The Blinders - Fantasies Of A Stay At Home PsychopathA dark blues waltz underpinned by propulsive bass and evocatively prosaic lyricism, the track straddles the lines between ode and lament while addressing lifes confusing crossroads. The track is accompanied by an arresting video, which cuts between the band performing and wandering the atmospherically bleak landscape of the Peak District. The track is the first to be taken from their upcoming album, Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath, which was

A note about the title: The prefix of the Gories album ("The Shaw Tapes") is both a nod to the Velvet Underground's "Quine Tapes" and gives credit to the larger-than-life man behind the recording of the show

Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2018

they were probably the most ambitious and isolated band of the '90s

and Laurel Halo

To this day

a ban on any reverbs or ambience being used

compelling upbeat second from modern day pop star Christine and the Queens

side one contains broadcast recordings taken from tv and radio between december 1965 and march 1967 - but it is side two that is of great historical signficance for byrdmaniacs

All tracks were recorded at Cobra Studios

Laetitia Sadier

producer neil hegarty explains how its unique sound was created: "we played a record we liked through a spectrum analyzer and "captured" the eq shape and then applied that to the finished track

The album art was shot by Anton Corbijn