{"title":"Bella Union","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"mr-ben-the-bens-life-drawing","title":"MR BEN \u0026 THE BENS - Life Drawing","description":"CATALOGUE NO. BELLA1043V \u003cbr\u003eFORMAT - 12\" \u003cbr\u003eRELEASE DATE 10th Jul 2020 \u003cbr\u003eGenres - Indie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrack Listing\u003cbr\u003eA1. On The Beach\u003cbr\u003eA2. How Do You Do?\u003cbr\u003eA3. Danny\u003cbr\u003eA4. Faithful Hound\u003cbr\u003eA5. Astral Plane\u003cbr\u003eA6. Minor Keys\u003cbr\u003eB1. Beast In The House\u003cbr\u003eB2. Walking To An Open Sky\u003cbr\u003eB3. The Wind On Spittlehill\u003cbr\u003eB4. Irish Rain\u003cbr\u003eB5. Closing Time\u003cbr\u003eB6. Watering Can\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35069774725276,"sku":"BELLA1043V","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/CS781264-01A-BIG_3e27cfa5-6689-446a-83b7-4ea679736faa.jpg?v=1594918433"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-american-head-cd","title":"The Flaming Lips - American Head [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eCat: BELLA 1052CD\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 11th September 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Multiple Grammy Award-winning American legends The Flaming Lips announce the release of their 21st studio album, ‘American Head’, via Bella Union.\u003cbr\u003e The album is comprised of thirteen new cinematic tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips. Among them ‘God And The Policeman’, featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kasey Musgraves.\u003cbr\u003e ‘American Head’ takes on a welcome temporal shift that occupies a similar space to that of ‘The Soft Bulletin’ or ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ and just may be their most beautiful and consistent work to date. \u003cbr\u003e ‘American Head’ finds The Flaming Lips basking in more reflective lyrical places as Wayne Coyne explains in a longer form story titled ‘We’re An American Band’. Excerpt below:\u003cbr\u003e “The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma. We never thought of ourselves as an\u003cbr\u003eAMERICAN band. I know growing up (when I was like 6 or 7 years old) in Oklahoma I was never influenced by, or was very aware of any musicians from Oklahoma. We mostly listened to the Beatles and my mother loved Tom Jones (this is in the 60’s)... it wasn’t till I was about 10 or 11 that my older brothers would know a few of the local musician dudes.\u003cbr\u003e “So... for most of our musical life (as The Flaming Lips starting in 1983) we’ve kind of thought of ourselves as coming from ‘Earth’... not really caring WHERE we were actually from. So for the first time in our musical life we began to think of ourselves as ‘AN AMERICAN BAND’… telling ourselves that it would be our identity for our next creative adventure. We had become a 7-piece ensemble and were beginning to feel more and more of a kinship with groups that have a lot of members in them. We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe.\u003cbr\u003e “The music and songs that make up the ‘AMERICAN HEAD’ album are based in a feeling. A feeling that, I think, can only be expressed through music and songs. We were, while creating it, trying to NOT hear it as sounds... but to feel it. Mother’s sacrifice, Father’s intensity, Brother’s insanity, Sister’s rebellion... I can’t quite put it into words.\u003cbr\u003e “Something switches and others (your brothers and sisters and mother and father...your pets) start to become more important to you…in the beginning there is only you... and your desires are all that you can care about...but...something switches.. I think all of these songs are about this little switch.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eWill You Return\/When\u003cbr\u003eYou Come Down\u003cbr\u003eWatching The Lightbugs\u003cbr\u003eGlow\u003cbr\u003eFlowers Of Neptune 6\u003cbr\u003eDinosaurs On The\u003cbr\u003eMountain\u003cbr\u003eAt The Movies On\u003cbr\u003eQuaaludes\u003cbr\u003eMother I've Taken LSD\u003cbr\u003eBrother Eye\u003cbr\u003eYou N Me Sellin' Weed\u003cbr\u003eMother Please Don't Be\u003cbr\u003eSad\u003cbr\u003eWhen We Die When\u003cbr\u003eWe're High\u003cbr\u003eAssassins Of Youth\u003cbr\u003eGod And The Policeman\u003cbr\u003eMy Religion Is You\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35542530588828,"sku":"BELLA 1052CD","price":16.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/TheFlamingLips-AmericanHead.jpg?v=1597500423"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-american-head-lp","title":"The Flaming Lips - American Head [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2LP, coloured vinyl\u003cbr\u003eCat: BELLA1052V\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 11th September 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Multiple Grammy Award-winning American legends The Flaming Lips announce the release of their 21st studio album, ‘American Head’, via Bella Union.\u003cbr\u003e The album is comprised of thirteen new cinematic tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips. Among them ‘God And The Policeman’, featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kasey Musgraves.\u003cbr\u003e ‘American Head’ takes on a welcome temporal shift that occupies a similar space to that of ‘The Soft Bulletin’ or ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ and just may be their most beautiful and consistent work to date. \u003cbr\u003e ‘American Head’ finds The Flaming Lips basking in more reflective lyrical places as Wayne Coyne explains in a longer form story titled ‘We’re An American Band’. Excerpt below:\u003cbr\u003e “The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma. We never thought of ourselves as an\u003cbr\u003eAMERICAN band. I know growing up (when I was like 6 or 7 years old) in Oklahoma I was never influenced by, or was very aware of any musicians from Oklahoma. We mostly listened to the Beatles and my mother loved Tom Jones (this is in the 60’s)... it wasn’t till I was about 10 or 11 that my older brothers would know a few of the local musician dudes.\u003cbr\u003e “So... for most of our musical life (as The Flaming Lips starting in 1983) we’ve kind of thought of ourselves as coming from ‘Earth’... not really caring WHERE we were actually from. So for the first time in our musical life we began to think of ourselves as ‘AN AMERICAN BAND’… telling ourselves that it would be our identity for our next creative adventure. We had become a 7-piece ensemble and were beginning to feel more and more of a kinship with groups that have a lot of members in them. We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe.\u003cbr\u003e “The music and songs that make up the ‘AMERICAN HEAD’ album are based in a feeling. A feeling that, I think, can only be expressed through music and songs. We were, while creating it, trying to NOT hear it as sounds... but to feel it. Mother’s sacrifice, Father’s intensity, Brother’s insanity, Sister’s rebellion... I can’t quite put it into words.\u003cbr\u003e “Something switches and others (your brothers and sisters and mother and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efather...your pets) start to become more important to you…in the beginning\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethere is only you... and your desires are all that you can care about...but...something switches.. I think all of these songs are about this little switch.”\u003cbr\u003e 180g heavyweight tri-colour vinyl double LP in a gatefold sleeve with digital\u003cbr\u003edownload code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eWill You Return\/When\u003cbr\u003eYou Come Down\u003cbr\u003eWatching The Lightbugs\u003cbr\u003eGlow\u003cbr\u003eFlowers Of Neptune 6\u003cbr\u003eDinosaurs On The\u003cbr\u003eMountain\u003cbr\u003eAt The Movies On\u003cbr\u003eQuaaludes\u003cbr\u003eMother I've Taken LSD\u003cbr\u003eBrother Eye\u003cbr\u003eYou N Me Sellin' Weed\u003cbr\u003eMother Please Don't Be\u003cbr\u003eSad\u003cbr\u003eWhen We Die When\u003cbr\u003eWe're High\u003cbr\u003eAssassins Of Youth\u003cbr\u003eGod And The Policeman\u003cbr\u003eMy Religion Is You\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35542572728476,"sku":"BELLA1052V","price":32.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/TheFlamingLips-AmericanHead_2340ee9d-f3f2-43a6-82ea-20bfbb9ca0df.jpg?v=1597500568"},{"product_id":"landshapes-contact-lp","title":"Landshapes - Contact [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP – 180g mint green – with D\/L\u003cbr\u003eCat No: BELLA1079V\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863038632\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 20th November 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e1 Rosemary\u003cbr\u003e2 Siberia\u003cbr\u003e3 Drama\u003cbr\u003e4 The Ring\u003cbr\u003e5 Real Love is Dead\u003cbr\u003e6 I'm Mortal\u003cbr\u003e7 Dizzee\u003cbr\u003e8 Let Me Be\u003cbr\u003e9 Just A Plug\u003cbr\u003e10 Conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLoneliness, isolation, alienation, the need for connection and community. The salient themes of our times resonate with a haunting, predictive and vital power on the third album from London four-piece Landshapes. Released through Bella Union this November, Contact is an album that digs deep into the past, looks ahead to the future and burns with vivid life in the present, where its mind-expanding soundscapes, beguiling melodies and resonating emotions exude a tremendous in-the-moment vibrancy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe title speaks clearly to the album’s themes, as intended. As Luisa Gerstein (vocals, synths) explains, “The working title for a long time was ‘Collapse’, but when we came around to naming it, and having the conversation from our respective isolation, we wanted to give it a name that was more hopeful, and about connectivity. Dan suggested ‘Contact’ and it clicked - Contact with each other; contact with the wider world amidst its unravelling; music feels like a really essential part of that right now.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContact took form after extensive touring for Landshapes’ second album, “Heyoon”, where the band’s shape-shifting hybrids of alt-folk, psychedelia, math-rock and more brimmed with brooding beauty. The desire to sustain the focused fluidity and elemental power of their live energy – honed from Green Man to End of the Road and beyond – compelled them to continue playing and writing together, with strict principles to light the way. As Heloise Tunstall-Behrens (bass, vocals) puts it, “We approached this album with the idea of creating more space, simplifying and allowing things to breathe. We also wanted to keep the songs briefer, with fewer deviations.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA few years later, Contact sustains those principles beautifully. The sulphurous \u003cbr\u003esludge-rock guitars and depth-charged synths of “Rosemary” throb with a rapt intensity: while the lyrics reflect on ancestral DNA and the memory-stimulating powers of the titular herb, the physicality of the sound embodies a sense of the past living in the present, registered deep in the gut. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout, Landshapes equip their elemental intimations and exploratory themes with a palpable immediacy. “Siberia” is a psychedelic folk song of ice and fire, its forceful chants set to deliciously lopsided rhythms; direct and mysterious. Testifying to the band’s road-tested chemistry, loose grooves are executed with a limber precision. “Drama” sets its snapshot of, says Luisa, “the imbalance of emotional labour that can happen between men and women” to an alt-R\u0026amp;B funk drift. With Jemma Freeman (guitar, vocals) and Dan Blackett (drums) swapping instrumental roles, “The Ring” is \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emantric, romantic pop with a troubled heart, its seeming simplicity deceptive. “I suppose it was a love song at first,” says Heloise, “inspired by some friends getting married. For me, it evolved into a feeling of connection with the world and non-human species – a partnership upon which we tend to rely and take for granted but don’t appreciate all the time.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElsewhere, moods and emotions deepen and diversify. “Real Love Is Dead” sets a tale of break-ups and Tinder to a misty synthetic backdrop. The spare, future-thinking “I’m Mortal” grapples with the question of giving birth in today’s world, treated vocals throwing its core human doubts into stark relief. For Luisa, the amniotic bliss-pop of “Dizzee” frames a reflection on “the specific experience of going to a queer people of colour club night for the first time, and feeling so ecstatic that the space existed, feeling at home, whilst simultaneously wrestling the feeling of being an imposter”. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLook for evidence of the band’s live power and you will find them manifested forcefully on “Let Me Be”, an inside-out critique of white male self-entitlement set to a whirligig of organs, chants and fuzzy math-rock guitars. Born from a jam session on tour, the wordless harmonies and guitar-strafed lurches of “Just A Plug” add cathartic jolts of electricity. “It feels like a release and a chance to vent,” says Heloise, “even without lyrics the sentiment is there!” Finally, “Conductor” diverts that energy into a serene reverie on time and the body, its expansive imagery anchored in the immediacy of sensation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the voyages of self-discovery on their 2013 debut, “Rambutan”, and the wide-open reach of “Heyoon”, Contact pays testimony to Landshapes’ questing spirit. Recorded live at Soup Studios when it was in Limehouse, the album’s freshness reflects a strict resistance to, says Luisa, “over-cooking in the studio”. New tools helped flesh out the soundscapes, Jemma notes: “actual synths”, a Boss Dr Rhythm drum machine, and fresh guitar pedals enrich the sonic palette without gratuitous studio interference. Meanwhile, storied sound wizard and producer Kwes became, says Heloise, “sort of a fifth member”, helping to take the songs “to a new realm”. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Jemma says, “We had a strong idea of wanting to keep a raw feel to the work, and that we wanted external ears to play a guiding influence and add a new voice once we had built the foundations. The sense of previous preciousness was something we could dispose of, as we had more confidence in our ability to play and write. I think it made us bold.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLandshapes, then: reach out, make contact. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35704280481948,"sku":"BELLA1079V","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/Landshapes_Contact_Packshot.jpg?v=1598438015"},{"product_id":"landshapes-contact-cd","title":"Landshapes - Contact [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eCat No: BELLA1079CD\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863038618\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 20th November 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e1 Rosemary\u003cbr\u003e2 Siberia\u003cbr\u003e3 Drama\u003cbr\u003e4 The Ring\u003cbr\u003e5 Real Love is Dead\u003cbr\u003e6 I'm Mortal\u003cbr\u003e7 Dizzee\u003cbr\u003e8 Let Me Be\u003cbr\u003e9 Just A Plug\u003cbr\u003e10 Conductor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLoneliness, isolation, alienation, the need for connection and community. The salient themes of our times resonate with a haunting, predictive and vital power on the third album from London four-piece Landshapes. Released through Bella Union this November, Contact is an album that digs deep into the past, looks ahead to the future and burns with vivid life in the present, where its mind-expanding soundscapes, beguiling melodies and resonating emotions exude a tremendous in-the-moment vibrancy.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe title speaks clearly to the album’s themes, as intended. As Luisa Gerstein (vocals, synths) explains, “The working title for a long time was ‘Collapse’, but when we came around to naming it, and having the conversation from our respective isolation, we wanted to give it a name that was more hopeful, and about connectivity. Dan suggested ‘Contact’ and it clicked - Contact with each other; contact with the wider world amidst its unravelling; music feels like a really essential part of that right now.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContact took form after extensive touring for Landshapes’ second album, “Heyoon”, where the band’s shape-shifting hybrids of alt-folk, psychedelia, math-rock and more brimmed with brooding beauty. The desire to sustain the focused fluidity and elemental power of their live energy – honed from Green Man to End of the Road and beyond – compelled them to continue playing and writing together, with strict principles to light the way. As Heloise Tunstall-Behrens (bass, vocals) puts it, “We approached this album with the idea of creating more space, simplifying and allowing things to breathe. We also wanted to keep the songs briefer, with fewer deviations.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA few years later, Contact sustains those principles beautifully. The sulphurous\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003esludge-rock guitars and depth-charged synths of “Rosemary” throb with a rapt intensity: while the lyrics reflect on ancestral DNA and the memory-stimulating powers of the titular herb, the physicality of the sound embodies a sense of the past living in the present, registered deep in the gut.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout, Landshapes equip their elemental intimations and exploratory themes with a palpable immediacy. “Siberia” is a psychedelic folk song of ice and fire, its forceful chants set to deliciously lopsided rhythms; direct and mysterious. Testifying to the band’s road-tested chemistry, loose grooves are executed with a limber precision. “Drama” sets its snapshot of, says Luisa, “the imbalance of emotional labour that can happen between men and women” to an alt-R\u0026amp;B funk drift. With Jemma Freeman (guitar, vocals) and Dan Blackett (drums) swapping instrumental roles, “The Ring” is\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emantric, romantic pop with a troubled heart, its seeming simplicity deceptive. “I suppose it was a love song at first,” says Heloise, “inspired by some friends getting married. For me, it evolved into a feeling of connection with the world and non-human species – a partnership upon which we tend to rely and take for granted but don’t appreciate all the time.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElsewhere, moods and emotions deepen and diversify. “Real Love Is Dead” sets a tale of break-ups and Tinder to a misty synthetic backdrop. The spare, future-thinking “I’m Mortal” grapples with the question of giving birth in today’s world, treated vocals throwing its core human doubts into stark relief. For Luisa, the amniotic bliss-pop of “Dizzee” frames a reflection on “the specific experience of going to a queer people of colour club night for the first time, and feeling so ecstatic that the space existed, feeling at home, whilst simultaneously wrestling the feeling of being an imposter”.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLook for evidence of the band’s live power and you will find them manifested forcefully on “Let Me Be”, an inside-out critique of white male self-entitlement set to a whirligig of organs, chants and fuzzy math-rock guitars. Born from a jam session on tour, the wordless harmonies and guitar-strafed lurches of “Just A Plug” add cathartic jolts of electricity. “It feels like a release and a chance to vent,” says Heloise, “even without lyrics the sentiment is there!” Finally, “Conductor” diverts that energy into a serene reverie on time and the body, its expansive imagery anchored in the immediacy of sensation.