CROW PEOPLE ‘'Wasteland’ (Crackle 027)
If Crow People had formed down south in 1979, not in Doncaster five years later, they’d be fondly remembered as one of the great 'anarcho punk' bands, sitting proudly alongside original innovators like the Mob and Zounds. There are shades of ‘Metal Box’ and dub in some of Mark’s early bass lines, echoes of a northern Mob and evidence of Bill’s Here And Now and Buzzcocks influences in the guitar. At times they evoke the heavy sounds of Killing Joke or Amebix before effortlessly slipping into a softer, haunting sound that wouldn’t be out of place on an early Cure album. Yet these are only fleeting reference points, they sound nothing like any of these bands. Trying to pin down the Crow People sound is pointless, there’s nobody else quite like them, they defied categorisation and couldn’t give two fucks about playing the game. Just look at their decision to play only benefit gigs. Their free festivals were Hulme’s Punx Picnics, held amongst the sprawling, decaying crescents and the self-organised Two Trees Festival in hometown Doncaster. Yet Crow People did manage to play far and wide with a variety of bands, and maybe this was the strength of their defying of categorisation. They could happily sit on a bill next to Axegrinder, Chumbawamba, Disorder, Culture Shock or The Wedding Present and people in the audience would take to them. They fitted everywhere and nowhere.This long overdue release on limited double LP and single CD contains nearly everything Crow People recorded in the studio from 1985 - 1994, consisting of their extremely rare and sought after 'Cloud Songs' 12" EP from 1987 and another twelve unreleased tracks. At last, we’re righting an injustice, and one of the UK’s great 'lost' bands is getting the reissue treatment they deserve.
DUE FOR RELEASE IN MID-JULY, PRE-ORDERS ONLY.
WITH FREE DOWNLOAD CODE IF REQUESTED.
LIMITED 16 TRACK DOUBLE LP WITH 8 PAGE A5 BOOKLET AND INSERT
16 TRACK CD WITH 16 PAGE BOOKLET
BABY SILVERSKINS 'Yarping Down The Tweeds' (Crackle 026)
A brand new 12-track release from Crewe’s very own Baby Silverskins. It shoots out of the traps like the raw, bastard-offspring of early Snuff in an occasional, chance meeting with one of the Minutemen or Firehose, and it’s a compilation of everything they recorded back in the day, or the early to mid-90s to you and us. And if it doesn’t have you throwing yourself round your bedroom, screaming with joy and punching the air, whilst singing ‘wo-oh-oh-oh’ at the top of your lungs to ‘New Girl’, or if the verse to ‘Almost Sad’ doesn’t send shivers down your spine, and that’s BEFORE you’ve even heard the chorus, we hereby pronounce you well and truly dead from the waist up. The Skins, as they are affectionately known around these parts, spent the aforementioned early 90s touring the UK in an old Citroen 2CV, playing with the likes of Bracket, Snuff, The Queers, Avail, Rugrat, various Crackle bands and Manchester hardcore heroes. The record contains six tracks from a demo cassette which have never been released until now. They should have been released on Crackle, why they weren’t is anyone’s guess, but let’s just say we must have been fiddling about with the car radio as the band passed in the opposite direction, waving to us from their 2CV, but we’re here now to right one of the great injustices of our time. The original plan was to release these six tracks as two seven inch singles, but when we did the maths, an LP was almost as cheap to make. So we chucked in the four tracks from their only vinyl release, a split single with Pigpile, masquerading under the snappy title of ‘The Dangerous Bourgeois Leanings Of El Quados Mon Hados’, and two unreleased instrumentals, one of which strays into Fugazi territory. Just don’t say we never give you anything. Comes with an A4 double-sided insert including lyrics/pictures and flyers, plus two other A6 inserts.
WITH FREE DOWNLOAD CODE.
LP WITH INSERTS
CD WITH 8 PAGE BOOKLET
