C40 Cassette - Second Edition, Pink Cassette Shells
Cassette + Digital Album
Cassette version w/ printed card sleeve and pink cassettes.
Includes unlimited streaming of Chain Of Flowers
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
2016 was a busy year in the world of this Welsh unit. They slimmed down to a 5 piece and took their blend of heavy shoegaze and tough post-punk well outside of their Cardiff home, embarking on a run of UK and European gigs with Nothing (Relapse Records) and also their own tour of the USA and Canada. This all culminated with an appearance at the annual Blackest Ever Black rave in London where they held their own on a bill with drum & bass stalwart Felix K and Bristol's Ossia. In 2017 the band plan to return for a full tour of the USA, followed by their biggest European tour yet including the Nothing Nice To Say festival in Berlin. We've repressed the bands debut album on Clear Vinyl to tie in with this and also keep this modern classic in print for a little while longer.
Includes unlimited streaming of Chain Of Flowers
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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140g LP w/ Insert
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Emerging from the murk and dirt of their Cardiff city home, Chain Of Flowers have revealed their long-awaited debut album. Recorded at Monnow Valley Studios in Wales, Chain Of Flowers is a dense eight-track opus of heavy shoegaze sonics and urgent post-punk. The band’s razor sharp attention to classic songwriting nous means the record dips and dives between euphoric, hazy melody (‘Glimmers Of Joy’) and overwhelming gloom (‘Bury My Love’), all whilst retaining a breathless pace. Lead track ‘Crisis’ epitomises this frantic personality exquisitely, skirting between sludgy atmospherics and hardcore’s punchy immediacy with aplomb. The six-piece sowed their seeds through the release of six songs over the past three years (via the band’s own Swine Language tape label), cutting their teeth on dates alongside Iceage, Cremation Lily, The Fall, The Smear, Shallow Sanction, Eagulls, Nothing and more before decamping to Monnow Valley for the four-day session that spawned their debut LP. “We dropped ourselves into the middle of nowhere and hammered it out with next to no sleep available to us. The urgency and delirium of the situation helped us,” explains the band’s vocalist Joshua Smith. “Though we only had 96 hours in a studio to physically make it what we wanted, this record is the product of our last three years as a band and beyond that as individuals. We spent a lot of time in our space writing these songs and we’ve also spent a lot of time ironing them out through playing as and when and wherever we have been able to. ”Mixed over six months by New York-based Ben Greenberg (Uniform, The Men, Pygmy Shrews), the LP sees Chain Of Flowers break free of their locality. “It’s been a drawn out but very necessary sonic exorcism for us,” explains Josh. “We are happy that it will see the light of day.” Chain Of Flowers is released via Alter on October 16th 2015.
Includes unlimited streaming of Chain Of Flowers
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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this album made me feel nostalgic for memories that never existed😭 the name of the album compliments the sound of the album very well. keep up the great work.
jonathanuseless
genuinely one of the best albums I've ever heard. it fills me with this amazing rush of adrenaline every single time I listen to it. definitely a daily listen rw.roach
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Woozy, rollicking indie rock that's thick and humid, searching vocals set against pealing guitars. Also available on cassette. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 22, 2016
Better late to the party than never. How did I miss this band? It's a great blend of The Cure during their 'a forest' period and alternative rock. The first track Grandview plunges you into an ocean of psychodelic guitars and rythmic drums and like a siren lures you into the depths. A very accomplished album and although I wouldn't categorize it as Gothic it captures the early spirit of that dusty genre better than most contemporary bands nowadays. stargazing robot