Akira Ifukube 'The War of the Gargantuas Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' 2LP (Waxwork) £35.5

Alex G 'God Save The Animals' LP indies clear (Domino) £18.5
Alex G 'God Save The Animals' LP/MC/CD (Domino) £17.5
Alhaji Waziri Oshomah 'World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife Of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah' 2LP/CD (Luaka Bop) £25
Alice In Chains 'Dirt' 2LP (Sony/CMG) £19.5
Alice In Chains 'Dirt' 2LP yellow (Sony/CMG) £22
Alina Bzhezhinska 'Reflections' 2LP/CD (BBE Music) £28.5
Ani DiFranco 'Living in Clip' 3LP blue swirl (Righteous Babe) £28.5
Anna von Hausswolff 'All Thoughts Fly' LP (Southern Lord) £15.5
Antonis Antoniou 'Throisma' CD (Ajabu) £13
Arnaud Rebotini 'Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses Original Soundtrack' 2LP occhiali neri/CD (Black Strobe) £24
Ashtoreth / Pilgrimage To Pleroma 'Ur' LP/CD (Consouling Sounds) £22.5
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso 'Orlando: Le Forme dell’Amore' 2LP+CD/CD (InsideOutMusic) £23
Barry Adamson 'Back To The Cat' LP clear/CD (Mute) £17.5
Barry Adamson 'Steal Away EP' 12” atlantic pearl blue (Mute) £17.5
Barry Adamson 'Stranger On The Sofa' 2LP red/CD (Mute) £19.5
Basement Jaxx 'Remedy' 2LP gold (XL Recordings) £23
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BEAK> 'Kosmik Musik' 10” (INVADA) £12.5
Benny the Butcher 'Tana Talk 4' 2LP+2x7”/CD (Griselda / EMPIRE) £20
Beth Nielsen Chapman 'CrazyTown' LP/CD (Cooking Vinyl Limited) £20
Beth Orton 'Weather Alive' LP clear (Partisan) £17.5
Beth Orton 'Weather Alive' LP/CD (Partisan) £15.5
Billy Childish & The Singing Loins 'At the Bridge' LP/CD (Damaged Goods) £15.5
Blur 'Bustin' + Dronin'' 2LP/CD (Parlophone) £25.5
Broken Social Scene 'Old Dead Young' CD (Arts & Crafts) £10
Bruce Dickinson 'Accident of Birth' 2LP red & yellow splatter (Sanctuary) £23.5
Buzzcocks 'Sonics In The Soul' LP/CD (Cherry Red) £20
Candlemass 'The Door to Doom' CD (Napalm) £12.5
Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet 'Caroline Shaw: Evergreen' CD (Nonesuch) £12
Cass McCombs 'Heartmind' LP/CD (Anti) £16.5
Charles Mingus 'Essential Works 1955 - 1959' 2LP (Masters Of Jazz) £24
Chelsea Wolfe 'Pain is Beauty' 2LP (Sargent House) £24.5
Chick Corea 'Chick Corea: The Montreux Years' 2LP/CD (BMG) £21.5
Cindy Lee 'Model Express' LP (W.25th) £21
Clint Eastwood & General Saint 'Stop That Train' LP (Greensleeves) £18
Clutch 'Sunrise On Slaughter Beach' LP/MC/CD (Weathermaker Music) £23.5
Clutch 'Sunrise On Slaughter Beach' LP indies lavender (Weathermaker Music) £24.5
Clutch 'Sunrise On Slaughter Beach' LP pic disc (Weathermaker Music) £29
Cold Gawd 'God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here' LP clear (Dais) £18.5
Cold Gawd 'God Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here' LP/CD (Dais) £18
Condor Gruppe 'Gulliver' LP/CD (SDBAN ULTRA) £18
Cormorant Tree Oh 'Swoontide' LP (Trapped Animal) £16.5
Courting 'Guitar Music' LP/CD (Play It Again Sam) £17.5
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D.I. 'State Of Shock' LP blue (Cleopatra) £25
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D.zúk 'Ishkhan' LP translucent orange (Critique) £22.5
Damien Jurado 'Waters Ave S.' LP blue curacao (Sub Pop) £16.5
Deathprod 'Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth' LP/CD (Smalltown Supersound) £18
Dio 'Dio At Donington ‘83' 2LP/CD (both w/ lenticular cover (BMG) £25.5
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Dio 'Killing The Dragon' LP red & orange swirl (BMG) £19.5
Disaster Jacks 'Tales From The Living End' 10” (Last Exit) £16.5
Divino Niño 'Last Spa on Earth' LP col (Winspear) £20
Divino Niño 'Last Spa on Earth' LP/MC/CD (Winspear) £19
Dum Dum Boys 'Up & Down With The Dum Dum Boys' LP (Mono-Tone) £20
Duster 'Together' LP sad boy blue (Numero) £23
Duster 'Together' LP/CD (Numero) £22
Editors 'EBM' 2LP orange (Play It Again Sam) £21.5
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Faces 'Bad 'N' Ruin - Live 1970-1971' 2CD (Audio Vaults) £10
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Glume 'The Internet' LP (Italians Do It Better) £24
