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GBR 067EP
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The Chords UK are back in action with a new EP that keeps the bar high when it comes to punk-influenced power pop. The title track of the EP was originally composed and worked on in 1985 for the Arista label, with the collaboration in production of Tony James (Generation X, Chelsea). It finally remained unreleased and is now, at last, seeing the light of day, re-imagined, re-arranged and re-recorded. It's a fearsome shock of rock and roll rhythm and sharp, angular guitars with more than a nod to late '70's The Clash, all wrapped up in infectious vocal harmonies and anthemic choruses. "Veronica Jones" is a new mix of the celebrated cut from the band's 2022 album Big City Dreams. This track was born as a punchy modern folk song, as it tells the story of a girl who is clearly out to have a good time, but this version is elevated with a garage rock approach, ably assisted by the keyboard talents of Mick Talbot, formerly of The Style Council and Merton Parkas. "Before Elvis" has its origins in a 2014 demo that eventually remained unreleased and is a raging rock track with a Stones-style beat and amps pushed to the limit. The EP closes with "All I Want is Everything" a high-tempo rock and roll reworking of the song that previously appeared on their 2018 album Nowhere Land, with the bass-driven beat rising several notches as the guitar screams and wails.
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GBR 001LP
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A precursor band of the punk-oi!-folk in Spain, this is one of the most brilliant and original recordings of the style. With the Asturian bagpipe as a banner and sung almost entirely in Asturian language, the band reviews in the lyrics a great part of the topics of oi! and the Asturian mythology. Aggressive and combative music in a historical album. Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of its release in CD format, Sangre y Fierru, by the Asturian band Oi! n'Ast ("Oi in Asturian"), an iconic record of the Spanish punk-oi!-folk scene, is released remastered on glorious vinyl. Following in the footsteps of Dropkick Murphys, the band was formed in the late '90s to combine punk spirit and Asturian soul, quickly gaining a loyal and fervent local following. In 2002 Sangre y Fierru is released in CD format (first reference of the label Guns of Brixton Records) obtaining good repercussion, which leads them to play in Spain, France, and Switzerland during the following years. The band ended their career in 2006 with a certain bitter taste for the end of an era, but their only album has created a legacy and has grown in importance in these two decades. Sangre y Fierru was one of the most revitalizing surprises of the time, including twelve street-punk songs in Asturian and Spanish, to which now, in the remastered LP edition, two bonus tracks have been added, "Kaos" and "Gotta Go" (a tribute to the influential band Agnostic Front). There are nods to Asturian mythology in "Gauson el Terrible" (Asturian leader in the fight against the Roman invasion), to the miner's revolution of "Ochobre 34" (October 34) and criticism in "A la Cai" (To the Streets) and "Velenu Nel Cuerpu" (Poison in the Body). There are also cries of unity in "La Mesma Voz" (The Same Voice) and, directly, hymns of Asturian pride in "Fechu n'Asturies" (Made in Asturias), or "Azul y Amariellu" (Blue and Yellow), the latter with the collaboration of Pirri, singer of the hard-core band Escuela de Odio. Of course, without forgetting soccer, "Sangre en la Gradas" (Blood on the Terraces) and beer, "Juntos en el Bar" (Together in the Bar). An album that is a real steamroller of direct and simple punk, to which Hugo's voice gives it a rough and concise character. The cover of the LP is the work of the tattoo artist from Gijon, Fu, who had already designed the CD in 2002.
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GBR 061LP
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Fifties textures, rockabilly echoes, sixties British essences, and strolls through the New York of the seventies in an album originally self-produced in 2021 in CD format that deserved to be released on glorious vinyl. Now remixed, remastered, and with two bonus tracks. As a natural follow up to the 2016 album All In, Lee Perk brings you back to his sonic coordinates in a more balanced and sophisticated way, if possible. With fifties textures creeping through tracks like "Bad Times" and "Faster than Ever" and a set of rockabilly echoes in "A New Blend", carrying the flame of classic names like the ones of Roy Orbison, Everly Brothers, or Buddy Holly. "Run Your Filth," a previously unreleased track, also follows that direction and could have been a great A-side. But Tumbleweed Revisited also pays a visit to the brilliant and poppy sixties, crystalline, in songs of an unpolluted pop like "Talk", "Moonhall Park", or "See Me In the Morning", and more lysergic, in "Not Yet Enough", which opens the LP in a luminous way. "Scare Me" is a track with deep enthusiasm and disposition to dance a sweaty night club and Perk becomes a chameleon-like chronicler reciting "Bird And Giraffe" with sober instrumentation. "Carrie Fisher" previously released as a demo and the bonus track "Great Again (Trump's Theme)", complete a remarkable album that closes with "Años y Años de Soledad" in which Lee Perk leaves English to sing in Spanish. Alfredo Niharra himself (aka Lee Perk) plays all the instruments on the album, with the sporadic collaboration of Alex Blasco on keys, Juan López on bass, Carlos Screamers on double bass, and Ricky Ibáñez on drums. Juan López has been in charge of the remastering and remixing. It is proved that the guy from Getxo (outskirts of Bilbao) is a skilled and restless guy who underpins his sound in those that shone at the beginning of the second half of the last century and that, somehow, have marked his growth as an aficionado and his course as a musician, although without disregarding trends closer in time. Proof of this is his career as a member of Tulsa, Quite Fantastic, The Dolly Beatles, Leslie, The Fakeband... Tumbleweed Revisited is an album that deserved to be released on glorious vinyl.
