawed) and beautifully presented in a glossy 6-panel digipak. Highly recommended!

JT WHITFIELD - 'JT Whitfield' 12" (Rural Isolation Project) - £14

Four tracks of drifting malevolent electronics grind slowly down the hall as heavy doors slam and crowbars crash on concrete. Ghosts stumble through hissing steam, muffled electronics pulse from several floors up, intermittent rhythms break through the shadows before returning to the thick fog. Blacker than a landlord’s soul. "Industrial strength bad-vibes from JT Whitfield. The synthetic murk and tangled ectoplasm which Whitfield dubbed out on the previous cassette continue here with the heavily thumped rhythms swapped for more of a ritualized, nocturnal set. At times, this has the feel of clandestine happenings by denizens of a subterranean community who have constructed dank hymns and electric chorales in the only cathedrals they ever knew - sewers, drain pipes, and cisterns. Much more akin to Lustmord's Heresy or Paradise Disowned, as a result, and excellent" (Aquarius). 31 mins. Ltd x 300 copies.

KNURL - 'Cryocarbazine' CD (Rural Isolation Project) - £11

Alan Bloor has been grinding out a fearsome racket since 1994 with classic early junk noise releases on Alien8, RRR and Self Abuse among many others. A welder by trade, Bloor produces his sounds from a variety of homemade stainless steel instruments, car springs, saw blades and other scrap metal. Here we find Knurl in long-tone drone-noise territory. One raw, unrelenting track of white hot grinding bowed metal sound. Digipak.

KRANG MUSIC / BROWNING MUMMERY - 'How I Want To ... Ronald Reagan / Lament For Comrade Time' 7" (Novichok) - £8

This single both commemorates the 40th anniversary of John Murphy's landmark solo cassette album, and offers a heartfelt tribute recorded by several of his collaborators when he left us in 2015. The 3 minute extract of the debut Krang Music tape offers a brief exploration of his first solo release. This track "How I Want To ... Ronald Reagan" has not been reissued since the original tape - and marks some of his earliest solo work known to exist. It foreshadows the intense and unique sound he would go on to create both with Krang Music (also known as Kraang / Krank) and many famous noise outfits: SPK, The Associates, KnifeLadder, Last Dominion Lost, Shining Vril etc. It possesses singular intensity signalling neither despair nor hatred. "Lament For Comrade Time" is a tribute to John recorded in Berlin and Brisbane in 2015. Featuring haunting vocals from Annie Stubbs (Krank, SPK), bowed guitar atmospherics from Julian Percy (LDL), bowed kayagum noise solos from Rob Cumings (Actual Remains) the track explores loss and sadness in a beat and noise driven darkwave ballad. Ltd x 152 copies in a foldover card sleeve. Already sold out from the label.

METADEVICE - 'Turba' CD (New Approach Records) - £12

Metadevice is Andre Coelho - a founding member of Sektor 304 and a major contributor to Beyond Enclosure. "Turba", a Portuguese expression for mob or rabble, is Metadevice's return to a more evident structured sense of composition, often rhythmically-guided, combining a wide range of sounds from harsh throbbing synths, loops, electrified drones and even rusty-edged guitars to build sharp industrialized music. Driven by the intense vocals of Rui Almeida (experimental rock NU's frontman), whose lyrics in both Portuguese and English merge his own words with appropriations from T.S. Eliot, Thomas Pynchon or Nathaniel West, this is an album about collective alienation, raving individualism and a deep dive into the hyperreality of our modern times. This mass movement is not a liberation, but an inexorable escalation of autophagic violence and atomization towards the void. Released in a limited 8-panel digisleeve, fully illustrated by Coelho.

MONOS - 'Above The Sky' CD (ICR) - £9

Monos is Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Ora, Fovea Hex), Paul Bradley, and Darren Tate (Ora). Originating from a single concert, the recording was gradually embellished, enhanced, layered, and reworked until it finally became the first 30-minute piece here: 'A Place of Voices'. During this process, new material came together to form the album's closing piece, 'Cloudless Day'. "A deeply unsettling and surreal new album... Above The Sky sounds like it has been sculpted and tweaked to razor-sharp perfection. Despite being the work of three people with three different aesthetics, there is no absolutely trace of ego, compromise, bloat, or wasted time here. This is as perfect as drone music gets... The sound slowly undulates and swells while spectral creaks, scrapes and squeals flit about the shadows... It flows quite beautifully, but it follows a very unpredictable course, as a cacophony of bowed metals can turn into a pleasant field recording of a flock of chirping birds within mere minutes... a shifting, quavering mass of subtly clashing notes and a harsh metallic shimmer. The volume swells and drops unpredictably, heightening the deep sense of unease, and various elements begin to change dramatically until it graduates from "uneasy" to "harrowing"... a brilliant and nightmarish masterpiece from start to finish" (Brainwashed).

