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RELEASE DATE: 10/2/2026
With Stadt der blauen Eier: Selected Recordings and Rarities 1980-1981, Tapete Records is releasing a retrospective of Korpus Kristi, one of the early punk bands in West Germany that today is, quite unjustly, less well known. Alongside The Wirtschaftswunder and Die Radierer, Korpus Kristi were part of the so-called "Limburger Pest," which produced some of the most original releases on the West German underground scene in the early 1980s. Spanning a total of 12 tracks, the compilation features single releases, rarities and selected tracks from the 1981 album, finally making the band's brief but remarkable body of work accessible once again. The truth about Korpus Kristi (excerpt from the liner notes accompanying the compilation): "The birth of Korpus Kristi. They claimed to be inspired by the Stooges, but decades later, Bodenstein said in a bar in Hanau, pointing to a concert-poster of the German-American proto punk band The Monks: 'They were the granddaddies of Korpus Kristi, even if we didn't know it back then.' At least when it came to emptying out clubs, they could certainly hold their own against their role models. At Frankfurt's famous Batschkapp, they incited the audience to enthusiastic 'Stop! Stop!' chants; in Wiesbaden, an enraged patron tried to murder singer Bodenstein right on the spot. Their live shows were marked by chaos and raw violence. Even the stage set was terrifying: Barbed wire, oil drums that Bodenstein pounded on like a man possessed, as if they were bones that had to be shattered, crosses from which they hung themselves -- a thoroughly blasphemous spectacle, an exorcism intended to drive out even the last spark of divinity, the last breath of the Holy Spirit that might still linger in the room. And under no circumstances were they to allow the audience to develop any sense of rhythm. As soon as feet and hips began to sway, the bass and drums would smash everything to pieces again, Pulch's saxophone would send the tinnitus soaring to immeasurable heights, and a chainsaw guitar would gnaw its way into the listeners' groins. And if none of that worked, there was always Bodenstein's voice, which wavered back and forth between trilled squeals and roars and seemed to come from everywhere thanks to reverb and echo effects. 'I like that, it really gets me going when they're screaming down there' said Bodenstein, referring to the tormented audience." --Roky Lugosi
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RELEASE DATE: 10/2/2026
LP version. With Stadt der blauen Eier: Selected Recordings and Rarities 1980-1981, Tapete Records is releasing a retrospective of Korpus Kristi, one of the early punk bands in West Germany that today is, quite unjustly, less well known. Alongside The Wirtschaftswunder and Die Radierer, Korpus Kristi were part of the so-called "Limburger Pest," which produced some of the most original releases on the West German underground scene in the early 1980s. Spanning a total of 12 tracks, the compilation features single releases, rarities and selected tracks from the 1981 album, finally making the band's brief but remarkable body of work accessible once again. The truth about Korpus Kristi (excerpt from the liner notes accompanying the compilation): "The birth of Korpus Kristi. They claimed to be inspired by the Stooges, but decades later, Bodenstein said in a bar in Hanau, pointing to a concert-poster of the German-American proto punk band The Monks: 'They were the granddaddies of Korpus Kristi, even if we didn't know it back then.' At least when it came to emptying out clubs, they could certainly hold their own against their role models. At Frankfurt's famous Batschkapp, they incited the audience to enthusiastic 'Stop! Stop!' chants; in Wiesbaden, an enraged patron tried to murder singer Bodenstein right on the spot. Their live shows were marked by chaos and raw violence. Even the stage set was terrifying: Barbed wire, oil drums that Bodenstein pounded on like a man possessed, as if they were bones that had to be shattered, crosses from which they hung themselves -- a thoroughly blasphemous spectacle, an exorcism intended to drive out even the last spark of divinity, the last breath of the Holy Spirit that might still linger in the room. And under no circumstances were they to allow the audience to develop any sense of rhythm. As soon as feet and hips began to sway, the bass and drums would smash everything to pieces again, Pulch's saxophone would send the tinnitus soaring to immeasurable heights, and a chainsaw guitar would gnaw its way into the listeners' groins. And if none of that worked, there was always Bodenstein's voice, which wavered back and forth between trilled squeals and roars and seemed to come from everywhere thanks to reverb and echo effects. 'I like that, it really gets me going when they're screaming down there' said Bodenstein, referring to the tormented audience." --Roky Lugosi
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RELEASE DATE: 9/4/2026
LP version. After a two decades of making albums, Downpilot's Paul Hiraga wonders: why would a songwriter write songs if not to make sense of the oddest or most difficult situations they may find themselves in? With this latest release, Strange Horses, he attempts to address the challenges of living in a time of such rapid and mystifying change and its effects upon relationships, the physical world itself, and the unfathomable terrain of the psyche. His eighth LP is an expertly crafted and truly affecting collection of musical meditations with soundscapes ranging from luscious guitar pop, to intimate, studied Americana. Things kick off with a decisive twang in the compelling and existential opener, "Primitive Skin," and thus begins a sonic exploration of varied moods, themes, and subjects. Whether in the territory of interpersonal complexity ("Rose Paranoia"), changing landscapes ("Playground"), or the destructive and redemptive force of nature ("September Street"), listeners are on a ride to an undisclosed but intriguing destination. Each song is its own individual odyssey, and there is not a B-side in the bunch. "In the Air", one of the album's highlights, is a heartbreaking vignette about broken connections with a tender keyboard part that goes straight from the ear to the emotional core. The quirky rhythms and swirling synths of "You Never Fly" suggest the aftermath of a skyborne mystery, and the breezy dreaminess of "Loose Change" serves up a tinge of Latin-laced sunshine pop. Violinist Melinda Rice adds an appropriate "strangeness" to the closing track, in a soaring and expansive finale. Strange Horses was written, recorded and mixed by Hiraga himself (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums) in Seattle and Whidbey Island WA, and features appearances by longtime collaborators Anne Marie Ruljancich (Walkabouts), Lars Plogschties, Terry de Castro (Wedding Present), Jeff Brown, and Melinda Rice, with newcomer Will Thomas (Dive Index) providing synth textures.
