VR SEX - Horseplay - 12-INCH SINGLE [12 inch Vinyl Single]

Some called Studio, the project of Swedish musicians Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg, Inchthe missing link between The Cure and Lindstrøm,Inch Pitchfork heard Durutti Column and Can, as the duo's story became swept up in a loosely developing scene - adjacent first to the tag Service (Jens Lekman, The Whitest Boy Alive) and later Sincerely Yours (The Tough Alliance, jj) - and a precursor to the 2010s boom at the axis of electronic and psychedelic music guided by indie greats like Caribou, Four Tet, and Darkside. West Coast, their seminal 2006 debut, captured a faraway romanticism of Balearic brushed up against Krautrock, disco, dub, and afro-beat, with pop lyricism lifted from new wave, all made modern by two art school grads in Gothenburg. First pressed in a small vinyl-only run via their own Information tag, the album has been notably absent from most streaming services, and the internet's record of it's initial impact is all but fossilized from a bygone blog era, while it's sound is simply untraceable to any one moment in music. Outside of three 7Inch releases, they'd keep the music to themselves for several more years. In 2005, Hägg remembers, InchWe got our degrees and were kicked out of our studio spaces so all these recordings were just piled up. A year later we dusted them off and started to deconstruct and assemble them in a more drawn-out fashion.Inch In the same breadth, they cite DJ Screw, J Dilla, and Joy Division, along with early '80s European live DJ sets from the likes of Beppe Loda, DJ Mozart, and Baldelli as reference points. InchThe anything-goes mentality was very encouraging and was a big cornerstone to the Studio sound,Inch says Hägg. InchBut there's so much more to the picture, we were not that young then and had lots of musical baggage in our suitcases, the new thing was that we finally let it all come through, not bound by any borders that was oft

The Nits are a Dutch art-pop-rock group, founded in 1974 in Amsterdam. Their musical style has varied over the years, as has their line-up, but the core members are lead singer and lyricist Henk Hofstede, Robert-Jan Stips on keyboards (who worked with Supersister, Gruppo Sportivo, The Golden Earring) and Rob Kloet on drums. In 2024, the band was celebrating their 50th anniversary with a European tour and brand new music. Six fresh-penned tracks werefeatured on the mini album Tree House Fire, with the central theme of the songs being the fire that completely destroyed the band's Amsterdam studio in 2022. Tree House Fire is available as a limited edition of 500 individually numbered copies on white colored vinyl and includes a 4-page booklet. LISTEN //youtu. Be/ndEZMsU52Es * AUDIOPHILE VINYL * INCLUDES 4-PAGE BOOKLET * LIMITED EDITION OF 500 INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON WHITE COLORED VINYLTrack listing SIDE A 1. Month of May 2. Big Brown Building Burning 3. The TreeSIDE B 1. The Bird 2. The Attic 3. The Wind Has No Clothes

The latest by Andrew Clinco's acid punk alias VR S*x takes it's title from an architectural phrase but more importantly refers to the warped, wicked underworld the songs both chronicle and condemn. Donning the moniker Noel Skum - an acerbic anagram of Elon Musk - Clinco vents his scorn for and fascination with the seedy, surreal margins of low-life Los Angeles, doomed to dead ends of vanity, lust, and technology. Although initially launched as an outlet for Inchheavier soundsInch beyond Clinco's duties in new wave fantasists Drab Majesty, the project has ripened into a compelling exercise in world building, weaving themes of gritty city neo- futurist sleaze within a framework of driving, distorted guitars and cathode-blasted synths. Echoes of Chrome, Wire, Minimal Man, and Sisters Of Mercy ripple through the collection but ultimately Rough Dimension charts it's own twisted vision of Inchour unforgiving reality.InchWritten and demoed across two weeks alone in a Marseille flat using his prized 1980's Gibson InchInvaderInch and a laptop, Clinco then took the tracks to Strange Weather studios in Brooklyn to record with Ben Greenberg (Uniform, The Men) who helmed 2019's debut, Human Traffic Jam. The results are notably ripping, refined, and riveting. Riffs in alternate tunings chug and churn over mid-tempo drums punctuated by spikes of sci-fi electronics while the vocals swagger and spit venom (Inchwhere we walk is also where we S**t / but if we bark at our reflections are we hypocrites? / impulses bleed right into our seed / where hate culminates the apple rotted on the treeInch). It's a bristling mix of the melodic and the macabre, absurdist observations of fast living and desperate measures, the clock of youth ticking towards midnight as dreams unravel in Babylon.VR S*x's specialty is making these cautionary tales of psychic decay and tainted love a thrill rather than a