TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS
First, I have launched a tape label: SGARAB TAPES will be a varied, small-run outfit for the type of stuff I love writing about on here. That said, first release is from… me, Beauty Parlour. KING OF LOVE departs from the flooded ambience of 2019’s FLATTENED BY CORRUPTED WAVES OF LOVE (Ceramics) with four manic cuts of bloodied industro-wave & slomo-EBM, all riddled with the same deeply confused shortwave interference. The King of Love is trapped between the walls of a crap new-build on a South Wales floodplain; the throne lies rusting in his stepmam’s garden; the sun shines, but not for you!
The preorder is up now, order now and along with a download you’ll get a very nice c20 and double-sided J-card, a BP Foxhound insignia sticker and a limited edition Through the Night fold-out zine, which features a collection of previous reviews and some exciting details on upcoming Sgarab releases
Second announcement:
Ohhhh shit, Shift / Sgarab Tapes #2: An Evening of Ten Tonne Skronk
LO EGIN: Thrashings of drums, bass and guitar find kindred spirits in larynx-shredding vocals and lamenting horn arrangements, delivered on trombone and saxophone. From LEEDS. Check out VOLUMANCER LP on Bandcamp:
SHIMMERING TOMB: ‘Dawn metal’ duo composed of members of Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony and Carnivorous Plants. Blasted technicolour light
THE PANAMA PAPERS: Sax-Electronics duo primarily concerned with off-shore dealings in the world of techno-adjacent font design. Frosty dirges, foghorn skronk and abyssal clatter. Please note: there are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts. The inclusion of a person or entity in the Smith-Boucherat Offshore Leaks Database is not intended to suggest or imply that they have engaged in illegal or improper conduct
Tickets at https://shiftcardiff.org/lo-egin-shimmering-tomb-the.../, don't be a mug