Also at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Japan, and coming to all iTunes this week. 

Four guys from Liverpool who met in school to form a band….sounds familiar right?  Yes Tear Talk is primarily a Liverpool based band.  Yes they all know each other from school.  But that may be where the similarities end.  With the majority of the guys scattered throughout the UK for university it makes it a bit more challenging to come together to make the music happen.  But when they do, magic happens.  Tear Talk’s passion for music stemmed at an early age when exchanging records, and discovering new music was the bond that brought them together.  Their earliest influences being Black Tambourine, The Everly Brothers, The Field Mice and Sweetest Ache.  However, it wasn’t until they heard Beat Happening, one of their most significant influences, that they thought to themselves “they can do it, why can’t we.”
After that it was easy.  Well, not necessarily.  The guys had moved on to universities and although they kept in contact by exchanging albums online it was when they came home for Summer break that they decided to form a band.  Geography notwithstanding, to say you’re in a band is a lot easier than actually being in one, especially when it requires the ability to play instruments.  Most of the guys had only just picked up their instruments for the first time that summer and had little to no experience being in a band.  To quote Tear Talk; “We feel like there’s this real sense of endearment in the naivety of what we’re trying to do, this kind of fragility that is lost in most modern pop music, which we feel like we give off due to our lack of ability. In short, ability has become the death of modern pop, and gladly it’s something we’re lacking in.”  So that being said, Tear Talk, despite their inability to play shows every week-end or not having completely mastered their instruments, is one of the most “awkward, introverted and melancholic” bands (their words) out there today.  Here at Bleeding Gold Records….well we just think they’re perfection.  Enjoy!

Our first release of the year is the amazing digital single JE TE PRENDS from our friend ALEXROSSI.

Free download. Happy New Year!

Former Babies, Moll Ball (AKA Mollie “boom tap” Reep) and Shawna England aren’t musicians. They aren’t trained on their instruments, they’ve listened to way too much punk rock, drank too many beers and have meltdowns on the weekly. These character flaws are what inspires their music. If it weren’t for pesky brothers and shithead boyfriends the world would have a lot less music in it. They write cliché songs that describe what life is like whether you’re a 14 year old girl or a 65 year old man.
Shawna whams the guitar and belts out screeching melodies, while Mollie hits the drums with sticks at a level just below barely audible. Regardless of all the adversity and strife that they have had to overcome, Moll Ball and Shawna continue to rock on. They will probably do so until the day that they die. Oh yeah, they’re supposed to say something in this “bio” about how they are from the Bay Area.

Benjamin Schoos is a producer and songwriter based in Belgium who some of you may also know as Miam Monster Miam, radio and Tv presenter and Freaksville Records label-dude. He’s been making mixes/music since the late 90s and has become the go-to garage-pop auteur of Brussels. He’s also been known to drop a Bleeding Gold artist or two on his podcasts – Marc Desse & ALEXROSSI. He’s planning for a new full-length album release in 2012 on his Freaksville label, but also has this rad cassette out from our friends at CALI Records. Small world, indeed!

These two tracks are featured on the cassette along with bonus material, all digi-downloadable with purchase. Get on it! These will sell out.

With Italian DNA and an upbringing in the southwest of France, Alex Rossi began working as a rock club Dj in the late 80s, eventually gaining his own radio show influenced by British Pop (TV Personalities, The Smiths, Field Mice) and FrenchPop (Taxi Girl, Elli and Jacno, Les fils de joie.) In 1998 Alex signed with Mercury France for a handful of singles (“Le Coeur du monde”, “Annabelle et Henri”), also writing many songs for other French singers such as Dick Rivers. In 2004 he friended journalist and writer Arnaud Viviant  with whom he founded the “Situ-punk” band BALLU. Monsieur Rossi was spotted by Gonzaï magazine sometime in 2007 and was quickly offered the chance to perform a monthly residency alongside Alister ou Dondolo (Members of Young Michelin.) Since 2009 he has worked with composer Dominique Pascaud under the collective name ALEXROSSI, releasing the 5-track EP MY LIFE IS A FUCKING DEMO which includes a duet with ex-FrenchPop star Graziella De Michele.

