Browse by Label: RIOT SEASON (UK)

Artist:	TODD
Title:	VVitch
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	7"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	REPOSE 704

"This four track EP is pressed on grey vinyl, is limited to 500 copies worldwide and follows on from their acclaimed debut album Purity Pledge on Southern. VVitch is fucked up. The vocals are on the minimal side, and what you can hear you wouldn't want to understand. The first song, 'Black Skull' sounds like Devo being sprayed out of an industrial tree shredder, whilst 'Lamenting A Maiden' is a funeral march in the most fucked up way. 'East Coast West Coast' opens up side B and again we're back to the tree shredder. This time Napalm Death are being stuffed through it. Last up the title track 'VVitch' spews forth thick and unholy sludge."

Artist:	AUFGEHOBEN
Title:	Anno Fauve
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 005CD

"Third CD release from Riot Season and the third album from the newly shortened monikered Aufgehoben (previously Aufgehoben No Process). Anno Fauve sees the band collaborate once again with stereo guitar virtuoso Gary Smith (Mass, Glass Cage, Powerfield etc). Anno Fauve is an album for those who like their music difficult with the density, dynamics and bludgeoning distortion levels that have become the hallmarks of an Aufgehoben release. Anno Fauve contains 6 tracks spread over 50 minutes and comes in a wonderfully weird designed sleeve."

Artist:	ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO
Title:	Pink Lady Lemonade -- You're From Outer Space
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 019CD

2011 release. This really could be AMT's first "summer album." Unlike previous Cosmic Inferno albums this one doesn't reach in the red status often. It's more out there, like they've gone back to their mountain retreat and taken too much mushroom tea. But once it does finally soar, Kawabata's guitar has never sounded so alive. The first AMT&TCI studio recordings since the addition of Pikachu, drummer and vocalist with Osaka grenade-girl duo Afrirampo. The popular AMT standard 'Pink Lady Lemonade' showcases a 21st century acid rock update on the '60s San Francisco psychedelic sound. On 'You're From Outer Space,' the Cosmic Inferno crew give 'PLL' a new lease of life and reinvent it as a trippy/chilled out monster. As it rolls on, they sing, adding new riffs and taking it to the stars and back.

Artist:	BLACK BONED ANGEL
Title:	Verdun
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 020CD

2009 release. Black Boned Angel return with their second Riot Season release, following the Eternal Love/Eternal Hunger vinyl LP (REPOSE 013LP). Sharing a similarly bleak ground to Corrupted, Sunn 0))) and Earth, New Zealand's Black Boned Angel's fourth full length album Verdun is perhaps their most somber and fully-realized work to date. The Battle of Verdun was fought between the German and French armies, and was one of the critical battles during World War I on the Western Front. Over the course of 50 minutes, BBA soundtrack that brutal conflict with their trademark dark ambient drones and doom-laden riffs. The CD version of this release contains an exclusive extra piece entitled 'Tears Strike The Mile High Gong' and comes in a card gatefold sleeve (1000 copies only).

Artist:	SHIT AND SHINE
Title:	229-2299 Girls Against Shit
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 022CD

2009 release. Shit And Shine return with their fourth Riot Season album following You're Lucky To Have Friends Like Us (REPOSELP04), Jealous Of Shit And Shine (REPOSECD011) and last year's acclaimed Cherry (REPOSECD017X/LP017). Continuing in their usual Riot Season style, what's offered here is the bizarre, the puzzling and the downright groovy. 229-2299 Girls Against Shit could be the soundtrack to that summer, the beating of rats with sticks, the shooting of girls with gat guns, swimming in the rancid cut and the discovering of dead dogs and maggots. Ah, those were the days my friend.

Artist:	SLOATH
Title:	Sloath
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	REPOSE 023LP

"Hailing from the South, Sloath are a sickly, unwholesome, five piece brought together by a mutual desire to play the slowest, loudest and heaviest music possible using guitars, bass, drums and chant-like vocalisations. This, their self-titled debut, has been in the works for two long years, recorded in bouts between sharing stages with the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Burial Hex, Om and White Mice amongst others. Possibly the most straight forward HEAVY album Riot Season have released thus far. Sloath deal the same low end crushing barrage as Sleep, Melvins, Earth and of course Sabbath. It's deep, sprawling and HEAVY as fuck. Sloath are quite clearly enjoying themselves. Limited to just 500 copies on vinyl for the world."

