{"title":"Rocket Recordings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRocket Recordings is a UK based independent record label that has been running successfully under the guidance of Chris Reeder and John O'Carroll. With their combined expertise and passion for music, they have curated an impressive roster of artists spanning various genres. Known for their commitment to quality and innovation, Rocket Recordings continues to push boundaries in the music industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince its inception, Rocket Recordings has been dedicated to supporting emerging talent and providing a platform for unique voices in the music scene. Their diverse catalogue showcases a wide range of musical styles, from psychedelic rock to experimental electronic sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a reputation for discovering groundbreaking artists before they hit the mainstream, Rocket Recordings has become synonymous with cutting-edge music. Whether you're a seasoned collector or just starting your journey into independent music, this label offers an unparalleled selection of releases that are sure to captivate and inspire.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"highly-deadly-black-tarantula","title":"Highly Deadly Black Tarantula","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the last decade, the iconoclastic four-pronged force of Teeth Of The Sea has traversed from its origins in North London pub gigs and basement rehearsal rooms to far-flung locales that its members could scarcely have considered possible when they first began. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir fourth album 'Highly Deadly Black Tarantula', in all its malevolent glory, may well be the apex of their mission thus far. Following in the wake of the release of their mind-melting third album 'Master'. 2014 was a bizarre and thrilling year for Teeth Of The Sea, taking them to unexpected territory both physical and metaphysical - a re-imagining of the modern-day midnight movie A Field In England saw performances at both Cork Film Festival and Hackney Picture House, and was released on Rocket Recordings on a limited run for Record Store Day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat resulted was 'Highly Deadly Black Tarantula', their most focused and aggressive album yet. Machine-driven yet melodically abundant, the widescreen industrial expanses of this album combine the influence of long-time band favourites like Aphex Twin, Angelo Badalamenti and Throbbing Gristle with new inspiration that spans from Chicago footwork to black metal. What's more, it's a collection as rich in scope as it is powerful in intent. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50387958202699,"sku":"396017","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50387959742795,"sku":"394676","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9f5683ab-f0ba-4c5d-8299-ee4885ea36b3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726338679"},{"product_id":"engelchen","title":"Engelchen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEngelchen\u003c\/i\u003e literally translates as ‘little angels’ What’s more, for many in the febrile, dangerous era of the 1930s in Nazi-occupied Europe, as they wrote letters to arrange their paths out of danger as refugees, these were Ida and Louise Cook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIda and Louise spent much of their early years in Sunderland, and in adulthood lived in a suburb of London with their parents. They were enormous fans of opera, and led relatively quiet and unfussy lives. Yet secretly these resourceful and eccentric women were using their musical obsessions as a means to help dozens of refugees escape with their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir secretive heroics now almost beggar belief, and when Alison Cotton, herself from Sunderland, first discovered their story, she couldn’t understand why it wasn’t more widely known. Furthermore, she was inspired by their courage, fortitude and derring-do to compose \u003ci\u003eEngelchen\u003c\/i\u003e, a musical tribute to the duo’s lives and work, now a full-length release by Rocket Recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout, this story is relayed by Alison, whether acapella or by means of richly emotive string arrangements, with a deftness of touch, sensitivity and intensity that matches the feverish nature of the experiences and the unforgiving environs in which they took place. \u003ci\u003eEngelchen\u003c\/i\u003e is a transporting work whose spirit is situated in a very specific time and place,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNonetheless, the story of Ida and Louise Cook is more than merely an inspirational tribute to two mavericks who beat the odds in an unforgettable feat of altruism. It’s a celebration of the human spirit, one that reflects a universality in its narrative which transcends the boundaries of history and impacts very urgently on our daily lives. Whatever attempts may be made to tell this story, it’s hard to imagine one that resonates deeper than \u003ci\u003eEngelchen\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Grey LP.","offer_id":50388456964427,"sku":"2175015","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50388457128267,"sku":"2213156","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Alison_Cottton__Engelchen_LAUNCH339_Sleeve_0bd49f19_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726342379"},{"product_id":"the-bbc-sessions-3","title":"The BBC Sessions","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe history of BBC Maida Vale Sessions is familiar to The Utopia Strong. As musicians, and lifelong music fans, the legacy - the importance - of such recordings is not lost on them. Space and place influence creativity, as is the case here, and the sleeve is a loving homage to those classic BBC releases, affectionately  nodding to Strange Fruit Peel Sessions from days of yore. These pieces, originally recorded live at Maida Vale for a Marc Riley session on BBC 6 Music in September 2022, capture The Utopia Strong stretching themselves and continuing to develop their aural explorations. The five-track album opens with the analogue arpeggios of ‘Minature Citadels’, a title perfectly summing up the imagery provoked by the music; evolving, jagged patterns of skylines and castellations, turrets and towers. The closing outro of squarks and drones could be twice as long and not outstay its welcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nagging refrain running through ‘Lamp Of Glory’ is Mike York on the pipes, which he handmakes himself. The overall effect is a sublime, warped concoction of balearic energy and non-Western modes. ‘Disaster 2’ (a piece initially recorded on their second studio album, 2022’s International Treasure) begins with a beautiful synth drone that maintains its position, overpowering the modular patterns pulsating behind it, augmented by yet more glorious, lamenting pipes. The last two tracks both exceed ten minutes and allow the band to extend out further. Release comes as the drums kick in after six minutes of ‘The Tower Is Locked’, emulating the live sets The Utopia Strong have become famed for.The final track, ‘Weather All’, was also honed across several live performances. Having been booked for Andrew Weatherall’s Conveanza festival pre-lockdown, the band finally performed there in September 2022, following his passing. While performing this piece, the heavens opened and the entire festival, band and audience, were drenched. “It felt absolutely biblical”, says the band. Steve Davis has a rich history with the Beeb, but on this occasion he is wrangling his ever-expanding array of analogue synths, dilating his musical imagination. The heritage of the location and overall experience was not lost on the band.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50389741044043,"sku":"2179394","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50389740781899,"sku":"2179393","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/The_Utopia_Strong_-_BBC_Sessions_Front_Sleeve_VINYL_e05b028c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726370140"},{"product_id":"hive","title":"Hive","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Frank Herbert’s 1973 novel Hellstrom’s Hive, the Dune writer tells of a sinister narrative surrounding the maverick scientist Nils Hellstrom, who has created subterranean Hive of 50,000 insect-human hybrid life-forms. Ultimately his plan being for the inhabitants of the Hive to usurp humanity and take over the world. The decade thus far may not have seen anything quite so daunting, but it’s provided more than its fair share of challenges. Yet in such dystopian environments, Teeth Of The Sea flourish. This band has created a kaleidoscopic inner world all its own in Hive, their sixth and most outlandish album. Fundamental to Teeth Of The Sea’s mission thus far is that this band can go anywhere and make short work of any obstacles in their path. Inspiration flowed into Hive from all dimensions, with the band’s sphere of influence expanding to take in everything from Italo-disco to minimal techno, from dubbed-out studio madness to their most brazen forays thus far into pop songwriting. Here is a headspace where the psychic charges from records by Labradford, Nurse With Wound, Vangelis, The Knife, Nine Inch Nails and John Barry can happily co-exist. Hive is more than just a transformative force from subterranean origins. It’s an alchemical headspace where monochrome animates into vivid colour. It may not be a carefully ordered insectoid militia set to overthrow society, but it’s a transmission which transcends anything Teeth Of The Sea have thus far offered in their time on Earth. Step inside Hive, if you dare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50393450873163,"sku":"2047422","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50393450676555,"sku":"2047421","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8002f2a3-ebd4-7c86-2126-b589f28a16a4_977c7e73_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726417479"},{"product_id":"go-zero","title":"Go Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second album by underground rock-and-beyond shapeshifters The Holy Family comes complete with a heavy concept for the psychedelically inclined, and pairs this with music which does this justice and then some. \u003ci\u003eGo Zero\u003c\/i\u003e follows up the British group’s widely praised self-titled debut from 2021 and – says foundational member David Jason Smith – “is based on a hypothetical theory that there is no such thing as ‘the future’. We are continually moving forward into our past until we arrive at our birth – creation – the Tree Of Knowledge… or ‘Going Zero’, as I’ve termed it.” It figures, then, that over some 40 minutes the five musicians conjure a sound that exhibits an affinity with great experimental totems down the ages, in a manner that’s avowedly forward-facing and stamped with their own identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Though The Holy Family’s musical inspirations are multitudinous, and rarely if ever obvious, the lyrics nod to a distinct literary source – namely ‘Vorrh’, the trilogy of fantasy novels by cult British author Brian Catling, who died in 2022 while \u003ci\u003eGo Zero\u003c\/i\u003e was being assembled. In these books, the Vorrh is “an impenetrable sentient forest, older than mankind, believed to house all knowledge” – and in the same way that the name The Holy Family references an Angela Carter work, Smith explains, “the track titles ‘Chalky’s Eyes’ (had been eaten by flies) and ‘The Watcher’ are direct references to characters in the book.” With \u003ci\u003eGo Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, The Holy Family have returned with an album that unfurls elegantly, even while big time discombobulation is occurring.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50397276864843,"sku":"2026037","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50397273588043,"sku":"2026035","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Go_Zero_203b0a9b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726489088"},{"product_id":"aphelion-vol-1","title":"Aphelion Vol 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecord Store Day exclusive’s \u003ci\u003eAphelion Vol.1 \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAphelion Vol.2\u003c\/i\u003e bring together a selection of rare remixes from the Rocket Recordings back catalogue - all but one track are being released on vinyl for the first time. The LP’s bring together tracks by Rocket favourites like Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, Sex Swing, Gnoomes, Bonnacons of Doom and many more. These classic Rocket tracks have been pushed, pulled, stretched, dissected and some, completely re-imagined by an eclectic mix of incredible artists. These include some of the current leaders of electronic exploration like Nyege Nyege’s Nihiloxia, Bristol’s Giant Swan and Oliver Ho’s Broken English Club. Remixes from the post-punk royalty of IDLES, to the untouchable, experimental sounds of Tomaga – the albums also includes contributions from two of NTS Radio’s most acclaimed DJ’s, Optimo’s JD Twitch and the ‘godlike’ Cherrystones, both exploring addictive bass churning sounds. The albums also see Rocket artists remixing their fellow label mates – Mexico’s J. Zunz unexpected remix of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, GNOD’s Negra Branca remix of Greece’s Kooba Tercu, and one of the stand out tracks, the 9 min+ Gnoomes remix of the Flowers Must Die song ‘Hey, Shut Up’. Aphelion Vol.1 also includes a brand new, unreleased remix by Cage And Aviary’s Jamie Paton and his krautdub take on J. Zunz track ‘Four Women and Darkness’. The results are a cauldron of repetitive sounds across two LPs – taking in everything from psych, techno, krautrock, afro, noise, dub and all the other ingredients you would expect to find on a compilation released on the ever reliable Rocket Recordings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e01\/ Gum Takes Tooth – No Walls, No Air (Broken English Club Remix) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e02\/ Bonnacons Of Doom – Esus (Jd Twitch Optimo Remix) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e03\/Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation – Rainbow Lollipop (Cherrystones Remix) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e04\/ Petbrick – Roadkill Ruby (Spooky J \/ Nihiloxia Remix) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e05\/ Mamuthones – Symphony For The Devil (Giant Swan Remix) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e06\/ J.Zunz – Four Women And Darkness (Jamie Paton Dub) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e07\/ Kooba Tercu – Qasan (Negra Branca Remix)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP.","offer_id":50402654093643,"sku":"1118581","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2ee4dc8d-0afd-4a51-ba61-b78d7d06dd2f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726554081"},{"product_id":"medicine-7","title":"Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is hard to know how many times the mythology and mystery of Goat’s backstory can be written about, but new release ‘Medicine’ does away with any need to dwell on the past, returning with a more introspective, slightly mellower psych-folk sound that remains recognisably them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a consistently restrained, warm feel across the whole work, and the band suggest that the overall theme of the album is about “the impermanence of life in different ways: sickness, relationships, love, death and how our time is finite”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt times the album’s sound has nods to classic Swedish 70s psych\/prog\/folk acts such as Arbete and Fritid, Charlie and Esdor and Träd, Gräs and Stenar. ‘Vakna’ takes on this influence, progressing across nearly six minutes of swaying, warping guitar solos, without ever breaking out into chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eMedicine\u003c\/i\u003e of the title may refer to a number of salves, or the value of relationships and love: “For our families, friends, society, this could be done through the use of psychedelics, through meditation, through learning from other people, staying curious and never settling for a ‘solid’ identity”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlute is foregrounded throughout, threading across several tracks from the opener ‘Impermanence And Death’. It duets elegantly with keening synth lines through the beautiful ‘You’ll Be Alright’, and leads the melody of the closing track ‘Tripping In The Graveyard’. ‘TSOD’, with its backdrop of sitar and acoustic guitar, has an indelible vocal melody that could be a lost George Harrison recording.