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LULU'S JULY 2023 NEWSLETTER

LULU'S JULY 2023 NEWSLETTER

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Here is the JULY 2023 Newsletter and Calendar, emailed at the start of the month to our mailing list and physically available free in store.
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FEATURED THIS MONTH:

ENZYME - 'GOLDEN DYSTOPIAN AGE' LP

THE LEWERS – LIVE IN SYDNEY

rocky - "rocky" LP

SLEEP D - "ELECTRONIC ARTS" LP

V/A - "CONTINUING A WORN OUT TRADITION III" LP

V/A - "WAYFARING STRANGERS: COSMIC AMERICAN MUSIC" 2xLP

Lu Crüe. 

As promised last month some big news from Lulus this July. 

First, we are happy to finally announce 2 da world that MOM Publishing will be opening a gallery out the back of our shop at 905 High St. MOM gallery will be an artist run space hosting monthly exhibitions by the best and the brightest. The first exhibition will be showing works by the madly talented Jim McCullough - opening night on Saturday July 29th. Contact @MOM__gallery for exhibition enquiries.

Then, Friday August 4th, Lulus X MOM Gallery presents a party to celebrate life and art. For those who have seen this hymnal tribute to Spacemen before you’ll know how life affirming it is, anybody else is in for a most sublime experience. Program bring the bubbly with their tender twin jangles while Romansy line up shots of ether to make your soul burn slow. Let Lulus X MOM tint your glasses.

Second, the new LSD Club release is the rocky LP. rocky is the new recording project featuring Xanthe Waite (Terry, Primo) and Raven Mahon (Grass Widow, Green Child), and sits at the intersection of all of these bands perfectly: rich with catchy melodies, never quite going where you'd expect and always landing somewhere you want to be. More detailed write up below! 

We have another LSD Club release to announce imminently - keep an ear out!

The new 550BC book LIVE ON LIVE LONG just landed and it’s stacked. “From the margins of New York City comes a collection of once-forgotten and never before seen work by legendary street photographer, Boogie. Designed by Igor Milanovic and edited by Pouria Khojastehpay, this 216-page hardcover book portrays the raw and uncensored life lived beneath the glow of the neon skyline of 2000's era New York.”

If you’re in Sydney hopefully you got a chance to check out the Spider Death exhibition at China Heights. Featuring Spiders distinctive work alongside Alexander Heir (USA),  Funeral French (UK), Taketo Ikegami (JP), & Rok from Sadistik Exek, South of Heaven was a tribute to the art and style of violent hardcore and extreme metal. For the chosen few, Spider also released on his Wintergarden imprint a hit from our boy Coco’s nefarious squad Romansy in extremely short run but the tracks can be heard on their bandcamp. 

And speaking of Sad Exek, Exek dropped us copies of the CS edition of their incredible second full length Ahead of Two Thoughts. Buck the trend. 

Love Lulus. 

 

 

ENZYME - 'GOLDEN DYSTOPIAN AGE' LP
(LVEUM + Hardcore Victim Records)

It's 'Zyme Tyme for the Dystopian Age. Enzyme went weird and we're here for it. More dance, more anarcho, more snap, more crackle, more pogo, punk! The mix on this thing is underground bunkers/absolutely bonkers - just a pure bubbly fizz. If you threw some Gai and Confuse records into a laboratory with a truly mad scientist, added in a splash of hydrochloric NYHC and some powdered gabber then this might just be the result - and we cannot confirm that Honest Stu hasn't been hiding a second head under that leather jacket these last few months so this theory is yet to be disproven.

Golden Dystopian Age is essentially a soundtrack to goin' spare and stark ravin' mad in the end of an age. Aside from a bloke named George who wrote a book about the year Victim In Pain was released, who knows what will be ushered in next? Enzyme may or may not give a shit, but either way they aren't saying no to a good old fashioned demolition party. An enzyme is defined as; a substance produced by a living organism which acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction. It's all making sense now. Lulus highly recommends this album and seeing these songs live when you next get the chance.

THE LEWERS – LIVE IN SYDNEY
A Live Show Report by Thee Satanic Skinhead
Picture this: you are seated at a table in a small crowded bar with a few friends, two of them are Josh and Yuta from The Lewers. They are arguing the merits of the record they’ve been sitting on for the past year. It’s about the stage of the night when the more sober types start to think about where the party will end up, and the more drunk types are completely unaware of space and time, talking as if the night would never end and the bar would never close.
In this fantasy, you are the drunk type, absolutely immersed in the story of The Lewers record.
A man walks in with the arrogant stride of a real estate agent. He heads to the bar, and as he orders he tells a couple of women seated with tall cocktails about a new reality TV competition series about real estate agents on the Gold Coast. “They should make it in Sydney,” he says, gesticulating toward himself. “I’d win for sure.”
He is a real estate agent! You look at your hands and think, what kind of things could I achieve with these powers? You use one hand to reach forward and get a grip on your pina colada, and you are in awe of your achievements.
The real estate agent receives his drink, raises it to the women with a smug cunt grin, and takes a sip, then heads to the bathroom for a cheeky bump. He is thinking, just a bump, and then I’ll broach the subject of a threesome. As he walks past he notices you are staring at him, and it wipes the smile off his face. He looks concerned, he looks unwell.
Your attention returns to the table, where Josh is playing The Lewers from his phone. Yuta is leaning in, craning his neck, and singing along to the lyrics. “I like this part,” Josh says. Yuta sings the line, while Josh studies your expression. “This is Sarah’s part,” he explains.
The real estate agent bursts back into the bar. Both of his hands are holding his ass. His skin is pallid, beaded with sweat. His eyes are wide and he is looking around for someone. He locks in on you and your table and he walks over, screaming in a wavering, high pitch: “alright, you fucks, you fuckers, which of you fucks SHIT in my PANTS!”
 