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the voyages of self-discovery on their 2013 debut, “Rambutan”, and the wide-open reach of “Heyoon”, Contact pays testimony to Landshapes’ questing spirit. Recorded live at Soup Studios when it was in Limehouse, the album’s freshness reflects a strict resistance to, says Luisa, “over-cooking in the studio”. New tools helped flesh out the soundscapes, Jemma notes: “actual synths”, a Boss Dr Rhythm drum machine, and fresh guitar pedals enrich the sonic palette without gratuitous studio interference. Meanwhile, storied sound wizard and producer Kwes became, says Heloise, “sort of a fifth member”, helping to take the songs “to a new realm”.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Jemma says, “We had a strong idea of wanting to keep a raw feel to the work, and that we wanted external ears to play a guiding influence and add a new voice once we had built the foundations. The sense of previous preciousness was something we could dispose of, as we had more confidence in our ability to play and write. I think it made us bold.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLandshapes, then: reach out, make contact.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35704315445404,"sku":"BELLA1079CD","price":15.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/Landshapes_Contact_Packshot_be718c36-625a-497f-870e-729a8be12674.jpg?v=1598438127"},{"product_id":"soundwalk-collective-patti-smith-feat-anoushka-shankar-tenzin-choegyal-charlotte-gainsbourg-peradam-cd","title":"Soundwalk Collective \u0026 Patti Smith feat Anoushka Shankar \u0026 Tenzin Choegyal \u0026 Charlotte Gainsbourg - Peradam [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eCat: BELLA1064CD\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863034337 \u003cbr\u003eReleased: 4th September 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Experimental\/Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The sounds of bird song, singing bowls and water rippling invite us to ‘Peradam’, the transcendent new album by Soundwalk Collective with Patti\u003cbr\u003eSmith, released via Bella Union.\u003cbr\u003e ‘Peradam’ takes as its entry point René Daumal’s early 1930s novel ‘Mount Analogue: a Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures\u003cbr\u003ein Mountain Climbing’, in which the French writer, critic and poet mapped a metaphysical journey to “the ultimate symbolic mountain” in search of\u003cbr\u003emeaning. In it, Daumal introduced the idea of the ‘peradam’, a rare, crystalline stone - harbouring profound truths - that is only visible to seekers on a true spiritual path.\u003cbr\u003e ‘Peradam’ arrives as “the final stone,” says Soundwalk Collective’s Stephan Crasneanscki, in ‘The Perfect Vision’, a triptych of albums that evoke and explore the sainted spaces of thought and creativity opened by three French writers. After albums devoted to Antonin Artaud (‘The Peyote Dance’) and Arthur Rimbaud (‘Mummer Love’), ‘Peradam’ expands on “the living space,” says Smith, that Daumal left for future seekers to enter and create out of.\u003cbr\u003e Double LP pressed on sky blue vinyl with digital download card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eNanda Devi\u003cbr\u003ePeradam\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge Of The Self\u003cbr\u003eDawn in Rishikesh\u003cbr\u003eSpiritual Death\u003cbr\u003eThe Four Cardinal Times\u003cbr\u003eHymn To The Liquid\u003cbr\u003eVera\u003cbr\u003eThe Rat\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35707437088924,"sku":"BELLA1064CD","price":18.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/SoundwalkCollective_PattiSmithfeat.AnoushkaShankar_TenzinChoegyal_CharlotteGainsbourg-Peradam_CD.jpg?v=1598455989"},{"product_id":"soundwalk-collective-patti-smith-feat-anoushka-shankar-tenzin-choegyal-charlotte-gainsbourg-peradam-lp","title":"Soundwalk Collective \u0026 Patti Smith feat Anoushka Shankar \u0026 Tenzin Choegyal \u0026 Charlotte Gainsbourg - Peradam [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2LP\u003cbr\u003eCat: BELLA1064V\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863034320 \u003cbr\u003eReleased: 4th September 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Experimental\/Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The sounds of bird song, singing bowls and water rippling invite us to ‘Peradam’, the transcendent new album by Soundwalk Collective with Patti\u003cbr\u003eSmith, released via Bella Union.\u003cbr\u003e ‘Peradam’ takes as its entry point René Daumal’s early 1930s novel ‘Mount Analogue: a Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures\u003cbr\u003ein Mountain Climbing’, in which the French writer, critic and poet mapped a metaphysical journey to “the ultimate symbolic mountain” in search of\u003cbr\u003emeaning. In it, Daumal introduced the idea of the ‘peradam’, a rare, crystalline stone - harbouring profound truths - that is only visible to seekers on a true spiritual path.\u003cbr\u003e ‘Peradam’ arrives as “the final stone,” says Soundwalk Collective’s Stephan Crasneanscki, in ‘The Perfect Vision’, a triptych of albums that evoke and explore the sainted spaces of thought and creativity opened by three French writers. After albums devoted to Antonin Artaud (‘The Peyote Dance’) and Arthur Rimbaud (‘Mummer Love’), ‘Peradam’ expands on “the living space,” says Smith, that Daumal left for future seekers to enter and create out of.\u003cbr\u003e Double LP pressed on sky blue vinyl with digital download card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eNanda Devi\u003cbr\u003ePeradam\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge Of The Self\u003cbr\u003eDawn in Rishikesh\u003cbr\u003eSpiritual Death\u003cbr\u003eThe Four Cardinal Times\u003cbr\u003eHymn To The Liquid\u003cbr\u003eVera\u003cbr\u003eThe Rat\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35707440332956,"sku":"BELLA1064V","price":35.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/SoundwalkCollective_PattiSmithfeat.AnoushkaShankar_TenzinChoegyal_CharlotteGainsbourg-Peradam_CD_a28ab69a-0500-4b2e-b03e-da5976294ce7.jpg?v=1598456018"},{"product_id":"pom-poko-cheater-vinyl","title":"Pom Poko - Cheater [Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 140g clear vinyl + PVC printed outer sleeve w\/ DL\u003cbr\u003eCat No: BELLA1110V\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863038335\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 6th November 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If you have a vacancy for Favourite New Band, Pom Poko would like to apply for the role,” tweeted Tim Burgess in April, as Norway’s finest punk-pop anti-conformists revisited their joyous debut album, Birthday, for one of Tim’s mood-lifting Twitter listening parties. Pom Poko pimp their CV on all fronts with their glorious second album, Cheater, due for release via Bella Union in November. Between the quartet’s sweet melodies, galvanic punky ructions and wild-at-art-rock eruptions, Cheater is the sound of a band celebrating the binding extremes that make them so uniquely qualified to thrill: and, like Tim’s listening party, to fulfil any need you might have for a pick-you-up. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs singer Ragnhild Fangel explains of the leap from Birthday to Cheater, “I think it’s very accurate to say that we wanted to embrace our extremes a bit more. In the production process I think we aimed more for some sort of contrast between the meticulously written and arranged songs and a more chaotic execution and recording, but also let ourselves explore the less frantic parts of the Pom Poko universe. I think both in the more extreme and painful way, and in the sweet and lovely way, this album is kind of amplified.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth sonically and thematically, that sense of amplification asserts itself right off the bat with the tearaway title-track. Bursting into life on the back of a blast of fractious guitar noise, a thrashing riff and a sweetly sardonic vocal, “Cheater” laces its serotonin rush with tangy lyrics about dreams and, says Ragnhild, the kind of “cheating kid who doesn’t understand why they didn’t get things exactly like they wanted on their first try”: thematic motifs that reverberate throughout the album. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom here, Pom Poko court their extremes with firecracker confidence. Its lilting melody laced with a critique of gender stereotypes and set to a Breeders-style lurch, “Like A Lady” is sharp and catchy. “Andrew” upholds a facility for simplicity in one of Pom Poko’s loveliest choruses, though a band such as this will never settle for the obvious: Martin Miguel Tonne’s jazzy guitars seem to do everything except what you expect them to. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFurther evidence arrives in the contrast between the thrilling, think-on-its-feet thrash-pop of “My Candidacy” – made in less than three hours – and the mellifluous “Danger Baby”, a tale of irrational fears with Ragnhild’s vocal and Martin’s guitar merged in unexpected union. That love for surprise synchronicities, slanted sounds and unexpected subject matter propels “Andy Go to School”, where a tempo-tweaked guitar line accompanies a lyric extolling the pleasures of water parks and a free-flowing sonic palette. “Towards the end one of the guitar pedals made a huge BZZZ sound in a pause, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebut we thought it was cool and raw so we just rolled with it,” says Ragnhild. “We like to mix the feeling of a surgically produced piece of music with the random sounds that also happen when you are a band playing together.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter its opening, almost Bolan-esque belches of guitar, “Look” extends that spirit of openness to an invitation to look outside of one’s self, before “Body Level” ends the album on a characteristically generous, unguarded – amplified – note of positivity. “Things get better,” sings Fangel, embracing directness with the same readiness as \u003cbr\u003ePom Poko exult in giddy intricacy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sound of four distinct personalities driving in divergent directions towards one destination, the result is an evolved snapshot of the bracingly contrary chemistry forged when Fangel, Tonne, Jonas Krøvel (bass) and Ola Djupvik (drums) united to play punk during a jazz gig at a literature festival in Trondheim (the band-members studied jazz there.) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking their name and spirit from Japanese animation visionaries Studio Ghibli’s marvellously out-there film about raccoon-dog rebels with unfeasibly large testicles, Pom Poko showcased that convulsive individuality to exuberant effect on 2019’s Birthday. Along the way, they drew praise from NME, Interview Magazine, DIY, PopMatters, The Line Of Best Fit, The Independent and BBC Radio 6, where \u003cbr\u003eMiranda Sawyer was moved to note that Birthday’s “Crazy Energy Night” seems to contain about 20 songs in one. Meanwhile, a huge touring schedule included countless sold-out headline shows and a rapturously received UK jaunt with Ezra Furman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in the same run that produced interim releases “Leg Day” (with its playful dance-based video) and “Praise”, and recorded\/produced in cooperation with \u003cbr\u003eMarcus Forsgren (Jaga Jazzist, Broen, Arc Iris), Cheater does its predecessor proud on every front. Bursting with colour and wonky life from its cover art (by close collaborator Erlend Peder Kvam) outwards, it differs from Birthday primarily in that its songs did not have a chance to be road-tested before going into the studio. But you wouldn’t know it. As Ragnhild explains, “That meant we had to practice the songs in a more serious way, but it also meant the songs had more potential to change when we recorded them since we didn’t have such a clear image of what each song should\/could be as the last time.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn other words, consider that vacancy for free-thinking punk-pop adventurism in your life filled. Right, Tim? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35750636617884,"sku":"BELLA1110V","price":23.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/PomPoko-Cheater.jpg?v=1598688016"},{"product_id":"pom-poko-cheater-cd","title":"Pom Poko - Cheater [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eCat No: BELLA1110CD\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863038359\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 6th November 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If you have a vacancy for Favourite New Band, Pom Poko would like to apply for the role,” tweeted Tim Burgess in April, as Norway’s finest punk-pop anti-conformists revisited their joyous debut album, Birthday, for one of Tim’s mood-lifting Twitter listening parties. Pom Poko pimp their CV on all fronts with their glorious second album, Cheater, due for release via Bella Union in November. Between the quartet’s sweet melodies, galvanic punky ructions and wild-at-art-rock eruptions, Cheater is the sound of a band celebrating the binding extremes that make them so uniquely qualified to thrill: and, like Tim’s listening party, to fulfil any need you might have for a pick-you-up. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs singer Ragnhild Fangel explains of the leap from Birthday to Cheater, “I think it’s very accurate to say that we wanted to embrace our extremes a bit more. In the production process I think we aimed more for some sort of contrast between the meticulously written and arranged songs and a more chaotic execution and recording, but also let ourselves explore the less frantic parts of the Pom Poko universe. I think both in the more extreme and painful way, and in the sweet and lovely way, this album is kind of amplified.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth sonically and thematically, that sense of amplification asserts itself right off the bat with the tearaway title-track. Bursting into life on the back of a blast of fractious guitar noise, a thrashing riff and a sweetly sardonic vocal, “Cheater” laces its serotonin rush with tangy lyrics about dreams and, says Ragnhild, the kind of “cheating kid who doesn’t understand why they didn’t get things exactly like they wanted on their first try”: thematic motifs that reverberate throughout the album. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom here, Pom Poko court their extremes with firecracker confidence. Its lilting melody laced with a critique of gender stereotypes and set to a Breeders-style lurch, “Like A Lady” is sharp and catchy. “Andrew” upholds a facility for simplicity in one of Pom Poko’s loveliest choruses, though a band such as this will never settle for the obvious: Martin Miguel Tonne’s jazzy guitars seem to do everything except what you expect them to. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFurther evidence arrives in the contrast between the thrilling, think-on-its-feet thrash-pop of “My Candidacy” – made in less than three hours – and the mellifluous “Danger Baby”, a tale of irrational fears with Ragnhild’s vocal and Martin’s guitar merged in unexpected union. That love for surprise synchronicities, slanted sounds and unexpected subject matter propels “Andy Go to School”, where a tempo-tweaked guitar line accompanies a lyric extolling the pleasures of water parks and a free-flowing sonic palette. “Towards the end one of the guitar pedals made a huge BZZZ sound in a pause, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebut we thought it was cool and raw so we just rolled with it,” says Ragnhild. “We like to mix the feeling of a surgically produced piece of music with the random sounds that also happen when you are a band playing together.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter its opening, almost Bolan-esque belches of guitar, “Look” extends that spirit of openness to an invitation to look outside of one’s self, before “Body Level” ends the album on a characteristically generous, unguarded – amplified – note of positivity. “Things get better,” sings Fangel, embracing directness with the same readiness as \u003cbr\u003ePom Poko exult in giddy intricacy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sound of four distinct personalities driving in divergent directions towards one destination, the result is an evolved snapshot of the bracingly contrary chemistry forged when Fangel, Tonne, Jonas Krøvel (bass) and Ola Djupvik (drums) united to play punk during a jazz gig at a literature festival in Trondheim (the band-members studied jazz there.) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking their name and spirit from Japanese animation visionaries Studio Ghibli’s marvellously out-there film about raccoon-dog rebels with unfeasibly large testicles, Pom Poko showcased that convulsive individuality to exuberant effect on 2019’s Birthday. Along the way, they drew praise from NME, Interview Magazine, DIY, PopMatters, The Line Of Best Fit, The Independent and BBC Radio 6, where \u003cbr\u003eMiranda Sawyer was moved to note that Birthday’s “Crazy Energy Night” seems to contain about 20 songs in one. Meanwhile, a huge touring schedule included countless sold-out headline shows and a rapturously received UK jaunt with Ezra Furman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in the same run that produced interim releases “Leg Day” (with its playful dance-based video) and “Praise”, and recorded\/produced in cooperation with \u003cbr\u003eMarcus Forsgren (Jaga Jazzist, Broen, Arc Iris), Cheater does its predecessor proud on every front. Bursting with colour and wonky life from its cover art (by close collaborator Erlend Peder Kvam) outwards, it differs from Birthday primarily in that its songs did not have a chance to be road-tested before going into the studio. But you wouldn’t know it. As Ragnhild explains, “That meant we had to practice the songs in a more serious way, but it also meant the songs had more potential to change when we recorded them since we didn’t have such a clear image of what each song should\/could be as the last time.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn other words, consider that vacancy for free-thinking punk-pop adventurism in your life filled. Right, Tim? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35750642319516,"sku":"BELLA1110CD","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/PomPoko-Cheater_7fcae334-054d-4f06-aed6-f36a10b388de.jpg?v=1598688059"},{"product_id":"emmy-the-great-april-月音-cd","title":"Emmy the Great - April \/ 月音 [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1080CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 9th October 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Emmy The Great announces her new solo album ‘April \/ 月 音’ via Bella Union.\u003cbr\u003e “My story begins with the moon. In September 2017, I travelled to Hong Kong from New York, where I’d lived for three years, for the Mid-Autumn festival. I was planning to visit my parents and take some time off to write my fourth album. I arrived in time for the full moon - Chang-E’s moon - at a time of year when the heat breaks and the city seems alive with possibility.\u003cbr\u003e “That Spring, I’d visited China and accidentally become somewhat fluent in Cantonese again, though the goal had been to speak Mandarin. I was there for a music residency, and had expected to feel an instant click. Instead, I realised that Hong Kong had an identity quite separate from the Mainland, and with my mother tongue reinstated, I was beginning to come to terms with that identity being a part of mine. This was tough - I was born in Hong Kong but I’ve always felt complicated about it.\u003cbr\u003e “Still, that Mid-Autumn, everything felt simple. Under the guidance of the moon, I walked the city - its neon-lit alleyways, its escalators and mountain paths. For a brief, precious moment, I fell into synch with Hong Kong. I felt\u003cbr\u003eits complex legacy and its tangled future. I felt the sorrow, alive in the buzz of neon and the drips of air-conditioner units, of a city caught between two destinies. It was twenty years since the Handover and the beginning of\u003cbr\u003e‘One Country, Two Systems’. Everywhere I went, I saw people seeking to define their shared identity before it was too late. I hope some of that spirit has found its way into the songs, which were mostly written during that time.”