Guohan 'City Of The Sun And Moon' LP (Darker Than Wax) £16.5
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James Brandon Lewis Quartet 'Msm Molecular Systematic Music' 2CD (Intakt) £24.5
Jessie Baylin 'Jersey Girl' LP (Missing Piece) £18.5
Jessie Baylin 'Jersey Girl' LP white, black & silver pearlescent (Missing Piece) £18.5
Joanna Macy & Anita Barrows 'Be Earth Now (Selections From Rainer Maria Rilke's 'The Book Of Hours’)' LP (Gnomelife) £21
Joni Mitchell 'The Asylum Albums (1972-1975)' 5LP/4CD (Rhino) £130
Jorja Chalmers 'Midnight Train' LP (Italians Do It Better) £23
Karma To Burn 'Appalachian Incantation' LP col (Heavy Psych Sounds) £18
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Katharina Weber 'In Marta’s Garden' CD (Intakt) £13
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Lande Hekt 'House Without A View' LP blue & pink/CD (Prize Sunflower) £18.5
Makaya McCraven 'In These Times' LP indies white (XL Recordings) £16.5
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Mal Waldron 'Searching in Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert' 2CD (Tompkins Square) £21.5
Manni Mono 'Pension Central' LP (Eskapaden Musik) £16.5
Marisa Anderson 'Still, Here' LP indies sea glass (Thrill Jockey) £25
Marisa Anderson 'Still, Here' LP/CD (Thrill Jockey) £24
Martin Denny 'Exotica' LP (Jackpot) £22.5
Master 'Alive In Athens' 2LP clear smoked red (DOC) £17.5
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Master 'The Witch Hunt' CD (Hammerheart) £12.5
MF Doom 'Operation: Doomsday (Alternative MC Sleeve)' 2LP (Metal Face) £26
Micah Thomas 'Piano Solo' LP (Lp345) £24
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band 'Dear Scott' LP light blue indies (Modern Sky) £18.5
Mick Hampshire 'Mick's Cat And Rooster Blues' LP (Spinout Nuggets) £20
Miles Davis 'You're Under Arrest' LP (Get On Down) £25
Minoa 'Forward, Backward, Start Again' LP/CD (Listen) £21.5
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Motörhead 'Hammered (20th Anniversary)' LP (BMG) £19.5
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Neil Young 'Live At The Royal Festival Hall, London 1971' 2CD (Audio Vaults) £10
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NEU! '50!' LP box/CD box (Gronland) £90
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Om '50' CD (Intakt) £13
Orphaned Land 'All Is One (Vinyl Re-issue 2022)' 2LP (Century Media) £23
Petbrick 'Liminal' LP (Rocket Recordings) £18
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PIG 'The Merciless Light' CD (Metropolis) £15.5
Razor 'Cycle of Contempt' LP/CD (Relapse) £18
Rebel Wizard 'The Warning of Three' LP dark purple (Prosthetic) £20
Roe 'That's When The Panic Sets In' LP/CD (Jonie Wants) £18.5
Sai Galaxy 'Get It As You Move' 12” (Soundway) £10
Samuel Rohrer 'Hungry Ghosts' LP (Arjunamusic) £17.5
Sandy Denny 'Sandy' LP (Proper) £21.5
Sandy Denny 'The North Star Grassman And The Ravens' LP (Proper) £21.5
Shady Baby 'Come To Life / Lonely Town' 7” (Nice Swan Recordings) £7
Shahzad Ali Ismaily vs. Niño Lento es Fuego 'Ahora Contra el Resto de los Tiempos, Vol.1' LP (Figure & Ground) £18.5
Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker 'Songs for Sad Poets' 2LP (Hallow Gorund) £20
Skinshape 'High Tide, Storm Rising / Theme For Lazarus' 7” (Lewis Recordings) £9
Solitude Aeturnus 'Downfall' LP (Svart) £19
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Solitude Aeturnus 'Through The Darkest Hour' 2LP (Svart) £20
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Soweto Gospel Choir 'Hope' CD (Shanachie) £10.5
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Spacemen 3 'Recurring' LP (Space Age Recordings) £19
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Spot Mcrackin 'New Tricks' LP (Last Exit) £24
Sprung Aus Den Wolken 'Sprung Aus Den Wolken' LP/CD (Bureau B) £21
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Sunn O))) 'Life Metal' 2LP galaxy (Southern Lord) £30
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Talas '1985' LP/CD (Metal Blade) £18
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Super happy to announce the new (third) ORDER of the TOAD album 'Spirit Man'.