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After a two decades of making albums, Downpilot's Paul Hiraga wonders: why would a songwriter write songs if not to make sense of the oddest or most difficult situations they may find themselves in? With this latest release, Strange Horses, he attempts to address the challenges of living in a time of such rapid and mystifying change and its effects upon relationships, the physical world itself, and the unfathomable terrain of the psyche. His eighth LP is an expertly crafted and truly affecting collection of musical meditations with soundscapes ranging from luscious guitar pop, to intimate, studied Americana. Things kick off with a decisive twang in the compelling and existential opener, "Primitive Skin," and thus begins a sonic exploration of varied moods, themes, and subjects. Whether in the territory of interpersonal complexity ("Rose Paranoia"), changing landscapes ("Playground"), or the destructive and redemptive force of nature ("September Street"), listeners are on a ride to an undisclosed but intriguing destination. Each song is its own individual odyssey, and there is not a B-side in the bunch. "In the Air", one of the album's highlights, is a heartbreaking vignette about broken connections with a tender keyboard part that goes straight from the ear to the emotional core. The quirky rhythms and swirling synths of "You Never Fly" suggest the aftermath of a skyborne mystery, and the breezy dreaminess of "Loose Change" serves up a tinge of Latin-laced sunshine pop. Violinist Melinda Rice adds an appropriate "strangeness" to the closing track, in a soaring and expansive finale. Strange Horses was written, recorded and mixed by Hiraga himself (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums) in Seattle and Whidbey Island WA, and features appearances by longtime collaborators Anne Marie Ruljancich (Walkabouts), Lars Plogschties, Terry de Castro (Wedding Present), Jeff Brown, and Melinda Rice, with newcomer Will Thomas (Dive Index) providing synth textures.
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RELEASE DATE: 8/28/2026
"Bandmates Wanted" posters may be old school, but when songwriter Oisean Burnett moved to London from Glasgow in 2024 the homemade approach was what worked. Fast forward to now and Starter Car have established themselves as darlings of the South London music scene with their unique brand of country-influenced indie. Now comes the release of their debut album, Afterlight, a hooky collection reflecting on life's beauty and struggles. Recorded and produced by Joe Futák (lilo, Piglet, Baggio), the album's sound grew organically through the core band plus collaboration with fellow scenesters, including vocals from Christie Gardner (lilo), fiddle from Sophia Bartlett (Tugboat Captain) and banjo from Michael Rhea (Symbol Soup). The result is a warm and nostalgic sonic world, clearly a natural progression from Burnett's childhood surrounded by Sparklehorse, Sufjan Stevens, and Wilco. Despite this glow of familial comfort, Afterlight doesn't shy away from dark themes of anxiety, death and drugs. "If you're experiencing a little discomfort while writing something, it's probably good," says Burnett. "Music has that ability to elevate the cringey into something meaningful and pretty." Throughout the album, songs born of introspection unfold with lush harmonies offering hope and a contrast to moments where Burnett's vocals are honest and exposed. Opening track and lead single "Throwing Down" is a blunt examination of spiraling out when you find yourself alone for the weekend. The recklessness of going out drinking is anchored by steady drums and laid-back licks akin to MJ Lenderman, with Burnett singing "I drink double when I'm not around you." This reflective approach continues in "Avert," which addresses the feeling of not wanting to socialize, before the high-octane "Safety Net" captures Sparklehorse's driven side and references the late Mark Linkous. Death is covered again in "Watered Down," a loving reflection of Burnett's grandfather following both grandparents' passings in a short period. Burnett's father Seori sings backing vocals on the track, while a melancholic backdrop is set by interwoven fiddle and guitar. The album wraps with "Kicking," a barnstorming rallying cry for forward movement in the face of life's obstacles. There's a raw, driving energy, with cranked guitars nodding to Teenage Fanclub and a rousing fiddle solo by Sophia Bartlett. Afterlight is sticking your head out the car window: exhilarating but breath-taking. It's the cusp of anxiety and excitement, the nauseating sense of something beautiful coming.