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title of the full album version of first single, ‘I Became The Unemployment Office’, comes from an expression for someone taking advantage of you. The joyous, echo-laden groove of penultimate track ‘Join The Resistance’ bursts into life and continues to build to a moment of release with a huge Sabbath-esque riff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever your dosage, and regardless of your remedy, it is now time to take your medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Purple LP","offer_id":50406012354891,"sku":"2050386","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50406011699531,"sku":"2050385","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50406010093899,"sku":"2050384","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/86592e3e-c0d8-f953-ae1c-435dd0e65dfe_acc5e828_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726582854"},{"product_id":"world-music-10th-anniversary-abbey-road-remaster","title":"World Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2012 a strange, masked collective from Sweden called Goat released one of the unexpected and most talked about albums of the year. Mixing heavy fuzz-psych with tribal Afro grooves, head nod funk, the repetitions of krautrock and the pop of post-punk to create something completely unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld Music \u003c\/i\u003ereceived an avalanche of acclaim with critics, psych heads, outernational crate diggers etc, all left enraptured by its thunderous intensity, conjured from a singular mix of sounds from across the globe.Now, exactly a decade later, Rocket Recordings and the band have decided to dust-off the original recordings of \u003ci\u003eWorld Music\u003c\/i\u003e and pass them over to the capable hands of the team at the legendary Abbey Road Studios to remaster the tracks and make them shine like they have never before. The results are better than we could have hoped. New details within the tracks have been revealed and - most importantly - the fuzz is even more explosive than before. You hear every crackle of electricity as it flows through the pedals. \u003ci\u003eWorld Music’s\u003c\/i\u003e famous die-cut sleeve has been updated too, the colours of the eye-popping pattern have been reversed from the original, making this package even more desirable. The album is brimming with tracks now seen as ‘classic’ Goat live favourites. Tracks that have been wowing audiences all over the world; the afrobeat stomp of ‘Disco Fever’ , the fuzz abuse of ‘Goathead’, the post-punk groove of ‘Let it Bleed’, the sing-along repetitive pop of ‘Run to your Mama’ ...From the first note to the last, \u003ci\u003eWorld Music\u003c\/i\u003e oozes with a sonic confidence rarely seen on a debut album. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP - Hot Pink (Blue Sleeve)","offer_id":50407460471115,"sku":"1161413","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Royal Blue (Yellow Sleeve)","offer_id":50407460798795,"sku":"1161414","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Acid Yellow","offer_id":50407463125323,"sku":"2188137","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Transparent Red In Transparent Light Blue","offer_id":50407462633803,"sku":"2018731","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Sakura Pink","offer_id":57538617180491,"sku":"R6022-9230","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a089dab6-8648-4b46-9c18-3820143ca7aa_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726598026"},{"product_id":"the-gallows-pole-original-score-rsd-2024","title":"The Gallows Pole: Original Score - RSD 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n                            This product is a Record Store Day exclusive title and is not available to pre-order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy in-store: 8am, 20\/04\/2024 (Record Store Day).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy online: 8pm, 22\/04\/2024. (Subject to availability).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            Don’t forget: Click 'Notify Me' to be the first to know about its availability online. It also helps us to place accurate orders so that we can please as many of you as possible on the day.\u003cbr\u003e\n                            \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the original, digital only, release of Goat’s score for \u003ci\u003eThe Gallows Pole\u003c\/i\u003e TV series, Rocket are now thrilled to announce an expanded, ltd edition vinyl version, which is released as part of Record Store Day 2024. \u003ci\u003eThe Gallows Pole\u003c\/i\u003e is a three-part Element Pictures production, written and directed by Shane Meadows which was aired in the UK on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. This new vinyl version of the \u003ci\u003eThe Gallows Pole: Original Score\u003c\/i\u003e differs from the previous digital release as it now only features the music which was specifically written for the series itself – it doesn’t include the three, previously released back catalogue tracks. Instead, this vinyl edition contains three ‘unused\/unreleased’ tracks: ‘Goat Witch’, ‘Timeless Awareness’ and ‘Kampsång (Instrumental)’. These tracks have not, up-to-now, been heard by anyone apart from Shane Meadows himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Silver LPx2","offer_id":50411579703627,"sku":"2181281","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Goat__The_Gallows_Pole_Soundtrack_LP_Sleeve_d7048c1a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726660275"},{"product_id":"rhythms-1","title":"Rhythms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRhythms\u003c\/i\u003e is the debut album by Goatman, a new solo project by one of the mysterious members from the Swedish collective Goat. Recorded in Goat’s northern Swedish home town of Korpilombolo In late 2017 - the 6 tracks on \u003ci\u003eRhythms\u003c\/i\u003e reveal a true collision of African Rock, Jazz, Reggae, Gospel and Psych, but all put through the famous Goat filters. \u003ci\u003eRhythms\u003c\/i\u003e is a very apt title for the album as each track is an exploration of the ‘groove’. From the Fela Kuti‘esqe drums and horns jam of Jaam Ak Salam, to the frantic gospel-jazz of Carry the Load. From the fuzzed Can via the ‘Bristol sound’ track of Hum Bebass Nahin, to the cinematic, Spacemen 3‘ esque drones of the album closer \u003ci\u003eBaaneexu\u003c\/i\u003e. The end result is quite an astonishing and very unique album, like what you would expect from an album made by a member of Goat – an album that is hard to put your finger on, but one that you will keep revisiting, the more it’s sounds reveals itself. Goatman plays all the instruments on the album bar some additional drums by Hanna Östergren from fellow Swedish bands Hills and Träd, Gräs and Stenar, and an added horn section courtesy of Johan Asplund, David Byström. One of the standout highlights of the album though is the collection of great guest vocalists Goatman has enlisted. Tracks \u003ci\u003eJaam Ak Salam\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAduna\u003c\/i\u003e feature the very special voice of Senegalese singer Seydi Mandoza. You will also hear the vocals of Swedish based singers Amanda Werne on \u003ci\u003eCarry the Load\u003c\/i\u003e and Amerykhan on \u003ci\u003eHum Bebass Nahin\u003c\/i\u003e. Goatman’s passion for traditional and contemporary music from around the world can be clearly heard when listening to Rhythms. The level of authenticity and willingness for exploration that Goatman has captured truly shows a fanatical respect for the music he is greatly influenced by. But at the end of the day, Rhythms is an album that has a sole purpose, and that is for to you to enjoy, dance and have fun too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Pink \/ Black Swirl Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Pink | LP","offer_id":50411626135883,"sku":"1043307","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50411627118923,"sku":"1043306","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1ba20eab-19d0-4971-be29-e4124e88d5f6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726660761"},{"product_id":"type-ii","title":"Type II","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince their foundation in 2014, this malevolent rogues gallery of luminaries of the UK underground have consistently proven to be capable of projecting vibrations that transcend and usurp any idea of the sum of their component parts. It is true that they’ve clocked up notable experience sparking tinnitus with everyone from Mugstar and Bonnacons Of Doom (bassist Jason Stoll) to Dethscalator (vocalist Dan Chandler and drummer Stuart Bell) and from Earth (guitarist Jodie Cox, who also introduced keyboard player Ollie Knowles to the melee) to a dizzying variety of endeavours from the paint-stripping skronk of Dead Neanderthals to the righteous ire of Idles (all via saxophonist Colin Webster). Yet Sex Swing represents less a group of disparate musicians pooling their resources, and more a peculiar spark of collective chemistry, with all forces gravitating towards the pursuit of the same dissolute and mysterious goal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eType II \u003c\/i\u003eis that goal reached in effortless style and amplified to intimidating aural vistas. This mighty monument of swagger and malice also sees fit to add a certain amount of glitter to the trademark grit this time around. Just as the artwork from long-term collaborator Alex Bunn boasts a luminous sheen absent from the unsettling abjection of the sleeve of their 2016 debut, so the rolling grooves and mantric hypnosis here boast a new-found structure and a feline sleekness fresh and unusual for this pugilistic outfit. Nonetheless, this remains a band fundamentally obsessed with the expression of decadence and wrongdoing through the mediums of repetition and overloaded frequencies. \u003ci\u003eType II\u003c\/i\u003e is more than the mere machinations of a rock band - it’s a howl of malfunction rendered terrifyingly visceral. It’s the lightning flash and unearthly roar of the primeval battle between Godzilla and Mechagodzilla that provokes awe and disquiet in the realm of fantasy, It’s the haunted clangour of the faullty air conditioning unit that lurks in the anonymous office building yet lends it eerie ambience. It’s man vs machine where discord becomes harmony, and it’s a fearsomely invigorating spectacle to behold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50415157870923,"sku":"1087938","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Grey | LP","offer_id":50415156953419,"sku":"1087937","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50415155642699,"sku":"1087935","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cbf20edd-344f-4f4d-9a8f-b1fe04086541_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726687962"},{"product_id":"norther-band","title":"Norther","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn meteorology, the word Norther refers to a cold wind that blows down from the north. For Liverpool’s Ex-Easter Island Head, it’s also an apt title for the strange and multi-faceted sound of their new album that now descends upon the world at large: ever shifting, a multiplicity of sounds both acoustic and manipulated, and yet one that still moves as part of a single mighty breeze. At times it might recall the experiments of Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca, the widescreen beauty of The Necks, the relentless experimentation of Arnold Dreyblatt or the boundary-pushing roster of Kompakt Records, yet ultimately this is music that has no direct compare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of its six pieces demonstrates a different creative process. On blossoming opener ‘Weather’, whirring motors dance fairy-like atop strings and drums; on the dizzying ‘Magnetic Language’ voices are played back through phones and amplified through pickups made of magnets wrapped in copper wire; the title of ‘Golden Bridges’ refers to the brass rods the band shift beneath the strings of their guitar. All, however, tap to one degree or another into that abiding theme of the weather. Norther is Ex-Easter Island Head’s first studio album since 2016, a time spent on collaborations and one-off performances with everyone from classical musicians and fellow experimentalists to schoolchildren. “All of the projects we were involved in between 2016 and 2024 have expanded the boundaries of what we do by exposing us to a huge variety of instruments, personalities and ways of working. It's really allowed us to see the purity of making music with a four-piece