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GBR 062EP
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EP on 10-inch 45 rpm vinyl with six high-voltage instrumental-surf shell bombs for true surf music lovers. The Longboards offer a feast of solid surf instruments and a pure sound recorded with '50s and '60s equipment to recreate the atmosphere of the original surf era. Naked Jungle is the seventh studio release from this instrumental surf power trio. An album in which The Longboards make it clear that they are not a pale imitation of something that has gone on before. On the contrary, they vindicate and demonstrate that they have enough originality to create something new and fresh. Six tracks inspired by the greatness of the surf guitar. Cool retro sounds full of reverb, with wild guitars and solid rhythms. The Longboards have been around for over two decades, and it shows. Electrifying, dizzying and seamless, they are fanatical about using vintage guitars and amps to achieve a totally original sound. Wicked, high-octane riffs, dynamic bass lines and the insane clatter of cymbals on the drum kit mark The Longboards' sets, and it's all contained in the six tracks on Naked Jungle. A feast of solid surf instrumentals and pure sound recorded with '50s and '60s material to recreate the atmosphere of the original surf era. All this in a neat 10-inch vinyl edition, produced in Los Angeles (USA) by David Klein and with cover art by Mik Baro.
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GBR 051EP
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Positivism and anger in equal parts for these strange and difficult times. Influenced by '77s punk, power pop and glam rock bands, Carlos Creator's impressive production at Rock Estudios has resulted in a debut single with three hymns of sonic affections with the Clash the Jam, Thin Lizzy, or Generation X. The Rods is the result of the collaboration of producer and musician Carlos Creator with Brixton Records label founder, Xabi Rod.
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GBR 010LP
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Guns Of Brixton reissues the 1991 album from Spanish punk band Eskorbuto. Demasiados Enemigos ("Too Many Enemies") is not just the title of another disc by the blazing band from Santurtzi but the album with the difficult duty of putting an end to a legendary combo as we knew it. Eskorbuto was a band of its time and that is shown in every chord and every chorus, branded in fire through the years by those who danced and vibrated around the flames of this cursed band. This is a unique album -- special due to its legacy and the circumstances under which it was recorded. Now it is reissued on vinyl. If you didn't get it at the time or you were too young to know, now you have the chance to request the max from your turntable, not giving a damn if volume affects the structure of the building.
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GBR 012LP
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Ten years after its original release, La Otra Cara Del Rock (trans. "The Other Side of Rock") is once again available, containing the recording of Eskorbuto's legendary live performance in the town of Villarreal in December 1989. This great reissue also features the original cover, four bonus tracks from the same gig and a 20-page fanzine covering the band's adventures during 1989, plus photographs, anecdotes and a review of the Villarreal '89 concert. Sixteen cannon shots including the legendary tracks -- from "Mucha Policía Poca Diversión (Too Much Police, Too Little Fun)" to "No Quiero Cambiar (I Don't Wanna Change)" -- are finally released in glorious vinyl more than 24 years after it happened. The live recording has a brilliant sound and reflects faithfully what Eskorbuto was like in 1989. Gloomy rumors said the band was almost done, but once again they managed to surprise both followers and slanderers with this live set in another amazing chapter in the career of the most honest rock n' roll band that has ever walked this planet.
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GBR 017LP
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Reissue of the only studio album from this Basque band, originally released in 1987. After including four tracks on the 1984 split mini-album Zona Especial Norte, (trans. "North Special Zone"), finally, three years later, RIP walked into the studio. Kaki Azkarazo was at the controls with the collaboration of Pepin Fernandez, a valued engineer from Madrid that decided to work on it just because he liked the band. Three days were enough to capture all 14 tracks. The result is a key album in understanding the later development of rock music in the Basque Country and beyond. This reissue features the original artwork with the addition of a poster and a 24-page fanzine narrating the career path of RIP from birth to break-up; anecdotes, gigs, projects, photographs, and more. This is a great opportunity to once again enjoy this quartet's music that branded a generation.
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GBR 011LP
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Guns Of Brixton Records presents a vinyl reissue -- as rock'n'roll liturgy deserves -- of the fifth album of an independent and combative band like no other. In July of 1988, the most obscure record of Spanish punk band Eskorbuto's discography was released. Vomited from the entrails with the boredom of a life blackened by the soot pouring from the nozzles of the factories of the beaten left bank of the Nervión River. Time had already hardened them and their attitude was plain, above all they were "anti-everything." Las Más Macabras de las Vidas ("The Most Macabre of Lives") is a timeless record and paradoxically sounds fresh again in its vinyl format. It is a great opportunity to once again taste the subtle shades of exasperation that hang around the grooves of the bitterest record from the bitterest band. Eskorbuto inoculates in the listener, harder than ever, the rage and the nihilism of which they were keen transmitters.
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