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LP version. "Bandmates Wanted" posters may be old school, but when songwriter Oisean Burnett moved to London from Glasgow in 2024 the homemade approach was what worked. Fast forward to now and Starter Car have established themselves as darlings of the South London music scene with their unique brand of country-influenced indie. Now comes the release of their debut album, Afterlight, a hooky collection reflecting on life's beauty and struggles. Recorded and produced by Joe Futák (lilo, Piglet, Baggio), the album's sound grew organically through the core band plus collaboration with fellow scenesters, including vocals from Christie Gardner (lilo), fiddle from Sophia Bartlett (Tugboat Captain) and banjo from Michael Rhea (Symbol Soup). The result is a warm and nostalgic sonic world, clearly a natural progression from Burnett's childhood surrounded by Sparklehorse, Sufjan Stevens, and Wilco. Despite this glow of familial comfort, Afterlight doesn't shy away from dark themes of anxiety, death and drugs. "If you're experiencing a little discomfort while writing something, it's probably good," says Burnett. "Music has that ability to elevate the cringey into something meaningful and pretty." Throughout the album, songs born of introspection unfold with lush harmonies offering hope and a contrast to moments where Burnett's vocals are honest and exposed. Opening track and lead single "Throwing Down" is a blunt examination of spiraling out when you find yourself alone for the weekend. The recklessness of going out drinking is anchored by steady drums and laid-back licks akin to MJ Lenderman, with Burnett singing "I drink double when I'm not around you." This reflective approach continues in "Avert," which addresses the feeling of not wanting to socialize, before the high-octane "Safety Net" captures Sparklehorse's driven side and references the late Mark Linkous. Death is covered again in "Watered Down," a loving reflection of Burnett's grandfather following both grandparents' passings in a short period. Burnett's father Seori sings backing vocals on the track, while a melancholic backdrop is set by interwoven fiddle and guitar. The album wraps with "Kicking," a barnstorming rallying cry for forward movement in the face of life's obstacles. There's a raw, driving energy, with cranked guitars nodding to Teenage Fanclub and a rousing fiddle solo by Sophia Bartlett. Afterlight is sticking your head out the car window: exhilarating but breath-taking. It's the cusp of anxiety and excitement, the nauseating sense of something beautiful coming.
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RELEASE DATE: 8/21/2026
LP version. To mark 50 years of punk, Ventil Verlag is publishing a song comic featuring outstanding tracks from the German punk scene. Tapete Records is accompanying this release with a compilation of early German-language punk, focusing on the years between 1979 and 1986 -- the years when the world was still coming to an end. With a total of 14 tracks, the compilation showcases just how exciting and diverse early German punk sounded. By the late seventies, punk had arrived in Germany, and more and more cities saw the emergence of bands, record stores, fanzines, labels, clubs, and scenes. Self-criticism followed close behind: as early as 1981, the liner notes to the compilation Paranoia in der Straßenbahn observed "negative tendencies" caused by punk's popularity and resulting dilution, and regarding 1983 they stated: "This year must be regarded as the end of the first great phase of punk in Germany. With few exceptions, fanzines, records, and concerts are no longer bringing anything new." Whether such sweeping criticism holds up in light of bands like Angeschissen, Die Goldenen Zitronen, EA80, or Mutter is another question, but this compilation nevertheless focuses on the early years of German-language punk. Featuring Der KFc, Fehlfarben, Östro 430, Slime, Rotzkotz, Bärchen und die Milchbubis, Brausepöter, Male, Schleim-Keim, S.Y.P.H., Hans-A-Plast, Torpedo Moskau, Der Moderne Man, and The Wirtschaftswunder.
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RELEASE DATE: 8/21/2026
To mark 50 years of punk, Ventil Verlag is publishing a song comic featuring outstanding tracks from the German punk scene. Tapete Records is accompanying this release with a compilation of early German-language punk, focusing on the years between 1979 and 1986 -- the years when the world was still coming to an end. With a total of 14 tracks, the compilation showcases just how exciting and diverse early German punk sounded. By the late seventies, punk had arrived in Germany, and more and more cities saw the emergence of bands, record stores, fanzines, labels, clubs, and scenes. Self-criticism followed close behind: as early as 1981, the liner notes to the compilation Paranoia in der Straßenbahn observed "negative tendencies" caused by punk's popularity and resulting dilution, and regarding 1983 they stated: "This year must be regarded as the end of the first great phase of punk in Germany. With few exceptions, fanzines, records, and concerts are no longer bringing anything new." Whether such sweeping criticism holds up in light of bands like Angeschissen, Die Goldenen Zitronen, EA80, or Mutter is another question, but this compilation nevertheless focuses on the early years of German-language punk. Featuring Der KFc, Fehlfarben, Östro 430, Slime, Rotzkotz, Bärchen und die Milchbubis, Brausepöter, Male, Schleim-Keim, S.Y.P.H., Hans-A-Plast, Torpedo Moskau, Der Moderne Man, and The Wirtschaftswunder.