\u003cbr\u003e LP pressed on 180g vinyl with digital download code and lyric poster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eMid-Autumn\/ 月音\u003cbr\u003eWriter\u003cbr\u003eDandelions\/Liminal\u003cbr\u003eChang-E\u003cbr\u003eA Window\/O'Keeffe\u003cbr\u003eOkinawa\/Ubud\u003cbr\u003eYour Hallucinations\u003cbr\u003eMary\u003cbr\u003eHollywood Road\/April\u003cbr\u003eHeart Sutra\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35964503261340,"sku":"BELLA1080CD","price":15.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/EmmytheGreat-April.jpg?v=1599888767"},{"product_id":"emmy-the-great-april-月音-lp","title":"Emmy the Great - April \/ 月音 [LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e BELLA1080V\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 9th October 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Emmy The Great announces her new solo album ‘April \/ 月 音’ via Bella Union.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “My story begins with the moon. In September 2017, I travelled to Hong Kong from New York, where I’d lived for three years, for the Mid-Autumn festival. I was planning to visit my parents and take some time off to write my fourth album. I arrived in time for the full moon - Chang-E’s moon - at a time of year when the heat breaks and the city seems alive with possibility.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “That Spring, I’d visited China and accidentally become somewhat fluent in Cantonese again, though the goal had been to speak Mandarin. I was there for a music residency, and had expected to feel an instant click. Instead, I realised that Hong Kong had an identity quite separate from the Mainland, and with my mother tongue reinstated, I was beginning to come to terms with that identity being a part of mine. This was tough - I was born in Hong Kong but I’ve always felt complicated about it.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Still, that Mid-Autumn, everything felt simple. Under the guidance of the moon, I walked the city - its neon-lit alleyways, its escalators and mountain paths. For a brief, precious moment, I fell into synch with Hong Kong. I felt\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eits complex legacy and its tangled future. I felt the sorrow, alive in the buzz of neon and the drips of air-conditioner units, of a city caught between two destinies. It was twenty years since the Handover and the beginning of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘One Country, Two Systems’. Everywhere I went, I saw people seeking to define their shared identity before it was too late. I hope some of that spirit has found its way into the songs, which were mostly written during that time.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e LP pressed on 180g vinyl with digital download code and lyric poster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMid-Autumn\/ 月音\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWriter\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDandelions\/Liminal\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChang-E\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Window\/O'Keeffe\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOkinawa\/Ubud\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYour Hallucinations\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMary\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHollywood Road\/April\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeart Sutra\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35964506210460,"sku":"BELLA1080V","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/EmmytheGreat-April_522fc603-91d2-4629-bed5-b1b57d488639.jpg?v=1599888821"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-feat-colorado-symphony-andre-d-the-soft-bulletin-live-at-red-rocks-vinyl","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS FEAT. COLORADO SYMPHONY \u0026 ANDRE D - THE SOFT BULLETIN: LIVE AT RED ROCKS [Vinyl]","description":"Format: Vinyl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA882V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863021047\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 10th January 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Rock","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115116851356,"sku":"BELLA882V","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPSFEAT.COLORADOSYMPHONY_ANDREDvinyl.jpg?v=1600709184"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-feat-colorado-symphony-andre-d-the-soft-bulletin-live-at-red-rocks-cd","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS FEAT. COLORADO SYMPHONY \u0026 ANDRE D - THE SOFT BULLETIN: LIVE AT RED ROCKS [CD]","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA882CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863021245\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 9th November 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115117441180,"sku":"BELLA882CD","price":15.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPSFEAT.COLORADOSYMPHONY_ANDREDCD.jpg?v=1600709192"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-kings-mouth-cd","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS - KING'S MOUTH [CD]","description":"Format: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat: BELLA 889CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 19th July 2019\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115234750620,"sku":"BELLA889CD","price":15.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPS-KING_SMOUTHcd.jpg?v=1600709803"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-kings-mouth-vinyl","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS - KING'S MOUTH [Vinyl]","description":"Format: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat: BELLA 889VS\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 19th July 2019\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115236880540,"sku":"BELLA889VS","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPS-KING_SMOUTHvinyl.jpg?v=1600709824"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-onboard-the-international-space-station","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS ONBOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION","description":"Format: limited red vinyl LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat: BELLA 625V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 22th April 2017\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115387941020,"sku":"BELLA 625V","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPS-ONBOARDTHEINTERNATIONALSPACESTATION.jpg?v=1600710247"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-with-a-little-help-from-my-fwends","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS - WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FWENDS","description":"Format: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat: BELLA 457CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 3rd November 2014\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Psych\/Garage Rock","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115483590812,"sku":"BELLA 457CD","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPS-WITHALITTLEHELPFROMMYFWENDS.jpg?v=1600710513"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-7-skies-h3","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS - 7 SKIES H3","description":"Format: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat: BELLA 450CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 23rd June 2014\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Psych\/Garage Rock","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115586941084,"sku":"BELLA450CD","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPS-7SKIESH3.jpg?v=1600710774"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-oczy-mlody-cd","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS - OCZY MLODY [CD]","description":"Format: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat: BELLA 584CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased: 13th January 2017\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Psych\/Garage Rock","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115677413532,"sku":"BELLA584CD","price":15.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPS-OCZYMLODY_CD.jpg?v=1600711194"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-oczy-mlody-vinyl","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS - OCZY MLODY [Vinyl]","description":"Format: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat: BELLA 584V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased: 13th January 2017\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Psych\/Garage Rock","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115680854172,"sku":"BELLA584V","price":21.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPS-OCZYMLODY_Vinyl.jpg?v=1600711209"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-oczy-mlody-coloured-vinyl","title":"THE FLAMING LIPS - OCZY MLODY [Coloured Vinyl]","description":"Format: limited gatefold coloured vinyl 2xLP + 7\" + MP3 download code\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat: BELLA 584VX\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased: 13th January 2017\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Psych\/Garage Rock","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36115688030364,"sku":"BELLA584VX","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/THEFLAMINGLIPS-OCZYMLODY_ColouredVinyl.jpg?v=1600711243"},{"product_id":"laura-veirs-my-echo-cd","title":"Laura Veirs - My Echo [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1059CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863036973 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 23rd October 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Folk\/Americana\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Laura Veirs announces her eleventh solo album, ‘My Echo’, via Bella Union. The album features guest appearances from Jim James, Bill\u003cbr\u003eFrisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward and others.\u003cbr\u003e “‘My Echo’ is my 11th solo album. It’s my ‘my songs knew I was getting divorced before I did’ album. My conscious mind was trying as hard as I could to keep my family together but my subconscious mind was working on the difficult struggles in my marital life. I was part of a ‘Secret Poetry Group’ that met and wrote poems monthly for a year during the writing of this record. Many of my poems turned into songs for this album. By the time the album was being mixed last fall, my ex-husband\/producer Tucker Martine and I had decided to go our separate ways. We were a great musical team for many years but we struggled to be compatible in our marriage and family life and that struggle is reflected in this album.\u003cbr\u003e “In this new batch of songs I imagine escaping from some sort of prison or cage. Advancing age, the confines of domesticity, our oppressive government and the threat of the apocalypse permeate these songs. In these songs my heart craves certainty and permanence but none is to be found. It’s an album about disintegration. It reveals my artist’s intuition at work.\u003cbr\u003e “Although these songs were written before quarantine they are strangely relevant to times in which we find ourselves currently. You will find me staring at the walls (‘Turquoise Walls’). You will find me feeling grateful to be alive (‘Memaloose Island’). You will find me accepting the ephemeral nature of life (‘Vapor Trails’ and ‘All The Things’). You will find me searching for personal freedom while feeling trapped (‘Freedom Feeling’). You will find me trying to accept that sometimes the best thing to do is to sit still and do nothing at all (‘Another Space And Time’).” - Laura Veirs\u003cbr\u003e Produced by Tucker Martine in the summer and fall of 2019 in Portland, OR.\u003cbr\u003e LP pressed on 180g transparent pink vinyl with digital download code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eFreedom Feeling\u003cbr\u003eAnother Space And Time\u003cbr\u003eTurquoise Walls\u003cbr\u003eMemaloose Island\u003cbr\u003eEnd Times\u003cbr\u003eBurn Too Bright\u003cbr\u003eBrick Layer\u003cbr\u003eAll The Things\u003cbr\u003eI Sing To The Tall Man\u003cbr\u003eVapor Trails\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36236322734236,"sku":"BELLA1059CD","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/LauraVeirs-MyEcho.jpg?v=1601284647"},{"product_id":"laura-veirs-my-echo-coloured-vinyl","title":"Laura Veirs - My Echo [Coloured Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e BELLA1059V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eBarcode:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 5400863036959 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eRelease Date: 23rd October 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Folk\/Americana\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Laura Veirs announces her eleventh solo album, ‘My Echo’, via Bella Union. The album features guest appearances from Jim James, Bill\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward and others.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “‘My Echo’ is my 11th solo album. It’s my ‘my songs knew I was\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egetting divorced before I did’ album. My conscious mind was trying as hard as I could to keep my family together but my subconscious mind was working on the difficult struggles in my marital life. I was part of a ‘Secret Poetry Group’ that met and wrote poems monthly for a year during the writing of this record. Many of my poems turned into songs for this album. By the time the album was being mixed last fall, my ex-husband\/producer Tucker Martine and I had decided to go our separate ways. We were a great musical team for many years but we struggled to be compatible in our marriage and family life and that struggle is reflected in this album.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “In this new batch of songs I imagine escaping from some sort of prison or cage. Advancing age, the confines of domesticity, our oppressive government and the threat of the apocalypse permeate these songs. In these songs my heart craves certainty and permanence but none is to be found. It’s an album about disintegration. It reveals my artist’s intuition at work.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Although these songs were written before quarantine they are strangely relevant to times in which we find ourselves currently. You will find me staring at the walls (‘Turquoise Walls’). You will find me feeling grateful to be alive (‘Memaloose Island’). You will find me accepting the ephemeral nature of life (‘Vapor Trails’ and ‘All The Things’). You will find me searching for personal freedom while feeling trapped (‘Freedom Feeling’). You will find me trying to accept that sometimes the best thing to do is to sit still and do nothing at all (‘Another Space And Time’).” - Laura Veirs\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Produced by Tucker Martine in the summer and fall of 2019 in Portland, OR.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e LP pressed on 180g transparent pink vinyl with digital download code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFreedom Feeling\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnother Space And Time\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTurquoise Walls\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMemaloose Island\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnd Times\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBurn Too Bright\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrick Layer\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll The Things\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Sing To The Tall Man\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVapor Trails\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36236336496796,"sku":"BELLA1059V","price":20.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/LauraVeirs-MyEcho_38784297-f423-49a5-a21c-5f60656f8285.jpg?v=1601284690"},{"product_id":"laura-groves-a-private-road","title":"Laura Groves - A Private Road","description":"Format: 12\" EP w\/ DL\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat No: BELLA1114V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863039585\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 4th December 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Pop\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBella Union are thrilled to announce the signing of Laura Groves whose new EP, A Private Road, will be released 4th December via the label and is available to pre-order now. Of the 6-track EP Groves says: “This record, made mostly on my own, became both a channel for the expression of an inner world and an imagined soundtrack to my physical journeys through the city. It is rooted in the stories, atmospheres, mistakes and wrong turns, desires and layers of meaning that run through and play out in the landscapes we inhabit. The songs are snapshots of late night journeys across the river, the sparks of love that transform us and keep us going, the dead ends that the mind can lead us down, the erotic; the visible and invisible places we pass through as they merge and are erased and overwritten. The ability and opportunity to create and connect through music is a gift and I’m so happy to be able to share these new explorations with you.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Infinite Wisdom\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Foolish Game\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Faking It\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Red\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Sunset\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Searching For The Stars","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36338831261852,"sku":"BELLA1114V","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/LauraGroves_APrivateRoad_Packshot.jpg?v=1601902840"},{"product_id":"the-flaming-lips-american-head-black-vinyl","title":"The Flaming Lips - American Head [Black Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 2LP, black vinyl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat: BELLA1052VS\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased: October 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Multiple Grammy Award-winning American legends The Flaming Lips announce the release of their 21st studio album, ‘American Head’, via Bella Union.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The album is comprised of thirteen new cinematic tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips. Among them ‘God And The Policeman’, featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kasey Musgraves.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘American Head’ takes on a welcome temporal shift that occupies a similar space to that of ‘The Soft Bulletin’ or ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ and just may be their most beautiful and consistent work to date. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘American Head’ finds The Flaming Lips basking in more reflective lyrical places as Wayne Coyne explains in a longer form story titled ‘We’re An American Band’. Excerpt below:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma. We never thought of ourselves as an\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAMERICAN band. I know growing up (when I was like 6 or 7 years old) in Oklahoma I was never influenced by, or was very aware of any musicians from Oklahoma. We mostly listened to the Beatles and my mother loved Tom Jones (this is in the 60’s)... it wasn’t till I was about 10 or 11 that my older brothers would know a few of the local musician dudes.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “So... for most of our musical life (as The Flaming Lips starting in 1983) we’ve kind of thought of ourselves as coming from ‘Earth’... not really caring WHERE we were actually from. So for the first time in our musical life we began to think of ourselves as ‘AN AMERICAN BAND’… telling ourselves that it would be our identity for our next creative adventure. We had become a 7-piece ensemble and were beginning to feel more and more of a kinship with groups that have a lot of members in them. We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “The music and songs that make up the ‘AMERICAN HEAD’ album are based in a feeling. A feeling that, I think, can only be expressed through music and songs. We were, while creating it, trying to NOT hear it as sounds... but to feel it. Mother’s sacrifice, Father’s intensity, Brother’s insanity, Sister’s rebellion... I can’t quite put it into words.