folk

debut album

for fans of kraftwerk

deep listening for fans of spiegel, hassell & riley

psychedelic jazz infusion

live from concrete island is the debut album from brighton based producer stephen maskell, aka the nags head. taking material from the last four years, he s created a head-spinning tapestry of melodic techno and crushed cityscapes. like echospace, maskells destroyed visions nail the feeling of being a stranger in a strange land. for the city s lolloping, dubby percussion we reach deep into its guts, pulling out a squiggly bricolage of pistons, pool balls, window frames, jets of steam. in turns rasping and narcotic, concrete island s beatless sections are akin to the crunching menace of early clark, or murcofs cosmic space treatments. an occasional shimmer guitar pop gem emerges from the rubble.

previously only available on tape, the debut album from roméo poirier now gets a well deserved vinyl release.

limited vinyl with poetry booklet.

bristol-based illustrator and musician adam higton welcomes you back into the mossy realm of the cosmic neighbourhood. with each song acting as a response to a series of paper-and-scissors compositions, collages ii documents the daily goings-on of an imagined world. sonically, this record straddles new and old, taking modular electronics, flutes, bells and softly pattering drum machines, before colouring them all with the amber glow of some forgotten, psychedelic kids tv programme. higton s benign toots and echoing jingles bring to mind daphne oram s early delay experiments or the meandering playfulness of tom cameron. radiophonic and time-worn, it still somehow sounds like the future.