To celebrate our 25th anniversary this year we put together a very special compilation album – which coincidentally, was also our 300th release!
Simply titled 'LAUNCH300' this Bandcamp exclusive compilation is finally being released today on all streaming and digital channels.
The album features unreleased tracks by Centrum, Gnod, Goat, J. Zunz, Och, Shit & Shine, Smote and The Utopia Strong. The album's beautiful art is by the infamous French 70's artist Philippe Caza, that has been exclusively licensed for this release.
"LAUNCH300 measures out the widescreen horizons of Rocket Recordings as it embarks on the next quarter century - a label with its feet on the ground and its head mapping out a defiant course for the unknown. Get on board."
All good UK record shops will also have 'Bohemica' vinyl as well as a 'Black Trip' vinyl version. And non UK stores will have a 'Wavy Cap' vinyl edition.
US Goat fans – our friends at Levitation have two unique versions of the album available via the link below – plus as stated above, all good US record stores will have a 'Wavy Cap' vinyl edition for sale.
There is a consistently restrained, warm feel across the whole of 'Medicine', and the band suggest that the overall theme of the album is about “the impermanence of life in different ways: sickness, relationships, love, death and how our time is finite”.
The ‘Medicine’ of the title may refer to a number of salves, or this value of relationships and love: “For our families, friends, society, this could be done through the use of psychedelics, through meditation, through learning from other people, staying curious and never settling for a ‘solid’ identity” says the mysterious Goatboy from the band.
At times the album’s sound has nods to classic Swedish 70s psych/prog/folk acts such as Arbete & Fritid, Charlie & Esdor and Träd, Gräs & Stenar. However, there was nothing conscious about the way the album turned out, as the band “were just trying to move along as freely and open-mindedly as possible”. A new sound that grew out of their recent work on the pagan folk soundtrack to Shane Meadows’ The Gallows Pole.
But whatever your dosage, and regardless of your remedy, it is now time to take your medicine.
See Goat live:
10-12 August / Gothenburg / Way Out West Festival 17-20 August / Brecon / Green Man Festival 13 October / Porto / Hard Club 14 October / Lisbon / Lisboa Ao Vivo
“A deep sense of devotional wonder.” Electronic Sound
“A musical contemplation of the megalithic.” Terrascope
“A lesson in neolithic ritual & otherworldly transcendence.” Louder Than War
“One of the most powerful musical statements this year.” Weirdo Shrine
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Moundabout, the duo featuring Gnod's Paddy Shine and Phil Masterson follow the success of last year's album 'Flowers Rot, Bring Stone' with an incredible new long player called 'An Cnoc Mór' which is out now.
'An Cnoc Mór' is available on ltd edition Mushroom coloured vinyl via the link below or from all good record shops:
'Cnoc Mór na nGaibhlte' (or The Big Hill Of The Galtees) is an imposing sandstone and shale peak in Munster, from which vantage point the horizon retreats to impossible-seeming distances. A place Paddy and Phil chose as base camp for their latest expedition into a new form of psychedelic Irish folk music.
Getting lost in liminal zones, at thresholds, where boundaries merge is key to the Moundabout sound. "Moundabout has always been about getting out in the surroundings" says Phil, "Hiking, swimming, chatting and experimenting with certain substances. 'An Cnoc Mór' was recorded with all those influences… just minus the substances. Sun, snow, hail and wind, there was no choice but just to be out in it & be inspired."
Moundabout, the duo featuring Gnod's Paddy Shine and Phil Masterson follow the success of last year's album 'Flowers Rot, Bring Stone' with an incredible new long player called 'An Cnoc Mór' which is released on 4 August.
Listen to the second track to be revealed from the album 'The Hills Hum Hymns' via the link above.
Phil from Moundabout says this about the song "The Hills Hum Hymns plays out like a long controlled exhale of self into the surrounding landscape to reverberate off the crags and rocks before returning completely stripped of ego, language and self identity and infused with the timeless mystery of the non human world. Listen to the hills."
