SUNBURNED 'WEEKEND AT BURNIES' 7" (NEU005)

Another vital instalment in NO-FI’s growing and collectable vinyl catalogue, this 7” sees Massachussets’ freestyle kraut funketeers Sunburned Hand Of The Man condense their name and a whole album concept into 7” of vital vinyl.

Side 1 is inhabited by the murderous bossa nova of ‘Smokescreen’, with its loping bassline and trapped-in-a-box vocal paranoia.

Then flip over for 7 more unhinged instalments, through the found-sound and minimal psych of ‘The Queen Of Midnight’, the faux cult frenzy of ‘Jesus’, oddball sampledelia and a looseness that conjures a mental image of the band simultaneously lauding and ridiculing out-rock’s greatest clichés.

This is a slice of classic Sunburned, with their trademark lo-fi stylings and added low-rent Moondog-esque rhythm programmes giving it the air of a secretly recorded jam session at the Manson ranch. Or is it a spoof? Or a spoof of a spoof? You never quite know…

This is another of NO-FI’s trademark hand-stamped jukebox sleeve 7”s, with classic centre label art by Sarah O’Shea.

MOUTHUS & YELLOW SWANS 'LIVE ON CONAN ISLAND' LP (NEU010)

The ultimate East coast/West coast soundclash as Oregon’s Yellow Swans and Brooklyn’s Mouthus present a smouldering document from their onstage interactions on their Fall 2006 US tour.

The sound of Mouthus’s splat&clatter percussion and sheets of severely altered guitar and voice noise paired with Yellow Swans’ raucous axe-mangling and sublime noise processing make for a gargantuan oil tanker of sound that can’t avoid enveloping the listener.

‘Live On Conan Island’ is a range of monstrous caverns of free electro skronk, alt-percussion and wailing guitars from live collaboration between two of Load's hottest noisemongers. Gigantic!

Blood n guts folk from the Anglo-American duo.

The Wire says “The twining harmonies…recall the heyday of English pastoral folk song”. Plan B says "Dumb Supper is one of those rare modern folk albums that will find a home both in the longstanding 'traditional' music community and among those attracted to the form's more experimental and lo-fi possibilities".

Most of the tracks are re-discovered and adapted by the Tylers, their searing harmonies and sparse, vital instrumentation breathing new life into timeless tales of love, loss and death.

JAZKAMER/MARK DURGAN SPLIT 7" (NEU006)

Another instalment in NO-FI’s vinyl catalogue, this 7” sees the head-on collision of two major acts in the European noise circuit.

Norway’s Jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, best known for their ‘Metal Machine Music’ death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work. For this release, they also recruit fellow Norwegian and multi-tasking guitar-mangling prodigy Anders Hana (Noxagt, MoHa!) - as if they needed any help to kick out the jams on this jawdroppingly raucous live recording.

In contrast, the flip side is significantly more serene from Mark Durgan (who you may also know as Putrefier and who is rumoured to have been part of the mystery line-up of The New Blockaders at Thurston Moore’s All Tomorrows Parties). Subsonic rumbles and birdsong dominate the surface of this track, but the devil’s in the detail – poke your attention through the thin surface ice and you’ll easily fall through to hidden depths.

Second in the series of six 10"s from C. Spencer Yeh, launching immediately into a giant feedback epic that slowly reveals delicate harmonies beneath a sea of howling distortion.

This edition comes with insert insert design by John Olson (Wolf Eyes).