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Originally released in the UK in 2007 on CD, this awesome record from Gallon Drunk finally sees itself reissued now on vinyl with previously-unseen photography as well as liner notes by James Johnston. Gallon Drunk is actively touring these days and delivering incendiary live acts that prove them to be one of the best bands to ever come out of England. Vaporizing from London smoggy sounds and melodies of distortion, swamp, jungle, rock and pure intensity, The Rotten Mile became the evolutionary blueprint for their latest records The Road Gets Darker from Here (CLOUDS 037CD) and The Soul of the Hour (CLOUDS 062CD/LP). During these years James Johnston has also been actively taking part in other projects, including as a member of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and Lydia Lunch's Big Sexy Noise. Bang! Records is proud to take part in Gallon Drunk's history by releasing this masterpiece.
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CLOUDS 069EP
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Gallon Drunk unleash a raw, ragged, and uncompromising blast of literate rock and roll. A joyous explosion of a song, "The Dumb Room" celebrates its cast of misfits in a full-throated roar, erupting into a powerhouse band performance full of passion and carefree abandon. "The Dumb Room" is the single release from the album The Soul of the Hour (CLOUDS 062CD/LP) including "The Dumb Room Mono Mix."
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CLOUDS 062CD
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After the critical success of their acclaimed album The Road Gets Darker From Here (CLOUDS 037CD/LP) from 2012, Gallon Drunk have returned to their producer Johann Scheerer's Clouds Hill studio in Hamburg. Together with new bassist Leo Kurunis, Gallon Drunk have created their most exciting, passionate and groundbreaking work to date -- The Soul of the Hour. A howling celebration of survival and creative drive against the crushing weight of day-to-day existence, The Soul of the Hour finds Gallon Drunk pushing ever further into previously uncharted musical territory for the band. With an emphasis firmly upon hypnotic, locked-down grooves, free-flowing instrumental passages and all manner of European inspirational music that courses through the band's collective bloodstream (singer/guitarist, keyboard player James Johnston was a member of Faust), Gallon Drunk have stretched out their music into thrilling and unfamiliar shapes. Though always present in Gallon Drunk's music, the band has thrust the leftfield aspect inherent in their sound to the fore -- with exhilarating results. An emphasis upon a more focused, disciplined attack has fashioned a compelling musical wall of sound of considerable power, melancholy and fury. The Soul of the Hour offers heartfelt songs of dread, sadness, love and anguish, ever reaching for the transcendent moment within the incessant race against the passage of time. Opening with the epic "Before the Fire," which lets the tension and momentum build over a mesmeric nine minutes, the album then explodes with the wild, brutal euphoria of "The Dumb Room," and the relentless hypnotic Krautrock of "The Exit Sign," continuing with the album's immense title-track, the unsettling tension carried by Johnston's haunting vocal before erupting into a wild explosion of Ian White's relentlessly heavy drums and Terry Edwards' glorious brass section. Throughout the album, Leo Kurunis proves key to the new sound of the band, as evidenced in the subtle and sympathetic playing on "Dust in the Light," where rolling toms carry an uncharacteristically fragile upper register vocal from Johnston. Without doubt the most beautiful song the band have put to tape, its ghostly feel is reminiscent of Big Star's Third. Penultimate track "Over and Over" is washed over by waves of synthesizer -- an immense and dream-like song of anguish and yearning. Finally we reach the album closer, "The Speed of Fear" where James Brown meets motorik European psychedelia, insistent vocals and extended, hypnotic freak-outs building to a crushing final chorus. The Soul of the Hour marks Gallon Drunk's return in a style of its own, and with an album of true sonic brilliance.
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CLOUDS 062LP
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LP version. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl. Includes a CD copy of the album. After the critical success of their acclaimed album The Road Gets Darker From Here (CLOUDS 037CD/LP) from 2012, Gallon Drunk have returned to their producer Johann Scheerer's Clouds Hill studio in Hamburg. Together with new bassist Leo Kurunis, Gallon Drunk have created their most exciting, passionate and groundbreaking work to date -- The Soul of the Hour. A howling celebration of survival and creative drive against the crushing weight of day-to-day existence, The Soul of the Hour finds Gallon Drunk pushing ever further into previously uncharted musical territory for the band. With an emphasis firmly upon hypnotic, locked-down grooves, free-flowing instrumental passages and all manner of European inspirational music that courses through the band's collective bloodstream (singer/guitarist, keyboard player James Johnston was a member of Faust), Gallon Drunk have stretched out their music into thrilling and unfamiliar shapes. Though always present in Gallon Drunk's music, the band has thrust the leftfield aspect inherent in their sound to the fore -- with exhilarating results. An emphasis upon a more focused, disciplined attack has fashioned a compelling musical wall of sound of considerable power, melancholy and fury. The Soul of the Hour offers heartfelt songs of dread, sadness, love and anguish, ever reaching for the transcendent moment within the incessant race against the passage of time. Opening with the epic "Before the Fire," which lets the tension and momentum build over a mesmeric nine minutes, the album then explodes with the wild, brutal euphoria of "The Dumb Room," and the relentless hypnotic Krautrock of "The Exit Sign," continuing with the album's immense title-track, the unsettling tension carried by Johnston's haunting vocal before erupting into a wild explosion of Ian White's relentlessly heavy drums and Terry Edwards' glorious brass section. Throughout the album, Leo Kurunis proves key to the new sound of the band, as evidenced in the subtle and sympathetic playing on "Dust in the Light," where rolling toms carry an uncharacteristically fragile upper register vocal from Johnston. Without doubt the most beautiful song the band have put to tape, its ghostly feel is reminiscent of Big Star's Third. Penultimate track "Over and Over" is washed over by waves of synthesizer -- an immense and dream-like song of anguish and yearning. Finally we reach the album closer, "The Speed of Fear" where James Brown meets motorik European psychedelia, insistent vocals and extended, hypnotic freak-outs building to a crushing final chorus. The Soul of the Hour marks Gallon Drunk's return in a style of its own, and with an album of true sonic brilliance.
