Band of Skulls - Himalayan (Remastered 2024) (PURPLE VINYL) - VINYL LP

Black Lips return with a brand-new studio album, Season Of The Peach, a 40-minute rock and roll odyssey, tripping through DIY genres where garage rock meets new wave pop, and disgruntled country shakes hands with epic western soundtracks. The 14-track album captures the energy and spirit of early Black Lips while simultaneously applying new approaches to songwriting.The album is a musical merry-go-round, a journey featuring road-weary tales from the underbelly of a lights-out America. It's bookended by InchThe IllusionInch parts one and two a barroom quest for hope, fear, and hate, thwarted at each turn by a sense of resignation, Inchyou reach for the sky / but it's an illusion.Inch Elsewhere, InchWild OneInch plays out like a Morricone romp through another day in Hell. A mantra for the hungover, a skin-crawling lament in praise of the wild at heart.InchTippy TongueInch sees Black Lips take on 60s girl group soul, like The Shangri-Las and Ronettes infiltrated by Jayne/Wayne County, paying homage to Buddha Records. Meanwhile, InchKassandraInch has a guitar sound scrubbed clean for a Sunday, chiming it's way through ever-spiralling salvos like The Chocolate Watchband with Zappa on vocals. InchZulu SaintsInch is an upbeat country honk, a good-time brush with bravado, peppered with Cole on an incredulous radio phone-in show, looking for black-eyed peas and winning big on the slot machines.For the recording sessions they holed up in the bucolic surroundings of drummer Oakley's new Sound At Manor studio in the Catskills (the first album recorded there since Oakley built the studio in 2020). In this idyllic setting, the band disconnected from city life and committed their music to analogue tape, part of their quest to embrace spontaneity and capture the energy of a live Black Lips show on record.

Cakes Da Killa - InchSvengaliInch / With the long-awaited second album, Svengali, New Jersey innovator Cakes Da Killa adds another landmark to his catalog and brings the long-running relationship between hip hop and house into a new chapter. Svengali is a cinematic experience, charting a love affair from hookup to breakup, with all it's highs and lows. A brutal yet hilariously unfiltered voice, Cakes brings a new layer of vulnerability and depth to his writing, charting the vicissitudes of love in and out of the club. Available on standard black vinyl. EXPLICIT

Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. A 2024 remaster of the English rock group's second studio album, which debuted at #14 on the UK Albums Chart and features the single 'The Devil Takes Care of His Own'. This, along with the band's other two early albums, has been remastered for enhanced sound quality. Russell Marsden has also introduced a new lineup while teasing new music.