Poptones.co.uk's Essential Listening for October!

Echelon - Window’s Shut Poptones’ favourite swirling magical folkers weigh in with a Talk-Talk influenced second single.  Released on the 17th of October, this is the perfect sound of the Autumn.  To pre-order your single please click here.

To read more of our journey through the best sounds of October please click below!

The Times - Here’s To Old England One listen to this comp and you realise that Mr Edward Ball is a genius. To buy his amazing comp of the Creation Years please click here.

Monoshock - Walk To The Fire Comets on Fire? Residual Echoes? You ain’t heard nothing until you’ve been shocked alive by the noisiest, punk rock motherfuckers who sound like they have been inhaling Stooges records since they were born. To read Sir Julian Cope sing the praises of Monoshock please click here

The Paddingtons - First Comes FirstWhy is everyone from Neil Tennant to Hedi Slimane talking about the Paddingtons?  Because they are one fine motherfucking teenage punk band from HULL!

http://www.thepaddingtons.net

Sunn0))) - The Black Album Ever wondered what it would be like to go to HELL?  Well ... The Black Album is the closest you’ll ever get to the sounds of Hell.  Absolutely stunning.

http://www.southernlord.com/sunn.htm

Matt Groening Comp - All Tomorrow’s Parties The Simpson’s creator weighs in with one of the coolest comps around.  From the noise-rock of Sonic Youth doing the Simpson’s theme, old school punk rock favs of The Stooges and The Magic Band, through to the weirdo pop of Spoon and Modest Mouse and ending with a foray into the noise rock of Jackie-O-Motherfucker

We liked it so much we wrote about it here

Toolshed - Twisted Nerve Graham Massey of 808 State takes you on a kraut-rock space odyessy through his own head.  And its ace! Look for the forthcoming album in December.

http://www.tool-shed.com/discogs.html

ESG - A South Bronx Story Black girls from a South Bronx ghetto are given instruments by their mother to stay out of trouble.  Inspired by James Brown and a DIY atttitude end up being in one of the grooviest post-punk bloc parties ever.  This is the real thing.  Its blown Poptones.co.uk’s minds.
http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/esg.html

Neil Young - On the BeachAmazing.  The last album that sees Young coming out of his dark period of ‘Tonights the Night’ with some of his finest lyics of his career.  “Well, I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars,
But I hate them worse than lepers and I’ll kill them in their cars”.  Can things get more punk rock around Neil’s?  To be honest this pisses all over what is called ‘alt-america’.

https://www.neilyoung.com

Aphrodite’s Child - 666 - Its a double prog psychedelic rock album about the devil.  On the cover are the following words:  ‘Anyone who has the intelligence May Intepret The Number Of The Beast.  It Is A Man’s Number.  This Number is 666.  How ace is that?’

http://www.vangelismovements.com/aphroditeschild.htm

Chrome - Alien Soundtracks/Half Machine Lip Moves What was up in San Francisco?  During the punk wars of the 70s?  When NYC and UK were fighting out for the title of the King of Punk Rock, San Francisco were producing twisted, art-fuck-rock weirdos like prog more interested in manipulating tape machine and sounding like the monster in a horror film.  Ace!

http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/band.php?id=39

Phillipe Besombes - Libra This is a weird one to get your head around.  Besombes was an avant-garde musican brought in to score a french horror film ‘Libra’.  Which he did.  Only he brought to the table a scary legion of demonic moogs making this thing an effortless psychedelic Omen-like soundtrack.  Play this one late at night during Halloween.  And try not to be scared witless.

Green Jeans - Fabulous Flee Rakkers An update of Green Sleeves and produced by Joe Meek, it has that out-of-this-earth-tiny-production that still sounds strangely current and very, very wonderful.  To read more about Joe Meek click below

http://www.joemeek.com/

Vampire Lesbos -Sexadelic Dance PartyThe sound of kraut-rock musicians Siegred Schwab and Manfred Hubner was released as a soundtrack for the Jess Franco uber-lesbian vampire flick and though Poptones.co.uk has never actually seen the film in question, the soundtrack evokes trippy mod psychedelic dance parties and that can never be a bad thing.

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