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Paper Recordings Ben Davis takes off his Flash Atkins cape and mask to launch a new project exploring things left of centre and balearic. In these disposable times, Stubb will celebrate community and DIY with a limited run of 300 vinyl screen-printed kraft card sleeves of commissioned illustrations by artist Rachel Johns plus hand-drawn labels by Hebden Bridge s The Egg Factory. We Are Launching is a journey in to psychedelic balearia with one of the most exciting artists of recent years, Jane Weaver Her Mercury Music Prize long-listed album Modern Kosmology was described by The Guardian as -a lean and thrillingly addictive slice of unearthly pop-. The Stubb collaboration is a sublime head trip to the deep reaches of space and electronica with hallucinatory guitars, burbling synths and arpeggiators that are beautifully set off by Jane s ethereal vocals. Mike Lindsay is founder and producer of folktronica pioneers Tunng and his distinctive tones sing the praises of doing nothing on Boring Days, which is psychedelic leftfield pop at its finest. The track is locked down by a nagging fifth bass with vocal pops, hand claps, muted afro guitar, washed synths and arps that build before the choruses hit in a wave of analogue keyboards and fuzz guitar. After that, a gloriously stretched outro takes you straight to the mediterranean. There s also an edited instrumental that brings out the sunshine...