Another Opposite Sex piece

There's yet another piece on Opposite Sex on the Subject Yourself website here.

Opposite Sex interview

There's an interview with Lucy Hunter, of Opposite Sex, here. Well worth a read. More online features on the band are due soon... In the meantime we've also got a very limited number of vinyl copies of Fishrider label-mates The Puddle's new album, which come with a CD thrown in, and there's also a special "Fishrider Package" featuring both albums on vinyl and CD plus the Shifting Sands CD, at a very special price on this page in the Occultation Shop.

That Opposite Sex album...

We really are very, very excited about this one... See the previous post for information on the Opposite Sex album which we'll be helping to release and distribute, supporting our good friends at Fishrider Records of Dunedin, New Zealand, who are responsible for one of the most talked-about albums of recent months.

We have a very limited quantity of the original NZ CDs available to purchase directly from us in The Occultation Shop. These should arrive here any day and will then be shipping immediately. However there'll also be a 180g LP version (FISH006UK/ARIEL7DC016), retail release is tentatively scheduled for 23rd April though we'd hope to have some a little before that and will take orders once we have a delivery date. There'll also be a UK CD edition as soon as the remaining NZ copies have gone, which is likely to be very soon.

Below is the video for "Sea Shanty". We'll also be stocking a few other Fishrider releases, including the new album by The Puddle, very shortly in a reciprocal arrangement which'll also see Occultation material made more easily available in New Zealand. Hands across the ocean, and all that or, as Ian of Fishrider calls it, "a transglobal alliance". He's not wrong...

Opposite Sex

"New Zealand’s Fishrider Records and UK-based Occultation Recordings (Wild Swans, Distractions, June Brides, etc.), are pleased to announce a trans-global alliance for the UK release of the self-titled debut album by Opposite Sex, available on 180g vinyl and CD from www.occultation.co.uk and distributed in the UK and Europe by Proper from 23rd April 2012.

The subversive pop of Opposite Sex will warm the heart of anyone who viewed the heady years of 1978-1982 (Rough Trade Records including the NME's C81 Cassette, No Wave and the start of Flying Nun Records in NZ) as a watershed period in alternative music - a time when there were no rules and anything seemed possible.

The sound of the trio is, they say, “an absurdist-logico mix of Euro pop, Beat poetry, and subterranean lo-fi adventuring." Although their music ranges from oddly poppy carnival waltzes to manic, melodic post-punk and no wave, this is no retro exercise: the album is their own unique genre-defying trip through the experimental subversive pop underground of their imaginations.

The album has already attracted heavy radio airplay from the likes of Marc Riley and Gideon Coe on BBC6Music, and is winning admirers wherever it goes. Now it is getting a full UK release bringing it to a whole new audience."

More details to follow shortly, video for "La Rat" below.