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After blazing a trail with 2020’s critically acclaimed “Good Luck Seeker“, The Waterboys waste no time in delivering their brand new record “All Souls Hill” on Cooking Vinyl. First track “The Liar” is a creeping, groove-laden masterpiece, taking a powerful, descriptive swipe at Trump and the lies and deceit that infest those in power.

 The video, featuring a haunting image by satirical collagist Cold War Steve, amplifies its subject matter in dark eerie fashion. Mike Scott says, “The Liar” is a comment on recent and still-current events, and both song and video speak for themselves. We are proud to work on this video with the brilliant Cold War Steve “.

The Waterboys have dropped the trippy video for their new single ‘Here We Go Again’ the third taste from their forthcoming new album, “All Souls Hill”, out May 6th on Cooking Vinyl. The album follows 2020’s critically acclaimed album “Good Luck Seeker”.

‘Here We Go Again’ is a rousing singalong whose freshness belies the lyrical subject matter. “It’s the idea we’re living through a communal Groundhog Day. We’re all looking at the news headlines, but nobody seems to learn the lessons,” Mike Scott said of the track. “As a culture we keep making the same mistakes. It’s a wry look at humans not being so smart – and yet I have good fun being one.” 

“All Souls Hill” is nine tracks of Waterboys brilliance, mixed by Scott himself. “All Souls Hil”l is current, on the money social commentary, but with an air of hope.

“All Souls Hill” is mysterious, otherworldly, tune-banging and emotional,” comments Mike. “I made it with Waterboys old and new and my co-producer, brilliant sonic guru Simon Dine. Its nine songs tell stories, explore dreamscapes, and cast a cold but hopeful eye on the human drama.”

All Souls Hill is nine tracks of Waterboys brilliance, all mixed by Mike Scott himself. “All Souls Hill” is current, on the money social commentary, but with an air of hope. “All Souls Hill” is mysterious, otherworldly, tune-banging and emotional.” comments Mike. “I made it with Waterboys old and new and my co-producer, brilliant sonic guru Simon Dine. Its nine songs tell stories, explore dreamscapes, and cast a cold but hopeful eye on the human drama.”

The Waterboys will headline at WICKHAM FESTIVAL in WICKHAM, near FAREHAM HAMPSHIRE, UK on Sun 7 August.

out on Cooking Vinyl  The Waterboys “All Souls Hill” To be Released 22/04/22

“Radiate Like This” — Warpaint’s much-anticipated new record, not to mention their first in almost six years — arrives with its own very modern mythology intact, continuing the strange, brilliant, beautiful story of the band and quite neatly picking up where “Heads Up” left off. If the previous album was the coming of age, “Radiate Like This” presents Warpaint mk II in all their glory, a luminous coalescence of sound and vision which stubbornly belies its genesis, with the quartet of Kokal, Theresa Wayman, Stella Mozgawa and Jenny Lee Lindberg all recording their parts separately in various cities. “It’s the first time we’ve ever made an album like that, but in a weird way, it made us take our time with everything”, muses Kokal. “The process felt more meditative, less rushed.”

This new sense of quiet confidence can be heard all through the album, which pulsates with ideas, energy and — most crucially — gorgeous melodies. Listen on in wonder.”

Rough Trade Nottingham is very excited to present a live performance from Warpaint at Metronome. This unique event celebrates Warpaint’s much anticipated new record, not to mention their first in almost 6 years ‘Radiate Like This’ released May 6th via Virgin / Heirlooms. Performing 6th May , METRONOME Nottingham,

“Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, “We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong“, concerns itself with how we feel, mourn, and reclaim our agency when we think the world — or at least, our world might be falling apart. How do we protect the things most precious to us from destructive forces beyond our control? How do we salvage something worthwhile when it seems all is lost? And if we can’t, or we don’t, have we loved as well as we could in the meantime?

Did we try hard enough? In considering these questions and her own vulnerability in the face of them, Van Etten creates a stunning meditation on how life’s changes can be both terrifying and transformative. “We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong” articulates the beauty and power that can be rescued from our wreckages.”

“Used To It” by Sharon Van Etten, out now on Jagjaguwar.

Lead by the three guitar attack and vocals of songwriters Tom Russo, Joe White and Fran Keaney, the Melbourne five piece are to release their highly anticipated third album ‘Endless Rooms’.

Often compared to bands like R.E.M, The Strokes, The Smiths and The War on Drugs, Rolling Blackouts are much loved by BBC Radio 6 Music and have wowed fans at festivals all over the world including Coachella and Primavera Sound as well as headlining the UK’s Deer Shed festival in 2019.

Praise for their second album ‘Sideways to New Italy’, released on the legendary American record label Sub Pop

‘Masterful Guitar Pop’ – NME, ‘The guitar album of the year – romantic and exhilarating’ – MOJO

Melbourne’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, which includes three singer/songwriter/guitarists, produced themselves for the first time for their third album. They call it, “Doing what we do best: chasing down songs in a room together.” Judging by the two songs released from it so far, that sounds about right.

“Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return in 2022 with “Endless Rooms“, the quintet’s third album. Described by the band — Fran Keaney, Joe White, Marcel Tussie and brothers Tom Russo and Joe Russo — as them “Doing what we do best: chasing down songs in a room together”, “Endless Rooms” stands as a testament to the collaborative spirit and live power of RBCF. While initial ideas were traded online during long spells spent separated by lockdowns, the album was truly born during small windows of freedom in which the band would decamp to a mud-brick house in the bush around two hours north of Melbourne built by the extended Russo family in the 1970s.

