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Madness is Poliça's 7th release since 2012's ground breaking debut LP "Give You The Ghost". Recorded mostly from 2020-2021 in Ryan Olson's Minneapolis studio with lyrics written and recorded by Channy Leaneagh in her room, "Madness" is an experimental expansion of the 4 piece family band to include the anthropomorphic production tool "AllOvers(c)", designed by Olson and fellow producer & sound-artist Seth Rosetter. This latest release continues within the collaborative enclave in which Poliça resides and includes co-production by Dustin Zahn ("Alive" & "Away"), Alex Ridha and Alex Nutter ("Violence"). First single from the album is the anthemic pulse of "Alive".

Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

Madness is Poliça's 7th release since 2012's ground breaking debut LP "Give You The Ghost". Recorded mostly from 2020-2021 in Ryan Olson's Minneapolis studio with lyrics written and recorded by Channy Leaneagh in her room, "Madness" is an experimental expansion of the 4 piece family band to include the anthropomorphic production tool "AllOvers(c)", designed by Olson and fellow producer & sound-artist Seth Rosetter. This latest release continues within the collaborative enclave in which Poliça resides and includes co-production by Dustin Zahn ("Alive" & "Away"), Alex Ridha and Alex Nutter ("Violence"). First single from the album is the anthemic pulse of "Alive".

Leeds art-rock group Mush (Dan Hyndman - vocals / guitar, Phil Porter - drums, Nick Grant - bass, Myles Kirk- guitar) are set to return with album 'Down Tools' via Memphis Industries. The new record marks the prolific band's third album in as many years, following hype-building early singles 'Alternative Facts' and 'Gig Economy', 2020's debut LP '3D Routine' and 2021's acclaimed 'Lines Redacted', which pushed their sound further and, as Uncut wrote, saw them become "kindred spirits to Wand and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, two other bands prolifically honing their sound and approach, steadily developing their voice."

A culmination of life and musical experience, uncompromising in its vision, Stonechild, the new studio album from Jesca Hoop is a self described "compassion project." Released on July 5th by Memphis Industries, Stonechild is Hoop refined and defined. Beautiful, subtle and stark, her fifth album, the follow up to 2017's highly acclaimed 'Memories Are Now', is her best yet. Despite being a long term resident of Manchester, Hoop, has until now, returned to her native California to record. This time round however, "it was" according to Hoop "time to step out of my comfort zone, my safe place", venturing south to Bristol to team up with producer John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding, This is the Kit). Parish's minimal and purist approach helped clarify Hoop in her ideas and subtly yet effectively realigning her sound. The simplified arrangements draw focus to the fundamental sophistication of the songs.

Bye Bye is a three track offering from Philadelphia based sextet Blood, that rarely stays put in one style for long. All three songs - first single Money Worries, Luck and Borstal Field - were recorded by the band throughout the pandemic providing a uniting force whilst touring remained impossible. The tracks are a testament to the unforgiving and rewarding process of self-recording. The band found great relief in finally having the time to flesh out an experimental atmosphere without the constraint of paid studio time. Blood is proud of the work they've made, but it is imperative to mention that all three tracks were brought to life in a way not formerly thought possible by the mixing brilliance of Nancy Conforti. First single "Money Worries" finds Blood slingshotted over an open letter to their landlord. What starts as a clear threat to an obvious albeit deserving villain, soon caves into an acoustic respite, in which the nightmare of financial ruin becomes lullaby.

Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

Blue States returns with his sixth album titled World Contact Day, set for release via Memphis Industries on 18 March 2021 and named after the day each year on which UFO society International Flying Saucer Bureau tries to contact alien lifeform. World Contact Day arrives six years after the previous Blue States album, written and recorded partly at Dragazis' Lightwell Recordings studio in Hackney featuring a combination of instrumental soundscapes and vocal songs that draw from influences as diverse as world as Morricone, Vangelis, Beak, Broadcast and The Carpenters. Songs on the new record feature guest vocals from the likes of Giampaolo Speziale and Federica Caiozzo of the Italian band, Malihini, English folk-musician, Rachael Dadd and Miami-based Allison May-Brice (The 18th Day Of May, Lake Ruth).

Jesca Hoop has a tradition of reimagining and rerecording her own albums and having previously created beautifully stark versions of her albums "Kismet" and "Hunting my Dress" it is the turn of "The House That Jack Built". Recorded in her Manchester based home-built studio in December 2020, these intimate and immediate reworkings shine the spotlight on Hoops intricate, complex song writing with her astonishing vocals front and centre "The Deconstruction of Jack's House" comes on limited edition white vinyl.

Leeds art-rock outfit Mush return with new single "Peak Bleak" on limited edition green vinyl. Never ones to rest on their laurels, Peak Bleak is the immediate follow up to their hugely acclaimed second album "Lines Redacted", and sees Mush further exploring the outer reaches of art-rock with the coruscating wit and unique delivery that has become their trademark.

Barbarossa, a.k.a. British singer - songwriter and producer James Mathé, will release his new album "Love Here Listen" via Memphis Industries. For this latest batch of songs James Mathé collaborated with producer du jour Ghost Culture (Daniel Avery, Kelly Lee Owens, Falle Nioke) at his studio in Margate, Kent in the South East of England. The pair worked with a limited range of vintage synths - a Mono Poly, Korg Ms-20 a Roland Sh-101 and a Juno 108 borrowed from the local skate store Palm Bay Skates - with the recordings bounced down to Mathé's Fostex R8 reel to reel to give it that undeniable warmth. Mathé says of the recording process: "It was probably the most stress-free record to date and so much fun just messing around with synth arps. It's easy with James as we really understand each other and I trust him totally. He lives five minutes' walk along the seafront from me. We even jumped in the sea a couple times after lunch". Love Here Listen is Mathé's sixth album since his debut, Sea Like Blood, released on the Fence Collective back in 2006, since which time he's joined Jose Gonzales live show, become a member of Junip, toured with Polica and This is the Kit and morphed from acoustic troubadoury to electronic song smithery all the while seemingly searching for an elusive balance between hopefulness and melancholy. On Love Here Listen, thanks to a reconnecting with the visceral forces of nature, it feels like he has found it.

Warm Digits are Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.àTheir previous album for Memphis Industries, "Wireless World", featured guest vocals from Field Music and Sarah Cracknell, amongst others, garnered plaudits from BBC 6Music including an "Album of the Day" slot and playlists for "End Times"à"Growth of Raindrops", and boosted them on to the festival bills of Bluedot, Green Man and Festival No.6 amongst others. On new album "Flight of Ideas", Warm Digits make a call to arms: when we all think our ideas are right, what are the costs of never believing you could be wrong?àLooking back to the history of psychology to find out what happens when ideas outlive their sell-by date, with their vocal guests they set up a blistering musical exchange between fluorescent agit-funk, primary-coloured synth-bounce and fizzing sheets of guitar noise.àThe thunderous motorik space-disco duo with a pounding post-punk pulse, Warm Digits burst into technicolour with Flight Of Ideas, an album that effortlessly captures the kaleidoscopic abandon of their rapturously-received live shows while moving into increasingly accessible and tuneful territory.àThe LP features vocal contributions from Maximo Park's Paul Smith, The Lovely Eggs, The Orielles, Rozi Plain and the Delgado's Emma Pollock.