If you are not familiar with the Toad then they are one of Glasgow's best bands, featuring folk from The Wharves, Current Affairs, Nightshift and Robrt Sotelo. Monorail described them thus:

"Melodically, Order of the Toad have something of a medieval fixation, filtered through late 60s influences which end up sounding something like Jefferson Airplane - not least in vocalist Gemma Fleet's powerful lung-force - mixed with British psyche heat.. think Kaleidoscope or even Syd Barrett drug-damaged whimsy. There's no other band doing this in the U.K. that we know of, a musically rich tapestry woven from strands outside current trends"

The first single is 'Golden Rod' and the video is within this here post.

We are co-releasing this with Hidden Bay Records of continental France. Out on 16/9/22. 12 new cuts. Pre-order on LP/DD.

If you are in the EU please order direct from Hidden Bay to save you a world of hurt.

Grey Hairs have just announced a new live album! “Halloween” is a recording of a Grey Hairs live gig on October 31^st 2019 at JT Soar in Nottingham. We are releasing it on purple vinyl. It is limited to 300 copies and that’s it: no re-press, no deluxe edition.

In the name of balance and trust, before we tell you to buy this live record, Chris from Grey Hairs is going to first tell you about the 3 worst Grey Hairs gigs to date, in no particular order. Starting with:

Branch Out Festival, Nottingham, October 2012.

Branch Out was an all-dayer across a few venues with the idea of pushing Nottingham’s music “scene” to the “industry”. They love a bit of that in Nottingham.
The night beforehand, our singer James went off to Northampton to see friends. He assured us he’d be back in plenty of time.

The rest of us arrived at the festival the next day with no word from him and his phone going straight to answer machine. Time ticked along. Nerves were heightened. Sleaford Mods played and Jason told us he was off the booze (smart man, will go far) which we took as an invitation to drink his rider as a way of offsetting the increasing worry.
Eventually – with minutes to spare – James arrived at the venue and as he walked up the path towards us, we could clearly see 2 things:

1.He looked like he’d slept in a skip.

2.He had 2 black eyes.

