The Jesus And Mary Chain • Pop Seeds • 2024

Earlier this year, The Jesus and Mary Chain made a high impact return with the critically adored ‘Glasgow Eyes’. Released via Fuzz Club, it debuted at #7 on the UK Official Album Chart and also shot straight to #1 on both the Independent and Scottish Albums Charts. Now the Reid brothers release a new song that was captured during the album sessions in the shape of ‘Pop Seeds’.

Sparklehorse • It Will Never Stop • 2022

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Another Sky • Chillers • 2018

“Shades of the Blue Nile, Radiohead and Jon Hopkins” Sunday Times Culture
“…like Radiohead after five cans of fizzy pop” – DIY

DOSS FLOY - I'm on the Radio - 2017

DTCV - Confusion Moderne - 2016

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In 2015, while listening to Clifton Chenier’s French Zydeco and the Nouvelle-Vague-inspired Brian Jonestown Massacre album Musique de film imaginé, Lola felt an urge to write songs in her native tongue and the resulting album Confusion Moderne.

Baker Island - Demolishing The Fourth Wall - 2016

Baker Island are a band from Newcastle who make indie-noise-pop like “the fuzzy love child of Pavement and Pixies” (NARC).

Indietracks Compilation 2016

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This is the official compilation of artists playing the Indietracks Festival in Derbyshire (UK) on 29-31 July 2016. 

All money raised from this compilation is donated to the Midland Railway Trust, the charity which hosts the Indietracks Festival. 

The compilation ranges from upbeat pop and electropop to fuzzy guitar punk and acoustic folk. It includes well-known artists such as The Aislers Set, Comet Gain, The Spook School and Emma Pollock, alongside today’s most exciting new bands including Maggie8, Flowers and Nervous Twitch.

Pretty Lightning - A Magic Lane Of Light And Rain - 2015

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"These two pals from a small town in Germany have hit on an honestly impressive variation of Delta blues. When they summon a spooky drone, it’s been likened to the Amon Duul II hippy shake, but I hear something closer to Junior Kimbrough in its composure and hypnosis. They’ll hang on a single bobbling lick for a long time, and when it changes up, it’s both traditional and unexpected."  

Nice Legs - Lullaby Land - 2015

Our eighth cassette release is a powerful EP by Nice Legs coming out of Seoul, Korea. You expect they would be Korean, but they are not. And definitely they are not boring. Read here: start-track.com/filip-zemcik-presenting-lew-and-henry-of-nice-legs/ After the interview we talked a little bit about releasing their latest EP and we made it through. I hope you will enjoy the cassettes as much as I will. I am so happy to have them in our Z Tapes family.

The Tailbreakers - 2015

Still riding the sonic wave of the electric 60's, the 4-piece band formed in 2014 in Toronto, Canada, delivers its audience the pioneering sounds of underground dance-to rock and roll, garage-beat and psychedelia.

The Tailbreakers' self-titled album recalls the vintage days of analog, live-off-the-floor recording techniques and reintroduces the listener to familiar tape hiss, slap-back echoes and reel to reel's warm, all-natural compression.

Pre-orders of a limited run of 100 Cassette tapes are available as of today at www.ongakubakarecords.bandcamp.com

RIYL: The Blues Magoos, The Kinks, The Sonics, The Chocolate Watchband, The Black Lips 

supermoon - comet lovejoy - 2015

Halie Miller Catchy songs, lovely vocals. Music to put you in a good mood.

The Stammer - Low - 2014

"ringing guitar chords and a dead-pan vocal melody familiar to anyone who grew up on New Order." - Imperial Matters 

"a subdued anthem (oxymoron much?) you can queue up if you’re ready for a low key weekend of relaxation." - Guilty Feet 

"mesmeric new single 'Low'; built upon a laid back bassline, it features a quite absorbing guitar riff." - Route For the Underdog

Tuff Love - Dross EP - 2015

Tuff Love's sophomore release, Dross EP, captures the essence of the band’s blistering live shows, as honeyed harmonies laze behind fuzz-drenched guitars, sleek bass lines and bruising drumming. ‘Slammer’ orbits a tense riff in the verses and lets rip in the choruses as Julie politely proclaims “I’ve got rage”. ‘That’s Right’ is a soaring adrenaline shot themed around instructions on a box of pain killers. ‘Sebastian’ bristles with low-down dropped-tuning hooks. Written on the night bus to London, ‘Cum’ is a swaying, savage-tender musing on regret and compassion. Get set to fall in love with Tuff Love all over again.

The Everywheres Performing Live at Kings University Wardroom - 2015

This is our first attempt at a live album. It was recorded unbeknownst to us by Jon Irvine on November 24th, 2014 at the Kings University Wardroom. It was a Monday night and we shared the stage with Halifax greats Walrus. Some of the songs on this cassette are old and some new and unreleased. It was a fun night and we are now glad to share it with you. 

Himalayan Bear - Moonlight and Rain: One - 2015

I've been wanting to post some recordings stemming from ideas that have been hanging around. not sure where it's going but I have two in the works. This is the first, a collection of some covers I've recorded in the past couple years as well as a couple alternate arrangements of tunes. Taughtened Strand is a song that'll be on the forthcoming Himalayan Bear LP No Golden Kingdom. 

pools are nice - These things just happen - 2013

"Forget daydreams of floating lazily in the summer time and instead, Pools Are Nice will be cannonballing into the deep end." -Its Just These Times .com