group,” says the band’s Benjamin D. Duvall.That status as a quartet is a new one, with the addition of longstanding friend and collaborator Andrew PM Hunt. Having a member of the band handling recording and mixing helped them push further and further into sonic territory that until Norther remained entirely unexplored – not just by Ex-Easter Island Head, but by any other band on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50417297981771,"sku":"2183240","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417298211147,"sku":"2213155","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Ex_Easter_Island_Head_LAUNCH342__Norther_Sleeve_047af257_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726725120"},{"product_id":"the-portrait-you-painted-of-me","title":"The Portrait You Painted Of Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlison Cotton with \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait You Painted of Me\u003c\/i\u003e, a new 6-track album – her first for Rocket Recordings (released on Feeding Tube in the USA). Like Alison’s previous solo albums, the touchstones of her immersive sound are viola, harmonium and voice, merged together to create a rich suite of songs. ‘Mumurations Over the Moor’ is a wordless piece of layered vocals, drifting like fog towards a sunset over the green undulations of North East England (from where she hails). ‘The Last Wooden Ship’ evokes the shipyards of Sunderland using droning harmonium and viola lines, laced with piano and percussion events, while her voice calls out like one of Tim Buckley’s Sirens urging listeners to a rocky demise. ‘I Buried the Candlesticks’ has a haunted, traditional feel with its dolorously folky viola melody laid across a thick carpet harmonium, and small bursts of percussion that sound like cannonade heard through the thick cold walls of a castle in winter. ‘That Tunnel Underground Seemed Neverending’ is a musical vision of Northumberland’s mining culture at the dawn of the 20th Century - labyrinthine, subterranean, dimmer than night. ‘Violet May’, the only traditional “song” on the album, was inspired by a trip to Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst Castle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50417298506059,"sku":"1149273","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417298604363,"sku":"2213157","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a167fcdb-c954-4565-8a8f-3cbfe1dae886_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726725152"},{"product_id":"king-of-cowards","title":"King of Cowards","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeven is the magic number.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndeed, not only do psychologists theorise that the human braincan only memorise a sequence of this length, but Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - the Newcastle -based maximalists whose riffs, raw power and rancour have blazed a trail across the darker quarters of the underground in the last five years -have made a second album in \u003ci\u003eKing Of Cowards\u003c\/i\u003e which does its damnedest to take consciousness to its very limits. Moreover, another notable seven is dealt with here -that of the deadly sins. As vocalist and synth player Matt Baty notes “For a long time I’ve questioned how and where guilt can be used as a form of oppression. When can guilt be converted into positive action? After typing all of the lyrics up I realised I’d unwittingly referenced every one of the seven deadly sins throughout the album. That’s my fire and brimstone Catholic upbringing coming into play there!” Building on the momentum this band has built since their January 2017 debut \u003ci\u003eFeed The Rats\u003c\/i\u003e, this opus sees them entering a new phase as a sleeker and still more dangerous swineherd. The Iggy-esque drive to dementia, Sabbath-esque squalor and Motörhead-style dirt may still be present and correct, yet the songs are leaner, the long-drawn-out riff-fests sharpened into addictive hammerblows and the nihilistic dirges of yore alchemically transformed into an uplifting and inviting barrage of hedonistic abandon.“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” So George Orwell noted at the end of a certain slim volume. \u003ci\u003eKing Of Cowards\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than just sucha metamorphosis, one in which -in a blur of primal urges and beastly physicality -this band shows us just which animals are really in charge of the farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited violet with pride LP\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417505599819,"sku":"1044358","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/343d10c4-ce79-4de0-a088-167a1efda109_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726731443"},{"product_id":"king-of-cowards-2","title":"King Of Cowards","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeven is the magic number. Indeed, not only do psychologists theorise that the human brain can only memorise a sequence of this length, but Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - the Newcastle-based maximalists whose riffs, raw power and rancour have blazed a trail across the darker quarters of the underground the last ten years - made their impressive second album \u003ci\u003eKing Of Cowards\u003c\/i\u003e in 2018, which does its damnedest to take consciousness to its very limits. Moreover, another notable seven is dealt with here - that of the deadly sins. As vocalist and synth player Matt Baty notes “For a long time I’ve questioned how and where guilt can be used as a form of oppression. When can guilt be converted into positive action? After typing all of the lyrics up I realised I’d unwittingly referenced every one of the seven deadly sins throughout the album. That’s my fire and brimstone Catholic upbringing coming into play there!”. Building on the momentum this band has built since their January 2017 debut Feed The Rats, this opus sees them entering a new phase as a sleeker and still more dangerous swineherd. The Iggy-esque drive to dementia, Sabbath-esque squalor and Motörhead-style dirt may still be present and correct, yet the songs are leaner, the long-drawn-out riff-fests sharpened into addictive hammer blows and the nihilistic dirges of yore alchemically transformed into an uplifting and inviting barrage of hedonistic abandon. \"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” So George Orwell noted at the end of a certain slim volume. \u003ci\u003eKing Of Cowards\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than just such a metamorphosis, one in which - in a blur of primal urges and beastly physicality - this band shows us just which animals are really in charge of the farm. This 2023 repress is available on a special, limited edition ‘Regal Splatter’ vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50417519558987,"sku":"2046040","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Pigsx7__KingOfCowards_e19ccb92_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726731992"},{"product_id":"requiem-3","title":"Requiem","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a culture obsessed with content, saturation, and continual exposure, it's rare to find artists who prefer to lurk outside of the public eye. Thomas Pynchon is perhaps the most notable contemporary recluse - a virtually faceless figure who occasionally creeps out of hiding to offer up an elaborate novel steeped in history and warped by imagination—but for crate diggers and guitar mystics, Sweden's enigmatic Goat may qualify as the greatest modern pop-culture mystery. Who are these masked musicians? Are they truly members of the Arctic community of Korpilombolo? Are their songs part of their isolated communal heritage? Their third studio album, \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e, offers more questions than answers, but much like any of Pynchon's knotty yarns, the reward is not in the untangling but in the journey through the labyrinth. Western exports may have dominated the consciousness of international rock fans for the entirety of the 20th century, but our increasing global awareness has unearthed a treasure trove of transcendental grooves and spellbinding riffage from exotic and remote corners of the planet. Goat's previous albums 'World Music' and 'Commune' were perfect testaments to this heightened awareness, with Silk Road psychedelia, desert blues, and Third World pop all serving as governing forces within the band's sound. But Goat's strange amalgam isn't some cheap game of cultural appropriation - it's nearly impossible to pinpoint the exact origins of the elusive group's sound. The fact that they pledge allegiance to a spot on the periphery of our maps bolsters the nomadic quality of their sonic explorations. With \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e, Goat continue to rock and writhe to a beat beholden to no nation, no state. Goat's only outright declaration for \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e is that it is their \"folk\" album, and the album is focused more on their subdued bucolic ritualism than psilocybin freakouts. But Goat hasn't completely foregone their fiery charms - tracks like \u003ci\u003eAll-Seeing Eye\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoatfuzz\u003c\/i\u003e conjure the sultry heathen pulsations that ensnared us on their previous albums. Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e comes with the closing track \u003ci\u003eUbuntu\u003c\/i\u003e. The song is little more than a melodic delay-driven electric piano line, until we hear the refrain from \u003ci\u003eDiarabi\u003c\/i\u003e - the first song on their first album - sneak into the mix. It creates a kind of musical ouroboros - an infinite cycle of reflection and rejuvenation, death and rebirth. Much like fellow recluse Pynchon, rather than offering explanations for their strange trajectories, Goat create a world where the line between truth and fiction is so obscured that all you can do is bask in their cryptic genius.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2.","offer_id":50422809723211,"sku":"404746","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50422809133387,"sku":"1109369","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50422808805707,"sku":"404745","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50422811492683,"sku":"404744","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9983a7bb-c2bf-4ca4-87d6-650428ef1df1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726767112"},{"product_id":"an-error-has-occurred","title":"An Error Has Occurred","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Everything’s been fucked since David Bowie died or they started up the Hadron Collider” say The Janitors. This feeling is epitomised in the title of their riveting new album: An Error Has Occurred. Marking over two decades of activity for the Swedish psych-rockers, the recording is informed by heartbreak and loss as well as the dismal state of the entire planet. For The Janitors, these two polarities intertwine constantly: “What’s personal is political and vice versa.” To channel their frustration and anger, the band revived certain songs they’d shelved during the pandemic when working on the acclaimed Noisolation Sessions. They added others, written since, that suited the mood of sticking a middle finger up to the oppressive world around us. Whereas previous recordings were often layered up gradually, this time the full band (Henric Herlenius, Jonas Eriksson, Anders Thorell and Wilhelm Tengdahl) rehearsed intensely together before laying down everything live, over two days and nights, in a converted missionary church. The songs on Side A have the menace of Melvins, the swagger of The Stooges and the cosmic heft of The Heads. These are the more simply constructed and poppier pieces... or so the band believe. (One friend of theirs did consider this “delusional”.) ‘In A Bliss’ acts as the album’s radiant centrepiece. A palette-cleansing love song which recalls The Jesus And Mary Chain at their most starry eyed, it finds The Janitors searching for solace and strength in straightforward companionship. After this come the dronier numbers, drawn out with soundscapes and textures influenced by The Velvet Underground’s sonic experiments and the equally immersive atmospheres of electronic acts like Massive Attack. Hence, ‘Operator’ swings threateningly like a space-rock Swans, while the approach on ‘Farewell Spacegirl’ is jazzier and more meditative. “It can be hard to muster up some, or even any, positive energy at this point in time,” says Henric. “We are eternally grateful to have the creative output that this constellation gives us. Neither me or Jonas would probably be here, or be the same people we are, if it wasn’t for The Janitors. We’ll leave you with a quote from an old anarchist: ‘Every society gets the criminals it deserves.’”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP - Orange","offer_id":50425315197259,"sku":"2206502","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/The_Janitors__AnErrorHasOccured_LAUNCH352_cb6c09ac_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726789026"},{"product_id":"hexen-valley","title":"Hexen Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003eBirthed in the bohemian enclave and epicentre of strange vibrations that is Calderdale in West Yorkshire, Hexen Valley’s story began in summer 2021 when a new formation of Gnod came together in a co-op house at the 200-year-old Nutclough Tavern. As always, the line-up of the collective shifted and morphed to fit circumstances, and soon they embarked on intensive jamming that was eventually captured by Sam Greenwood in Hebden Bridge Underground studios.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspiration struck not only from the chemistry of the four musicians in this confined room but all around - the band’s Paddy Shine cites the likes of shop noticeboard messages and pub conversations in Hebden as lyrical sparks; channeling by his reckoning the ‘valley fever’ that exists somewhere in the chasms and contrasts between the amazing light and vivacity of the valley summit and the comparative darkness of the towns below.