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For those craving another transmission from the members of Mosquitoes after five years of absence!Split Apex comprises o...
05/06/2026

For those craving another transmission from the members of Mosquitoes after five years of absence!

Split Apex comprises of former Mozzie and Komare member Peter Blundell alongside the theorist Jussi Palmusaari. In much the same way as Blundell’s previous band, this new group comprises of sparse arrangements of bass guitar (either hypnotically repetitive or ominously open-ended in it’s phrasing), minimal percussion, and a series of drily delivered vocals.

The first side of this LP almost feels like a more song-based distillation of these textures and approaches, somewhere closer to the mechanical ____ of early UK industrial music, before disintegrating on the second side into a churn of melting slo-mo vocals, echoing guitars, and electronic gurgles that fittingly feel alongside Shadow Ring and CIA Debutante.
–Mitch

Split Apex - Thoughts In 3D (Ever/Never, 2025), New LP, $48

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Is your collection of Spanish music lagging behind that of many other European nations? It’s definitely not because of a...
04/06/2026

Is your collection of Spanish music lagging behind that of many other European nations? It’s definitely not because of a national deficit of creativity, but a major di****ad of history named General Francisco Franco.

Did you know the Gipsy Kings, the world’s most famous pop-flamenco group actually formed in France for the very same reason! That’s history for you.

Fill that gap with ‘LA CONTRA OLA: Synth Wave & Post Punk from Spain 1980-86’, a compelling compilation of post-Franco regime creativity flourishing. As someone who feel a sense of cringe from the term “synth wave”, due to both the abundance of average reissues and smouldering contemporary retro acts that’d fit right into a roadhouse scene in Twin Peaks: The Return, this is a record I can get behind cien por ciento!

Sounds range from across a spectrum of art-damaged disorder to new wave pop, with high points sometimes capturing both poles at once. I hear much urgency, the ability to create is not taken for granted. Plenty of bombastic monosyth exploration and drum machines hit hard like the best of early Hip Hop (of the non-disco rap variety).

If you’ve got titles from the artists or labels such as Portion Control, Chris & Cosey, Robert Rental, Ze Records, Severed Heads, Nihilistic Orbs, Heaven 17, Ilitch or Macca’s ‘Temporary Secretary’, consider adding this one to your listening library! – Nic

Various – LA CONTRA OLA Synth Wave & Post Punk from Spain 1980-86 2LP (Les Disques Bongo Joe) $68.00

A little late posting about this one because of the logistics of getting records from a truly independent label from one...
02/06/2026

A little late posting about this one because of the logistics of getting records from a truly independent label from one side of the globe to another. However, unlike eggs, the latest from Equipment Pointed Ankh stays fresh!

I’ve lost count of what number EPA LP we’re up to, but “Eggs A Little Late” feels like the most playful and silly of the bunch (although now I’m sent reeling back through the back catalogue). Here they take a plunderphonical approach to music, just without the splicing block, knife, and tape. Tracks dip and veer through genre from jazz skronk to dubby spring reverbs and melodicas to soaring pedal steel to the intrusion of a Nokia(?) ringtone to even the first inclusion of vocals on one of their albums with Jenny Rose reading a couple of passages that feel like a meeting between Terry Allen’s gore and art-world humour and the abstraction of everyday mundanity and language deployed by New York School poets of the 60s. Which is to say it’s a dizzying and fun listen!