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Something switches and others (your brothers and sisters and mother and\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efather...your pets) start to become more important to you…in the beginning\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethere is only you... and your desires are all that you can care about...but...something switches.. I think all of these songs are about this little switch.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 180g heavyweight tri-colour vinyl double LP in a gatefold sleeve with digital\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edownload code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWill You Return\/When\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou Come Down\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWatching The Lightbugs\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlow\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlowers Of Neptune 6\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDinosaurs On The\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMountain\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt The Movies On\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQuaaludes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMother I've Taken LSD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrother Eye\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou N Me Sellin' Weed\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMother Please Don't Be\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSad\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen We Die When\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe're High\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAssassins Of Youth\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGod And The Policeman\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Religion Is You\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36628322910364,"sku":"BELLA1052VS","price":25.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/TheFlamingLips-AmericanHead_de364236-7867-4e2e-8abc-45622e9c0c87.jpg?v=1603794345"},{"product_id":"tim-burgess-ascent-of-the-ascended-coloured-vinyl","title":"Tim Burgess - Ascent Of The Ascended [Coloured Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1104V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863038557 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 27th November 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Following rave reviews for his recent solo album, ‘I Love The New Sky’, Tim Burgess announces a new EP \/ mini album, ‘Ascent Of The Ascended’, released via Bella Union. The 6-track EP contains two superb new tracks, ‘Yours. To Be’ and ‘The Ascent Of The Ascended’, recorded soon after the album was finished, as well as four tracks recorded in New York City back\u003cbr\u003ein March as a live session for Paste magazine. Three of the tracks are from ‘I Love The New Sky’ alongside a new version of The Charlatans’ classic ‘The Only One I Know’.\u003cbr\u003e Of the lead track, ‘Yours. To Be’, Burgess says: “At the tail end of the glory of the night before - with all the hope and beauty that the following morning brings. Away from the glare of the party - like the calm after the storm has left town. It’s a feeling that’s so pure and uncluttered. It’s around a while, then real life starts to creep back in. It’s all about making the most of moments as they are happening .”\u003cbr\u003e Burgess goes on to say: “There was an energy that came from recording the album with such a brilliant band - I didn’t want it to end, I wanted to record a bit of a magnum opus, which is where ‘Ascent Of The Ascended’ came in. I’d always wanted to work with Charles Hayward from This Heat, so we have him a ring and he said yeah. With ‘Yours. To Be’ being almost like an\u003cbr\u003einstant feeling you get in a moment, very rarely in your life - the two songs are so different but they somehow complement each other. So an EP was the perfect idea. \u003cbr\u003e “We had so many plans for playing live this year - from South by Southwest to Glastonbury and everything in between. But that wasn’t to be. We played four shows in New York before lockdown happened - so our session for Paste Magazine was such a rare event, we’ve included the songs to complete the EP.”\u003cbr\u003e 180g Neon Orange vinyl, 350gsm sleeve on uncoated \/ reverse board. Digital download included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eThe Ascent Of The Ascended\u003cbr\u003eYours. To Be\u003cbr\u003eLaurie (Paste Session)\u003cbr\u003eThe Mall (Paste Session)\u003cbr\u003eThe Only One I Know (Paste Session)\u003cbr\u003eUndertow (Paste Session)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36704131711132,"sku":"BELLA1104V","price":17.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/TimBurgess-AscentOfTheAscended.jpg?v=1604154725"},{"product_id":"bc-camplight-shortly-after-takeoff","title":"BC Camplight - Shortly After Take off [ocean blue vinyl] (LIMITED RELEASE - ONE PER PERSON)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLIMITED RELEASE - ONE PER PERSON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: ocrab blue vinyl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1019VN\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863040581\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 5th December 2020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Rock, Pop\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36878617510044,"sku":"BELLA1019VN","price":23.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/BCCamplight-ShortlyAfterTakeoff.jpg?v=1605531815"},{"product_id":"lanterns-on-the-lake-the-realist","title":"Lanterns on the Lake - The Realist","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 12\" EP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1144V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863039011 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 18th December 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Following their Mercury Prize nomination, and having recently been featured in The Guardian, Lanterns On The Lake present a new 5-track, ‘The Realist EP’, via Bella Union.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The EP includes four brand new tracks as well as a new reworked stripped-back arrangement of the single ‘Baddies’.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Of the track and EP vocalist Hazel Wilde says: “‘The Realist’ is a song about being a dreamer, clinging to a vision and following your heart - even\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewhen that path can seem deluded to others. It was one of the songs that didn’t make it onto the album ‘Spook The Herd’ as it didn’t fit sonically or\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enarratively. It felt like it came from another place. So we began putting together this EP. We wanted to sculpt an intimate ‘headphones’ record. One for the introverts and dreamers, the ones that still find beauty and magic in things. Recording some of the songs over lockdown in our homes helped in\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecreating that world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eThe Realist\u003cbr\u003eUnderstudy\u003cbr\u003eBaddies (Model City Version)\u003cbr\u003eRomans\u003cbr\u003eModel City\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36937559113884,"sku":"BELLA1144V","price":14.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/LanternsontheLake-TheRealist.jpg?v=1605897987"},{"product_id":"hilang-child-every-mover-coloured-vinyl","title":"Hilang Child Every Mover [Coloured Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e BELLA1113V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eBarcode:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 5400863039936 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eRelease Date: 8th January 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “The greatest thing about being a musician is experiencing it with other people,” says Ed Riman, the Brighton-based Eurasian singer, songwriter and sound-scapist who records as Hilang Child. “Whether that’s playing with others, creating together, sharing a vision, whatever, I just think in all aspects it’s a totally elevated experience when you’re not alone.” Proof rings out with force and feeling on Hilang Child’s superlative second album, ‘Every Mover’, released on Bella Union.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In 2018, Riman delivered a serene, textured debut album in ‘Years’, rich in sound and feeling. Lauren Laverne, Q, MOJO and others lavished praise but the “isolating process” of making the album left Riman hungry to find alternative ways of working. Meanwhile, the “lonely, pressured” aftermath of ‘Years’ found Riman grappling with “rough selfesteem and anxiety issues,” amplified in part by social media’s “fulfilment narratives.” Duly, he set out to navigate and overcome these mindsets, drawing deeply on his own insecurities and those he recognised in others.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e These themes converge emphatically on ‘Every Mover’, an album steeped in everyday emotional states and crafted for cathartic, communal performance. Drawing on a rich spread of collaborators, sounds and themes, Riman uses his frustrations as the impetus to transform the brimming promise of ‘Years’ into upfront and expansive new shapes. “I wanted it to sound a bit gutsier than the first album,” he says, succinctly, “heavier and closer to the kind of stuff that hits me when I go to shows or blast music in the car. I started out in music as a drummer playing for pop or beat-driven artists and grew up listening to louder stuff, but a lot of the music I’ve made as Hilang Child has been more ethereal. I wanted to bring it back to a place that feels more ‘me’ and make more of a thing of having big hypnotic drums, aggressive bass, ripping distorted instruments and a general energy to it.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘Good To Be Young’ serves swift notice of this leap, its banked synths and twinkling sound clusters leading to an assertion of fresh force when the main beat lands and a congregation of friends - AK Patterson, Paul Thomas Saunders, Dog in the Snow, Ellen Murphy, members of Penelope Isles - unite for the gang-vocal refrains. “It’s all iridescent colour I’m on,” Riman exults, a claim lived up to on the full-flush folktronica of ‘Shenley’. A reflection on spiralling insecurity, ‘Seen The Boreal’ ups the ante again with its monkish chorales, looping samples, spectral woodwinds (from multi-instrumentalist John ‘Rittipo’ Moore, of Public Service Broadcasting and Bastille previous) and ecstatic chorus, Riman transforming a meditation on hindsight’s limiting effects into a spur to look forwards. And surge forwards he does with the glittering synths, spacey guitars and Krautrock propulsion of ‘King Quail’, developed in jam sessions with dream-pop wonder Zoe Mead (Wyldest) in her basement studio.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Brought to a sublime close with ‘Steppe’, the resulting album projects its own epiphanic force. Thankfully, most of the main parts were recorded pre-lockdown between East London, Gateshead, Brighton, Wandsworth and elsewhere, before mixing proceeded remotely. Meanwhile, alongside indie-pop trio OUTLYA’s Will Bloomfield (percussion\/coproduction on ‘Play ’Til Evening’), visual design collective Tough Honey (accompanying videos) and other collaborators, Riman’s bond with co-producer JMAC (Troye Sivan, Haux, Lucy Rose) proved crucial. “It felt freeing to work collaboratively and have that push-andpull of ideas,” says Riman. “Even the moments where we didn’t see eye-to-eye made it feel like I wasn’t alone, with someone else working just as passionately on the project.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e LP pressed on red transparent vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting: \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGood To Be Young\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShenley\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeen The Boreal\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKing Quail\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePesawat Aeroplane\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Next Hold\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlay 'Til Evening\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMagical Fingertip\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnthropic (Cold Times)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEarthborne\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSteppe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37008783048860,"sku":"BELLA1113V","price":20.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/HilangChild-EveryMoverredvinyl.jpg?v=1606503946"},{"product_id":"hilang-child-every-mover-cd","title":"Hilang Child - Every Mover [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1113CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863039943 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 8th January 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e “The greatest thing about being a musician is experiencing it with other people,” says Ed Riman, the Brighton-based Eurasian singer, songwriter and sound-scapist who records as Hilang Child. “Whether that’s playing with others, creating together, sharing a vision, whatever, I just think in all aspects it’s a totally elevated experience when you’re not alone.” Proof rings out with force and feeling on Hilang Child’s superlative second album, ‘Every Mover’, released on Bella Union.\u003cbr\u003e In 2018, Riman delivered a serene, textured debut album in ‘Years’, rich in sound and feeling. Lauren Laverne, Q, MOJO and others lavished praise but the “isolating process” of making the album left Riman hungry to find alternative ways of working. Meanwhile, the “lonely, pressured” aftermath of ‘Years’ found Riman grappling with “rough selfesteem and anxiety issues,” amplified in part by social media’s “fulfilment narratives.” Duly, he set out to navigate and overcome these mindsets, drawing deeply on his own insecurities and those he recognised in others.\u003cbr\u003e These themes converge emphatically on ‘Every Mover’, an album steeped in everyday emotional states and crafted for cathartic, communal performance. Drawing on a rich spread of collaborators, sounds and themes, Riman uses his frustrations as the impetus to transform the brimming promise of ‘Years’ into upfront and expansive new shapes. “I wanted it to sound a bit gutsier than the first album,” he says, succinctly, “heavier and closer to the kind of stuff that hits me when I go to shows or blast music in the car. I started out in music as a drummer playing for pop or beat-driven artists and grew up listening to louder stuff, but a lot of the music I’ve made as Hilang Child has been more ethereal. I wanted to bring it back to a place that feels more ‘me’ and make more of a thing of having big hypnotic drums, aggressive bass, ripping distorted instruments and a general energy to it.”\u003cbr\u003e ‘Good To Be Young’ serves swift notice of this leap, its banked synths and twinkling sound clusters leading to an assertion of fresh force when the main beat lands and a congregation of friends - AK Patterson, Paul Thomas Saunders, Dog in the Snow, Ellen Murphy, members of Penelope Isles - unite for the gang-vocal refrains. “It’s all iridescent colour I’m on,” Riman exults, a claim lived up to on the full-flush folktronica of ‘Shenley’. A reflection on spiralling insecurity, ‘Seen The Boreal’ ups the ante again with its monkish chorales, looping samples, spectral woodwinds (from multi-instrumentalist John ‘Rittipo’ Moore, of Public Service Broadcasting and Bastille previous) and ecstatic chorus, Riman transforming a meditation on hindsight’s limiting effects into a spur to look forwards. And surge forwards he does with the glittering synths, spacey guitars and Krautrock propulsion of ‘King Quail’, developed in jam sessions with dream-pop wonder Zoe Mead (Wyldest) in her basement studio.\u003cbr\u003e Brought to a sublime close with ‘Steppe’, the resulting album projects its own epiphanic force. Thankfully, most of the main parts were recorded pre-lockdown between East London, Gateshead, Brighton, Wandsworth and elsewhere, before mixing proceeded remotely. Meanwhile, alongside indie-pop trio OUTLYA’s Will Bloomfield (percussion\/coproduction on ‘Play ’Til Evening’), visual design collective Tough Honey (accompanying videos) and other collaborators, Riman’s bond with co-producer JMAC (Troye Sivan, Haux, Lucy Rose) proved crucial. “It felt freeing to work collaboratively and have that push-andpull of ideas,” says Riman. “Even the moments where we didn’t see eye-to-eye made it feel like I wasn’t alone, with someone else working just as passionately on the project.” \u003cbr\u003e LP pressed on red transparent vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting: \u003cbr\u003eGood To Be Young\u003cbr\u003eShenley\u003cbr\u003eSeen The Boreal\u003cbr\u003eKing Quail\u003cbr\u003ePesawat Aeroplane\u003cbr\u003eThe Next Hold\u003cbr\u003ePlay 'Til Evening\u003cbr\u003eMagical Fingertip\u003cbr\u003eAnthropic (Cold Times)\u003cbr\u003eEarthborne\u003cbr\u003eSteppe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37008787210396,"sku":"BELLA1113CD","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/HilangChild-EveryMover_6f66350f-92a0-4d1d-8d60-c2b42a8eb68e.jpg?v=1606503968"},{"product_id":"i-break-horses-death-engine-12","title":"I Break Horses - Death Engine 12\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 12\"\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1090V\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863040345  \u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 5th February 2021\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Following the release of her album ‘Warnings’ in May 2020 via Bella Union, I Break Horses announces details of a remix 12” featuring The Field and Mythologen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eDeath Engine (The Field Remix)\u003cbr\u003eTurn (Mythologen Remix)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37445808095388,"sku":"BELLA1090V","price":14.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/IBreakHorses-DeathEngine.jpg?v=1610200394"},{"product_id":"lost-horizons-in-quiet-moments-cd","title":"Lost Horizons In Quiet Moments [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1111CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: '5400863038755  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 26th February 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Lost Horizons release their new album ‘In Quiet Moments’ via Bella Union. The album features a stellar array of musical guests including John Grant, C Duncan, Marissa Nadler, Porridge Radio, Penelope Isles, Karen Peris (the innocence mission), Tim Smith (Midlake), Ren Harvieu and many more.\u003cbr\u003e In 2017, Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas had both abstained from making music for 20 years until they united as Lost Horizons and released a stunning debut album, ‘Ojalá’ - the Spanish word for ‘hopefully’ or ‘God willing.’\u003cbr\u003e “These days, we need hope more than ever, for a better world.” Thomas said at the time. “And this album has given me a lot of hope. To reconnect with music.... And the hope for another Lost Horizons record!” Thomas’ hopes had a mixed response.\u003cbr\u003e On the plus side, the new Lost Horizons album ‘In Quiet Moments’ is an even stronger successor to ‘Ojalá’ with another distinguished cast of guest singers and a handful of supporting instrumentalists embellishing the core duo’s gorgeously freeflowing and loose-limbed blueprint that one writer astutely labelled, “melancholydelia.”