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Angriff auf's Schlaraffenland: Ein Deutschpunk-Mixtape ("Attack on the Land of Milk and Honey: Punk in Germany from Then to Now"). The first singles that were later categorized as punk appeared in 1976. This makes for a fitting 50-year anniversary, which Tapete Records celebrates with a compilation. "Punks are the old farts of today," Vomit Visions already noted back in 1980. And doesn't that essentially say it all about punk -- the historicization of the genre, its musical conservatism, and the hype around milestone anniversaries. Punk bands are still being formed in Winnenden, Limburg, and Hoyerswerda -- just as they were in 1978, 1983, and 2013. And like this musical journey through time, they care little about neat definitions of Deutschpunk. Instead, this compilation opens itself up to different styles and voices of punk with German lyrics. What unites the songs is that, on the one hand, they are rooted in punk, and on the other, in the German language -- yet they create something of their own. In their most compelling moments, they struggle as much with the German language as they do with punk itself. Like any good mixtape, this compilation is based purely on musical aspects and pays no attention to release years. Featuring The Shocks, S.Y.P.H., Östro 430, Carambolage, Toxoplasma, and more.
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Double LP version. Angriff auf's Schlaraffenland: Ein Deutschpunk-Mixtape ("Attack on the Land of Milk and Honey: Punk in Germany from Then to Now"). The first singles that were later categorized as punk appeared in 1976. This makes for a fitting 50-year anniversary, which Tapete Records celebrates with a compilation. "Punks are the old farts of today," Vomit Visions already noted back in 1980. And doesn't that essentially say it all about punk -- the historicization of the genre, its musical conservatism, and the hype around milestone anniversaries. Punk bands are still being formed in Winnenden, Limburg, and Hoyerswerda -- just as they were in 1978, 1983, and 2013. And like this musical journey through time, they care little about neat definitions of Deutschpunk. Instead, this compilation opens itself up to different styles and voices of punk with German lyrics. What unites the songs is that, on the one hand, they are rooted in punk, and on the other, in the German language -- yet they create something of their own. In their most compelling moments, they struggle as much with the German language as they do with punk itself. Like any good mixtape, this compilation is based purely on musical aspects and pays no attention to release years. Featuring The Shocks, S.Y.P.H., Östro 430, Carambolage, Toxoplasma, and more.
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LP version. Though vaguely considered along the lines of noise, space rock, dream pop and psychedelic, The Telescopes have consistently expanded boundaries, coloring outside the lines with possibility. This house has many rooms, embraced across genres, influential to many, all embracing, in an orbit of its own. Static Charge is The Telescopes' 19th studio album since the group's inception in 1988 -- and their seventh release on Tapete Records. After a three-month tour of the UK and Europe, the all-embracing sounds of The Telescopes return with a lean blitz of seditionary hits. Take a jolt of Static Charge and step beyond the realm of natural vision. Stone age beats, outsider sounds, low end disturbance unite in resistance to the new weirdness of existence. The Telescopes experience is known for having an ever-revolving line up that can vary between one and twenty people. On this album, The Telescopes are a four-piece consisting of The Telescopes founder and protagonist Stephen Lawrie on guitar and vocals, Darrell Carter on guitar, Robert Prest on bass with John Lynch on drums and percussion. Interesting facts: John can also be found playing with The Jonny Halifax Invocation. Darrell releases great music under the name of Fromme and Robert's father used to fly Fela Kuti around in a private jet. The album was written, recorded and produced within a two-month period from November 2025 to January 2026 at Stephen Lawrie's Butterfly House studio in Shropshire. The whole album was recorded mostly live with the only overdubs being vocal harmonies. There are seven songs in total.
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Though vaguely considered along the lines of noise, space rock, dream pop and psychedelic, The Telescopes have consistently expanded boundaries, coloring outside the lines with possibility. This house has many rooms, embraced across genres, influential to many, all embracing, in an orbit of its own. Static Charge is The Telescopes' 19th studio album since the group's inception in 1988 -- and their seventh release on Tapete Records. After a three-month tour of the UK and Europe, the all-embracing sounds of The Telescopes return with a lean blitz of seditionary hits. Take a jolt of Static Charge and step beyond the realm of natural vision. Stone age beats, outsider sounds, low end disturbance unite in resistance to the new weirdness of existence. The Telescopes experience is known for having an ever-revolving line up that can vary between one and twenty people. On this album, The Telescopes are a four-piece consisting of The Telescopes founder and protagonist Stephen Lawrie on guitar and vocals, Darrell Carter on guitar, Robert Prest on bass with John Lynch on drums and percussion. Interesting facts: John can also be found playing with The Jonny Halifax Invocation. Darrell releases great music under the name of Fromme and Robert's father used to fly Fela Kuti around in a private jet. The album was written, recorded and produced within a two-month period from November 2025 to January 2026 at Stephen Lawrie's Butterfly House studio in Shropshire. The whole album was recorded mostly live with the only overdubs being vocal harmonies. There are seven songs in total.
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LP version. After releasing their first studio album in 2025, more than 40 years after disbanding, The Loft return with their second record. Badges, featuring ten tracks, captures what defined The Loft then and what continues to define them today. As pioneers of an entire genre, they have nothing to prove -- neither to themselves nor to anyone else -- and that ease and quiet confidence resonate through every song on the album. The record features ten new songs, recorded at producer Sean Read's (Dexys, Edwyn Collins, Iggy) Famous Times studio in Hackney and is released on the Tapete Records label. The Loft notoriously split up mid-set at the Hammersmith Palais 40 years ago after climbing to the top of the indie charts and are now releasing their second album of new material following on from the Top 20 vinyl chart success of 2025's debut, Everything Changes Everything Stays The Same. The original four members, Pete Astor, Dave Morgan, Bill Prince, and Andy Strickland have produced an album that continues, and moves forward, the story of The Loft, the band that helped define the sound of the Creation label and the emerging Indie genre. Badges has a sound that comes from a band who've been together, touring and playing consistently over the past two years -- relaxed, vibey, assured.
