Next up on Faux Discx is Teardrop Factory’s debut 7” – the Topshop EP.  As well as being an awesome bunch of people, Teardrop Factory are a messy indie rock band from Brighton, UK that play fractured pop music with a fondness for grit and distortion.

Both sickly and sweet, the echoes of Guided By Voices, Sonic Youth and Jesus & Mary Chain can be heard in their perfectly formed 3-minute pop songs. Like their peers before them they strike the balance between satisfying hooks and head-spinning dissonance. There is fuzz and reverb but most importantly there are songs that will lodge themselves, stubbornly, in your head.

The four songs contained within concisely showcase Teardrop Factory’s deft knack for penning an earworm, whether it’s in a Pixies-esque ripper like ‘Stolen Skull’ and ‘Topshop’ or through the kaleidoscopic pop of ‘Better Company’ and ‘Vanity Unfair’.

The Topshop EP is available from May 27, 2013 on a run of 300 hand-numbered 7”s (marking the beginning of Faux Discx’s new MONOTONE 7” series) and digital download via all the usual outlets. Check out ‘Vanity Unfair’ below and pre-order the 7″ or digital EP from our bandcamp.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Faux Discx will once again be joining forces with our good friends over at Gringo Records to release the excellent debut album by one of my favourite bands – Vision Fortune. Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune is Vision Fortune’s first long player and hears the band settling in to their droning, repetition based repeater punk over two sides of wax. Although their battering strobe light that features in their crushing live show isn’t literally in your front room as you listen to the record, it’s certainly there in spirit as the band expertly guide us through 8 tracks of hulking riffs, drawn out drones, ethereal vocals and cyclical drum patterns. Like great experimentalists such as This Heat, Swans and Liars before them; Vision Fortune are constantly moving forward and we’re excited that Faux Discx is part of that legacy.

Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune is released May 13 on 180g heavyweight LP (limited to 300 copies) and digital download via all the usual sources. You can pre-order the vinyl HERE and can listen to /download a track from the album ‘XIV’ below.

It’s with great pleasure that Faux Discx can announce that we’ll be co-releasing Stuart Warwick‘s excellent new album. Stuart is releasing the record himself via his Laugh Riot Records label digitally and on CD, Faux Discx will be releasing the LP on our favourite format, vinyl.

The second album to be released under his married name, The Butcher’s Voice is a collection of eleven lyrically provocative and spellbinding songs, perfectly showcasing the haunting purity of Warwick’s voice, hushed musical delivery, and his dark tongue-in-cheek humour.

Warwick’s sound is comparable to Perfume Genius; indeed it could be stated that much of the tone and feeling heard on Mike Hadreas’ recent review busting album was lifted straight from Warwick’s solo debut The Ordeal – an album of fractured minimal piano and delicate ethereal singing, which Warwick self-released in 2010.

You can pre-order the vinyl now from our bandcamp page. The pressing is limited to 300 copies, pressed on 180g black vinyl, reverse-board printed sleeve with spine, hand-numbered in silver ink. Listen to and download ‘Sailors’ – the first track from the album below:

If you are reading this you probably know that Cold Pumas‘ debut album – Persistent Malaise – was released this Monday on vinyl, CD and digital download. Get it from your local independent record store, online digitally or order it direct from us here. Sorry if you are waiting on your pre-order, we just got back from the Cold Pumas / Sauna Youth tour which was amazing but this does mean if you ordered last week they’ve only just been sent out.

Speaking of the tour, massive thanks to everybody who came out, all the promoters who put us on, everybody who housed us, all the bands we played with and all the good people we met. IT WAS FUN.

Faux Discx’s first tape release comes from Rohame, a collective that boasts members of The Telescopes, Tropics and The Bleeding Machines in it’s ranks. Strictly limited to only 100 hand-made card sleeved white tapes, Winter [01] is available to order now from the Faux Discx bandcamp store, orders will ship from Monday 22 October.

In their own words: “Much in the way that storms form, Winter [01] is the culmination of the right circumstances and elements, brought together to capture the creations of that moment. A reaction to environment, subconscious will and each other’s performance. No re-takes, no overdubs. From the birth place of the dream weapon, a collective consciousness of space, mass, pulse, love, patience and horror.”

It’s with great pleasure, and a certain amount of relief, that Faux Discx can announce the début album by Cold Pumas – Persistent Malaise. This has been a LONG time coming. Written throughout 2011, recorded in January of this year and finally seeing the light of day when it is released officially on November 5th.

