๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ The Lowdown; ๐ด ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜-๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘’, ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™-๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘‘, ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™-๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘›-๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘’๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘, ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›-๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข'๐‘‘ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘๐‘’โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ!



1๏ธโƒฃย Sextile - Push

Sometimes an album comes along that validates your decision to dedicate 95% of your time to running a record shop and making no money. โ€˜Pushโ€™, the latest from LA post-punk/electronica/cold wave outfit Sextile, is precisely one of these albums. Itโ€™s everything weโ€™ve waited for in 2023; a record that absolutely blows your socks off and obliterates all preconceptions. We loved what we heard pre-release โ€“ the lead single โ€˜Contortionโ€™ for example is already a certified banger โ€“ but did we expect trance? Borderline Jungle? Drum n Bass? Proper old school EDM? Not really. But, Lordy, it is absolutely electrifying in absolutely all the right ways.

๐Ÿ“ฃย Shop Reaction: ๐ฟ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘ข๐‘š: โ€œ๐ผ๐‘  '๐‘ƒ๐‘ข๐‘ โ„Ž' ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘†๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘ข๐‘š ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ? ๐น๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘˜๐‘ ... ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค โ€ฆ ๐บ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘“ ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘กโ€

๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘š๐‘’?!?

๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ . ๐‘†๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘’ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘ . ๐‘‚๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ .ย 

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2๏ธโƒฃย Nation Of Language - Strange Disciple

The formula hasnโ€™t changed much for the third album from NYC synth-poppers Nation Of Languageย any why should it when the first two albums are as strong as anything released in the past decade. That said, there are more twists into new wave and turns into post-punk here than previous releases, although not so on lead single โ€˜Sole Obsessionโ€™ which is straight up saccharine synth-pop; as gorgeously gooey as anything theyโ€™ve done before and arguably the groupโ€™s best ever single.

The same comparisons are never too far away though - Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Talk Talk, OMD โ€“ but there are plenty of contemporary references too, such as Future Islands and LCD Soundsystem.

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๐Ÿ“ฃย Shop Reaction: ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘œ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐ฟ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’. ๐ป๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ. ๐ธ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘š, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆโ€™๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘โ€™๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค. ๐น๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘ , ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’-๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ 2023, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’.



3๏ธโƒฃย Coach Party - Killjoy

[๐˜ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐ผ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†๐’“] If you wished that Wolf Alice had made an entire album that echoed the angst of โ€˜Yuk Fooโ€™, then this is what Coach Party provide with their new album KILLJOY. It bridges the gap between the genres of pop punk and indie. Lyrically there is a definite modern riot grrl and almost teen-nihilistic edge that, admittedly, at times, does feel a little Olivia Rodrigo-esque, but overall thereโ€™s just something fun about female-driven songs with choruses like โ€˜whatโ€™s the point in life?โ€™

๐Ÿ“ฃย Shop Reaction: ๐ผ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘“ ๐ด๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ . ๐ฟ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ท๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘“๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘ก. ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘”๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘กโ„Ž โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ.

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4๏ธโƒฃ Floodlights - Painting Of My Time

The year is 2020. Record Culture HQ is a large shed on a market square, itโ€™s freezing bastard cold and the debut from a little-known indie band from a much warmer Australia has just been voted โ€“ by you โ€“ the fourth best album of the year. You wouldnโ€™t have found it in any other record shop list that year but Floodlights โ€˜From A Viewโ€™ was something of a local sensation in 2020 when we simply wouldnโ€™t stop going on about it. Many of you were duly wooed and loved it as much as we did. Back in the present day then, Floodlights are back! Coming at us with more of that jingly indie, new album โ€˜Painting Of My Timeโ€™ is another impressive outing. Like the previous, โ€˜Paintingโ€™ was recorded live to tape, which again affords the album a uniquely warm, huggable live feel to it as though you were in the room with them.

๐Ÿ“ฃย Shop Reaction: : ๐ฟ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก! ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‡๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ , ๐‘…๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐ต๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘  ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐น๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ถ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘š๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆ. ๐‘‚๐‘˜๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ, ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก.

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๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค'๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐œ๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž:ย 

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