OIB Records WINTER SALE: Lonely Ghosts // Pope Joan // Casiotone for the Painfully Alone // My Device // Mewgatz !!!

With Autumn just around the corner and a whole host of new records just released or coming out soon including the Pseudo Nippon - Edamame Freakout EP; OIB Split Series Volume 3 (featuring Lovvers / Knyfe Hyts / The Death Set / Best Fwends); and Lonely Ghosts - Come Down From The Mountain / Ghosts of Mice EP, our office is becoming over run with boxes of vinyl everywhere, so we've decided that to make room for all these shiny new releases we're going to have a big old fashioned WINTER SALE. So for the next couple of months you'll be able to fill the missing gaps in your OIB Records collections at a knock down bargain price of up to 66% off!

 

OIB006: Pope Joan - Hot Water, Lines and Rickety Machines CD

JUST £3.99 (UK)

With their debut mini-album 'Hot Water, Lines and Rickety Machines', Pope Joan have created a breathless assemblage of 8 tracks recorded over one hectic weekend that reflects the refinement of their sound, combining unforgettable pop-hooks with the lo-fi immediacy of their raw essence.

 

Format: CD

Tracklisting: No TV / 49 Years Time / A Length Of String / Nothing Is Too Much / Our Cuisine / It's The Same As When You Asked Me The Last Time / An Alternate Route To The End / Pocket Of Change

 

"A colourful explosion of post punk adorned, effects laden guitar lines, quirky synth noises, elasticated bass lines and creative drum patterns topped off with an undeniable pop sheen." - Artrocker

 

"Brighton boys Pope Joan are a fantastic and quirky proposition indeed." - NME

 

 

 

OIB005: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Town Topic EP

JUST £1.99 (UK)

Claustrophobic two-minute character studies shuddered with reverbed beats, blown-out chords and simple but infectious melodies, all layered beneath Casiotone's bittersweet lyrical odes to love lost. Town Topic is the soundtrack to the Laurel Nakadate film Stay The Same Never Change. Limited to 1200 copies (200 blue, 500 clear, 500 black) with no repress!

 

Format: 7" VINYL EP

Tracklisting: Ice Cream Truck / Town Topic (instrumental) / I Love Creedence (instrumental) / Green Cotton Sweater (version)

 

"Genius name, dark and stormy electronica - the sound of the astronauts on the international space station having a jam session whilst waiting for their new pump, and beaming the results to a teddy bears picnic back on earth." - Subba Cultcha

 

 

 

OIB004: Lonely Ghosts - Don't Get Lost or Hurt CD

JUST £3.99 (UK)

Musically broader and more personal than Tom Denney's previous output in Help She Can't Swim, this debut mini-album 'Don't Get Lost or Hurt' sees demanding electro beats and casio keys rubbing shoulders with classical instruments, sweeping string sounds, and forgotten tape noise.

 

Format: CD

Tracklisting: So Young, So Beautiful / Plough Through / Happy Lovers Friends Forever / It's Time To Wake Up / Maybe You Could Save Me / The Unpopular Future / Good Times / Hole In The Sky

 

"Delectable slices of symphonic pop" - Rock Sound

 

"Bracing like a fist full of caffeine pills." - NME

 

 

 

OIB003: OIB Records Split Series Volume 1 - Gay Against You / Munch Munch / Lonely Ghosts / The Tumbledown Estate

JUST £2.50 (UK)

The first in our series of limited edition split 7" records. Limited to 500 copies with reversible gatefold sleeves, lyric sheet and one-inch badge.

 

Format: 7" VINYL EP

Tracklisting: The Tumbledown Estate - Voodoo Wave / Munch Munch - I See Sexy Dead People / Gay Against You - Wall Wizards Part Two / Lonely Ghosts - Predictions for the New Year

 

"None of these tracks are a gamble and it's very well curated, check it out!" - Music-dash.co.uk

 

"All these bands are definitely worth further investigation." - Artrocker

 

 

 

OIB002: Mewgatz - Underfelt EP

JUST £2.00 (UK)

Constructed around the circuit-bent brains of a grave-yard of abandoned keyboards, Underfelt is the debut release by the guerrilla-electro whizz-kid Mewgatz. Falling somewhere between the Magnetic Fields and Squarepusher this is a collection of dark lo-fidelity electronic ballads drenched in raw, passionate and vulnerable emotion. Limited to 500 copies.

 

Format: 10" VINYL EP

Tracklisting: A_Part / Arm Control / Speak and Spell / Aquarium / Difference / Serca

 

"Tender mechanics and loft-space constellations…as unloved mini-robots put out tiny feelers into the cosmos Mewgatz feeds them with crystallised quizzical melodies" - Plan B

 

"Makes the more difficult moments of Radiohead's 'Kid A' sound like a Cheeky Girls single." - Rockmidgets.com

 

*** MP3 - you will also receive a free link to download the tracks within 24 hours of purchasing. All MP3s are at 192kbps***

 

 

 

OIB001: My Device - Eat Lead EP

JUST £1.25 (UK)

Brighton's avant-pop pioneers new double A-side single Eat Lead/I Was Brave Today, 7 minutes of disjoined noise, yelps, hooks and incredibly infectious beats. Limited to 500 copies with individually hand drawn labels on the B-side of the record by My Device.

 

Format: 7" VINYL EP / CD

7inch vinyl Tracklisting: Eat Lead / I Was Brave Today / Mybear (Live)

 

CD Tracklisting: Eat Lead / Slamming Doors

 

"They seem to be unable to go for longer than 4 beats without changing tack, time, tempo and whatever else comes to their feverish minds. Well that's definitely the case on this impressive offering anyway. Phew!" - Artrocker

 

 

 

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone / Lonely Ghosts - Limited Edition Screenprints (hand numbered and artist signed)

JUST £7.00 (UK)

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone / Lonely Ghosts super limited screenprinted posters for their show at the Brighton Pressure Point. Limited to just 60 A2 sized posters all hand numbered and signed by the artist Jemma Treweek. Posters come packaged in a hard tube.

 

Click here to see a full hi-resolution image of the poster

 

 

 

PIAPTK025: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - STSNC Instrumentals 7"

JUST £1.99 (UK)

'Random coloured' vinyl only release that is the counterpart of our OIB Records released 'Town Topic EP'. Together they make up the soundtrack to the Laurel Nakadate film 'Stay The Same Never Change'. This 7" was released by the cult vinyl-only Olympia Washington label 'People in a Position to Know'. Limited to just 300 copies worldwide, 'STSNC Instrumentals' is a 10 track long instrumental record.

 

Format: 7" VINYL EP

Tracklisting: Twinkle Echo (reverse) / Nashville Parthenon (instrumental) / STSNC / Twinkle Echo (redux) / I Like Common / Possible Love Interest (ringtone) / Bad People (ringtone) / OMG (ringtone) / Probably Walkin Down The Street (ringtone) / Ice Cream Truck (instrumental)

 

 

 

 

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