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After releasing their first studio album in 2025, more than 40 years after disbanding, The Loft return with their second record. Badges, featuring ten tracks, captures what defined The Loft then and what continues to define them today. As pioneers of an entire genre, they have nothing to prove -- neither to themselves nor to anyone else -- and that ease and quiet confidence resonate through every song on the album. The record features ten new songs, recorded at producer Sean Read's (Dexys, Edwyn Collins, Iggy) Famous Times studio in Hackney and is released on the Tapete Records label. The Loft notoriously split up mid-set at the Hammersmith Palais 40 years ago after climbing to the top of the indie charts and are now releasing their second album of new material following on from the Top 20 vinyl chart success of 2025's debut, Everything Changes Everything Stays The Same. The original four members, Pete Astor, Dave Morgan, Bill Prince, and Andy Strickland have produced an album that continues, and moves forward, the story of The Loft, the band that helped define the sound of the Creation label and the emerging Indie genre. Badges has a sound that comes from a band who've been together, touring and playing consistently over the past two years -- relaxed, vibey, assured.
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LP version. Double Exposure isn't a departure, necessarily, but this new album contains some of the rawest and most deconstructed sounds that James Hoare -- of Veronica Falls, Ultimate Painting and Proper Ornaments -- has recorded to date. Principally, and for the first time, the guitars take a back seat. It's not a "no guitar" concept album by any means; it's mostly just the way it came together. It would also be inaccurate to suggest the guitars have been banished altogether, especially after the dual six-string solo that rips through the speakers on the mighty album opener Regrets. Following 2024's gorgeous Backwater Collage debut LP under the Penny Arcade nom de plume, this is a hallucinogenic experience, and the backbone of Double Exposure is the drum machine that informed the songs. It's also an album of sweet duality. The album features flashes of guest appearances, but for the vast majority it is an album of solo experimentalism, with gestations that bubble to life across the stereo before fading back out again. The drum machines take center stage, playing out like In Rainbows-era Radiohead channeled through Silver Apples, a trip in three minutes that you can play on an infinite loop. Like so much of the album, it was recorded almost instantaneously, with a simplicity and rawness that heavy overdubs and meticulous arrangements could never achieve. It is an album high on vibe. Clicking drum machines and oozing organs interplay with different hues of guitar work, from the ragas of the George Harrison-esque "Early Morning" to the tripped-out, smoke-drenched "We Used to Be Good Friends." Double Exposure is an unfussy collection of songs. The album harks somewhere between the restless experimentation of Syd Barrett and the uninhibited analogue innovations of Tim Presley as White Fence. It very much is what it is.
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Double Exposure isn't a departure, necessarily, but this new album contains some of the rawest and most deconstructed sounds that James Hoare -- of Veronica Falls, Ultimate Painting and Proper Ornaments -- has recorded to date. Principally, and for the first time, the guitars take a back seat. It's not a "no guitar" concept album by any means; it's mostly just the way it came together. It would also be inaccurate to suggest the guitars have been banished altogether, especially after the dual six-string solo that rips through the speakers on the mighty album opener Regrets. Following 2024's gorgeous Backwater Collage debut LP under the Penny Arcade nom de plume, this is a hallucinogenic experience, and the backbone of Double Exposure is the drum machine that informed the songs. It's also an album of sweet duality. The album features flashes of guest appearances, but for the vast majority it is an album of solo experimentalism, with gestations that bubble to life across the stereo before fading back out again. The drum machines take center stage, playing out like In Rainbows-era Radiohead channeled through Silver Apples, a trip in three minutes that you can play on an infinite loop. Like so much of the album, it was recorded almost instantaneously, with a simplicity and rawness that heavy overdubs and meticulous arrangements could never achieve. It is an album high on vibe. Clicking drum machines and oozing organs interplay with different hues of guitar work, from the ragas of the George Harrison-esque "Early Morning" to the tripped-out, smoke-drenched "We Used to Be Good Friends." Double Exposure is an unfussy collection of songs. The album harks somewhere between the restless experimentation of Syd Barrett and the uninhibited analogue innovations of Tim Presley as White Fence. It very much is what it is.
