Free UK Postage Weekender at chalkpit cassette club
To kick off the new year in style Chalkpit Cassette Club are pleased to offer the community Free UK Postage on Absolutely Everything on the Chalkpit Cassette Club - Shop
If you have been dreaming of starting your own cassette collection or want to start listening to cassettes then we are here to kit you out from new cassettes, portable cassette players and awesome merchandise.
Snap up this limited time deal from Friday 14th January til Monday 17th January 2022
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Pre-Order / Releases 24 January - Order now and receive on launch! Limited Stock Available on Pre Order
Following the huge acclaim of Matt’s 2021 album The Blue Elephant (“A sonic odyssey” – Uncut) – as well as last year’s one-off album of library music collaboration with the KPM label (“another string to Berry’s impressive bow” – Prog magazine) – we present Heard Noises, Matt’s eighth studio album with Acid Jazz, out 24 January
We’re hugely excited to offer a beautiful label-exclusive gatefold edition on Psychedelic Swirl colour vinyl, alongside the standard version Sky Blue LP, as well as corresponding soft-pack CD and retro Cassette. We are also excited to announce the addition of a limited edition 8-track cartridge!
Lead single ‘I Gotta Limit’ finds Matt trading lines with Kitty Liv (Kitty, Daisy and Lewis) as a man after a second chance with a woman impatient with his pleading. With a song structure inspired by Sly Stone, in a little over three minutes ‘I Gotta Limit’ crams in a plethora of musical ideas on an instantly catchy song which is part Northern Soul, part psych.
In contrast to The Blue Elephant’s dizzying trip through an idiosyncratic love of British Psych, Freakbeat, Acid Rock and late ‘60s pop, Heard Noises finds Matt heading for a looser, Californian psychedelia through his love of the trippier sounds of space pop and rock, and his ear for an eerie, haunting melody.
Once again, the album is testament to Matt’s exceptional musicianship, production skills and songwriting prowess. Almost every instrument is played by Matt including guitars, bass, a variety of keyboards (acoustic and Wurlitzer pianos), synthesizers and organs (including Moogs, Vox, Farfisa, Gibson, Eminent organs) and Mellotron.
He is joined by long-time collaborator, neo-progressive drummer Craig Blundell, and guests including Pokerface’s Natasha Lyonne and back with Matt is The Shins/Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson (acoustic guitar, autoharp and backing vocals on ‘Why On Fire?’, ‘To Live For What Once Was’ and ‘Snakes That Slide’), Phil Scraggs (lap steel guitar on ‘To Live For What Once Was’ and ‘Snakes That Slide’), Rosie McDermott (vocals on ‘Sky High’) and the S. Club 60s Choir (featuring Matt’s mum).
In many ways Heard Noises could be considered the perfect distillation of the extraordinary breadth of musical ideas across Matt’s albums to date.
Pre Order Now / Shipping 24th January - Limited Stock Available
Working with esteemed American producer John Congleton, Glaswegian post-rock legends Mogwai deliver their eleventh studio album The Bad Fire. Named for a Scottish colloquialism for Hell, the album maintains the kind of accessible structures that the band have pursued for the last decade or so, culminating in their 2021 chart-topper As The Love Continues, but it also loses none of the fire-breathing dynamism for which they’re so beloved.