TWO NEW ALBUMS OUT TODAY!

Two brilliant albums hit the racks today - a re-issue of JOHNNY MOPED's "lost" classic 'The Search For Xerxes', and a brand new, slightly delayed new studio album by The William Loveday Intention called 'Paralysed By The Mountains'.

BOTH TITLES ARE OUT NOW!

ORDER VIA THE COVER ART BELOW

We also have a new Spotify playlist, lovingly curated by the one and only Mr Ian Damaged.

Hit the pic below to listen via Spotify!

 

Johnny Moped - The Search For Xerxes (CD/LP)

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 – Cincinnati Blues      16 – Bros and Xerxes         17 – Soldiers (Alternate Version)

The William Loveday Intention - Paralysed By The Mountains (LP)

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

 

We also have copies left of recent album 'The Baptiser' by The William Loveday Intention...

 

The William Loveday Intention - The Baptiser (LP)

As part of an incredibly productive year by one of the world's most productive and cherished artists, Billy Childish releases a new LP by The William Loveday Intention as part of his attempt at “a career in a year”.

“The Baptiser is titled after John The Baptiser, Christ's teacher who proclaimed that you don't need to make blood sacrifices in the temple of Jerusalem to have communion with God – it's direct one to one in the desert, wearing a camel hair shirt and eating the fruits of the honey locust tree.

The LP has many spiritual highs and blaming lows. It should move and sound like the contents of a thinking mind.”

WILLIAM LOVEDAY 2022

 

Happy listening folks!

Ian & Duncan