
The NoMen have returned
to the studio and released a free download album of obscure covers and obscure originals...
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Topplers is a micro record label based in Scotland
with an international roster of artists all with a simple DIY lo-fi ethic!
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Ex Swell Map and Television Personality!
Jowe Head's back catalogue is impressive, but his
solo work is his best!
Jowe Head was a founding member of Swell Maps along
with Nikki Sudden and Phones Sportsman. When the Maps split in 1981
he went on to play with the Television Personalities. Since then
he has never been idle playing with a huge range of idiosyncratic
bands and releasing some amazing records. This album finds him revisiting
'Cake Shop Girl' from his Swell Maps days and contains some of his
best songs and a couple of unusual cover versions! 'Jack in the Green' is a pulsating rocker, 'Neither Fish nor Fowl' is a freaky psychedelic trip, Serbsville and Merman are trippy instrumentals. 10 tracks in all - every one a gem!
Jowe is also a very talented artist and printmaker so all of his releases on Topplers have sleeves he designed or painted himself.
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2006 solo album
Jowe Head - From a Parallel Universe
Jowe Head's first solo record on Topplers is a tour-de-force!
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2006 solo album
Jowe Head - From a Parallel Universe
Jowe Head's first solo record on Topplers is a tour-de-force!
It contains some of his finest songs and includes his reworking of the Swell Maps "Cake Shop Girl" which was released on 7" by the Cake Sop in New York City.
The album has an exotic feel with Jowe experimenting with balalaika, thumb piano, talking drums and toy pianos to create a swirling soundscape over his solid rhythms.
From a Parallel World also contains a couple of very unusual cover versions!
Front cover and booklet art are paintings by Jowe.
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1990's avant-pop guitar mangling!
Olive's Hairy Custard self titled album
This is a forgotten treasure of an album released for
the first time in its entireity. A 7" single by the band and a track on a compilation
LP was all that ever appeared from these recordings in the nineties.
Now you can hear the full album in all it's glory, and what an album
it is! Jowe and his band mates have written a fantastic collection
of songs which they play with gusto. The guitar playing alone is
worth the price of admission! The wonderfully named Les Miserable and Garlon Hairmungous (both from Australia) both share guitar and vocal with Jowe and the rock solid drumming is provided by Elliot P Smoke once of Thrilled Skinny and now in The Knockouts.
There are 12 tracks on this album which comes wrapped in a great big fold out sleeve with some very strange photos of the band in action!!!
If you like custard you'll love this album!
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ANGEL RACING FOOD - tastes real
good!
Jowe Head teams up with Lee McFadden from ATV
A tour-de-force from Jowe and the band. This album
is chock full of Jowe's unique brand of twisted pop, delivered
in his distinctive baritone. Contains the classic "Venus Bigfoot"
single which sounds as though Adam and the Ants collided with the
Fall!
This is a consistently inventive collection of songs and the band is on top form throughout the album.
Highlights include the aforementioned Venus Bigfoot, the sultry psychedelica of Butcher Shop Lassie, the black humour of Dead Man's Shoes, in fact they are all highlights! 11 tracks in all plus a full A3 sized poster of Jowe's cover painting is included with the CD.
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++NEWS++NEWS ++NEWS++

The NoMen have returned
to the studio and released an album of obscure covers and 'original'
songs. You can download the Zipped MP3 album by clicking the image above or click here.
Tracks
from the new "Psycho Deli" album are available on You
Tube and on the NoMen's
web page.
Catch up with a NoMen radio broadcast HERE.

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