EVEN MORE NEW RECORDS

30 September 2008

Yes, we have two more new releases out now! High Places' highly-anticipated, self-titled debut album and 'Insects Awaken' - our third and most realised release from Death Sentence: Panda!

'High Places' was recorded by Rob and Mary in their apartment in Brooklyn earlier this year and has a wonderfully contemplative and organic lyrical tone, emphasised by the themes of goodness in nature, hardship and wonder.

'Insects Awaken' is the next step in the Bay Area trio's continual evolution. Recorded in a library-like dwelling, with new instruments supplementing their usual clarinet / flute / percussion hubbub, it's the sound of a wasp's sting to the tongue, rewarded with the delicious gift of coconut ice cream.

Both releases are in the shop right now, priced at £10 and £8 respectively, including UK postage.

And both bands will hit Europe later this year for a string of live dates... more info coming soon!

HIGH PLACES - From Stardust to Sentience
DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA! - Exit Villager

LUCKY DRAGONS VINYL

26 September 2008

The vinyl version of Lucky Dragons' lastest LP 'Dream Island Laughing Language' is finally here! It features the same art as the CD version, but comes with an all new, larger format booklet of Luke Fischbeck's drawings.

It's in the shop right now - £10 including UK postage paid.

Also watch this space for super-imminent new releases from both High Places and Death Sentence: Panda!

CHOPS / HELHESTEN OUT NOW

23 September 2008

Our latest release - a split 12" from Chops and Helhesten - is finally back from the pressing plant and it is one of the most beautiful that we have ever seen!

Two incongruous yet complementary pieces of art adorn each side of the outer sleeve and are reflected on the first printed inner in UTR history. Meanwhile, the vinyl recalls a big dollop of vanilla ice cream liberally dipped in cherry sauce.

And then, of course, there's the music! Chops bring us eight tracks of jazzoid excess and logic-defying party bombs - see "Ill Eagle" video below - and Helhesten fill the flipside with "Dithyramb" - a single, accumulating pastoral jam - click here for an excerpt.

It's in the shop right now, £8 including UK postage paid, and will be available from all our shows, henceforth.

HAWNAY TROOF is Oakland, California's one-man maestro Vice Cooler, also known as the force of nature behind XBXRX and K.I.T. As Hawnay Troof, VC approaches music as a demolishing of the rules - restoring art and sound to their primary and vital function. His third and latest LP for Southern Records / Retard Disco 'Islands Of Ayle' is his most realised yet - intricate production combined with supreme lyrical confidence pushes electronic dance music down a path it's never been before.
www.hawnaytroof.com

BARR is the project of LA / NYC's wandering pop-dynamo Brendan Fowler, in which he half-sings over half-tunes, creating a set of confessional songs that challenge the listener's preconceptions of what's music and what's spoken word. Having embraced the world in his tightest clinch yet with 2007's 'Summary' LP, Brendan's been laying low, working on his dance project Car Clutch, with Ethan Swan, and numerous art-based projects. But he's finally back in the UK, with a one-off solo performance documenting the all-new BARR.
www.barrbarr.com

LUCKY DRAGONS means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara and any sometimes collaborators. Lucky Dragons inhabit Los Angeles and came together in the spring of 2000 in an attempt to create a band that would never break up. They create an ecstatic form of electronic music that celebrates the spirit of life as well as the magic of genre boundaries. Their 18th release 'Dream Island Laughing Language' is out now on Upset The Rhythm and details the continuing pursuit of a joyous, drippy and smoldering music for our experience in the world right now.
www.hawksandsparrows.org

DAVID SCOTT STONE aka Sir DSS is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who's been a staple of the Los Angeles underground for as long as anyone can remember. He's worked with The Melvins, Unwound, Jello Biafra, Joe Lally, Mike Patton, Fantomas, Get Hustle, The Locust and Big Business, to name but a few, and can currently be found playing with Lavendar Diamond and new project, The Sads. In solo guise, David is a master of homebuilt electronics, his experimentations with which are the subject of his latest release 'Plays The Modular Synthesizer' for No Age drummer Dean Spunt's PPM imprint.
www.myspace.com/sirdsssound

THE CREEPING NOBODIES are a quartet from Toronto, who can best be defined by the concept of flux and their enthusiasm for experimentation. During a live performance, listeners can expect to witness a propulsive, piercingly loud, fast and heavy song in the vein of the Dog Faced Hermans transition into a droning Vashti Bunyan meets Neubauten dirge, the effect of which may be simultaneously jarring and delightful. The band has released three albums and four EPs, put out primarily by their hometown label Blocks Recording Club and Sweden's Deleted Art, which all reflect the varied and strikingly different musical directions the band has taken through the past seven years of its existence.
www.thecreepingnobodies.com

THE REBEL - aka The Country Teasers' core component Ben Wallers - is a prolific East London outsider, who over the course of the last decade has released records on Crypt, Fat Possum, Junior Aspirin and In The Red. Wallers' music sees him take the wired counterpoint of fellow Camus-christened messtheticians, The Fall, inject an unsettling idiosyncrasy, and filter it through a misanthropy derived from isolation - antagonising and deconstructing social and cultural formations of power along the way.
www.therebel.co.uk

HANDS ON HEADS began three years ago – four friends from London, who found common ground in the abrupt yet articulate approach of bands like Swell Maps, The Yummy Fur and XBXRX. They soon honed a reputation for shock-and-awe live shows, supported by a songbook of 50 second odes to feral abandon. But since their debut release last year - a split 10" with The Sticks on Upset The Rhythm - HOH have begun to ditch the alienating songwriting tactics of old, in an attempt to uncover renewed surprise and revolutionary potential in the medium of pop music, creating a brand new manifesto of righteous joy.
www.myspace.com/handsonheads