Singles of the Week (09//22)

1) Public Body - Flavour of Labour 

  

News from Brighton post-punk band... 

releases March 4, 2022 Written and performed by Public Body Recorded at Echo Zoo Studios Engineered by Christoph Skirl Mixed by Theo Verney Mastered by Julian Tardo at Church Road Studios Artwork by Emil Mniszko

 

 
(EP, 12" vinyl - Six Tonnes De Chair)

2) MONO - Scarlet Holliday 

 

 

 After COVID-19 first swept the world in 2020, MONO felt compelled to make a special little gift for the Christmas holiday. The accompanying message was simple: “Wishing everyone good health, happiness, and good cheer in the new year.” Originally made at home in isolation, this digital-only release consisted of two new MONO songs: “Scarlet Holliday” and “First Winter.” Now, to commemorate the 2021 holiday season, MONO has reworked and expanded Scarlet Holliday into a very special 3-song EP (now including the brand new song, “Epilogue”). Recorded at home and at Electrical Audio by longtime collaborator, Steve Albini, newly mixed by John McEntire and mastered by Bob Weston, Scarlet Holliday is finally being released into the world on limited-edition 10” vinyl, as well as all digital formats. In their unflappable determination to shine light into the darkness, MONO explains: “These songs were written with the idea of new hope for the new year since this time has become unforeseeably dark for many in the world. 

credits releases March 4, 2022 

 

 

 (EP - Pelagic)

 
3) Jaws The Shark - Another Day In Paradise

 

 

 

 ‘Another Day In Paradise’ is the debut EP from Olly Bailey’s Jaws The Shark. Featuring the singles ‘Still Young’ and ‘Erase Myself’, Bailey’s sound (augmented by YAK’s drummer Elliot Rawson) is pitched somewhere between Nineties American alternative rock and the Noughties’ British indie-rock revival. 

Tracklist: Side A: Another Day In Paradise / Cold Feet Side B: Erase Myself / Still Young 

 

(12" vinyl - Nice Swan)



4) Collective Fear - Foster

 

 

 News from Los Angeles, California post-punk / shoegaze project 

 

(EP, cassette - Candlepin)

5) METZ / Adulkt Life 

 

 

 
His split 7” is a dogged, startling response to today’s spoilt life. 

Adulkt Life and METZ are paired perfectly: their shared, resolute force carries an urgency that belongs to this era alone. Both are capable of goading listeners, both are capable of unearthly moments of alloyed beauty. And both bands are made for that unflinching space between the truths that can’t be absorbed and the truths that can’t be forgotten. METZ are undisputable. Their warning, an unflinching assessment of the vastness and insignificance of this life, is precisely counterbalanced by their lesson, which models the resilience that this understanding demands. “Demolition Row” is persistent, concise, and alarmingly physical. But its punch is escorted by this hypnotizing, un-strained vocal. “It’s quite singular,” in the words of METZ’s guitarist/singer Alex Edkins, “we’ve never sounded this way before.” Adulkt Life’s debut LP, Book of Curses, was the highlight of 2020, a contorted, forceful declaration. Adulkt Life’s song, “Book of Curses,” was intended for the LP, but didn’t quite fit. Singer Chris Rowley describes it as a “belligerent satellite” for the end of time: “like in a few weeks.” It’s matched here with the blip of “Ants & Lions,” a near-joke that instead feels accusatory. Atop the carnival swells of the song, only that voice could make “yabba dabba doo time” burn like acid. The impact of these two sides, taken together, reveals a shared, defiant intention. “When you’ve made yr small space attack ship mostly from sharp sticks and dashboards and recycled fuel stuffs METZ ship looks clean and tended for battles to come,” in the words of Adulkt Life’s Rowley, “very happy to be sharing crew n rink with them.” For METZ, this record lives within their legacy of complimentary projects including splits with Mission of Burma and Clipping. and their collaboration with John Reis. “It’s because we are fans of the music,” explains Edkins. “METZ are mighty aren’t they?” replies Rowley. Includes digital pre-order of METZ / Adulkt Life. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released, less shipping out on or around March 4, 2022 

 

(split 7" vinyl - What´s Your Rupture?)
 

vinyl:
True Faith - Running Away (7")
EPs:
DARLING. - Into, Outside / EP/
Kill Your Idols / Rule Them All - split /EP/
The Thing - Scavengers / EP/
Nights Like These - Unwell / EP/
The Here Todays - Pleasantries /EP/
Grandad - Walk Around Me / EP/
Pyre - Endless Nothing / EP/
Paradox Obscur - Intercourse /cassette EP/
digi single, video:
LOSTSLEEP - 8 Years Of Silence
Pastel Coast - Helios
Trny & žiletky - Chlapec
LIFE - Big Moon Lake
USA Nails - Tooting Broadway
Weird Nightmare - Searching for You
Berthold City - Out of Darkness
Modest - Won't Be the Last
Lesser Care - Reflection
Electric Drama - Before We Disappear
Wander - Daybreak
Wet Leg - Angelica
October Drift - Insects
Oh Hiroshima - Ascension
Cold Gawd - Moving to California in March
Lightfoils - Where It Ends You / Summer Nights
Laveda - bb
CASTLEBEAT - Racing
Tempers - Sightseeing
Postcards - If I Die
hiçamahiç - Kaybolacağız
Pale Dream - Walt and Penny
Catch The Breeze - Echoes From the Underground
Katz - It'll Never End
Iceage - Pull Up
Pixies - Human Crime
Barrie - Concrete
Belle and Sebastian - Unnecessary Drama
Night Sins - Violet Age
Club Intl - Ride (ft. Desire)
W. H. Lung - Kaya
Hans Helwinden - Why Should I Die For Your Money
M!R!M - Post Fight
Mall Girl - Poolside Person
MeLLLo - Wormhole
Monalia - We Are Dust
Damien Jurado - What Happened To The Class Of '65?
Fuzzy2102 - Historie světa