MUSLIMGAUZE - 'Uzi' Cassette (Other Voices Records) - £12

Muslimgauze's gem from 1989, originally released by Parade Amoureuse. Cinematic, minimal, noisy, hypnotic, and gloomy. Probably not so overtly Middle Eastern as his later works, though definitely bearing an influence. Backed by electric drones, percussion forms a living, breathing atmosphere of impending menace. This album was not included in VOD's "Chasing The Shadow Of Bryn Jones" 10LP boxset, making this a great artefact for collectors and the curious alike. Ltd x 100 copies only. ACT FAST! CD version also in stock.

NO VISITORS - 'Live From The Bottomless Pit' 2 x CD (Rural Isolation Project) - £13

An absolutely brutal and unrelentingly bleak noise album. "Live From the Bottomless Pit" was composed from five months of field recordings in 2020 - which itself was an unrelentingly bleak and isolating year. Matt Turner composed this double set with the standard tools of the HNW trade - sheet metal, pedals, synths and tape - but where No Visitors really shines is the dynamics apparent in these tracks. While not deviating too much from the subject matter or abject mood, these songs dip into contemplative dark ambient territory where the noise is brought to a low rumble and we hear strangled tonal shifts through the thick haze. Other times, these carefully constructed structures of feedback and noise pierce through the audio field like a bullet through wet cement. We hear the unrelenting lows and thrilling highs of a year that will be sure to echo throughout our time left on this earth like a reverb tail never quite dying down. 6-panel double digipak.

NURSE WITH WOUND - 'Shipwreck Radio Volume Two' 2CD + 'Shipwreck Radio: Final Broadcasts' CD (3CD Set) (ICR) - £16

The double disc "Shipwreck Radio Volume Two" contains eight enigmatic episodes from Utvaer. Between June and July 2004, as guests of Kunst I Nordland, NWW broadcast 24 unexpected radio transmissions from the chilly world of the Arctic Lofoten Islands, 8 of which are included here. "Just as the first volume was an effort to reshape the world around them in sound, the second volume of Shipwreck Radio turns the world of Lofoten into a strange place occupied by distortions of the Arctic's natural sound world... the majesty of the work that follows is undeniable and in some ways, very much a return for Stapleton to his work on Soliloquy For Lilith... eerie, slowly moving ploughs of heavy, dirty soundscapes. There can be no doubt of Lofoten's remoteness nor of its strange openness, the absolute loneliness its landscapes must inspire after listening to both discs" (Brainwashed). Presented in a 6-panel double digipak.

As a bonus, included is "Shipwreck Radio: Final Broadcasts" - the final two 30-minute broadcasts from Utvaer. The first track "[swells] into aggressive bursts of volume in increasing lengths as the track progresses, with a particularly bone-rattling eruption occurring just after the 20-minute mark. Frequently the sound hovers like thick, humid air, as if waiting for an unnamed menace to slither forth from the darkness... I found it to be one of the more viscerally thrilling and frightening Nurse With Wound experiences I've had in a while... the last track in the Shipwreck series, "July 13" is quite the headcleaner... repeated unsettling voice manipulations that become a rippling landscape of their own, stretching syllables into unnatural technological groans... an invigorating addition to the group's catalog" (Brainwashed). Printed paper cover.

PAUL BRADLEY & COLIN POTTER - 'The Simple Plan' CD (ICR) - £9

A purely instrumental, organic piece of work, recorded in real-time and subjected to only minimal digital processing, with no overdubbing. Captured live in the studio, Colin Potter (Monos, Nurse With Wound, Fovea Hex) and Paul Bradley alternate between playing vintage synthesizers and guitars whilst aided by a selection of new and classic effects pedals. Although not completely analogue in realisation, it was analogue in its intent. At once harmonious and dissonant, melodic and atonal, calming and animated, these juxtapositions marked the beginning of significant new chapters in the personal lives of both artists, influencing and underpinning the fundamental nature and feel of "The Simple Plan". "Dreamy driftscapes that certainly harken to the '70s mantras of psychedelic ambience touched with phased guitar dissonance, glistening surfaces of reflecting-pool ambience, and meditative looping jams. The massive 19 minute "Gloaming" is the center piece of the album with sitar-like harmonic overtones arching out of a pastoral set of interwoven loops with smaller glistens, shivers, and sparkles glowing from the underbelly of this cinematically expansive piece of psychedelidronemusik" (Jim Haynes).

PSYCHWARD / CONCENTRATION - 'Morbid Paralysis / Deathmarch' 7" (Novichok) - £8

"Morbid Paralysis" is the second in a series of split Psychward 7"s that present the diversity of the project. Bizarre moments of failed executions become hostile in-the-red, causing the mixer to explode into a catastrophic post-mortem k-hole with junk flailing alongside turbulent stellar synthesis. The flip side beholds the debut of Concentration (Larissa Kunst) from Byron Shire, N.S.W. who produces an eerie, subtly rhythmic industrial score of pure Sayfo marching music. "Deathmarch" is immense harshed out white noise with splitting vocals from Aleister Crowley's reading "The Poet". Heavily layered and texturised death industrial rot. Ltd x 154 copies in a foldover card sleeve.

