Let's bring this bloody awful year to a close with a bloody great 7" single release. Sissy Space Echo & The Invisible Collaborators, who you all should know by now were created in The Glass Factory from the smouldering ashes of Girl One And The Grease Guns, are releasing "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" b/w "They'll Fix You (They Fix Everything)" on Old Bad Habits Label, who are based in Greece. This is a strictly limited edition 7" on slick silver vinyl with photo/lyric insert - and we've got a handful of copies available for you to pre-order. When these are gone, they're gone for good. Give yourself a bit of extra festive cheer by grabbing one of them, while you can.

As we limp, wearily, to the end of 2020...a year that has been truly horrendous for most of us...we thought we'd go out with a BANG ! Or, more specifically, a streak of pure feedback, courtesy of The Manhattan Love Suicides and their noise-spattered fuzz pop. "Dirt In The Grooves" is a 23 track CD, a bumper collection of all the very best recordings by this band, served up in DVD style packaging with card inserts, and released on the always superb Next Phase : Normal Records. It's limited edition, so you'll have to move pretty fast if you want one. And, you can pre-order it, right here from Squirrel Records. Go on - stick your head in the speakers, turn up the volume and blast your senses with 74 minutes of raw sounding, scuzzy, ear-splitting melodies. Certainly, it's much more than a Yuletide stocking filler....this is a stocking KILLER !

Thirteen releases in for Next Phase : Normal Records. Unlucky for some. But, hopefully not. Especially as this one is an absolute belter, as the saying goes. A packed to the rafters (no social distancing here) 21 track compilation CD of the very best from The Blanche Hudson Weekend. This band existed from 2009 to 2013, and released two full length albums and a bunch of singles...most of which are now long sold out and deleted. So, we thought this would be a good time to compile many of the best tracks by the band, and serve 'em up in strictly limited edition DVD style packaging with card inserts (featuring reproduction artwork from The Blanche Hudson Weekend's albums and singles) If you're already familiar with this band, now's the time to shelve those 7"s for preservation purposes, and pick up this collection of all killer and no filler. If you don't know what the hell we're talking about when we mention The Blanche Hudson Weekend...then this is the perfect time to make a new musical discovery. Available to pre-order, right now....

Document 12... that's how Next Phase : Normal Records are referring to this one. That's because it's the 12th release on the label. Its title is "Signals, Wires & Amplifiers", and it's a 20 track compilation CD of several previously released recordings on the label, as well as a bunch of brand new and exclusive tracks by all the bands/artists that appear on it. Girl One And The Grease Guns, Sissy Space Echo & The Invisible Collaborators, The Razerbills, a.me, The Edible Eyes, Horton Parks, The Science Of Words, mattrobson... they're all present and correct. Plus, special guest stars - Auto Queens and Deathtrippers, who haven't previously appeared on Next Phase : Normal Records, and are making their debuts on the label, right here. This compilation is available to pre-order now in very limited edition DVD style packaging with postcard inserts for each of the bands featured. When the first 100 copies of this compilation have sold out, all orders after that will be packaged in regular CD jewel cases.

Back in July 2018, The Science Of Words released their debut disc on Next Phase : Normal Records. It was a limited edition CD single in wraparound 7" sleeve...or...a very, very limited edition lathe cut vinyl version was also available. Anyway, now here we are, in January 2020, and we've got some copies in stock of The Science Of Words' latest single release, "Kallocain", which is available on 3 track CD, housed in a 7" full colour sleeve, complete with art prints and info sheet. A truly beautiful looking (and sounding) package. And - it's available to order...right this minute....