I remember thinking, as we set our equipment up in front of a packed room, “I’m not sure this is going to go well”.
Dave was wearing a hoodie that he’d decided to zip up completely over his face for some reason (possibly foresight). He also decided – in tribute to Andrew Loomis from Dead Moon – to pour beer all over the skins of the borrowed drum kit so that, as he came in, a cloud of beer spray shot up off the drums. It did look pretty good to be fair. But he then realised he couldn’t see where any of the drums were and he was 5 seconds into a 6 minute song with no way of unzipping himself to find out.
In an effort to rouse the group, I held my guitar above my head mid-song and shook it as a call to action – “RARGHHHH! COME ON!!!”. Every important component on the guitar immediately detached itself from its moorings and exploded all over the stage in a shower of crucial screws, springs and bits of metal immediately lost forever. I frantically tried to signal to Dave to stop but he was fighting a private battle behind his hood, bathed in beer and flailing in the vague direction of the drums.
I vividly remember seeing my friend Anna illuminated in the crowd looking not just disappointed but genuinely horrified. In fairness to our then-bassist Bod, she was holding down her end of things pretty well considering she was in fits of laughter. I genuinely don’t recall how the gig ended but the industry did not come knocking on our door afterwards.

Waterfront Festival, Nottingham, August 2015

Possibly the lowest point of the band and that is saying something.

Every year in Nottingham we have Waterfront Festival in a multi-stage venue on the canal. It’s a good, messy day out if you’re a punter. I’m conscious of not coming off as glorifying excess but we’re weekend warriors and often our gigs are the only socialising we do in amongst work and families etc. It is hard to maintain the balance between wanting to have fun and having a job to do, plus no one ever said we were professional.

Anyway, for some reason in 2015 – possibly the recruitment of new bassist Amy and a fresh sense of confidence – we accepted the invitation to play. “Don’t put us on too late though” we asked. Obviously, they put us on last, at just before midnight.

And so, the day happened. It was fun.

From the moment we arrived around lunchtime, through the other bands, through the pints of strong continental beer, it was fun.

However, by the time 11pm came round everyone was fairly “tired” and setting up to play was proving an impossible task. I remember trying to plug my amp in around 35 times without success before someone kindly helped me.
Our friend Coop from The X Rays introduced us to the stage with his shirt off, yelling into the mic. It seemed to take about 45 minutes and then we started.

James falling face-first into the drums in the first song should have been a moment to take stock and reflect. The songs were elastic in time, none of us could grab hold of them but we soldiered on, through 30 mins of the worst shit we have ever inflicted on anyone. Worse than Branch Out Fest. A true horror show with no redeeming features and everyone to blame. At one point, out of the corner of my eye I noticed Coop vomit onto the dancefloor next to me and then go home. Tempers heightened as each of us faced the realisation that we were there to do one thing and that thing was no longer even slightly within our grasp. It was torturous.

To cap it all off Amy had to separate James and I at the end, onstage, as we opted to provide the slender remaining audience with a performance art encore consisting of 2 grown men squaring up to each other while a 3rd grown man quietly rested, head in hands, behind a drumkit.

But: you have to go “there” to know where “there” is. I'm pleased it happened. I'm also pleased that Amy stepped in and stopped a fist fight between me and my dear friend James which would have been a terrible thing.

For James, because I'd have panned him.

Beat The Streets Festival, Nottingham, January 2018

Can you see a pattern developing yet? We don’t do well at all-day festivals. This one was different though. As usual, the stage times came through and as usual, we were on far too late. In this case, we were on last in the larger venue. However, Beat The Streets is a festival to raise funds for a local homeless outreach charity. We made a firm decision that this was important and we were not going to fuck it up.

We spent the whole day there. We did not drink booze. We were a model of professionalism from the moment we arrived. We had one job: play well.

Our time to play came. We set up at speed with clear heads. I felt refreshed and ready to go and like we were on top of things. The first song started and there was a big crowd and it sounded fantastic. We settled in immediately and the relief washed over us as we realised this was going to be a good one. Playing live for me has always been somewhat mysterious – the variables that make something good or not are hard to pin down, so if you feel the gig is going well it’s such a rarity that you really notice it.
All of a sudden, halfway through the first song, I heard James stop singing and from the corner of my eye, I caught him fly from the front of the stage to the back where he was now hunched over in a ball.

Amy looked stunned, the audience looked confused, *I* was confused. My first thought was that James had been electrocuted such was the force of him being thrown across the stage. He gingerly finished the song clutching his torso before running off into the backstage area.

