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ER 124LP
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Color vinyl. "Avant pop masterpiece, new band and new recordings from respected UK underground DIY post-punk legends. Mozart was a freemason. While still a baby, he was gifted a magic !ute on which he wrote all his tunes. Some of them are still around. Even so, the best way to gift-wrap your head around The Secret Degree, the latest release from Xentos Fray Bentos (guitars, keys, voice) and Ted 'Tebbs' Barrow (circuit-bending, percussion) is to picture it as a town. A town full of pity: Five blocks long, forty miles north of nowhere, with an empty gas station, a closed-up diner and the smoking remains of a Freemason's Hall, recently burnt to the ground by a pack of incensed villagers fresh out of a Universal Pictures' Frankenstein. In among the pitted ruins sit Ted and Xentos, plucking and slapping their instruments, busily exploring the folkish blue roots that underpin today's music making and trying to figure out how we got to where we're at. Feel free to roll up one leg of your pants, curl up a sleeve and join them on this nimble trip through an imaginary landscape of coltishly cultivated harmonies, mind-jingling melodies, all tempered by the occasional banshee wail of an untamable circuit. Two Square Why? Indeed. Why not?"
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ER 123LP
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Color vinyl. Includes unreleased track. "Welcome reissue of long out of print UK DIY post-punk EP, with OG copies currently demanding triple digits. Previously released on the peerless early '80s DIY-avant punk label 'Its War Boys', Emotional Response is proud to reissue this genuine 1983 Rosetta Stone post-punk-disco-dub oddity from one of the few legit unsung pioneers of the UK underground. Recorded in the twilight hours, at the legendary Surrey Sound with Chris Gray at the controls, featuring the arresting vocals of Sara Fancy, this long out of print EP serves as an essential piece of the jigsaw from a sprawling and fascinating back catalogue of Amos. (AKA Xentos Jones, Amos D'eath, L. Voag, Jim Welton, and others...), the playful lunacy and a driving force and behind such heavy hitters of the UK DIY avant-pop squat scene such as Milk From Cheltenham, L. Voag, The Work, The Fear Merchants, Just Measurers, The Homosexuals... and a bazillion others. This EP collects the three original EP tracks, plus the additional previously unreleased studio dub, rescued from an oxide shedding cassette. All remastered with love and consideration, ready for the gen pubs aural consumption. This is essential and rewarding listening. As those of you who know, will appreciate."
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ER 121LP
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"The remarkable nine track debut from Useless Users is a lesson in style and eloquence. The band is comprised of former Sarah Records alumni, (members of Action Painting! and Secret Shine, and featuring Even As We Speak). This is sonically adventurous pop music, packed with melody, dreamscape swashes and élan. Bold and opulent, and brilliantly constructed, Useless Users are pushing the boundaries of preconception, poised to grasp attention and reward the listener. RIYL: The Associates, Bowie, dreampop." "Reminiscent of Pulp's Fire Records Years, in both chord choice and vocal delivery" --The Quietus. "...the odd twist or two along the way." --Whispering and Hollering "...a real gem, a moody piece with debts owed to late Sixties psych" --A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed.
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ER 118LP
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"A joyous listen that harks back to the late 70's and especially the golden era of the Television Personalities" --Flying Nun Records, NZ "It's Mick Trouble's Second LP is 2022s Doing it for the Kids -- an eloquent exercise in pop perfectionism. Mick Trouble's known associates include cult guitar pop outfit My Teenage Stride and cultish short scale guitar pop outfit/Slumberland Records roster members of Jeanines. Mick writes songs about class warfare, Iron Ladies, and Hadrian's Wall. Nobody has seen him in public for several decades, as far as you know." "Filled to the brim with earworm melodies, killer basslines, magic harmonies and lyrics jam-packed with obscure British references sung in a chippy-chappy British accent." --Brooklyn Vegan
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ER 086LP
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2019 release. "Eleventh Hour Adventists: a collaboration between Jasmine Pender (aka solo artist Rotten Bliss) and highly regarded post-punk legend Jowe Head (ex-Swell Maps, Television Personalities). They met ten years ago at a concert by German avant-garde noise band Einsturzende Neubaten, which is a clue to the depraved tastes that they share, and the way that they get their kicks. Their collaboration is one of equal but balancing elemental forces, like hot engine oil poured into freezing water, or volcanic lava thrown high into the Arctic air; a weird kind of alchemy. Their debut album together is intoxicating, brewed from their diseased imaginations into a strange synthesis of psych-folk, punk sleaze and ambient drone. Their voices have a unique effect together, unearthly and chilling; with harmonies twisting together in strange ways. This is no ordinary cozy duet, people, no crooning turtle doves here. This is nasty stuff that your parents should have steered you away from! There are a couple of murder ballads, (both with a twist of gender reassignment to keep it all a bit more unsettling). Their original songs are also peculiar and twisted. Jowe contributes 'Osiris and Isis', which is about indecent carnal relations between siblings, and a creepy tune called 'Satellite' which appears to be about voyeurism, surveillance and technology. There is also 'Tempelhof', about an abandoned airfield in Berlin, and 'Scapegoat', dedicated to outsiders everywhere. Jasmine offers 'Wonder Blunts the Knife', a dawn prayer full of tense revelations, and 'Memento', a nihilistic groove celebrating the advantages of being dead. The tracks were recorded mainly live, to try to capture the uncanny thrill that they generate live on stage. No easy task, like trying to bottle thunder, or freeze-dry lava."