\u003cbr\u003e On the minus side, any hope for a better world, as Earth continues to freefall toward political and social meltdown. Then, to make matters worse, as Raymonde and Thomas buckled down to create the improvised bedrock that Lost Horizons is built on, the former’s mother died. At least Raymonde had a way to channel his grief. “The way improvisation works,” he says, “it’s just what’s going on with your body at the time, to let it out.”\u003cbr\u003e Raymonde (bass, guitar, keyboards, production) and Thomas (drums, occasional keys and guitar) forged ahead, creating 16 instrumental tracks to send to prospective guests. When he did, Raymonde suggested a guiding theme for their lyrics: “death and rebirth. Of loved ones, of ideals, at an age when many artists that have inspired us are also dead, and the planet isn’t far behind. But I also said, ‘The most important part is to just do your own thing, and have fun.’” \u003cbr\u003e Lost Horizons’ melancholy-delia also feels buoyed aloft by airy currents, informed in part by Raymonde and Thomas’ former respective bands: the legendary Cocteau Twins and Dif Juz. Their former bands were labelmates on 4AD in the mid-80s, which is how they first met.\u003cbr\u003e “I think ‘In Quiet Moments’ is more in the direction of where we’re going,” Thomas concludes. “People have retreated into their lives and, in those quiet moments, reflected on the world, how we fit in and who we and trust. Maybe the next album will be about rebellion! But the road is long and winding. We just need to express ourselves in how we feel at the time.”\u003cbr\u003e Coloured vinyl 2LP (disc one green, disc two blue) in PVC outer sleeve with printed text, 350gsm wide spined sleeve on uncoated\/reverse board, 16pg booklet on standard paper with contributions from all featured artists and digital download code.\u003cbr\u003e Also available on black double vinyl in 350gsm wide spined sleeve on uncoated\/reverse board with digital download code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eHalcyon - Lost Horizons feat. Jack Wolter\u003cbr\u003eI Woke Up With An Open Heart - Lost Horizons feat. The Hempolics\u003cbr\u003eGrey Tower - Lost Horizons feat. Tim Smith\u003cbr\u003eLinger - Lost Horizons feat. Gemma Dunleavy\u003cbr\u003eOne For Regret - Lost Horizons feat. Porridge Radio\u003cbr\u003eEvery Beat That Passed - Lost Horizons feat. Kavi Kwai\u003cbr\u003eNobody Knows My Name - Lost Horizons feat. Cameron Neal\u003cbr\u003eCordelia - Lost Horizons feat. John Grant\u003cbr\u003eIn Quiet Moments - Lost Horizons feat. Ural Thomas\u003cbr\u003eCircle - Lost Horizons feat. C Duncan\u003cbr\u003eUnravelling In Slow Motion - Lost Horizons feat. Ren Harvieu\u003cbr\u003eBlue Soul - Lost Horizons feat. Laura Groves\u003cbr\u003eFlutter - Lost Horizons feat. Rosie Blair\u003cbr\u003eMarie - Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler\u003cbr\u003eHeart Of A Hummingbird - Lost Horizons feat. Lily Wolter\u003cbr\u003eThis Is The Weather - Lost Horizons feat. Karen Peris\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37642859053212,"sku":"BELLA1111CD","price":9.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/LostHorizons-InQuietMoments.jpg?v=1611993957"},{"product_id":"lost-horizons-in-quiet-moments-2lp","title":"Lost Horizons - In Quiet Moments [2LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 2LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1111V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863038748  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 26th February 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Lost Horizons release their new album ‘In Quiet Moments’ via Bella Union. The album features a stellar array of musical guests including John Grant, C Duncan, Marissa Nadler, Porridge Radio, Penelope Isles, Karen Peris (the innocence mission), Tim Smith (Midlake), Ren Harvieu and many more.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In 2017, Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas had both abstained from making music for 20 years until they united as Lost Horizons and released a stunning debut album, ‘Ojalá’ - the Spanish word for ‘hopefully’ or ‘God willing.’\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “These days, we need hope more than ever, for a better world.” Thomas said at the time. “And this album has given me a lot of hope. To reconnect with music.... And the hope for another Lost Horizons record!” Thomas’ hopes had a mixed response.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e On the plus side, the new Lost Horizons album ‘In Quiet Moments’ is an even stronger successor to ‘Ojalá’ with another distinguished cast of guest singers and a handful of supporting instrumentalists embellishing the core duo’s gorgeously freeflowing and loose-limbed blueprint that one writer astutely labelled, “melancholydelia.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e On the minus side, any hope for a better world, as Earth continues to freefall toward political and social meltdown. Then, to make matters worse, as Raymonde and Thomas buckled down to create the improvised bedrock that Lost Horizons is built on, the former’s mother died. At least Raymonde had a way to channel his grief. “The way improvisation works,” he says, “it’s just what’s going on with your body at the time, to let it out.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Raymonde (bass, guitar, keyboards, production) and Thomas (drums, occasional keys and guitar) forged ahead, creating 16 instrumental tracks to send to prospective guests. When he did, Raymonde suggested a guiding theme for their lyrics: “death and rebirth. Of loved ones, of ideals, at an age when many artists that have inspired us are also dead, and the planet isn’t far behind. But I also said, ‘The most important part is to just do your own thing, and have fun.’” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Lost Horizons’ melancholy-delia also feels buoyed aloft by airy currents, informed in part by Raymonde and Thomas’ former respective bands: the legendary Cocteau Twins and Dif Juz. Their former bands were labelmates on 4AD in the mid-80s, which is how they first met.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “I think ‘In Quiet Moments’ is more in the direction of where we’re going,” Thomas concludes. “People have retreated into their lives and, in those quiet moments, reflected on the world, how we fit in and who we and trust. Maybe the next album will be about rebellion! But the road is long and winding. We just need to express ourselves in how we feel at the time.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Coloured vinyl 2LP (disc one green, disc two blue) in PVC outer sleeve with printed text, 350gsm wide spined sleeve on uncoated\/reverse board, 16pg booklet on standard paper with contributions from all featured artists and digital download code.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Also available on black double vinyl in 350gsm wide spined sleeve on uncoated\/reverse board with digital download code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHalcyon - Lost Horizons feat. Jack Wolter\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Woke Up With An Open Heart - Lost Horizons feat. The Hempolics\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrey Tower - Lost Horizons feat. Tim Smith\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinger - Lost Horizons feat. Gemma Dunleavy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne For Regret - Lost Horizons feat. Porridge Radio\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEvery Beat That Passed - Lost Horizons feat. Kavi Kwai\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNobody Knows My Name - Lost Horizons feat. Cameron Neal\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCordelia - Lost Horizons feat. John Grant\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Quiet Moments - Lost Horizons feat. Ural Thomas\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCircle - Lost Horizons feat. C\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDuncan\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnravelling In Slow Motion - Lost Horizons feat. Ren Harvieu\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlue Soul - Lost Horizons feat. Laura Groves\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlutter - Lost Horizons feat. Rosie Blair\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarie - Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeart Of A Hummingbird - Lost Horizons feat. Lily Wolter\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Is The Weather - Lost Horizons feat. Karen Peris\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37642868588700,"sku":"BELLA1111V","price":15.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/LostHorizons-InQuietMoments_43db1e60-4da4-479c-b684-f5eddea74551.jpg?v=1611994013"},{"product_id":"lost-horizons-in-quiet-moments-coloured-vinyl-2lp","title":"Lost Horizons - In Quiet Moments [Coloured Vinyl 2LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 2LP - Coloured Vinyl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1111VX\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863038731  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 26th February 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Lost Horizons release their new album ‘In Quiet Moments’ via Bella Union. The album features a stellar array of musical guests including John Grant, C Duncan, Marissa Nadler, Porridge Radio, Penelope Isles, Karen Peris (the innocence mission), Tim Smith (Midlake), Ren Harvieu and many more.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In 2017, Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas had both abstained from making music for 20 years until they united as Lost Horizons and released a stunning debut album, ‘Ojalá’ - the Spanish word for ‘hopefully’ or ‘God willing.’\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “These days, we need hope more than ever, for a better world.” Thomas said at the time. “And this album has given me a lot of hope. To reconnect with music.... And the hope for another Lost Horizons record!” Thomas’ hopes had a mixed response.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e On the plus side, the new Lost Horizons album ‘In Quiet Moments’ is an even stronger successor to ‘Ojalá’ with another distinguished cast of guest singers and a handful of supporting instrumentalists embellishing the core duo’s gorgeously freeflowing and loose-limbed blueprint that one writer astutely labelled, “melancholydelia.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e On the minus side, any hope for a better world, as Earth continues to freefall toward political and social meltdown. Then, to make matters worse, as Raymonde and Thomas buckled down to create the improvised bedrock that Lost Horizons is built on, the former’s mother died. At least Raymonde had a way to channel his grief. “The way improvisation works,” he says, “it’s just what’s going on with your body at the time, to let it out.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Raymonde (bass, guitar, keyboards, production) and Thomas (drums, occasional keys and guitar) forged ahead, creating 16 instrumental tracks to send to prospective guests. When he did, Raymonde suggested a guiding theme for their lyrics: “death and rebirth. Of loved ones, of ideals, at an age when many artists that have inspired us are also dead, and the planet isn’t far behind. But I also said, ‘The most important part is to just do your own thing, and have fun.’” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Lost Horizons’ melancholy-delia also feels buoyed aloft by airy currents, informed in part by Raymonde and Thomas’ former respective bands: the legendary Cocteau Twins and Dif Juz. Their former bands were labelmates on 4AD in the mid-80s, which is how they first met.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “I think ‘In Quiet Moments’ is more in the direction of where we’re going,” Thomas concludes. “People have retreated into their lives and, in those quiet moments, reflected on the world, how we fit in and who we and trust. Maybe the next album will be about rebellion! But the road is long and winding. We just need to express ourselves in how we feel at the time.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Coloured vinyl 2LP (disc one green, disc two blue) in PVC outer sleeve with printed text, 350gsm wide spined sleeve on uncoated\/reverse board, 16pg booklet on standard paper with contributions from all featured artists and digital download code.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Also available on black double vinyl in 350gsm wide spined sleeve on uncoated\/reverse board with digital download code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHalcyon - Lost Horizons feat. Jack Wolter\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI Woke Up With An Open Heart - Lost Horizons feat. The Hempolics\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrey Tower - Lost Horizons feat. Tim Smith\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLinger - Lost Horizons feat. Gemma Dunleavy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne For Regret - Lost Horizons feat. Porridge Radio\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEvery Beat That Passed - Lost Horizons feat. Kavi Kwai\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNobody Knows My Name - Lost Horizons feat. Cameron Neal\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCordelia - Lost Horizons feat. John Grant\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Quiet Moments - Lost Horizons feat. Ural Thomas\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCircle - Lost Horizons feat. C\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDuncan\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnravelling In Slow Motion - Lost Horizons feat. Ren Harvieu\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlue Soul - Lost Horizons feat. Laura Groves\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlutter - Lost Horizons feat. Rosie Blair\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarie - Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeart Of A Hummingbird - Lost Horizons feat. Lily Wolter\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Is The Weather - Lost Horizons feat. Karen Peris\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37642869604508,"sku":"BELLA1111VX","price":25.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/LostHorizons-InQuietMomentscolour.jpg?v=1611994020"},{"product_id":"a-a-williams-songs-from-isolation-cd","title":"AA Williams - Songs From Isolation [CD]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1143CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863040048  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 19th March 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Following excellent reviews for ‘Forever Blue’, her July-released debut album, A.A. Williams announces ‘Songs From Isolation’, a 9-track album of cover versions, released via Bella Union.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The ‘Songs From Isolation’ project began at the beginning of the UK’s nationwide lockdown in March. A.A. Williams took songs suggested by fans and created a series of videos presenting the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etracks with stripped-down instrumentation, recorded and filmed from her home in North London.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The album represents a continuation of the project into a full collection of recordings and features cover versions of The Cure, Pixies, Deftones, Nick Cave, Gordon Lightfoot, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and more.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e LP is pressed on black \u0026amp; white swirl vinyl and includes a digital download code.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLovesong\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhere Is My Mind?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf You Could Read My Mind\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCreep\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNights In White Satin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBe Quiet And Drive (Far Away)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEvery Day Is Exactly The Same\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInto My Arms\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePorcelina Of The Vast Oceans\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37829754781852,"sku":"BELLA1143CD","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/A.A.Williams-SongsFromIsolation.jpg?v=1613747746"},{"product_id":"a-a-williams-songs-from-isolation-coloured-vinyl","title":"AA Williams - Songs From Isolation [Coloured Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: 5400863040031  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863040031  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 19th March 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Following excellent reviews for ‘Forever Blue’, her July-released debut album, A.A. Williams announces ‘Songs From Isolation’, a 9-track album of cover versions, released via Bella Union.\u003cbr\u003e The ‘Songs From Isolation’ project began at the beginning of the UK’s nationwide lockdown in March. A.A. Williams took songs suggested by fans and created a series of videos presenting the\u003cbr\u003etracks with stripped-down instrumentation, recorded and filmed from her home in North London.\u003cbr\u003e The album represents a continuation of the project into a full collection of recordings and features cover versions of The Cure, Pixies, Deftones, Nick Cave, Gordon Lightfoot, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and more.\u003cbr\u003e LP is pressed on black \u0026amp; white swirl vinyl and includes a digital download code.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eLovesong\u003cbr\u003eWhere Is My Mind?\u003cbr\u003eIf You Could Read My Mind\u003cbr\u003eCreep\u003cbr\u003eNights In White Satin\u003cbr\u003eBe Quiet And Drive (Far Away)\u003cbr\u003eEvery Day Is Exactly The Same\u003cbr\u003eInto My Arms\u003cbr\u003ePorcelina Of The Vast Oceans\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37829756977308,"sku":"‘5400863040031","price":20.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/A.A.Williams-SongsFromIsolation_5bece4c8-b786-4ebd-9b02-b3820fe28f5f.jpg?v=1613747771"},{"product_id":"will-stratton-the-changing-wilderness-cd","title":"Will Stratton - The Changing Wilderness [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eCat No: BELLA1149CD\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863044763\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 7th May 2021\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Bella Union\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie Folk\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTokens\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlack Hole\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInfertile Air\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinally Free\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFate's Ghost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen I've Been Born (I'll Love You)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRiver of Silver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVenus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStillness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBella Union are thrilled to announce the return of Will Stratton whose new album The Changing Wilderness will be released 7th May.