***Long-running UK DIY band surface from their regular output of obscure self-released cassettes and backroom performances in their local neighbourhood bars, with this, their third ‘proper’ longplaying record, the culmination of a ‘rock’n’roll trilogy’ that perhaps only exists in their own typewritten manifestos. Augmenting the usual duo of Private Sorrow and Baron Saturday are new additions: State Education on bass, clarinet and pedal steel; and Autodrome on drums. Together they navigate Studio One rhythms, obvious rockabilly riffs repeated metronomically to the point of oblivion, 60s psych covers, chopped up tapes of previous bands, improvised chaos, and even tender ballads. A raw quartet screaming and begging to be let out of the walls of their self-imposed r’n’r prison.“For the third and final LP of the ‘Rock & Roll Trilogy’, Midnight Mines have heralded a Spitfire parade across the skies above their street level hacienda, the shimmering roar reverberating a gleeful din, sending tremors of bewildering euphoria into the enthusiastic gaggle of lugholes below. The winsome cover of Red Krayola’s ‘Victory Garden’ alone sounds like Spacemen 3 trapped inside a Fun House mirror. Midnight Mines deliver their most fantastic blurt yet.”—Tom Lax, Siltbreeze
LP $24.35
11/21/2025
***Avant-garage clang and clatter from a UK/Italian duo operating at the margins of the DIY guitar underground. Heavy tape manipulation and random noises rub up against primitive song structures and repetitive melodies. Features members of Black Time (In The Red) and Virvon Varvon (Girlsville Records). Pressed in an edition of 300 copies, housed in a reverse board sleeve with two inserts: 12 page digest-sized zine and 8x10 hand-numbered print. "Dark mod thump, fuzz wallop and heavy kraut rumble, with the makeup of the surrounding material recalling other UK brainiacs like THE REBEL and the most industrial aspects of THE FALL. Highly recommended."—Mitch Cardwell, Maximum Rock & Roll
LP $23.75
02/09/2024