Welsh Acts

Artist Sal
Title Dysfunctional
Label Casket

Artist Samoans
Title Rescue
Label Apres Vous
RELEASE DAY INSTORE 14.7.14 5:30pm
Samoans have established themselves as one of Wales’ up and coming talents, creating a collection of intricate, yet melodic songs. They have worked relentlessly, gradually building up a dedicated following with their distinctive style of progressive math-rock. Live shows are notorious for their energy, fretboard mastery and exhaustive drumming.
Debut album pressed on 12" vinyl, comes with lyric sheet and free download of the album in its entirity.
Features the single, ’Dancing On The Sea Lion’.
Recorded/Produced by Todd Campbell at Stompbox Studios, Pontyclun

Artist Sarah Louise
Title Tir Na-Nog
Label Sain

Artist The School
Title All I Wanna Do
Label Elefant
Debut 7 inch single from Cardiff-based band The School.

* 1. All I Wanna Do
* 2. Valentine Unfortunately, we are unable to offer that item on our site at the moment. Please contact us to enquire about purchasing it offline.

Artist The School
Title Loveless Unbeliever [Green LP]
Label Elefant

Artist The School
Title Wasting Away And Wondering
Label Elefant
The School are back with their third album, and it’s beautifully fresh, mature and (despite the sad title) brilliantly optimistic. Along with their traditional eight-musician line-up, led by Liz’s omnipresent voice, there are three extra musicians this time, helping to create an album with lush instrumentation, and stunning completeness. Opener "Every Day" is a trademark song in every way. Sixties-inspired folk-pop with precious arrangements, delicious choruses, and delicate but brilliant melodies. Elsewhere there are bursts of ye-ye, walls of melody and fascinating brass arrangements. There are echoes of The Supremes and Wilson Pickett but also French pop such as France Gall, and Francois Hardy, plus a dash of Ennio Morricone.

Artist Seazoo
Title Teeth [Ltd. 7"]
Label Too Pure

Artist Gruff Rhys
Title Seperado (DVD)
Label Soda Pictures
Educational and informative documentary on the Welsh colonies of Patagonia told by way of a story that sees Gruff tour South America while searching for long lost great, great (great, great) uncle Rene.  Features footage of Tony da Gatorra!!!! Fantastico! 10/10 : )

Artist Shaped By Fate
Title The Unbeliever
Label In At The Deep End
Debut album form this Cardiff-based band.

Recorded by Andrew Schneider (Cave-In, Keelhaul, The Red Chord) at Foel Studio, Wales last November (with additional recordings by Romesh Dodangoda at Longwave Studio), mixed by Andrew Schneider at Translator Audio, NYC and mastered by Nick Zampiello (Old Man Gloom, ISIS) at New Alliance East, Boston MA.
Additional musical contributors to the album include fingering maestro Phil Maine of the late great Eden Maine, and doombringer Chris Fielding of Agent Of The Morai.

Artwork comes courtesy of Jimbob of welsh rock titans Taint.

Artist Sibrydion
Title Campfire Classics
Label Dell'orso

The debut English language long player from Sibrydion has been getting them heaps airplay on Radio 6 including ’single of the week’ for  track ’Femme Mental’. Featuring guest musicians Kev Tame (Acid Casuals), Mark Roberts (Catatonia) and produced by Cian Ciaran (SFA) this album betrays a healthy love of the wild, wild west!

Artist Sibrydion
Title JigCal [#DyddMiwsigCymru]
Label Rasal

Artist Sibrydion
Title Simsalabim
Label Copa

Artist Sibrydion
Title Uwchben y Drefn
Label Jic Cal
Following the critically acclaimed ’Campfire Classics’ album comes this follow up - a Welsh language release on their own label.

Artist Silence At Sea
Title The Oh-No! Telephone
Label
12 tracks - first release from Silence at Sea. (NB this is listed as a CD single for postage reasons but it is a full 12 track album) Unfortunately, we are unable to offer that item on our site at the moment. Please contact us to enquire about purchasing it offline.

Artist Elly Sinnett
Title Luna EP
Label SOR
Elly Sinnett is an 18 year old singer songwriter from Pembrokeshire who has recently started getting airplay on Radio Wales through Adam Walton.

Artist Skindred
Title Babylon
Label Lava

Artist Skindred
Title Volume [WMP16]
Label Napalm
Since 1998 SKINDRED has been responsible for developing their own unique sound blending elements of Metal, Rock, Reggae, Dancehall & Electronica to forge the SKINDRED sound as we know it today. Add to this one of the most charismatic front man in Rock music in Benji Webbe, a man that always knows how to get the party started whether its getting Millions of people across the globe to do the now infamous Newport Helicopter or just making them rock harder than they have ever rocked before at any show previously.