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Stratton’s rich catalogue is proof that the Hudson Valley folk musician thrives on exploration and reflection. Chart his trajectory over his previous six albums and you’ll find a songwriter not content to stay comfortable or do the same thing twice. From his 2007 debut What the Night Said, which he released aged 20, to 2014’s Gray Lodge Wisdom, a resilient and gorgeous LP which documented his bout with cancer, as well as 2017’s Rosewood Almanac, a de facto love-letter to song-writing, his guitar, and his favourite records, the subtle but sizable tweaks to his process, arranging, and writing have been revelations. “I’ve always tried to make the process of making music as much of a source of pleasure and exploration as possible,” says Stratton. So it’s no surprise that The Changing Wilderness, his resonant and clear-eyed seventh album, pushes him to expansive new heights again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 10 tracks on the LP came about from an intense four-year period of soul-searching and change for Stratton, where he knew he needed to change the way he wrote songs. “I was just really sick of introspection,” he says. “I had to write music that felt like it was engaging with the outside world, rather than focusing on what was going on in my own life like on my earlier records.” With the 2016 election, Donald Trump’s Presidency, and rising right-wing extremism on his mind, Stratton set out to interrogate his country’s present crises. Like the best protest music, these songs aren’t didactic or preachy. Instead, they ask more questions than claim to have answers with Stratton’s lyrics taking a scalpel-like approach to the very worst of human nature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37864137457820,"sku":"BELLA1149CD","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/WillStratton-TheChangingWilderness_Packshot.jpg?v=1614078009"},{"product_id":"lanterns-on-the-lake-gracious-tide-take-me-home-10th-anniversary-edition","title":"Lanterns On The Lake - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home – 10th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2LP w\/ DL\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat No: BELLA1150V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863046729 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 11th June 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLabel: Bella Union\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing last year’s Mercury nominated Spook The Herd album Lanterns On The Lake have announced news of a deluxe 10th Anniversary vinyl reissue of their acclaimed debut album, Gracious Tide, Take Me Home, out 11th June via Bella Union. The band’s much-loved debut has been meticulously remastered at Abbey Road studios and will be released on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with gold foil print. Additionally, the album comes with five previously unreleased tracks recorded during the original sessions, details of which can be found in the track-list below.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFusing the most fragile and graceful end of the folk music spectrum to the most luminous properties of cinemascope rock, Gracious Tide, Take Me Home used a smorgasbord of instruments (guitars, violin, mandolin, piano, synths, glockenspiels, even a kalimba) to paint a variety of beautiful vistas, from the ambient ‘Ships In The Rain’ to the galloping ‘A Kingdom’, from the six-minute layers of ‘The Places We Call Home’ to the skeletal 73-second finale ‘Not Going Back To The Harbour’. There’s always been a compelling drama to Lanterns On The Lake; the way the opening track ‘Lungs Quicken’ shifts from dreamy restraint to a full-blown crescendo indicated the true power at their fingertips.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLanterns On The Lake formed in 2008 combining a group of friends who had all played in various bands on the local music scene. Hazel Wilde (vocals, guitar), Paul Gregory (guitars, electronics) and Ol Ketteringham (drums, piano) still comprise the core of the band whilst previous members Adam Sykes (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Sykes (bass) departed prior to the second album.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHazel commented at the time that. “A lot of lyrics were inspired by me and Paul moving back to the coast [between Tynemouth and North Shields], where I grew up, after we’d been living near the city centre. They’re also memories of growing up here, the feeling of homesickness, and stories of people around us and of the sea. The title Gracious Tide, Take Me Home seemed to sum up all the themes.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere might be a vein of sadness through this music - ‘Ships In The Rain’ was inspired by a local fisherman who went missing at sea, and ‘A Kingdom’ was inspired by the book letters sent home by WW2 soldiers – but there is just as much hope in ‘Keep on Trying’ and ‘You’re Almost There’, where fear and insecurities are banished by self-belief; “the feeling that you’re going places,” as Hazel says. Mirroring the sentiment of the album title, ‘I Love You, Sleepyhead’ and ‘Places We Call Home’ draw on the comfort and security of home, friendship and memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklisting\u003cbr\u003e1. Lungs Quicken\u003cbr\u003e2. If I've Been Unkind\u003cbr\u003e3. Keep On Trying\u003cbr\u003e4. Ships In The Rain\u003cbr\u003e5. A Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e6. The Places We Call Home\u003cbr\u003e7. Blanket Of Leaves\u003cbr\u003e8. Tricks\u003cbr\u003e9. You're Almost There\u003cbr\u003e10. I Love You, Sleepyhead\u003cbr\u003e11. Not Going Back To The Harbour\u003cbr\u003e12. The Watchhouse And The Daughter\u003cbr\u003e13. Sapsorrow\u003cbr\u003e14. You Need Better\u003cbr\u003e15. My Shield\u003cbr\u003e16. Not Going Back To The Harbour (High Tide Version)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39636569817244,"sku":"BELLA1150V","price":33.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/LanternsOnTheLake_GraciousTide_Packhot.jpg?v=1618325506"},{"product_id":"piroshka-love-drips-gathers-cd","title":"Piroshka - Love Drips \u0026 Gathers [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eCat No: BELLA1219CD\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863046767\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 23rd July 2021\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Bella Union\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBella Union are thrilled to announce the release of Piroshka’s stunning second album, Love Drips And Gathers, out 23rd July. The album builds on the acclaim of the band’s 2018 debut LP “Brickbat” and the reputations of former members of Lush, Moose, Elastica and Modern English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePiroshka emerged in 2018, four individuals with distinct musical identities but also overlapping histories - a combination that might have unsettled, or even overwhelmed, some bands. But in their case, the bond only got stronger. After “Brickbat” explored social and political divisions by way of what MOJO described as “Forceful, driving garage songs and dream-pop epics”, Love Drips And Gathers follows a more introspective line - the ties that bind us, as lovers, parents, children, friends – to a suitably subtler, more ethereal sound, whilst still revelling in energy and drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If Brickbat was our Britpop album, then Love Drips And Gathers is shoegaze!” reckons vocalist\/guitarist Miki Berenyi, formerly of Lush, a band that effortlessly bridged the two genres like no other. “It wasn’t intentional; we just wanted a different focus. I’ve always seen debut albums as capturing a band’s first moments, when you really have momentum, and then the second album is the chance for a more thoughtful approach.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBassist Mick Conroy (Modern English) agrees. “Brickbat was a classic first album; noisy and raucous. On Love Drips And Gathers, we’ve calmed down and explored sounds, and space.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo recap; before Miki and KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop were a couple (and parents), they were pivotal figures on the London-centric 90s indie scene. Likewise, Elastica, whose drummer Justin Welch was part of Lush’s 2017 reunion, whilst Mick had played for both Moose and – on their last ever gig - Lush. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs Lush Mark II came to an end, Justin persuaded Miki (who’d abandoned music when Lush first split in 1997) to start another band, Piroshka, which in turn reignited Moose’s own long-dormant ambitions. Whilst Justin and Miki were the dominant influence on Brickbat, this time Moose and Mick were given greater control over the production, with invaluable assistance from Bella Union’s in-house engineer Iggy. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe way Love Drips And Gathers changes shape and dynamic is less a reprise of nineties Brit indie than a transformation into a more shivery, Euro-mantic version with glistening electronic filigrees. The opening ‘Hastings’ sets the tone. Luminous drops of guitar underpin Miki’s becalmed vocal before drums, bass and a Mellotron add pace while the decorative coda features their old pal Terry Edwards on flugelhorn. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFramed by Mellotron, cello and piano. ‘The Knife-Thrower’s Daughter’ emphatically proves Piroshka can be restrained without losing any essence of drama: the calm before the euphoria pure-pop storm of ‘Scratching At The Lid’. The words ‘ethereal’ and ‘shimmering’ were surely invented for the likes of ‘Loveable’, but the uncanny DNA of ‘V.O.’ is less categorisable – a Bond theme in the making with electro-gliding beats, perhaps? ‘Wanderlust’ and ‘Echoloco’ might be described as Francophile cousins of Lush before the haunting lullaby of ‘Familiar’ segues into the pulsing, rippling instrumental finale ‘We Told You’ - more eighties synth drama than nineties indie, with vocal samples played on what Moose calls, “the Miki-tron.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLove Drips And Gathers - named after a line in a Dylan Thomas poem - was inspired by love, family, belonging, memory. Miki and Moose split the eight lyrics, with some poignant overlaps here too. Miki’s ‘Loveable’ looks to Moose; Moose’s ‘The Knife-Thrower’s Daughter’ looks to Miki, but also their daughter Stella and his sister Anna; an empathic, touching embrace of the women in his life. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStaying within the family, Moose eulogises his late mother (the idyllic childhood seaside trip of ‘Hastings 1973’) and father (the more conflicted ‘Scratching At The Lid’). On ‘V.O.’, Miki pays fond tribute to Vaughan Oliver, 4AD’s legendary in-house art director who died suddenly in December 2019, and who had a particularly close relationship with Lush during their time on the label (like Brickbat, Love Drips And Gathers’ beautiful and enigmatic artwork is by Vaughan’s former design partner Chris Bigg). \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLove Drips And Gathers’ nine tracks will each have its own video (all to be made by Connor Kingsley), with a continuing thread that will eventually create one story. Piroshka’s own story is rooted in family – both those you’re born with, and those (friends) you choose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e1 Hastings 1973\u003cbr\u003e2 The Knife Thrower's Daughter\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3 Scratching at the Lid\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4 Loveable\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 V.O.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6 Wanderlust\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7 Echo Loco\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8 Familiar\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9 We Told You\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39771536687260,"sku":"BELLA1219CD","price":9.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/Piroshka-LoveDrips_GathersPackshot_1a5947f4-9bdd-4bad-8e04-dbe819643cd1.jpg?v=1619458324"},{"product_id":"will-stratton-the-changing-wilderness-light-blue-vinyl-w-dl","title":"Will Stratton - The Changing Wilderness [Light Blue Vinyl w\/ DL]","description":"\u003cp\u003eCat No: BELLA1149V\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 5400863044756\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 29th April 2021\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Bella Union\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie Folk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 Tokens\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2 Black Hole\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3 Infertile Air\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4 The Rain\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 Finally Free\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6 Fate's Ghost\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7 When I've Been Born (I'll Love You)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8 River of Silver\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9 Venus\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10 Stillness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBella Union are thrilled to announce the return of Will Stratton whose new album The Changing Wilderness will be released 7th May.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Stratton’s rich catalogue is proof that the Hudson Valley folk musician thrives on exploration and reflection. Chart his trajectory over his previous six albums and you’ll find a songwriter not content to stay comfortable or do the same thing twice. From his 2007 debut What the Night Said, which he released aged 20, to 2014’s Gray Lodge Wisdom, a resilient and gorgeous LP which documented his bout with cancer, as well as 2017’s Rosewood Almanac, a de facto love-letter to song-writing, his guitar, and his favourite records, the subtle but sizable tweaks to his process, arranging, and writing have been revelations. “I’ve always tried to make the process of making music as much of a source of pleasure and exploration as possible,” says Stratton. So it’s no surprise that The Changing Wilderness, his resonant and clear-eyed seventh album, pushes him to expansive new heights again. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 10 tracks on the LP came about from an intense four-year period of soul-searching and change for Stratton, where he knew he needed to change the way he wrote songs. “I was just really sick of introspection,” he says. “I had to write music that felt like it was engaging with the outside world, rather than focusing on what was going on in my own life like on my earlier records.” With the 2016 election, Donald Trump’s Presidency, and rising right-wing extremism on his mind, Stratton set out to interrogate his country’s present crises. Like the best protest music, these songs aren’t didactic or preachy. Instead, they ask more questions than claim to have answers with Stratton’s lyrics taking a scalpel-like approach to the very worst of human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39803139915932,"sku":"BELLA1149V","price":20.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/WillStratton_VinylMockUp_Front_9d3e5b09-b7c5-4d40-9cf8-2cb5ca9d7496.png?v=1619772612"},{"product_id":"john-grant-boy-from-michigan-2lp","title":"John Grant - Boy from Michigan [2LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 2LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1220V \/ 5400863045340PMI\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863045340\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 25th June 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Produced by long-time friend Cate Le Bon, ‘Boy from Michigan’ is Grant’s most autobiographical and melodic work to date. Grant stopped being a boy in Michigan aged twelve, when his family moved to Denver, Colorado, shifting rust to bible belt, a further vantage point to watch collective dreams unravel. Across 12 tracks, Grant lays out his past for careful cross-examination.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In a decade of making records by himself, he has playfully experimented with mood, texture and sound, all the better for actualizing the seriousness of his thoughts. At one end of his musical rainbow he is the battle-scarred piano-man, at the other a robust electronic auteur. ‘Boy from Michigan’ seamlessly marries both.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e With Le Bon at the helm, Grant pared back his zingers, maximizing the emotional impact of the melodies. A clarinet forms the bedrock of a song. One pre-chorus feels lifted from vintage Human League. There is a saxophone solo.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘Boy from Michigan’ ultimately swings between ambient and  progressive, calm and livid. The album’s narrative journey opens with Grant at his artistic prettiest, three songs drawn from his pre-Denver life (the Michigan Trilogy, as Grant calls them): the title track, ‘The Rusty Bull’ and ‘County Fair’. Each draws the listener in to a specific sense of place, before untangling its significance with a rich cast-list of local characters, often symbolizing the uncultivated faith of childhood.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Elsewhere, tracks like ‘Mike and Julie’ and ‘The Cruise Room’ offer an affecting plunge deep into Grant’s late teenage years in Denver, while the midpoint of the album is highlighted by ‘Best In Me’ and ‘Rhetorical Figure’, a pair of skittish, scholarly dance tunes that build on the lineage of Grant’s electropop heroes, Devo.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Childhood as a horror narrative is the theme of ‘Dandy Star’, which observes a tiny Grant watching the Mia Farrow horror movie ‘See No Evil’ on an old family TV set and finally, on ‘The Only Baby’, Grant removes his razor blade from a pocket to cleanly slit the throat of Trump’s America, authoring a scathing epitaph to an era of acute national exposition.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Though he has lived in Iceland since 2011 - the same year he was also diagnosed HIV-positive - Grant spent his childhood and formative years in the US and maintains US citizenship. Growing up, Grant was subjected to a deeply ingrained hatred of anyone perceived as homosexual at school. Following the demise of his first band The Czars, Grant left music entirely for over five years, only to achieve greater success as a solo artist (his acclaimed 2015 solo LP ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’ went Top Five in the UK). Grant has sold out Royal Albert Hall, performed at Glastonbury, Latitude and more and his song ‘Snug Snacks’ was featured on Pitchfork’s Songs That Define LGBTQ Pride. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e BBC Radio 6 host Mary Anne Hobbs described Grant’s music: “Most songwriting, even if it’s based on a true story ... is embellished in some way. But John's lyrics - they’re so true they might as well be written in blood.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Available to independent retailers housed in a beautiful black velvet box with Glitter Spark Eye and including 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with Glitter Sparkle Eye, inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, 5 unique prints, trading cards, 36-page photo booklet, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Deluxe 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, 2 unique prints, 36-page photo booklet, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card, all housed in a beautiful black velvet O-Card gatefold sleeve with Glitter Spark Eye.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Standard 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with Glitter Sparkle Eye, inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoy from Michigan\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCounty Fair\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rusty Bull\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Cruise Room\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMike and Julie\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBest In Me\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRhetorical Figure\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJust So You Know\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDandy Star\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYour Portfolio\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Only Baby\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBilly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40018606358684,"sku":"BELLA1220V","price":18.