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LEATHERFACE were far more than just a good old-fashioned punk rock band and more than worthy of comparison with more illustrious counter-parts in America, where a body of supporters had been singing the band's praises. They were poised for a massive break-through, when singer Frankie seemed to decide that he didn't want it anymore. A crying shame, because LEATHERFACE really did make you believe that punk could still matter - that it could be impassioned, intelligent and emotive without just re-treading the boards. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Punk

The first studio release from Pere Ubu reissued. Today the record is still as direct and powerful as it was first heard.. For this reworking, Paul Hamann at Suma has transferred from the original 2-track analogue mix tapes to digital at the highest resolution available which, is at least four times the resolution of the original. The tracks have carefully been re-mastered by sonic architect Brian Pyle so as to capture the unique qualities within. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Their second album, originally released in 1978. For this reworking, Paul Hamann at Suma has transferred from the original 2-track analogue mix tapes to digital at the highest resolution available, which is at least four times the resolution of the original. The tracks have carefully been re-mastered by sonic architect Brian Pyle so as to capture the unique qualities within. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

The first studio release from Pere Ubu reissued. Today the record is still as direct and powerful as it was first heard.. For this reworking, Paul Hamann at Suma has transferred from the original 2-track analogue mix tapes to digital at the highest resolution available which, is at least four times the resolution of the original. The tracks have carefully been re-mastered by sonic architect Brian Pyle so as to capture the unique qualities within. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Their second album, originally released in 1978. For this reworking, Paul Hamann at Suma has transferred from the original 2-track analogue mix tapes to digital at the highest resolution available, which is at least four times the resolution of the original. The tracks have carefully been re-mastered by sonic architect Brian Pyle so as to capture the unique qualities within. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Providing a retrospective of their early years,Vs, released in 1982, was to be Mission Of Burma's only full length studio album with the original line up before disbanding. The album was produced by Rick Harte founder of the Ace Of Hearts record label, wh Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Originally released in 1981 'Signals, Calls and Marches' is an explosive and hard hitting EP with post-punk, hard core and leftfield sensibilities. The accomplished EP offered up instant classics, 'That's When I Reach For My Revolver' and 'Academy Fight S Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Issued under exclusive license from Flying Nun, the 3 LPs and assembled bonus tracks showcase the group. Now you can experience the full story.TJPSE began as a band filled with charm at every turn. Making the most of limited recording budgets to find inve Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Both CD and LP contain further tracks via download. It's been left to an inner sanctum of musical cognoscenti to laud the legendary outsider, who plundered 60s garage rock and artfully re-invented it as his own on the borders of grunge, lo-fi, halluci Record Label: Fire Records Style: Alternative Rock

Now you can experience the full story.TJPSE began as a band filled with charm at every turn. Making the most of limited recording budgets to find inventive melodies, harmonies, and percussion, and combining them into unique and oddly joyous Kiwipop gems. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Both CD and LP contain further tracks via download. It's been left to an inner sanctum of musical cognoscenti to laud the legendary outsider, who plundered 60s garage rock and artfully re-invented it as his own on the borders of grunge, lo-fi, halluci Record Label: Fire Records Style: Alternative Rock

It's not hard to see why this has been such an influential album. Part of the fabled Elephant 6 collective, Neutral Milk Hotel won over many a music critic with this cult classic. The band are recognized as one of the most influential alternative acts to come out of the mid-90s and sowed the seeds for everything from anti-folk to the likes of Arcade Fire, Caribou and even Franz Ferdinand. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Indie Rock

Re-mastered and containing rare bonus material, this comprehensive release covers the legendary UK band's work. 'Minx', 'Mush' and 'Fill Your Boots' are all here with each including exclusive Peel Session tracks, out-takes, singles and B-sides for the most comprehensive collection. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Alternative Rock

Bringing together Bardo Pond's three exclusive Record Store Day EPs from the last three years in one, 3CD package. "Reliably transportative swathes of feedback-drenched psychedelica. Bardo Pond's genius lies in the collision of contrasts" Sunday Time Record Label: Fire Records Style: Alternative Rock

Fire Records are proud to release this comprehensive collection of one of the label's flagship bands from the early years. Brings together their LPs 'Foxheads Stalk This Land', 'Headache Rhetoric', and 'Forever, Until Victory! The Singles Collection'. Close Lobsters stormed up the indie charts with their unique melodic jangle pop and skewed world-view. By the release of their first full length "Foxheads Stalk This Land" they were finding early backing from all of the music papers, as well as Rolling Stone and American college radio. Global touring and a more aggressive stance, lyrically and musically, would make the follow up "Headache Rhetoric" a bigger success. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Bringing together both of Josephine Foster and the Victor Herrero Band's Spanish albums in one place, with a previously unreleased track - an interpretation of "Sones de Asturias". Record Label: Fire Records Style: Folk

