{"title":"The Wolfhounds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Wolfhounds are an English indie pop\/noise pop band formed in Romford, Essex in 1985. The original lineup consisted of *Dave Callahan*, *Paul Clark*, *Andy Golding*, *Andy Bolton* and *Frank Stebbing*. After disbanding in 1990, the band reunited in 2005 and has since been actively writing, recording, and performing live. They have released new albums in both 2014 and 2016, showcasing their enduring talent and passion for music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a unique blend of indie pop and noise pop influences, The Wolfhounds have carved out their own distinct sound within the music industry. Their songs captivate listeners with catchy melodies and thought-provoking lyrics that resonate on a deep level. Known for their energetic live performances, they continue to wow audiences with their dynamic stage presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite experiencing changes over the years, The Wolfhounds remain committed to creating innovative music that pushes boundaries. Their dedication to their craft is evident through each release, as they consistently deliver high-quality albums that leave a lasting impact on fans old and new alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"untied-kingdom-or-how-to-come-to-terms-with-your-culture","title":"Untied Kingdom..or How To Come To Terms With Your Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wolfhounds\u003c\/strong\u003e, C86 legends, have returned with their angriest record yet. After the recent limited edition double vinyl release, \u003cem\u003eUntied Kingdom\u003c\/em\u003e, The Wolfhounds' modern underground classic, is now available on CD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis album consolidates a few years of intense activity for the band. This activity has included the release of the singles compilation CD \u003cem\u003eMiddle Aged Freaks\u003c\/em\u003e in 2015, as well as the almost simultaneous reissue of their 1986 debut album, \u003cem\u003eUnseen Ripples From A Pebble\u003c\/em\u003e, on CD and LP. In addition to these releases, the band has been busy with international gigs and festival appearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntied Kingdom\u003c\/em\u003e is The Wolfhounds' first standalone LP since 1990's \u003cem\u003eAttitude\u003c\/em\u003e. Fans of the band can expect a powerful and intense listening experience from this latest release.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Optic Nerve","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471265796427,"sku":"1008834","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4474aec1-431b-4cb7-802d-aecf1cd99a46_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727397734"},{"product_id":"hands-in-the-till-the-complete-john-peel-sessions","title":"Hands In The Till: The Complete John Peel Sessions","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the peak of media attention over the new bands promoted by the C86 cassette, The Wolfhounds recorded three four-song sessions for the BBC’s legendary late-night John Peel Show between March 1986 and January 1987, capturing all the excitement and youthful exuberance of a band just catching the public imagination. With an energy born of sweaty, rammed gigs in the function rooms of London pubs and a willful experimentation nurtured in suburban bedrooms and garages away from watchful eyes, The Wolfhounds blasted their raw live sound straight to tape with little in the way of overdubs or the more considered studio polish of their excellent albums. Every song from these sessions is now gathered together on \u003ci\u003eHands In The Till\u003c\/i\u003e, making a surprisingly coherent whole despite the heady disorganized thrust of the times and a couple of line-up changes in the meantime. More wiry and angular than most of their C86 peers, The Wolfhounds had more in common with The Fall than The Byrds, and \u003ci\u003eHands In The Till\u003c\/i\u003e shows them at their caustic best. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Rough Trade Exclusive. 100 Copies on Yellow Translucent Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Exclusive Print and Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A Turntable Friend","offers":[{"title":"LP.","offer_id":50471525024075,"sku":"1039994","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471524696395,"sku":"1039992","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50471524860235,"sku":"1039993","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f5cc6218-2b4b-4431-94cb-f113020f1d15_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727406248"},{"product_id":"electric-music","title":"Electric Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving now been recording and gigging for longer than their original 1980s incarnation, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Wolfhounds\u003c\/strong\u003e continue to hone the blade of their sound to outclass their whippersnapper competitors on \u003cem\u003eElectric Music\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the desperate narrator of the opening anthem \"\u003cem\u003eCan't See The Light\u003c\/em\u003e\", unable to see an end to his descent into darkness to the sad urban reminiscences of the rural immigrant in \"\u003cem\u003eSong Of The Afghan Shopkeeper\u003c\/em\u003e\" and the unwilling draftee in \"\u003cem\u003ePointless Killing\u003c\/em\u003e\", to the powerlessness of people tossed around on the waves of history and progress in \"\u003cem\u003eLike Driftwood\u003c\/em\u003e\" – \u003cstrong\u003eWolfhounds\u003c\/strong\u003e ask where our emotional and actual lives are heading, as the world seemingly freefalls into barbarism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the dreaded feeling that \"\u003cem\u003eLightning's Going To Strike Again\u003c\/em\u003e\", we lack even the appealing soundtrack to the catastrophe of the past described in \"\u003cem\u003e… and Electric Music\u003c\/em\u003e\", and the band ask will \"\u003cem\u003eThe Roaches\u003c\/em\u003e\" once more rule the world (if they ever stopped)? Is the solution to \"\u003cem\u003eStand Apart\u003c\/em\u003e\" from the chaotic crowd or admit, cynically, that \"\u003cem\u003eWe Don't Believe Anything\u003c\/em\u003e\" and roll with the movements of the masses?