Now picture many nights like this over the course of a year which end up with you and your friends listening to The Lewers record played in carparks and loungerooms, at the beach and on the rooftops, all across Sydney.
You love Orion and remember their shows fondly, so it is a pleasure to hear where the band went, and The Lewers become associated with carousing, an association that could never hurt a song unless you’re the type that revels in misery, but you’re not that type in this fantasy, you’re the type that likes to stand on tables at 3am in the middle of a conversation to make your point known, you remember The Lewers from nights where the next day you receive text messages like HOW DID LEMONADE GET ON MY CEILING?
In May 2023, you hear the great news: The Lewers are playing a show. Yuta is in town to play with Low Life, so they’ve organised a show. At last. A year of listening to these songs in altered states has you jonesing to hear them play live, and they’re playing with Fully Feudal and Greta Now. You put on your best makeup, you clean your best dress. You learn an incantation that blesses each person you touch. And then…
It is glorious, it is special.
To summarise: the band The Lewers is Orion minus Dizzy plus Josh plus Felipe, and it sounds like where Orion left off, but main difference is dual guitarwork, and Sarah and Chris are singing. The voices of Chris, Sarah and Yuta complement eachother like prosciutto and rockmelon, the guitars of Josh and Chris pair well like mango and lime, the whole band has the wholesome poise of icecream with a cigarette.
After hearing these songs for a year in circumstances of celebration and festivity, it is wonderful to hear them on stage in a crowded bar.
But, then, out of nowhere, the real estate agent crashes onto the stage, holding his ass, sweating like a pig, and he screams…
(TO BE CONTINUED)
rocky is the new recording project featuring Xanthe Waite (Terry, Primo) and Raven Mahon (Grass Widow, Green Child), and sits at the intersection of all of these bands perfectly: rich with catchy melodies, never quite going where you'd expect and always landing somewhere you want to be.

Number one single 'Repeater' has the makings of a certified hit; pristine glitch, booming snare that beckons and won't let go, heartfelt rickety guitar lead - chords swaying to and fro under its shade, mesmerising dual vocals singing cryptic lullabies, synth sine waves swelling toward shore... the sort of song you wish for a reprise (slight return) during a live show. 

Preorder of limited transition grey swirl or classic black pressed on recycled vinyl with hand painted artwork by Xanthe and Raven and vellum insert now available on Bandcamp and Shopify. 

For our esteemed LSD Club subscribers, we have an exclusive white vinyl edition and this release officially concludes the first Lulus Sonic Disc Club. Thank you for your patience, we hope you have enjoyed the tunes as much as we have and maybe we’ll see you for number two sometime in the future. 

rocky is out July 28th on LSD Club.
SLEEP D - "ELECTRONIC ARTS" LP
(Butter Sessions)
Phat 2x12" from hometown heroes Sleep D is hittin' more spots than Vosko at the minute. As is typical for the duo, the album covers some vast territory and does so deftly with a highly trained ear for the craft that comes with mad time on the road across the globe. Opener 'Planet Waves' is massif in every sense of the logo before bringing the vibe back to some more tech'd out percussionizms. Ya man is a sucker for the harder and faster things in life and although it's got its subtleties about it, 'Strange Sounds' gets back to it with that hi temp goodness. Rookie of the year award goes to 'Hockey' for being way rude'n'raw while playing an outstanding game. For those of you who like the pretty textures and smoothe sunrise sets there's plenty of material in here for you, too. 'Textile' might be my pick from that bunch of grapes; a real shakin' all over house number. Whichever way you lean, Sleep D once again show why their reputation preceeds them. It's in the game.

V/A - "CONTINUING A WORN OUT TRADITION III" LP
(ARCHAIC VAULTS)

Severin Black's Archaic Vaults label brings us the third entry in its Continuing A Worn Out Tradition series of compilations, featuring experimental electronic compositions from artists all over the world.

Local heads will recognise the likes of YL Hooi and Suburban Cracked Collective (solo alias of ex-Castings member Shaun Leacy), alongside Severin collaborating with Zeynep Ağcabay. Beyond that we hear missives from Korea, Italy, Russia, Scotland and between.

Come for the hummm, stay for the pfthlithth. Like all good comps, each of these tracks speak beautifully to one another despite their disparate origins. Assembled with a keen ear and deft touch. 

V/A - "WAYFARING STRANGERS: COSMIC AMERICAN MUSIC" 2xLP

*Temporarily sold out but more arriving soon*

We can barely contain our excitement with the arrival of this. Originally released in 2016 and highly sought after since. The inimitable Numero Group label has finally put this behemoth of a compilation back into print. If you’re familiar with Numero Group you’ll know they have an unparalleled knack for curating the most exceptional compilations. Unearthing golden nuggets from every garage in every part of the globe. 

This here presents 19 of the most classic and cosmic American country and folk songs from either side of 1969. All representing what Gram Parsons was about, and what The Eagles weren’t about. It feels unfair to highlight one track (they’re all UN-real) but ‘Mountain Roads’ by Allan Wachs has been smashing me for 7 years straight now. Start with that, let it take you where it’s gonna take you, then return to us and we’ll sort you out

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