Dralms - Crushed Pleats - 7-INCH SINGLE [7 inch Vinyl Disc]

Nancy Wilson is one of the finest vocalists to emerge in the post-war era to take over the mantle of great jazz, cabaret and pop singers such as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, and compete with them on their own terms. Achieving her early recognition in the era when the long-playing stereo album was becoming a universal , she was always primarily an album artist, especially with her focus being as much on jazz and easy listening as the pure pop market, although she had chart success in the pop, R&B and adult contemporary markets from the '60s through to the '90s. This collection takes a thorough look at the formative years of her career, comprising as it does her complete performances on five LPs - InchLike In LoveInch, recorded in 1956 when she was just 19, InchSomething WonderfulInch, InchThe Swinging's MutualInch with jazz pianist George Shearing, the equally jazz-oriented InchNancy Wilson With Cannonball AdderleyInch, and InchHello Young LoversInch. In addition, it includes an early single with R&B artist Rusty Bryant, two of her singles from 1960 and a couple of very jazzy 'live' performances from 1961. It showcases the breadth and distinctiveness of her talent, and her sophisticated artistry even in these early days, as she delivers material across the jazz, blues and pop spectrum

A sonic Molotov cocktail hurled from the nation's capital, DRIVEL delivers five tracks of pure, unadulterated hardcore punk. They forge a weapon from the rawest elements of powerviolence and grindcore, a weapon aimed directly at the heart of complacency. Their lyrics are a mirror reflecting the ugliness of our times war, greed, and the hollow pursuit of excess. This is the sound of a band drawing power from the classics like NO COMMENT and twisting it into something utterly their own, like WARTHOG's jagged edges, with a nod to the current scene's urgency ala DELIRIANT NERVE. Richard Johnson (ENEMY SOIL, AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED, DRUGS OF FAITH) adds his unmistakable mark to the chaos. This vinyl is a beacon, a defiant signal in a world where true expression is under siege.

2023 . Hardly The Same Snake is Skinny Pelembe's sophomore album, but his first fully embracing his artistic self. Visceral yet inherently soulful, Hardly The Same Snake is the sound of the Johannesburg-born, Doncaster-raised artist finally finding his voice - both literally and figuratively. In practical terms, that involved finding the courage to foreground his gravelly baritone in these gloriously genre-agnostic productions. But it also meant branching out beyond the safety net of his former tag - Gilles' Peterson's Brownswood Recordings - to figure out the artist he truly wanted to be. As Skinny puts it today, in his soft South Yorkshire drawl, InchThis album is what I would have created, first time round had I rated my own voice.Inch Determined that the album shouldn't sound like a band record, but equally mustn't feel Inchtoo button push-yInch, Skinny assembled songs by sampling instrumentation originally recorded live, including chopped and looped versions of the brilliantly complex beats played by Malcolm Catto of The Heliocentrics. It was a painstaking process that paid off, resulting in an album fathoms ahead of it's promising predecessor, and one that honestly reflects Skinny's creative evolution. The idea of forging your own path - and shedding skin, so to speak - is integral to Hardly The Same Snake. It's a defiantly outward-looking record contemplating family, religion and major life milestones, from parenthood to death.