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing the glowing sleeve notes of comedian Stewart Lee, and a new expanded line-up including electric violin and bassoon (from Scritti Politti’s Rhodri Marsden), and peppered with the barbed lyrics and stinging guitar of David Lance Callahan and the home-made hybrid stringed instruments of guitarist Andy Golding, \u003cstrong\u003eWolfhounds\u003c\/strong\u003e have never sounded more alive, energetic and contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A Turntable Friend","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | LP","offer_id":50473255436619,"sku":"1095244","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50473256419659,"sku":"1095245","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50473253372235,"sku":"1095241","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3c911e5f-c74d-44ee-acc6-a4e9455778cf_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727427826"},{"product_id":"bright-and-guilty","title":"Bright and Guilty","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeluxe reissue of their 1989 sophomore album. Presented in a gloss laminated gatefold sleeve, which features the original LP plus a bonus disc with all the A and B sides, some compilation tracks and an outtake, plus a 12-page booklet containing previously unpublished lyrics and tons of contemporary reviews and photos. Completely remastered for your listening pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1989, while the musical world was fêting serial-killer worshipping noise bands, white boys with dreadlocks and the first glimmers of techno, one band – \u003cstrong\u003eThe Wolfhounds\u003c\/strong\u003e – was describing the times and the country exactly as they were. Or at least as they saw it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWell, not exactly. The privations of finding enough money to live on, a semi-permanent roof over your head and perhaps the hope of real change were all there in the lyrics along with the multitudinous shards of ideas in the music, both raging and reflective – but there was also a sense of magical realism and authentic personal circumstance imbued in it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFormed as a frantic noisy fusion of sixties garage and independent post-punk in Romford in 1984, by 1986 it was the band’s misfortunate to be corralled with the jangly and quirky bands of the era-defining C86 tape, given away free with the NME that year. The frustration of being lumped with the lumpen was already spilling over into a heightened creativity that would see the band release three LPs in 18 months, the first and perhaps most fully realised of which was \u003cem\u003eBright and Guilty\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe band’s sense of melody saw three singles taken off it, and all received plentiful radio play that resulted in enthusiastic audience responses when the band toured with My Bloody Valentine and the House of Love shortly after the LP came out. This renewed attention also saw them being threatened with legal action by the food company satirically targeted by one of the singles – Happy Shopper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe band’s magpie listening habits also saw the first glimmers of an interest in sampling with the track Cottonmouth, hip hop in the drum rhythms of Invisible People and Son of Nothing, discordant post-hardcore in Non-specific Song and even percussive hints of Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs in Charterhouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album’s lyrical themes have sustained the relevance of these 30-something year-old songs. The dictatorship of the class system over the economy is touched on in Charterhouse, the unfairness of housing policy in Rent Act and Red Tape Red Light, the desperation of not having enough money to even seek employment in Useless Second Cousin. But there is contemplation and mystery, too: Rope Swing’s nostalgia for pre-teen childhood, Invisible People’s detailing of intangible weaknesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOf all their peers, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Wolfhounds\u003c\/strong\u003e post-C86 output stands up straight and proud, and you’ll find echoes of their sound in Fontaines DC, Idles and many others – but not performed with the brashness, vigour and uniqueness of the originals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Optic Nerve","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50476232376651,"sku":"1143775","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e0c0d666-f230-4017-89cc-7449f92b5091_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727456090"},{"product_id":"untied-kingdom-or-how-to-come-to-terms-with-your-culture-1","title":"Untied Kingdom (...Or How To Come To Terms With Your Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter last year's recent singles compilation Middle Aged Freaks and the almost simultaneous reissue of their 1986 debut Unseen Ripples From A Pebble, C86 legends The Wolfhounds release their first standalone LP since 1990's Attitude. Untied Kingdom or How to Come To Terms With Your Culture is the band's most varied release yet. From the opening, a capella, iPhone-manipulated folk resurrection of 'Apparition' to the apocalyptic repetition of the electric violin and detuned guitar driven 'Across The River of Death', and incorporating sample mangled dub, freakbeat protest punk and late-night unplugged lo-fi along its 50-minute plus journey, the album musically and lyrically goes pretty much everywhere all other underground bands can't or won't go. The album summons sometimes dystopic, sometimes frighteningly dysfunctional hallucinations of desperate working life and insecurity, while at the same time being as raw and hardcore celebratory as danceable blues. It's a modern as any young band could hope to be, but as wise and disturbed as any alert adult has to be. It conjours up demons of the fiercest rock'n'roll along with the unfettered experimentation of singer Callahan's previous band, Moonshake, as well as even the occasional pop hook, to form an expansive whole with surprises around every spin of the turntable. It features plenty of distinctive guests including trumpets and saxophones by Terry Edwards (Gallon Drunk, P J Harvey), keyboards by Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti), and guest vocals from Katherine M Whittaker (Evans the Death), Elin Grimstad (Je Suis Animal) and Astrud Steehouder (Paper Dollhouse). Originally formed as teenagers in 1984, the band released four critically acclaimed LPs before initially disbanding in 1990, after appearing on the legendary and influential C86 cassette, and releasing four critically acclaimed LPs and many singles, while touring the UK and Continent extensively. The band reformed properly in 2006 at the request of St Etienne's Bob Stanley to celebrate 20 years since the release of C86, and inflicted a severe guitar noisefest on an unsuspecting indiepop crowd at London's ICA. Since 2012 they have been recording and releasing new material. Despite being past their 30th anniversary, Untied Kingdom now shows they can blow any act half their age offstage, while outclassing them creatively in every way. The Wolfhounds are back and better than ever. Edition of 500.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Odd box","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50494572593483,"sku":"406133","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c2d0d085-31f0-446f-849f-809ec88f09db_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727706724"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_976e86eb_thumbnail_4096_59305db2-eb35-4365-aa80-cf2dd902be2b.jpg?v=1727397716","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/the-wolfhounds.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}