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Trappist Afterland - "Insects In Amber" on vinyl - buy it here! Another fine Sugarbush Records release.
HELP YOURSELF - "5" released on vinyl for the first time, out now! Order here.
This is a very special release, this. Legendary and much loved Uk band, HELP YOURSELF'S "lost" album "5" is finally released on vinyl. Remastered and with a redesigned Rick Griffin cover this is one fine album by this great band, with links to Man as well as the latter day GREEN RAY (whose album you can order from us here). " Out on March 7th but you can reserve your copy now, either with the ltd insert or without. Free postage and sealed with sleeve and disc seperate to avoid damage. £24.99 with ltd insert (250 copies only with insert) / £21.99 without (free postage anywhere). Buy it here now:
Witch Hazel - "Otherworldly" new release on Sugarbush Records buy it now, free postage. Amazing Metal / Stoner Hard Rock classic.
From the opening notes this killer album by this Pennsylvania group does not let up. Amazing Fuzz guitars envoking the finest ever peresented by BLACK SABBATH & BLUE CHEER. The lead vocals would give Ozzy or Paul DiAnno a run for their money. The rhtyhm section is rock solid. Best of all the songs are incredible, tough, well constructed and super-dynamic & exciting. From the opening track "Ghost & The Fly" through "Zombie Flower Bloom" this album does not let up.
What I also love about it is that it crosses over and appeals to Heavy Psych fans as much as to Hard Rock ones. But don't take my word for it, have a listen or read some of the incredible reviews:
"Witch Hazel have been impressing audiences for over a decade with their brand of Hard Rock that's rooted in the 1970's - has everything from gang choruses to quiet Psych to Hard Rock" (Doug Sheppard, Shindig Mag)
The fact that this album had not been licensed for release on vinyl is simply staggering, so glad we got it.
Pressed on virgin 140gm vinyl. Disc is housed in soft traced inner sleeve for extra protection and sealed OUTSIDE the main cover to ensure safe transit. FREE POSTAGE only £21.99 including shipping anywhere - buy it by clicking this button (you can add other albums from our labels / distributed labels into one shopping cart by clicking the paypal buttons - if you have any trouble email us your order and we will send you a Paypal invoice):
TRENT MILLER - "TIME BETWEEN US" new Sugarbush vinyl album, buy it here - free postage!
Time Between Us carries on the trajectory set by its predecessor, the acclaimed Burnt Offerings (2014), which saw him emerging from the darkness that overshadowed his first two albums Cerberus (2009) and Welcome To Inferno Valley (2011), towards a hopeful glimmer on the horizon and a new maturity in songwriting.
Only £19.99 including postage, buy it now.
Listen here to a sample of this great album (click link)
Some reviews of the original CD release:
“Sweet songs full of longing and grace.” Dan Stuart (Green On Red)
“My god, there are some lovely plaintive songs on this terrific album.” (Terrascope Online)
“An aching and deeply romantic touch throughout.” (Blabber ‘n’ Smoke)
“A persuasive storyteller who keeps his songs short and purposeful, allowing the music to to draw you in and the words to anchor you. Burnt Offerings promises much and delivers; light the blue touch paper and stand back.” (Folk Radio UK)
“An album that will thrill those aware of the antecedents and beguile those who aren’t.” (Blabber ‘n’ Smok
“A darkly underground mix of hangovers, anguished love, mournful blues and lonesome country.” (Q Magazine)
“Fans of Gene Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark will recognise a kindred spirit in his glowering meditations and steely worldview.” (Daily Mirror)
Order CADDY - "TEN TIMES FOUR" here on vinyl, in stock now.
NICK PIUNTI "TEMPORARY HIGH" buy it here on vinyl, only 200 copies in the UK. Powerpop.
TRAPPIST AFTERLAND & MOONGAZING HARE "SONGS FOR NATHAN" buy it here on vinyl, only 200 copies, bonus track!
TRAPPIST AFTERLAND - "LIKE A BEEHIVE, THE HILL WAS ALIVE" buy it here on vinyl, only 200 copies, extra tracks!
Don’t pass Trappist Afterland up if you truly want a heavy, melodic dose of authentic modern psychedelic music. While they advertise themselves as producers of spirit music for the dispossessed (Not exactly the target audience for great financial reward...), they have a marketable musical product here which is well worth listening to by any fan of late 60s pop music at its purest.
£19.99 including postage anywhere.
Schizo Fun Addict "El Shoegaze Bossa Nova", new album on Sugarbush Records - buy it here on vinyl!
THE GRIP WEEDS "HOUSE OF VIBES" (SUGARBUSH SB048) out on vinyl now, buy it here!