Volume, the bands sixth studio album encapsulates everything that is great about SKINDRED.

Artist Slowly Rolling Camera
Title All Things
Label Edition

Artist Slowly Rolling Camera
Title Slowly Rolling Camera
Label Edition Records
Slowly Rolling Camera, is the new project that teams up pianist-composer Dave Stapleton, producer Deri Roberts, vocalist-lyricist Dionne Bennett and drummer Elliot Bennett. The result is music that has distinct echoes of the ‘invisible soundtracks’ of UK progressives Cinematic Orchestra and Portishead.
Dipping into a diverse world of trip-hop, jazz and drum and bass rhythms, the record is influenced as much by the Cinematic Orchestra and Portishead as by James Blake and Bonobo, this music is both ethereal and visceral, brimming with real emotion and restless intelligence.
Engineer and mixed by Andy Allan (Portishead, Massive Attack), ‘Slowly Rolling Camera’, is the self titled début album set for release early 2014 on Edition Records. The albums free flowing soul and digital funk shows a boundless approach to arrangement, from the warm, free flowing and texturally rich harmonies of tracks such as ‘Bridge’ and ‘Rain That Falls’ to the vibrating rhythms and ambient soundscapes of ‘Protagonist’ and ‘Rolling Clouds’, this is a remarkably produced album full of beauty and emotion.

Artist The Snakes
Title Sometime Soon
Label Redeye

Emerging through the UK Americana scene alongside bands like The Redlands Palomino Company (who share drummer Dan Tilbury with The Snakes), they blend the instinctive feel and energy of classic 60’s rock`n`roll with the subtleties of sweet country-soul and a more menacing and introspective personality that draws from early blues.

Legendary BBC Radio 2 broadcasters Bob Harris and Mark Lamar have declared themselves fans of the band. Lamar even invited the boys into the studio for a full length live session soon after the release of their début, having been particularly impressed with the dark, twang laden delights of album favourite, ’I’ll Be Around’.

Artist Soda Men
Title Moon
Label
  Everything
  Me and Bowie
  Gorgeous (And you know it)
  New York City
  The Ballad Of Jimmy Martin
  My Lover is a Ghost
  Hoping and Praying
 When Elvis got Drafted
 Sad Baby
 Moon

Artist Soft Hearted Scientists
Title Scarecrow Smile: Home Demos Volume 1
Label My Kung Fu

Scarecrow Smile: Home Demos Volume 1 will be the next album by Soft Hearted Scientists.

It will be available as a digital download from Monday 27th October 2008 and later in the year as a full colour sleeved compact disc. There are 16 songs on the record, which clock in at a sprightly 52 minutes, and the front sleeve will be a photograph of a bizarre road side shop encountered by SHS singer Nathan on a road trip in the USA, somewhere in Georgia or possibly Florida in the year 2000 AD.

Artist Soft Hearted Scientists
Title The Slow Cyclone
Label The Hip Replacement
The 2014 album from SHS....
"Proper Psychedelia from the outer reaches of sense and reason." — Andy Fyfe, Q magazine
"Everybody will enjoy putting this epic psychedelic puzzle together."
"Charming, endearing and beguiling"
"Strong tunes and an engagingly off-centre atmosphere"
"A blast from the past and a blast from the future."

Artist Soft Hearted Scientists
Title Wandermoon
Label Hip Replacement
Wandermoon, the moonbathing trippy escape album from Soft Hearted Scientists, is now scheduled for release on The Hip Replacement label.

Q magazine: ’Trio prove there’s still something in the Welsh water’
Record Collector: Trust the Welsh to do good Psychedelia. Soft Hearted Scientists have clearly been drinking at the well of Syd Barrett and very good they are too. 4 stars.

Artist Soft Hearted Scientists
Title Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth
Label My Kung Fu
"a magical little fairyland of a record" Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 "a beautiful, warm, sparkling collection of songs" Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1 

Mount Palomar
Diving Bell
Wendigo
The Petition
Brother Sister
The Yongy Bongy Bo
The Haunted Song
Many A Monster
IsabellaMidnight
MutiniesAt Night
The Quarry Glows Like A Mothership
Black Castles Unfortunately, we are unable to offer that item on our site at the moment. Please contact us to enquire about purchasing it offline.

Artist Songdog
Title Joy Street
Label Junkyard Songs

Artist Spencer McGarry Season
Title A Title Sparks Would Have Used
Label Businessman Records
Debut release on Businessman Records label, and a debut vinyl release for the hugely talented Spencer McGarry Season. It’s limited and numbered too, 500 copies so get in quick!

a/ A Title Sparks Would Have Used
b/ Nothing’s Happening

Artist Spencer McGarry Season
Title Episode 1
Label Businessman Records
Debut album from Spencer McGarry Season.

 In-store 26th November 2008 @ 5:15pm.