Smote - ClyppanLtd Blue Vinyl Clyppan is an Old English verb meaning to embrace or to clasp. It also referred to an ancient ritual in which people gathered in a circle, singing together around a sacred shrine. Its a fitting title for the latest release from Newcastles Smote a visceral document of the bands electrifying live set, captured within the walls of Londons Bear Bites Horse recording studio. Following the release of their acclaimed 2024 album A Grand Stream,

The album is a unique encounter where ANNA’s spiritual side and electronic music side become one

Svitlana Nianio’s haunted hammered string-work and the dark beauty of Dead Can Dance or This Mortal Coil

and Middlesborough rapper Shakkall make cameos

choruses as tall as skyscrapers and a lyric sheet thick with acid couplets and arch pop cultural references their loyal following will gobble up like quaaludes

were disrupting a thriving indie scene with a unique edgier

100% New original songs done by the psychedelic french garage duo The Liminanas & german-french music composer David Menke for the forthcoming Arte documentary "Thatcher's Not Dead" dedicated to Margaret Thatcher

But it also has to have dynamics

as he was after his first solo release

Vincent at her most primal

This New Jersey quintet’s latest album picks up where they left off on the now classic Pain Remains

This 2xLP set includes vinyl exclusive acoustic audio tracks and has five colour variants in addition to a matte finish border with UV gloss patterns and a high gloss centre anchored by red foil stamp imagery

developed into others that have become well- known