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LP includes download code. Yip Man (of Scotland) aka singer-songwriter Al Nero returns with his sophomore effort, 'Pure Zen, Ken?' a pulsating grab-bag of razor-sharp riffs, edge-of-the-seat angles, deeply satisfying choruses and endless melodic and

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LP with DL. Third album from the geographically scattered collective, The Pure Conjecture is the sound of friendship. When the world around collapses, friendship remains that hopeful constant and No Ghosts is the sound of that constant. To eschew the virtues of the individual band members is to forgo a long, deep involvement and affiliation with a number of immense bands. Marc Beatty (Brakes), Joel Gibson (The Tenderfoot) Rose Elinor Dougall, Johny Lamb (Thirty Pounds of Bone) and Matthew Twaites (Electric Soft Parade) are brought together around the writing efforts of front-men Matt Eaton and Darren Moon and within an industry of tempestuous greed and merciless careerism a calm naturally emerges. Gathering across several London writing and recording sessions in 2016, the band kicked out the jams and found a series of songs that rested in the warmth of Teenage Fanclub and Big Star, sparkled with the hairspray of Hall & Oates and tipped a collegiate Nineties cap to the R&B Heroes of the day (Boyz II Men, Blackstreet). "This is sophisticated, soulful night music in which lush production and bandleader Matt Eaton's measured croon evoke everyone from The Zombies to Curtis Mayfield to Teenage Fanclub." - The Skinny // Record Label: Armellodie Records Style: Indie Rock

Artist: Yip Man Label: Armellodie Records

Yip Man is the alter-ego of Scottish songwriter Al Nero, the former frontman of blissful guitar slingers Le Reno Amps and the co-founder of Glasgow's Armellodie Records. Since Le Reno Amps bowed out in 2011 one might be forgiven for thinking that outside of co-running Armellodie Nero has been somewhat idle. In truth he has been undergoing metamorphosis. He's been away. Al Nero went to China... Yip Man came back. You may choose to imagine Nero on his oriental adventure, squinting against the setting sun in sprawling dusty wastelands, or atop snow-capped peaks holding earnest conversation with stationary holy men, or perhaps brushing the Mongolian border astride a saddleless galloping horse. Maybe that's true, or maybe he was in a bar. Whatever happened on our protagonist's travels the resulting music displays Yip Man's ability to melt down a rainbow of musical possibilities into an irresistible marriage of riff & melody in the brightest of colours. From the explosion of the lop-sided opener Barnburner and the synth-riddled rocking of Not That Easy , to the Calypso carnival of For Your Own Good and Pavement-esque brain-rockin' of Skinny White Ghost . The songs on Braw Power find Nero lyrically and poetically tackling his own existential ennui, whilst sounding like a man who just found the last Golden Ticket in his Wonka Bar. Yip Man brings it all, inadequacy, lies, loss, bitterness, infidelity, empty beds and the horrible certainty that whatever he's just got over, he's doomed to live through again and again. It's no accident that Stuck on Repeat reappears as the album's ominous coda. Nero's metamorphosis into Yip Man might not have been a gruesome Kafkaesque shift in species, but it has produced a darker, smarter and completely unapologetic writer of intelligent pop songs, stuffed full of unusual ideas and fresh interpretations of trope. With grand ambitions tempered by a homely charm, you can be sure that whatever life throws at Yip Man, he'll bat it straight back with his killer hooks. Record Label: Armellodie Records Style: Indie Rock

Citing the likes of STEVE REICH, ROBERT FRIPP, and BILL BRUFORD as influences, GASTRIC BAND channel the taboo-breaking spirits of FRANK ZAPPA and KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN into their music. There's no time to get settled, no time to relax and no time to wonde Record Label: Armellodie Style: Avantgarde

The third full-length album from THIRTY POUNDS OF BONE sees songwriter Johny Lamb further explore his continuing theme of place. Split into four separate locations; (past place, the place of heritage, present place and the in between), the record aims to Record Label: Armellodie Style: Independent

Record Label: Armellodie Style: Independent