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LP version. Unashamedly literate UK post-punk sophisticates The Monochrome Set, having amassed a formidable catalogue of releases over five decades, are ready to release their new opus Lotus Bridge on Tapete Records -- the band's home for the last twelve years and six studio albums. Their instantly recognizable sound and darkly humorous lyrics have always set them apart. Bid's cerebral wit and debonair tones, melded to infectious melodies and deft songcraft of a cinematic and literary quality, have been quietly influential over a diverse set of artists since their inception and throughout different stages of their career. The band are, in essence, a national treasure. Lotus Bridge is a psychedelic trip into Bid's rich and fantastical dreamworld. Based on a singular dream that represented itself after an eight-month hiatus just when it became time to record again, Bid recounts in sharp detail the myriad of characters and surroundings that appeared in his dream and inspired this new set of stories to unfold. This new album follows on from Bid's book of selected lyrics -- Strange Young Alien -- published by Ventil Verlag in November 2025. Lotus Bridge has a subtle but quite different feel compared to previous TMS albums -- the core use of electric piano and acoustic guitar, electric guitars often used in wide stereo, and overall a very focused and almost orchestral feel to it. There are also ambient sounds between many of the songs, so that the whole album feels like a connected whole. Bid is joined in The Monochrome Set for this recording by fellow original Andy Warren on bass, Stephen Gilchrist on drums and Athen Ayren on keyboards and guitar. Alice Healey once again provides backing vocals. The album was recorded at OneCat Studio in London, engineered by Jon Clayton and produced by Jon Clayton and Bid.
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Unashamedly literate UK post-punk sophisticates The Monochrome Set, having amassed a formidable catalogue of releases over five decades, are ready to release their new opus Lotus Bridge on Tapete Records -- the band's home for the last twelve years and six studio albums. Their instantly recognizable sound and darkly humorous lyrics have always set them apart. Bid's cerebral wit and debonair tones, melded to infectious melodies and deft songcraft of a cinematic and literary quality, have been quietly influential over a diverse set of artists since their inception and throughout different stages of their career. The band are, in essence, a national treasure. Lotus Bridge is a psychedelic trip into Bid's rich and fantastical dreamworld. Based on a singular dream that represented itself after an eight-month hiatus just when it became time to record again, Bid recounts in sharp detail the myriad of characters and surroundings that appeared in his dream and inspired this new set of stories to unfold. This new album follows on from Bid's book of selected lyrics -- Strange Young Alien -- published by Ventil Verlag in November 2025. Lotus Bridge has a subtle but quite different feel compared to previous TMS albums -- the core use of electric piano and acoustic guitar, electric guitars often used in wide stereo, and overall a very focused and almost orchestral feel to it. There are also ambient sounds between many of the songs, so that the whole album feels like a connected whole. Bid is joined in The Monochrome Set for this recording by fellow original Andy Warren on bass, Stephen Gilchrist on drums and Athen Ayren on keyboards and guitar. Alice Healey once again provides backing vocals. The album was recorded at OneCat Studio in London, engineered by Jon Clayton and produced by Jon Clayton and Bid.
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More than two decades after their formation, Urlaub in Polen continue to celebrate an aesthetic of transience -- an experience bounded by time, poured into the project's very name -- set against a continuous flow of new impressions and a suitcase slowly filling with memorabilia. After a longer hiatus, their 2020 album All (TR 461CD marked a return with a warped take on krautrock, a direction which their new release Objects, Beings and Parrots both follows and expands upon. In true eclectic tradition, it ventures further into diverse genre territories -- always exploratory, yet never losing its thread. Multi-instrumentalist Georg Brenner and drummer Jan Philipp Janzen blaze a trail through a dense web of references (see also the cover collage merging tile selections, retro interior suggestions, and archaeology textbook cutouts), evoking a warm feeling of being taken along for the ride -- even as the band refuses to be pinned down to any clear musical category. Take the opener, "Abacus": kicking off with a drum machine and subtle guitar flourishes, it already nods -- title included -- to the mechanical, forward-clicking motorik sound of first-generation krautrock. Then it takes a turn, morphing into a grooving jam with increasingly dense sound layers, howling guitars, and the band's signature clipped vocal phrases -- calling to mind flashes of '90s noise rock. Next up on this winding path: a washing machine -- here manifested in layers of wide synth textures, crashing drums, distorted guitars, and vocals that end in a staccato-like cough. It's a shaking, rattling trip through a cosmos of self-willed machinery and a comforting embrace of imperfection. And so the transformation continues: sometimes as wavering retrofuturism ("Fame & Fortune"), sometimes as surprisingly melodic acoustic pop -- complete with a woodland brass solo ("Jaki's Love Time") -- and always through the weaving of finely crafted rhythmic repetitions with sonic experimentation. The Objects, Beings and Parrots in this flow form vague images, points of orientation and pause: at once recognizable elements drawn from pop and art history, and yet as fleeting and abstract as the track that shares their name. You can hear the album's decelerated genesis: after a lengthy writing phase, the tracks were recorded across multiple sessions at the secluded MARS Studio in Germany's Eifel region. The result is a trippy, self-contained celebration of persistence -- of pushing forward, without excluding moments of stillness, and with the occasional glance in the rear-view mirror.