The New Jersey band's raucous blend of Cheap Trick's power chords, the Byrds' ethereal jangle and CSNY's airy harmonies was different, half a decade too early for the New York-based garage revival of the early 00s, and a decade or so too late to be in sync with the West Coast's Paisley Pop movement. No wonder this self-recorded, self-released gem of the power pop art fell on mostly deaf ears, lauded by a few Jersey visionaries, hailed in Germany but completely ignored by commercial radio and MTV.
It's too bad, because if there ever were a record tailor-made for blasting out of AM radio on the way to the beach House of Vibes is it. From the first crunching chords of "Out of Day" through the last feedback tripping psych solo of "Walking in the Crowd", the record balances precisely at the tipping point between rock and pop. It's the same enticing ground that the Who covered in their classic Sells Out, simultaneously hard-edged and accessible, blossoming with melody and rackety with drums. And along the way, the band cranks out half a dozen classic songs, "Salad Days", "Close Descending Love", and "Don't Belong."
This is a truly stunning album and the fact that this band are not massive is tragic as well as kinds cool as it keeps us who are in the know part of a very exclusive club. Buy this album today, you will not regret it. Sealed from the factory - limited to 300 copies - on audiophile 140g black vinyl - now with extra smooth polylined inners to ensure maximum quality. Only £19.99 including FREE worldwide postage.
DOM MARIANI & THE MAJESTIC KELP - "HI SEAS" new album out now, buy it here on vinyl
Pugwash - "Almond Tea" on white (tea) vinyl, 200 copies only - get your copy here, free postage worldwide!
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The Ptolemaic Terrascope have this to say about this classic album:
" Originally released in 1999, ‘Almond Tea’ by Pugwash (not the former drummer of the Man band...) is brimming with sweet melody, the tunes reminding me of ELO mixed with Radiohead, whilst some of the melodies suggest that time when Oasis wrote good songs that crawled under your skin. Opening with ‘Missing The Point’ the listener is immediately drawn into Pugwash's world and you find yourself drumming along to the tune whilst second guessing the lyrics (or maybe that is just me), the song having plenty of energy and a powerful production that allows it to soar from the speakers. Absolutely beautiful, ‘Finer Things In Life’ sounds like a Radiohead ballad, the lyrics catching hold of your heart as the music drift around them with a gentle jangle. With a lovely shuffle ‘Shine On Norvell Jefferson’ could have come straight from the White Album, the McCartney version, whilst ‘Two Wrongs’ could be a lost Brit Pop anthem its swagger tempered by the lovely ‘Getting Me Down Again’, the perfect end to side one. Throughout the album it is the song that is important and you can easily make comparisons, however the whole collection is a lesson in the art of melody and dynamics, the flow of the album perfectly judged with the melancholy beauty of ‘Always Be’ paired with the acoustic strum of ‘Could It Be The Same’ side two slowly getting louder until ‘Obvious’ releases the energy that was building, more Lennon than McCartney and definitely Psychedelic with phased guitar and plenty of attitude. Finally, ‘ Nonsense’ leads us out sounding like (pointless comparison time) like Dodgy covering a lost UK Psych tune, a great tune however your ears hear it completing another great album from Sugarbush, something I seem to be repeating in this review." (Simon Lewis)
TRAPPIST AFTERLAND - "Burrowing To Light In The Land Of Nod" (SUGARBUSH SB046), buy it here on vinyl, free postage!
£19.99 including postage anywhere in the world!
TRAPPIST AFTERLAND - "The Round Dance Of The Cross" (Sugarbush SB045) buy it here on vinyl
£19.99 including postage anywhere in the world!
TRAPPIST AFTERLAND - "GOD'S GOOD EARTH" (SUGARBUSH SB043), a brand new release - buy it here on vinyl.
There is a restlessness and almost palpable fear and discomfort that permeates this whole record as the brief 'Sungirl' and the very psychedelic 'Parasites' would attest to. The latter in particular with its revolving searchlight of backwards-forwards hurdy gurdy and naggingly insistent rhythm opens a psychic door that leads to an exploration of uncomfortable mental spaces. What Jim Morrison memorably referred to as 'the feeling of not quite being at home'. Times several thousand. "No More Summer Caravans" is a paean to the past with a lovely drone driving the familial reminiscences (real or imagined) that provide another unsettling narrative." £19.99 includes postage anywhere in the world!
Greek Theatre - Broken Circle, black vinyl audiophile pressing - out now, buy it here!
