NEW! Dragged Up 'Hex Domestic EP' and Pound Land 'Violence'
Dragged Up 'Hex Domestic EP' - out now!
Formed in Glasgow (UK) in late 2018 with members from Trembling Bells, Vom, The Owsley Sunshine and Las Mitras, Dragged Up's debut mini-album "D/U" was released in 2020, to positive reviews and critical acclaim from the likes of Louder Than War: "like classic CBGBs proto-punk transplanted to rain-drenched Scottish streets" and Record Collector magazine: "an all-seeing, culture-cannibalizing slacker classic."
Mentioned in the same breath as Scottish indie-rockers Teenage Fanclub and garage-punks The Primevals, 'Hex Domestic' presents four new tracks showcasing their seamless cross-pollination of doom, psych, proto-punk, garage rock, and spoken word.
UK Tour dates:
September:
Sun 10th - Old Hairdressers, Glasgow (supporting The Bevis Frond)
Thursday 14th - The Keg, Paisley
Friday 15th - The Twa Tams, Perth
Saturday 16th - Leith Depot, Edinburgh (with Amateur Cult and Errant Boy)
Thursday 28th - Centrala, Birmingham (with The Courtesy Group & Ray Vorg plus Fliss Kitson DJing)
Friday 29th – Salty Dog, Northwich (with Pill Fangs)
Saturday 30th - Little Buildings, Newcastle upon Tyne (with Pound Land and Lovely Wife) - https://www.wegottickets.com/event/591764/
October:
Saturday 7th – Queen’s Hotel, Dundee (all-dayer presented by Gulls Revenge)
Stream: https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hex-domestic-ep
Pound Land 'Violence' - out 29 September
'Violence' is the new album from Pound Land - eight filthy tracks of vitriolic desperation recorded by the core duo of Nick Harris and Adam Stone and featuring a number of guest musicians, including Steve Watson of Iron Monkey and solo artist Adam Petiss.
'Violence', the band's sixth album, often veers towards a nineties alt-metal/industrial sound, along with the usual smatterings of customary Pound Land abstraction.
In addition, this new album continues to aggressively push lyrical themes relating to the same old shit that seems to be getting worse: corporate hegemony, business culture, mainstream media influence, automation, class polarisation and economic austerity.
""Violence is an album that captures that sense of perpetual anger, frustration and ever-creeping hopelessness. Of course, it does all that while making a gloriously malevolent racket." (4/5) (Andy Brown, Louder Than War)
"Returning with a sixth album of sludgy, psychedelic industrial punk, as well as featuring Steve Watson of Iron Monkey, Pound Land continue to let us know the state of the nation in a way that Sleaford Mods would kill to. Heavy without resorting to metal cliches and with electronics that sound dirty, ‘Violence’ is their best record to date as well as their most challenging." (Christopher Owens, Predominance 31)
Stream: https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/violence