Once again Faux Discx is teaming up with our partners in the North; Gringo Records and new associates Italian Beach Babes in the release of this record which will be available on vinyl, CD and digital download. The vinyl is an edition of 500 on 180g black vinyl, reverse-board printed sleeve with spine and printed inner-sleeve. Includes digital download. The CD is an edition of 1000, housed in a reverse-board printed gatefold digifile sleeve. The digital version is hovering just outside the Earth’s atmosphere and gets beamed down via satellites to your computer. The artwork features incredible original paintings by Flo Brooks and looks AMAZING.

To mark the announcement of the record you can download the motorik post-punk gem ‘Fog Cutter’ from the LP below for FREE. Also, check out Cold Pumas’ blog for forthcoming UK tour dates with their best buddies / label mates Sauna Youth, commencing in late October.

Our friends over at Just A Crush are putting on an event to celebrate independent UK labels. Read below for more info and make sure you get down there to snap up some hot vinyl deals and see some great bands.

In their own words…

JAC has asked our favourite independent labels across the UK to sell their records at Record Affair and showcase some of their best bands, bringing the community together and their records alive.

Record buying has become a virtual event and we rarely get to see the faces behind our favourite labels. Without them we wouldn’t have the aural pleasure of hearing our favourite bands in the comfort of our own home so it’s about time we supported the labels themselves.

The corner of the labels’ living rooms get a well earned break from storing boxes and boxes of records as Just A Crush transports them to the garden of The Shacklewell Arms for your record buying needs.

Leave your iPod at home and have a Record Affair.

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STALLS FROM INDEPENDENT RECORD LABELS

Sexbeat
Tough Love
Suplex Cassettes
Faux Discx
Gringo
Marshall Teller
Comfortable On A Tight Rope
Milk Records

LIVE MUSIC FROM
Virginia Wing
Sauna Youth
The Proper Ornaments
WAITERS
Omi Palone

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Sunday 23rd September 2012
The Shacklewell Arms (London)
1pm onwards
Facebook event

Record fair – Free entry
Live music – £5 advanced (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/184111), £6 on the door

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More info: www.justacrush.co.uk
Poster: www.jameshines.co.uk

Dreamlands is out today in all good record shops in the UK and via iTunes. You can still order it online via our Bandcamp page, there’s not that many copies left here at Faux Discx so don’t delay in snapping up a copy of the 500 edition heavyweight vinyl. To celebrate the release of the record long-time Faux Discx friend and photographer extraordinaire Owen Richards has posted a gallery (featuring the image above) of some of his best photos of Sauna Youth that he’s compiled over the years of their activity. Check it out here.

The Soft Walls’ debut album is the product of time spent in solitude by Cold Pumas member and Faux Discx overseer – Dan Reeves. Recorded over the space of nine months, The Soft Walls takes in psychedelic folk, ambient & found sounds, lo-fidelity garage, broken house and wobbly krautrock in it’s 30 or so minutes.

It’s available NOW as a digital download via our bandcamp and also on tape from our very good friends over at Suplex Cassettes.

Check out this cute picture. You can now pre-order Sauna Youth‘s excellent debut LP Dreamlands from the Faux Discx webstore. You’ll get the digital download straight away and your order will ship a week before the official release date of September 3rd. Get it before your friends and then pretend to be bored of it by the time they get their copies.

LISTEN TO THE WHOLE RECORD ONLINE AND ORDER HERE.

It’s with great pleasure that Faux Discx and Gringo records can announce the release of Sauna Youth‘s debut album – Dreamlands. Available on 180g black vinyl with a 12-page risograph print insert and digital download, it will be available to pre-order SOON.

For now, you can check out / download a choice cut from the album – ‘PSI Girls’.

It’s with a heavy heart that I’d like to offer my sympathies to the family and friends of Women guitarist – Chris Reimer, who died yesterday in his sleep.

I only met Chris on a handful of occasions but found him to be a funny and personable guy. As a musician he was incredibly talented and forward-thinking in the way he approached his compositions, I often listen in awe to Women records, in particular to the twists and turns of his guitar lines. It saddens me that I’ll never share a joke with him, or see him play again but am proud to have considered him a friend. Rest in peace.

Dan / Faux Discx x

FREE MUSIC! Download the first song The Soft Walls (me) has deemed acceptable for public consumption HERE.