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, musical shapes were making themselves known seemingly of their own volition, from ‘Still Running’, which takes shape across a sonic hinterland between Daydream Nation-style kineticism and sludged-out aggression to ‘Bad Apple’ - an entirely spontaneous piece of potent and angular post-punk intensity. Perhaps most surprisingly of all, Lou Reed’s tour-bus favourite ‘Waves Of Fear’ is hammered out with fearsome gusto into a salvo of first-take catharsis and alchemy, fit to transcend all or any oppressive atmospheres that surround.Hexen Valley is the sound of a band whose fearsome intensity is only matched by their evolutionary drive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s Gnod at full power, and it’s a haunted place you might struggle to leave\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50425465438539,"sku":"1144900","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50425466487115,"sku":"1144898","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50425467765067,"sku":"1144899","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1a950ca2-0bda-43b2-a1d0-fded52e2948f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726790746"},{"product_id":"launch300","title":"LAUNCH300","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe are all artefacts for space travel, to paraphrase William Burroughs. Yet how to facilitate such journeys into either inner or outer space? This luckily is where Rocket Recordings come in, 25 years into their continuing mission. Operating from a 1998 launchpad in Bristol, Rocket’s questing vision has made them pathfinders for a particular kind of psychic terrain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe label may have been founded on disparate and dissolute passions - the vital grit and street-level attack of old-skool Hip Hop and Thrash Metal, the power of repetition, the astral awaydays of Hawkwind, the Fuzz and Wah of garage rock and early Sub Pop and the constellational signposts that connect Can, Funkadelic, Wax Trax Records \u0026amp; Aphex Twin on a map to other dimensions. Yet the stubbornly uncompromising ethos has always been to push beyond boundaries into areas which even the true heads have thus far never ventured. To celebrate a quarter century on the outer realms of exploration, Rocket presents you with a vital celebratory compilation collecting together eight of the current Rocket roster, all offering full-throttle salvos of metaphysical salvation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResplendent in third-eye-cleansing sleeve art referencing French comic artist Philippe Caza, it’s a travelogue that traverses from the amp-damaging repetitive thunder of Gnod’s ‘Nought Sayin’ to the minimal electronic spellcasting of J. Zunz’s ‘Radix’, from the unsettling invective of Shit \u0026amp; Shine’s gleefully ornery ‘What’d You Mean, What?, What’ to the drone-based bliss of Centrum’s ‘Dü är så värdefull’, from Och’s nocturnal revelations to The Utopia Strong’s celestial visions, and from the potent rural vibrations of Smote’s ‘Coal Tongue’ to Goat’s dancefloor-ready ‘Goatsnake’ without losing coherence or focus. \u003ci\u003eLAUNCH300\u003c\/i\u003e measures out the widescreen horizons of Rocket Recordings as it embarks on the next quarter century - a label with its feet on the ground and its head mapping out a defiant course for the unknown. Get on board. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracks: 1. Smote – Coal Tongue \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Goat – Goatsnake \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Och – Inebriantia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Shit \u0026amp; Shine – What’d You Mean, What? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Gnod – Nought Sayin’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. J. Zunz – Radix \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Centrum – Du Är Så Värdefull \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. The Utopia Strong – Harpies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50426471121227,"sku":"2165090","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Various__Launch300_Sleeve_b8b6517e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726810724"},{"product_id":"strange-craft","title":"Strange Craft","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspiration can strike anyone at any time, and more often than not from somewhat peculiar quarters. Rarely more so than when\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Grant - thus far best known as guitarist and producer of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - finally set about work on a solo project that had been pursuing him for some years. “I want people to imagine that feeling of rubber - its physical memory, the unnatural vibe of it. It’s so tactile but alien. It’s an odd analogy, but that’s what this music is for me.”A specific gravity is one more property that rubber has going for it, and that much is certainly true of Rubber Oh’s debut album \u003ci\u003eStrange Craft,\u003c\/i\u003e the result of his elasticated fixation, and his debut album of deliriously tuneful sci-fi tinged psychpop. It’s a unique soundworld in which an emphasis on beguiling melody marries a kaleidoscopic grandeur. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidescreen gems like the warped interstellar voyage that is Children Of Alchemy and the unshakeable earworm Hyperdrive Fantasyare all vibrant colour and celestial energy, setting their psychic stall out somewhere between the incandescent headspace of a ‘70s sci-fi TV show and the red-light-fever of the overheated ampstacks Grant has been historically more familiar with.Ultimately, for Grant as well as everyone else, Rubber Oh amounts to one strange trip - “Many of the lyrics are about alchemy, journeying and vessels, as interchangeable metaphors for knowledge and wisdom” he says. “I wanted to mesh the land and sea, the cosmos and the psyche across the tracks as one single plane” Mission accomplished, in short. This \u003ci\u003eStrange Craft\u003c\/i\u003e is fuelled up and ready to accept all comers on a ride into extensions through dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | LP","offer_id":50427903934795,"sku":"1142217","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pink | LP","offer_id":50427902394699,"sku":"1142218","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50427905278283,"sku":"1142216","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a7454180-e6e7-44f3-81c3-b85bd8143e3e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726828400"},{"product_id":"headsoup","title":"Headsoup","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeadsoup\u003c\/i\u003e is a new compilation that deepens the legend of mysterious Swedish psych collective Goat even further. Collecting rarities from across band’s celebrated career, including standalone singles, B-sides, digital edits and two enormous brand new tracks, it’s a globetrotting acid trip of a record that’s even bigger in its scope than their acclaimed studio LPs. From the incendiary heavy psych of their earliest work, like debut B-side ‘The Sun And Moon’, to the serene ‘Requiem’-era alternate take ‘Union Of Mind And Soul’, to the simmering menace of their latest material, it’s a record as multifaceted as Goat themselves, packed with detours in every conceivable direction.Taking in jazz-flute solos, pounding Afrobeat rhythms, ferocious desert blues, drifting Ethio-jazz, this is, as the name of Goat’s first album made clear, \u003ci\u003eWorld Music\u003c\/i\u003e in its most complete form, a sound unrestrained by genre boundaries. Yet the band are anything but lazy appropriators. They approach their forebears with upmost reverence, articulating a celebratory cultural cross-pollination. And what about these two new tracks? ‘Fill My Mouth’ is a scuzzy psychedelic funk knockout, the sleaziest thing the band have ever recorded. ‘Queen Of The Underground’, meanwhile, is truly herculean, a swaggering psychedelic powerhouse of the very highest order.Sometimes dark and heavy, at others joyous and beautiful, like Goat themselves\u003ci\u003e Headsoup\u003c\/i\u003e is mysterious, and constantly shapeshifting, difficult to properly pin down but constantly enthralling. Almost a decade since they first emerged from the depths of Scandinavia, there is still no other band on earth that sounds quite like them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57871420719435,"sku":"R7052-1876","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50430539497803,"sku":"1125442","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Pink | LP","offer_id":50430538678603,"sku":"1125444","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50430539891019,"sku":"1125441","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ee18ecaf-08ee-4085-8e2d-9a67a043c740_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726849251"},{"product_id":"you-were-very-high","title":"You Were Very High","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2018 Diagonal Records released an intriguing, three track, hand stamped, white label 12” of dancfloor sampledelia by Shit \u0026amp; Shine onto an unsuspecting world. The lead track on this 12” ‘You Were Very High’ turned a lot of heads and became a club oddity, being played out by DJ’s around the world – and some movers and shakers have hailed the 12” as “Shit \u0026amp; Shine’s best ever release.” Strong words indeed, but one that some will find hard to argue with? When speaking to Loud and Quiet in 2022 about this now legendary release, Craig Clouse, the man behind Shit \u0026amp; Shine said, “Humour is totally crucial, sometimes I want to throw in instantly recognisable reference points because it’s relatable, and just to bring a smile to people’s faces.” So now in 2024, as the original 12” has become a bit of a collector’s item, trading hands for £60+ on Discogs – Shit and Shine and Rocket Recordings have decided ‘You Were Really High’ deserves a one off repress. This expanded version of the EP, which is housed in new art and ltd to only 300 copies, also features a mighty extra track called ‘Dave, Have You Ever Been To London.’ A certified banger that is destined to be blasted out in Berlin’s, darkest and dankest techno basements.So if you missed out before on acquiring this incredible release, or like many you simply collect everything the genius that Craig Clouse creates, then it is time to get high on Shit \u0026amp; Shine once again\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50441066250571,"sku":"2202379","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_2cad15e3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726972448"},{"product_id":"ax-ox","title":"Ax Ox","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs musicians across the world have watched the last decade systematically eating away at the infrastructure by which they pursue their art, triumphs against adversity have sometimes entered the realm of cliche .Yet few bands have undergone quite the travails that Perm, Russia’s Gnoomes have on the road to the release of their fourth release on Rocket Recordings,\u003ci\u003e Ax Ox\u003c\/i\u003e. From such traumatic circumstances, with the band having overcome the stress of a pandemic, illness, depression and serious turmoil in their home country, have arrived a kaleidoscopic and questing vision shot through with potent melancholia and strident optimism. Here the component parts that have always made up Gnoomes’ fresh and wide-eyed aesthetic - dreampop radiance, bold electronic experimentation and the propulsive motorik drive which moves them onward - are rendered still more vivid and transcendent. \u003ci\u003eAx Ox\u003c\/i\u003e runs through a gamut of vibrant emotion across its eleven tracks, from the elemental blast of kraut-pop that is ‘The Neighbour’ to the crystalline and techno-fied ‘Loops’, and across moments of jarring and skewed ambience such as ‘Mirror’ and ‘The Bridge’. The album also chronicles a fractious relationship which the band have with their home countrry. Gnoomes’ Sasha Painkov and his wife Masha Piankova have both been forced to leave the country when mobilisation was announced in pursuit of safety. However, as Sasha relates. “In our opinion this album could be a psychedelic musical about growing up and living in the post Soviet Russia. If you watched (Adam Curtis’ documentary series) Traumazone, it’s not complicated really to imagine the visual part of the musical!” \u003ci\u003eAx Ox \u003c\/i\u003eultimately reflects something of an odyssey for a complex and inhospitable modern era, and with this in mind perhaps its centrepiece is the uplifting kosmische travelogue ‘Eternal Trans Siberian’ “It’s a metaphor of what’s going on to our country” reckons Sasha. “It feels like we’re traveling on a rusty and wrecked train through space and time. The epochs change, but the problems stay the same and we don’t knowhow it’s possible, but the train is still moving”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50441367486795,"sku":"2007455","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_b3ba5baf_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726978383"},{"product_id":"viscerals","title":"Viscerals","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlbums Of The Year 2020 - #7\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available: Rough Trade Exclusive bonus 12\" \u003cem\u003ePigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs\u003c\/em\u003e are back with their most ambitious and hard-hitting record yet. \u003cem\u003eViscerals\u003c\/em\u003e, their third proper album, is an enormous leap forward in confidence, adventure, and sheer intensity even from their 2018 breakthrough \u003cem\u003eKing Of Cowards\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncisive in its riff-driven attack, infectiously catchy in its songcraft, and more intrepid than ever in its experimental approach, \u003cem\u003eViscerals\u003c\/em\u003e is the sound of a leaner, more vicious Pigs, and one with their controls set way beyond the pulverizing one-riff workouts of their early days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhilst the fearsome opener \"\u003cem\u003eReducer's\u003c\/em\u003e\" battle cry \"ego kills everything\" brings a philosophical bent to its Sabbathian abjection, elsewhere \"\u003cem\u003eRubbernecker\u003c\/em\u003e\" may be the most melodious ditty this band has yet attempted, redolent of the debauched swagger of Jane's Addiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, the sinister sound-collage of \"\u003cem\u003eBlood And Butter\u003c\/em\u003e\" delves into jarring abstraction anew, \"\u003cem\u003eNew Body\u003c\/em\u003e\" countenances a bracing Melvins-and-Sonic-Youth demolition derby, and - perhaps most memorably of all - the perverse banger \"\u003cem\u003eCrazy In Blood\u003c\/em\u003e\" marries MBV-ish guitar curlicues in its verses to a raise-your-fists chorus worthy of Twisted Sister or Turbonegro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet \u003cstrong\u003ePigsx7\u003c\/strong\u003e have effortlessly broadened their horizons and dealt with all these new avenues without sacrificing one iota of their trademark eccentricity, and the personality of this band has never been stronger. Such is the relentless momentum of this unique and ever-porcine outfit; hedonists of the grittiest and most life-affirming ride in the land, and still the hungriest animals at the rock trough.