Just like their other albums, the magic of this record is contained in the sound of a bunch of friends playing collectively and bouncing ideas back and forth, without letting an album get overblown, unwieldy, or self indulgent. The kinda approach we love to listen to around here, but also one that I imagine would pique the interests of fans of Gastr Del Sol, This Heat, Faust, Blue “Gene” Tyranny, Blues Control, Soft Machine, the Roadhouse Band (w/ Ryan Davis and/or Shutaro Noguchi).
–Mitch

Equipment Pointed Ankh - Eggs A Little Late (Petty Bunco, 2025), New LP, $44.95

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99% of the population will hear the same racket as on ‘Toisten Todellisuus’ (a compilation of 7”s spanning 2019-2021) bu...
01/06/2026

99% of the population will hear the same racket as on ‘Toisten Todellisuus’ (a compilation of 7”s spanning 2019-2021) but punk connoisseurs will hear significant shift in style on ‘Saitte Mitä Halusitte’ (2026). Yleiset Syyt, as any linguist could deduct from the unique arrangement of consonants and vowels, are from Finland and feature members of Foreseen, Kohti Tuhoa and Aedes.

Their now-sound has chronologically regressed, but melodically progressed in their 5 year recording hiatus. Yleiset Syyt’s previous EPs felt like a Finnish take on the ‘81-’83 period USHC classics à la The Fix or Jerry’s Kids, whereas this long player incorporates the broader brushstrokes of punk-before-core. The gallop, strut, tunefulness and dark rock ‘n’ roll demeanor of The Germs, The Lewd, The Dicks, even Dead Kennedys swirls around in high velocity attack. Bangkok shocks, Saigon shakes, Yleiset Syyt rules! – Nic

Yleiset Syyt – Saitte Mitä Halusitte LP (La Vida Es Un Mus, 2026) $39.95

Possible Humans tell all in issue #17 of our monthly newsletter Presser. Pick up a print copy in-store, add one to your...
31/05/2026

Possible Humans tell all in issue #17 of our monthly newsletter Presser. Pick up a print copy in-store, add one to your mail order, or read the dang thing online on our website right now. In our June issue we reflect on the situation over at pillar of Sydney broadcasting 2ser Radio, add a big chunk of record reviews, the usual report on what music has arrived or shall be arriving, plus the gig guide on the back.

Another stacked Saturday post with some much-anticipated new titles and restocks landing in the shop from La Vida Es Un ...
30/05/2026

Another stacked Saturday post with some much-anticipated new titles and restocks landing in the shop from La Vida Es Un Mus and a bunch of independent American labels!

New titles from The Spatulas, Simon Joyner, Arbor Labor Union, Equipment Pointed Ankh, Emily Robb, Ace of Spit, Split Apex (feat members of Mosquitoes!), and Guided By Voices for the wonk rockers among you all. On the punk end of the scale, a heap of names such as Yleiset Syyt, Golpe, and Bikini Mutants stand out to me alongside restocks of some recent titles from La Vida & co that flew out the door earlier this year such as Undid Ideológica, Home Front, Kriegshög, and Straw Man Army. Not to mention stacks more from Post Present Medium (incl. interesting sounding solo album from Moses Brown of Institute fame), Sophomore Lounge (more Ryan Davis, Bilders, DJ Hank, etc), three VU bootlegs, Ever/Never (not pictured… Cured Pink CDs back in stock!), Drunken Sailor, even a new reissue of an early Philip Glass composition!

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At 5.15pm, today, 28 May 2026, we will be playing the new Boards Of Canada album in full! We will also be giving away so...
28/05/2026

At 5.15pm, today, 28 May 2026, we will be playing the new Boards Of Canada album in full! We will also be giving away some little BOC (that’s short for Boards Of Canada, not Blue Oyster Cult) goodie bags, maybe a poster or two and have the vinyl and CD on hand for purchase.

I would have told you earlier but was worried about the embarrassing situation of the album not being here on time, but as you can see we have the record ☮️

One of those weeks where the Saturday roundup feels incredibly satisfying in the nice little clusters of artists and nic...
23/05/2026

One of those weeks where the Saturday roundup feels incredibly satisfying in the nice little clusters of artists and niches that have flowed into the shop this week.

First of all, some big hitting new releases from Jeff Parker, Spirit Adrift, White Fence, Rhododendron, Amyl & The Sniffers, Bergonist, MAVI, and a beautiful document of Michael Hurley’s Memorial Celebration.

