Mandrake Handshake - Earth Sized WorldsThe concept tying together every last note and lyric of Earth Sized Worlds the debut album from the London Oxford self dubbed Flowerkraut collective Mandrake Handshake is an awfully simple one: Welcome to Space Beach. A mantra to unite under one aesthetic roof the various creative compulsions of this complex, multi limbed organism varying at any one time between 7 to 10 members its an album that conspires the alienating vastness of the cosmos against

Berry & white marble vinyl *

in my opinion

“This quartet from Albuquerque

75" x 33" folded newsprint poster“Live in Leeds” CD *Numbered editionLimited pressing of 500*exclusive to Dinked Edition

The Soul of a Nation album comes with extensive sleeve-notes and exclusive photography in a large 36-page outsize booklet and slipcase

Almost everything the musicians played was a spontaneous response to the song I was singing

he demonstrates a versatility unusual for the band's punk roots -- deftly maneuvering between chunky

on the inside-out rocker "Nightmare Scenario": "You’re stressed out when you should be feeling very well

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Nocturno Culto carries out vocal duties across all tracks on the release

Richard Dawson is the diminutive Geordie troubadour whose moving songs have been described as state-of-the-nation addresses

"I make beautiful music