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'An Cnoc Mór' is available on ltd edition Mushroom coloured vinyl via the link below or from all good record shops:
“...a fabulous return for The Holy Family - long may they reign.” 4/5 Shindig Magazine
“Veering on the dark side of psych folk as a whole, revelling in its own ritual, brazenly sacrificing everything within chanting distance.” 4.5/5 NARC Magazine
“It’s a great dense trip with dramatic voodoo and accelerated velocity.” Monolith Cocktail
Today sees the release of The Holy Family's gargantuan second album - the dark kosmische sounds of 'Go Zero'
For those who are unaware The Holy Family is the brainchild of David Jason Smith (The Stargazers Assistant/Guapo) and he is joined on this album by Kavus Torabi (guitars), Sam Warren (bass) and Emmett Elvin (piano and Rhodes) and Joe Lazarus (Drums). The album was mixed by Finnish studio wizard Antti Uusimaki (Circle/Pharaoh Overlord etc).
'Go Zero' is available to buy on ltd edition yellow vinyl via the link below or on ltd edition green vinyl via your local record shop. Both versions come packaged in a delicious die-cut sleeve. The album is also available on ltd CD.
This is going to be Och's first ever UK show and there are rumours flying about that it 'may' be Flowers Must Die's last ever live show outside of Sweden! So make sure you are there at 6:40 to see FMD kick off the evening's night of musical discovery in one helluva style.
We are thrilled to announce Rocket Recordings faves Teeth Of The Sea return with their first album since 2019's 'Wraith'. The band's new album 'Hive' will be released on 6 October.
Listen to the first track to be revealed from Hive, the behemoth that is Megafragma, a nine-minute avant-epic that could sit comfortably next to Stereolab/Nurse With Wound's ‘Simple Headphone Mind’ and Roxy Music’s ‘The Bogus Man’...no joke, this track is that good!!
Hive is available to preorder now on Ltd edition LP/CD.
You can preorder an exclusive, numbered 'Dinked' edition on Neon Pink vinyl that also includes an A2 poster of exclusive art and sew on patch via the link below:
And finally there is a ltd edition Blue vinyl variant for all shops. All LPs come with colour-coded obi strips...so collect the set!
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Unfettered by genre distinctions or expectations, the only limits of Teeth Of The Sea - the trio comprising Sam Barton, Mike Bourne and Jimmy Martin - are those of its imagination. It therefore follows that inspiration flowed into 'Hive' from all dimensions, with the band’s sphere of influence - the science fiction, trash culture and cinematic atmospherics by which they’ve fuelled their mission thus far - expanding to take in everything from Italo-disco to minimal techno, from dubbed-out studio madness to their most brazen forays thus far into pop songwriting.
'Hive' is an alchemical headspace where monochrome animates into vivid colour. It may not be a carefully ordered insectoid militia set to overthrow society, but it’s a transmission which transcends anything Teeth Of The Sea have thus far offered in their time on Earth.
Step inside 'Hive', if you dare.
See Teeth Of The Sea live:
6 Oct / Brighton / Hope & Ruin 7 Oct / London / Walthamstow Trades Club 13 Oct / Preston / The Ferret 14 Oct / Newcastle / The Lubber Fiend 20 Oct / Manchester / White Hotel 28 Oct / Bristol / Crofters Rights 18 Nov / Ramsgate / Ramsgate Music Hall
GOAT return with ‘The Gallows Pole’, their second soundtrack album, following their score for the 2017 British independent horror film ‘Double Date’.
‘The Gallows Pole’ is a three-part Element Pictures production, written and directed by Shane Meadows that is being aired in the UK on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
This digital album which is released on 7th July includes five brand new tracks from the score and three existing tracks Shane Meadows selected from their back catalogue.
Listen to one of these new tracks from the score 'Jazzman' here:
The themes and imagery of Benjamin Myers’ source novel seem to be the perfect fit for GOAT's mystical, pagan aesthetic. The series, based in rural 18th century Yorkshire, tells a fictionalised tale based on the true story of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners, which became the biggest fraud in British history.
GOAT were already fans of Meadows’ work, in particular the various iterations of ‘This Is England’, and understood the importance of music to him, noting that: “Music is a central part to everything he has done” and describing it as a “blessing” when they were approached about the project.
The score to ‘The Gallows Pole’ will be released digitally and on Bandcamp on 7 July, with a vinyl release to follow in 2024.
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Goat have a handful of shows coming up:
28 July / Geneva / Scene Ella Fitzgerald Festival 10-12 August / Gothenburg / Way Out West Festival 17-20 August / Brecon / Green Man Festival 13 October / Porto / Hard Club 14 October / Lisbon / Lisboa Ao Vivo
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