Not only can you put dibs on the latest bunch of fantastic Wrath pop records, but now you can actually bagsy your copies of these fine releases – with no comebacks!
Oh yes, another tantalising trio of turntable tittybiscuits for you from the Wrath camp. Here are the details of the produce, and how you can get your grubby mits on advance copies of these little beauties:
Artist: Sarandon
Title: The Completist’s Library
Format: CD Album - £10.00, EXTREMELY limited edition 12” vinyl album - £12.00
Cat No: WRATHCD40/WRATHLP40
Release date: 21/08/06
We’ve tickled your fancy with the latter two in their ‘conquer the world in tiny chunks’ campaign of 7-track 7” single releases. Now here at last is the CD album compiling all four of their shockingly abrupt mini-albums – 28 tracks of scratchy pop brilliance. Yes, you heard that right – 28 tracks and it’s still just short of the 35mins mark.
From the opening song “pin up” to the closing “anthony & simon”, all 28 songs fling the listener along with all the pace of a hungry cheetah and the attention span of spoilt child in a sweetie shop. They work as a whole regardless of the time between recordings and the change in drummer for the 3rd and 4th records.
Featuring contributions from indie legends Alan Brown of bIG fLAME and Phil Wilson of The June Brides, this collection confirms Sarandon as the natural successors to the scratchy indie pop throne. A timely band, considering it’s the 20th anniversary of the C86 indie pop movement. Make friends with them – you’ll be happy you did.
Artist: Piskie Sits
Title: What Is the Point?
Format: 7” single - £3.50
Cat No: WRATH41
Release date: 21/08/06
Piskie Sits’ racket is fuelled by a love of US slacker noisenik pioneers of the 80’s/90’s (Pavement, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur JR, Sebadoh, Breeders), their Scottish equivalents (JAMC, Teenage Fanclub, Vaselines) and classic English pop artists such as D. Bowie and Blur. Add swaggering northern bravado and a healthy dose of good-time absurdity and you may come close to understanding Piskie Sits’ outlook.
The band as we know it has been in existence since Xmas 2004. In the space of 6 months, the group frantically spewed out 3 demonstration EPs – like the ascent of man, each one showed a vast step up in sophistication. The final EP, named ‘50’s Greaser Uniform’ caught the attention of Leeds outsider pop co-operative Wrath Records, who viewed Piskie Sits barrage of messy beauty as the perfect new blood for their label. Things kicked off in the autumn of 2005 with Piskie Sits’ debut release on Wrath as part of the ‘Super Sevens’ singles club series. The split 7” featured their wonky epic ‘Props’ on one side and a track by close Wakefield friends, The Old House, on the other. Not long after, the Piskies were personally invited to support rising pop stars The Research (also from Wakefield) on their entire tour and then a further invitation by Huw Stephens and the BBC Radio 1 OneMusic team to record a session for their programme, which was broadcast to much acclaim in March 2006.
Much busy beavering has ensued over the last few months in a tiny attic studio in Wakefield, spewing out the results of their creative follies onto an old tape machine. ‘What Is The Point?’ is the band’s first ‘proper’ single taken from these sessions and is an advance troop from their gorgeous debut album ‘The Secret Sickliness’ out on Wrath later this year. Prepare yourselves for the return of the slack.
Artist: The Scaramanga Six
Title: Baggage
Format: 7” single - £3.50
Cat No: WRATH42
Release date: 28/08/06
The Scaramanga Six are the brainchild of headstrong siblings Paul and Steven Morricone. Not in any way like your conventional mindless rock-star filth, The Morricone brothers appear more like a pair of polite and softly-spoken, yet viciously intense and sadistic nightclub bouncers. Raised in the Westcountry seaside resort of Weston-Super-Mare on an education of Stranglers records (by older brothers) and Tony Bennett records (by their Mum), the young Morricone twins discovered there was much fun to be had in crooning and shouting in equal measures.
The Scaramanga Six became a vicious BAND OF PREY. Lurking in the darkened corners of the strange northern metropolis of their adopted manor Leeds, this bunch of musical raptors often swoop unannounced and with deft fury upon the scurrying rodents that attend the various sweaty pub back rooms and swanky vodka bars of the towns and cities. Swallowing the audience whole like a dead chick, they emit pellets of perfectly indigestible POP music. Having compiled these vulgar balls of mushed-up melodrama into several astounding long-players and single releases thus far, The Scaramanga Six continue to spread predation at an alarming rate to wherever their wings will take them. Keep an eye on the sky…
BAGGAGE
EVIL pop group, The Scaramanga Six, return with possibly their most chugging slice of prePOPsterous beat-yourself-over-the-head rock noir yet. The theme of this minute operetta revolves around a man trying to forge ahead with life despite a very shady past – underneath a calm and professional exterior, our protagonist’s noodle has been well and truly cooked. His dark matter is D.A.R.K. Handle with care.
VESUVIUS
The flip of this single details a similar character, but instead of bottling up the rage, this man-mountain will erupt with catastrophic results at the slightest provokation - getting more volatile with age. Get too close and you’ll be turned into toast.
This single is the standard-bearer ahead of the trundling autocade that is The Scaramanga Six’s fourth long-play release – ‘The Kiss Of Death’.