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Red | LP.","offer_id":50442366452043,"sku":"1084755","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red | LP - 1084754","offer_id":50442368975179,"sku":"1084754","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50442367304011,"sku":"1145476","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50442368385355,"sku":"1084756","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50442367926603,"sku":"1084721","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/19322c8b-d21b-4e8d-8956-4f707cf5ac87_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726997107"},{"product_id":"oh-death","title":"Oh Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormidable psychic warriors, channelers of the mystic and proponents of a spiritual quest that transcends this realm, Goat remain a band shrouded in mystery. Travelling from their inscrutable origins in the Swedish village of Korpilombo across the stages and festivals of the world in the last decade, this band has created their incendiary music entirely according to their own co-ordinates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith all this in mind, the casual observer might have guessed from its title that \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e, their beatific and melancholic album of 2016, was to be their last. Yet the ancestral spirits summoned by their art are always restless. Thus the eternal cycles of rebirth have triumphantly produced \u003ci\u003eOh Death \u003c\/i\u003e- a ceremonial conflagration as powerful as any this band has made. Invigorated by forces we can only guess at the origins of, \u003ci\u003eOh Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a party to which all are welcome. Blithely waving away easy classification, these heat-hazed serenades are just as comfortable in the headspace of vicious ‘70s funk as they are in zesty ZE records post-punk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFolk-haunted incantations and free jazz skronk here find common ground, buoyed by relentless forward motion and raucous energy. Yet all of the above is locked into a delirious gnostic groove that threatens to throw the whole shebang spiraling into orbit. \u003ci\u003eOh Death\u003c\/i\u003e is driven by a supernatural charge that unifies, invigorates and transcends borders, whether geographical, musical, or between this world and the next. In the hands of these sages and soothsayers, this is just the beginning. Goat Is \u003ci\u003eOh Death\u003c\/i\u003e, Long Live Goat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50445662716235,"sku":"1165831","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50445663043915,"sku":"1165832","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50445662224715,"sku":"1165830","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b38d62f9-bdb9-44ac-940a-631f6f27a6b0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727042811"},{"product_id":"goat-8","title":"Goat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ouroborus - that is, the icon of the snake or dragon eating its own tail - appears to some a statement of the brutality of nature. To others of a Gnostic disposition it symbolises the duality of the divine and earthly in mankind. But most commonly, it’s taken simply to mean the endless cycles of death and rebirth that characterise life on this planet. As such, it’s an image that looms large in the world of Goat, the ever-mysterious and endlessly revivifying collective whose latest album marks another adventure above and beyond this particular plane of reality.This may be a band that has named albums both Requiem and Oh Death, yet this eponymous salvo proves yet again that transcendence and metamorphosis are their watchwords. Goat sees this ever-unpredictable outfit summoning rhythmically-driven rituals in unmistakable, uplifting and scintillating style, equally adept at ignitiing dancefloors and expanding minds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘One More Death’ and ‘Goatbrain’ are spectacular curtain-raisers, embodying a hedonistic spirit driven by incisive funk and possessed by merciless fuzz\/wah-drenched guitar. Yet elsewhere, the band’s love of hip hop is the fuel for the end-credits-epic album closer ‘Ourobourus’ which marries infectious chant to breathless Lalo Schifrin-style breakbeat action. And which also means ultimately, like the titular oldest allegorical symbol in alchemy, we’re right back where we started. As Brad Dourif’s character Hazel Moates intones in the 1979 movie Wiseblood,  “Where you come from is gone; where you thought you were going weren’t never there. And where you are ain’t no good unless you can get away from it”; in Goat’s eternal now of renewal and revelation, there’s never been a more potent means of escape. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow LP","offer_id":50445982892363,"sku":"2212477","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50445982531915,"sku":"2212476","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50445982105931,"sku":"2212475","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f41ac3ee-743c-5d91-53c0-e657b0f378b4_a8716954_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727050990"},{"product_id":"6-1","title":"6","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen two planets collide in any solar system, the catastrophic result will most likely reduce both to dust and ash, sending warm debris hurtling through space. Yet from destruction, comes creation. So to the new and sixth record by Pharaoh Overlord - a cataclysmic clash with bewitching results. The band’s current duo of Tomi Leppänen and Jussi Lehtisalo first channelled their love of krautrock-damaged monomania into synth-driven motorik soundscapes on 2019’s \u003ci\u003e5 \u003c\/i\u003eyet this new exploration is a step way beyond, into a chilly and captivating electronic panorama. Beholden to the melodies and textures of Kraftwerk yet also the cinematic austerity of EBM and the effervescent pulse of classic Italo-pop, it’s further abetted by fierce and corrosive vocals from longtime collaborator and Sumac \/ Isis \/ Old Man Gloom seer Aaron Turner, which stand atop these futuristic serenades not unlike the fevered delivery of a dystopian hellfire preacher. The result, richly coherent yet startling even for the unpredictable world of this band, arrives like a series of otherworldly epiphanies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opening\u003ci\u003e Path Eternal \u003c\/i\u003esets its stall out in style, marrying Moroder and Mayhem with a hint of the apocalypse manifesto of Skinny Puppy lurking in the middle distance.\u003ci\u003e Arms Of The Butcher \u003c\/i\u003eis a strident anthem for a modern pandemonium, \u003ci\u003eBlue Light Hum\u003c\/i\u003e meanwhile comes on like a robotic Neu! summoning end-credits euphoria. And most audaciously of all, ‘Without Song All Will Perish’ takes the urbane yet decadent sound of \u003ci\u003eVoulez-Vous\u003c\/i\u003e-era ABBA and reinvents it as a venomous disco Gotterdämerrung. Aaron Turner was sent this material by Tom and Jussi and initially ask to contribute to two or three songs to a sharp deadline, but the results soon revealed themselves to be so powerful that he ended up writing lyrics for the whole album, his vicious but uplifiting vision taking inspiration from the melodic yet scabrous likes of Killing Joke, Leatherface and Kill The Thrill. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten as the pandemic began to dominate world events in 2020, the resulting emotional turmoil couldn’t help but heavily affect its lyrical slant of this record. \u003ci\u003e6 \u003c\/i\u003ehas therefore become a record based on separation – the physical distance between the band members themselves, as well as the isolation of the quarantine itself. Yet it’s also a record concerned with finding a way forward amidst the modern cataclysms that surround - channelling negative experience into a positive change. True to form, like a brightly underlit disco dancefloor flashing out a warning of danger, the alchemical force of \u003ci\u003e6\u003c\/i\u003e is equal parts hedonistic rapture and dark revelation.Let him who have understanding reckon the number of the beat, for it is a human number. Its number is \u003ci\u003e6.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | LP","offer_id":50447284896075,"sku":"1104164","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Pink | LP","offer_id":50447284699467,"sku":"1104165","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50447284502859,"sku":"1104158","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a8b49fe4-4857-4abe-8fb6-f679ec3e493c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727075312"},{"product_id":"mien","title":"Mien","description":"\u003cp\u003eMien release their self-titled debut on Rough Trade Exclusive 140 Gram Black, Transparent Blue and Red \/ Black Marbled Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebut album by Mien, the exciting new four piece band comprised of The Black Angels’ Alex Maas, The Horrors’ Tom Furse, Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dhir and The Earlies’ John-Mark Lapham. The seeds were sown for this collaboration as long ago as 2004, when Rishi Dhir (Elephant Stone) found himself in a chance encounter with Black Angels frontman Alex Maas whilst performing sitar with his former band on a bill at SXSW in Austin with The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Not long afterwards, he would also stumble across electronics guru and producer John Mark Lapham from Anglo-American band The Earlies, via a shared love for one song - the ‘classic sitar banger’ by The Association, \u003ci\u003eWantin’ Ain’t Gettin’\u003c\/i\u003e. Some years later, another piece of the puzzle came into place, when Dhir was now playing bass with The Black Angels in 2012, and found the band sharing several bills with The Horrors. Thus he made the acquaintance of Tom Furse, and yet another pact was made to work together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral traversals of the globe by both plane and audio-file later, the result is an album that sees this quartet transcending their origins whilst maintaining a cohesive unity borne of a desire for outward exploration. John Mark’s vision, as he puts it, was “imagine the Black Angels as Nico in her 80’s industrial phase mixed with George Harrison and Conny Plank.” - true to form, it’s an album that finds equal room for radiant groove-based propulsion and ambient dreamscapes alike - as comfortable with the murky hallucinogenic voyage of \u003ci\u003eYou Dreamt\u003c\/i\u003e as the powerful widescreen sweep of \u003ci\u003e(I’m Tired Of) Western Shouting\u003c\/i\u003e, yet with songwriting acumen as potent as the production values are expansive and exploratory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCD \u003c\/b\u003e- Mini Gatefold Replica CD with Inner Booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLP\u003c\/b\u003e - 140 Gram Black Vinyl with Download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLP+\u003c\/b\u003e - 140 Gram Transparent Blue vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLP++ \u003c\/b\u003e- Rough Trade Exclusive. Limited to 300 Copies on 140 Gram Red \/ Black Marbled Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP.","offer_id":50449594581323,"sku":"1029955","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50449598153035,"sku":"1029976","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50449599496523,"sku":"1029953","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ed8916d3-0323-463d-8c0c-0bfa1bb74bf1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727105025"},{"product_id":"mirage-9","title":"Mirage","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond effort \u003ci\u003eMirage\u003c\/i\u003e, follows a mere year after its predecessor, sees the band sculpting sprawling, hypnotic jams into elegant nocturnal serenades. Mirage sees the band taking a chic tradition of avant-pop that extends all the way from Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy to Broadcast and Saint Etienne, and warping it mercilessly to their own darker ends. Whilst the brooding yet sultry 'Sister Green Eyes' is no less than a sharp slice of velveteen motorik-pop and 'Looking For You' reinvents three-chord garage-rock attack with mighty finesse, The Liberation are just as comfortable dealing out the heavy-lidded and electronically-driven \u003ci\u003eIn Madrid\u003c\/i\u003e or the dive in the hallucinatory deep end of \u003ci\u003eCircular Motion\u003c\/i\u003e, on which they're aided and abetted by Lay Llamas' Nicola Guinta. The seductive splendour of these ten songs åmake manifest a parallel world of disorientation and deliverance in which one would be a fool not to want to languish adrift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Repress. Purple and Green Swirl Effect Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50450399691083,"sku":"406264","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50450401231179,"sku":"406265","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3bed633e-24d1-4fba-b088-7f76c8492a6f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727111551"},{"product_id":"ett-visst-fangelse","title":"Ett visst fngelse","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from the likes of Goat, Josefin Öhrn, Hills, Flowers Must Die, Centrum and GÅS - Ved continue to be among the wonderful plethora of Swedish bands to release their exploratory music on Rocket Recordings. With 3 albums, 3 EPs (including one on Rocket), a compilation on labels like Höga Nord and Adrian Recordings already behind them this Malmö 5 piece are famed for creating trance inducing, repetitive, psych. Their ever evolving sound has always taken in many global influences, from Middle Eastern to African to the monotonous explorations of composers like Steve Reich and Terry Riley. Rhythmically driven like the jittered ecstasy of a Post Punk band covering a Oriental Surf a track \u003ci\u003eEtt visst fängelse\u003c\/i\u003e (translated as ‘A Certain Prison’) establishes a pulsating clink clack shimmer that is as hyper actively addictive as Can in full animated instrumental groove. \u003ci\u003eThe Embrace Of The Oarfish\u003c\/i\u003e the lead track, advances the propulsive pummeling to a more aggressive sound centred around a repetitive single bass note that masquerades like an menacingly deep percussive outlaw. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe looming ribbon like nature of the track slithers like the giant sea serpent the title alludes too - some say the Oarfish can forecast earthquakes themselves, maybe its the resonance of the bomb shelter in Malmö that is the bands rehearsal space that imposes itself tremor like through their oscillating work. The firewood that is Ved’s work has reminiscent echoes of the primal work of UK act Snapped Ankles, but Ved’s journey is a wholly unique controlled burn where rapid oxidation devours any listener into a blaze of restorative enchantment. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black | 7\"","offer_id":50452236861771,"sku":"1112957","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5e7542d0-5864-4fef-b529-0b1fd6e8765a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727144966"},{"product_id":"toilet-circuit-ep","title":"Toilet Circuit EP","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1998 Rocket Recordings launched with a debut split 7” between Bristol bands The Heads and Lillydamwhite. So it is fitting that the labels 200th release is a 7” by the band Anthroprophh – the Bristol three piece that features Paul Allen from The Heads and Gareth Turner the former bass player from Lillydamwhite.\u003ci\u003e Toilet Circuit EP\u003c\/i\u003e is the bands first release since their mammoth double album \u003ci\u003eOmegaville\u003c\/i\u003e which was released to high acclaim in 2018. The three tracks that make up this EP follow on perfectly from the dense and psychedelic sounds of \u003ci\u003eOmegaville\u003c\/i\u003e – a feverish tirade of maximalism. Anthroprophh manage to find equal space for everything-on-11 riffage of The Stooges, kraut rock repetitions, Butthole Surfers-esque bedlam, and surreal British humour. A frustrated social commentary of todays paranoid world dictate the subject matter of the three songs on the EP. \u003ci\u003eSix Six Sigma\u003c\/i\u003e is named after a truly awful corporate training company, Too Old lists the frustrations of age and growing old, and \u003ci\u003eToilet Circuit\u003c\/i\u003e is a song about the ‘fun’ and tribulations of touring the ‘toilet circuits’ of the UK. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike previous Anthroprophh releases it is Allen’s guitar playing itself, that transcends the band to ‘higher’ limits. Globally renowned amongst freaks and connoisseurs alike from his untouchable ontributions to The Heads. Taking Hendrix and Asheton-esque shapes and warping them beyond recognition into new paradigms, he also cites guitarists like Michael Karoli, early-‘70s Robert Fripp, Giles Buchan of Human Beast, Fred Frith and Geinrich of Guru Guru as influences, yet this ear-splitting treble-heavy scree and these heavenly FX-driven cacophonies could be the work of no-one else but this particular six-string iconoclast, who drives his trademark sound beyond anything he’s previously attempted in any incarnation. \u003ci\u003eToilet Circuit EP\u003c\/i\u003e are the first Anthroprophh tracks to feature a new sticksman – the drumming skills of Bristol legend Steve Dew, who cut his rhythmic teeth with Cup of Tea Records band Spaceways and the Bristol psych-jazz supergroup Fuzz Against Junk who released music via Geoff Barrow’s Invada Records. In the tradition of most great out-rock and psych-noise - \u003ci\u003eToilet Circuit EP\u003c\/i\u003e feels very much like a foot placed firmly on the accelerator in search of dimensions unknown - a liminal zone where fuzz and wah transcend space and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | 7\"","offer_id":50452660683083,"sku":"1102422","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b4f65f43-313a-44eb-b95d-b850a6eaee76_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727159864"},{"product_id":"malibu-liquor-store","title":"Malibu Liquor Store","description":"\u003cp\u003eSo, what have you been doing in 2020? Tensions have mounted, turmoil has reigned and work emails have forever rung out with boilerplate platitudes as the world has ushered in a new decade in more uncomfortable and disquieting fashion than anyone could have imagined in January. Nonetheless, amidst such mental tumult Craig Clouse - the Austin-based sage of the aurally unclean also known as Shit \u0026amp; Shine – has been busily channelling the interface between the surroundings and his own wayward muse into \u003ci\u003eMalibu Liquor Store \u003c\/i\u003e– a lockdown-birthed psychic landscape mapped out in the first half of this turbulent year. The only expectation any relatively well-adjusted person should have of Shit \u0026amp; Shine remains the unexpected at this stage, with Clouse having released well over thirty records on multiple labels in a storied, questing and uniformly invigorating catalogue – just as comfortable with both bloody-minded electronic assaults and noiserock-driven dirge, as adept at kraut-hammered rhythmic mantras as dancefloor-friendly abstraction. \u003ci\u003eMalibu Liquor Store \u003c\/i\u003eis none of these things exactly yet simultaneously flirts cheerily and irreverently with all of them. Always shot through with gleeful humour, this is a sonic world that recognises neither boundaries nor common sense. Craig Clouse cares not for your definitions of psych or dance music, and he’s never more comfortable than when transcending and annihilating both generic headspaces with casual ease and cheerful panache. Instead, these heat-damaged jams mark a spectral collision course between infectious glitch-heavy groove and an appropriately Texan acid-flashback aesthetic - a world in the last fifty years of culture are reflected and refracted back ad absurdum. Co-ordinates and reliable audial landmarks are rendered meaningless as the title cut comes on like a ‘60s Morricone chase sequence reassembled in new electronic shapes like lysergically-assisted Meccano. \u003ci\u003eRat Snake\u003c\/i\u003e sees the humid grooves of Can’s \u003ci\u003eSoon Over Babaluma\u003c\/i\u003e bludgeoned into delirious submission. \u003ci\u003eDevil’s Backbone \u003c\/i\u003ewitnesses Buttholes- esque transgressions of the ‘80s beamed forward Terminator-style to a cyborg-ridden dystopia, and the glorious skeletal groove of album centrepiece \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Moonshine\u003c\/i\u003e meanwhile is nothing less than workout music for the damned – a relentless and pulsating soundtrack for a generation of ghouls mounting a legion of rowing machines along a metaphysical river Styx. The creation of \u003ci\u003eMalibu Liquor Store\u003c\/i\u003e may just have helped Craig Clouse keep his sanity in 2020, even if it appears custom designed to help us lose our own. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50452686799179,"sku":"1101146","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c3d4c40e-8f24-41bd-8b91-3ed5933371d4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727160659"},{"product_id":"frid","title":"Frid","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs has often been noted, psychedelic music can involve causal links between getting out of it and getting into it. Conversely, expansion of consciousness can be found by heading deep into the roots that a band explores, and journeying to the centre of their inspiration. Thus, a curious paradox is attained, whereby the traditional elements of an outfit's sound are superseded by them blasting their core vibrations into unchartered territory. Such is the case with the new opus from third-eye visionaries Hills, a dizzying journey that traverses through the band's origins and beyond to new dimensions.The Gothenburg-based Hills are entering their ninth year of existence, in which they've released two full-length albums, the second of which, 'Master Sleeps' saw a vinyl outing on Rocket last year. Part of a rich scene in their homestead also including friends and Rocket Recordings label mates Goat, they form the new chapter in a tradition of Swedish psychedelia that found its origins in late-'60s and early '70s freakouts and mind-melts by the likes of Baby Grandmothers and Algarnas Tradgard - not to mention the unholy trinity of Parson Sound, International Harvester and Trad Gras och Stenar - before being developed by the likes of The Spacious Mind and Dungen in the last two decades. These inspirations make their mark on 'Frid' by journeying inward, via mantric repetition and hip-shaking pulsations as on the ten-minute monolith, 'Och Solen Sankte Sig Rod', yet they can also lurch into the unknown via the fuzz \/ wah odysseys of the aptly monikered 'National Drone' and the ceremonial exhortations of the closing 'Death Will Find A Way.' As they also showed recently at a rare and spellbinding appearance at Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia, Hills have landed on a rich and intoxicating sound that sidesteps the cliches and humdrum stylistic foibles that often plague modern-day psych, in the process breathing new life into an approach that can sometimes seem in danger of appearing redundant through lack of imagination. 'LP3', their most out-of-mind and out-of-sight effort to date, crystallises everything that makes these Scandinavian satyrs stand out from the global herd; adventurous experimentation and fearless hallucinatory intensity, rendered with brass-knuckle fortitude. The end result is 38 minutes that translate into a feast for seasoned crate-diggers and fresh-faced converts alike. There is, indeed, gold in these here Hills.CD - Mini Gatefold CD.LP - First pressing Black Vinyl with A2 Poster and Download Card\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50452981809483,"sku":"392088","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50452980957515,"sku":"392087","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ba6383bf-c786-4f76-96b3-3d31094485d7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727167248"},{"product_id":"the-utopia-strong","title":"The Utopia Strong","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe combined forces of Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi (Gong\/ Cardiacs\/ Knifeworld\/ Guapo) and Michael J. York (Coil \/ Teleplasmiste \/ Guapo) have arrived at no less than a modular driven kosmische colossus of transcendent power enough to drive all talk of green baize firmly into the blue yonder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Davis’ modular geometry and ambient structures weaving with Torabi’s keen and skewed sense of melody and York’s various gifts for pipes, drones and fevered abstract – the result is a beguiling tapestry as likely to remind listeners of the countercultural benchmarks of Terry Riley, Cluster and Fripp \/ Eno as the latervortex-voyages of Emeralds and Seefeel. “The overall sound was pretty accidental” reckons Kavus. “I certainly didn’t expect the music to sound so ecstatic and positive, Without wanting to puncture the mystery, there really felt like an element of magic at play in making this album. For the most part it was incredibly effortless” It was never any secret that Davis - even at the peak of his household name status in the 1980s - was as happy putting a needle on a vinyl record as anything else involving a cue. What’s more - his music obsession took on new bounds after his retirement from sport in 2016, with his DJ partnership with Torabi taking him to festivals and clubs for many a head-spinning rampage, in which the wide-eyed assembled would be as likely to hear Autechre as Black Sabbath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In twenty years of making records it’s certainly been the easiest and most enjoyable to make” reflects Kavus. “Now, this may have been partly due to us having no preconceptions or expectations but it wasn’t just that. There was absolutely no conflict, and we spent a lot of time together working on it - in my experience that’s a total f**king miracle” “The personal journey I’ve been on since January 2nd 2018 with Kavus and Mike has been surreal” says Steve. “Probably more so than even the path that unfolded for me in snooker. That was pretty far out but this seems otherworldly!” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Dark Matter Transparent Blue Vinyl with Holographic Sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Limited Fireball Orange Vinyl with Holographic Sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | LP","offer_id":50453150171467,"sku":"1067193","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5fc2ff1e-1a97-4934-8a94-00562782cd8f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727168912"},{"product_id":"drommon","title":"Drommon","description":"\u003cp\u003eSummoned from the murkier reaches of the subconscious and summoning a powerful aura of twilight communion, Smote’s \u003ci\u003eDrommon\u003c\/i\u003e is here to intimidate and enchant. The first Rocket release for this enigmatic Newcastle-based entity is no less than a mystically-aligned voyage into abandon and epiphany.The base ingredients of Smote’s spell-casting may not be unfamiliar - the eternal three ‘r’s of repetition, repetition, repetition being paramount along an eldritch and less-travelled musical pathway which wanders from Swedish godheads like International Harvester via the skewed Americana of Sunburned Hand Of The Man and French cult psych-folk heroes Natural Snow Buildings, Nonetheless, a particular potency and singularity of vision triumphs throughout ‘Drommon’, reflective of cinematic chills and night terrors. Possessed of a peculiarly pastoral sensibility and earthen intensity, these ceremonial serenades thus take on feverish and compelling life of their own. \u003ci\u003eDrommon\u003c\/i\u003e arrives as an expanded version of a limited tape \/ digital release on Bandcamp, where Smote’s limited editions of their previous release ‘Bodkin’ have prompted excitement and consternation amidst intrepid psychic travellers. Yet this release, whereby brand new material is bookended by the mighty two[1]part invocation of the title track, create a richly engrossing voyage into the nether which establishes Smote as a force to be reckoned with in all manner of dimensions. Replete with doom-laden atmospherics and crepuscular intensity, this is an intimidating denouement to return to time and again. Join the ritual, and submit to \u003ci\u003eDrommon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50456287052107,"sku":"1131823","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fd1c6616-a90f-4a7b-ad2e-619d59bc8337_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727197374"},{"product_id":"easy-to-build-hard-to-destroy","title":"Easy To Build, Hard To Destroy","description":"\u003cp\u003e“We just wanted to jam really and see what happened” reasons Paddy Shine of Gnod fourteen years on from their inception in Salford. “That led us down the road of constructing a vibe or an atmosphere for playing live. We played a lot of squats, house gigs and parties in the early days. We lived in each others pockets - shared ideas, books, films etc. We just got on one. Some heads came along for the ride. Good times.