Artist:	TODD
Title:	Big Ripper
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 024CD

2009 release. TODD is back! Two years after the release of Comes To Your House (Southern Records) and countless shows of hysteric noise and chaos worldwide, they deemed the world to be ready for the next chapter. Recorded 'in the red' in two days, mixed in a week and finally realized at the mysterious TODDranch, Big Ripper was ready. Their balance of riffs, noise and magic is now even more astonishing while keeping the same intensity and beauty as they've always had. Big Ripper is an absolute killer on all levels. From the machine gun fire of 'Arista Disco' to the wall shaking 'Happy Easter Florida' via the super heavy 'The Rub' and the drugged despair of 'French and in France', TODD have mastered their art, blown it apart and started again.

Artist:	TODD
Title:	Big Ripper
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	REPOSE 024LP

LP version. "TODD are back! Two years after the release of Comes To Your House (Southern Records) and countless shows of hysteric noise and chaos worldwide they now deem the world to be ready for the next chapter -- and their finest moment yet! A slight line-up change, enough songs written for a triple album (and then disgarded as not being good enough!), a new studio and a new label (Riot Season) have all led to the band now becoming a tighter deal altogether. After a kiss and a hug from Southern, TODD felt the time had come to go it alone. They retreated to their island studio and began to strip everything back yet always keeping in mind what playing music meant to them. Slowly the songs began to come. Bursts of noise played over and over again until they began to take shape. Recorded 'in the red' in two days, mixed in a week then realised fully back at the mysterious TODDranch, Big Ripper was ready. Their balance of riffs, noise and magic is now even more astonishing while keeping the same intensity and beauty as they've always had. Big Ripper is an absolute killer on all levels. From the machine gun fire of 'Arista Disco' to the wall shaking 'Happy Easter Florida' via the super heavy 'The Rub' and the drugged despair of 'French and in France', TODD have mastered their art, blown it apart and started again."

Artist:	ULTRAPHALLUS
Title:	Sowberry Hagan
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 026CD

2011 release. Their third album, Sowberry Hagan combines Ultraphallus' well-honed sound of cacophonous guitar riffs juxtaposed with hypnotic, ambient doom whilst also experimenting with new sounds. By introducing new instruments to the fold including banjo, alto and soprano saxophones, and other instrumental samples, Ultraphallus have reinvented themselves and are crafting their very own new definition of doom. They have also recruited the help of special guest Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), who carries his trademark voice for an epic eight minute ambient-rock track. Mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate /Phantomsmasher etc.).

Artist:	PIKACYU-MAKOTO
Title:	Om Sweet Home: We Are Shining Stars From Darkside
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 027CD

This is the eagerly-awaited debut album from Japanese underground legends Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple/Mainliner) and Pikacyu (Afrirampo). Combining their trademark master musicianship, out-there sonic attack and off-the-wall weirdness, OM Sweet Home: We Are Shining Stars From Darkside is the exciting sound of another legend in the making. Equal parts psychedelia, warped pop, full-on Japnoise and avant-garde passages, it's sure to appeal to their many followers worldwide. Special first edition of 1,000 copies only (for the world) shrink-wrapped CD packaged inside a 350 gram gatefold card sleeve with reverse board printing. Subsequent represses will be in standard packaging. Pikacyu*Makoto is an alliance between two figureheads of underground Japanese psych/pop. No strangers to one another, the pair have not only gigged together with their respective bands but also recorded together, when these two outfits temporarily fused in 2005 to become Acid Mothers Afrirampo (releasing an album of the same name). Now they have distilled their collaboration, all other players being stripped away to leave the core of Pikacyu's manic drums and vocals, and Makoto's schizoid guitar conjurings. OM Sweet Home: We Are Shining Stars From Darkside is unlike anything either culprit has produced before, both structured and freeform, tuneless and beautiful. Pikacyu's drums pummel, jitter, crash and stumble, but steadfastly refuse to groove. She layers her voice several times, competing with maniacally pitch-shifted versions of herself to bring you what is, in their words, "a story about the cosmic shaman Pikacyu vs. the master of the darkness Makoto... including the full love from the universe!!" Makoto attacks his guitar, cloaking himself in reverb to produce a wall of sound, alternating between melody and noise. "OM Marijana FU" resembles field recordings of a gang of lady monks doing chants in the monastery, played back on dying tape Walkmans. Then you're thrown straight into the deep-end of one of the album's epics -- "Birth Star." Those holy women are joined by propulsive drumming, each guitar chord leaving contrails that weave together in a cathedral of reverb, forming a tapestry of noise that threatens to clash but never does. On the frenetic "Wild Rise," the Western listener, ignorant of the language, is eventually left with the impression of wordless chants tapping wells of emotion that lie beyond the reach of vocabulary. The instrumental "Pigamelan-Magamelan" on the other hand, represents a total gear-shift, its dry sound, attack-laden guitar runs and avoidance of time signature invoking the exploding-note theory of Captain Beefheart. "Minakata Loid" brings drums reminiscent of early Four Tet, while the guitar emits high-pitched detonations from the far-end of an empty auditorium. "Back To Your House Over The Rainbow" exposes the knife-edge of Pikacyu's most extreme vocalizations, sounding like the yodels of a spirit trying to escape its own skin.