The French writer and editor Olivier Martinelli had this to say, “Des paroles qui font mouche, un riff de guitare qui vous rentre dans la tête et n’en sort plus. Alex Rossi trouve une ouverture entre Daniel Darc et Patrick Coutin. Et si « Chair et canon » était la grande chanson qu’on attendait tous de lui..” [roughly - "Words that hit, a guitar riff that will fit in the head and not come out. Alex Rossi is somewhere between Daniel Darc and Patrick Coutin. And "Chair et canon" is the grand song everyone has expected from him."]

MY LIFE IS A FUCKING DEMO will be re-released digitally by Bleeding Gold on Dec. 12th,  including an additional track in a rearranged track order as we build up for the release of the ”Je te prends” 7″ single,  a duet with French shoe-designer Inès Olympe Mercadal (Feb. ’12) and the full length album DANS LA PEAU DE JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE later this spring.

“Quoi qu’il arrive, nous resterons des chansons,” dixit Alex

smilelove come to us all the way from Tokyo. They sing in Japanese. I do not hear in Japanese. That does not stop me from singing along. It shouldn’t stop you either!  These two tracks are short, to the point and catchy as fuck. They can be purchased digitally from BandCamp or on 7″ vinyl, black or pink 70g wax!

Also available at these stores:

RECORD ROOM  8 NE Killingsworth | Portland, OR | USA

THE STONE RECORDS (Mailorder in Japan)

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This one is different. I’d even go so far as to say it is special. Spoken word, organ drones, surreal storytelling. Something about the tracks on The Knife draw you in, make you want to hear them again, just to make sure you heard what you thought you heard. That is when the subtle melodies swagger into your subconcious, loitering for days. This one needs to be heard on your turntable, the mastering is especially warm on these 70 gram vinyl copies.

David Warren’s debut single The Knife is available on 2 choices of colored vinyl; Swamp Green [ed.100] or Hefeweizen [ed.150].

Also available at these scruffy stores:

GCD Emporium/Afflecks  52 Church St. | Manchester UK

Piccadilly Records  53 Oldham Street  | Manchester  |  UK

RECORD ROOM  8 NE Killingsworth | Portland, OR | USA

THE STONE RECORDS (Mailorder in Japan)

Vinyl Revival  5 Hilton St. | Manchester UK

After a few technical delays Bleeding Gold is excited to announce the release of BG005, otherwise known as Music For My Broken Ears by HEHFU. The fuzzy power-pop of Bradley Clarke, HEHFU’s Welsh mastermind, is presented here on CD and vinyl in a variety of configurations. The 3-track 7″ comes in a gatefold jacket featuring the band name in silver foil on the front cover and includes the full 10 track CD on the inner-left panel. The vinyl comes in Bottle-Blue-and-Silver Splatter and Bottle-Blue-Black-and-Silver Tri-Color, 100 of each. There is also a limited edition version on Classic Black vinyl wrapped in a Denim Jacket cover, edition of 50. The CD version can be purchased separately, and also includes a limited edition mini-Denim Jacket cover version.

MUSIC FOR MY BROKEN EARS can be downloaded from iTunes.

Also available at these stores:

RECORD ROOM  8 NE Killingsworth | Portland, OR | USA

THE STONE RECORDS (Mailorder in Japan)

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Marc Desse has a brand-spankin’-new EP called (ROMANCE) available digitally on BandCamp. Some of these songs will appear on his debut full-length with Bleeding Gold in 2012, but these are ready to be heard now. We are offering the first track Mona et moi as a free download in exchange for your email.
If you guys liked his track Petite Anne from last months split 7″ with The Pipers, (ROMANCE) will further implant Marc’s footprint on the International Pop scene – or perhaps just Us lot for now!