PSYCHWARD / КРОТ - 'Institutionalised / Bloody Mary' 7" (Novichok) - £8

In-the-red lobotomy harsh noise. Crawling through the labyrinth of psychological warfare, looking for an unlocked door. Nails, bullets, shrapnel, death metal pedals and dictaphone source tapes create an atmosphere of life inside a mental straight jacket. An object of severe hallucinogenic surrealism. Also a delirious mindscape, Крот's side opens with a recording taken inside a defunct water tank in the Tushetian highlands. Somewhat reminiscent of Angus MacLise's percussive trance studies, the collage then shifts to a Eurodance street concert, and concludes with a drunken breakfast in Yerevan. The whole thing from A to B has a nice flow from the drunk Armenian rambling recorded by Крот ("Mole") to the heavy industrial junk noise of Australia's Psychward. Ltd x 153 copies in a foldover card sleeve.

QUTTINIRPAAQ - 'Dead September' LP (Rural Isolation Project) - £14

"An obscure group of Austin-based noiseniks who channel the spirits of the Butthole Surfers, Chrome and Einstürzende Neubauten" (Blurt Online). Quttinirpaaq's third LP is bleeding-noise industrial electronic rock, with sheets of noisy guitar pushing far beyond Psychocandy levels of harshness. There's usually a drum machine bashing away, and vocals are distorted far beyond any semblance of comprehensibility. It sounds like punk rock thrown violently into a paper shredder with no f*cks given. Ltd x 300 copies on white vinyl. ***PLEASE NOTE - each copy has one dinged corner, hence reduced price.

SISTEMA BEZOPASNOSTI - 'Transfiguration' CD (Heimdall Records) - £11

Reissue of a super-limited, vinyl-only release from 2019 (50 copies only!) from the Siberian Esoteric dreamers, here taking a space ambient / psych-rock direction, fitting with the theme. "Transfiguration" is the story of the Outsider and his dream of the unrealisable; about his naive attempt to overcome the limitations of the material world, trying to fill it with the beautiful, thus getting rid of fear of emptiness. This album is about space and time, about harmony and chaos, about the infinite, about loneliness as a different form of emptiness. "The mesmerizing beauty of the starry sky, which I saw as a child in the south, at night from the compartment window, in the north where the blue-black sky hangs low-low overhead. It is about a distant and mysterious sound waiting for a response, like an SOS signal from a dying ship, the sound that he tried to imagine when reading about the ancient teachings of the music of spheres and string theory, a sound similar to the buzz that all the planets emit, as living creatures call them "the voices of the stars". It is also about quiet, light and calm - the first rays of the sun, dawning through sleepy shadows; the weightless breath of a light breeze; how light gains strength; how brightness absorbs the confidence of movement in space, dispelling darkness". Remastered for CD, featuring extended versions of some tracks (not possible on vinyl format). Presented in a gatefold digisleeve with two different cover designs - 'Colour' or 'Black'.

TORTURING NURSE / NO VISITORS - 'I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me' CD (Rural Isolation Project) - £11

Extreme Harsh Noise face-off. Shanghai-based Cao Junjun began releasing noise in 2004 after a chance encounter with an armful of Hijokaidan and Incapacitants records and has gone on to unleash a prolific run of releases on just about every format. On this split with No Visitors we find Torturing Nurse in a churning, mechanical zone. Field recordings from an assembly line, the whirring sound of motors in a large warehouse, metal on metal friction, the sounds of a small audience or manifestation of mental illness. No Visitors' side is a murky fug of feedback and scrap metal abuse. Everything mashed through an old mixer that hasn't seen action since the Ford administration. 6-panel digipak.

QUTTINIRPAAQ - 'Let's Hang Out' LP (Rural Isolation Project) - £16

"An obscure group of Austin-based noiseniks who channel the spirits of the Butthole Surfers, Chrome and Einstürzende Neubauten. Call it industrial space-skronk, with cortex-bruising "tunes" like the distorted, droning, sludgy "Diary Of A Pig Keeper's Wife", the whirling, pleasurably repetitive "Stork", and pounding psychedelic jam "Vamos A Martar Santana"... Feedback, distortion, heavily phased electronics and random stereo panning, plus gargantuan drumming and barely-audible vocals are the order of the day here... with a keen ear for the musically transgressive and an even keener eye for the record collector, the band has got yours truly's vote for a must-own left-field delight" (Blurt Online). Ltd x 300 copies on clear / red blood spray splatter vinyl, with insert.