BILDERS - "Nictate" CSBilders Nictate CS (Grapefruit Sophomore Lounge, 2024) "Nictate" available on cassette and digital. Nictate's Side A is mostly Direen McManus Swanson spillovers from the Dustbin relay sessions, an alternative route from the LP. But this is no residuum. In 22 minutes, six tales of marginality pass by cafs of experimentalism and heresy, intersecting with psycho acoustic secrets known only to the sound producers. Guests include distinctive piano from

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then drops out the walls as you fall into the torments they have in store for you at the end – straight up MENACING lock-ins during closer “Pink Sweat” that’ll have you fucking up at work

The two records don’t necessarily stand in opposition

if not all together brighter

I knew absolutely nothing about gyril music before hearing this album

Fuji is a collection of mystical acid techno jams designed to ferry us out of this world and into another

On her debut Sandford brings her punk and DIY credentials into sharp focus on 8 perfect pop odes to city living

others were new compositions

and Daniel Knapp

pre song form Cabaret Voltaire

We took our master tape to Belgium to have the lacquer cut and shipped it off to the pressing plant in Germany

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