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_84650fd0-3db0-4c44-8149-3d69f66c774c.jpg?v=1622211390"},{"product_id":"john-grant-boy-from-michigan-deluxe-sleeve-o-card-edition","title":"John Grant - Boy from Michigan [Deluxe Sleeve O-Card Edition]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Deluxe 2LP \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1220VX \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863045357\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 25th June 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Produced by long-time friend Cate Le Bon, ‘Boy from Michigan’ is Grant’s most autobiographical and melodic work to date. Grant stopped being a boy in Michigan aged twelve, when his family moved to Denver, Colorado, shifting rust to bible belt, a further vantage point to watch collective dreams unravel. Across 12 tracks, Grant lays out his past for careful cross-examination.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In a decade of making records by himself, he has playfully experimented with mood, texture and sound, all the better for actualizing the seriousness of his thoughts. At one end of his musical rainbow he is the battle-scarred piano-man, at the other a robust electronic auteur. ‘Boy from Michigan’ seamlessly marries both.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e With Le Bon at the helm, Grant pared back his zingers, maximizing the emotional impact of the melodies. A clarinet forms the bedrock of a song. One pre-chorus feels lifted from vintage Human League. There is a saxophone solo.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘Boy from Michigan’ ultimately swings between ambient and  progressive, calm and livid. The album’s narrative journey opens with Grant at his artistic prettiest, three songs drawn from his pre-Denver life (the Michigan Trilogy, as Grant calls them): the title track, ‘The Rusty Bull’ and ‘County Fair’. Each draws the listener in to a specific sense of place, before untangling its significance with a rich cast-list of local characters, often symbolizing the uncultivated faith of childhood.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Elsewhere, tracks like ‘Mike and Julie’ and ‘The Cruise Room’ offer an affecting plunge deep into Grant’s late teenage years in Denver, while the midpoint of the album is highlighted by ‘Best In Me’ and ‘Rhetorical Figure’, a pair of skittish, scholarly dance tunes that build on the lineage of Grant’s electropop heroes, Devo.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Childhood as a horror narrative is the theme of ‘Dandy Star’, which observes a tiny Grant watching the Mia Farrow horror movie ‘See No Evil’ on an old family TV set and finally, on ‘The Only Baby’, Grant removes his razor blade from a pocket to cleanly slit the throat of Trump’s America, authoring a scathing epitaph to an era of acute national exposition.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Though he has lived in Iceland since 2011 - the same year he was also diagnosed HIV-positive - Grant spent his childhood and formative years in the US and maintains US citizenship. Growing up, Grant was subjected to a deeply ingrained hatred of anyone perceived as homosexual at school. Following the demise of his first band The Czars, Grant left music entirely for over five years, only to achieve greater success as a solo artist (his acclaimed 2015 solo LP ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’ went Top Five in the UK). Grant has sold out Royal Albert Hall, performed at Glastonbury, Latitude and more and his song ‘Snug Snacks’ was featured on Pitchfork’s Songs That Define LGBTQ Pride. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e BBC Radio 6 host Mary Anne Hobbs described Grant’s music: “Most songwriting, even if it’s based on a true story ... is embellished in some way. But John's lyrics - they’re so true they might as well be written in blood.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Available to independent retailers housed in a beautiful black velvet box with Glitter Spark Eye and including 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with Glitter Sparkle Eye, inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, 5 unique prints, trading cards, 36-page photo booklet, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Deluxe 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, 2 unique prints, 36-page photo booklet, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card, all housed in a beautiful black velvet O-Card gatefold sleeve with Glitter Spark Eye.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Standard 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with Glitter Sparkle Eye, inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoy from Michigan\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCounty Fair\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rusty Bull\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Cruise Room\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMike and Julie\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBest In Me\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRhetorical Figure\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJust So You Know\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDandy Star\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYour Portfolio\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Only Baby\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBilly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40018609537180,"sku":"BELLA1220VX","price":53.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_bad87539-7882-4476-8060-e6aec6cc909a.jpg?v=1622211430"},{"product_id":"john-grant-boy-from-michigan-boxset-edition","title":"John Grant - Boy from Michigan [Boxset Edition]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Box Set 2LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1220VB \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863045364\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 25th June 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Produced by long-time friend Cate Le Bon, ‘Boy from Michigan’ is Grant’s most autobiographical and melodic work to date. Grant stopped being a boy in Michigan aged twelve, when his family moved to Denver, Colorado, shifting rust to bible belt, a further vantage point to watch collective dreams unravel. Across 12 tracks, Grant lays out his past for careful cross-examination.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In a decade of making records by himself, he has playfully experimented with mood, texture and sound, all the better for actualizing the seriousness of his thoughts. At one end of his musical rainbow he is the battle-scarred piano-man, at the other a robust electronic auteur. ‘Boy from Michigan’ seamlessly marries both.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e With Le Bon at the helm, Grant pared back his zingers, maximizing the emotional impact of the melodies. A clarinet forms the bedrock of a song. One pre-chorus feels lifted from vintage Human League. There is a saxophone solo.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘Boy from Michigan’ ultimately swings between ambient and  progressive, calm and livid. The album’s narrative journey opens with Grant at his artistic prettiest, three songs drawn from his pre-Denver life (the Michigan Trilogy, as Grant calls them): the title track, ‘The Rusty Bull’ and ‘County Fair’. Each draws the listener in to a specific sense of place, before untangling its significance with a rich cast-list of local characters, often symbolizing the uncultivated faith of childhood.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Elsewhere, tracks like ‘Mike and Julie’ and ‘The Cruise Room’ offer an affecting plunge deep into Grant’s late teenage years in Denver, while the midpoint of the album is highlighted by ‘Best In Me’ and ‘Rhetorical Figure’, a pair of skittish, scholarly dance tunes that build on the lineage of Grant’s electropop heroes, Devo.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Childhood as a horror narrative is the theme of ‘Dandy Star’, which observes a tiny Grant watching the Mia Farrow horror movie ‘See No Evil’ on an old family TV set and finally, on ‘The Only Baby’, Grant removes his razor blade from a pocket to cleanly slit the throat of Trump’s America, authoring a scathing epitaph to an era of acute national exposition.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Though he has lived in Iceland since 2011 - the same year he was also diagnosed HIV-positive - Grant spent his childhood and formative years in the US and maintains US citizenship. Growing up, Grant was subjected to a deeply ingrained hatred of anyone perceived as homosexual at school. Following the demise of his first band The Czars, Grant left music entirely for over five years, only to achieve greater success as a solo artist (his acclaimed 2015 solo LP ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’ went Top Five in the UK). Grant has sold out Royal Albert Hall, performed at Glastonbury, Latitude and more and his song ‘Snug Snacks’ was featured on Pitchfork’s Songs That Define LGBTQ Pride. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e BBC Radio 6 host Mary Anne Hobbs described Grant’s music: “Most songwriting, even if it’s based on a true story ... is embellished in some way. But John's lyrics - they’re so true they might as well be written in blood.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Available to independent retailers housed in a beautiful black velvet box with Glitter Spark Eye and including 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with Glitter Sparkle Eye, inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, 5 unique prints, trading cards, 36-page photo booklet, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Deluxe 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, 2 unique prints, 36-page photo booklet, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card, all housed in a beautiful black velvet O-Card gatefold sleeve with Glitter Spark Eye.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Standard 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with Glitter Sparkle Eye, inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoy from Michigan\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCounty Fair\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rusty Bull\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Cruise Room\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMike and Julie\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBest In Me\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRhetorical Figure\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJust So You Know\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDandy Star\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYour Portfolio\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Only Baby\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBilly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40018612486300,"sku":"BELLA1220VB","price":108.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_874c0029-ab3c-4a8b-b4df-68ee55c78137.jpg?v=1622211496"},{"product_id":"john-grant-boy-from-michigan-cd","title":"John Grant - Boy from Michigan [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1220CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863045371\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 25th June 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Produced by long-time friend Cate Le Bon, ‘Boy from Michigan’ is Grant’s most autobiographical and melodic work to date. Grant stopped being a boy in Michigan aged twelve, when his family moved to Denver, Colorado, shifting rust to bible belt, a further vantage point to watch collective dreams unravel. Across 12 tracks, Grant lays out his past for careful cross-examination.\u003cbr\u003e In a decade of making records by himself, he has playfully experimented with mood, texture and sound, all the better for actualizing the seriousness of his thoughts. At one end of his musical rainbow he is the battle-scarred piano-man, at the other a robust electronic auteur. ‘Boy from Michigan’ seamlessly marries both.\u003cbr\u003e With Le Bon at the helm, Grant pared back his zingers, maximizing the emotional impact of the melodies. A clarinet forms the bedrock of a song. One pre-chorus feels lifted from vintage Human League. There is a saxophone solo.\u003cbr\u003e ‘Boy from Michigan’ ultimately swings between ambient and  progressive, calm and livid. The album’s narrative journey opens with Grant at his artistic prettiest, three songs drawn from his pre-Denver life (the Michigan Trilogy, as Grant calls them): the title track, ‘The Rusty Bull’ and ‘County Fair’. Each draws the listener in to a specific sense of place, before untangling its significance with a rich cast-list of local characters, often symbolizing the uncultivated faith of childhood.\u003cbr\u003e Elsewhere, tracks like ‘Mike and Julie’ and ‘The Cruise Room’ offer an affecting plunge deep into Grant’s late teenage years in Denver, while the midpoint of the album is highlighted by ‘Best In Me’ and ‘Rhetorical Figure’, a pair of skittish, scholarly dance tunes that build on the lineage of Grant’s electropop heroes, Devo.\u003cbr\u003e Childhood as a horror narrative is the theme of ‘Dandy Star’, which observes a tiny Grant watching the Mia Farrow horror movie ‘See No Evil’ on an old family TV set and finally, on ‘The Only Baby’, Grant removes his razor blade from a pocket to cleanly slit the throat of Trump’s America, authoring a scathing epitaph to an era of acute national exposition.\u003cbr\u003e Though he has lived in Iceland since 2011 - the same year he was also diagnosed HIV-positive - Grant spent his childhood and formative years in the US and maintains US citizenship. Growing up, Grant was subjected to a deeply ingrained hatred of anyone perceived as homosexual at school. Following the demise of his first band The Czars, Grant left music entirely for over five years, only to achieve greater success as a solo artist (his acclaimed 2015 solo LP ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’ went Top Five in the UK). Grant has sold out Royal Albert Hall, performed at Glastonbury, Latitude and more and his song ‘Snug Snacks’ was featured on Pitchfork’s Songs That Define LGBTQ Pride. \u003cbr\u003e BBC Radio 6 host Mary Anne Hobbs described Grant’s music: “Most songwriting, even if it’s based on a true story ... is embellished in some way. But John's lyrics - they’re so true they might as well be written in blood.”\u003cbr\u003e Available to independent retailers housed in a beautiful black velvet box with Glitter Spark Eye and including 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with Glitter Sparkle Eye, inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, 5 unique prints, trading cards, 36-page photo booklet, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card.\u003cbr\u003e Deluxe 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, 2 unique prints, 36-page photo booklet, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card, all housed in a beautiful black velvet O-Card gatefold sleeve with Glitter Spark Eye.\u003cbr\u003e Standard 2LP pressed on 140g black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with Glitter Sparkle Eye, inner sleeves with paintings by Gil Corral, pull out lyric sheet and digital download card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eBoy from Michigan\u003cbr\u003eCounty Fair\u003cbr\u003eThe Rusty Bull\u003cbr\u003eThe Cruise Room\u003cbr\u003eMike and Julie\u003cbr\u003eBest In Me\u003cbr\u003eRhetorical Figure\u003cbr\u003eJust So You Know\u003cbr\u003eDandy Star\u003cbr\u003eYour Portfolio\u003cbr\u003eThe Only Baby\u003cbr\u003eBilly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40018615042204,"sku":"BELLA1220CD","price":16.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_c5e71dfe-16c0-431a-b7dd-1a800c52d6bc.jpg?v=1622211531"},{"product_id":"karen-peris-a-song-is-way-above-the-lawn-cd","title":"Karen Peris - A Song Is Way Above The Lawn [CD]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1246CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863051037\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 08 Oct 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Folk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 Superhero\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2 To the Library\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3 I Would Sing Along\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4 For a Giraffe\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 This is a Song in Wintertime\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6 Map for the Orange Daylight\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7 Sister Birds\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8 George in the Car\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9 A Song is Way Above the Lawn\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFlowers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I like that it’s possible to re-travel some of the wide open expanse of childhood imagination and wonder. The thing is, I don’t really feel that far away from those places even now, and I’m sure that’s a universal thought. The moments I’m telling about in the songs, and the wonder and the curiosity - I still feel so much of it, just as anyone does. I didn’t want to be an adult saying to a child, This is how you feel. It’s more like saying, just as a person talking with another person, Isn’t this how we all feel, and isn’t that a mystery of life, too, that we are all so connected? So, most of the songs are written in the first person.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSinger, instrumentalist, and songwriter Karen Peris is talking about the ten compositions on her new album, A Song Is Way Above the Lawn. Written over a period of seven years, these songs make an especially melodic collection of beautifully rendered moments that will resonate with both children and adults. They offer a joy that is often poignant, thanks in part to Peris’ voice and poetry, and to the emotional, sometimes cinematic nature of the piano, central to the album’s sound. Her other instrumentation, chamber-like, with pump organ, accordion, and melodica, along with occasional nylon string and electric guitars, is spacious, allowing room for the listener’s own imagination. With the help of her husband Don Peris, who plays drum kit and upright bass, and their son and daughter, who contribute violin and viola to three songs, she has made a timeless album that has a rare and particular atmosphere of its own.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJournalists and fellow musicians have long written warmly about the singing and songwriting of Karen Peris with her band The Innocence Mission, which she started in high school with Don Peris. Her lyrics have been called ‘profound’ by Sufjan Stevens, and ‘engaging’ by Natalie Merchant; NPR music critic Lars Gotrich has spoken of the ‘supreme detail’ of her poetry. With A Song Is Way Above the Lawn, she has combined music and words with her own illustration, to make a sort of picture book in record album form. Throughout, there is an enormous tenderness expressed, for children and families, for the natural world, and for the miraculousness of everyday life. “You know how, if we take a tiny moment of a day and really look into it, it can sort of widen out and we can see how much it holds - I like thinking about that,” she explains, “and of how it can even be a moment when we’re waiting for something else to happen, that can end up being the most memorable.” The entirety of “This Is a Song in Wintertime” is devoted to a single moment when the narrator is waiting in line, outside with her family, and it begins to snow. “And all the people in line start remarking about the snow and we realize a connectedness,” Karen relates, “and strangers talk to us and there’s this feeling, like we all arrived there together, in a sense.