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ITR 358LP
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LP version. "The Scientists' powerful brand of deranged swamp-rock returns with a vengeance as In the Red Records unleashes Negativity, an all-new magnum opus featuring the first new full-length album by the Australian band's penultimate line-up in thirty-five years. The bruising eleven-track collection features a Scientists configuration much beloved by connoisseurs of the band's work: singer-guitarist Kim Salmon, lead guitarist Tony Thewlis, and bassist Boris Sujdovic, all veterans of the group's defining 1981-85 outfit, and drummer Leanne Cowie, who replaced drummer Brett Rixon on the storming 1986 release Weird Love. A solid crop of fresh originals is highlighted by the opening statement of purpose 'Outside'; the offbeat, yowling waltz 'Naysayer'; the hilarious, self-mocking 'Suave,' which Salmon says was inspired by the work of his countrymen the Moodists; and the utterly surprising 'Moth-Eaten Velvet,' a Velvet Underground homage in ballad form that features a three-piece string section. Instrumental guests on the album include producer Mumford, who contributes trombone on 'Make It Go Away,' and Salmon's daughter Emma, who essays piano and background vocals. Negativity is the third Scientists release and the first full-length album for In the Red. The current quartet cut the single Braindead/SurvivalsKills in 2018 and the five-song 2019 EP 9H2O SiO2, the title of which translates (in a hat tip to the lyrics of the group's classic 'Swampland') as Nine Parts Water, One Part Sand. Those recordings were issued in conjunction with the group's first two U.S. tours during that period. Raw, freewheeling, and spattered with the high-voltage sound, the Scientists have drawn from such influences as the Stooges, Suicide, the Gun Club, and the Cramps, Negativity is jubilant, unpredictable listening."
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ITR 358CD
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"The Scientists' powerful brand of deranged swamp-rock returns with a vengeance as In the Red Records unleashes Negativity, an all-new magnum opus featuring the first new full-length album by the Australian band's penultimate line-up in thirty-five years. The bruising eleven-track collection features a Scientists configuration much beloved by connoisseurs of the band's work: singer-guitarist Kim Salmon, lead guitarist Tony Thewlis, and bassist Boris Sujdovic, all veterans of the group's defining 1981-85 outfit, and drummer Leanne Cowie, who replaced drummer Brett Rixon on the storming 1986 release Weird Love. A solid crop of fresh originals is highlighted by the opening statement of purpose 'Outside'; the offbeat, yowling waltz 'Naysayer'; the hilarious, self-mocking 'Suave,' which Salmon says was inspired by the work of his countrymen the Moodists; and the utterly surprising 'Moth-Eaten Velvet,' a Velvet Underground homage in ballad form that features a three-piece string section. Instrumental guests on the album include producer Mumford, who contributes trombone on 'Make It Go Away,' and Salmon's daughter Emma, who essays piano and background vocals. Negativity is the third Scientists release and the first full-length album for In the Red. The current quartet cut the single Braindead/SurvivalsKills in 2018 and the five-song 2019 EP 9H2O SiO2, the title of which translates (in a hat tip to the lyrics of the group's classic 'Swampland') as Nine Parts Water, One Part Sand. Those recordings were issued in conjunction with the group's first two U.S. tours during that period. Raw, freewheeling, and spattered with the high-voltage sound, the Scientists have drawn from such influences as the Stooges, Suicide, the Gun Club, and the Cramps, Negativity is jubilant, unpredictable listening."
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GUWDM 002LP
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"The Scientists' pre-Swampland days in Perth are brilliantly encapsulated on this collection of mostly unreleased live material from '78 and '79. These were the days when former Victims and future Hoodoo Gurus drummer James Baker led the band alongside guitarist/singer Kim Salmon, and when their poster read 'Rock 'n' Roll in the tradition of The Groovies and The Heartbreakers'. The Perth-based line-up recorded the brilliant 'Frantic Romantic' single and self-titled EP highlighted by 'Last Night'. They also recorded a posthumously released LP -- the 'pink album' -- which came as a massive disappointment due to bad production and a reduced line-up. Not For Sale: Live 1978/79 is a collection of live and rehearsal tracks that captures the band making the same noises as on those 45s, and presents live versions of the fan faves and vastly superior versions of most of the LP tracks as well as coughing up a bunch of hitherto unreleased originals and covers to boot. This is 'The Legendary Scientists' -- as they were dubbing themselves within months of forming -- as they should be heard. The main set comes from late 1979: a live-to-air broadcast from Melbourne's 3RRR. The same line-up is also present on a handful of primitive live recordings, made by a friend at one of the group's regular haunts, the Governor Broome Hotel in '79. Play this really loud and it sounds like right there in the pub, shitty PA and all. Packaged with rare and unseen images, an original 1979 Roadrunner magazine feature by Kim Williams (of the Summer Suns, and co-writer of Swampland) and additional notes by Grown Up Wrong's Dave Laing. This collection provides a thrilling glimpse into what an album by the 'Legendary' Scientists might've sounded like if it had been recorded in 1979. With the current incarnation of the band touring the US again and performing the likes of 'Last Night' and 'Frantic Romantic', this is an essential listen for all Scientists fans, no matter which line-up they prefer."