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis momentum gathered quickly into a band with formidable psychic power, captured in style on \u003ci\u003eEasy To Build, Hard To Destroy\u003c\/i\u003e - a compilation of tricky-to-find, obscure and unreleased material from the heady early days of the band, all released on vinyl for the first time. It’s the sound of an uncompromising devotion to rapture through noise and repetition, a portrait of a band whose anarchic approach and raw intensity any other outfit would be frankly terrified to follow onstage. Captured in the hypnotic rhythmic drive and intimidating atmospheres of tracks like \u003ci\u003eThey Live\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInner Z\u003c\/i\u003e (both only previously available on Myspace) is a mantric energy which take a jumping-off point from the Krautrock, Japanese rock and underground American psychedelia the band were hammering at the time, as well as the droogy nihilism of The Stooges debut. Yet these feral experiments reach far beyond into a headspace that acknowledges no boundaries, rock orthodoxy or genre constriction. “We’re always searching for new music, new thoughts, new experiences” says founder member Chris Haslam, “That drove us a lot in the early days, and still does” A full decade, countless enlightened minds and scores of ruptured speaker cones later, the Gnod journey continues unabated - onward to fresh creation and new annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Blue | LP | x2","offer_id":50457513591115,"sku":"1109381","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50457511526731,"sku":"1109379","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/35cc451a-652b-4664-b018-770732009823_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727206005"},{"product_id":"international-treasure","title":"International Treasure","description":"\u003cp\u003eCall it synchronicity, call it happenstance, call it no more than three friends getting together to give their speakers a workout. Yet The Utopia Strong’s formidable conflagration of psychedelic radiance and beatific harmony has evolved way beyond all or any expectations since the band’s inception.. ‘International Treasure’ chronicles the collaborative collision of Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Mike York heading into unchartered psychic territory, seemingly with nothing but their instincts as co-ordinates.What’s resulted is a step beyond anything either band or audience might have expected - a deeply rewarding voyage into inner space which moves into darker and still more evocative sound-worlds whilst remaining fundamentally off the map. Influences know no bounds in this context, and the listener would be forgiven for locating the atmospheres and soundscapes of this album on some sonic promontory above and between the potent abstractions of Tim Hecker, the improvisatory excursions of The Necks, and the gothic allure of Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore. \u003ci\u003eInternational Treasure\u003c\/i\u003e is the next chapter in a story which only grows more rewarding with every stop along the way - one in which three heads travel together deeper into their own musical journeys, and the resulting alchemical power transmutes its origins into gold. As no less a sage than Andrew Weatherall proclaimed, The Utopia Strong are “gnostic sonics in a nutshell”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | LP","offer_id":50458998866251,"sku":"1148005","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50459003027787,"sku":"1148004","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50459001061707,"sku":"1148003","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/77522006-d65b-49be-80d5-9b502140bf72_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727216201"},{"product_id":"the-holy-family","title":"The Holy Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eA surreal odyssey into dimensions unknown, the debut album by The Holy Family has arrived to bewitch and delight. The scope of ‘The Holy Family’ is boundless. It’s an intrepid voyage through sound-worlds, as This Heat-esque polyrhythms, spidery zeuhl, oceanic kosmische, blissful Robert Wyatt-via-Talk Talk-esque pastoral and even Lalo Schifrin-esque celluloid-score tension are visited in search of some greater universal truth. Yet all of these stylistic forays are married with relentless dream logic into one unifying kaleidoscopic vision. The aesthetic of The Holy Family evolved naturally via first improvisation and then a very meticulous crafting of the raw material. Recording sessions involved Smith and his cohorts - including longtime collaborators Kavus Torabi, Emmett Elvin, Sam Warren and Michael J. York - retreating to “an old house in the country well stocked with the requisite fine wines and jazz cigarettes” to lay down tracks that were then sculpted into their eventual form by Smith and engineer\/mixer Antti Uuismaki, for approval and final overdubs from the rest of the collective. Mercurial and mystical yet charged with primal energy, this is a classic double album as forum for chimerical experimentation - shifting in form and structure every time it travels from the record racks to the stereo, and revealing yet more psychic landscapes with each listen. Submit to its spell, and join The Holy Family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50460926214475,"sku":"1118186","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50460925591883,"sku":"1118185","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e810ae8c-094b-4f52-ad7c-021f151a53ae_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727240509"},{"product_id":"flowers-rot-bring-me-stones","title":"Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoundabout is the new folk project of Paddy Shine of Gnod, recorded with Phil Masterson in Ireland, but the words ‘new’ and ‘folk’ need to be treated with care here. Listening to \u003ci\u003eFlowers Rot, Bring Me Stones \u003c\/i\u003eis like entering a trance state while staring at one of the Knowth spiral carvings. Like following a ridged epidermal loop inwards, tracing the spiral of an ammonite towards the centre or peeling back the layers of an onion, immersion in this great album sees you travelling both temporally backwards and spatially inwards simultaneously. The listener is invited to see folk – orally transmitted music often concerning national identity and culture played on traditional instruments – as a glowing helix of a continuum stretching way back beyond the revival of the 1950s and 1960s to an eternal vibrancy that predates classical antiquity and Irish civilisation itself.As the album moves the listener, they are taken on a geographical and geological journey as well as psychological and spiritual, traveling inwards from the coast (‘The Sea’), as well as down beneath the strata (“How many bog bodies are waiting to be found?”) And when you have been primed, they take you all the way back to commune with older gods on the album’s epic centrepiece, ‘Dick Dalys Dance’, creating the kind of prehistoric drones and trance-inducing rhythms that the echoing, celestially aligned corridors of the Brú na Bóinne were built to amplify. This is not new music but the deep sensations it provokes will be new to most listeners.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Brown | LP","offer_id":50463148605771,"sku":"1147391","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9188611e-f9bc-42c3-b75e-4ea05c260bc6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727262174"},{"product_id":"bear-bites-horse-sessions-2","title":"Bear Bites Horse Sessions","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrankers of amp, torturers of fuzzbox and denizens of small-hours salvation, Thee Alcoholics dished out a rancorous and righteous debut in their decent \u003ci\u003eFeedback\u003c\/i\u003e – one that filtered gnarled riffage and motorik malevolence through a uniquely debauched prism in pursuit of some extremely ill-advised audial dystopia. Thee Alcoholics may have started life as the home-birthed brainchild of Rhys Llewellyn (Hey Colossus\/Acidliner\/Drmcnt) yet an evolution since has proven the ultimate form of this beastly creation to be the live arena. In assembling cohorts to turn these visceral jams into something to shake rafters and rattle pint-glasses, new frontiers of ornery intensity have made themselves manifest, and such is the form of the monstrous Bear Bites Horse Sessions, a live-in-the-studio document recorded with Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse studio in Haggerston, London, chronicling a band breathing life into a Stoogian paradigm, and doing so apparently whilst barely breaking a sweat. Taking essential elixirs of in-the-red mania, hypnotic repetition and deathless swagger, these twelve jams walk a crooked path that neighbours the nihilistic vortex of Loop, the saturnine lurch of The Fall and the deadpan derangement of The Heads but remains possessed of a maverick charisma and mischief all its own. Lovers of lysergic heaviosity and the sound of a Marshall 4x12 violently spluttering its last will find much to satisfy here, but moreover \u003ci\u003eBear Bites Horse Sessions\u003c\/i\u003e is a testimony to sonic punishment as a gateway to new horizons, audial excess as a path to wisdom, and answers, right or wrong, being found  in the bottom of a glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50465473003851,"sku":"2216341","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Bear_Bites_Horse_Session_fc399159_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727289782"},{"product_id":"little-demon","title":"Little Demon","description":"\u003cp\u003eStraight from the fertile imagination of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs guitarist Sam Grant comes Rubber Oh - a place where an irreverent magpie spirit has its way with the eternal psych-pop continuum. ‘Little Demon’ is the first sample of this fresh foray - a bass-driven, blissed out mantra that sets out its stall where the travails of the everyday fade into the transcendental realm of the astral plane. A whole new box of sonic delights from a curious and artful talent, this track maps out a refreshing new landscape on which shameless melodic suss and wayward aural eccentricity lock horns. Some may be reminded of the likes of Air’s ‘10000Hz Legend’ and Super Furry Animals ‘Radiator’ by the montage of 60s-tinged mind-melt and sleek futurism here, but the truth is that Rubber Oh is a manifestation of a very personal vision. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlchemically assembled in his own Blank studios in Newcastle, ‘Little Demon’ - in all its thundering, earcandy glory, and accompanied by a Faustian, abstraction-embracing remix by friends and cohorts Richard Dawson and Circle’s Jussi Lehtisalo - is merely a first step into the unknown. “It’s a reference to when you’re lying in bed and your thoughts sabotage you” reasons Grant of ‘Little Demon’ - “It’s all meant to be this fixed loop - the lyrics, the riff, the drums - a constant repetition that keeps going round, maybe like a fever dream. The little demons that when you’re in bed suddenly start in your psyche, opening a door that just leads to another door” Wherever this door leads, ‘Little Demon’ is a psychic journey to be returned to on repeat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | 7\"","offer_id":50466274836811,"sku":"1142421","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1f386b82-c114-41e1-843d-8ec8d5de1c16_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727309705"},{"product_id":"land-of-sleeper","title":"Land of Sleeper","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether inhabiting the realm of dreams or nightmares, the primordial drive of \u003cstrong\u003ePigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs\u003c\/strong\u003e is more powerful than ever, and \u003cem\u003eLand Of Sleeper\u003c\/em\u003e, their fifth record in a decade of rancour and revelation, is testimony to this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArguably the most potent and assured record of their storied life so far, it’s the product of a band energised and fortified by their individual passions to incendiary effect. After the travails of the two and a half years since 2020’s \u003cem\u003eViscerals\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLand Of Sleeper\u003c\/em\u003e sees the Newcastle-based quintet not so much reinvigorated as channelling a furious drive which only appears to gather momentum as the band’s surroundings spin on their axis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor all that the last few years have seen Pigs’ stature rise in the wake of triumphant festival slots and sold-out venues, this remains a band fundamentally incapable of tailoring their sound to a prospective audience, rather standing alone and impervious as a monument of catharsis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Certainly for me, writing and playing music is often surprising and revealing, it can be like holding up a mirror and seeing things you didn’t expect to see,” reckons drummer \u003cstrong\u003eEwan Mackenzie\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose return to the Pigs fray after two albums away marked another big influence on the new record. “For me, the darker tracks on the record hold in common a determination not to lose faith, despite the odds.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe better to unite slumber and waking, \u003cem\u003eLand Of Sleeper\u003c\/em\u003e is no less than an act of transcendence for \u003cstrong\u003ePigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs\u003c\/strong\u003e - new anthems to elucidate a world sleepwalking to oblivion. \u003cem\u003eLand Of Sleeper\u003c\/em\u003e come housed in eye-popping 'Callum Rooney' sleeve art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Blue LP | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50466800697675,"sku":"2000952","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Orange LP","offer_id":50466800533835,"sku":"2000951","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50466800271691,"sku":"2000948","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50466799944011,"sku":"2000947","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Launch293_PigsX7__Land_of_Sleeper_Sleeve_2_97a22564_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727322411"},{"product_id":"commune-2","title":"Commune","description":"\u003cp\u003eGoat return with \u003ci\u003eCommune\u003c\/i\u003e, the eagerly awaited follow up to their astonishing debut album \u003ci\u003eWorld Music\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eCommune\u003c\/i\u003e continues on with World Music's acidic grooves, hypnotic incantations, and serpentine guitar lines but also introduces a darker, more angry edge to the band, not seen before on previous releases. Starting with the layered percussive groove, Eastern guitar flourishes, and convoking vocals of \u003ci\u003eTalk To God\u003c\/i\u003e, it re-establishes the trance-inducing rhythms and exotic blaze of guitar that characterized their debut so well. That spellbound pulse delves into darker and more propulsive territories on \u003ci\u003eWords\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoatslaves\u003c\/i\u003e, while \u003ci\u003eGoatchild \u003c\/i\u003eveers towards the transcendental pop of '60s Bay Area rock. The vintage psychedelic vibe permeates through songs like \u003ci\u003eThe Light Within\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Travel The Path Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e - tracks that suggest that these rural Swedes operate on the same wavelength as the Turkish psych-folkies recently rediscovered by reissue labels like Finders Keepers. \u003ci\u003eCommune\u003c\/i\u003e reaches its apex when Goat's hymnal invocations meet a heavy doze of proto-metal fuzz on \u003ci\u003eHide From The Sun\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGathering of Ancient Tribe\u003c\/i\u003es.