RIVAL CONSOLES – SOFT GRADIENT BECKONS

Posted on 2025-07-14

Ryan Lee West had found himself in a kind of private hiatus following his 2022 album Now Is. For a work so focused on untangling the present, nothing seemed to move much afterwards. It was only after shifting gears and scenery that things started to click again, sparking a post-hibernatory efflorescence of creativity that would soon become his ninth Rival Consoles album Landscape from Memory. Its title seems synonymous with “rebuilding from scratch”, and its music effuse with detail conceptualises all things “re-”: reviewing, rekindling, rejoining, as he fleshes out sonic sketches collected over the years to come back with one of his strongest, most engaging records to date.

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DJ MARCELLE/ANOTHER NICE MESS – SORRY, NO SILENCE

Posted on 2025-07-14

Track taken from 12” EP ‘Sorry, No Silence’ (Cortizona Records) June 2025
All proceeds go to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

www.anothernicemess.com

  

BLACK SITES – C4

Posted on 2025-07-14

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg’s hidden places: Helena Hauff and F # X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn’t invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album’s breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

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I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER

Posted on 2025-07-14

When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.

In theatres July 18th, 2025

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SAINT CLARE

Posted on 2025-07-14

In a small town a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond

In theatres July 18th, 2025

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BRAIN DEAD X GHOST IN THE SHELL

Posted on 2025-07-14

The upcoming capsule is based on the artwork of creator Masamune Shirow, and features a total of three T-shirts. Offered in options of black, white or monotone, the pieces deliver unique artwork that reinterpret the philosophical worldview and analog cyber images of the beloved manga/anime. Closing it out is a black cap with co-branded insignias in purple.

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