NEW DUNCAN REID 7" / COWBELL ALBUM & more besides

Hello,

We're back and shipping orders again from next Monday so if you've been thinking of placing an order this week then now's the time.

SO...Next Friday is the release date for the brand new album from COWBELL & live shows as well.

And up for pre-sale now (for it's June 23rd release date) is the very limited, purple vinyl 7" from Duncan Reid And The Big Heads called C'mon Josephine.

OK, here goes...

Cowbell - Haunted Heart (LP/CD/DIGI) (DAMGOOD472)

London Garage Soul duo return with 3rd album HAUNTED HEART released on Damaged Goods Records
More Memphis, more Fuzz, more greasy foot-beating, party-greeting, soul-treating maximum RnB. And yes, more Cowbell.

Cowbell are back! We have a new LP Haunted Heart due out on May 26th!

The title track was released as a digital only single on April 28th featuring an exclusive B-side.

Jack Sandham (Guitar/Keys/Vox) and Wednesday Lyle (Drums/Vox) have straddled the Atlantic with the beat stampede of their songbook so far, but Haunted Heart sees them walk down the dark end of the street, drawing on Atlantic-era Ray Charles and Dusty, while still keeping on creeping on with the sweaty-hand shaky-knee Garage rock ear-worms.

From the Sun Studio, Cramps-like swagger of the title track, to the paranoid Coasters swing and Doors-keys of None Of Your Business, Jack’s urgent vocals yelp out from the first needle drop, stepping aside for Wednesday’s wink of the eye on the Holly Golighty/Black Lips femme-fatale fury of Downlow, which sounds like it’s been ripped straight from the beating heart of the Fillmore during the Summer Of Love.

Produced by the band themselves at Soup studios in Limehouse, London, their early raw bare-bones sound has now been fully expanded with Jack’s sandpaper grit guitars and Wednesday’s freight train rhythms chased down with some glitchy synths and vintage organs (Doom train/Neon Blue) as well as a drop of Delta gospel Blues on Nothing But Trouble (also incidentally the first Cowbell song ever to actually feature a Cowbell).

Otis and Pickett-era horns breathe seductively into the swampy-stomp of What Am I Supposed To Do, while New Kind Of Love tiptoes onstage with its alluring smoky jazz piano as Wednesday brings a beautifully casual Peggy Lee type Fever to the microphone.

But it’s with the curtain-closers on both sides of wax that Cowbell have really rung in the new, Something’s Gotta Give swaps in gently plucked Laurel Canyon vibes, teardrop-stained and tie-dyed into a soul-stirring torch song. And just as we’re ready to step off this train, the last stop of No Wrong drops us off in the sherbet-sweet swell of a Cowbell classic. A toast to Percy Sledge and Van Morrison, with a giddy gospel reprise that has Jack and Wednesday promise that they “won’t do you no wrong”. And they’re damn right. Haunted by name, haunting by nature. Flip it up and start again. More Cowbell.

LIVE SHOWS

May 27th - All You Read Is Love, Leytonstone, London (part of the SHAKE THE HIGH ROAD festival)

June 2nd - Lexington, London (ALBUM LAUNCH) - June 3rd - Ramsgate Music Hall (with Cee Bee Beaumont)

June 17th - What's Cookin', London

Duncan Reid and The Big Heads - C'mon Josephine

Ex-Boys returns with a blistering two track 7” on purple vinyl!*

There are only two people in the entire world who can claim to have played with the Ramones while not actually being tagged with the ‘Ramone’ nom-de-plume. Duncan Reid is one of those people. As singer and bass player of Joey Ramone’s favourite band, The Boys, Duncan rode on the crest of a wave during punk’s original late-1970s heyday as part of a wider collective of friends and peers that included Sex Pistols, The Clash, Generation X and a host of other power-chord pioneers. The Boys remain one of the best-loved and influential bands of their generation.

Montevideo, from the Big Heads’ debut album Little Big Head, earned Duncan the keys to the Uruguayan capital (the only other musicians to achieve this being Elton John and Paul McCartney). Following a cornucopia of stellar reviews for first album Little Big Head, The Big Heads developed their unique, effortlessly entertaining, melodic brand of harmony laden pop punk with: The Difficult Second Album.

Their third album Bombs Away is just out. Fourteen catchy little ditties about life, death, paranoia and Viagra.
2017 sees the Big Heads touring eternally in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Germany including festival dates at Rebellion, and Undercover.

And just a quick mention of a few represses we've had in recently...

Graham Day & The Gaolers - Two reissued LPs! Now on white vinyl!

We've reissued two LPs by Graham Day & The Gaolers. Soundtrack To The Daily Grind and Triple Distilled have long been out of print but are available again now on white vinyl.