lots of hands’ debut album, mistake, newly re-issued with a handful of deluxe edition tracks. The UK duo’s breakthrough hit is joined by “mistake (slowed),” as well as other rarities from lots of hands’ back catalog. This marks mistake’s first-ever time on vinyl, and orders will begin shipping October 2025.

Get mistake on red vinyl + the bonus track on a stand alone CD only available with the bundle + the mistake tee on your color of choice.

'mistake' is the debut LP from lots of hands, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne duo of Billy Woodhouse and Elliot Dryden. The first foray into lots of hands' signature blend of electronic and ambient palettes with traditional indie rock and folk song structures, 'mistake' sets the foundation for the cult following of lots of hands' subsequent releases. Newly signed to Fire Talk Records, ‘mistake’ is available for pre-order on warming tint cassette.

'there's someone in this room just like you' is the sophomore LP from UK band lots of hands. Expanding on the ambient impulses of their debut 'mistake' and the subsequent 'fantasy,' 'there's someone...' is entirely composed of ambient instrumentals. The resulting effort weaves together live instruments, electronics, and wide-reaching samples to create an entirely unique soundscape. Clocking in at 20 minutes, the LP never overstays its welcome, and gestures at lots of hands' vast palette.

This item is available for pre-order and will begin shipping on October 1st.

“rosie” is self-engineered, and distills the elements which have made lots of hands one of the most exciting bands to emerge from the online underground. Beginning with acoustic guitar and Woodhouse’s filtered vocals — “Rosie walks in from the rain // with her lips she said // I don’t want no pain” — the track quickly explodes in layers of digital distortion and complex emotions — “Cuz I’d rather die // with the girl or the boy on my side” — conjuring something at once familiar and otherworldly.

The Gloss is the second album from Cola. From their inception Cola have expanded on the d.i.y. ethic of the Dischord and SST eras, creating potent sounds from a minimal palette of drums/bass/guitar and lacing their songs with winsome one-liners and societal commentary. What’s another word for commentary? Gloss, apparently. Never basic, the lyrics reward repeated listening for deeper meanings. David Berman’s poetry-via-garage light pennings are an inspiration, as equally so are the lighter side of UK first-wave New Wave and the Dunedin sound. The results are in the pudding: at times sparse and poetic, at others a thrilling, hook-laden good time, as with the cheeky romantic sketch of a one-night stand that is so overflowing with innuendo-cum-journalism talk that it almost teeters over into self-parody. But the results are the right combination of lightheartedness and sincerity. Romanticism is never far from laughter, and equally never far from righteous anger in the music of Cola: “Pulling quotes now in the dark/Our outlook is restrained/Your tongue might weaken to be-fit your smile/Til nothing ill remains.” ‘nuff said. It's an album bursting with energy and wit and ideas–filled to the margins. Out June 14th 2024 on Fire Talk. 

“Slab” is the new EP from Louisville-based Wombo available digitally on Fire Talk. With past accolades from Bandcamp, Brooklyn Vegan, the FADER, Pitchfork, Paste & Flood, “the band’s expertly executed art-rock sound is complete with droning guitars, frenetic chords, and angular melodies that make it impossible not to get up and move to” (Uproxx). Slab continues their perchance for mesmerizing dreamscapes and eerily addictive refrains on this homespun, transitional EP.

Get both the “Slab” and “Keesh Mountain” EPs pressed to one vinyl record and limited to just 500 copies.

*This is a pre order and will ship on or before November 15th 2023

Everything, the debut album from Chicago quartet Bnny, may as well be a field recording taken from the lone country of grief. Written in sessions that span several years by singer Jess Viscius as she processed the death of her partner, the album is a chronicle of love at its most complex and loss at its most persistent. In the same vein as Sky Blue Sky-era Wilco or the harrowing vulnerability of Tomberlin or Helena Deland, Viscius’ songwriting is evocative and intentional. A longstanding member of the Windy City music scene, the album was produced by Dehd’s Jason Balla, and the sparse arrangements pick apart complicated truths while feeling both timeless and transcendent. Everything is out on Fire Talk (Dehd, Deeper, Pure X, Mamalarky).

Pocket Fantasy, the sophomore album from Mamalarky is an instant-classic sunny-day record, imaginative and introspective, an enveloping listen of skyhigh hooks and keyboards that soar with joyful abandon. Its twelve kaleidoscopic tracks shapeshift aesthetically and thematically, through ideas about death and impermanence; love and gratitude; nature and technology; humor and hope. Heralded by Billboard, Nylon, The Fader and more, the new album expands on the unique sound of their self-titled debut which Pitchfork called “tenderly tangled indie rock”. On Pocket Fantasy some of the band’s purest pop tendencies collide with more warped and weird strains of quirky psych. It’s a treasure trove of playful grooves and zigzag riffs, a phenomenal album from a young group poised to carve their own place in the bins of your favorite record store.

For PACKS, making a record isn’t a means to an end; the making of the record is a communal experience, bottled up for the public to hear. On third album Melt the Honey PACKS explores a state of contentment, even bliss, long elided. The self-produced record honors the unpretentious disaffection of the grunge movement and the inventive arrangements of Guided By Voices, whose prolific output has inspired PACKS since their inception. To make Melt the Honey, PACKS traveled to Mexico City, where Madeline Link had spent significant time as an artist-in-residence at Casa Lü. Over the course of 11 days, PACKS practiced new songs in a rented studio space. From there, they took a bus to Xalapa where they worked as artists-in-residence at a house known as Casa pulpo, an architectural feat removed from the bustle of city life. “The house has no straight lines, it puts you in a creative mindset,” Link says. Melt the Honey, is an outward-facing testament to the wonderfully strange details of daily life, vividly rendered by a songwriter who knows they’re worthy of reverence. Out January 19th on Fire Talk. 

*This is a pre order and will ship on or before the January 19th release date.