V/A - "A LONG TIME ALONE VOL. 4” CS

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'A Long Time Alone 4' is the latest and last in a series of compilations released on Blow Blood Records. Label founder Christina Pap, who also co-hosts Teenage Hate with Tim Scott, began the series in March 2020 as a way of showcasing and supporting Australian artists and bands living in lockdown.

The compilations are as diverse as the communities they represent. Each volume offers a generous mix of punk and hardcore, synthwave and shoegaze, bedroom pop, electronic beats and noise. As Christina says in the release notes: "The people involved also contribute with varying degrees of experience levels. For some, this is their first release. Others have spent the better part of two decades involved in their music community - running labels, organising shows, working at venues, drawing and designing posters or album art and more."

Over the span of two years, there have been submissions from artists such as Greta Now, Alien Nosejob, and Tom Lyngcoln, as well as newly formed projects from members of groups such as Civic, Bitch Diesel, The Snakes, The Baby, Constant Mongrel and more. The latest volume alone includes Hearts and Rockets, Dr Sure, Sarah Hardiman as part of its sweeping survey of local luminaries."

- RRR 'Album Of The Week' Feb 2022

 

A-SIDE

1. PROOF READ – SOLITAIRE

 

2. PARTY POOPER – CIRCLES

 

3. SOFT TACO – LUCKY SEVERANCE

 

4. RÓSE – EVERYONE WANTS TO

5. PERMITS – TIDEWAYS

 

6. THE BERKS – FAKE YOUR OWN DEATH 

7. HEARTS AND ROCKETS – SQUARE EYES

 

8. DR SURE – ESCALATOR MAN

 

9. CLOGGER – BACK INTO YOUR HOLE

 

10. PENSIONER – DESIGNER CHILD

11. SNAKE VALLEY – FIOBRE TO THE BRAIN 

12. LICE TRAYS – SIGNED US OFF 

13. GEMINI – PUBLIC FIGURE

 

14. TURBOGOBLIN RX – MAMMON MACHINE

 

15. JOHNNY DEFORMED – CRUSADER’S CROSS

 

16. SPLIT SYSTEM – CLIMBING UP THE WALLS

17. SPERMAIDS – GOTH GIRL IN A MOON BOOT

 

18. 3D & THE HOLOGRAMS – MACHINE

19. WORLD WAR FOUR – LIFE IS A GAME

20. MACE - WE ARE NOT DISPOSABLE

 

21. COOLABAH KINGS – SPINELESS

 

22. DOLE MANCHILD – HUMAN PANCAKE!

B-SIDE

 

1. TA’SIA – WOMEN

2. SERF – EVERYTHING IS GREAT

3. SIMIAN GENETICS – SPIDOR

4. C.L.R. – SYSTEM FOCUS

 

5. THE POLYVAGALS – NIGHTSHAKER!

6. SYZYGY – ONLY YOU

 

7. SARAH HARDIMAN – THE AGE OF HAPPINESS

8. PLEASURE DRONE – AGORAPHOBIA

 

9. BLANCO TRANCO – HOMECOMING

 

10. DYLAN PETERS – TREADING WATER

 

11. LEONARD MORANT – BECAUSE I CAN’T FLY

12. TRISTAN COURTNEY-PRIOR – PITIFUL BROTHER

 

13. MORNING FLAG – NEURAL DISASTER

14. DOWN TIME – WANT YOU

15. VERNA BLOOM – COMMUNICATING WITH THE LIVING

16. FERAL BEECH – PERMO

17. DENVER STARK – THE LIZARD IN MY BRAIN

18. DYZENTERY – SOUNDZ OF LOCKDOWN