-It’s a sumptuous, cinematic-style panorama all in all, that shows The Greek Theatre to be a very capable group who, whilst in thrall to some of the great sounds that’ve gone down in the past have more than a keen sense of pushing forward and carving out space to create their own individuality, their experimentalism too very much succeeding with this, at times, totally astonishing latest effort. (It's Psychedelic Baby magazine)
- I am always hesitant to throw around terms like "instant classic", but this certainly fits the bill. The album kicks off with the wonderfully titled "Fat Apple (at About Noon)", which also happens to be the longest track on the LP, clocking in at over seven minutes and it really sets the stage for this beautiful record. For the initiated fan, within the first 30 seconds you will recognize that you are in familiar territory and in for a real treat. (Active Listener Blog)
Only £19.99 including postage anywhere!
TRAPPIST AFTERLAND - "AFTERLANDER" SUGARBUSH SB042 out now on vinyl, buy it here!
(Courtesy of THE ACTIVE LISTENER blog). The sleeve also contains exclusive, specially comissioned for the SUGARBUSH RECORDS release, sleevenotes by DAVID TIBET.
Black vinyl only £19.99 including worldwide postage.
KONTIKI SUITE - "THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH" (SUGARBUSH SB039) out now on vinyl, buy it here!
"Kontiki Suite proudly flies its Byrds banner via some obvious stylistic hat-tips to 1968’s "The Notorious Byrd Brothers". This time out, the band boasts a batch of impressive new Rickenbacker-based janglers (mainly from the pen of guitarist Ben Singh) and a tougher sound from the rest of the band (Jonny Singh, lap steel guitar; Marcus Dodds, guitar; Mario Renucci, bass; Chris Brown and Craig Bright on drums and percussion respectively). The result is a cohesive, 50-minute flight high above exquisitely atmospheric psych/country-rock/chamber pop soundscapes.
The opening moments of guitar/rim shots in the rousing, Golden Smog-like opener “Bring Our Empire Down” recall David Crosby’s serene “Dolphin’s Smile,” after which some Neil Young-like crunch is thrown in as the song gathers steam. “My Own Little World” features the kind of textured ‘n’ trippy triple-guitar interplay (including lap steel and 12-string Rickenbacker) that characterizes the overall tone of the album – tone that is often upended by deliciously abrupt shifts in tempo: the lads in Kontiki Suite are more than happy to jolt you out of the hypnotized state in which they deftly placed you. Occasional, judiciously chosen blasts of harmonica tug on the same heartstrings as in Big Star’s “Life is White.”
“Free From Sound” and “Here for You Now” are tremendous pop songs, the kind of tracks that, back in the day, would’ve jumped out of an AM radio and grabbed you by the throat. The former features a keening pedal steel hook that’s hell-bent on becoming your next earworm. The latter blends a “Ticket To Ride” beat with power-poppy rhythm reminiscent of Gene Clark’s evergreen “I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better.” Remastered and re-cut for this new vinyl edition to offer an improved sound spectrum!
THE CAROUSELS - "SAIL ME HOME ST. CLAIR" (SUGARBUSH SB037) buy it here on vinyl!
Here are some of the nice things people said about the first album:
Highlands-based combo The Carousels echo the likes of Teenage Fanclub or Whiteout with a dose of The Beatles' 'Please Please Me' thrown in for good measure on countrified rocker 'Call Along The Coast'.' Drowned In Sound
'The Carousels deliver an important reminder that it's quite possible to be psychedelic without overloading the eardrums, opting instead for a Byrds-flavoured twelve-string jangle.' Louder Than War
'Melodious and up-tempo, the Live Revolution rendition of The Carousels' Mayflower blows its studio recording out of the water. With vocals perfectly spun among sunshower guitars and heady percussion, intricacy is intensified in the live arena yet made to sound effortless.' Britpop News
'Moving more in to the more pop arena, the octahedron of sound is squared up with The Carousels, whose song craft is very reminiscent of the Liverpool band Shack in their pomp around the release of the HMS Fables album.' Qromag
The Carousels take influence from Gene Clark, The Byrds and Gram Parsons and have been compared to fellow Scots Teenage Fanclub, Whiteout and the Cosmic Rough Riders. They have received multiple plays and Song of The Day on KEXP Radio for Marianne and have received airplay by Steve Lamacq on BBC6 Music.
Track listing:
1. Josephine 2. Lord Speed My Hurricane 3. Silvio 4. Wishing Well 5. Lake Eloise 6. Little Darlin' Side B 1. By Your Side 2. New Morning 3. Here In Time 4. Like A Loaded Gun 5. Man Out Of Me
The Breretons "Keep You Safe" (Sugarbush SB034) the fantastic debut album is out on vinyl now, two colours to choose from!
this a very special record. Singer Charlotte Brereton
(who is incredible live) really shines too on this LP. This limited
edition comes in two colours: Blue (200 copies) & green (200
copies). £19.99 including postage anywhere.
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