TWO TITLES OUT TODAY!
PLUS TWO COMING NEXT MONTH!
We know that you know, but we're just reminding you that The Courettes' Back In Mono (B-Sides & Outtakes) is out today, along with Milk Box, a 4CD Box set of Milkshakes albums!
Next month we'll be releasing two brilliant albums - Johnny Moped's "lost" classic The Search For Xerxes, and a brand new studio album by The William Loveday Intention called Paralysed By The Mountains.
**We'll start taking pre-orders for both of these titles next week so keep an eye out for our newsletter and social posts.**
The Courettes - Back In Mono (B-Sides & Outtakes) (10" LP/CD)
10” Mini LP/CD featuring outtakes and re-recorded B-sides from the 'Back In Mono' sessions!!!
Bringing some more “spit ´n´ snarl garage-meets-Phil Spector pop” (Mojo) in three brand new unreleased tracks. Look forward to hearing the three new smash tunes 'Daydream', 'Tough Like That' and 'Talking About My Baby', all wrapped in a new mix by Wall of Sound aficionado Seiki Sato (Japan) and produced by the hit wizards Søren Christensen & C.T. Levine.
**TICKET LINKS FOR ALL UK SHOWS HERE**
The Milkshakes - Milk Box (4CD Box)
A boxed set of 4 CDs featuring four classic albums by The Milkshakes.
We present four albums by The Milkshakes in a clamshell box set complete with booklet.
The four albums in the set are -
Talking 'Bout Milkshakes
After School Session
Thee Knights Of Trashe
The Milkshakes Revenge!
**THESE ALBUMS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AS STANDALONE VINYL RELEASES** - BUY VINYL HERE
Johnny Moped - The Search For Xerxes (CD/LP) - OUT JUNE 24th
Johnny Moped's “lost album” from 1990, finally gets a reissue!
I like this album, Johnny hates it. But why? I think it’s more “Johnny Moped” than any other album out there. What other album has entirely penned JM songs/ditties like ‘Soldiers’ and ‘Moped crash’ plus ad-libs and all the other little interludes in between the tracks that are pure “Moped”.
Johnny thinks it sounds like a “disco” album, which it does in places, but, hey-ho, it was 1989 and it was the age of Stock, Aitken and Waterman.
At the time there had been no Moped band since 1985-ish and certainly Slimy hadn’t been in the band since the early ‘80s. Also, there was only one album out there, Cycledelic so there was a lot of songs destined for a follow up album that never happened and it looked like we were going to be a one album band.
So, with so much unreleased material and a chronic lack of “mopedisum” I decided to embark on a little project…
This album came out in 1990 on Deltic records but the deal was that I had to produce a finished master tape that could go straight to the cutting room and be pressed, so I borrowed a 4-track Teac and a Roland sampler and Roland drum machine and got to work.
Some of the tracks sound like they were recorded in someone’s bedroom, that’s because they were, but Captain recorded some great stuff on his 8-track where I had recorded Johnny “live” and handed over a tape for him to work with (‘I’m a Spasm’, ‘Soldiers’, ‘Cut across Shorty’). Also, he provided some decent backing vocals on other tracks (‘Corpse Boogie’, ‘Hiawatha’).
DAVE BERK MAY 2022
LP TRACKLISTING
1 – I Believed Her Lies 2 – Edwina 3 – Every Dream Came True 4 – Corpse Boogie
5 – Cut Across Shorty 6 – I Wanna Die 7 – Zogaloogajergabrox 8 – Sad Sack
9 – Soldiers 10 – Save The Baby Seals 11 – Moped Crash 12 – I'm a Spasm
13 – Hiawatha 14 – Soldiers (Alternate Version)
CD TRACKLISTING
1 – I Believed Her Lies 2 – Edwina 3 – Every Dream Came True 4 – Corpse Boogie
5 – Cut Across Shorty 6 – I Wanna Die 7 – Zogaloogajergabrox 8 – Sad Sack
9 – Soldiers 10 – Save The Baby Seals 11 – Moped Crash 12 – I'm a Spasm
13 – Hiawatha 14 – Cut Across Shorty (Alternate Version) 15 – Cincinatti Blues
16 – Bros and Xerxes 17 – Soldiers (Alternate Version)
The William Loveday Intention - Paralysed By The Mountains (LP) - OUT JUNE 24th
Brand new studio album by The William Loveday Intention as part of their “career in a year”!
“The cover pic is from a visit I made with my son and friends to the artist Giovanni Segantini's hut in the High Alps sometime around 2016. Segantini (1858-1899), was an illiterate and stateless artist famous for his paintings made in the Engadin.
The title track is about living your life through someone else's YouTube channel: a blow by blow account of how their life in the frozen north is more, picturesque, sensitive, fun, enlightened and artistic than yours could ever be.
'Stood Upon a Chair' is about the villain Jessie James, but without the romance part that is usually added to such tales.
'You Gotta Move', a Mississippi Fred McDowell cover, is one of the best recordings we've ever made. Here I’m accompanied by my wife Julie and my friend Dave Tattersall who plays electric slide guitar. A true gem which should make someone, somewhere, rich and famous. (Or at least make Mick Jagger blush with shame.)
Topping it all off we hit a couple of old Headcoats numbers with added verses that reveal the hidden depth behind those impeccable pop songs.” - WILLIAM LOVEDAY 2022
TRACKLISTING
Paralysed By The Mountains
Becoming Unbecoming Me
Stood Upon a Chair
Too Many Things That Mean Too Much To Me
You Gotta Move
Joe Strummer's Grave
I'm Unkind
Gun In My Father's Hand
The Day I Beat My Father Up
Joe Strummer's Grave (Reprise)