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Blood Stereo - 'Your Snakelike King' & 'All Are Ore Museum' LP & CDr

New LP in an edition of 330 copies. This batch is a limited edition of 54 which come with an extra CDr of material, featuring The BS track from The Psykick Dancehall 4x3"cdr comp,, the side from the Pod Blotz split tape on Bennifer and two previously unreleased pieces. Numbered and signed.

"Brand new release from Brighton mongs Blood Stereo, duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance. 'Your Snake Like King' picks up where last years 'The Magnetic Headache' left off, a shape shifting and strange mix of tape collage, free vocals and electro-acoustic mischief. Midnight to 3am recordings fueled by grape and smoke conjour up a blurred narrative, the meaning of which is never quite clear, like weird off camera sounds in some tripped out movie. The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. " - Pan

"Your Snakelike King takes up where The Magnetic Headache left off, going deeper into the kind of nocturnal zone where sustained tones and eerie low-level atmospherics combine with the rhythmic misappropriation of small instruments and domestic appliances to create a crude form of homemade psychedelia. Early Blood Stereo releases all but exploded any notion of ‘aura’ in favour of a violent prole-punk evisceration of prissy ideas like technique and cohesion but this latest incarnation seems to have much more to do with creating and developing a specific atmosphere, one that is often as dread-filled and disturbing as their earlier sides but that somehow has more (spontaneous) compositional depth and a lot more mystery and style. There are some beautifully weird half melodies sunk in here, ghostly keyboard patterns that bloom for mere seconds before disappearing in a smoke of lungs and percussion. I’d say Blood Stereo are at the apex of their own self-invented form right now, with a feel for improvised electro-acoustic weirdness that is as subtle and sophisticated as NNCK and you’d do well to file this one right next to The Magnetic Headache and refer to em both next time you’re looking for a way to navigate yourself clear of the noise = noise cul de sac. It’s all in here. Recommended." - Volcanic Tongue