2017 Blog
Latest Releases Manufactured by Key Production_February Round-up
Casey Where I Go When I Am Sleeping 12" exclusive splatter vinyl, limited turquoise blue and vinyl and CD., [Hassle]
The Handsome Family Through The Trees (20th Anniversary Edition) Heavyweight Sky Blue Vinyl LP [Loose Music]
2018 marks 20 years since the release of The Handsome Family's third album 'Through The Trees'. Following its release, Uncut magazine declared it to be the year’s "Best New Country Album", Mojo magazine named it one of the “10 Essential Americana Records Of All Time”, with The Guardian going on to call the album’s opening track, Weightless Again, one of the “100 Best Songs Ever Written About Heartbreak”.
Loose are celebrating with a 20th Anniversary edition, to be released on 9th March. The heavyweight sky blue-coloured vinyl comes with an exclusive “Invisible Trees” bonus CD, comprising of 15 tracks of “out-takes, live performances and bickering”, alongside the story of Through The Trees, written by Rennie Sparks.
Factory Floor Heart Of Data/Babel Limited Edition White Vinyl 12" [Cargo Records]
Heart Of Data / Babel were the first records of Factory Floor on their own Heart Of Data record label, the two tracks were deeply inspired by Fritz Lang's classic Metropolis released in 1927, clearly industrial modular synth rhythms and spacey, atmospheric textures.
John Matthias & Jay Auborn Pretoria Remixed vinyl LP [Village Green]
John Matthias & Jay Auborn joined forces beforehand and now they bring a remix to the track Pretoria including Bristolian producer CUTS, Will Young’s (not that one) Moon Gangs project, and former Mogwai guitarist John Cummings.
Hugh Welchman & Dorota Kobiela Loving Vincent DVD movie, [Cineart]
Loving Vincent is the world's first fully painted feature film produced by Oscar-winning studios Breakthru Films and Trademark Films.
Moon Gangs Earth Loop vinyl LP & CD [Village Green]
‘Earth Loop’, the debut album by keyboardist William Young’s Moon Gangs project, is set for release on 30th March 2018 via Village Green Recordings. A classically-trained pianist, Young composed ‘Earth Loop’ “half and half in a classical sense”, some played live on keyboards, with ideas notated traditionally, the other half created using analogue sequencers with random voltage sources.
Yung Lean Stranger double vinyl LP [YEAR0001]
Stranger’ is the latest chapter in the forever unpredictable saga of Swedish innovator Yung Lean. It further charts Yung Lean’s evolution from polarizing viral sensation to pioneering mainstay in modern hip-hop and electronic music.
Anna Burch Quit The Curse heavyweight light green vinyl and CD [Heavenly]
Though the deceptively complex pop of Quit the Curse marks the debut of Anna Burch, it’s anything but the green first steps of a fledgling new artist. The Detroit singer/songwriter has been visible for the better part of her years-long career singing in Frontier Ruckus, or more recently co-fronting Failed Flowers, but somewhere along the way a vibrant collection of solo material slowly began taking form.
Field Music Open Here black vinyl LP in die-cut sleeve [Memphis Industries]
There probably won't be many other rock records this year, or any year, which feature quite so much flute and flugelhorn (alongside the saxophones, string quartet and junk box percussion). but somehow or other, it comes together. over thirteen years and six albums, field music have managed to carve a niche where all of these sounds can find a place; a place where pop music can be as voracious as it wants to be.
Ezra Furman Transangelic Exodus Vinyl LP [Bella Union]
Transangelic Exodus, Ezra Furman’s second album for Bella Union, is a new landmark for the American singer-songwriter: “not a concept record, but almost a novel, or a cluster of stories on a theme, a combination of fiction and a half-true memoir,” according to its author. “A personal companion for a paranoid road trip. A queer outlaw saga.”
POLICA and Stargaze Music For The Long Emergency Vinyl LP [Transgressive]
Transgressive Records have announced details of the release of Music For The Long Emergency, a full-length collaboration between POLIÇA, an electronic pop band based in Minneapolis, and s t a r g a z e, a Berlin-based chamber orchestra interested in pop and electronics on Friday 16th February 2018.
The Orielles Silver Dollar Moment Vinyl LP [Heavenly]
From the first jangling sunshine chords on opening track ‘Mango’, Silver Dollar Moments announces itself as a proper piece of indie pop goodness. Then, across 45 minutes, it takes all kinds of turns, into ESG-ish yips and funk, dreamy-arch harmonies, disco synth-pows and stoner bongos, unsettling submerged voices - with all that and more it still flows like a fountain of indie pop, fresh and catchy and altogether.
Fever Ray Plunge Vinyl LP [Rabid]
Karin Dreijer has of course been busy making magic with The Knife for much of the intervening period, but it’s been absolutely years since she stepped out as her solo project Fever Ray. But now we have a whole new album, Plunge, to get lost in! Released by Rabid Records.