THEN! Carla Dal Forno’s latest has finally landed alongside restocks of her two previous albums, a few nice price Blank Realm restocks, The Garbage & The Flowers, nice little runs of Royal Trux, Townes Van Zandt, Wire, and Pere Ubu (take the plunge on The Art Of Walking, I dare ya!), a neat little collection of Japanese weirdo/psych energy (Tokyo Flashback #1 back in print, another 90s cassette era reissue, and a new collection of material from Go Hirano who I honestly didn’t realise were still kicking until I did the stock entry on this), as well as a four recent releases from the great UK-based Worried Songs label (those with the cardboard obi things) who you may recall released Rosali’s killer Edsel Axel solo guitar LP!
–Mitch

Yuta Matsumura’s Red Ribbon landed in the shop in 2022 at a particularly odd time. I remember it as a time that record p...
22/05/2026

Yuta Matsumura’s Red Ribbon landed in the shop in 2022 at a particularly odd time. I remember it as a time that record production was relatively slow, Liz Truss was bombing the GBP in the UK (important only because this LP appeared as one of the final releases from the killer London-based Low Company), talk about a “dub wise” or “trip hop” revival prevailed among those trying to draw a link between certain underground or DIY music trends and a kind of lockdown mentality/mode of production, and in terms of Yuta’s output, it emerged after the demise of Orion and before the live debut of The Lewers (amongst his involvement with Low Life, Oily Boys, and Th Blisks).

In that period I (and a bunch of others working here at Repressed) flogged Red Ribbon endlessly in the shop and at home—I’m pretty sure it made most of our end of year “Best Of” lists for ’22—but only a few years on have I been able to revisit it. Partially because Yuta is playing a rare solo show of this material up the road at the Vanguard in a week, partially because it felt like about time to revisit it.

Spending the last few days relistening to it, I can’t help but associate these tracks with something closer to Eno’s “Before and After Science” and the Cale & Riley “Church of Anthrax” LPs than any prevailing pseudo-genre of “dub wise.” Maybe it’s Yuta’s voice that sounds close to Eno’s strangely affectless but affecting singing on that album, the drifting pop of Naoki Zushi’s back catalogue, or even that much-underrated tape of guitar meditations on “Curious Music” by else-where collaborators Michael Grossman and Jai Morris-Smith.

Just as good now as it was back then!

(And did I mention we managed to snag a handful more copies of this LP for the first time since 2022?)
–Mitch

Yuta Matsumura - Red Ribbon (Low Company, 2022), New LP, $37.95

The traditional-metal-imagery-meets-Nigerian-film-poster cover art (courtesy of Devin Toye) and skerrick of content prov...
21/05/2026

The traditional-metal-imagery-meets-Nigerian-film-poster cover art (courtesy of Devin Toye) and skerrick of content provided by the labels’ press release had me highly intrigued by the debut from New York / Canadian death metal group Belexum. The music within well and truly exceeded that anticipation. What an exhilarating display of anguished human emotion and intense musical precision!

Apparently there’s some hardcore/crust credentials from the members, and I can feel a proximity to punk (especially the darkness of Flux/Peni/Amibex), but this isn’t some dumbed down death metal dabbler stuff. There is a vision and imagination here beyond conjuring the energy and assembling some of one dimensional junk food riffs.

Belexum fills the void left by Bay Area’s Succumb whose ‘XXI’ (The Flenser, 2021… will they return?) was a bit and also brought to mind Finland’s Aedes debut EP ‘Odious Imprecation’ (Blood Harvest, 2024) in how they pair a dense and bamboozling riff labyrinth with hardcore/crossover energy. A great sounding recording too, there’s a band-in-a-room feel, a collective unhingedness and weird metaphysical air to the extremely disciplined performance like, say, Gorguts, Krallice and Faceless Burial. So sick, we should have ordered more! – Nic

P.S. I also think they look like a fun group of friends :-)

Belexum - Belexum LP (Translyvanian Recordings, 2026) $34.95

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