2012 may have seemed a relatively quiet year for The Blanche Hudson Weekend, with just 2 new singles released on Odd Box Records (the Just Like Susan George b/w To Be That Way Again 7" and the Deep Thrust EP) but they've actually been very busy writing, and then recording, this epic 15 tracker which is set for release in April 2013.

Entitled How Many Times Have You Let Me Die? - it's the follow up to 2011's You Always Loved Violence album, and this one takes everything the band achieved on that particular long player and ramps it up to a whole new level. The Blanche Hudson Weekend have never been about staying in one place musically. When people expected more of the fuzz pop they delivered on their earliest releases, they gave them the stripped back production of the You Always Loved Violence album instead. Now, they just want to experiment with their sound as much as possible. On How Many Times Have You Let Me Die?, they still deliver the kind of noisy pop they've written from the start, but with the gradual introduction of keyboards, samples and strange electronic sounds, the songwriting has expanded and been driven down a different musical path.

So, alongside the chugging pop of Love Is A Poison, the bouncy pop of Punk Rock Pogo Satellite, and the full on noisy pop of (Just Like) Susan George, If You're Still Together and (They Say Good Guys Are So) Hard To Find, there's the dark and brooding electronica of Blood And Butter, the New Order-ish When All Is Said And Done, and the epic 7 minutes synth and guitar pop of To Be That Way Again. The band also cover a track by The Sweet Nothings, Impossible You, bending and twisting it into a whole new creation. In total, How Many Times Have You Let Me Die? runs for 56 minutes, and is easily the greatest thing The Blanche Hudson Weekend have recorded so far.

UK ONLY ORDERS

So, this is it, folks... we're getting very near the end. This year, Squirrel Records will close its doors after 45 releases in total. Why 45 ? Well, we like that number, as it's the playing speed of a 7" single. We always said that 33 isn't enough, and 78 is too many. Anyway, Squirrel Records, throughout the years of its existence, has epitomised the true spirit of... [more]

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So, this is it, folks... we're getting very near the end. This year, Squirrel Records will close its doors after 45 releases in total. Why 45 ? Well, we like that number, as it's the playing speed of a 7" single. We always said that 33 isn't enough, and 78 is too many. Anyway, Squirrel Records, throughout the years of its existence, has epitomised the true... [more]

In early 2013, Odd Box Records are set to unleash the latest album from The Blanche Hudson Weekend. Ahead of this, however, is the brand new (and VERY limited edition) Deep Thrust EP. This CD single is housed in a colour card sleeve, and features 3 tracks. Consume Me is taken from the forthcoming album, How Many Times Have You Let Me Die?, and the other 2 recordings, Divided and Some Kind Of Freedom,... [more]

Available (in stock) in a few weeks from now - this is the brand new 7" slab of black wax from The Blanche Hudson Weekend. Released on the wonderful Odd Box Records, and featuring 2 tracks - (Just Like) Susan George and To Be That Way Again, all wrapped up in a lovely full colour sleeve imprinted with the striking image of Susan George herself.

After the more stripped back and, some might... [more]

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"You said you liked guitars, went crazy for pop music, got your kicks from dancing.....and You Always Loved Violence"

At the end of last year, The Blanche Hudson Weekend released a compilation CD entitled Reverence, Severance And Spite. It featured all the single tracks up to that time, plus a bunch of brand new and exclusive recordings. That wasn't supposed... [more]

Here we have a great little collectors item. Usually this 7" comes as part of the Odd Box Records Singles Club, and sits nicely alongside a 7" featuring The Give It Ups / Santa Monica Swim And Dive Club, and another 7" featuring One Fathom Down / The Humms. All wrapped up in a cloth bag with stickers and badges.

However, a few copies of The Blanche Hudson Weekend / Horowitz... [more]

"As tempting as a cup cake, but as tough as a 75 cent steak. Essential 60's influenced girl garage noise pop"

The Blanche Hudson Weekend, still less than 1 year old and with only 3 single releases so far, have decided to compile all the tracks from those aforementioned 7" plastic platters onto one CD, alongside a handful of brand new recordings and a couple of leftovers... [more]

The 3rd 7" EP release from The Blanche Hudson Weekend, and featuring 3 brand new tracks. Let Me Go could be a contender for the poppiest thing the band have recorded so far. Heavily influenced by 1960s girl garage groups, this one is full to bursting with pop hooks, jangling guitars and just the right amount of fuzziness... all clocking in at under 2 and a half minutes aswell. In stark (and... [more]

Here we go—the 2nd 7" release from The Blanche Hudson Weekend. Featuring 3 brand new tracks which finds the band in slightly more sinister sounding mode this time around. "Grip Of Fear" is a chugging pop nugget, melodic and noisy in roughly equal parts. "Sharks" and "Only Snow" reveal a much darker element to the band's sound, with a heavy Velvet Underground... [more]

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The Blanche Hudson Weekend is here. Featuring Caroline and Darren (ex-The Manhattan Love Suicides) along with a bunch of other Weekenders, and bringing to you all kinds of noise, fuzz, melody, dissonance, rawness, killer tunes and buzzsaw pop. Take a bit of 1960s girl group sounds, mix with Girls... [more]