There, its 12 tracks took shape, informed to such an extent by the acoustics and ambience of the rambling lakeside house that they decided to record the album there. The house also features on the album cover. For the first time, the band self-produced the record (alongside engineer, collaborator and old friend, Matt Duffy), creating their most naturalistic and expansive document yet. The result is a collection of songs permeated by the spirit of the place; punctuated by field recordings of rain, fire, birds, and wind. “It’s almost an anti-concept album,” say the band. “The ‘endless rooms’ of the title reflects our love of creating worlds in our songs. We treat each of them as a bare room to be built up with infinite possibilities.”

Rolling Blackouts C.F.’s forthcoming album ‘Endless Rooms’ (out May 6th).

Since their 2004 self-titled debut, Pink Mountaintops have supplied an outlet for the more arcane fascinations of Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean. On “Peacock Pools” Pink Mountaintops’ first new music in eight years — the B.C. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist shares 12 songs sparked from his magpie-like curiosity for a wild expanse of cultural artifacts: The sci-fi body horror of David Cronenberg, Disney Read-Along Records from the 1970s, early Pink Floyd and mid-career Gary Numan, John Carpenter movies, Ornette Coleman live videos, a 1991 essay on the cult of bodybuilding by postmodern feminist Camille Paglia.

Featuring counterculture icons like Steven McDonald of Redd Kross and Dale Crover of Melvins, “Peacock Pools” alchemizes those obsessions into a body of work with its own enchanting power, the sonic equivalent of falling down a thousand rabbit holes at once and landing somewhere gloriously strange.”

“Nervous Breakdown” is from Pink Mountaintops‘ upcoming album ‘Peacock Pools’.

The bands first recording since 2010’s “Croweology”, The Black Crowes celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the incredible year in music, 1972. The band covers 6 songs released in that year by The Temptations, The Rolling Stones, T-Rex, Rod Stewart, Little Feat and David Bowie. “The Black Crowes’ new covers collection 1972 is a tribute project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of some of the best rock ’n’ roll songs. “The year 1972 was a watershed moment, some of the greatest rock and roll songs ever made came out of that year. To get our band back together in the studio, it had to be a celebration of rock and roll,” said singer Chris Robinson. “This record is about love and devotion to something that makes us feel good. We hope that it makes fans around the world feel the same.” The album will feature covers of The Rolling Stones’ Rocks Off, Rod Stewart’s You Wear It Well, Little Feat’s Easy To Slip, The Slider by T-Rex, David Bowie‘s Moonage Daydream and the aforementioned cover of The Temptations’ Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone.”

The Black Crowes’ new EP titled 1972 includes covers of legendary cuts from the Rolling Stones, Temptations and Rod Stewart. The Police’s 1982 documentary film “Around the World” returns with restored picture and remastered audio, along with complete performances of four bonus songs.

Prolific songwriter Ty Segall has announced his next album, “Hello, Hi”. “The Harmonizer” follow-up arrives in July 22nd via Segall’s long time record label home Drag City. Segall predominantly self-recorded the album at his home in California. Now, he has shared the album’s title track.

Ty Segall issued “Harmonizer” last year. Earlier this year, the prolific rocker released his soundtrack for Whirlybird, a 2020 documentary from Matt Yoka. The film follows Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard, founders of the Los Angeles News Service who captured iconic footage of the 1992 riots and O.J. Simpson’s car chase from a helicopter.

Title track from “Hello, Hi”, available on LP/CS/CD on July 22nd, 2022 from Drag City Records.

Parisian psych institution, La Femme, unleash a discography spanning set dripping in LSD and casual chic, transmitted from a smoky room in Normandy, France. The Session comes on the heels of their new LP, “Paradigmes“, and upcoming world tour.

“We have recorded this session in the country side of Normandy, France, an intimate set in a rustic old home. We played our most psyches track, according to the Levitation Sessions spirit, recorded by the fireplace in the darkest hours of the night.

The spirit of the Psych Fest was haunting the room, and so were psychedelic ghosts, they were living in every one of the musicians of the band. We were time traveling, the spirits of the 60s rising back from the dead. The track “Sphynx” was written during Austin Psych Fest 2014 in Austin, Texas, and we are pleased to bring it back home. Danser sous acide” – La Femme.

LA FEMME
Sacha Got: Vocals, Guitar and Keyboards
Marlon Magnée: Vocals, Keyboard and Tambourine
Noe Delmas: Drums
Nina Giangreco: Vocals and Tambourine
Ysé Grospiron: Vocals and Keyboards
Sam Lefèvre: Bass and Keyboards

releases May 13th, 2022

The original “Oshin” tracklist plus a bonus LP with the “Oshin” demos and 2 live cuts recorded at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn in 2011, including the previously unreleased track “Yuk” for it’s 10th anniversary of the first album “Oshin“, The band have put together a pretty comprehensive deluxe edition package for you. we have tons of old photos, lots of writing, a poster, and all new art hand-drawn and assembled by Parker Sprout in reference to the original collection of ephemera that inspired the album back in 2012. it is pressed on blue marbled vinyl and packaged with an LP of the original ‘Oshin’ demos as well as a few unreleased live songs recorded at Shea Stadium in 2011. we included some written reflections from the band members as well as one from Madeline Jones, the writer of the original ‘oshin’ poem, as well as some deep liner notes from Shaad D’Souza. this reissue is something we approached very thoughtfully and deliberately and are very happy with how it turned out.
Housed in a craft paper wide-spine within a clear printed PVC sleeve.
Includes:
– 2xLP pressed on Blue Marble vinyl
– DIIV Fuck The World poster
– 24-pg retrospective booklet with photos, reflections from each band member and the writer of the original ‘Oshin’ poem, and new liners by Shaad D’Souza.

Releases June 24th, 2022
LIMITED TO 5000 COPIES