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Song Is Way Above the Lawn also reflects a love of reading and public libraries, of walking in the companionship of trees, and of the sense of possibility felt in listening to the first sounds of the day. The latter is the subject of the album’s title song. Animals - elephants, giraffes, lions, birds, and dogs - walk in and out of the album, occasionally appearing as imaginary friends in times of solitude. About “I Would Sing Along”, Karen relates, “I heard a biologist talking this year about elephants. And she said that elephants do a kind of singing, almost subsonically, but if she listened very closely she could hear it”. Much of the album celebrates an attentiveness to the world and to the lives around us, from the luminous opening track, “Superhero”, in praise of the kindness and open-heartedness of kids and of all the people she most admires, to the closing lullaby, “Flowers”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40438148104348,"sku":"BELLA1246CD","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/KarenPeris-ASongisWayAbovetheLawn_Packshot_3b408931-9ccb-4f8d-813e-e7486da2c407.jpg?v=1626687951"},{"product_id":"piroshka-love-drips-gathers-lp-clear-vinyl","title":"Piroshka - Love Drips \u0026 Gathers [LP – Clear Vinyl]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP – clear vinyl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCat No: BELLA1219V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863046750\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 20 July 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLabel: Bella Union\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBella Union are thrilled to announce the release of Piroshka’s stunning second album, Love Drips And Gathers, out 23rd July. The album builds on the acclaim of the band’s 2018 debut LP “Brickbat” and the reputations of former members of Lush, Moose, Elastica and Modern English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePiroshka emerged in 2018, four individuals with distinct musical identities but also overlapping histories - a combination that might have unsettled, or even overwhelmed, some bands. But in their case, the bond only got stronger. After “Brickbat” explored social and political divisions by way of what MOJO described as “Forceful, driving garage songs and dream-pop epics”, Love Drips And Gathers follows a more introspective line - the ties that bind us, as lovers, parents, children, friends – to a suitably subtler, more ethereal sound, whilst still revelling in energy and drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If Brickbat was our Britpop album, then Love Drips And Gathers is shoegaze!” reckons vocalist\/guitarist Miki Berenyi, formerly of Lush, a band that effortlessly bridged the two genres like no other. “It wasn’t intentional; we just wanted a different focus. I’ve always seen debut albums as capturing a band’s first moments, when you really have momentum, and then the second album is the chance for a more thoughtful approach.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBassist Mick Conroy (Modern English) agrees. “Brickbat was a classic first album; noisy and raucous. On Love Drips And Gathers, we’ve calmed down and explored sounds, and space.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo recap; before Miki and KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop were a couple (and parents), they were pivotal figures on the London-centric 90s indie scene. Likewise, Elastica, whose drummer Justin Welch was part of Lush’s 2017 reunion, whilst Mick had played for both Moose and – on their last ever gig - Lush.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Lush Mark II came to an end, Justin persuaded Miki (who’d abandoned music when Lush first split in 1997) to start another band, Piroshka, which in turn reignited Moose’s own long-dormant ambitions. Whilst Justin and Miki were the dominant influence on Brickbat, this time Moose and Mick were given greater control over the production, with invaluable assistance from Bella Union’s in-house engineer Iggy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe way Love Drips And Gathers changes shape and dynamic is less a reprise of nineties Brit indie than a transformation into a more shivery, Euro-mantic version with glistening electronic filigrees. The opening ‘Hastings’ sets the tone. Luminous drops of guitar underpin Miki’s becalmed vocal before drums, bass and a Mellotron add pace while the decorative coda features their old pal Terry Edwards on flugelhorn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFramed by Mellotron, cello and piano. ‘The Knife-Thrower’s Daughter’ emphatically proves Piroshka can be restrained without losing any essence of drama: the calm before the euphoria pure-pop storm of ‘Scratching At The Lid’. The words ‘ethereal’ and ‘shimmering’ were surely invented for the likes of ‘Loveable’, but the uncanny DNA of ‘V.O.’ is less categorisable – a Bond theme in the making with electro-gliding beats, perhaps? ‘Wanderlust’ and ‘Echoloco’ might be described as Francophile cousins of Lush before the haunting lullaby of ‘Familiar’ segues into the pulsing, rippling instrumental finale ‘We Told You’ - more eighties synth drama than nineties indie, with vocal samples played on what Moose calls, “the Miki-tron.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove Drips And Gathers - named after a line in a Dylan Thomas poem - was inspired by love, family, belonging, memory. Miki and Moose split the eight lyrics, with some poignant overlaps here too. Miki’s ‘Loveable’ looks to Moose; Moose’s ‘The Knife-Thrower’s Daughter’ looks to Miki, but also their daughter Stella and his sister Anna; an empathic, touching embrace of the women in his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStaying within the family, Moose eulogises his late mother (the idyllic childhood seaside trip of ‘Hastings 1973’) and father (the more conflicted ‘Scratching At The Lid’). On ‘V.O.’, Miki pays fond tribute to Vaughan Oliver, 4AD’s legendary in-house art director who died suddenly in December 2019, and who had a particularly close relationship with Lush during their time on the label (like Brickbat, Love Drips And Gathers’ beautiful and enigmatic artwork is by Vaughan’s former design partner Chris Bigg).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove Drips And Gathers’ nine tracks will each have its own video (all to be made by Connor Kingsley), with a continuing thread that will eventually create one story. Piroshka’s own story is rooted in family – both those you’re born with, and those (friends) you choose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e1 Hastings 1973\u003cbr\u003e2 The Knife Thrower's Daughter\u003cbr\u003e3 Scratching at the Lid\u003cbr\u003e4 Loveable\u003cbr\u003e5 V.O.\u003cbr\u003e6 Wanderlust\u003cbr\u003e7 Echo Loco\u003cbr\u003e8 Familiar\u003cbr\u003e9 We Told You\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40444607692956,"sku":"BELLA1219V","price":22.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/Piroshka-LoveDrips_GathersPackshot_e09eb60b-0619-4ebe-bb6c-e8876520daec.jpg?v=1626765456"},{"product_id":"karen-peris-a-song-is-way-above-the-lawn-green-vinyl-one-per-person","title":"Karen Peris - A Song Is Way Above The Lawn [Green Vinyl] (ONE PER PERSON)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP, Green Vinyl\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1246V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863051020\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 08 Oct 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Folk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e1 Superhero\u003cbr\u003e2 To the Library\u003cbr\u003e3 I Would Sing Along\u003cbr\u003e4 For a Giraffe\u003cbr\u003e5 This is a Song in Wintertime\u003cbr\u003e6 Map for the Orange Daylight\u003cbr\u003e7 Sister Birds\u003cbr\u003e8 George in the Car\u003cbr\u003e9 A Song is Way Above the Lawn\u003cbr\u003e10 Flowers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I like that it’s possible to re-travel some of the wide open expanse of childhood imagination and wonder. The thing is, I don’t really feel that far away from those places even now, and I’m sure that’s a universal thought. The moments I’m telling about in the songs, and the wonder and the curiosity - I still feel so much of it, just as anyone does. I didn’t want to be an adult saying to a child, This is how you feel. It’s more like saying, just as a person talking with another person, Isn’t this how we all feel, and isn’t that a mystery of life, too, that we are all so connected? So, most of the songs are written in the first person.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSinger, instrumentalist, and songwriter Karen Peris is talking about the ten compositions on her new album, A Song Is Way Above the Lawn. Written over a period of seven years, these songs make an especially melodic collection of beautifully rendered moments that will resonate with both children and adults. They offer a joy that is often poignant, thanks in part to Peris’ voice and poetry, and to the emotional, sometimes cinematic nature of the piano, central to the album’s sound. Her other instrumentation, chamber-like, with pump organ, accordion, and melodica, along with occasional nylon string and electric guitars, is spacious, allowing room for the listener’s own imagination. With the help of her husband Don Peris, who plays drum kit and upright bass, and their son and daughter, who contribute violin and viola to three songs, she has made a timeless album that has a rare and particular atmosphere of its own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJournalists and fellow musicians have long written warmly about the singing and songwriting of Karen Peris with her band The Innocence Mission, which she started in high school with Don Peris. Her lyrics have been called ‘profound’ by Sufjan Stevens, and ‘engaging’ by Natalie Merchant; NPR music critic Lars Gotrich has spoken of the ‘supreme detail’ of her poetry. With A Song Is Way Above the Lawn, she has combined music and words with her own illustration, to make a sort of picture book in record album form. Throughout, there is an enormous tenderness expressed, for children and families, for the natural world, and for the miraculousness of everyday life. “You know how, if we take a tiny moment of a day and really look into it, it can sort of widen out and we can see how much it holds - I like thinking about that,” she explains, “and of how it can even be a moment when we’re waiting for something else to happen, that can end up being the most memorable.” The entirety of “This Is a Song in Wintertime” is devoted to a single moment when the narrator is waiting in line, outside with her family, and it begins to snow. “And all the people in line start remarking about the snow and we realize a connectedness,” Karen relates, “and strangers talk to us and there’s this feeling, like we all arrived there together, in a sense.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Song Is Way Above the Lawn also reflects a love of reading and public libraries, of walking in the companionship of trees, and of the sense of possibility felt in listening to the first sounds of the day. The latter is the subject of the album’s title song. Animals - elephants, giraffes, lions, birds, and dogs - walk in and out of the album, occasionally appearing as imaginary friends in times of solitude. About “I Would Sing Along”, Karen relates, “I heard a biologist talking this year about elephants. And she said that elephants do a kind of singing, almost subsonically, but if she listened very closely she could hear it”. Much of the album celebrates an attentiveness to the world and to the lives around us, from the luminous opening track, “Superhero”, in praise of the kindness and open-heartedness of kids and of all the people she most admires, to the closing lullaby, “Flowers”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445067690140,"sku":"BELLA1246V","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/KarenPeris-ASongisWayAbovetheLawn_Packshot_d29c3138-caad-43f5-8ed8-65e3b0600146.jpg?v=1626769789"},{"product_id":"modern-nature-annual-colour-lp-dark-green-limited-release-one-per-person","title":"MODERN NATURE Annual (LRS Independent Albums Of The Year) (green vinyl LP + MP3 download code)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: colour LP (dark green)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1038VN\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863040598\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 29th January 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in: 16 Aug 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40663713546396,"sku":"BELLA1038VN","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/ModernNature-Annual_46045286-cba2-41c3-80c2-c6a67b1f79d2.jpg?v=1629098854"},{"product_id":"a-a-williams-arco-ep-cd","title":"A.A. Williams - Arco EP [CD]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1245CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863055578\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 15 Oct 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Rock\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaking her stage debut in April 2019 and selling out her first headline show at London’s prestigious Southbank Centre less than a year later, A.A. Williams hit the ground running. Similarly, the acclaim for her performances and her music has been unanimous from the start. After one self-titled EP and a collaboration with Japanese post-rockers MONO, the London-based singer-songwriter signed to Bella Union and released her stunning debut album, Forever Blue, in July 2020.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat Southbank show would prove to be the last time she would take to the stage for a long while as the world struggled to cope with unforeseen and extreme challenges. Never a musician to sit still, the classically trained multi-instrumentalist focused her creativity on arranging - firstly, by stripping back to the most delicate bones on her Songs from Isolation covers record, and now with a complete reimagining of her own material as the four songs from her debut EP become arco.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNot many musicians have the ability - or indeed bravery - to rework a collection of their own full band 'rock' songs into a string-and-voice arrangement. A.A. Williams, however, is not like many musicians and the minimalism of Arvo Pärt and Gorecki has long since sat beside Vaughan Williams' folk-inspired classical work as important influences on her music. Indeed, the intention with the EP was for Williams to challenge herself by not retaining guitars and drums, meaning arco had to be truly reimagined with a full string ensemble. As Williams describes it:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The main focus of the arrangements is trying to maintain the authenticity of the original songs that, whilst embodying some of the more familiar elements of the full-band settings, draws focus on the voice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConducting the ensemble of string musicians in the studio, A.A. Williams has evolved her own compositions with new instrumentation and arrangements, encapsulating the singular vision of a unique artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eControl\u003cbr\u003e2\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCold\u003cbr\u003e3\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTerrible Friends\u003cbr\u003e4\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBelong\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40676040900764,"sku":"BELLA1245CD","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/AAW_Arco_CDMock.png?v=1629219576"},{"product_id":"marissa-nadler-the-path-of-the-clouds-cd","title":"Marissa Nadler - The Path Of The Clouds [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BELLA1271CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 5400863060565\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 29 Oct 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Indie\/Alternative\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ‘The Path Of The Clouds’, Marissa Nadler’s ninth solo album, is the most stylistically adventurous, lyrically transfixing, and melodically sophisticated collection of songs in her already rich discography. Gripped by wanderlust while suddenly housebound at the start of the pandemic in 2020, Nadler escaped into writing and came back with a stunning set of songs about metamorphosis, love, mysticism and murder. Blurring the line between reality and fantasy and moving freely between past and present, these 11 deeply personal, self-produced songs find Nadler exploring new landscapes, both sonic and emotional.\u003cbr\u003e While she’s always been a brilliant guitarist, Nadler challenged herself to expand her palette for ‘The Path Of The Clouds’, experimenting with synthetic textures that make the album feel untethered from time and space. A majestic grandeur sweeps through songs such as ‘Elegy’, shooting the listener into the stratosphere as synths swirl and entwine with Nadler’s celestial mezzo-soprano. Nadler also learned to play piano during the pandemic’s isolation and she composed many of the songs on the album on keys rather than guitar, which further contributed to their exploratory feel. These songs are unmistakably Marissa Nadler’s, but they sound free to go places she’s never gone before.\u003cbr\u003e Nadler tracked the skeletons of the songs at home and then sent them to some choice collaborators, including experimental harpist Mary Lattimore and Simon Raymonde, the Cocteau Twins bassist and her Lost Horizons collaborator. Multiinstrumentalist Milky Burgess, having recently worked on the soundtrack to the film ‘Mandy’, adds intricate melodic power throughout the album. Jesse Chandler, Nadler’s piano teacher (as well as a member of Mercury Rev and Midlake), plays winding woodwinds and plaintive piano to luminous effect. Fellow singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle contributes a slinky guitar solo on ‘Turned Into Air’, while Black Mountain’s Amber Webber steps in as a vocal foil to Nadler, a ghostly apparition in the distance of ‘Elegy’.\u003cbr\u003e Seth Manchester, known for his work with Lingua Ignota, Battles and Lightning Bolt, mixed the album at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Manchester added dimension to the songs’ atmospheric beauty with screeching feedback and distorted guitars. Stripped of the ethereal reverb that often swaddles her resonant vocals, Nadler’s delivery now stings and pierces with newfound immediacy and confidence.\u003cbr\u003e As a songwriter, Nadler is as direct and urgent as she has ever been. There’s no coded language amid the bleak lows and exalted highs of songs like ‘Elegy’, ‘Lemon Queen’ and ‘Storm’. Memories are painted with highly detailed imagery and Nadler,\u003cbr\u003ealso a visual artist, uses that eye not only to tell a story but to transport the listener there.\u003cbr\u003e ‘The Path Of The Clouds’ showcases the power of an artist at the peak of her powers nearly 20 years into an acclaimed career as a songwriter and singer. Coming a long way from the spare dream folk of her earlier work, she has remained inspired and continues to evolve, open to new ideas and directions.\u003cbr\u003e LP pressed on 180g opaque white vinyl with digital download code.\u003cbr\u003e Available to independent retailers on 180g silver and white vinyl with 12”x12” print and digital download code.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting\u003cbr\u003eBessie Did You Make It\u003cbr\u003eThe Path Of The Clouds\u003cbr\u003eCouldn’t Have Done the Killing\u003cbr\u003eIf I Could Breathe\u003cbr\u003eUnderwater\u003cbr\u003eElegy\u003cbr\u003eWell Sometimes You Just Can’t Stay\u003cbr\u003eFrom Vaport to Stardust\u003cbr\u003eStorm\u003cbr\u003eTurned Into Air\u003cbr\u003eAnd I Dream of Running\u003cbr\u003eLemon Queen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41047053435036,"sku":"BELLA1271CD","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_3a597d14-293f-4673-8174-3add9076be32.jpg?v=1633677694"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/collections\/bella-union.oembed?page=4","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}