Jonathan Wilson Rare Birds Black Vinyl 2LP and Limited Gold Coloured Vinyl 2LP [Bella Union]
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Karen Elson, Conor Oberst), returns with his third solo release. The ambitious “maximalist” album, titled Rare Birds, is released 2nd March on Bella Union and features contributions from Father John Misty, Lucius, Lana Del Rey, and New Age music legend Laraaji.
Noel Gallagher It's a Beautiful World limited edition picture disc and standard black vinyl, [Sour Mash]
The Residents CD re-issues via Cherry Red Records.
A series of deep, archival re-issues from the legendary San Francisco collective.
Meet The Residents 2CD preserved edition Residents (the), [Cherry Red]
Duck Stab/Buster & Glen 2CD preserved edition Residents (the), [Cherry Red]
Fingerprince 2CD preserved edition Residents (the), [Cherry Red]
The Third Reich'n'Roll 2CD preserved edition Residents (the), [Cherry Red]
Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller present Jazz On The Corner double CD and vinyl with deluxe gatefold packaging, [Acid Jazz]
When Acid Jazz founder Eddie Piller asked the actor Martin Freeman to do a jazz radio show they could hardly imagine the response. From around the world emails and tweets inundated the show and they swore to themselves that they couldn’t leave it there.
Now, two years on this compilation of their favourite jazz has arrived. From the rolling hard bop of Lee Morgan and Art Blakey, via screaming soul organ, jazz funk original acid jazz onwards to the post modern spiritual jazz of Kasami Washington, this is an incredible journey.
Released in March on double CD and Vinyl with deluxe gatefold packaging this is the album that will launch Acid Jazz’s 30th Anniversary celebrations.
Editors Violence heavyweight red and standard black vinyl and CD, [PIAS]
Violence releases on March 9th 2018 and features the brand new single Magazine. To celebrate the release of Violence, the band will play three special UK launch shows in March.
Nikki Sixx and SIXX:A.M. The Heroin Diaries 10th Anniversary Editions of The memoir & soundtrack, [LevenSeven Music/Pledge Music]
August 21st, 2017 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Nikki Sixx’s drug-soaked NY Times bestsellingmemoir, THE HEROIN DIARIES and SIXX:A.M.’s The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack. To commemorate more than a decade of sobriety and life lessons learned, Nikki Sixx and SIXX:A.M. revisit the seminal work; announcing Tenth Anniversary Editions of the book and album in multiple formats including: digital LP, CD, CD / DVD, and Special Edition Vinyl, and Graphic Novel. Fans can get a jump start TODAY by pre-ordering these and more exclusively at PledgeMusic.
David Murray feat. Saul Williams Blues for Memo CD album, [Motema Music]
Caroline Rose Loner CD album, [New West]
The Gloaming Live at the NCH CD and vinyl album, [Real World Records]
Deva Mahal Fun Deep CD and vinyl album
Nake Giants Sluff CD album, [New West Records]
Micah P. Hinson At The British Broadcasting Corporation CD and vinyl album, [Full Time Hobby]
Stereo Honey Monuments EP special 180g Black 12 inch vinyl, the sleeve is beautiful 300gsm matt reverse board, with black inner sleeve, [Beatnick]
Mozart Mini Mart vinyl LP edition and CD, [West Midlands/Cherry Red]
Beautiful vinyl LP edition of Go-Kart Mozart’s long-awaited new album “Mozart’s Mini-Mart”. Includes a 24″ fold-out double-sided poster.
Felt were an alternative rock band, formed in 1979 in Birmingham, led by Lawrence, singer/ songwriter alongside Maurice Deebank, Guitarist and Martin Duffy, Keyboardist. The Splendour Of Fear first released in February 1984 and seen as the most otherworldly album of Felt's .
Felt The Splendour Of Fear Cherry Red Vinyl LP in Deluxe Gatefold Sleeve [Cherry Red]
Felt Ignite The Seven Cannons Cherry Red Vinyl LP in Deluxe Gatefold Sleeve [Cherry Red]
Felt The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories Cherry Red Vinyl LP in Deluxe Gatefold Sleeve [Cherry Red]
Felt Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty Cherry Red Vinyl LP in Deluxe Gatefold Sleeve [Cherry Red]
Felt The Seventeenth Century remasted CD & 7" vinyl boxset
This Limited Edition initial run of these box sets are stickered and hand-signed by Lawrence.
Anyone who’s been living on the grapevine these past few years must have heard the rumours about the coming of the FELT reissues – well they’re here.
The CD version comes in a bespoke 7” box, complete with various ephemera consisting of; the original album in a special gatefold sleeve – long deleted 7” vinyl single pertaining to the relevant year of release – reproduction gig flyers – double-sided wall poster – and four button lapel badges for wearing with pride!