Tuesday 23rd August 2011
NEW RELEASE: FAIR OHS – PACIFIC RIM: EARLY RECORDINGS

Having released their debut album earlier this, east London-based three-piece Fair Ohs return to their roots by issuing their early recordings on 7” and download for the first time. Pacific Rim: Early Recordings compiles eight songs, with a further two bonus tracks available digitally, providing a document of the band’s early experimentations.

More people have heard about Fair Ohs’ early days as a hardcore band with garage punk tendencies than have actually heard the songs from that era. Six of these tracks were released in a limited run of 50 copies with handmade felt covers on Suplex Cassettes, selling quickly and remaining in the hands and tape players of the few rather than the many. Soon after this debut analogue excursion, Fair Ohs started morphing into the band they are today, with a more esoteric set of influences, yet still retaining the punk energy and positivity that drove their early songs and shows.

Pacific Rim… contains all the tracks from the first one-take-to-tape recording sessions with Rory Attwell at Pacific Rim Studios that were on the debut tape, plus two that were due to be released on a split 7″ that never saw the light of day. Completing the line-up are two songs – “Copain Copine” and “Now I Love You” – that came from the same session as tracks that were to feature on their debut record Everything Is Dancing, showing that transition phase that remains a constant feature of Fair Ohs, rather than just a one off.

Released on September 26th by Tough Love, on whom the band have previously released a long since sold-out split 7”, the record features artwork from Male Bonding’s Robin Silas and Dan Reeves of Cold Pumas.

Download a free MP3 of “I’m A Woman, I’m Your Wife” from Pitchfork here.

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Track Listing
Side A
1. “I’m a Woman, I’m Your Wife”
2. “Copain Copine”
3. “Now I Love You”
4. “Hospitals”
5. “Get Sun”
Side B
6. “Obstacles”/”I’m Following You”
7. “My Spit”
Download-Only Bonus Tracks
8. “Good Throats”
9. “You’ve Got Teeth”

Thursday 4th August 2011
CABARET SCENE – “TO THE RAVE FOREST”

Faster, but slower. Tighter, but looser. You know? Well…

With their almost-collapsing post-hardcore tricks and weirdo humour, Cabaret Scene are out of time and a little out of mind. But it’s just as well, for if there were such a thing as a rave forest, then it’s likely you’d require a little synchronic and psychic maladjustment to entertain the very thought.

With poppers and topless into the freezing trees, some kind of uneasy night starts here.

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Cabaret Scene – “To the Rave Forest”

(Photo: Kat Evans)

Thursday 4th August 2011
FLAMINGODS – “SUN”

Inside, while taunting rivulets run down the un-openable windows, the air suffocates like a sleeping bag.

Sea water sweat drying in the false cool of a rotating fan.

We can’t escape our jobs for the rain of freedom outside.

Inside, we stare at screens in a room too hot for summer, too cold for winter, and wouldn’t dare laugh at the irony.

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Flamingods – “Sun”

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Download a Flamingods album for free from their Bandcamp here.

(Photo: Girl Hula)