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CLOUDS 045EP
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Mini-album on 10" vinyl with five exclusive live recordings. This version will be not released on digital or on CD. First press is on white vinyl. After starting the band in 1989, Gallon Drunk went through a lot of changes, but have refocused their distinctive musical vision in 2012 with a collection of impassioned songs, imbued with pure mania, despair and abandonment onto the record The Road Gets Darker from Here. Featuring founder, frontman, and former Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds member James Johnston (vocals, organ, guitar, harmonica, piano), Leo Kurunis (bass), Terry Edwards (saxophone and percussion) and Ian White (drums, percussion), each of the acclaimed London band members are playing in other bands as well (e.g. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Tindersticks, PJ Harvey, Lydia Lunch, Faust).
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CLOUDS 040EP
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Second single in 2012 by Gallon Drunk, featuring the non-album track "Close the Blinds" in a picture sleeve. "A Thousand Years" represents the angry energy of the album The Road Gets Darker from Here, full of menace, fury and guitar eruptions. James Johnston's voice expresses rage and desperation and the music is propelled forward by slide guitar, sax, and the powerhouse drumming of Ian White. Includes a duet with German musical icon Dirk von Lowtzow, lead singer of Tocotronic.
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CLOUDS 037CD
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Following the tragic illness and death of their bassist Simon Wring, acclaimed British band Gallon Drunk return as a three-piece with this dynamic new album. Recorded at Clouds Hills Recordings in Hamburg during the summer of 2011, produced by Johann Scheerer (who also produced Robots In Disguise, Faust, amongst others), the band bring the considerable power of their renowned live performances to The Road Gets Darker from Here. Featuring founding frontman and former Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds member James Johnston (vocals, organ, guitar, harmonica, piano, and bass), Terry Edwards (bass, saxophone and percussion) and Ian White (drums, percussion), the trio have refocused their utterly distinctive musical vision with a collection of impassioned songs, imbued with pure mania, despair and abandonment. At the state-of-the-art analog recording studio, Scheerer recorded the band playing the songs live, direct to 2" tape. This gave a warmth, richness and depth of sound to the recording. Coupled with the band members' own recent experiences, playing and recording with the likes of Tom Waits, Lydia Lunch's Big Sexy Noise, Faust, Nick Cave, and Tindersticks, this brought an open-minded freshness to the sessions. From the insistent, slide guitar-driven "A Thousand Years," through the exhilaratingly sleazy, deranged rock n'roll of "You Made Me," the menacing melancholia of "Stuck in My Head" (featuring French singer Marion Andrau of Underground Railroad), to the desperate eruption of guitar fury of "Hanging On," this is classic, unfettered Gallon Drunk. Also including the fever-dream boogie of "The Big Breakdown," before the final haunting, enigmatic psychodrama "The Perfect Dancer" -- a miasma of hallucinatory guitars, Hammond organs and slinky voodoo drums. An utterly captivating experience.
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CLOUDS 037LP
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LP version with free CD and download code. Following the tragic illness and death of their bassist Simon Wring, acclaimed British band Gallon Drunk return as a three-piece with this dynamic new album. Recorded at Clouds Hills Recordings in Hamburg during the summer of 2011, produced by Johann Scheerer (who also produced Robots In Disguise, Faust, amongst others), the band bring the considerable power of their renowned live performances to The Road Gets Darker from Here. Featuring founding frontman and former Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds member James Johnston (vocals, organ, guitar, harmonica, piano, and bass), Terry Edwards (bass, saxophone and percussion) and Ian White (drums, percussion), the trio have refocused their utterly distinctive musical vision with a collection of impassioned songs, imbued with pure mania, despair and abandonment. At the state-of-the-art analog recording studio, Scheerer recorded the band playing the songs live, direct to 2" tape. This gave a warmth, richness and depth of sound to the recording. Coupled with the band members' own recent experiences, playing and recording with the likes of Tom Waits, Lydia Lunch's Big Sexy Noise, Faust, Nick Cave, and Tindersticks, this brought an open-minded freshness to the sessions. From the insistent, slide guitar-driven "A Thousand Years," through the exhilaratingly sleazy, deranged rock n'roll of "You Made Me," the menacing melancholia of "Stuck in My Head" (featuring French singer Marion Andrau of Underground Railroad), to the desperate eruption of guitar fury of "Hanging On," this is classic, unfettered Gallon Drunk. Also including the fever-dream boogie of "The Big Breakdown," before the final haunting, enigmatic psychodrama "The Perfect Dancer" -- a miasma of hallucinatory guitars, Hammond organs and slinky voodoo drums. An utterly captivating experience.
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