What the fuck? We downed tools and ran off to find him. He was clearly in a state of shock. He’d somehow dislocated his arm at the shoulder, presumably when vigorously punching the air in celebration of what was about to be a decent gig for once. St John’s Ambulance were found and Amy and I explained to the crowd what was happening while they tried to pop James back in before admitting defeat. James was packed off to A&E while we packed everything away in silence.

It’s worth pointing out we still got a good review on the local music website that mentioned none of the above and was written by a person who was clearly at home in bed by the time we played. And that’s how the industry and PR works folks…

2020 LABEL SUBSCRIPTION

A 2020 DIGITAL LABEL SUBSCRIPTION INCLUDES:

- A digital download of every release on Gringo in 2020, sent ahead of the official release date
- A digital download of a Gringo back catalogue release of your choice
- A digital version of a new issue of our classic Damn You! fanzine
- 10% discount on the Gringo website for the whole year

A 2020 VINYL LABEL SUBSCRIPTION INCLUDES:

- Every new vinyl release on Gringo in 2020 sent ahead of the official release date
- Where we press a variant you will get the most exclusive edition (note we don't always press variants!)
- Advance digital download emailed to you ahead of every release
- Digital downloads of any digital only releases in 2020
- A Gringo back catalogue release of your choice, on whichever format you prefer
- 10% discount on the Gringo website for the whole year
- Exclusive merch throughout the year including:

- Gringo t-shirt (new design!)
- Gringo slipmat
- Gringo one inch badge pack
- A brand new issue of our classic Damn You! fanzine

We only have a limited number of vinyl subscriptions available so be quick! They can also be purchased as a gift for that Gringo fan in your life.

GREY HAIRS REPRESS & RESTOCK

We've also had some returns of some previously sold out titles which you might want to snap up.

BILGE PUMP "We Love You" CD
THE VAN PELT "Tramonto - Live in Ferrara 12.08.2014" LP
SAUNA YOUTH "Dreamlands" LP (black vinyl)
VISION FORTUNE "Mas Fiestas Con El Grupo" LP

TOUR DATES

CLAMBAKE
07/02/20 York, Victoria Vaults

GREY HAIRS
22-25/5/20 London, Raw Power Festival

I'M BEING GOOD
28/01/20 Brighton, The Pipeline w/ Plurals

Nottingham Forever Records
Aberystwyth Andy's Records
Bangor Bending Sound
Bedford Slide Record Shop
Belfast Strange Victory Records
Brighton Resident
Brighton Rarekind Records
Brighton / Worthing Tatty Seaside Town
Bristol radio/ON
Bristol Rough Trade
Cambridge Lost in Vinyl
Cardiff Spillers Records
Cheltenham Badlands Records
Colchester / Bury St Edmunds Vinyl Hunter Essex / Vinyl Hunter
Coventry Just Dropped In
Edinburgh / Dundee Assai Records
Glasgow Love Music
Keynsham Longwell Records
Kingston Banquet Records
Kirkcaldy KCCVinyl
Leamington Spa Head Records
Leeds Jumbo Records
Liverpool 81 Renshaw
Liverpool Probe Records
London Rough Trade East
London Rough Trade West
London Sister Ray Records
Manchester Piccadilly Records
Margate Elsewhere
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Beatdown Records
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Reflex Records
Newport Diverse Vinyl
Oxford Truck Store
Preston Action Records
Scarborough Record Revivals
Sheffield Spinning Discs
Southend South Records
St Albans Empire Records
Stoke on Trent Strand Records
Wakefield Wah Wah Records
Walsall Eclipse Records
Watford The LP Café
Wimborne Square Records
Winchester Elephant Independent Record Shop

You can also order online from Norman Records, Buzzsaw Records, Juno Records and Revolutions Records.

If your local shop isn't listed here then asked them to order a copy of the LP from Cargo Records UK! Or tell them to approach Gringo direct!

International Distribution
Australia - Rocket
Benelux - Suburban
Canada - F.A.B.
Finland - Supersounds
France - Differ-ant
Germany - Cargo Records
Italy - Goodfellas
Spain - Popstock
New Zealand - Southbound
Scandinavia - Border
United States - Red Eye and Forced Exposure