Artist:	DEAD ELEPHANT
Title:	Thanatology
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 028CD

Introducing Dead Elephant who are: Enrico Tauraso (electric guitar, voice, power electronics, samples), Fulvio Grosso (electric bass, voice) and Omar Tomaino (drums). Hailing from Cuneo in Italy, Dead Elephant formed in 2002 and previously released Sing The Separation (2005) followed by the critically-acclaimed Lowest Shared Descent (2008). This year, they finally close the four year gap with a brand-new and beastly album Thanatology. This album aims to investigate the process of acceptance of loss, a concept particularly timely in these transitional times in which we live. In order to understand precisely where the band is coming from with this concept, here is a deeper explanation: "In the order of things, life can sometimes be cruel. Sometimes we feel caught in a strange trap. The events appear to us as a dark spiral and our destiny is lost in it. Within this dark spiral, it is very difficult understand what is right and what is wrong. There, something must burn and you must accept to lose it. From the consciousness that some things must die in order for change to be born."Dead Elephant's powerful sonic assault has a wide range of influences from the heaviness of bands like Cherubs, Jesus Lizard, Colossamite, Melvins, Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost to the psychedelic attitudes of Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster, Neurosis and Badalamenti soundtracks, all prevalent throughout this latest record. On Thanatology, Dead Elephant attack the listener with their claustrophobic and visceral sonic forces and fuse these brutally heavy sounds with moments of genuine, haunting beauty, which are actual samples of the funeral marches of Southern Italy. The effects of these galvanizing forces are that of ultimate catharsis that not only challenge the listener, but also force one to question preconceptions of heavy music. Limited edition of 500 copies only CD with 8-page booklet.

Artist:	HEY COLOSSUS
Title:	RRR
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 029CD

RRR is the seventh album for Hey Colossus, and the third for Riot Season. This album follows the Eurogrumble Vol.1 LP, which received broad acclaim as well as landing in some end-of-year lists also (notably in Rock A Rolla magazine top 50 of the year). The band formed in 2003 as a five-piece, based in London. Eight years on (and with line-up changes reminiscent of The Fall) they are now a seven-piece based in London and Somerset (though nine people perform on the album). RRR was recorded through the winter of '10-'11 in Dropout, South London, home to analog tape and all things loud. Mixed by DrumCunt and Basspuppy, mastered by Hamilton Industries (Part Chimp's tub thumper). RRR is definitely more varied than previous Colossus records and it explores more subdued, quieter passages. Such moments of calm are not the only varied thing about the new record, Hey Colossus also explore the swooping filmic sounds akin to many a film score -- think along the lines of Taxi Driver and Spaghetti Westerns. Some Krautrock-esque mantras also come into the fold, combined with a Nurse With Wound/DNA influence. Alongside this, "The Drang" keeps up the one-riff, one tune-like Sabbath done through NEU! that HC are hard for. There is a choice Berlusconi baiting, Can-inspired clang-a-thon "I Am Bunga Bunga," with a rant that is buried but audible. The result of all of these amalgamating sounds is a Hey Colossus album unlike any other, out with the old and in with the new. RRR is the perfect soundtrack for the spring and summer months, assuming you like the idea of the Butthole Surfers manning the BBQ, Faust cleaning out the pool, and GG Allin manning the bar.

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Artist:	ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.
Title:	Acid Motherly Love
Label:	RIOT SEASON (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	REPOSE 016CD