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Restocked; LP version. Lande Hekt has quietly become one of the UK's best underground songwriters. On her 2021 debut full-length Going To Hell and 2022's House Without a View, she explored her queer identity, sobriety, and childhood trauma through the lens of heartfelt, conversational indie-pop, which led to spots opening for the likes of Alvvays, Throwing Muses, and The Beths. Her new album Lucky Now, written and recorded with producer Matthew Simms (Wire, It Hugs Back), reflects the most mature and confident version of Lande Hekt yet. Hekt's musical touchstones -- The Wedding Present, The Sundays, The Replacements -- remain the same, but at the same time she's delved deeper into other influences. Lucky Now is indebted to 1980s twee-pop and jangle-pop like The Pastels, Tallulah Gosh and The Bats, plus more modern iterations of the sound such as Autocamper and Jeanines, in its ecstatic, soaring melodies and gorgeous, tactile guitars. The sound is fitting for Hekt's new lyrical outlook, where, though despair and anxiety rear their heads, she digs deep to find the gratitude. "I wanted to try and push for something slightly more positive, which I'm trying to do more of generally -- just to not fall apart," Hekt says. In keeping with that, opening track "Kitchen ii" is a love song about sharing simple, domestic moments with a partner, while "Rabbits" is a song about hope inspired by one summer solstice spent on Glastonbury Tor. Meanwhile, the slower, acoustic-based "Middle of the Night" is about "reeling from a realization of being properly happy for the first time in my life," Hekt says. Hekt also returns to more politically-based songwriting, after largely avoiding politics in both life and music during a disillusioned period, on "Circular" and "A Million Broken Hearts". During the process of making the album, Hekt also moved from Bristol back to her hometown of Exeter. She wrote Lucky Now's closing track, "Coming Home", about the experience of returning there after a long tour; smelling the familiar smells, spotting the familiar faces. In a lot of ways, Lucky Now is about return -- return to joy, return to places and parts of the self once left behind. Who you once were can seem unreachable, but sometimes you can build a bridge.
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Lande Hekt has quietly become one of the UK's best underground songwriters. On her 2021 debut full-length Going To Hell and 2022's House Without a View, she explored her queer identity, sobriety, and childhood trauma through the lens of heartfelt, conversational indie-pop, which led to spots opening for the likes of Alvvays, Throwing Muses, and The Beths. Her new album Lucky Now, written and recorded with producer Matthew Simms (Wire, It Hugs Back), reflects the most mature and confident version of Lande Hekt yet. Hekt's musical touchstones -- The Wedding Present, The Sundays, The Replacements -- remain the same, but at the same time she's delved deeper into other influences. Lucky Now is indebted to 1980s twee-pop and jangle-pop like The Pastels, Tallulah Gosh and The Bats, plus more modern iterations of the sound such as Autocamper and Jeanines, in its ecstatic, soaring melodies and gorgeous, tactile guitars. The sound is fitting for Hekt's new lyrical outlook, where, though despair and anxiety rear their heads, she digs deep to find the gratitude. "I wanted to try and push for something slightly more positive, which I'm trying to do more of generally -- just to not fall apart," Hekt says. In keeping with that, opening track "Kitchen ii" is a love song about sharing simple, domestic moments with a partner, while "Rabbits" is a song about hope inspired by one summer solstice spent on Glastonbury Tor. Meanwhile, the slower, acoustic-based "Middle of the Night" is about "reeling from a realization of being properly happy for the first time in my life," Hekt says. Hekt also returns to more politically-based songwriting, after largely avoiding politics in both life and music during a disillusioned period, on "Circular" and "A Million Broken Hearts". During the process of making the album, Hekt also moved from Bristol back to her hometown of Exeter. She wrote Lucky Now's closing track, "Coming Home", about the experience of returning there after a long tour; smelling the familiar smells, spotting the familiar faces. In a lot of ways, Lucky Now is about return -- return to joy, return to places and parts of the self once left behind. Who you once were can seem unreachable, but sometimes you can build a bridge.
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LP version. Bill Pritchard's new album Haunted finds the acclaimed British songwriter at the height of his lyrical wit and melodic craft. A life's work of sharp observation and quiet beauty, Pritchard has long been praised for his ability to elevate the ordinary into something extraordinary. With Haunted, he delivers a sophisticated, deeply personal collection of songs revolving around the memories that linger: people, places, and passions, whether real or imagined, remembered or refracted. His 1990s album Jolie remains a touchstone of intelligent pop, and later releases like Mother Town Hall have been celebrated for their warm, idiosyncratic retro sensibilities. With Haunted, Pritchard delivers his most direct and pop-leaning album in decades. Recorded between Hamburg and Newcastle-under-Lyme, Haunted reflects the international spirit of Pritchard's music, blending vintage textures with modern production. Supported by an inspired network of Hamburg-based musicians and guided closely by Pritchard himself, the album spans vintage drum machines, brass flourishes, chiming guitars, lush harmonies, and even a touch of psychedelia. The result is a refreshingly European pop record, organic, eclectic, and deeply resonant. From the simple act of riding a bus through Stoke Newington, transformed into a gentle hymn to the everyday, to recollections of semi-real and semi-fictional torch singers and the resilience they embodied, these songs find inspiration in both the mundane and the monumental. They celebrate detachment and lightness too: moments that float on breezy organ lines, jangling guitars, and nimble bass runs, smiling even in the face of uncertainty. Throughout the album, Pritchard paints vivid vignettes. Bright horns and rippling guitars illuminate fleeting scenes, while hand percussion and chiming guitars evoke childhood wonder and the bittersweet recognition of how we grow apart. Elsewhere, blooming brass-driven rock captures the joy of performance and resistance, while acoustic moments turn inward, bruised but tender, reflecting on a life lived and remembered. A song of sunsets in Poland carries loneliness across an indie-pop sway, while playful language games sketch stories set in France, where the very form becomes part of the tale. Finally, the stripped-back closer, born from the thought of new life and breath itself, distills the album into its most intimate, beautiful moment. With influences ranging from Scott Walker to the Lemon Twigs, Walter Matthau to French poet Berreby, Haunted is a record of whimsy and wonder, melancholy and joy.