Faulty Superheroes has a tossed-off, effortless magnificence that the rash of indie-whatevers trailing in his wake from Bee Thousand to the present constantly strive for, and fail to achieve. The constant sense of surprise, of wonder, of discovery that you routinely find in superbly-structured instant bomp classics like "Faster The Great" is not something that can be taught, or learned, or imparted, or copied. Pollard pretty much abandoned the four-track for twenty years now and still gets tagged as "lo-fi," which is a word that makes even less sense now in the days of digital recording than it did then in the days of occasionally tape-hiss smothered coulda-shoulda- been hits. "Take Me To Yolita" in lesser hands could have been not much more than a bad one-liner stretched to fit a pop song, but Pollard reverse-engineers the titular pun to build a Kinks-like mini-epic that elevates the raw material of the song to transcendent heights. "She walks to him but that's not him." Damn. And so it goes. Are there bum notes here and there? Recording accidents-on-purpose left in like crushed empty beer cans strewn around the miniature, glimmering pop/ rock/ psych/ prog construction sites left standing in the wake of each of Faulty Superheroes' finished/unfinished songs? You betcha. Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Continuing their Fire deluxe reissues of the entire Half Japanese catalogue, Volume Three: 1990-1995 is the third of four volumes containing three LPs/CDs. This next set of Half Japanese LPs begins with 1990's explosively, noisy and chaotic (sometimes improvised) e Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love' featuring their cover of the Them garage rock classic "Gloria" and two tracks "Titanic" and "Hand Without a Body" that were co-written with the like-minded Daniel Johnston. Two years later the notably more delicate and, dare we say, jangly, ire In The Sky' (1992) arrived at a pivotal time for the group when they gained notable recognition from the likes of Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Teenage Fanclub and Yo La Tengo (whose Ira Kaplan guests on the record). This highly anticipated third installation closes the trio with 1995's ot' which became MTVs album of the week on release, with Michael Goldbery writing "Hot, mixes Sonic Youth-style noise, Stooges primitivism and '60s pop with excellent results. "Lucky Ones" is a simply charming number ("A good thing just got better/ As better as better can be") reminiscent of Jonathan Richman, while "Drum Straight" is dose of feedback drenched skonk and "Vampire" rocks hard liken the Sonic's "Bull In The Heather." Fire's colossal Half Japanese series began last year with the Record Store Day exclusive of alf Gentleman/Not Beasts', this set contains the records in their original form with extras that later appeared on CD formats available. It will also include original artwork from Jad Fair and liner notes by Half Japanese hall of famer Mark David Jickling. "Cutting straight to the gut. Jad's phrasing matches surging sentiments, creating a counterpoint to the spot-on music. When they grind out a groove half-rhythmic/half-blank cadences, the woozy disconnect is oddly compelling" Pitchfork's Best New Reissue (Volume 2: 1987-1989) // "An impressive and well-assembled study of one of this band's more interesting periods" All Music // "This should also lay to rest any questions about the importance of Half Japanese. Without them, we wouldn't have the primitive pop of Beat Happening nor the id-bearing beauty of Daniel Johnston" Paste Magazine Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

The first thing the listener will notice about Ricked Wicky is that it is the most musically adept project Guided By Voices' mage Robert Pollard has undertaken in some time, at least since late period-GBV (Half-Smiles of the Decomposed, for instance), or even Boston Spaceships. "[Ricked Wicky] is a sophisticated arena rock band," says Pollard, and I Sell The Circus offers in evidence a series of ball-peen hammers to the brain-pan ("Piss Face" with its James Gang-era slide guitar and the proto-punk stomp of "Intellectual Types," for example) alongside more delicate, prog-tinged frippery ("Cow-Headed Moon" features "Court of the Crimson King"-esque mellotron, while the acoustic guitar mastery displayed on "Even Today and Tomorrow" recalls the mellow-era ELP of "Lucky Man"). Credit the players: bolstering the easy mastery of a dizzying array of song writing forms one naturally expects (and receives) from Pollard are the impressive instrumental prowess of fellow Daytonian Nick Mitchell ("no blood relation to Mitch," Pollard stresses), who can otherwise be found in near-weekly performance at Wings, an important Dayton sports bar, multi-instrumentalist and producer Todd Tobias, and "the worldly Kevin March," (Pollard again) who does double duty these days in Guided By Voices. These guys can play, and on I Sell The Circus, they play the fuck out of the songs. "The band named Ricked Wicky is significant in that it is the very first name I created for a non-existent band in my early teens," explains Pollard. Fourteen of its fifteen tracks were recorded at Cyberteknics in Dayton, a studio Pollard has come to use with increasing frequency due to its profusion of vintage analogue gear. Used to great effect on ISTC: "Rotten Backboards" is as gorgeous and melancholic a tune as Pollard has ever written, and lyrically sounds a note of wistfulness that long-time fans will not find unfamiliar. "She can run, 'cause that's what I did," sings Pollard over a sublimely-textured background of synth-strings, arpeggiated guitar, piano, and clattery drums, and while it's tempting to read real regret into the content ("rotten backboards" as a metaphor for the debris of the past), it's always dangerous looking for autobiography in Pollard's mostly-fictional constructions. And anyway the misty wistfulness is cleared away immediately by the sharply propulsive prime-Who swagger of the next - and final - track "A Real Stab." Which seems to be about needles, or the messengers of Oz, or paper bags. It's one of the best songs on an album of standouts. "Some may wish to refer to us as a 'super group,'" says Pollard, tongue practically poking through his cheek, but as with a lot of the pronouncements made by the oracle of Huffman Prairie, as no one has ever called him or ever will, he's joking, but he's not joking. Ricked Wicky may not be a super group as the term is too-commonly used, but there's no real doubt they're a super group Record Label: Fire Records Style: Independent

Record Label: Fire Records Style: Rock