XRAY004: Mickey Gloss

Hello strangers! It's time to introduce the latest band to join the fold and commit their music to flexi disc, MICKEY GLOSS. Their single ‘Crocodile Smile’ is available from the X-Ray Recordings online store from Monday July 9th (because lead times are boring) and in most independent record stores from July 16th.

MICKEY GLOSS is a Psychedelic Punk Party Band that started in Australia and ended up in London. The three piece combines masochistic guitar slabs, eerie keyboard swarms, bombastic drumming, transient fairy tales and savant bass minimalism to create beautiful static lullabies.

Side A and B of their flexi disc, ‘Crocodile Smile’ and ‘Little White Lies’, illustrates their ability to find the truth within pop, by proving what all good pop songs must: that there is a better world than the one presented. MICKEY GLOSS qualifies the statement that the pop they make will be influenced by the endless complexity of imagination and not a prescribed image of manufactured consent.

Here's the 'Crocodile Smile' video...

You can pre-order the 7” flexi disc for a mere £3 here: http://xrayrecordings.bigcartel.com/

For more information give us a shout - kate@xrayrecordings.com or scott@xrayrecordings.com. 

SALT FLATS POSTCARD- SOLD OUT!!!

The FAIR OHS single Salt Flats has now sold out in our store. You can still get a copy from these record shops:

Rough Trade
HMV
Amazon

Also you can get it digitally from ITunes and all other download sites.

Salt Flats by FAIR OHS is out TODAY!!!

XRAY003 available on Flexi Postcard and in digital form.  Buy from us HERE and get a a copy with a personal message from FAIR OHS. Also available from Rough Trade, HMV, Amazon, ITunes and all the other usual outlets and download stores. Available on Flexi Postcard and in digital form.

Listen to Salt Flats:
Salt Flats - Fair Ohs by X-RAY RECORDINGS

XRAY002 - OUT TODAY!

The Coathangers 'Hurricane'/'Johnny' flexidisc is out today and can be orderd from our online store right HERE!

Limited to 300 copies, it's a transparent hand-numbered clear flexidisc, artwork photograph taken by Westin Glass of The Thermals fame. Basically it's pretty fucking cool and costs a mere £3.75 inc P&P.


Listen to the tracks before you buy:

'Hurricane'/'Johnny' Flexidisc by WorkItMedia

XRAY003 is well underway and to be announced very soon, so keep an eye out for details very soon!

XRAY002... AT LAST!!

After surprising ourselves and everyone else with the very successful release of XRAY001 (Trogons’ flexidisc single ‘Contina’), X-Ray Recordings are excited to finally announce our second release (ok, we had a false start on this one, but we’re serious now ok?). Casting our eyes across the pond, XRAY002 is with Atlanta riot grrrls The Coathangers. It's a limited edition hand numbered transparent flexidisc featuring tracks 'Hurricane' and 'Johnny' and is out on October 24th. It'll look a little something like this...

The Coathangers new album ‘Larceny & Old Lace’ was released back in June through the excellent Suicide Squeeze and floored us with its energy and attitude. Swinging frantically from ferocious to saccharine sweet, all the while showing an uncanny flair for writing thoroughly addictive hooks, The Coathangers do girl punk with more panache, style and humour than any of their peers. And it’s exactly that which has led us to commit two of our favourite tracks from the record to floppy plastic for your pleasure.

The gloriously gritty a-side ‘Hurricane’ will not fail to have you air drumming at your desk and is accompanied by this rather awesome video:

For more information watch this space, or email kate@xrayrecordings.com.

Trogons flexidisc in NME!

With XRAY001 very close to sold out now, we've decided we quite like this label-running lark. The Trogons flexidisc seems to have gone down rather well, so thank you to everyone who has helped us make it happen, to those who bought a copy, and of course to Trogons for being our guinea pigs!

Before we move on to XRAY002, here's a scan from NME. Woop!

TROGONS SINGLE OUT TODAY!!

Today is the day!! I'm sure you've seen on the news that there have been people camping outside and queuing at every Woolworths across the land for DAYS for a chance to lay their mits on a copy of XRAY001, Trogon's flexidisc single 'Contina'.

However, don't panic, you can still buy one from one of these places:

Norman Records
Piccadilly Records
Rough Trade
HMV
Big Cartel


Or download it from here:

iTunes
Amazon

For more info give us a shout - info@xrayrecordings.com.

Buy XRAY001

XRAY001 - Trogons' single 'Contina' is now available for pre-order.

Released on April 25th, the flexidisc is backed with 'Protest No. 678' and is available from Rough Trade, or we have a small number for sale in our own store here.

The tracks will be up for digital download soon, along with iTunes exclusive bonus track 'Where's My Sword'. Check back for more details soon.

XRAY001 is complete!

XRAY001 - Trogons flexidisc single Contina is ready to go and it doesn't look half bad! Here it is:

Now to sell them! A few will be available in selected record stores this weekend for record store day, or you can pre-order them online now here: http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=338683. The official release date is Monday April 25th.

Trogons' video for Contina!!

Trogons in Loud & Quiet

There's a Trogons feature in the new issue of Loud & Quiet, photo by the wonderful Owen Richards. Check it out!

We have lift off!

X-Ray Recordings presents XRAY001:

TROGONS

‘CONTINA’

SINGLE OUT ON LTD FLEXIDISC & DOWNLOAD APRIL 25^TH 2011

Tracklisting:

1. Contina
2. Protest Song No. 678
3. Where’s My Sword (download only)

Formed from the burnt remains and still-kicking bodies of various London groups, TROGONS have picked up a lysergically-stained and goth-whittled spear with which to stalk their deepest fears and dreams. Gemma Fleet of Kasms takes the vocal helm, steering a life-raft of fuzzed-up psyche guitar whirls yanked from the boards of the original nuggets artifacts, a keyboard drone that cloaks the craft in mystery and a locked-in rhythm section. The missing link between reverb-washed Siouxsie And The Banshees' night-creepings and the dizzy psychedelia of Californian travelers, like West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band or the Third Bardo.

Their new single ‘Contina’ will be available on limited edition hand numbered transparent flexidisc through X-Ray Recordings on April 25^th 2011. The flexi includes second track ‘Protest Song No. 678’’, with the iTunes bundle giving an additional third track ‘Where’s My Sword’. All tracks were recorded and mixed by fellow Kasms member and one time Test Icicle Rory Brattwell at his studio in East London.

Trogons are Gemma Fleet (vocals, bass), Andrew Robert Doig (guitar) and Phillip Edward Johnson (organ), Dean Hinks (drums).

For more information about Trogons visit:

www.myspace.com/trogonon - www.twitter.com/trogonsband - trogonsband.tumblr.com

For more from X-Ray Recordings visit:

www.facebook.com/xrayrecordings - www.twitter.com/xrayrecords - www.xrayrecordings.com. 

And we're off!

With Trogons confirmed as the first band to release on X-Ray Recordings, it's all systems go for XRAY001. Kicking off proceedings with a bang, Trogons were on 6music this week doing a session for Marc Riley, which you can listen to online here.

We'll be announcing more information about Trogons' debut single very soon, but in the meantime here's their video for 'Sci-Fi Landscape 600 x 900':

This week we've also got our fantastic new logo which we have to say we're pretty pleased with. We've also set up a Facebook page and a Twitter account, so like/follow us for more regular updates on X-Ray Recordings.

That's all for today!
xo

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