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The year is 2000. After only ten years performing and recording, the Austrian group Naked Lunch had reached the end of the line. They had experienced a meteoric rise throughout the 1990s: less than four years had seen the group move from a mold-infested rehearsal room in an Austrian town to a five-star hotel on Times Square. Imagine endless tours, outrageously expensive recordings in studios from Bochum to New York, an extended stay in London and collapsed major-label deals -- imagine, essentially, what the band themselves called "an utterly pointless burning through money." Eventually, the group returned to their hometown. What remained were mostly disillusioning experiences in the pop business and a huge amount of debt. Having grown into a quartet, the band decided to hit the reset button and start over. Together with producer and friend Olaf Opal (including work with The Notwist, International Music, etc.), they barricaded themselves for almost three years in the newly built studio of bassist Herwig Zamernik to work on an album that would eventually be released in 2004 under the name Songs For The Exhausted. It became not only a milestone in the band's career. It was also, in a way, a farewell to an unrestrained era and an admission of the exhaustion that resulted from it. The album certainly isn't easy fare. The record is dark, at times even obstructive. Yet it has the ability to embrace, as Anja Plaschg alias Soap&Skin once put it, "to comfort us in feverish nights." 22 years after the original release, Songs For The Exhausted is now reissued on Tapete Records, finally available on vinyl!
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LP version. More than two decades after their formation, Urlaub in Polen continue to celebrate an aesthetic of transience -- an experience bounded by time, poured into the project's very name -- set against a continuous flow of new impressions and a suitcase slowly filling with memorabilia. After a longer hiatus, their 2020 album All (TR 461CD marked a return with a warped take on krautrock, a direction which their new release Objects, Beings and Parrots both follows and expands upon. In true eclectic tradition, it ventures further into diverse genre territories -- always exploratory, yet never losing its thread. Multi-instrumentalist Georg Brenner and drummer Jan Philipp Janzen blaze a trail through a dense web of references (see also the cover collage merging tile selections, retro interior suggestions, and archaeology textbook cutouts), evoking a warm feeling of being taken along for the ride -- even as the band refuses to be pinned down to any clear musical category. Take the opener, "Abacus": kicking off with a drum machine and subtle guitar flourishes, it already nods -- title included -- to the mechanical, forward-clicking motorik sound of first-generation krautrock. Then it takes a turn, morphing into a grooving jam with increasingly dense sound layers, howling guitars, and the band's signature clipped vocal phrases -- calling to mind flashes of '90s noise rock. Next up on this winding path: a washing machine -- here manifested in layers of wide synth textures, crashing drums, distorted guitars, and vocals that end in a staccato-like cough. It's a shaking, rattling trip through a cosmos of self-willed machinery and a comforting embrace of imperfection. And so the transformation continues: sometimes as wavering retrofuturism ("Fame & Fortune"), sometimes as surprisingly melodic acoustic pop -- complete with a woodland brass solo ("Jaki's Love Time") -- and always through the weaving of finely crafted rhythmic repetitions with sonic experimentation. The Objects, Beings and Parrots in this flow form vague images, points of orientation and pause: at once recognizable elements drawn from pop and art history, and yet as fleeting and abstract as the track that shares their name. You can hear the album's decelerated genesis: after a lengthy writing phase, the tracks were recorded across multiple sessions at the secluded MARS Studio in Germany's Eifel region. The result is a trippy, self-contained celebration of persistence -- of pushing forward, without excluding moments of stillness, and with the occasional glance in the rear-view mirror.
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Formed in London in 1992 by singer and songwriter David Christian, Comet Gain were originally inspired by early Creation Records, Television Personalities, and mod culture, drawing from the same ideals as Dexys, The Style Council, and Vic Godard, and from the lineage of The Velvet Underground, The Byrds and the 13th Floor Elevators. In the ensuing years they have released eight albums on such esteemed labels as Wiiija, Kill Rock Stars, What's Your Rupture and Fortuna POP! that blend French New Wave with English kitchen-sink heart, Riot Grrrl with acid punk, and C86 with post-punk and Northern soul, somehow outliving their peers and in turn inspiring a younger generation of DIY musicians. Comet Gain are all things post-punk, DIY, Indie POP, international pop underground, lo fi, garagebeat and folk and rock. Boy/girl vocals, scratchy guitars, sweet noise and rough melodies, enthusiasm and pain. It's all right here. Put it on, turn it up and feel alive again. City Fallen Leaves' was first released in 2005 by Track & Field in the UK and Kill Rock Stars in the USA and is now being reissued worldwide by Tapete Records.
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