I've lots of recently released music to share. The new EP from The Long Champs came out two weeks ago on Tici Taci, a label celebrating ten years of releases while also continuing to put out consistently good music. The EP's title track, Nostalgia For The Future, is a six minutes of chug, submarine sonar bleeps, mangled guitar lines, faint echoes of voice and from two minutes twenty six a fuzzy, distorted bassline that push everything onward. Layers of guitars and feedback bounce around the track, some nostalgia for late 80s and early 90s indie- dance guitar bands spliced into 2023 cosmic Welsh chug.
The EP features two more tracks- Mind Trip, Right On and A Hungry Ghost. Mind Trip, Right On, is slower paced, a bumping bassline and various FX toplines playing off against each other. A Hungry Ghost has more of those squally guitars, backwards guitars and bursts of feedback, with insistent drums and a tambourine. You can listen to all three here. The Long Champs 2020 album Straight To Audio is still available physically at Bandcamp, full of slo- mo, indie dance, ALFOS chug treats.
Tici Taci are releasing four compilations to celebrate the ten years of operation. Decade Volume 2, sixteen tracks selected by label boss Duncan Gray spanning the years 2015- 2017, an embarrassment of riches including selections by Duncan himself, Uj Pa Gaz, Veneno, Planet Jumper, Tronik Youth, The Long Champs and James Rod. The compilation finishes with Duncan and Sraah Rebecca and their song Erotica Nervosa, a sleek six minutes of bump and grind. Over throbbing bass Sarah sings of sexual obsession, how freedom's just a word until you lose it and of being reborn in the fire. Decade Volume 2 can be bought here.
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