Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me

Buttery smooth skills from Jalen Ngonda

As soon as this came into the shop when it first came out, I had to have it.
Everything about this is everything I love about music

The northern soul style production where things feel like they peak ever so too much, the lush 20th century music that feel like silk sheets, to the belting voice.
My goodness, the voice 🥰

I think anybody would get something out of this album, no matter your tastes.
Modern soul, with a past sensibility

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Volk Soup - Incomplete Hits: The Singles Vol. 1

Fill me with Volk Soup

A cavalcade of stories, blasts & screams from a band I had the pleasure to work with a few year back when they played @vinylwhistle

The gig was utterly, brilliantly mad in every fantastic way, nothing left off the table. With the band pounding out janky rhythms, to Harry showing his other side from what started as quiet & reserved before the gig.
Culminating to nearly getting knocked over by a car, jumping crowds & the fabled magic flying mop

I’m really looking forward to sinking my spoon into the new release & catching them at some more shows.
This lassies gotta get her signatures!

https://volksoup.bandcamp.com/album/incompetent-hits-the-singles-vol-1

Prince Andrew is a nonce & will always be a nonce!

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Fake Fruit - Fake Fruit

It’s crunchy, it’s juicy, it’s Fake Fruit

I had the absolute pleasure of seeing them when I was invited to watch a friends band support them Hyde Park Book Club

Obviously I had to get the vinyl & for sure getting it signed, of course.
It was a great gig & the band were all lovely. Even more fun watching Hannah completing a Rubix cube before a song ended. It was a trip.
So much so I said I’d love to do trippy visuals for them if they ever come back across the pond

https://fakefruitmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fake-fruit

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Jerry Paper - Abracadabra

Hitting the trippy moonshine with Jerry Paper

I judged a book by its cover & was happy to do so.
Didn’t listen to it at all beforehand, I felt it’s what I needed

Small, wee ditty tracks that make me bop around every time. Much like Free Time, they are lovely points of interests that swim gently up my leg

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Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing

Yeeting you back to a time where everything felt [somewhat] normal [but not really] - from Placebo

As soon as I heard this, it felt good.
A continuation from the debut that keeps on that push of “gender-bending” that seems to still upset people today.
Love it!

With the debut also in my collection. It’s safe to say I love to go back to these utter brilliant 90s classic.
Genuine classics.
Though every time I listen to them I think of Daphne and Celeste

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Dana Gavanski - Late Slap

Hits all the points - from Dana Gavanski

It’s such a well constructed & arranged album. This album has so much to give & I feel I come back to it so much as well as the other albums.
I’d say I’m slightly addicted

I had the absolute pleasure of working with Dana, James & Dave when they played at the shop. But have had the extended pleasure of being invited to watch gigs in a headline & support sense when she comes up to Leeds

These photos out Dana Store were from last year when they were doing the proper Late Slap tour, in which I got to meet the rest of the band as well as getting my album signed 😁

It’s been a pleasure to hear the progression of sound & even having a different feel of what love & break up songs can be.
Truly a favourite!

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Snapped Ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing

Blippy boppy boom boom from Snapped Ankles

What a lovely surprise this was when it entered the shop. This nice mix of electronics, with these dashing of punk aesthetics

Has become an ear worm album for myself. I always appreciate an album that delves into different styles but also in familiar territory

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Prison Worksongs

One of the most beautifully haunting things I’ve listened to!

Songs recorded in the 1930s when the railways were being built, to wood being chopped to machining licence plates. It was a time where many were imprisoned, a lot of which for the complete wrong & horrendous reasons & then put to work in awful conditions

It was not just POC that were imprisoned, but also parts of the Asian & Irish community in the USA.
This was recorded in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola Prison

Way back when I was 15/16 in college. I wrote a massive paper on the Blues & slavery & how the latter was the ignition & birth to what would become modern day music, even to this day.
I received a double distinction & then 2year later saw BB King with Gary Moore supporting.
Truly special!

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Kerrie - It Takes Grit

Getting into nitty gritty fun with Kerrie

Unlike many darker techno producers, this doesn’t feel like it only a large kick drum, but has these lovely layers to it & has these hooks that make them a good addition to anyone’s collection & set

Dirty, pumping, throbbing & dark - is what I would call Kerrie’s sound. From watching her sampling & production videos, which are inspiring to say the least

Would love to get Kerrie to come play our live hardware techno nights. It would be an absolute pleasure to work with her & learn a few things since we both use Elektron gear

Bought via Bandcamp
https://kerrie-music.bandcamp.com/album/it-takes-grit
Thank you for signing my vinyl & giving stickers!

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The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy

What can be said apart from ‘damn!’ from The Last Dinner Party

Female empowerment, fragility, sadness & stellar playing swamp this album, in every best part that can be said about it

This album has been on a lot since it got released & has been on in the shop a lot, to say the least.
Worth it, go buy it

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