The Ancients - Night Bus - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Youth Are Getting RestlessInch is a live album from Bad Brains, recorded at the Paradiso Theater in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1987 by the VPRO. The show was part of the band's I Against I tour.This reissue marks the sixth in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad Brains Records tag imprint. In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains' recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.

Sunshine and Balance Beams, Pile's ninth album, is a Sisyphean fable concerned with labor and living. To write it, singer Rick Maguire inhabited Incha dark place,Inch wrestling with the concept that there is no enlightenment, no end to suffering. Maguire explores workaholism, the myth of meritocracy, and acceptance of mortality-all through a devilish allegory of trudging through a shadowy forest towards the uncertain dream of a bright clearing. Pile wrestles with existential and social contradictions by evoking sonic in-betweens. The music exists somewhere in the temporary equilibrium of light and shadow, chaos and order. Heated rain-like guitars, shifting drums that pave sinuous roads in sound and pace, eerie synths, and aqueous strings add to a panoramic production of loud-quiet dynamism matching the emotionality of the band's thunderous performances. The group also favored freewheeling performances that would animate the storytelling, while enlisting a string section (violins, viola, cello) to perform incandescent, through-composed arrangements co-written by cellist Eden Rayz and Pile. They drew inspiration from cinema and opera scores by Chopin, Bernard Herrmann, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, lending Sunshine a larger-than-life sound that intensifies Pile's blistering realizations of some of their most accessible songwriting to date. The recording is a noticeable leap in production value, and centers Maguire's vocals in new and exciting ways. Pile traveled to Pawtucket, RI for two weeks of tracking at Machines with Magnets with longtime engineer Miranda Serra (Kal Marks, Kira McSpice). The album was mixed by Seth Manchester (Lightning Bolt, Mdou Moctar), and Mastered by Matt Colton (Aphex Twin, Swans, Muse). Sunshine and Balance Beams is Pile's first album for Chicago's Sooper Records.

Flickering in ultraviolet, there is an elusive place where blue pill meets red, ups become downs, and day merges with night. Those liminal spaces where anything is possible is where you'll find Nightbus and their hypnotic debut album Passenger. Doom, uncertainty, and opportunity lurk in the shadowy corners of their murky existence with stops at disassociation, co-dependency, and addiction before reaching it's final destination - a glimmer of hope.InchWe're travellers in our own bodies; there's an alter ego nurturing our secrets, fantasies, shame and fears, lost in the underworld of humanity. A dreamscape of tabu existence, things that define us but wouldn't come up in casual conversations. This album is that traveller, the passenger,Inch Olive Rees reveals, who, alongside partner in crime Jake Cottier, is Nightbus. InchThis self-destructive side can be triggered at any moment, and you'll experience life in a completely different light. It's not about hiding that side, but if it were gone, what journey would it experience?Inch'Passenger' is a late night ride into our inner selves, all the secrets, fantasies, shame and fears that don't normally surface. Nodding to The Knife, XX, Portishead, Chromatics, early Cure, Burial, Massive Attack, Everything But The Girl, it's an after-hours adventure into post-punk, trip-hop and otherworldly electronica. Between shows from Porto to Brighton taking in Great Escape; DJing; remixing; guesting; and hosting queer hyperpop club nights, heads are now being turned from sports brands to high-end fashion designers - all soon-to-be-announced. InchWe can't reveal much right now,Inch tells Olive, Inchbut we're excited about the direction this beast we've created is heading.Inch As the album philosophises and asks one ultimate question; what does it truly mean to be Passenger? Nightbus may not claim to offer a definitive answer, but it might