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"The Scientists' pre-Swampland days in Perth are brilliantly encapsulated on this collection of mostly unreleased live material from '78 and '79. These were the days when former Victims and future Hoodoo Gurus drummer James Baker led the band alongside guitarist/singer Kim Salmon, and when their poster read 'Rock 'n' Roll in the tradition of The Groovies and The Heartbreakers'. The Perth-based line-up recorded the brilliant 'Frantic Romantic' single and self-titled EP highlighted by 'Last Night'. They also recorded a posthumously released LP -- the 'pink album' -- which came as a massive disappointment due to bad production and a reduced line-up. Not For Sale: Live 1978/79 is a collection of live and rehearsal tracks that captures the band making the same noises as on those 45s, and presents live versions of the fan faves and vastly superior versions of most of the LP tracks as well as coughing up a bunch of hitherto unreleased originals and covers to boot. This is 'The Legendary Scientists' -- as they were dubbing themselves within months of forming -- as they should be heard. The main set comes from late 1979: a live-to-air broadcast from Melbourne's 3RRR. The same line-up is also present on a handful of primitive live recordings, made by a friend at one of the group's regular haunts, the Governor Broome Hotel in '79. Play this really loud and it sounds like right there in the pub, shitty PA and all. Packaged with rare and unseen images, an original 1979 Roadrunner magazine feature by Kim Williams (of the Summer Suns, and co-writer of Swampland) and additional notes by Grown Up Wrong's Dave Laing. This collection provides a thrilling glimpse into what an album by the 'Legendary' Scientists might've sounded like if it had been recorded in 1979. With the current incarnation of the band touring the US again and performing the likes of 'Last Night' and 'Frantic Romantic', this is an essential listen for all Scientists fans, no matter which line-up they prefer."
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ITR 334EP
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"The Scientists are the ultimate cult band! Mysterious, undefinable, and yet many quite distinct things to many people. Some blame them for grunge, some think they're a power pop band, some think they're experimental. Tav Falco describes them in Ghosts Behind The Sun thus: 'Mercurial individuals who's science is strictly alchemical.; Originating in Perth, Western Australia, in the beginnings of post-punk, they travelled to Sydney, then London, cutting a swathe through the indie scene throughout the 1980s, only to vanish. Sited as a seminal influence by so many -- Sonic Youth, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mudhoney, Nirvana -- the band had to return some time. In 2018 they returned with two new singles and tours of Australia, Europe and the U.S. (their first time ever in the States!). Now In The Red is proud to announce the release of 9H2O.SiO2 -- a 12-inch E.P. featuring five brand new originals just in time for the band's follow up U.S. tour in April. These new tracks prove that the band is still as original, brutal, rocking and scientific as they ever were. This is not to be missed!"
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BANG 022-7EP
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Who said this would never happen... Nevermind, here it is! The Scientists' new recordings! Kim Salmon is back with his Scientists -- Boris Sujdovic, Tony Thewlis, and Leanne Cowie (the mid-80s line-up) -- and delivers their first recording in 30 years. For this occasion Scientists have recorded "Mini Mini Mini", a cover originally by Jacques Dutronc, and "Perpetual Motion", a track written by The Scientists in the '80s, previously unrecorded. And what does it sound like? Simple and easy: The Scientists. Remember "Swampland"? Well, that's the sound here. That's it!
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BANG 037LP
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The most legendary Australian swamp blues band ever, The Scientists, include in this release their greatest songs plus previously-unreleased demos and live recordings from the '80s. Kim Salmon, Tony Thewlis, Boris Sujdovic, and Brett Rixon created their unique sound of distortion and anger based on blues roots. It includes previously-unseen pictures as well as an exclusive band history and interviews. A masterpiece on its own. Released by Bang! Records with the usual label quality on double 180 gram vinyl. Comes in a gatefold sleeve. Licensed from Cherry Red Records. 1,000 numbered copies only.
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BANG 064LP
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Thirty years. This is what it has taken for this record to see the light as an official release and on deluxe double vinyl format. Originally released in the early '80s in Australia only as a bootleg cassette, Rubber Never Sleeps has now been properly mastered, sounding remarkably improved and reviewed by The Scientists. This deluxe edition is accompanied with texts by Kim Salmon (Scientists, Beasts Of Bourbon, Kim Salmon & The Surrealists), James Baker (Scientists, Victims, Hoodoo Gurus, Beasts Of Bourbon, Dubrovniks), Rod Radjal (Scientists, Hoodoo Gurus, The Johnnys), Tony Thewlis (Scientists, Beasts Of Bourbon, Interstellar Villains, Scoundrelles) and Boris Sujdovic (Scientists, Beasts Of Bourbon, Dubrovniks), all narrating memories, anecdotes, opinions and ideas of that time. This recording compiles the long-lost early "loft tapes" recorded in Perth in the late '70s as well as the beginning of their diabolic '80s swamp noise sound in Sydney. These recordings feature very rare tracks by this seminal combo such as covers of The Modern Lovers, Alan Vega, Troggs, Chuck Berry and Alex Chilton, as well as their long-time classics such as "Frantic Romantic" or "Swampland," among others. A must-have for all Scientists fans. Double 150 gram LP with gatefold sleeve.
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