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ER 083LP
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2019 release. "Imagine a mash up of Devo, Geza X, ISM and Screamers framed by the manic start/stop pace of Koro. Demented synth skronk. Paranoid visons. Inverted futurism. They're Scandinavian teens. They're middle aged. They're descendants of the Anunnaki. Every thinking and non-thinking human alike feel it: we can't save ourselves. That feeling have made us turn to space and other dimensions for a solution or an answer. Can THEY help us rise spiritually or will we be destroyed? Either way it's a win-win. Such a delusional, or some may say clear view, of what's going on can easily be dismissed. You're free to do what you want. But before you make up your mind lend Isotope Soap an ear. Their roar might be the answer you've been searching for. Compilation of two highly regarded Swedish only limited 7" EPs, and a debut eight-track mini LP. Compiled by those lovely tastemakers at Emotional Response, and thrust back out into the world for your global listening pleasure. Grey color vinyl."
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ER 075LP
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2018 release. "As the heralded 'dark heart of the Murphy Foundation in all its guises', Storey's playful ear for balancing melody and sonic experiments has led to a fascinating back catalogue chock full of quality works. His sprawling musical achievements include such under the radar classics as: Orchestre Murphy, The Murphy Federation, Up Murphy Street, The Miners Of Banal, The C-Siders and more recently, Murphy No Geisha, I Am Kamura, Croque Madame and Florence Raynaud (Emotional Response). Emotional Response are proud to release this career spanning compilation, encompassing engaging highlights from a remarkable man with a remarkable back catalog."
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ER 084LP
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2019 release. Originally released on cassette in 1983. "Fascinating reissue of 1983 Homosexuals (band) related rarity. Previously released as a cassette on the It's War Boys label. During their brief existence, The Fear Merchants effortlessly unleashed a true DIY classic onto unsuspecting ears. At the time of conception, barely released outside of the London DIY-Squat scene, but now proudly unearthed for your listening pleasure by those lovely people at Emotional Response. Another remarkable piece from the rich back catalog of the mysterious Amos. AKA Xentos Jones, L.Voag, Jim Welton etc., (Milk From Cheltenham, L.Voag, The Work, The Homosexuals etc.)"
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ER 073LP
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2018 release. Originally released in 1983. "Newly released from captivity, the acclaimed 1983 avant-punk masterpiece album featuring the dark and humorous genius of Narki Brillans, C.D.Greyt, and Yakko Banovic, with special guest Sara Fancy. The lone Just Measurers LP, originally an edition of 300 copies on the Its War Boys label, has rarely been seen in the wild during the past three and a half decades. The band consists of members from other essential under-the-radar 80s UK DIY luminaries, such as Milk From Cheltenham, The Homosexuals, The Murphy Federation, Die Trip Computer Die, L.Voag, Amos and Sara, The Work. Playful and unsettling, the 16 tracks contained within are as vibrant and challenging as the day they were conceived. Who knows where The Just Measurers may have dragged us to had they followed up with further records We never got to find out, as they had the good grace to split at the top of their game, leaving this essential document of their collective and vibrant minds. Emotional Response are thrilled to exhume this essential body of work. Don't miss out this second time around!"
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ER 085LP
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"DIY post-punk pioneers Richard Dudanski (Public Image Limited, Raincoats, 101ers etc), and Xentos, (aka Amos / Jim Whelton, Homosexuals / Amon And Sara etc), having been musical cohorts since 1979, have joined with vocalist/radio artist Sarah Washington and sax blower John Glyn for their latest project. Four years of recording in and around Granada and UK using locations ranging from abandoned soft drinks factories to gin-slugging auntie's living rooms have resulted in this Unhappy Fly collection: a syncopated soundscape of para-reductive pop based on Xentos' valorised rococo productions allied with Dudanski's daedalian drums. Featuring a sizeable crew of musical collaborators, and drawing on Washington's curlicued harmonies and John Glyn's multiple saxes, it is a music that invites slippery categorisation. Unhappy Fly's deracinated tune-smithing to creates a music that scoops up the noisy dogmas of the past and relocates them to the far side of the 5th dimension. For live outings they are joined by Owen Ross on guitar and Jerry Schmidt Jr on electric bass."
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