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Silver | LP","offer_id":50468955586891,"sku":"1100555","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP.","offer_id":50468957028683,"sku":"378262","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50468959486283,"sku":"2024493","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50468957847883,"sku":"378261","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50468958634315,"sku":"1044531","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c886c6df-2416-4305-842b-6f86642237d7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727354351"},{"product_id":"54-synth-brass-38-metal-guitar-65-cathedral","title":"54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral","description":"\u003cp\u003eShit and Shine, the mutant brainchild of seasoned transgressor Craig Clouse, have traversed to places that few ordinary bands would dare to venture, and moreover have transcended both genre and sanity in their pursuit of reckless audial endangerment. Taking the repetitive rhythmic drive of krautrock and marrying it to a percussive Butthole Surfers-style strain of acidic intensity. they've carved out a unique niche for themselves as one of the most unpredictable, ornery and - occasionally - outright unpleasant outfits in living memory. Like a robot Can-Hawkwind hybrid in a Phillip K. Dick future, reassembling disco, abstract electronica and noiserock into elegant new shapes, Shit and Shine furrow brows and fry synapses in equal measure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spite of this new opus boasting a leaner, sleeker attack than that of yore - partly informed by the band's recent releases on Powell's Diagonal records - the same sense of gleeful perversity is abundant, and the same twisted humour ingrained in these grotesque and hypnotic grooves. Where there is rock within '54-Synth-Brass 38 Metal Guitar 65 Cathedral', its essence is morphed and feverishly formulated into extraterrestrial aural landscapes, as on the opening 'Electric Pony 2', which lurches forth like Chrome alchemically reassembling the disembodied spirit of Marc Bolan in a scrapyard trash compactor. Elsewhere, spectres of smooth jazz fusion lock horns with the against-the-grain approach of Aphex Twin, circular necro-Necks grooves are beset by demons. And the abstract funk of 'Love Your Hair-Hope You Win' locks a Larry Graham-style groove in a vortex of digital disorientation. Brandishing an intimidating psychic attack and equipped as ever with both nameless menace and savage wit, rarely has a band made sounding so wrong sound so right.LP - Black splattered Blue vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50470797476171,"sku":"385697","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50470797607243,"sku":"385698","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ad4c3c9a-c1b6-4af3-9def-25a996f784ab_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727383083"},{"product_id":"signs-2","title":"Signs","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraversing the everyday in 2023, the need for ritual catharsis only grows stronger. The need to lose oneself in a force bigger than ourselves, and to venture into inner space the better to sculpt armour for the battles outside. Luckily this is the job of Bonnacons of Doom, aural soothsayers and progenitors of Trans Pennine hypnotic music. \u003ci\u003eSigns \u003c\/i\u003e- their second album for Rocket Recordings - marks both a portent of things to come, and a roadmap of the psychic pathways to survival. This masked troupe, subsumed to mystery and amassed from across the North of England, have stepped up their mission accordingly. Building on the intimidating intensity of their self-titled 2018 debut, this series of fiercely charged mantras and premonitory transmissions is possessed of a new level of communal intensity. The band’s choice of weapons- the monomaniacal intensity of the riff, the liberating binary spirit of electronics and the incantatory vocals of ceremonial leader Kate Smith - here coalesce into a metaphysical force which stands defiant of easy categorisation. Within these otherworldly manifestations lurks solace in a place where the transcendent power of heavy amplification, cosmically aligned sonic explorations and strange forces darker and more unknowable can coalesce to cathartic and redeeming effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigns\u003c\/i\u003e marks out a supernatural landscape where ancient and modern, earthly and alien congregate in the eternal now, whilst Bonnacons Of Doom transcend era to light a path for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50483410895179,"sku":"2051247","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Signs_c23ccc82_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727566690"},{"product_id":"heads-on-fire-1","title":"Heads On Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter two critically acclaimed self released CDR’s Rocket Recordings released Heads on Fire, the first official album by New Yorks’ White Hills, and now available at a great price.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver changing and always striving to push the envelope, White Hills album Heads on Fire found the band playing a heavier style of spacerock as compared to their previous releases. Relentless and punishing, the album kicks off with the spacey swirl of the song Radiate and ends with the speedladen blast of the track Eternity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, a mesmerising blend of fuzz\/wah guitar growl, pounding bass, sprawling synth, and chaotic drumming doses one's head three sheets to the wind. Whether it be the mere one minute track Return of Speed Toilet or the 26 plus minute Don't Be Afraid, the listener will be taken on ride through a world that is all encompassing from beginning to end. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe White Hills were founded by Dave W. and has since augmented the group with two new members Ego Sensation on bass and Bob Bellomo on drums. This line up has seen the band play with most of Americas purveyors of underground rock including Awesome Color (Ecstatic Peace), La Otracina (Holy Mountain), Titan (Tee Pee Records) and fellow rockateers Plastic Crimewave Sound. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50490840023371,"sku":"292899","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/00062b79-28df-43bb-8e7d-b5c0c567fd48_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727676313"},{"product_id":"collisions-02","title":"Collisions 02","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second in the Rocket Recordings odyssean Collisions series: the proceedings lift off with Oneida's moir patterned 'Shahin's Bong.' This pulsating kaleidoscopic maelstrom illuminates Oneida at their most free-est, from its beginning which implodes under its own stress, wherein drums scatter, amps buzz, strings are stressed, and modulators hum, the O's 'Interstellar Overdrive' in reverse, twists and turn, drops in drops out, gradually becoming coherent to the point of no return. m\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMugstar set chase with their own odyssean endeavor 'European Nihilism', the aurora borealis viewed from within. With the hum and drone of layered synths, drawing the listener in, these psychedelic warlords hit you hard with a supercolossal Hawkwind-esque rockout like a centrifugal force that twists and turns morphing on a continual humming of valves, into the artifice of repetitive noise until at saturation point the asymptotic curve annihilates you in the quest for the perfect ion. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50491275018571,"sku":"343309","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b7c66849-06b7-42db-a927-afc14c3fb2a9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727684388"},{"product_id":"master-1","title":"Master","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the radiant consciousness of Britain's most intrepid sonic assassins comes a shattered mirrorball of a record fit to transform and transfix all that surrounds it in 2013 and beyond. Master, the long-awaited and devastating third album of Teeth Of The Sea, is an unprecedented junket into mind-melting abstraction and neon-drenched revelation. In this period, the band's experimental instincts have continued to extend in a myriad directions, and whilst Master nods to the established Teeth of the Sea touchstones of Throbbing Gristle, Goblin, Heldon, Angelo Badalamenti and Slayer, recent work by the like of Byetone, Pete Swanson, Raime, Powell and Prurient, alongside a long-standing fixation on the disco stylings of Patrick Cowley and Giorgio Moroder, have helped to mark out a gritty, confrontational path whereby abrasive and sparkling electronic textures do battle with waves of incandescent noise and a merciless beat-driven imperative to form a powerful alchemical charge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50491567735115,"sku":"367451","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/062da2ec-7cd7-4e58-9a3a-fbad8f861911_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727687534"},{"product_id":"in-black-and-gold","title":"In Black And Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003e'In Black And Gold', their eighth album proper and first for Rocket Recordings, ushers in a new incarnation of Hey Colossus. Marrying malevolent attack to expansive celestial splendour, 'In Black And Gold' marks a point whereby Hey Colossus map out a sonic trajectory that expands on their trademark ornery overload. The songs herein may be leaner and more artful than the fearsome sound by which they made their name on albums like 2008's 'Project: Death' and the monstrous 2013 opus 'Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo', but they remain possessed of the wrath both Stoogian and Stygian that fuels their noiserock transgression. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet meanwhile, and with 2015 looming large, an evolutionary process has led to their maximalist tendencies being replaced by a sharp focus on space and restraint, not to mention a refreshing stylistic diversity, resulting in a strange aural alchemy. Here, they sound as comfortable tackling electronically-fried dub mantras like 'Lagos Atom' as they do the Cluster-esque lullaby of the opening 'Hold On'. Yet there's no shortage of primal rock action to be had on 'In Black And Gold'; on 'Sisters And Brothers' they summon up a swaggering, demented groove that sashays like a zombified Gun Club, whilst on the dramatic spaghetti-psych of the title-track a revelatory cinematic sprawl of sound sees The Bad Seeds and The 13th Floor Elevators engaged in a psychic duel in the noonday sun. The vital and Spinal Tap-approved 'fine line between clever and stupid' has been a location that this London-based tinnitus machine has made fine work of dwelling on for the duration of their life thus far. Yet with 'In Black And Gold', in a laudable leap of faith, they've stepped beyond, and the result is both vicious and visionary. These unpretentious underworld overlords have emerged from the shadows to create an avant-garage pièce de résistance, and moreover it turns out that the sunlight suits them better than they ever realised.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50493213049163,"sku":"384435","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0539835d-8867-4bd7-bf93-53f027c0ea88_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727696143"},{"product_id":"ngan","title":"Ngan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe three musicians who form Gnoomes hail from Perm, deepest Russia -and have a deep connection with their home - indeed their drummer Pacha is descended from the Komis, the indigenous pagan people of the area before Russian culture and orthodox religion overtook it in the the late 15th century. Yet rather than being confined or frustrated by their surroundings, the three-piece outfit have used their origins as a springboard to the unknown, via the skysurfing radiance of their debut album for Rocket Recordings, 'Ngan!' \"We think about isolation as a dream trigger, and sometimes a dream becomes a motivation to do something cool\" Gnoomes relate. \"Being in a band is the one thing that keeps us from Russian madness.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Ngan!' is an album suffused with a potent sense of wonder - it's bookended by the enormous twin psychic monoliths of 'Roadhouse' and 'My Boy', which form dreamlike aural travelogues clocking in at around a quarter-hour each, and take influences as diverse as the fiery avant-six-string scree of Atlas Sound, the classic motorik of Neu! and Kompakt label techno, and sculpt them into a wide-eyed, kaleidoscopic sweep of sound that the band themselves, keen to break free of generic convention, dub 'stargaze'. It's a style which nods to the melodic sweetness of The Flaming Lips or Tame Impala as much as the synapse-shifting dynamics of Animal Collective or My Bloody Valentine. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50493506781515,"sku":"393802","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/24d156cf-7a58-45c4-8a27-cd19d7021df1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727698487"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_f71fc49a_thumbnail_4096_45660758-5457-4afb-9ff8-db29cdf719ad.jpg?v=1725975594","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/rocket-recordings-1.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}